Amelinda Bérubé

Screenshot from the second JJ Abrams “Star Trek” reboot with the new actor playing the villain Khan scowling and declaring “You should have let me sleep.”

Day 2 of Daylight Saving Time:

ooooh definitely a classic, may your caffeine be hot and plentiful today ☕️☕️☕️

Me: OKAY no deadlines this week, I will put the writing aside and catch up on other things

Writing: hey girl

Me: ...
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goddammit

eeeeyup though I feel like I would need to be a little more attached to/entrenched in academia to be genuinely persuaded by this one

Basically: grad school is hell 🫠

Katabasis by R.F. Kuang

Current read is DEEPLY unpleasant but very good

You go straight back to hell, daylight savings time

Here's Why We're So Obsessed With Zombies - Electric Literature What are we really talking about when we tell stories about the living dead?

As @peterbcounter.com says in this excellent essay, “People we don’t know might as well be bad weather. They might as well be zombies.” electricliterature.com/our-zombies-...

It's so eyeroll worthy you'd think so! but I've seen complaints about 3rd person floating around recently myself, so it's at least "eyeroll worthy take elevated to a story to foment disagreements"

This is so weird. Wasn't everyone turning up their noses at first person not so long ago because it's sooooooo YA or something??

my order was, tbh, worth it even so - but next time I will budget for the price being 1.5x and the resulting burn of irritation, which at least will prevent me from impulse buying their entire catalogue

omg svaha dresses are INCREDIBLE, comfy, stretchy, size inclusive, cute, just a delight - but beware, in Canada you get smacked with deeply annoying tariffs 😠

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

❤️❤️❤️

MOAR POETRY 🔥🔥🔥

She absolutely made that movie tbh, like Patrick Stewart in TNG 🤌 we stan an icon

I have SENT the THING 💪💪💪

and goddamn has it really been 2.5 years since I submitted poetry anywhere, I should do something about that

OKAY I am now going to

* send a poem to a place 🔥
* call my mother
* read a book

whilst and at the same time drinking tea and snoogling a dog

wheeeeeeeeeee 🫠🫠🫠

More here:

bsky.app/profile/vers...

A thread of @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social shows (there will be more)

GOOD FOR YOU 🔥🔥🔥 may the sleep fairy visit soon and until then may your caffeinated beverages be plentiful and hot

Killer poetry randomly wandering past my eyeballs is one of my very favourite things about BSky!

BAD. ASS. 🔥💪👑

“I will do it tomorrow,” said Toad. “Today I will take life easy.”

alllllll the damn time 🫠

So that poem I RTd earlier got me thinking and I ended up writing one sort of tangential to it

(which is how you know that was a GREAT FUCKEN POEM btw, you should scroll back and read it)

anyway this was an idea I attempted as a short story a cpl yrs ago but it works a lot better this way I think!

Burrowing owl with his eyes closed. The eyelids are covered in tiny feathers.

I just love the fluffy eyelids. 🪶

Wildflowers, a couple of springs ago, in the churchyard in Buckfastleigh, Devon. This is actually a very spooky spot in winter as it's the resting place of the allegedly Satanic Squire Richard Cabell - inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's Baskerville legend - whose corpse is boxed in by a somewhat incongruous structure, a little pagoda-ish, but also not unlike the kind of public toilet you might find in a small British town, which sits on the south side of the church. Do NOT walk around it backwards as the Devil will bite your fingers and Cabell will release his hell hounds. Also, the church has been burned down by Satanists not once but TWICE in the last couple of centuries. (I wrote about all this in more detail in my book 21st-Century Yokel, and a couple of the scarier gravestones inspired bits in my novel Villager.

Wildflowers love dead people.