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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
poems? on my substack? it's more likely than u think #poetry
thestillestsea.substack.com
two poems, names, and a homecoming
for your main course: two poems served as is, followed by a palate cleanser.
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
almost done with week 2 of teacher training. I feel like a bit of a husk of a person but I also love my life so much more than I have for a very long time. so that's cool
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
hello! so funny story, I quit my career of 10 years and in like a week I go back to uni for the third time as a trainee english teacher none of that was on the bingo card but I'm excited so updates to follow 🌟
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Keir, diva, you can't say must 'turn things around' like your mum has just come out of a disappointing parents evening 🫠
Screenshot of story in the Guardian online edition: 'Starmer admits he must 'turn things around' as US adds to pressure over defence spending'. At the top of the screenshot is a paused video of Keir Starmer being interviewed.
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Cathode Ray Blanchard @shivs.kindgirls.online · 08/06/2026
never forget what they took from you
Solero Shots
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
omg you know when you're so proud of your husband and you're watching everyone realise how amazingly talented he is and also the game has amazing fujoshi vibes??? happy pride I am so proud xx
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
gonna stop reading the Mandelson stuff for now, interested to see what other people spotted on first skim. anyway I'm playing 007 First Light now and I love the new Bond and he is also 1000 percent bisexual so happy pride month x
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
NGL the Mandelson files are absolutely fascinating already Trump wanted a 'red box' like the dispatch boxes used by UK ministers. Except of course his had to have a big gold seal on it. And this was considered top diplomatic business 😭 @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I lent my favourite pen to a woman on the train and she never gave me it back 😭 mourning the loss. It was a purple uniball pro and it was awesome
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
ayyy I'm in that crying at goslings in the park phase of my depression
Mama Goose and two goslings sat next to her on the grass
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I am this ditto today
A yellow post it note with the same words as this post, and underneath is a drawing of Ditto the Pokémon coloured in pink. It has a neutral / sad face and looks a bit melted
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
hey divas are you tired and a little sad and do you feel the pressure closing in? or is it just me xx
Post it note with this post written on it. The post it is yellow and it's stuck to a kawaii style notebook with stickers on it. A laptop is just at the edge of the photo on the right.
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
as a fujoshi what is the capcom main office address? I gotta send them flowers + chocolates as thanks for "ikeoji Leon Kennedy" 💖
A post it note with the same text as this post. If is yellow and written in purple pen.
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
today's post it coming live from my taxi to therapy: It's kind of amazing how much easier things are when you care less. But I don't enjoy caring less. It's a defence.
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I was planning to write all my tweets on post its this year and then I got sad so now I'm BACK and we're doing this I am very bad at forming habits but fingers crossed this time 💜
A handwritten version of this tweet on a yellow wide post it, with a background of sticker collage
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
been thinking I might hand write all my bsky posts on post its for funsies. like I'm writing you all a letter. good idea? y/n?
Handwritten version of this bsky post. It is a yellow post it and I am holding it in my hand.
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
happy new year my depression is back!!!!! what a start to the year. anyway I'm hanging out with my childhood bear, Betty. She'll be 33 in April, since I got her on my first birthday. I'm so glad I have her. Anyway back in 1995 I decided to make her a hat but it was a bit too big x
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Wordle 1,655 2/6* back on that bullshit now Xmas hibernation is coming to an end. This was a good way to come back ✨ 🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I've been off work since Thursday but I'm still bone tired. Boding well for January 🫠 basically I'm in Christmas hibernation now. I must recharge 😴
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Christmas #nails are here!!! They remind me of fancy wrapping paper from John Lewis. amazing work as ever from my tech bestie - fashi0n.victim_ on Instagram 💅🏻
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
making some watercolour Christmas cards, hoping they don't get too wet in the post. My mum isn't a Christmas person but when I lived at home point she delivered post for our village reading a black 'Bah Humbug' hat, so that one is for her!
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
this one wild and precious life or whatever: a cliche response #poem #poetry (sorry Mary it is dead good but I'm Tired)
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
how much can you shamelessly repost your same #poetry post for engagement purposes??? well this plucky young woman is trying to find out: open.substack.com/pub/thestill...
open.substack.com
a collection of poems written 2014 - 2025
over eleven years. and yes, i did think of the Bright Eyes album when I wrote this post
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
almost forgot!! Wordle 1,623 4/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Wordle 1,622 2/6* oh my god can I put this on my CV ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Wordle 1,621 3/6* despite it all, got it in three x ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
can't believe this is real but my electric hob has had some sort of software update and now I have to unlock it before use every time and I'm so mad and also baffled like how did this happen?? what??
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
#Wordle 1,620 4/6* got it in four despite my brain kicking my butt today. back to the streak! ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
wooloo mug my beloved 😭 look at him!!! also someone asked the best question about the mug and Pokémon centre did not know how to process it
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I'm exhausted and I have a migraine so I'm gonna just retreat into my oodie like it's a little shell. and uh also promote last week's poetry post because I think it's dead good. love y'all x open.substack.com/pub/thestill...
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Thought I was cooked but why the hell did I start with such a non strategic word 😅 Wordle 1,619 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
maybe you prefer viewing poems in video form?? anyway, I thought this would be fun ☺️ 🩷 #poetry #poetrycommunity
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
wake up babe new (and old) poems just dropped: open.substack.com/pub/thestill... #poetry #poetrycommunity
open.substack.com
a collection of poems written 2014 - 2025
over eleven years. and yes, i did think of the Bright Eyes album when I wrote this post
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
just Ichi being adorable on the sofa. We went from having a very Not Cuddly cat to having a needy greedy cat who must sit next to her dad 🥹😭
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
writing poems in the back of the Uber on my way to therapy because for some reason I get car sick on my way to therapy and at no other time. it's a bit heavy, fair warning. #poetry #poetrycommunity
In the back of a Toyota, 
it smells like an approximation of citrus,
and the driver is quiet. I don't want to talk,
I'm on my way to talk, in the safe room.
Some days it's like tearing off a limb,
other days the meat just falls off the bones.
The safe room smells expensive,
scrupulously clean. I take up the two seater
with my fat ass and all my baggage.

In another life, where I'm not as fortunate,
I think I would be a hoarder. The kind
you see in Take a Break or That's Life!
or Channel Five. The kind you give up on. 
She's found weeks after the fact, 
Surrounded by notebooks and empty bottles 
and blister packs and cold cups of tea. 

I'm trying so hard. I get in a stranger's car
to go talk in the safe room. I remind myself 
"refill your scripts, brush your hair, tell someone 
you love them, tell someone you are scared,
and maybe fate will spin the wheel again."

I am worth giving it the good old college try,
but she was, too.
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
#Wordle 1,616 3/6* broke the streak but today's word was a fun one. also here's my stats!! ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
My Wordle stats from NYT Games. 426 games played, 97% win, max streak 34. 

1 - 0
2 - 24
3 - 90
4 - 156
5 - 95
6 - 47
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Word Grid #539 🟪🟪🟪 🟪🦄🟪 🟪🦄🟪 Rarity: 1.95 wordgrid.clevergoat.com 🐐
wordgrid.clevergoat.com
Word Grid | Daily Word Guessing Game
Word Grid challenges players to fill in a grid by guessing words that match the row and column categories. Each square is assigned a rarity score. How low can you push your rarity score as you play?
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I also made more ✨aesthetic✨ graphics and updated the about page among other things. It's a lot more grown up now! Can't believe it's been three years. But yeah, here's some quotes from the longer piece.
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
i'm working on a new substack post, this time it'll be poetry flavoured. found some of my old stuff from 2014 when i was 22 and actually to my surprise I still liked all of them. that's growth girl! 😊💜
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The essay is out. I like it. I hope you like it? Yeah, let’s go with that. Running (a half marathon, and myself ragged) and trying to reinvent myself, and my writing. Consider this Season Two of ‘the stillest sea’. open.substack.com/pub/thestill...
open.substack.com
rebuild, rerun and whadda ya gonna do: Manchester Half 2025 and other stories
a sequel to the 2024 running essay. also featured: some musings on gratitude, negativity, and slowing the f down
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
eight wonderful years - the best decision I made was being your wife. happy anniversary, @woodhouse3d.com ❤️🥹 #haiku
Me and my husband on our wedding day. We are looking at each other. He is wearing a brown tweed suit with purple bowtie and I am wearing a tan dress with fake flowers and ivy inside the netting. We got married at Manchester Town Hall, 19/11/2017. ❤️
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
just watched season five episode twelve of the sopranos for the first time and I'm absolutely devastated 😭 how dare this show be so good at messing with my emotions!!!!
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Wordle 1,613 4/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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yeeorjanedoe poems 🕷️ @yeehawpoems.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
2320 Time will pass more quickly exponentially Appreciate the moment you will never get it back Say I love you and mean it Rest days are imperative #poetry
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
spent today getting severely caffeinated at the Manchester Coffee Festival! I'm not an industry person but its so lovely to chat to folks about coffee and sample it with one of my oldest friends 🥰
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
a preview of what I'm posting on substack next week! graphic design is my passion x
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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Very glamorous cat in Central Park photo shoot today.
Cat in white sweater and lavender beret sitting on stone wall.Same cat in a cat stroller.
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
#poetry fans may like my current thing, which is sticking down the little words and phrases I use for my cut up poems. I think it'll make it easier for me to search for the right words. hey, why not write a poem using these? either in cut up style or as prompts? if you do, please share with me! 🥰
A selection of words from magazines that have been cut out and stuck on purple paper. Sorry there's too many words I cannot alt text properly 😞😭
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
just plugging my work again because a) this asset substack made is really funny to me and b) I am actually proud of this so yk check it out if you like! 💜 #writing #personalessay open.substack.com/pub/thestill...
The background is a picture of a woman (me) wearing a tutu and black t-shirt with a running bib. She looks Done with everything. 

Overlaid on top of the photo is the title of her latest essay on substack: rebuild, rerun and whadda ya gonna do: Manchester half 2025 and other stories. Underneath the title it says 'a sequel to the 2024 running essay. also featured: some musings on gratitude, negativity, and slowing the f down'
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F.E. 💫 @thestillestsea.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Wordle 1,608 4/6* Oh bloody hell why did I fumble the third guess 😭 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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