@saccharinequeen
Functions adequately. New poetry published by Red Ogre, 'The Usual Apologies ' (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DYVL2PZC ) Short story collection coming with Acid Bath Press later in the year. May contain smut.
Hello—here’s the official trailer for UNDERLAND, based on my book of the same name, dir. by Rob Petit, with a haunting, glittering score by @hannahpeel.bsky.social, & the ‘Storyteller’ voiced by Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest). Hope you like it.
In UK/Irish cinemas 27 March.
Small furry cat wonders why large ginger woman is staring at him
#Caturday
Oil painting, 1938 landscape (William E Reid signature).
Oil painting of three young women around a table. I particularly like the one on the right, who is fed up. Signature is tiny and illegible, and I am not going to mess around trying to clean it more than I have. It's shabbily splendid as it is.
Latest treasure from #SamBurns #EastLothian. I've cleaned them up a little, and the frames are on order so these are screenshots, but a massive hit of happy for a fiver each.
I like this beautiful poem from the latest @newyorker.com
It's not much hope, but it is all the hope in the world for kākāpōs, so that's made me smile x
Sadie Maskery lives in Scotland by the sea. Her short stories can be found in publications including Extra Teeth, Odd Magazine and Starship Sloane. Her most recent poetry collections are 'Overheard Lovesongs' and 'The Usual Apologies', with poems printed in The Scotsman, Poetry Scotland, Red Ogre, and various other awesome places. She can be found on Bluesky as @saccharinequeen.bskyb.social. When not writing she enjoys ambling and doodling. (That’s the blurb I sent in full. I like the ambling and doodling bit so I am adding it back in.)
Well now, there's happiness! @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social
#Overboard #ShortStories #BlueskyBooks @redogrereview.bsky.social @extrateethmag.bsky.social #StarshipSloane
Small fluffy cat blissfully sleeps with one paw embracing a human leg
I haven't been able to move my leg for hour
A Hebridean sheep with four horns
Today we met a sheep giving serious and impressive underworld vibes
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
Alt Text: A picture of the latest Green MP, being hugged by the Green Party Leader. A speech bubble next to the MP proclaims ‘The cistern is broken’
Dear Private Eye: a lot of people read Bluesky with text to speech software. Please consider providing alt text so they too can laugh at your jokes <3
NIGHT OWLS 🦉 through the night with #TPTV
23:25 DOOMWATCH (1970) (s)
00:25 A GOOD READ: SHERLOCK HOLMES - The Stockbroker's Clerk
01:30 CROWN COURT (1974) (s)
03:00 BATTLE OF THE V.1. (1958) (s)
05:00 BURKE'S LAW (1964)
06:00 LAW OF THE PLAINSMAN (1960) (s)
I know you shouldn't judge by appearances but I have just done precisely that.
A small ragdoll floofcat stands on a record player and looks winsome.
A small ragdoll floofcat gazes at a spider offscreen.
Paint me like one of your French floofcats pose, by Scottish floofcat
We are catsitting this ridiculous creature #NotMyCat
Moon cloud sky
Moon and fabulous cloud patterns
Moon in the water
Forbidding clouds
Taking me a long time to walk home - looking at the Moon in the sky and the moon in the water
Wise old horticultural woman I met: “If you find a rabbit’s foot and tickle the leaves of your tomato plant with it your tomatoes will grow faster.”
Me: “Interesting. I might try that.”
Next-door’s rabbit, the following day: “Stop that, and put me the fuck down. I did not consent to this.”
Mannequins having a meeting in Edinburgh.
Looks serious.
Cartoon by seddon in Private Eye issue 1670 - bar graph asking 'are you knackered?' The blue 'yes' bar leans tiredly against the Y axis.
Today's #PrivateEye
Some dickhead had better not try to paint this great messed up old door in an even older wall or I am going over there with some people I know, and I am not kidding.
A THREAD, which I have decided to call 'Bloody Hell, Aren't Doors On Old Walls Fucking Brilliant?'
You will find the all-important captions to each photo in the alt text.
Despair in these times nears paralysis. We’re sclerotic. Each impulse to resistance, rage, even to despair itself, feels withered, a nothingness. Yet there’s art. Music. At best it reminds us what’s possible, how miraculous human beings can be, even when the world & those who run it bellow otherwise
Just a regular reminder to please support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them.
Without us, they can't survive, and truthfully, without them, neither can we.
The 20 Best Interdimensional Portals I Have Photographed On Walks In The British Countryside. Including arguably the best portal of all (the one leading to Jim). www.tom-cox.com/the-20-best-...
A cat who once had a big suburban house and a hugely stressful prestigious job and now lives on a cliff instead, free of the trappings of modern life, to the admiration of its friends, who, as they idealise its life, never imagine the terrible loneliness it feels during cold winters, six miles from the nearest shop, cinema and pub.
THREAD.
A collection of photos I have taken of excellent cats I have met on walks.
You will find the all-important captions to the photos in the alt text.
When a novelist starts writing poetry
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
This entirely innocent sounding website reminds me of one of my own paintings.
Had my royalty cheque from the amazing @ogre.red. If anyone wants a copy of The Usual Apologies, contact them, as I am out of mine :) They did a fantastic job (and it's a thrill to, er, get paid)! Check out their back catalogue and help them support other authors xx
www.amazon.co.uk/Usual-Apolog...
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
