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Didymus Holmes (They/Them)

@luparicommand.center
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Punk Peformance Poet in Manchester. Former Velvet Onion & Arts Marketer. Pansexual Neurodivergent Non-Binary Lupari SpaceDog BearThing. 🐾 🚀🐶 💛🤍💜🖤 Debut poetry collection Dogface Words coming soon.

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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 08/10/2026
Hey sorry not on socials atm so only just seen this. I didn't know about it til last week so can't really afford it I'm afraid.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 08/10/2026
The X-Files episode EVE.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 08/10/2026
Interrupting my social media break to express disappointment that I cannot seem to find a publisher for a book, cannot seem to get my posts on social media seen by people who like me let alone attract new followers, and would love it if anyone who can help me get my art out there could assist. Ta. x
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 04/10/2026
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A version of the 'Bad Wolf' era Doctor Who logo generator - with the text replaced by a Russell T Davies quote.

Top line: WELL DONE
Middle line: MATE
Bottom line: ENJOY YOUR MASTURBATION
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 30/09/2026
Dogface Words is very much a poetry / spoken word collection of two sides. Side A contains the first 18 poems, and Side B is the final 14, including some longer form pieces. The collection is designed to outline the challenges and fears of Dogface's world in the first Side, and then begin to work through them in the second. 

With this in mind, I hope you've enjoyed the first batch of these poems. While I play the awfully awkward game of trying to find a publisher in the randomised four week gaps of open submissions dotted across the calendar year, debate giving up and self publishing while also writing a second volume with a more outwardly facing lens, it has been incredibly rewarding to put the first 18 of these poems out there into the world.

Your feedback and support has been invaluable. It gave me the strength and courage to start performing live, which is something I never thought I'd do even when I was working in comedy or the theatre. And knowing these poems have hit home for some of you and helped you in your own lives has made exposing my most vulnerable side to the world worth doing. 

Please keep sharing, commenting, reposting, and if you know a poetry night looking for an act, or a publisher wanting to take a punt on a punk rock golden retriever in barely human form, please send them my way.

Dogface - and Didymus for that matter - are going to take a little break now, but we will be back in a few weeks, hopefully recharged and revitalised, and ready to deliver the final 14 poems hopefully by the end of the year. Stay tuned and big love. xx
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 30/09/2026
##Dogfacewords
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 30/09/2026
#Dogfacewords
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 30/09/2026
#Dogfacewords
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 30/09/2026
Hugely disappointed in Peter Serafinowicz. As if signing up for Harry Potter blood money wasn't bad enough, he's now resorted to touring a show where he is "deep faked" into famous people living or dead. Without their consent, obviously. I was a fan for 25+ years, bht where did his morals go?
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 29/09/2026
Sometimes things become unavoidable, and not always for the better. Track 18 of Dogface Words is: I Don't Really Want to Talk About Them This concludes Side A of the collection. Side B will follow after a much needed break. #poetryofbluesky #poemoftheday #queerartist #political #neurodivergent
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 29/09/2026
We've all been there: no harm in one more bite, right? Track 17 in Dogface Words is: Shemomedjamo (შემომეჭამა) #poetryofbluesky #poemoftheday #queerartist #fatpositive #foodlove
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 29/09/2026
Right? They knew he wouldn't fit their customer base who include the very people he openly despises.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 29/09/2026
Obviously people shouldn't be penalised for their religious beliefs. But those beliefs have to actually hold up to the religion itself. 🤷‍♀️
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 29/09/2026
I am so torn on this. Cos, yes, he was discriminated against... for having a discriminatory view based on nothing but a misinterpretation of his own religion. Christianity is not homophobic - people who don't understand Christianity are. Masking bigotry as belief is causing damage far and wide.
bbc.co.uk
Christian 'discriminated' against in job retraction over LGBT views, court hears
Felix Ngole was rejected for a job after his potential employer discovered his views on homosexuality.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 29/09/2026
Nawww you two. 😘
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 28/09/2026
I was not expecting a new Placebo single to appear out of nowhere today and hit me like a ton of bricks. They've historically released music in such a manner each album feels like a time capsule of a particular time in my life. Now this song sums up where I'm at, mentally lately.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 28/09/2026
Spent two hours scheduling Facebook posts last night. NONE of them are listed in my scheduled posts now. They just don't exist. FUCKS SAKE META.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 28/09/2026
Chuffed for these two lovely fellas.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 28/09/2026
Is this the ex wife of Alan Partridge? By the time I reached "Needless to say..." it became too distracting a thought to not ask.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 28/09/2026
When half the bears on Bluesky post a bedtime photo.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 28/09/2026
Me heading to a merch desk after a show...
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 28/09/2026
Meta's algorithm blocking my posts from reaching my followers.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 25/09/2026
I have an Audio Diary i started on my 30th birthday. Every month I pick 20 songs that soundtracked that window of time for me. In lockdown I backdated it. I'm currently in the middle of final tweaks but I hope next year I can start to unleash 40 years of my life via music exposure. 🤯
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 25/09/2026
I'm 41 (a few weeks off 42). Got My Mind Set On You was my first ever single on my third birthday. I was a weird kid. 👀
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 25/09/2026
Ok, shook. Genuinely thought you were in your late 40s! 🤯😍
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 25/09/2026
Presumably not back in 1989, right? You can't possibly be old enough!!! I got this single at the time... I was almost five and loved both George & Belinda at the time. Though this was the last of her records i got personally...
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 25/09/2026
This is wild when I stop and think about it, as someone who spent so many years with the Boosh at the centre of my universe... quite how much more Bake Off and Buzzcocks that Noel Fielding has now made compared to scripted comedy work. It's no wonder so many now don't know him as the Boosh guy...
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 25/09/2026
Reviving these... some bonus 'early years' Queen single covers I made a few years ago for tracks that probably should have been A-sides but weren't. #7 is Sheer Heart Attack btw (NOTW era singles didn't have titles on the front cover). All would have enhanced Greatest Hits sweep of 1973-1980.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 25/09/2026
Sooooo Odeon snuck up the Doctor Who cinema tickets last night. When I checked to see if they'd announced where they were already on sale and one person had bought a singular seat off to the side. Resisted the urge to book right next door to them. 😂 See some of you at the Great Northern MCR?
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 25/09/2026
This does usually end in fried chicken to be fair...
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 24/09/2026
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS DETESTED C.M. Just so many stories of her being a genuinely shitty person on many many levels. She can do one.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 24/09/2026
ALWAYS been on the wrong side. I know some horror stories that kept me away from her for YEARS.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 24/09/2026
I originally uploaded this to my old (now locked out of) YouTube account 17 years ago. On what would have been Jim Henson's 90th birthday, it felt appropriate to bring it here, too. The moment The Muppets learnt he was gone. Just phenomenal television. Heartfelt and full of love, just like Jim.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 24/09/2026
The late, great, Jim Henson would have been 90 today. He gave the world so much. And, alongside Terry Jones and Brian Froud, he gave me a nickname that stuck and became my real name. Happy birthday, Jim. The world is a sorrier place without you, but the love you poured into it lives on.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 23/09/2026
Very happy to add a limited edition cassette version of The Best Punk Album Of All Time to my collection of X Ray Spex stuff. Poly Styrene (and Art-I-Ficial) is referenced in my poetry collection Dogface Words, and really is a huge inspiration on my art and my life. Long may she reign.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 23/09/2026
Most people: Oh that's a good poster for the new Tom Cruise movie. Doctor Who fans: HENRY VAN STATTEN AND OWEN HARPER!
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 23/09/2026
So yeah... that's new info for me. And possibly for you too. Now, where did I put my African or European swallows...?
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 23/09/2026
Yes. Tim Curry's understudy in Spamalot was none other than Craige Els - Doctor Who's own Karvanista, the character who inspired THIS Bluesky account handle, got a symbol tattooed on my body and quite probably saved my life a few years ago.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 23/09/2026
Have you spotted him? Can you tell WHO it is yet?
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 23/09/2026
This week I discovered which member of the ensemble was Tim's understudy. Look at that photo again. Look closer. Towards the back. A very tall man...
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 23/09/2026
Bear in mind at the time I was a 21 year old working class kid in Greater Manchester who had only just got their first full time job a few weeks earlier. I had no idea about London and it took me a while to figure it out. By 2008 you couldn't keep me away from the capital for years. Anyway.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 23/09/2026
And this was really galling because I was a huge Python fan. I took my name from a Terry Jones character, I adored Eric Idle (Still do! Saw him live last year and bought one of his own records from his collection.) I really wanted to see this but I was couldn't.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 23/09/2026
One of my big life regrets is not getting to see Tim Curry in Spamalot when he was in the West End. I didn't get to London for the first time until 10 months after his run and missing that was part of what drove young me to start going down there to see the things that never came up north.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 23/09/2026
Wowsa I didn't know that. But yes... very much that.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 23/09/2026
I mean, if I was a top theatre producer, I would be finding an excuse to reunite Anderson & Dourif on stage all these years later somehow... you can't fake that chemistry, and it's madness they haven't acted together since.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 23/09/2026
Just revisited The X Files early classic Beyond The Sea. The actual kidnap plot bits are starting to date badly, but everything else is fire. Brad Dourif and Gillian Anderson bounce superbly off one another. David Duchovny wisely dials back to let them shine, as does Mark Snow's barely there score.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 22/09/2026
Gotta do what you gotta do! If it works for you then it's not weird. 😊 If you want to see them so far they're all under #dogfacewords. There is a narrative to the whole set but you don't *have* to read them in order.
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 22/09/2026
Thanks. I am posting them here but as subtitled videos... mostly cos I'm hesitant to put text to a book I'm trying to get published online in full. But it's everything I post, not even just the poems. Accounts with similar follow numbers get much higher engagement. It's oddly frustrating.
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Didymus Holmes (They/Them) @luparicommand.center · 22/09/2026
Really getting frustrated with how little I post on Bluesky or Instagram gets seen by anybody, let alone interacted with. It's like the Internet is an adult version of the school playground and folks have decided I smell and they don't wanna play with me. 🫪
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