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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

something for the first day of #morktober - the prompt was GOAT!

Who staggers alongside you?
(A d20 table for animal companions)

1: A rotten little frog.  2: A horrible goat  3: An evil-smelling horse who won’t be ridden. 4: A swarm of two hundred wasps. They live in a miniature hive hanging from your belt. As likely to sting you as they are your enemies.  5: A starved rat. Insensate to pain or fear. Teeth the size of a baby’s finger.  6: An adder, five feet long. Its skin has never fully shed and dry layers of old scales have piled up on its back. It curls itself around your neck and squeezes tight when there is danger.  7: A scabbed squirrel, fur as grey as the sea. Red eyes, yellow teeth. A shivering little thing: it’s scared of a stiff breeze, and when it’s scared, it bites.  8: A grouse with tattered wings.  9: A wolf with stinking breath. When you look into its eyes you know it has eaten human flesh.  10: A salmon. Corrosive slime bubbles up like spit from its skin: touching it causes hallucinations of your bleakest memory.  11: A basking shark. Appears whenever you are looking at the horizon of the sea and longing to be elsewhere; a taunting symbol of freedom. You will never be close to it.  12: A wildcat, feral and cruel.  13: A pine marten. Intelligent in a way a pine marten should not be. Eyes that gleam a little too intently.  14: A fox, its white paws drenched in blood that will never wash off. Leaves tracks of wet and crusting blood wherever it walks.  15: The animated corpse of a dormouse. Bones stick through threadbare flesh; scraps of fur cling to the white skull.  16: A woodlouse. Nestles into the softest part of your skin. It longs to reproduce.  17: A stag that haunts your steps. Your silhouette will always have antlers.  18: A hare with two broken legs. It staggers on.  19: A seal. Alive, and yet it seems to be already rotting. Appears in every river you cross.  20: A barn owl. Screeches the same as your nightmares.

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

something for the first day of #morktober - the prompt was GOAT!

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I finally saw Nolan's Odyssey and I had a LOT of thoughts about it Nolan’s Odyssey: 5 things I liked, 5 things I disliked alicerowenawilson.substack.com/p/nolans-ody...

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Nolan’s Odyssey: 5 things I liked, 5 things I disliked

from someone with two degrees in Classics and no degrees in film

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I finally saw Nolan's Odyssey and I had a LOT of thoughts about it Nolan’s Odyssey: 5 things I liked, 5 things I disliked alicerowenawilson.substack.com/p/nolans-ody...

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Nolan’s Odyssey: 5 things I liked, 5 things I disliked

from someone with two degrees in Classics and no degrees in film

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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“The service motion, the strange way they have trained their body to move, a lifetime of shaping themselves for one purpose - it went wrong.” (Tennis Players, @alicerowilson.bsky.social) Read more on our site: dishsoap-quarterly.com/12-16-25

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Tennis Players | dishsoap quarterly

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I wrote about writing with chronic fatigue, and a man I think about a lot, the ancient Greek rhetor Aelius Aristides open.substack.com/pub/alicerow... #cfs #mecfs #pwme

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On Writing and Chronic Fatigue

(and a digression on the Greek rhetor Aelius Aristides)

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I wrote about reading Philip K Dick's The Man in the High Castle, and what it means to read an alternate history - trying to get back into writing about what I'm reading on substack! alicerowenawilson.substack.com/p/on-nazis-a...

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

currently aggravating my very-knowledgeable-about-football boyfriend by saying 'I just don't think penalties seem fair. they feel like spiritual cheating'

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I keep trying to get copilot to stop appearing on my word documents, but it keeps coming back, and I am currently writing a very psychosexually strange sci-fi novella and I kept accidentally hovering over the copilot button and it asks me "would you like to make this clearer and more professional?"

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

today I said to some students: 'I really can't think of a better way of phrasing this, but Cicero opens this speech by negging the senate', and I felt like a youth pastor sitting on a backwards chair

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AnythingGOEs - Figure Skating @anythinggoe.com · 21/02/2026

🇪🇪 Niina Petrõkina’s Cell Block Tango murders: Ilia Malinin, Junhwan Cha, Tim Dieck #MilanoCortina2026

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I am incredibly excited to say I have received a New Writer's Award from @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social for 2026! I'm very much looking forward to this year & spending more time with the wonderful cohort of writers.

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I am very excited to have a poem in the new issue of the Rialto! www.therialto.co.uk/pages/produc...

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

very grateful to dishsoap quarterly for the nomination; I cannot recommend submitting to them enough!!

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Delighted to have a piece today in Dishsoap Quarterly!

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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Piece up this week with a momentum build so strong you'll have lost your breath by the end of it. Ready, set, go read "Tennis Players" from @alicerowilson.bsky.social Link: dishsoap-quarterly.com/12-16-25

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

glad to see the glory of herefordshire getting some recognition

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I have a poem in issue 2 of sextet! sextet.co.uk/alice-rowena...

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Alice Rowena Wilson – SEXTET

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Also go along to six foot gallery in Glasgow and you will hear me reading it

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I unintentionally read this with the affect of a contemporary poem and was oddly taken by it

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

currently working on revisions of the Renaissance Florence vampire novel, and have become incredibly distracted by a gay tour de france novel

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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

"No modeling agency praised my biceps enough, so my father bought me an oasis. It became my personal modeling venue." This week, we bring you the Great American Short Story, a brand new one by @seandowie.bsky.social. This one is a jaw-dropper. Hilarious. Unexpected. Don't miss "Thirst Trap!" 💪💀👇

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Thirst Trap by Sean Dowie

No modeling agency praised my biceps enough, so my father bought me an oasis. It became my personal modeling venue. Travelers often discovered it. Their passion for deserts was as fiery as the temp...

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I have recently been submitting to lit fic magazines where it is just a black hole of work hanging around for months (not complaining, I know it's how it is), and I have just submitted something to clarkesworld, where there is a TRACKER on how many works are before yours in the queue?? crazy

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

today's intriguing reading (allegedly for novel research, but sort of just bc I am interested)

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I know I'm still a classicist at heart bc I was genuinely thrilled by the revelation of what the secret manuscript was in the name of the rose

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I take an anti-AI stance for many reasons, including that I just literally have 0 use-cases for it in my life, but one of its more egregious impacts on my life is that the spell-check in Word is NOTICEABLY worse after they integrated Copilot, and just hallucinates errors where there are none

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I feel very sad about the itv4 tour de france coverage ending - I have very fond memories of watching the highlights show with my father as a small child

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

currently watching Wimbledon, eating frozen strawberries coated in dark chocolate, and drinking a non-alcoholic white wine that I accidentally froze so it's become sort of a slushie

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I've begun learning some rlly basic mandarin and I'm so fascinated by words when you get this kind of list of definitions

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Huge discovery for me is that I don't actually dislike audiobooks, I just dislike fiction audiobooks. All my minor tasks over the past few days have been accompanied by Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards and it has been a truly excellent experience

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

my fun fact for today is that 'Paladin' is recorded as a male name in fourteenth century Venice, and given that the Forgotten Realms are basically late Medieval / early Renaissance, one could very reasonably be a paladin named Paladin

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

this is such a wonderful novel that my copy of it is currently doing the rounds with friends because I keep telling ppl they must read it!

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Currently developing a theory that anthony trollope gives his characters ridiculous names as way of trying to normalize his own surname. Like I’m sorry but I have just started Can You Forgive Her, and VAVASOR??

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

A tiny, beautiful and evil cat who has never quite figured out that lying on grey surfaces where cars come by might be a problem

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I love watching the early parts of of tdf time trials bc the commentators are just like "yeah he's taking it easy....yeah he's not really trying...yeah he's pretty much just phoning this in....so this rider's definitely just rolling around the course"

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

all I do at the moment is read about weird little books, e.g.: "THEDIALOGO DEL GOBBO DA RIALTO, et Marocco dalle pipone dalle colonnedi S. Marco is a rare and little-known pamphlet that stages an oral con-versation between two talking statues about the comet of 1577"

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

This draft is at 100k words and I am still not done but I am close enough to the end of it to taste it. Ofc I have already realized one trillion things to change but STILL we have something

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I spent today writing 3500 words about André Gide's weird 1914 novel, 'The Vatican Cellars'. Read about kidnapped Popes! Conspiracy theorists and scammers! Amoral aesthetes! A selection of very funny French names! alicerowenawilson.substack.com/p/the-pope-h...

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The Pope Has Been KIDNAPPED!!! But You Can Help (For A Small One-Time Payment of Sixty Thousand Francs)

Reading #4 - The Vatican Cellars by André Gide, trans. Dorothy Bussy

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

There is a fundraiser to help twelve History and Archaeology students from the Islamic University of Gaza finish their degrees. It has been organised by Georgia M Andreou of the Gaza Maritime Archaeology Project (GAZAMAP), on which the students worked.

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How to Help Gazan History & Archaeology Students Finish their Degree

cover picture by Georgia M. Andreou: GAZAMAP students at work before October 2023 Archaeology has a long legacy of separating heritage from its contemporary context. The ongoing destruction in Gaza…

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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The Pope Has Been KIDNAPPED!!! But You Can Help (For A Small One-Time Payment of Sixty Thousand Francs)

Reading #4 - The Vatican Cellars by André Gide, trans. Dorothy Bussy

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

putting this question into the void, just in case anyone who follows me has an answer: I did a fairly extensive writing test for a games company, and it would be useful to put in my portfolio. I contacted them about whether this would be okay, and never heard back - is it acceptable to just use it??

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Alice Rowena Wilson @alicerowilson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Some weekend experiments with making a UI for a little text game

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