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C(ecilia) 📚🏳️‍⚧️
@ceciliabennett.bsky.social
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Senior Editor at Neem Tree Press; PhD in translated fiction, streaming platforms and new media; collector of plants and hobbies. They/she but the 'she' is in a smaller font and looks a little embarrassed about itself.
Enabler of Dorley
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself
October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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lyndseycroal.bsky.social
We're all set up at the HalloZine fair at National Library Scotland, @ceciliabennett.bsky.social and I here today till 4pm! Pop by if you're in Edinburgh- we have Zines, art, and boooooks ✨️🐈‍⬛️👻
October 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
Attention zine fans! I'm doing the final bit of organising with @lyndseycroal.bsky.social to prepare for Hallowzine at the NLS from 11-4 on Sunday! Featuring this lovely story by Lyndsey, illustrated by me!
The front cover of a cream and black coloured zine called Cat's Eyes. It features a screen with a control panel beneath it. On the screen is a cat's eye with the centre of the pupil cut out. Through the cut-out, you can see a mouse wearing an astronaut helmet
October 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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lyndseycroal.bsky.social
Edinburgh pals, I'm running a free haunted generative writing workshop at the HalloZine fair on Saturday 18th October (where I'll also be tabling with @ceciliabennett.bsky.social and some seasonal zines!) There are a few tickets left here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-haunted-...
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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annamegill.com
That "give me an LLM trained only on my own work so it can generate bespoke ideas for ME" idea baffles me. Part of being creative is evolving abd growing out of past versions of your creative self. Themes that interested me at 20 don't move me now. I wouldn't want them calcified in a data set
September 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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metamorphoseos.bsky.social
everyone keeps saying my dryer ball holder is breasting boobily
yarn bag hanging from a wall with two dryer balls spilling out over the low-cut edge like cleavage
September 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
I'm on the Smurf train now, baby
A blue train at a station platform. It is covered in images of characters from the smurfs. Two people are waiting to board in front of it.
September 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
Looks like a Dorley girl has joined the M&S product development team @badambulist.bsky.social
Photo of banana, toffee and Weetabix based breakfast pots on sale at Marks and Spencer's.
August 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
It would be nice for my family to see me as someone who's successful and happy rather than the one with a string of catastrophically wild stories. They claim I signed up for this when I chose a career in publishing, but, like, it can't all be like this, right?!
August 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
Ok, ok hear me out: what if Yorgos Lanthimos directed a movie adaptation of The Book of Margery Kempe???
July 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
Saw this and thought of you @badambulist.bsky.social
A commemorative plate for Weetabix with gold edging and a pastoral image of cows, a bridge and a factory in the background. Gold letters spell out "Weetabix Limited 1936-1986"
July 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
This iconic little fact just popped up in a list I was reading of trans contributors to video games
A screenshot that has an image of game-play from Pokemon Stadium featuring four Magikarp flopping about in a mini game. The texts reads: Pokemon Stadium (1999, N64) The absolute goddamn peak of Maddie Blaustein's voice acting career! She voiced the Magikarp in the minigame where a bunch of Magikarp jump to hit a counter and yell "KAAAAARP". Honestly you don't even need the rest of the list, this is the absolute peak of trans contributions to videogames. Maddie Blaustein did a bunch of Magikarp noises. Everything else is just filler.
June 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
Happy Glorious 25th of May! Truth, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love and a Hard-Boiled egg etc.
May 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
Ah yes, the common stress responses: fight, flight, freeze, faun, and 🐸 frogs 🐸
Nine different monochrome ink drawings of frogs. They all look some shade of alarmed, disgruntled, resigned or outraged.
May 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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badambulist.bsky.social
This is doubly insane because recently they all went fucking bananas over a trans mum who breastfed. They will watch us ache to be mothers and they will deny us the chance or they will try to rip our children from our arms and then they will cry, these fake women, if they were real, would be mothers
April 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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ashleythorpe.bsky.social
Please share this mentorship opportunity with any publishing industry hopefuls you know in the north of the country and Scotland. Proud to be a mentor again this year
www.childrensbooksnorth.co.uk/blog/childre...
Children’s Books North Network Mentor Scheme – Applications open! — Children's Books North
Applications are now open for the Children’s Books North Network Mentor Scheme!
www.childrensbooksnorth.co.uk
April 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
Fascism likes to come up with talking points and debates so it can manipulate discourse in its favour, and we need to take a good hard look at the direction we're heading in. These people are not arguing in good faith and cis allies need to understand this if we want to see change.
April 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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lyndseycroal.bsky.social
Filed under: helpful notes I leave myself in the middle of the night 💁‍♀️
Phone note that reads: moss horror?
April 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
Royal College of Saint Almsworth's admin team: "Why is Dorley Hall considered part of our campus when we don't put any money into it?"

The Dorley Girl who's infiltrated management: "Dorley Hall is mysterious and important. It's not for us to question."
April 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
@mhairiblack.bsky.social I saw Politics Isn't For Me and it's been rattling around my brain since. It was so good and eye-opening! Are you writing/would you write a book? I'm an acquiring editor so would love to chat if appropriate... 👀
April 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
I've been trying my hand at Mokulito printing this weekend, turning drawn and carved into pieces of plywood into lovely prints!
A piece of birch plywood that has been painted on and carved into. The painting depicts trees and a reflection, and the carving depicts branches. A finished print straight out of the press. You can see the corner of the black in the corner of the image. The image is of trees and their reflection with white branches in the foreground. Half of the image has a blue background, achieved with a chine-collé technique (fancy for gluing different coloured paper to the background as you print)
April 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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lyndseycroal.bsky.social
Are you a folklore enthusiast looking for your next read? Do you enjoy nautical horrors and nature being weird? 👀 Dark Crescent comes out in just 2 months, dark seasonal tales inspired by Scottish folklore...! With a beautiful cover by @jennicoutts.bsky.social✨ 🌙🌊 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
Cover of Dark Crescent by Lyndsey Croal - "Lyrical and evocative." - Joanne Harris. The cover features blue and gold illustrations of different Scottish folklore creatures, in the sea below, and land above. Cover art by Jenni Coutts.
April 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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katie.bzky.team
THE ENTIRETY OF DORLEY HALL EXCEPT CHRISTINE:
molly.wiki Molly White @molly.wiki · Mar 26
"we are currently clean on OPSEC", you write to the group chat with the journalist
Screenshot of a Signal message from Pete Hegseth: "More to follow (per timeline) / We are currently clean on OPSEC / Godspeed to our Warriors."
March 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
Leicestershire is such a charming place!
A street sign in the countryside surrounded by twigs and grass, reading "Flesh Hovel Lane". The sign conjures up an unpleasant image that is at odds with the idea that this is a charming place. There are allotments in the background.
March 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
ceciliabennett.bsky.social
Transition goals
A piece of street art in teal and yellow. There are three images that progress from each other. To the very right is a woman facing left. In the middle, facing the same direction is a similar looking person but now she has a beak and their arm looks like a wing. Finally, to the left is a bird. The implication is that these are all the same person in varying forms of metamorphosis.
February 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM