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arielwrites.bsky.social
Catullus's 300,000th kiss
@arielwrites.bsky.social
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Writer and artist in the UK. I write about history seriously and create fiction and art for fun. I’m a James Baldwin/Anne Carson/bell hooks/John Berger girlie.

Read my fiction and buy me coffee at https://ko-fi.com/arielwrites
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'If brotherhood is the only true form of love,
then let me call you brother.'

––Keetje Kuipers
November 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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'Migration is the story of longing
is the story. To risk
rupture for rapture.'

––Patrycja Humienik
Archival I descend the gallery stairs to the history of women where my legs are cut off at the knee. Carved with the knife of ecstasy. I lie down halved next to the instrument of my thinking. Not the bodiless head but feet, their subduction, in bronze, polymer, gypsum. Migration is the story of longing is the story. To risk rupture for rapture. Footprints on the ceiling, a ladder I tug down from its primeval coil. Steel, fiberglass, and copper, where finish splits from color, longing is ribless as a scorpion. Do not fix me to the vanishing point. I cannot afford to lose what I cannot possess.
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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I’ve only just started reading #FMLComix, but I already have a feeling it will be one of my all-time favourites.
October 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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'If you turn your back on the light for too long, the light doesn't die,
it just stops trying to find you.'

Thank you, Kae Tempest, for this beautiful, beautiful album.

#translivesmatter
#kaetempest
#selftitled
A copy of Kae Tempest's CD zine, Self Titled, resting on the keyboard of a Macbook, the screen of which is showing the CD tracklist A spread from Kae Tempest's CD zine, Self Titled, containing a quote from 'Statue in the Square': 'You are not the sum of the things you do wrong in the eyes of someone who does not understand you.'
July 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Only brought one physical book with me on this trip. I'll probably make up for it by buying a whole load while I'm here. Anyway, I like how the book colours match my Moleskine cahier.
May 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Managed to retrieve this from my cupboard of childhood treasures. I love you, Jill Sobule. Thank you for the music and the stories.
May 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Reading Agnes Martin
May 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Why am I writing about funerals on a sunny Sunday afternoon? 🥲

#AuthorSky
#AmWriting
Text excerpt: 'At some point, years from now, Spencer will realise that all the funerals he had been to have somehow blended into each other in his mind. What is a funeral, after all, but just some form of punctuation for the end of someone’s life? It’s the memories of that life that we hold onto, not the way we marked its end.'
April 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Friday madness

#ArtSky
#pencildrawing
#sketch
April 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Just finished Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. Damn.
Cover of the Fitzcarraldo edition of Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones.
April 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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I’ve been having such a rough time lately but at least my old faves are dropping amazing new albums so I still have a reason to live.

SABLE, fABLE from Bon Iver is out now.
A screenshot of Spotify interface featuring Bon Iver’s new album SABLE, fABLE
April 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Me on the inside vs me on the outside 🙃

#ArtSky
#Drawing
#PencilArt
A sketchbook spread with one melancholy man on each page rendered with a blue pencil Sketch rendered in green pencil of two men, one sitting in front of the other who has his one hand on his shoulder and the other hand grasped in his hand
February 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Probably one of the longest sentences I’ve ever written, apart from when I was in year 1 and wrote pages and pages of punctuation-less stories, to my teacher’s delight (read: frustration).

#WritingCommunity
#AmWriting
#Fiction
February 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Rough day. Only Anne Carson can comfort me right now.

#BookSky
#AnneCarson
A paperback of Anne Carson's Men in the Off Hours resting on a sketchbook that's open on a page featuring a sketch of a girl wearing a purple top
February 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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I've only just started reading Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color but it's already killing me.

#BookSky
#PatrickNathan
#TheFutureWasColor
Screenshot of the first paragraph of Patrick Nathan's novel, The Future Was Color, which reads: 'WE WANT TO BURN, TO BE DISINTEGRATED, TO WATCH our creations—the towers and bridges, the art, the machines, our babies, our lovers, our dreams and bodies, thousands of years, our ways, our poetry, whatever we want to outlive us—bludgeoned and brained, thrown, crushed, but above all burned.'
February 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Not exactly comfort reading but this will do for company tonight.

#BookSky
#Europides
#AnneCarson
A copy of Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Europides, translated by Anne Carson, lying next to a brown Mitsubishi pencil on top of a partly hidden black notebook
February 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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It’s me and my refusal to use photo references for their faces against the world. (No photo references because this will probably go into a book.)

#wip
#ArtSky
#Procreate
#digitalart
#art
#illustration
Unfinished digital sketch of two men with their eyes closed—one with his head tilted upwards, and the other with his head down.
January 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Today's brunch: congee and Chen Chen

#BookSky
#poetry
January 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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New short story exclusively for my supporters on Ko-fi.com. If you like queer romance, please consider becoming a supporter (for as low as £1) to access this and all my other new fiction (link in my bio).
#BookSky
#writingcommunity
#amwriting
#fiction
#art
#romance
#queerliterature
January 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Don't mind me, just relearning to draw female faces and figures after a year of drawing only (two) men.

#wip
#art
#drawing
#artist
Unfinished colour pencil sketch of a young woman with long hair, staring at the viewer.
January 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I should be writing but I just cannot put this book down. I bought into the hype, but I'm actually enjoying it.

#BookSky
#Uketsu
Cover of the UK edition of Uketsu's Strange Pictures
January 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Stepdad: Oh, the lesbians are back.

Me: Yes, they are.

I've given up on correcting him because I think it's really cute how he keeps mistaking them, especially P, for women. These two will be on the cover for my new short fiction, 'Still.'

#art
#drawing
#fiction
#writingcommunity
#amwriting
January 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I don't know—making digital art is fun, but nothing beats the feeling of shaping figures out of paper and pencils.

I'll be using these drawings for the cover of my new short fiction, 'Still.'

#ArtSky
#AmWriting
#Fiction
#Art
A sketchbook spread with two unfinished sketches of men's faces and two colour pencils resting across the pages
January 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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My January reading list is just about my gayest yet.
#BookSky
💙📚
January 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Thinking about beginnings and endings––how a beautifully written beginning can draw you into a story and how powerful a glimpse of the ending in the beginning can be. Consider the beginning of August Thompson's novel 'Anyone's Ghost', what it tells us and how it entices us.

#BookSky
#Writing
Screenshot of the first two paragraphs of August Thompson's novel 'Anyone's Ghost'
January 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM