Jess Whitecroft (she/her)
@jesswhitecroft.bsky.social
Writes romance and horror. Sometimes combines the two in a horrible romance. Gluten-free. May contain nuts. No DMs, please, because the UK has determined I'm not adult enough to read them.
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It’s only Frankenstein if it’s from the Frankenstein region of France - otherwise it’s just a sparkling monster.
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
It’s only Frankenstein if it’s from the Frankenstein region of France - otherwise it’s just a sparkling monster.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
Merits of gossiping on public transport = just avoided taking a ferry to a shop that isn't even open until tomorrow. It's handy being of an age where every other woman with a shopping bag is a potential conversation partner.
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Merits of gossiping on public transport = just avoided taking a ferry to a shop that isn't even open until tomorrow. It's handy being of an age where every other woman with a shopping bag is a potential conversation partner.
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At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
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People in the UK aren't getting transphobia from weird niche online communities.
They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.
They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.
when this piece of shit is asked what good phone pouches are supposed to do, shs responds glibly about online radicalisation. where else would children learn to be transphobic in the tolerant UK, after all? ridiculous
On Brianna's 19th birthday, this morning I joined @cheshirepcc.bsky.social and the Brianna Ghey Legacy Project Phone Free Education campaign at the launch at Jodrell Bank of a new £150k initiative to make Cheshire the first county in the UK where ALL state high schools have lockable phone pouches.
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
People in the UK aren't getting transphobia from weird niche online communities.
They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.
They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.
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‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
Explaining historical fact vs historical fiction in Death by Lightning. I'm afraid the words 'buttchugging Bovril' were used. And that they had to tone down the ending, unless they were going to be okay with it being classified as a horror.
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Explaining historical fact vs historical fiction in Death by Lightning. I'm afraid the words 'buttchugging Bovril' were used. And that they had to tone down the ending, unless they were going to be okay with it being classified as a horror.
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This is grown-up politics, apparently. With magical robots.
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
AI chatbots could help stop prisoner release errors, says justice minister
HMP Wandsworth gets ‘green light’ to use AI after team sent in to find ‘quick fixes’ after spate of mistakes
Artificial intelligence chatbots could be used to stop prisoners from being mistakenly released from jail, a justice minister told the House of Lords on Monday.
Lord Timpson said HMP Wandsworth had been given the “green light” to use artificial intelligence (AI) after a specialised team was sent in to find “some quick fixes”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is grown-up politics, apparently. With magical robots.
"The eldest had taken himself and his male heir out of the genepool after saying something to the effect of 'look, if Prince Andrew can do it then any bloody idiot can learn to fly a helicopter.'" Ugh. Hate when I come across a line that dates my WIP like that.
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"The eldest had taken himself and his male heir out of the genepool after saying something to the effect of 'look, if Prince Andrew can do it then any bloody idiot can learn to fly a helicopter.'" Ugh. Hate when I come across a line that dates my WIP like that.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
Honestly, it's quite a front page, isn't it? Just saying with your whole chest you believe in things you can't prove are real and that nobody has ever successfully proved are real, but they give you the jibblies nonetheless and therefore must be real.
Oh, and ghosts.
Oh, and ghosts.
The Daily Mail making sure "transgender" is included in the framing of the story. #BBC
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Honestly, it's quite a front page, isn't it? Just saying with your whole chest you believe in things you can't prove are real and that nobody has ever successfully proved are real, but they give you the jibblies nonetheless and therefore must be real.
Oh, and ghosts.
Oh, and ghosts.
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Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
April 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
Oh. Oops. Heahmund's dead. Thank Christ for that. I couldn't handle much more of Jonathan Rhys Meyers' whisper/scream acting.
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Oh. Oops. Heahmund's dead. Thank Christ for that. I couldn't handle much more of Jonathan Rhys Meyers' whisper/scream acting.
Lagertha, I am begging you to fix your taste in men. At least young Ragnar was hot. Heahmund is just gross.
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Lagertha, I am begging you to fix your taste in men. At least young Ragnar was hot. Heahmund is just gross.
Unrelated, perhaps.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FZxQ...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FZxQ...
The Poverty of You | Roderick and Annabel Lee Funeral Scene | The Fall of the House of Usher Netflix
YouTube video by Collium Wilgate
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November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Unrelated, perhaps.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FZxQ...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=FZxQ...
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
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Remember to wear your hi-viz, folks, so that you won't be hit by a bus driver ... Oh ... www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/2560646...
November 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Remember to wear your hi-viz, folks, so that you won't be hit by a bus driver ... Oh ... www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/2560646...
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National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
Voting results from the AGM
Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign.
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee
12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate
Non-slate candidated
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
So much to love in the new Frankenstein, but I do particularly love the choice to dress Elizabeth in the most poisonous shades of 19th century green - Paris and Scheele's. She's so doomed, poor thing.
November 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
So much to love in the new Frankenstein, but I do particularly love the choice to dress Elizabeth in the most poisonous shades of 19th century green - Paris and Scheele's. She's so doomed, poor thing.
Well, I have no idea how this is possible, but he made an even better movie than Pinocchio.
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Well, I have no idea how this is possible, but he made an even better movie than Pinocchio.
Oh no. Goodbye, Shirley Valentine. ❤️
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Oh no. Goodbye, Shirley Valentine. ❤️
New booze obsession. Think Baileys, but made with rum instead of whisky. Background spice is very chai-like. Just dumped some in a panna cotta, to be topped off with bananas roasted in brown sugar.
November 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
New booze obsession. Think Baileys, but made with rum instead of whisky. Background spice is very chai-like. Just dumped some in a panna cotta, to be topped off with bananas roasted in brown sugar.
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Rosalind Franklin
Leaving her notes in a pile
That she keeps by the door
Who is it for?
Awful James Watson
Stealing the credit
And snaffling all the awards
Misogynist bore
Leaving her notes in a pile
That she keeps by the door
Who is it for?
Awful James Watson
Stealing the credit
And snaffling all the awards
Misogynist bore
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Rosalind Franklin
Leaving her notes in a pile
That she keeps by the door
Who is it for?
Awful James Watson
Stealing the credit
And snaffling all the awards
Misogynist bore
Leaving her notes in a pile
That she keeps by the door
Who is it for?
Awful James Watson
Stealing the credit
And snaffling all the awards
Misogynist bore
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