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Alys Werewilfred Earl

@alysdragon.bsky.social

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Writer, aesthete, reprobate. Writes as A W Earl (and, previously, Alys Earl) but you can call me Fred. Has sword, will travel. They/them.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 1h

(Rough couple of days, and not likely to stop being so soon. No need to send hugs or kind thoughts - only guitar riffs and a sense of dogged unkillabilty.)

Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 1h

“Fred, are you just listening to MCR albums back-to-back.”

Yeah, and it’s WORKING.

Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2h

My computer echoing my brain function, by simply not loading anything I need…

Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2h

No, that was fully intended as irony.

But it is autumnal!

Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 1d

This evenings ~*autumn vibes*~ brought to you by MASSIVE SPIDERS and the crying of geese in the fog.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

I just. It’s the incompetence. The needless enshittification.

Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

They once sent me three “failed delivery” notices for something that was still at the other end of the country.

Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

EXACTLY.

Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

Profit is the falsest of gods.

Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

So why gum up the last stage by letting predatory companies foist the most sensitive bit (delivery) on to underpaid, gig workers on predatory contracts - rather than trained postal workers with permanent, unionised jobs?

It’s STUPID.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

Like every neurotypical person, the infrastructure of postal delivery fascinates me, and I find tracking a parcel deeply soothing as it goes from local point, to central depo, to my central depo, to my local point…

It’s lovely. It’s efficient. We’ve got the art of it down.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

DEAR GOD for a postal service with a duty of service! That wasn’t having to “compete” in a “marketplace” with these fucking amateurs!

Did you know you used to get multiple posts A DAY?

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

I know where the local Evri depo is. I know that three of my parcels are justttt sitting there. How about…

We renationalise Royal Mail so we don’t have to deal with this bullshit?

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you. Read something on The Internet this morning that annoyed me. (As I so often do…)

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

Which is to say, I don’t read medieval hagiography because the stories are particularly good, or I agree with the agenda they are pushing.

I read them to see how that agenda is created, and how they sit in relation to other texts and artefacts. My *feelings* don’t come in to it.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

Which is to say, on one level we read for enjoyment. On another, we are aware of the biases of the text/author. On another, we are aware of the author’s artifice - how they use their tools to create their effect.

On another, we are aware of the text as an object in the wider world.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about reading well is that you have to do it on a number of levels simultaneously, and be able to hold space for multiple of those readings.

A text’s replication of structural injustices does not affect place either as a cultural artefact, nor a piece of art.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 2d

Gods, we have got to take the morality out of literary criticism.

It’s not about playing an endless game of, “gotcha” to catch the author out in their various isms.

That kind of structural critique of a work is often valuable, but it is not the Defining Truth of a Text.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 3d

IT DID OCCUR.

Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 4d

Found a jar of a beautiful, dark ruby coloured jelly in the cupboard. It’s clearly savoury, because otherwise I’d have put it with the jam in the cellar, but there is *no label*.

It’s a mystery.

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, this looks *great*.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 5d

“I’m the reason we don’t have a ‘days without incident’ counter. They had it shredded, removed and thrown into the fires of Mordor.”

Compensate us for workplace injuries that were definitely our fault by reading the full article on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/139919...

Workplace risk assessment fails to account for dyspraxic woman

Woman in office tripping over comically

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Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 5d

MY PARENTS DID THIS.

Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 5d

YES CORRECT.

Alys Werewilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social · 5d

… it’s a bad spoon.

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