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@peremptorytiger.bsky.social

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Writer? and pg student of modern and contemporary lit ⭐️ she/her https://open.substack.com/pub/bleedbeige

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · May 31

Issue 15 is live :) huge thanks to Propel and Sanah Ahsan for selecting my poem ‘16:33’

and make sure you read the introduction to the issue, too. beautiful and important stuff

💙

Propel Magazine

www.propelmagazine.co.uk

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 10h

Tynemouth, Northumberland, photo by Rachel Riley.

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 1d

i genuinely really enjoy bringing my 2010s fangirl musings to this app fully aware of the fact that most of you do not know/care about 95% of it

sharing useless cultural knowledge across the demographics is my passion

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 1d

bbc news instagram posting about it :( when i was 11 we had an egg-decorating contest at school and i did dan and phil in their radio 1 booth

this news is the one thing i would’ve welcomed a bbc push notification for

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 1d

in the space of five days we’ve had louis tomlinson explicating the breakup of one direction and now dan and phil revealing yes they have been in a relationship since 2009

and you’re telling me the impassioned teenage fangirl alice still living within me is just expected to cope

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 2d

🏹🏹🏹

picture of a poem on my laptop

At the Touch of You
Witter Bynner 1881 - 1968

At the touch of you,
As if you were an archer with your swift hand at the bow,
The arrows of delight shot through my body.

You were spring,
And I the edge of a cliff,
And a shining waterfall rushed over me.

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 2d

A remarkable Denise Levertov with Summer in the title, but which is a Fall poem

A Dark Summer Day

I want to take the last of all leaves
between my lips and taste
its weight of stone.

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 2d

little summer dreamscape poem

posting because i’m not so in love with it that i’d send it anywhere, i think, but i like it a bit

a poem by me!

New Year's Day, August

At midnight
citronella candles stood in for sparklers, pool splashes made fireworks, chilled cans of lager
put the idea of champagne to shame, and wishing was wishing, only warmer. I thought once of September and stopped thinking because in summer we should only be thought of and thought for.
Today is a bare ice lolly stick: we spin, twinkle, then lie in wet Lycra, spluttering under the weight of the present with shut eyes, weary muscles, drinking sunlight, still wishing.

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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 2d

Scorpio: If you’re looking for answers from giant balls of plasma that are millions of miles away, it’s already too late. See a therapist. Eat a burrito.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 3d

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

Which is why the man who greeted her inside the pub – polite, pleasant but oddly flat – felt like a stranger. Gone was the quickfire wit and playful rhythm she’d come to expect from their exchanges. Over pints he stumbled through small talk, checked his phone a little too often, and seemed to wilt under the pressure of her questions. “I felt like I was sitting opposite someone I’d never even spoken to,” she says. “I tried to have the same sort of conversation as we’d been having online, but it was like, ‘Knock, knock, is anyone home?’ – like he knew basically nothing about me. That’s when I suspected he’d been using AI.”

Rachel gave her date the benefit of the doubt. “I thought maybe he was nervous,” she says. But she’d been “Chatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. “I’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 5d

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement

The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time

www.theguardian.com

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 5d

(yes i can cook there’s just fuck all in)

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 5d

put half a tin of beans in a full tin of tomato soup for dinner. there is something a bit too acidic going on. but i don’t think i regret it

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 5d

It’s actually pretty bad for your mental health to know stuff

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 5d

'Girls are cruelest to themselves. / Someone like Emily Brontë, / who remained a girl all her life despite her body as a woman, / had cruelty drifted up in all the cracks of her like spring snow.'

The Glass Essay

Night drips its silver tap down the back. SHE She lives on a moor in the north. Spring opens like a blade there. I travel all day on trains and bring a lot of books— some for my mother, some for me in...

www.poetryfoundation.org

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henry @runeberg.bsky.social · 5d

it might be a worthwhile sport if they did have swords tbf

david alexander @davidalexander.bsky.social · 7d

but i can and will say stuff like holy shit way to diminish your accomplishments here and for what?

Taylor Swift says she's not playing the #SuperBowl
Halftime Show because "I am in love with a guy who does that sport on that actual field."
"Like, [professional football] is violent chess. That is gladiators without swords. That is dangerous. I am, [for] the whole season, locked in on what that man is doing on the field. Can you imagine if he's out there every single week, putting his life on the line, doing this very dangerous, very high-pressure, high-intensity sport, and I'm like [she puts on a ditzy voice and face], 'I wonder what my choreo should be? I think we should do two verses of "Shake It Up," into "Blank Space," into "Cruel Summer," that would be great!' This has nothing to do with Travis — he would love for me to do it. But I'm just too locked in."
Read more here: https://variety.com/2025/music/news/ taylor-swift-explains-why-shes-not-playing-super-bowl-halftime-fallon-1236541829/

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 6d

this is very parasocial of me, i know, but to go from baring witness to each and every time this childhood hero of mine has been torn apart, put himself back together, and been torn apart once more, to seeing him discuss it all so openly with a glass-half-full approach is something astounding

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 6d

i feel like the avg bsky user might not even know this: Louis lost his mum to cancer at 24, his 18-y/o sister to an overdose at 27, then Liam Payne at 32

how he speaks on DoaC about grief, growing up, family etc is at once both so grounded and completely profound. such a mature, articulate artist

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 15d

aw man i’m really gonna have to lose my Di*ry of a CEO virginity cos Louis Tomlinson’s on it ffs if anyone wants to cut any and all noise coming out of Bartlett from the ep and just provide me with a transcript so i have context for Tommo’s answers that’d be ideal

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 6d

Helen Tookey 🍞⭐️☁️

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Deleuzian Haiku @deleuzianhaiku.bsky.social · 7d

#18 (p10-a)

microfascisms
just waiting to crystallize . . .
i become cat

#deleuze #haiku

❖

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 8d

got distracted and accidentally used my free nero drink on a iced cappuccino with Real Milk 💔 it’s so over

have come to (re)read Milkman by Anna Burns too oh how the narrative haunts me etc etc

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 8d

thank you, always the goal 💪

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 8d

phone camera apparently went spooky dark this morning not wanting you to see my pretentious tie-and-trench combo

a photo of me in the bathroom mirror, wearing a black trench coat tied up, a blue shirt, and a navy tie with thin red and white stripes. my ginger curly hair is still a bit wet and falls over my shoulders. the strap of a bright red tote bag is visible

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 8d

Richard Siken

DOTS EVERYWHERE

I erased my legs and forgot to draw in the stilts.
It looks like I’m floating but I’m not floating.
Sometimes I draw you with fangs. I tell you these
things because I love you. Some people paint
with whiskey and call it social drinking. Some people
paint drunk and put dots of color everywhere.
In the morning the dots make them happy. I am
putting dots of color everywhere and you are sleeping.
Something has happened in the paint tonight and
it is worth keeping. It’s nothing like I thought it
would be and closer to what I meant. None of it is
real, darling. I say it to you. Maybe we will wake up
singing. Maybe we will wake up to the silence
of shoes at the foot of the bed not going anywhere.

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alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 8d

‘if Ania Magliano and i in a room’ yeah so true alice

alice @peremptorytiger.bsky.social · 8d

i haven’t seen any of Taskmaster yet but have concluded that if Ania Magliano and i in a room something in the universe would collapse

what do you mean she’s a fake ginger tie-wearing curly-haired bisexual who went to Cambridge that has a boyfriend with the same name as mine

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