Dr Malice
@atarbuck.bsky.social
Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️🌈 she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.
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At 5.15pm GMT today, the Earth will be at perihelion, the closest point to the Sun in our annual round.
This should be the start of the year. Happy new orbit, everyone!
This should be the start of the year. Happy new orbit, everyone!
January 3, 2026 at 9:48 AM
At 5.15pm GMT today, the Earth will be at perihelion, the closest point to the Sun in our annual round.
This should be the start of the year. Happy new orbit, everyone!
This should be the start of the year. Happy new orbit, everyone!
Snow on the beach! Like the Lana Del Ray song! Also snow literally everywhere else, my god are we snowed in, in a beautiful way!
January 3, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Snow on the beach! Like the Lana Del Ray song! Also snow literally everywhere else, my god are we snowed in, in a beautiful way!
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'First Snow,' by Robert Koehler, 1895
January 1, 2026 at 9:16 PM
'First Snow,' by Robert Koehler, 1895
If your 2026 resolution is to smell great (and why not!) - this is my current favourite scent and it’s *beautiful*:
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Salalah 15ML
This beautiful oil perfume transports us back to the times of the Incense Route,where Phoenician traders connected the main perfume capitals of Antiquity,Ibiza and Salalah.These brave sailors navigate...
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January 2, 2026 at 8:51 PM
If your 2026 resolution is to smell great (and why not!) - this is my current favourite scent and it’s *beautiful*:
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The child pornography machine cannot apologise, any more than a washing machine or a printer can.
January 2, 2026 at 8:39 PM
The child pornography machine cannot apologise, any more than a washing machine or a printer can.
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Any other UK comics creators get the pyramid scheme Gloucester comic con invitation? Pay us £100 and you get ten tickets for the con to resell? Pay deposit at a dodgy link, official phone number is a mobile number for voice mails only?
January 2, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Any other UK comics creators get the pyramid scheme Gloucester comic con invitation? Pay us £100 and you get ten tickets for the con to resell? Pay deposit at a dodgy link, official phone number is a mobile number for voice mails only?
The answer is that puppy classes should be free, frequent and accessible. We have an excellently trained dog: the reason for this is we spent a lot of time and money - and still do! - on his training, enrichment and development.
Think one of the next big fronts in the culture wars will be between dog owners and people who really dislike dogs
January 1, 2026 at 10:14 PM
The answer is that puppy classes should be free, frequent and accessible. We have an excellently trained dog: the reason for this is we spent a lot of time and money - and still do! - on his training, enrichment and development.
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Beef will disappear
January 1, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Beef will disappear
Happy New ‘we’re probably going to be snowed into the highlands’ to us.
January 1, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Happy New ‘we’re probably going to be snowed into the highlands’ to us.
Happy New Year, we got in the sea!
January 1, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Happy New Year, we got in the sea!
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ME, CALLING MY FRIEND ON THE PHONE: Happy New Year!
MY FRIEND: It’s not even ten pm.
ME: Sorry, I suffer from premature congratulation.
MY FRIEND: It’s not even ten pm.
ME: Sorry, I suffer from premature congratulation.
December 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
ME, CALLING MY FRIEND ON THE PHONE: Happy New Year!
MY FRIEND: It’s not even ten pm.
ME: Sorry, I suffer from premature congratulation.
MY FRIEND: It’s not even ten pm.
ME: Sorry, I suffer from premature congratulation.
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Je viens d'acheter à Londres ce livre collectif sur les points d'achoppement politiques de la néo-sorcellerie, d'un point de vue interne.
December 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Je viens d'acheter à Londres ce livre collectif sur les points d'achoppement politiques de la néo-sorcellerie, d'un point de vue interne.
Someone was very very angry that I didn’t cook chicken for my dog everyday.
(and somehow it wasn’t my dog managed to make a Bluesky to upbraid me)
(and somehow it wasn’t my dog managed to make a Bluesky to upbraid me)
What’s the funniest reason someone got mad at you on Bluesky this year?
December 30, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Someone was very very angry that I didn’t cook chicken for my dog everyday.
(and somehow it wasn’t my dog managed to make a Bluesky to upbraid me)
(and somehow it wasn’t my dog managed to make a Bluesky to upbraid me)
I simply love to have a half of cider then demand a chip shop supper
December 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I simply love to have a half of cider then demand a chip shop supper
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I am once again saying that incels and conservative men could date all the conservative trad wives and pick mes they want who will happily submit to them. But they don’t want that. They want to take an ambitious woman who won’t submit and break her. It’s a game to these abusive freaks.
December 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I am once again saying that incels and conservative men could date all the conservative trad wives and pick mes they want who will happily submit to them. But they don’t want that. They want to take an ambitious woman who won’t submit and break her. It’s a game to these abusive freaks.
Hello! Does anyone know @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social - who doesn’t seem to be here much? I’ve been sent an email by her but it looks like it might be AI, and want to check.
December 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Hello! Does anyone know @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social - who doesn’t seem to be here much? I’ve been sent an email by her but it looks like it might be AI, and want to check.
I also once sold some books to Benedict Cumberbatch, who had his baby strapped to him.
I said ‘so sorry, are you aware your baby has gloves on his feet instead of socks?’
He had not been aware.
I said ‘so sorry, are you aware your baby has gloves on his feet instead of socks?’
He had not been aware.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I also once sold some books to Benedict Cumberbatch, who had his baby strapped to him.
I said ‘so sorry, are you aware your baby has gloves on his feet instead of socks?’
He had not been aware.
I said ‘so sorry, are you aware your baby has gloves on his feet instead of socks?’
He had not been aware.
Last year, Richard Osmond trod on me, because he’s so tall and I am so short that he genuinely didn’t look down far enough to see me.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Last year, Richard Osmond trod on me, because he’s so tall and I am so short that he genuinely didn’t look down far enough to see me.
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💫 manifesting 💫 more book design in 2026
I'm currently available for everything book design, from covers to typesetting to ePubs - with narry a single speck of AI included. Check out the rest of my work and give me a shout over at www.ryanvance.co.uk!
December 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
💫 manifesting 💫 more book design in 2026
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This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
Currently playing my fave DnD character, a very annoying orc.
December 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Currently playing my fave DnD character, a very annoying orc.
I kept my head and held my tongue.
I did not let the bastards get me down.
I effected various trifling miracles.
I did not let the bastards get me down.
I effected various trifling miracles.
2025 achievements
Did not resign from my job, which is a fucking miracle never mind a small achievemént.
Protected my heart, which is the only currency i have.
Did not act to mend a fractured friendship.
Did not resign from my job, which is a fucking miracle never mind a small achievemént.
Protected my heart, which is the only currency i have.
Did not act to mend a fractured friendship.
2025
💜 got dismissed from a federal lawsuit
💜 first piece in a gallery show
💜 first time selected for a residency
💜 first time given a commission
💜 2 modestly paying gigs in other cities
💜 deadlifted 335 lbs & raised nearly $1700
💜 successfully made gluten free pizza
💜 looked for & found trouble
💜 got dismissed from a federal lawsuit
💜 first piece in a gallery show
💜 first time selected for a residency
💜 first time given a commission
💜 2 modestly paying gigs in other cities
💜 deadlifted 335 lbs & raised nearly $1700
💜 successfully made gluten free pizza
💜 looked for & found trouble
December 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I kept my head and held my tongue.
I did not let the bastards get me down.
I effected various trifling miracles.
I did not let the bastards get me down.
I effected various trifling miracles.
Hello my skin is extremely dull, what are your best brightening tips?
December 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Hello my skin is extremely dull, what are your best brightening tips?
A babe/ a boss/ Hercule P/ the only one wearing a false moustache at the 1920s party.
December 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
A babe/ a boss/ Hercule P/ the only one wearing a false moustache at the 1920s party.