elri
@eyebright-iris.bsky.social
MA Lit & Culture graduate from Uni of Brum | they/any | LARPer/feral idiot
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elri
@eyebright-iris.bsky.social
· Nov 15
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Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”
Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...
By Julianne Le
February 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”
(yet, with all its interest in boundaries, what is *in* and what is *out* - if the sea claims the town, as so often it does…what does that mean, when the bounded becomes one with the utterly unbound?)
February 7, 2026 at 1:00 AM
(yet, with all its interest in boundaries, what is *in* and what is *out* - if the sea claims the town, as so often it does…what does that mean, when the bounded becomes one with the utterly unbound?)
actually no im NOT done being insane about the hiding place. it’s a coastal horror novel where the sea does not directly factor into any of the horror. that’s nuts to me. I don’t think i’ve ever encountered that before. i can’t stop thinking about how fascinating that is
need to express something about that book that has made me mildly insane
my family holidays by the coast a lot, a week’s getaway at some point to beachcomb etc.
3 years ago, the house we rented (many floors & attic rooms) bothered my mum with the pervasive smell of damp
it was our whitby trip rental
my family holidays by the coast a lot, a week’s getaway at some point to beachcomb etc.
3 years ago, the house we rented (many floors & attic rooms) bothered my mum with the pervasive smell of damp
it was our whitby trip rental
February 7, 2026 at 1:00 AM
actually no im NOT done being insane about the hiding place. it’s a coastal horror novel where the sea does not directly factor into any of the horror. that’s nuts to me. I don’t think i’ve ever encountered that before. i can’t stop thinking about how fascinating that is
need to express something about that book that has made me mildly insane
my family holidays by the coast a lot, a week’s getaway at some point to beachcomb etc.
3 years ago, the house we rented (many floors & attic rooms) bothered my mum with the pervasive smell of damp
it was our whitby trip rental
my family holidays by the coast a lot, a week’s getaway at some point to beachcomb etc.
3 years ago, the house we rented (many floors & attic rooms) bothered my mum with the pervasive smell of damp
it was our whitby trip rental
February 6, 2026 at 12:00 AM
need to express something about that book that has made me mildly insane
my family holidays by the coast a lot, a week’s getaway at some point to beachcomb etc.
3 years ago, the house we rented (many floors & attic rooms) bothered my mum with the pervasive smell of damp
it was our whitby trip rental
my family holidays by the coast a lot, a week’s getaway at some point to beachcomb etc.
3 years ago, the house we rented (many floors & attic rooms) bothered my mum with the pervasive smell of damp
it was our whitby trip rental
finishing up the hiding place has me remembering my undergrad dissertation, which used mason’s first novel the wayward girls as a text
i was looking at how teenage girls make their own kinds of wretched justice when wronged
maybe i should go back to that piece and rewrite it to be Good, Actually
i was looking at how teenage girls make their own kinds of wretched justice when wronged
maybe i should go back to that piece and rewrite it to be Good, Actually
February 5, 2026 at 11:13 PM
finishing up the hiding place has me remembering my undergrad dissertation, which used mason’s first novel the wayward girls as a text
i was looking at how teenage girls make their own kinds of wretched justice when wronged
maybe i should go back to that piece and rewrite it to be Good, Actually
i was looking at how teenage girls make their own kinds of wretched justice when wronged
maybe i should go back to that piece and rewrite it to be Good, Actually
3: The Hiding Place by @amandajanemason.bsky.social
A dark, creeping folk horror novel coalescing to a visceral conclusion, in a quaint coastal town. Things unfold forwards & backwards, revealing the cruelties hidden within a person, the sacrifices women make, and the brutality with which they do so
A dark, creeping folk horror novel coalescing to a visceral conclusion, in a quaint coastal town. Things unfold forwards & backwards, revealing the cruelties hidden within a person, the sacrifices women make, and the brutality with which they do so
February 5, 2026 at 11:11 PM
3: The Hiding Place by @amandajanemason.bsky.social
A dark, creeping folk horror novel coalescing to a visceral conclusion, in a quaint coastal town. Things unfold forwards & backwards, revealing the cruelties hidden within a person, the sacrifices women make, and the brutality with which they do so
A dark, creeping folk horror novel coalescing to a visceral conclusion, in a quaint coastal town. Things unfold forwards & backwards, revealing the cruelties hidden within a person, the sacrifices women make, and the brutality with which they do so
utterly rage inducing
January 28, 2026 at 1:49 PM
utterly rage inducing
i was the same! i reached the first mention of “the fields we think we know” and immediately knew i was going to be reading something very special
January 22, 2026 at 10:20 AM
i was the same! i reached the first mention of “the fields we think we know” and immediately knew i was going to be reading something very special
sometimes the world is very bad, and sometimes a 12 year old from plymouth emails you because he loves learning about universities and wants to know if you have any stickers or postcards you could send him
January 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
sometimes the world is very bad, and sometimes a 12 year old from plymouth emails you because he loves learning about universities and wants to know if you have any stickers or postcards you could send him
2: The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com. Achingly beautiful, gorgeously lyrical, a faerie story about agency & sisterhood. The River Liss flows from north to south, and its magic is grammar. Translation, transliteration, riddles; references to Shakespeare, Dunsany & mythology. Instant favourite😭
January 16, 2026 at 12:21 AM
2: The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com. Achingly beautiful, gorgeously lyrical, a faerie story about agency & sisterhood. The River Liss flows from north to south, and its magic is grammar. Translation, transliteration, riddles; references to Shakespeare, Dunsany & mythology. Instant favourite😭
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After 73 days of hunger strike which began in November 2025, three of the Palestine Action prisoners have ended their hunger strikes after it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defense, a key demand of the hunger strikers.
Three Palestine Action activists end UK hunger strike https://aje.news/pwpm4z
January 15, 2026 at 12:35 AM
After 73 days of hunger strike which began in November 2025, three of the Palestine Action prisoners have ended their hunger strikes after it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defense, a key demand of the hunger strikers.
i’m a happy critter when i’m adding more books to my TBR
fantasy, gothic and horror novels remain fantastic and so many amazing new ones are coming out continually
sometimes i worry i’ll run out of books and need to break my read each day streak, but uh. i think i’ll be okay at this rate
fantasy, gothic and horror novels remain fantastic and so many amazing new ones are coming out continually
sometimes i worry i’ll run out of books and need to break my read each day streak, but uh. i think i’ll be okay at this rate
January 14, 2026 at 10:49 PM
i’m a happy critter when i’m adding more books to my TBR
fantasy, gothic and horror novels remain fantastic and so many amazing new ones are coming out continually
sometimes i worry i’ll run out of books and need to break my read each day streak, but uh. i think i’ll be okay at this rate
fantasy, gothic and horror novels remain fantastic and so many amazing new ones are coming out continually
sometimes i worry i’ll run out of books and need to break my read each day streak, but uh. i think i’ll be okay at this rate
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it’s a froggy socks in the office kinda day today
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 AM
it’s a froggy socks in the office kinda day today
sidebar but ough ouch i completed my bachelors six years ago this summer. hate that
January 11, 2026 at 11:12 PM
sidebar but ough ouch i completed my bachelors six years ago this summer. hate that
you ever start reading a book and go “you know what? this 10000% belongs on the reading list for a module i took in my final year of undergrad six years ago”
anyway the river has roots is off to a STRONG start and i need it on the fantasy & fandom module from my bachelors like. yesterday
anyway the river has roots is off to a STRONG start and i need it on the fantasy & fandom module from my bachelors like. yesterday
January 11, 2026 at 11:02 PM
you ever start reading a book and go “you know what? this 10000% belongs on the reading list for a module i took in my final year of undergrad six years ago”
anyway the river has roots is off to a STRONG start and i need it on the fantasy & fandom module from my bachelors like. yesterday
anyway the river has roots is off to a STRONG start and i need it on the fantasy & fandom module from my bachelors like. yesterday
pattern recognition go brrrr
anyway welcome to elri’s theory of Orange British Gothic
anyway welcome to elri’s theory of Orange British Gothic
January 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
pattern recognition go brrrr
anyway welcome to elri’s theory of Orange British Gothic
anyway welcome to elri’s theory of Orange British Gothic
1: Broken Ghosts by @jamesoswald.scot. A tragedy that unearths tragedies. A twelve year old girl reckoning with grief and unpicking the memories of the past in a small Welsh valley, told in split time in past and present. A gently gothic tale where the hauntings are deeply human.
January 10, 2026 at 12:03 PM
1: Broken Ghosts by @jamesoswald.scot. A tragedy that unearths tragedies. A twelve year old girl reckoning with grief and unpicking the memories of the past in a small Welsh valley, told in split time in past and present. A gently gothic tale where the hauntings are deeply human.
Books of 2026:
New year! Time for a new thread: books I read in 2026
January 10, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Books of 2026:
New year! Time for a new thread: books I read in 2026
January 10, 2026 at 11:58 AM
New year! Time for a new thread: books I read in 2026
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a collection of snow….,,things i saw today
January 9, 2026 at 7:49 PM
a collection of snow….,,things i saw today
hey, he survived from last night!
January 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
hey, he survived from last night!
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just had a quick peep out the window. the result:
January 9, 2026 at 12:28 AM
just had a quick peep out the window. the result: