Catullus's 300,000th kiss
@arielwrites.bsky.social
Writer and artist in the UK. I write about history seriously and create fiction and art for fun. I’m a James Baldwin/Anne Carson/bell hooks/John Berger girlie.
Read my fiction and buy me coffee at https://ko-fi.com/arielwrites
Read my fiction and buy me coffee at https://ko-fi.com/arielwrites
'If brotherhood is the only true form of love,
then let me call you brother.'
––Keetje Kuipers
then let me call you brother.'
––Keetje Kuipers
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
'If brotherhood is the only true form of love,
then let me call you brother.'
––Keetje Kuipers
then let me call you brother.'
––Keetje Kuipers
What the hell, it's on my timeline, might as well repost it.
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
What the hell, it's on my timeline, might as well repost it.
Finally done with the last-minute edits to my article for an international commercial publication. It was so nice to see the layout for the article. And because I'm the only one who cares about my writing career, I shall go and celebrate by myself.
a woman wearing glasses is sitting on a couch and waving her hand .
ALT: a woman wearing glasses is sitting on a couch and waving her hand .
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Finally done with the last-minute edits to my article for an international commercial publication. It was so nice to see the layout for the article. And because I'm the only one who cares about my writing career, I shall go and celebrate by myself.
'Migration is the story of longing
is the story. To risk
rupture for rapture.'
––Patrycja Humienik
is the story. To risk
rupture for rapture.'
––Patrycja Humienik
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
'Migration is the story of longing
is the story. To risk
rupture for rapture.'
––Patrycja Humienik
is the story. To risk
rupture for rapture.'
––Patrycja Humienik
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'In memory of them, in memory of their inedible beauty, today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. In other words, for the elimination of violence by the little Trujillos that rule in so many homes.'
—Eduardo Galeano, 'Children of the Days'
—Eduardo Galeano, 'Children of the Days'
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
'In memory of them, in memory of their inedible beauty, today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. In other words, for the elimination of violence by the little Trujillos that rule in so many homes.'
—Eduardo Galeano, 'Children of the Days'
—Eduardo Galeano, 'Children of the Days'
I will not linger where I'm not wanted.
Leaving is liberating but it doesn’t make me feel like I've shed an unnecessary weight. If anything, there's a heaviness that wasn't here before—all this love that now has nowhere to go.
Leaving is liberating but it doesn’t make me feel like I've shed an unnecessary weight. If anything, there's a heaviness that wasn't here before—all this love that now has nowhere to go.
November 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I will not linger where I'm not wanted.
Leaving is liberating but it doesn’t make me feel like I've shed an unnecessary weight. If anything, there's a heaviness that wasn't here before—all this love that now has nowhere to go.
Leaving is liberating but it doesn’t make me feel like I've shed an unnecessary weight. If anything, there's a heaviness that wasn't here before—all this love that now has nowhere to go.
Such a beautiful book. It deserves all the prizes.
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
vajra.me
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Such a beautiful book. It deserves all the prizes.
In the throes of a flu. Wide awake at 4 A.M. I think I wrote something yesterday, maybe even drew some sketches. I can't remember. Nothing is in my head apart from deadlines. Deactivated my X account again. Realised yet again that the more time I spend on social media, the more solitary I feel.
October 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
In the throes of a flu. Wide awake at 4 A.M. I think I wrote something yesterday, maybe even drew some sketches. I can't remember. Nothing is in my head apart from deadlines. Deactivated my X account again. Realised yet again that the more time I spend on social media, the more solitary I feel.
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Current favorite comic: FML by @kellysue.bsky.social. YA, a rock band, with a gritty true crime backdrop, set in war-ravaged Portland #comicsky
October 1, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Current favorite comic: FML by @kellysue.bsky.social. YA, a rock band, with a gritty true crime backdrop, set in war-ravaged Portland #comicsky
So what
If you find yourself crying
at 2 in the morning?
There will still be sunrise
Another day to spend in the world
Knowing you did not drown
in the shadows.
If you find yourself crying
at 2 in the morning?
There will still be sunrise
Another day to spend in the world
Knowing you did not drown
in the shadows.
August 30, 2025 at 1:56 AM
So what
If you find yourself crying
at 2 in the morning?
There will still be sunrise
Another day to spend in the world
Knowing you did not drown
in the shadows.
If you find yourself crying
at 2 in the morning?
There will still be sunrise
Another day to spend in the world
Knowing you did not drown
in the shadows.
Almost 1 A.M. here and still thinking about how life can break you in so many ways, the unfairness of it all.
August 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Almost 1 A.M. here and still thinking about how life can break you in so many ways, the unfairness of it all.
grieve is the name i give to myself.
i carve it into the bed frame.
i am make-believe.
this is an archive.
it hurts to be a story.
––from 'Gay Incantations' by Billy-Ray Belcourt
i carve it into the bed frame.
i am make-believe.
this is an archive.
it hurts to be a story.
––from 'Gay Incantations' by Billy-Ray Belcourt
August 9, 2025 at 6:05 AM
grieve is the name i give to myself.
i carve it into the bed frame.
i am make-believe.
this is an archive.
it hurts to be a story.
––from 'Gay Incantations' by Billy-Ray Belcourt
i carve it into the bed frame.
i am make-believe.
this is an archive.
it hurts to be a story.
––from 'Gay Incantations' by Billy-Ray Belcourt
'Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace.
Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder.'
––Jane Hirshfield, 'Counting, New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me'
Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder.'
––Jane Hirshfield, 'Counting, New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me'
August 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
'Stone did not become apple. War did not become peace.
Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder.'
––Jane Hirshfield, 'Counting, New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me'
Yet joy still stays joy. Sequins stay sequins. Words still bespangle, bewilder.'
––Jane Hirshfield, 'Counting, New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me'
I hate how I'm so careful with money most of the time, and then I wake up at 4.30 in the morning and end up buying a £50 bacne spray that's not even for myself.😩
July 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I hate how I'm so careful with money most of the time, and then I wake up at 4.30 in the morning and end up buying a £50 bacne spray that's not even for myself.😩
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White people deciding who is Black. White people deciding how brown people should identify. Non-Jews deciding who is Jewish.
Predatory capital cackling and cackling as inequality soars to extremes.
Nearly 6 decades on this planet, all this education, just to have my intelligence assaulted daily.
Predatory capital cackling and cackling as inequality soars to extremes.
Nearly 6 decades on this planet, all this education, just to have my intelligence assaulted daily.
July 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
White people deciding who is Black. White people deciding how brown people should identify. Non-Jews deciding who is Jewish.
Predatory capital cackling and cackling as inequality soars to extremes.
Nearly 6 decades on this planet, all this education, just to have my intelligence assaulted daily.
Predatory capital cackling and cackling as inequality soars to extremes.
Nearly 6 decades on this planet, all this education, just to have my intelligence assaulted daily.
'If you turn your back on the light for too long, the light doesn't die,
it just stops trying to find you.'
Thank you, Kae Tempest, for this beautiful, beautiful album.
#translivesmatter
#kaetempest
#selftitled
it just stops trying to find you.'
Thank you, Kae Tempest, for this beautiful, beautiful album.
#translivesmatter
#kaetempest
#selftitled
July 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
'If you turn your back on the light for too long, the light doesn't die,
it just stops trying to find you.'
Thank you, Kae Tempest, for this beautiful, beautiful album.
#translivesmatter
#kaetempest
#selftitled
it just stops trying to find you.'
Thank you, Kae Tempest, for this beautiful, beautiful album.
#translivesmatter
#kaetempest
#selftitled
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Hi, pardon me, hello: mass protest in the face of fascism is a great idea and in fact the only thing that works to actually combat it. anyone saying otherwise is an idiot. sorry, i cannot anymore with this shit. do the fucking reading!
June 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Hi, pardon me, hello: mass protest in the face of fascism is a great idea and in fact the only thing that works to actually combat it. anyone saying otherwise is an idiot. sorry, i cannot anymore with this shit. do the fucking reading!
As a person with OCD who has to engage with the world and evaluate its most pressing issues on a regular basis, I am really struggling to cope these days. Back to therapy when I go home, I guess.
June 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
As a person with OCD who has to engage with the world and evaluate its most pressing issues on a regular basis, I am really struggling to cope these days. Back to therapy when I go home, I guess.
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A new exclusive Byline Times report reveals how the corporation is enabling the far-right of British politics
How the BBC is 'Falling for Farage'
www.bylinesupplement.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A new exclusive Byline Times report reveals how the corporation is enabling the far-right of British politics
Only brought one physical book with me on this trip. I'll probably make up for it by buying a whole load while I'm here. Anyway, I like how the book colours match my Moleskine cahier.
May 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Only brought one physical book with me on this trip. I'll probably make up for it by buying a whole load while I'm here. Anyway, I like how the book colours match my Moleskine cahier.
Managed to retrieve this from my cupboard of childhood treasures. I love you, Jill Sobule. Thank you for the music and the stories.
May 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Managed to retrieve this from my cupboard of childhood treasures. I love you, Jill Sobule. Thank you for the music and the stories.
Reading Agnes Martin
May 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Reading Agnes Martin
April 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
April 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM