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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

a DAY after i post this i’m let loose in waterstones and pick up harbour of hungry ghosts so this list is already out of date smh

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

it’s SEPTEMBER!!!! so it is time for me to look at all the delicious hardbacks waiting for me this winter :3

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Hardback season 2026/27

Books I’m looking forward to this winter reading season

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

shoutout the girl who cannot be older than 13 on my train in a shirt with marx’s face on it and the slogan “sharing is caring”

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

universities reaching results day without any embargo breaches ✌️

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

oh yeah please enjoy my #menhirsfate crew kit! swing by the faith tent to meet desdemona for help with all your shrinetending needs ✨

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

beautiful day for all argentina haters but especially for me, who just won my work team’s world cup sweepstake and gets a free pint (i do not drink) (it will be a crisp non-boycotted soft drink)

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

remember gang, you have free will. you can soak your hair in the office bathroom sink every hour to stay cool during the heat. no one can stop you.

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

moving day (2026, oil on canvas)

A photograph of a standard dirty pavement with some green growing in the gaps between the paving slabs. A black and white photograph of a number of young women taking a selfie together at a party is lying on the floor, another rectangle of paper just above it. The white tip of a converse shoe is just visible at the bottom of the frame.

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

shoutout to my family for letting me say “for one of our three days in edinburgh can we go to this bookshop i blorbo’d online” @argonautbooks.bsky.social are wonderful, great pride & palestine displays, & when i bought more books than i should have done they threw in a GORGEOUS high quality tote bag

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

having spent the last week in scotland/on the northumberland coast where it’s been balmy warm and we are now descending into hell (the rest of the country)

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

t shirt of protection from h*rry p*tter (we are headed to edinburgh)

A forest green t shirt with a dark orange circle in the middle, an orange sky dotted with many white stars and broken up by dark tree branches. A ghost hovers in the middle with top surgery scars; the caption reads “Gender Affirming Scare”.

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

gearing up to brave Big Brum Primark and there are 20 year olds dropping slurs that make me flinch in public at the station is not the vibe

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

it’s that time of year when we start vivisecting my mother’s tomato plants (it’s character building for them) (if you don’t do it they produce infinite leaves and no fruits)

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

wasps will see fucking anything and go “is anyone gonna parasitise that” and then not wait for an answer

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

what level of parasocial internet relationship is “i’ve followed you on tumblr for years because i love your little freak cats, but i just read your book and i really liked it, also i swear it was on my TBR before i knew you wrote it”

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

get told to book your appt so you call & they say she’ll call you back but when you call later she was actually sick all day so you call again & they say she’ll call you back & you say not at this time pls and they say after 4 so you call right before they close to ask what gives & they say. monday

Meme taken from ‘The Devil Wears Prada’. Emily Blunt’s character rubs her eyes and temples in frustration at her desk, then goes back to working on her computer. The line from the film, “I love my job, I love my job, I love my job” has been edited to say “I love the NHS, I love the NHS, I love the NHS”.

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

one of the peak things i’ve got going on rn is my alma mater has peregrines at the top of its Really Big Clock Tower and they have BEBES

A screenshot from a youtube livestream ‘Live Peregrine Falcon BirdCam | University of Birmingham’. The image shows a wooden structure, boxlike and open at one side, with a nest in it. Three tan brown eggs are unhatched, but there is one scruffy greyish fluffy baby bird. One of the parents, an adult peregrine with grey plumage, is perched on the open edge of the box. In its bright yellow hooked beak it holds a bit of red meat, and is leaning forwards to feed the chick.

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

born to lock in forced to wait for microsoft authenticator to send me a text message

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

having spent this weekend at a 1930s larp you understand intimately why everyone in those days was on something there’s fuck all to do! you just drink, smoke, and fuck around! doing it temporarily for a larp is great fun but dear god if that were my reality? deathly tedium

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

every god damn time i read a book and it hits one of my *major* triggers, it’s never mentioned in any of the warnings this book has a content warnings note at the start of the book like “you’re reading a murder mystery, there might be blood!!” traumatic overriding of consent via magic is fine though

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

sometimes you’re on your way to a weekend larp and that all gets overshadowed because you meet someone from god damn time team on the train that’s made my week holy shit

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

having a family member who does muay thai is an extreme endurance sport

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

From the first trailer of "Kindred Spirits", the new animated feature film by Tomm Moore & Cartoon Saloon (Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers) + Folivari. Coming in 2028. Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQn9...

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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Politics of semantics 😏

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U.S. and Israel Attack Iran

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Iran Says Dozens Are Killed in Strike on School

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U.S. and Israel Attack Iran

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9 Killed in Israeli City Near Jerusalem After Iranian Missile Strike

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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

my last christmas present got stuck in shipping hell but it’s FINALLY with me, hell yeah

A selfie with one hand holding the phone. I’m a white femme-presenting person with a round face, large square glasses, and short fluffy black hair. My free hand is up in a peace sign and I’m doing a lil blep with my tongue with my head slightly tilted. I’m wearing a purple sweatshirt with the photo angled to show off the embroidery on the front, which reads “I don’t struggle with autism, I’m actually really good at it” in white capital letters. Around the text are little yellow stars with eyes and a smiling mouth in black.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

actually no im NOT done being insane about the hiding place. it’s a coastal horror novel where the sea does not directly factor into any of the horror. that’s nuts to me. I don’t think i’ve ever encountered that before. i can’t stop thinking about how fascinating that is

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

need to express something about that book that has made me mildly insane my family holidays by the coast a lot, a week’s getaway at some point to beachcomb etc. 3 years ago, the house we rented (many floors & attic rooms) bothered my mum with the pervasive smell of damp it was our whitby trip rental

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

finishing up the hiding place has me remembering my undergrad dissertation, which used mason’s first novel the wayward girls as a text i was looking at how teenage girls make their own kinds of wretched justice when wronged maybe i should go back to that piece and rewrite it to be Good, Actually

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

sometimes the world is very bad, and sometimes a 12 year old from plymouth emails you because he loves learning about universities and wants to know if you have any stickers or postcards you could send him

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

After 73 days of hunger strike which began in November 2025, three of the Palestine Action prisoners have ended their hunger strikes after it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defense, a key demand of the hunger strikers.

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

i’m a happy critter when i’m adding more books to my TBR fantasy, gothic and horror novels remain fantastic and so many amazing new ones are coming out continually sometimes i worry i’ll run out of books and need to break my read each day streak, but uh. i think i’ll be okay at this rate

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

it’s a froggy socks in the office kinda day today

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

you ever start reading a book and go “you know what? this 10000% belongs on the reading list for a module i took in my final year of undergrad six years ago” anyway the river has roots is off to a STRONG start and i need it on the fantasy & fandom module from my bachelors like. yesterday

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

pattern recognition go brrrr anyway welcome to elri’s theory of Orange British Gothic

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

New year! Time for a new thread: books I read in 2026

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

i live above an industrial workshop, and after hours a lot of folks don’t know people live here in flats anyway these fellas were having a great time. i have no idea who they are

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Can't believe Stranger Things ends with them switching to Pathfinder

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

‼️shropshire mention in the book i’m reading‼️

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

and so we come to an end! for new years 2023 i decided to read every single day, even if it’s just a page or a paragraph. i’m still going strong now and this was my list for this year. typically i read just before i go to sleep, so it’s about a book a month for me, but 18 books is strong going!

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

the tail end of the christmas lights for the house ended up in my mum’s little rosemary hedge. if you care.

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

mother let me loose in waterstones for being so brave (walking through primark) (in telford) (walking through primark in telford two days after christmas) anyways here’s the books i got

A monochrome check bedspread with three hardback books on it: ‘It’s Not A Cult’ by Joey Batey, ‘How to Build a Haunted House’ by Caitlin Blackwell Baines, and ‘The Macabre’ by Kosoko Jackson.

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elri @eyebright-iris.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

i’ve missed academic nonfiction so muchhhh omg currently reading ‘writing the uncanny’ ed. by @dancoxon.bsky.social & @richardvhirst.bsky.social and it’s such a doozy of a book i wanna write my own stuff now about the uncanny and what it can mean

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