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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

personal favourite is the Wuthering Heights açai bowl, the phrase "cacao nibs are his bitter soul, goji berries are his broken heart" will stay with me forever

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

fun fact, when this was found it also had false eyelashes above the sockets

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

now I’m back at my parents’ for christmas I can pick up the sheep skull my mam found in the basement of the northumberland county council building in the summer and brought home for me hopefully this wasn’t the thing holding the council together

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

yesterday I passed my PhD viva with minor corrections! thank you so much to my examiners @keeblearin.bsky.social and @davidhering.bsky.social for such a great experience! 💫

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

ahhhhhhh best of luck! you'll be fantastic!

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis ✨

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

institutions cannot afford... unpaid research? until that 'low quality' research becomes lucrative or impactful and then universities will gladly take credit for if it...

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I had a great time speaking to some wonderful undergrads about their work decolonising the curriculum, their enthusiasm makes for some great start of term listening ✨

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

computer, play Tempest by Ethel Cain, loud enough to kill small mammals

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I loved recording this with @writedavidwrite.bsky.social, talking about my research and theorising about whether Jane Eyre would be classed as trauma fiction if it were published today.

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

today it was the new singles, but mr spider loves it all

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

there's a spider that lives in a hole in my study that comes out when i play ethel cain

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I had the pleasure of interviewing @paddy-brennan.bsky.social for this episode - a really fascinating dive into food consumption and self-starvation in Irish fiction from Edna O'Brien to Sally Rooney.

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

i still think about the perfect pen i had when i was seven years old, it was a scented gel pen and its deep blood red ink smelled like cinnamon

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

you search for vintage bloomers one time a year ago and ads will follow you for the rest of time

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

i went to a showing of the fourth pirates of the caribbean film, already a mistake, but it was so rowdy someone tried to initiate a mexican wave on my aisle

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

you're so welcome, I loved reading it!

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

what doesn't get talked about enough in the student using AI conversation is that most of them don't really know what it is despite using it, you explain the issues with plagiarism, copyright, the environment, the way it will make your brain atrophy, etc and they are often really shocked

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I learned so much about digital community research from Feminist Fandom and it has really been invaluable in my study of online reading communities. @sotauol.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

My review of Briony Hannell's brilliant book 'Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr' is now available in Feminist Media Studies ✨ @femmediastudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Feminist fandom: media fandom, digital feminisms, and tumblr

Published in Feminist Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Can't wait to present my paper exploring online reading communities and emotion-based literary critique at this conference!

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Thank you so much! The Goldfinch is v long read but definitely worth it imo!

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I'm sad I couldn't join in person but super excited to give my paper at @officialbaas.bsky.social today!

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

i guess keir starmer’s dad really was a tool maker and his son was his biggest project

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

the supreme court ruling actually makes me ill transphobes are absolute freaks and a danger to women, to hell with you

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

noooo babe I love your freakishly big and square sheep, the normal ones scare me

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The Bibliography @thebibliopod.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

For the Poems for Peace Project, a collection of poems were written by various writers, each thinking about different facets of peace and conflict. In our latest episode, staff members from @livunienglish.bsky.social interview the writers on their work open.spotify.com/episode/07Vd...

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Poems Promoting Peace and Addressing Conflict

The Bibliography · Episode

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

for @uk.theconversation.com i explored why A Little Life is seemingly more popular than ever even a decade after it’s release

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I’m fascinated by the secondhand trophy economy on eBay. Who is selling old trophies? More to the point, who is buying a trophy someone else won in their under-12s football tournament? Who is the person with a shelf of other peoples trophies? Need to chat.

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

it’s been over a year but i still regularly think about those nasty wet splatty fireworks on the Harkonnen planet in Dune 2

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

working on a theory that people like to read A Little Life for the same reasons people liked to watch Jackass

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

“it was a roman salute!!!!” - someone who didn’t know what a roman salute was eighteen hours ago

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

it was so aggressively mid it was almost sad like go big bad or go big good you know

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

was thinking about what 2025’s big manufactured insecurity will be and i think it will be hand ageing, there will be many creams available and some weird procedures, maybe hand filler, and if you don’t get it you’ll have mitts like the crypt keeper

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

last night i had a sip of guinness and immediately felt it in my shoulder blades what is in that stuff was it the iron going where it’s most needed

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

dusted off my substack for the new year and started a series on perfume open.substack.com/pub/nataliej...

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what does horror smell like

exploring how perfumes create fear

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

big shoutout to The Process, love trusting in you

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

the cold plunge people… something up with them

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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

had a dream where i was served something called the ‘motley breakfast’ which was just a full english but the sausages were knitted and the hash browns were purple

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