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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

These photos suck because the cat is holding my boob

My very beautiful tortoiseshell cat is sitting on my lap, holding my boob

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I hope the person who read this book in 2014 did so well at uni I hope they are thriving

Handwritten notes on a page of Hobomok that say “she smacked him!” And “ouch—that from her dad?!”

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Previous owner of this copy of Hobomok was cooking

Title page of a copy of Hobomok by Lydia Maria Child, with pink gel pen notes reading:
What does it mean to say something is in “bad taste?"
- funeral selfies
- bride shouldn’t wear white to the wedding [sic]
- [illegible] whale tail
- dead baby / Helen Keller jokes
- 9/11 Halloween

More pink notes, saying “same plot as The Scarlet Letter and The Blair Witch Project”

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I think this is what I sound like to my advisor

A passage from Herman Melville’s Pierre: the Mysterious Isabel says “I comprehend nothing, Pierre; there is nothing these eyes have ever looked upon, Pierre, that this soul comprehended. Ever, as now, do I go all a-grope amid the wide mysteriousness of things.”

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

What do we think Mystery of Isabel sounds like

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

the Melville fans (Dick heads?) won, I’m reading Pierre, it’s ridiculous, I love it

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

This is how the ending felt to me personally

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Look on my works, ye mighty, and get really annoyed about the decision to quote Ozymandias instead of Mutability

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I have a broad tolerance for anachronism but I think it should be intentional, not purely aesthetic, and I’m not convinced that there’s a good enough case for moving this story forward in time.

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

the time shift in particular felt more reflective of the popular association of gothic literature with the Victorian era than anything else, which is sooooooooo interesting to me.

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

is there any good reason for it or is it just the basic assumption that historical/gothic = victorian

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Why is William a full sized adult! Why are we getting all this Charles Dance backstory! Why would you cast a 46 year old man as ratbag university student failure Victor!

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I will probably finish watching it because it is pretty and I want to see the large Australian but I might need some weed to help me not take myself so seriously

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

We watched the first half hour of Frankenstein and turned it off because Flo is too sleepy and I am TOO MAD that this ROMANTIC! ENLIGHTENMENT! GEORGIAN!! story has been made VICTORIAN

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I hate to be researchposting but I going insane or does this not actually happen in Robinson Crusoe? “At that moment, I remembered the incident in the narrative of the celebrated Robinson Crusoe […] of his procuring fire, from the lightning's stroke upon a tree”

A photo of a page from “The Female Robinson Crusoe”, published 1837
“At that moment, I remembered the incident in the narrative of the celebrated Robinson Crusoe, which with the greatest delight imaginable to my childish faculties, I had heard my elder brother read to me, of his procuring fire, from the lightning's stroke upon a tree.”

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This is my backup plan!! I am paying an insane amount to try and get a copy from a second hand bookshop in Melbourne and I guess we’ll see if it comes? If I have to pay tariffs on this piece of shit I will be fuming

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

So now I’m hoping that there is someone with a shitty racist relative who is willing and able to steal/appropriate a copy for me? I will absolutely pay money because unfortunately this is necessary for my work. Help me??

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I cannot find it on any secondhand book sites (which is a good thing!!) or in any libraries outside of Australia (which makes sense!!). I’ve read reviews but I need to see the real thing.

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I’m reading and watching a lot of vile stuff at the moment, because my PhD project is about settler colonial violence and fear narratives in popular culture, and it seems like I need to read this book from 1997, called “Pauline Hanson-The Truth” (which is a batshit screed attributed to her) BUT

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

fellas is it gay to unwittingly squeeze your co-labourers’ hands, mistaking them for the gentle globules

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 11/09/2025

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

How many other people at the Ethel Cain show are doing phds about cannibalism do we reckon

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Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

my friend @flyingghoti.bsky.social made this & if you’re in the middle of the very specific venn diagram necessary to appreciate it, it’s the funniest thing

a reworking of the Calvin & Hobbes strip in which Calvin is giving a report alleging that bats are bugs (to which his classmates respond with “BATS AREN’T BUGS!!”) only instead it’s “Herman”—as in Melville—talking about whales & alleging they’re fish, & his classmates are correcting him with “WHALES AREN’T FISH!!”

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

TCTAP is a flawlessly stupid and delightful film, Peter Weir is one of the greats when it comes to filming sweat.

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Flo is at work and I have had a weed gummy time to do a double feature of The Last Wave and The Cars That Ate Paris

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

L’Enfant Sauvage was a beautiful sad little meditation on isolation and humanity. This is an R-rated Brooke Shields vehicle about cousin incest. I love cinema.

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

doing this as a double feature with The Blue Lagoon (1980), what is wrong with me

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I was prompted to watch this by Audrey Wollen’s review of The Forbidden Experiment by Roger Shattuck, about the real wild boy “Victor” and his teachers, in the latest Bookforum

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

accidentally watched the first ten minutes of L’Enfant Sauvage (1970), about the “wild boy of Aveyron”, before I realized the subtitles were turned off, I’m doing feral child immersion research

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Also it made Flo vicariously seasick lol

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

My verdict is that while this is not cannibal in the purest sense but it is HIGHLY erotic, it demonstrates the absurdity of human masculine brutality in the face of the natural world, and most importantly it is about dudes experiencing consequences on a boat

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Hello from Cape Cod where I am watching Jaws and my beloved is occasionally glancing at the tv because apparently the mother of someone they once dated is an extra in this

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Hello from Cape Cod where I am watching Jaws alone because there is too much peril for my beloved wife

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Hello from Cape Cod where I am forcing Flo to watch Jaws, neither of us have seen this before, I love men in boats suffering from hubris

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

sometimes the cannibalism is actual anthropophagy and sometimes it is a metaphor, but it’s always more than just a way of eating

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

focused on anglosphere settler societies across a broad geography and time, it’s partly a genealogy of settler horror and paranoia, and partly a study of colonial mass culture and the manufacture of consent to colonial violence.

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

As of yesterday I am finally! at last! ABD and approved to get to work on my dissertation! it’s a study of fear, disgust, hunger, and desire in the settler symbolic that I’m calling “cannibal erotics”

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I WILL, I have been looking for a copy in all the secondhand bookshops here

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Also coincidentally was eating cherries while reading the last chapter… punched in the face by a BOOK

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I finished it I’m FUMING that was so good and also what the fuck am I supposed to do now!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I knew what would happen and I sort of guessed how but fuck you Herman!!!!!!!!

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I cannot BELIEVE that the fucking rope chapter was so critically important

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Also yes this is literally my beach read and I am also atmospherically on Cape Cod

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Having read this book really fast I’m now fifteen pages from the end and I have to keep pausing to go for a little swim to calm down

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