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Grim Deyn

@shortestwitch.bsky.social

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Nuisance, writer, publisher - the devil's dandy - poetry & weird fic - tarot - kymdeyn.com - thebraag.co - she/they with CFS/ME. In books and in bogs.

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · Nov 23

Hello folks! I'm a writer based in Newcastle, UK. I write poetry and speculative fiction and run @thebraag.bsky.social. I like bogs and books and my books include Dionysia published by @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social, Primers Vol.6, and Unfurl, a collaborative fiction experiment. kymdeyn.com

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 7h

I was distinguishing between cops and non-cop detectives, just badly ig! Although columbo is about as close to an independent detective as you can get w/o being one, which is part of what gives it it's charm.

Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 1d

I feel im gonna get in so much trouble for this one lol. And yes, i literally love columbo - he's also a bastard. t'is what it t'is.

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 1d

exceptions for detective fiction writers, as opposed to, like police procedural crime fiction

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 1d

acab includes crime writers

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Marten de la Void @baphomart.bsky.social · 1d

My skittish brain has been all about poetry this year and I’m very excited to share my first published poem! Massive thanks to ed-in-chief Kym Deyn and guest editor Eleanor Ball @thebraag.bsky.social for putting some of my silly ol’ words out there

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 2d

Carmen et Error Issue 13.5 is out today, featuring work from

🛏️ Patricia Russo
🦌 Alex McCrickard
🪱 @baphomart.bsky.social

carmenerror.com?page_id=606

Issue 13.5 - Carmen et Error

No Blanketsby Patricia Russo They wanted the bed to be comfortable. It was the most they could do. Not the only, but the most. But there were no more blankets left in the world, and the birds no longe...

carmenerror.com

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Deeply Unsexy Scary Gorgon Costume @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 5d

5 minute study of a rat sitting like people.

Very quick ink sketch of a rat, sitting on its butt.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 1d

I feel when freedom of expression/art is argued for, many people knee-jerk hear they have to like/accept art they hate or disgusted by

you are allowed to hate and block art you don't like or even find morally reprehensible. you're just not allowed to negatively impact an artist's freedom to make it

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 2d

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · 2d

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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TC Parker Is Horrific Enough Already (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 2d

Don't pay for book reviews, kids

Only scam artists will ask you to

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 2d

I know its hideous, but I kind of love this outfit. It's just... So Utterly Unbothered by what anyone thinks of it. I look like I fell out of a dressing up box.

Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 2d

Post you from a different era

Weird fairy-goth Kym, c.2009/10. You can feel the homeschooled energy dripping off me here loool.

A teenaged Kym walking along some rocks. They have long blonde hair. They are wearing a purple and black striped beanie, a yellow tartan jacket, fingerless striped gloves, a green and black scarf, a green and black tutu, black skinny jeans and black converse with pointed toes. It's hillarious tbh.

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I talk about my family I do feel the need to explain I have two half brothers - one who is very much alive. So, uh, don't get confused about that.

Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 2d

Got a weird scam email giving me AI-vomitted praise about a bunch of poems I wrote about magic, difficult families and my dead half brother, and its so fucking icky. Get ur mechanical paws off of my grief.

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Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social · 5d

“One Frog” by Kyla Houbolt, from her forthcoming book, *Becoming Altar* asterismbooks.com/product/beco... @luaz.bsky.social

One Frog

Tonight one frog sings outside. It's no country for rain. I live far away, but I can hear this one frog, it's a loud frog, alone in some creek or other, in a county of two lane roads that twist in the dark. Still there is comfort here because somewhere glimmering among the darkened trees is a lighted window. An old man and his nephew sit inside, whittling. They're making toys. One makes a small cart with rolling wheels; the other makes a dog with a wagging tail. There are no children nearby, not even in the neighboring counties, so one might wonder who the toys are for.
But the old man and his nephew don't seem concerned; they just keep whittling. Occasionally one of them smiles. The shavings go into the fire. The frog sings. The roads twist in the dark. The creek is low. One day it might rain.

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 5d

I feel like I'm losing my mind tbh.

Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 5d

Bitch, I'm worried about YOU.

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Grim Deyn @shortestwitch.bsky.social · 5d

Told a bunch of writers that they (and a bunch of their younger fellows) were being taught by a convicted stalker who previously stalked another writer for *fifteen years*, but apparently that's fine and we should move on and not gossip 🙃🙃🙃🙃