La Doleur Exquisabella
@minxmarple.bsky.social
a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • refusenik • moon gardener
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So. I am on a book-buying ban for 2025, so I am going to make a screenshot list here of everything I’m tempted by. I have a few pre-orders coming, but no subscriptions, though I am open to swapsies and arcs (😂). I’m a slow reader and have a backlog so let’s see.
Today’s vibes:
November 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Today’s vibes:
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this series of missed phone calls could have been a text
November 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
this series of missed phone calls could have been a text
Girl dinner.
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Girl dinner.
Stopped to have a hot plum lemonade at the world’s most beautiful café*
*🤷♀️
*🤷♀️
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Stopped to have a hot plum lemonade at the world’s most beautiful café*
*🤷♀️
*🤷♀️
Good evening from Budapest.
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Good evening from Budapest.
Goodnight, skyline, from the widdershins
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Goodnight, skyline, from the widdershins
An afternoon lifting the dahlias and slashing the garden ahead of the thermometer hitting zero.
November 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
An afternoon lifting the dahlias and slashing the garden ahead of the thermometer hitting zero.
Drinking whisky that’s older than me with my Pa (he’s just — and this is wild — become the owner of 150 bottles).
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Drinking whisky that’s older than me with my Pa (he’s just — and this is wild — become the owner of 150 bottles).
Country pub night with my favourites
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Country pub night with my favourites
lexically explicit
November 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
lexically explicit
Quick 5km while the rain takes a breather. Felt so good to be outside, face to the wind.
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Quick 5km while the rain takes a breather. Felt so good to be outside, face to the wind.
It is a beautiful thing on a stormy evening to be holed up with your two favourite people in the world.
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It is a beautiful thing on a stormy evening to be holed up with your two favourite people in the world.
out of office is on until 25th November and that noise you can hear is me fleeing the building.
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
out of office is on until 25th November and that noise you can hear is me fleeing the building.
FINALLY. The Erotic Hauntology of Autocorrect, Isabella Streffen, 2025. Typewritten text on paper.
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
FINALLY. The Erotic Hauntology of Autocorrect, Isabella Streffen, 2025. Typewritten text on paper.
My bibliography is as long as my actual text 🥴
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
My bibliography is as long as my actual text 🥴
Some mornings you walk for miles and come home with some sugary nonsense (a toffee apple cruffin).
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Some mornings you walk for miles and come home with some sugary nonsense (a toffee apple cruffin).
A skyspine morning.
November 13, 2025 at 7:35 AM
A skyspine morning.
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We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
I have bègun to think that I am not suited to making plans at all.
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I have bègun to think that I am not suited to making plans at all.
Aurora nights are the best nights.
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Aurora nights are the best nights.
the absolute heaven of discovering you don't have to go into the office on Thursday because you accidentally did your Thursday teaching today.
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
the absolute heaven of discovering you don't have to go into the office on Thursday because you accidentally did your Thursday teaching today.
Derek Jarman getting me through the week. Three days till reading week.
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Derek Jarman getting me through the week. Three days till reading week.
now is not the time to get the fucking collywobbles about a work, Isabella.
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
now is not the time to get the fucking collywobbles about a work, Isabella.
I can’t go to work, I’m reading poètry.
November 11, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I can’t go to work, I’m reading poètry.