Marielle Reuser
@mariellereuser.bsky.social
#PMDDwarrior / Creative Creature / Writer / PhD Candidate
https://grandtheftcycle.substack.com/
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https://grandtheftcycle.substack.com/
https://photovoiceai.art/
A while ago, a gynaecology consultant advised me to ‘just get pregnant.’ Despite my protest during the appointment, this advice was reiterated in a letter. It took a while for me to call out this terrible and illegitimate ‘treatment’ for PMDD. This is what happened: open.substack.com/pub/grandthe...
September 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
A while ago, a gynaecology consultant advised me to ‘just get pregnant.’ Despite my protest during the appointment, this advice was reiterated in a letter. It took a while for me to call out this terrible and illegitimate ‘treatment’ for PMDD. This is what happened: open.substack.com/pub/grandthe...
Firmly drawing a line at AI exercise videos. Doll-like smooth bodies and faces, zero personality. We have really lost our humanity. #generativeAI
August 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Firmly drawing a line at AI exercise videos. Doll-like smooth bodies and faces, zero personality. We have really lost our humanity. #generativeAI
My period is tomorrow and I have 7 books in my basket.
August 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
My period is tomorrow and I have 7 books in my basket.
On the subject of my coffee addiction, a lovely neighbour reminded me that I’m a human being and not a ‘human doing’.
July 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
On the subject of my coffee addiction, a lovely neighbour reminded me that I’m a human being and not a ‘human doing’.
My #uncanny short story 'The Yellow Dress' is featured in 'In A Land' zine. Pick up your copy from their brand new studio in Hebden Bridge, or buy online: www.inaland.uk
'The Yellow Dress' can be read here: www.grandtheftcycle.com/p/the-yellow-dress-a-short-story
#ShortStory #AmWriting #Fiction
'The Yellow Dress' can be read here: www.grandtheftcycle.com/p/the-yellow-dress-a-short-story
#ShortStory #AmWriting #Fiction
July 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My #uncanny short story 'The Yellow Dress' is featured in 'In A Land' zine. Pick up your copy from their brand new studio in Hebden Bridge, or buy online: www.inaland.uk
'The Yellow Dress' can be read here: www.grandtheftcycle.com/p/the-yellow-dress-a-short-story
#ShortStory #AmWriting #Fiction
'The Yellow Dress' can be read here: www.grandtheftcycle.com/p/the-yellow-dress-a-short-story
#ShortStory #AmWriting #Fiction
'At night, when the room is at its darkest, she materialises. Her energy is stronger when the clock strikes four. My legs begin to vibrate, as if a current is running through my muscle fibres.'
A #Femgore #PMDD story about a monster moving in:
www.grandtheftcycle.com/p/shes-not-herself-right-now
A #Femgore #PMDD story about a monster moving in:
www.grandtheftcycle.com/p/shes-not-herself-right-now
She’s Not Herself Right Now
A Femgore descent into PMDD's monthly madness and a monster moving in.
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July 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
'At night, when the room is at its darkest, she materialises. Her energy is stronger when the clock strikes four. My legs begin to vibrate, as if a current is running through my muscle fibres.'
A #Femgore #PMDD story about a monster moving in:
www.grandtheftcycle.com/p/shes-not-herself-right-now
A #Femgore #PMDD story about a monster moving in:
www.grandtheftcycle.com/p/shes-not-herself-right-now
‘Just walk more to heal yourself, swim harder to cure your condition, pitch your tent in the countryside and behold a miracle will befall you. The basic message is, try harder.’ The Observer piece on The Salt Path left me with an icky feeling. This helped:
open.substack.com/pub/alimilla...
open.substack.com/pub/alimilla...
What Does A Writer Owe Readers?
Thoughts after The Salt Path
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July 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
‘Just walk more to heal yourself, swim harder to cure your condition, pitch your tent in the countryside and behold a miracle will befall you. The basic message is, try harder.’ The Observer piece on The Salt Path left me with an icky feeling. This helped:
open.substack.com/pub/alimilla...
open.substack.com/pub/alimilla...
Starting to wonder if she even had all these noodles and bits of fudge… observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The real Salt Path: the truth behind the blockbuster book
The Salt Path is advertised as an “honest and true” story. A story that has become a literary phenomenon, sold more than 2 million copies, and been adapt...
observer.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Starting to wonder if she even had all these noodles and bits of fudge… observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I wrote about the strange goings-on in your local pub in 2011. I was there. I’m still there.
open.substack.com/pub/grandtheftcycle/p/the-yellow-dress-a-short-story
#Writer #AmWriting #Fiction #ShortStory
open.substack.com/pub/grandtheftcycle/p/the-yellow-dress-a-short-story
#Writer #AmWriting #Fiction #ShortStory
The Yellow Dress: A Short Story
This happened in 2011. In a pub near you.
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June 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I wrote about the strange goings-on in your local pub in 2011. I was there. I’m still there.
open.substack.com/pub/grandtheftcycle/p/the-yellow-dress-a-short-story
#Writer #AmWriting #Fiction #ShortStory
open.substack.com/pub/grandtheftcycle/p/the-yellow-dress-a-short-story
#Writer #AmWriting #Fiction #ShortStory
I used to be a game dev. This is a story about what happens when the job you love begins to hollow you out.
open.substack.com/pub/grandthe...
#GameDev #Crunch #Writer #AmWriting #Memoir
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#GameDev #Crunch #Writer #AmWriting #Memoir
Live, Laugh, Crunch
On dying a slow death under strip lights, still finding love, and refusing to stay within the margins of the workplace.
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June 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I used to be a game dev. This is a story about what happens when the job you love begins to hollow you out.
open.substack.com/pub/grandthe...
#GameDev #Crunch #Writer #AmWriting #Memoir
open.substack.com/pub/grandthe...
#GameDev #Crunch #Writer #AmWriting #Memoir
A gorgeous day at @womensprize.bsky.social with surprise visit from Her Majesty. Who wore it better?
June 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A gorgeous day at @womensprize.bsky.social with surprise visit from Her Majesty. Who wore it better?
Speaking about my PhD research today @leedsbeckett.bsky.social 💪 ‘She told the bot, and the bot understood‘ tests the viability of using Generative AI Art to expose the lived experience of (patient) communities. Read more: photovoiceai.art
June 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Speaking about my PhD research today @leedsbeckett.bsky.social 💪 ‘She told the bot, and the bot understood‘ tests the viability of using Generative AI Art to expose the lived experience of (patient) communities. Read more: photovoiceai.art
He said she was too sensitive.
Now she is ‘too much’.
An uncanny short story in which I emotionally erase myself.
The Hardening: A Short Story open.substack.com/pub/grandthe...
#Writer #CreativeWriting #ShortStory #ShortFiction
Now she is ‘too much’.
An uncanny short story in which I emotionally erase myself.
The Hardening: A Short Story open.substack.com/pub/grandthe...
#Writer #CreativeWriting #ShortStory #ShortFiction
The Hardening: A Short Story
In a world that punishes sensitivity, she becomes what he can’t bear to see in himself.
open.substack.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
He said she was too sensitive.
Now she is ‘too much’.
An uncanny short story in which I emotionally erase myself.
The Hardening: A Short Story open.substack.com/pub/grandthe...
#Writer #CreativeWriting #ShortStory #ShortFiction
Now she is ‘too much’.
An uncanny short story in which I emotionally erase myself.
The Hardening: A Short Story open.substack.com/pub/grandthe...
#Writer #CreativeWriting #ShortStory #ShortFiction
That's a wrap on hour 3 (and 2000 words!) of the #24hourwritingsprint with @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social and #KrystalSutherland - I loved the quote by Annie Dillard she shared: "I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.”
April 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
That's a wrap on hour 3 (and 2000 words!) of the #24hourwritingsprint with @londonwriterssalon.bsky.social and #KrystalSutherland - I loved the quote by Annie Dillard she shared: "I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.”
On Easter, he mostly just got rotten eggs.
My letter from me to him, written on the hardest days of the month.
Subscribe to my Substack for honest stories about #PMDD, rage, survival, and learning how to stay when it’s easier to leave.
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My letter from me to him, written on the hardest days of the month.
Subscribe to my Substack for honest stories about #PMDD, rage, survival, and learning how to stay when it’s easier to leave.
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April 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
On Easter, he mostly just got rotten eggs.
My letter from me to him, written on the hardest days of the month.
Subscribe to my Substack for honest stories about #PMDD, rage, survival, and learning how to stay when it’s easier to leave.
grandtheftcycle.substack.com/p/letters-fr...
My letter from me to him, written on the hardest days of the month.
Subscribe to my Substack for honest stories about #PMDD, rage, survival, and learning how to stay when it’s easier to leave.
grandtheftcycle.substack.com/p/letters-fr...
April 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
April 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
How a stone giant taught me to stop shouting into the wind. A new personal essay on insights gained at The Old Man of Stoer, Laird, Scotland.
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#writingcommunity #writer #personalessay #naturewriting
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#writingcommunity #writer #personalessay #naturewriting
April 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
How a stone giant taught me to stop shouting into the wind. A new personal essay on insights gained at The Old Man of Stoer, Laird, Scotland.
grandtheftcycle.substack.com
#writingcommunity #writer #personalessay #naturewriting
grandtheftcycle.substack.com
#writingcommunity #writer #personalessay #naturewriting
March 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
A poem about anger on World Poetry Day 😡
March 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A poem about anger on World Poetry Day 😡
My childhood teddy was Roland Rat, a rare breed in my home country The Netherlands. I named him ‘Hontat Mientat Timmetams’ (made up gibberish) and this is his replacement. My sentimental mum bought me (a 40-year old) a new Hontat from Ebay after the OG got lost in a bin bag mix up some decades ago ❤️
March 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
My childhood teddy was Roland Rat, a rare breed in my home country The Netherlands. I named him ‘Hontat Mientat Timmetams’ (made up gibberish) and this is his replacement. My sentimental mum bought me (a 40-year old) a new Hontat from Ebay after the OG got lost in a bin bag mix up some decades ago ❤️
In 1928, as a widowed mother, my great-grandmother Mrs. Beretta opened her own library, long before public libraries were free. With World Book Day just gone and International Women’s Day tomorrow, I reflect on her story, the libraries we still have, and those we are losing. See link in profile!
March 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
In 1928, as a widowed mother, my great-grandmother Mrs. Beretta opened her own library, long before public libraries were free. With World Book Day just gone and International Women’s Day tomorrow, I reflect on her story, the libraries we still have, and those we are losing. See link in profile!