The fact I'm not searching, that I don't have secret moments of loneliness, that I don't mind either way. Maybe it'll happen again one day but eh, whatever.

But people find it really odd.

And I do not feel incomplete, like society tells me I must. I'm self sufficient and it feels normal and right. I love my family and career and friends and all of that is abundant and leaves no space for romance, and that's okay

I just think it's neat that it's been a long time since I've been in love and coincidentally I've sorted my life out almost completely since then

I'll watch that! I wanna watch the thing about Galliano too. But only once I've finished my rewatch of Mad Men on Disney+ lol

I recommend Annette if you haven't seen it! (It's also me haha)

shout out to everyone who watches one film on Mubi per month because they feel like if they cancel the subscription but keep Netflix it's just further evidence that they're just three dumbasses in a trenchcoat posing as an intellectual

i've been rewatching mad men so if anyone wants to talk about that with me for several hours/an afternoon/a long weekend then hmu

get rid of the word bipolar and go back to calling it manic depression you cowards

can't be hungry if you fill your belly with monster energy*

*not ED content but manic depressive content

My banner picture on here is of an AirBnB I stayed at during a really bizarre mixed episode where I just kept fucking off to hotels and trying to rearrange my life for three days at a time, it lasted around 7 months and it's what The Homilies is mostly about

Also disappointing to see so many *friends* who have never had any interest in any world politics or anything beyond their own front door suddenly hating "Zionists". I don't think you do, Sandra, I think you just hate Jews

Attacks on synagogues, and people say, "Yeah well that's what they get for the genocide..." - okay, so next time there's a school shooting are you gonna say, "Yeah well that's what they get for Donald Trump"?

saw a video essay about how Borat is racist (which it is, I agree), and in the comments it was all people saying, "I would expect nothing less from his people" and "considering his type, it makes sense" and it's like, what are we doing here? Antisemitism isn't the eraser for Islamaphobia??

What the fuck I just made a crisp butty but when I emptied the crisps out they DID NOT overflow over the bread? They just all fit on the bread and barely needed smushing down? Shrinkflation gone absolutely buckwild

nice [literally any meal], be a shame if someone were to pour a fuckload of vaguely tingly bee discharge all over it

we, as a nation, need to stop shaggin hot honey, all my food does not need to be sticky

The last time I tried to write one I was I think 25. Bullshit age to write a novel. I'm 37 now, wizened and gnarly. Perfect timing.

First thing I've noticed is to let go of poetry-brain. There's so much space here on the page and I'm supposed to fill it up! I don't need to squish it down and I can actually say what I want and not hide it in a gagged little metaphor and hope that three people sort of get it

My fifth book of poetry (The Homilies, Broken Sleep Books, forthcoming 2027 btw) was so, so close to being a novel that I had to just come to terms with the unthinkable: that I wanted to write one. So I'm writing one and it's going to be way, way worse than all of the rest in the genre. Soz xoxo

I'm so sorry to announce that I'm 6 chapters into my novel, I didn't want to write a novel, I didn't have this planned, I don't know how insufferable I'm about to get but you are forewarned. I've never been a novelist before idk how this goes

Still I'd leap in front of a flying bullet for you 🥷

We remember when you guys aligned yourself with the bourgeoisie and now you are literally wearing a costume

I think the working class probably should be allowed to gatekeep being working class, a lot of you are new to this and the second things improve you'll go back to how you were and we'll still be in the shit

hmu if you wanna talk about existential risk

yo can I get an id on Mel Giedroyc's shirt on #LastOneLaughing

I was chatting to a mate tonight and he said, "Have you got any Adidas" and I was like BROOOOOO LEMME TELL YOU ABOUT MY GAZELLES

Who *is* she

The way I look and dress and present myself and behave has totally changed since prison. There's real confidence now where false bravado used to be, and honestly there's hoops and chains and really great trainers

I had a night to myself and I cleaned the house, finished my work to deadline, figured out next month's budget and had a long bath. I used to be a wild child, man. I used to be a fuckin' NIGHTMARE, bro.

Absolutely destroyed by #SmallProphets, one of the best pieces of media I've seen in a very, very long time. So much heart, so touching and funny, the final episode has me absolutely weeping and I don't know if it's with sadness or joy. Wonderful.