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Dr Malice

@atarbuck.bsky.social

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Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️‍🌈 she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1h

SO PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME THIS, I'M RELYING ON IT

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1h

Threw the Pickwick Papers in the big school bin, never regretted for an instant.

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 13h

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 13h

he seems already weary of this world

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 14h

hooooooo that’s unhinged

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 15h

Too many books get published

Book prices should keep pace with inflation

Authors must be paid properly

The loss of blurbs to tropes and comps derides the reader and disables the writer

Contemporary prose quality reflects contemp attention spans

You, personally, need to use fewer adjectives

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 18h

Oh nooo, I hope that was not me, I do remember the slippers!

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

Clanging the bell on this again

Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2d

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 19h

Unfortunately it is the perfect dressing gown.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 19h

Everything about this is perfect, simply perfect. Its giving 'Dracula Scottish 00s highschool remake'

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 20h

I got a set of cups and saucers when I left for uni and it was the loveliest thing, I've always treasured them!

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 20h

butter lemon and pepper is the poor man’s smoked salmon

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 20h

We have: the usual lot (about 2-4 each for a family of five), then the proper teacups (with saucers), then the two different sets of guest mugs, then the special ones set aside for when the children are grown, then the ones in the cellar for tea whilst working… 🫥

David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 1d

My household consists of 2 adults and 2 kids yet we own 31 tea mugs.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

ahhh so cute!

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

Post you from a different era

2007 Alice, in a newspaper dress

me from 2006, dressed in a newspaper dress i made myself

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

correct!

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

both are tip top tbqh

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

We seem to have lost the understanding that you study things because you want to know more about them, not because you want them to give you a job.

'Transferable skills' are so-called precisely because they are not career specific, my god.

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 2d

God love Kew, this is incredible

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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social · 1d

John Bevis, 'Cloud Study'; Dymo tape edition, 1981.
“There is always a danger that the use of any system of names based on types shall lead to the neglect of everything not typical.”—Arthur W. Clayden, Cloud Studies, 1905.

Two white cardboard boxes on a wooden background, with a rolled black Dymo tape label and white text.

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

absolutely horrifying but my evidence bears it out

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

this is such a relief, mine is thin but fulsome so it’s ideal if we get caught in an oil spill

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

AN ENORMOUS HAYSTACKED HOMUNCULUS OF REVOLUTION

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

HAH!!!

Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 1d

HOW COULD I