Ellie Blow
@ellesappelle.bsky.social
Frequent reader and occasional writer of spooky stories. Copy-editor by daylight. Whatever walks here, walks alone.
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Watching Paddington with a hangover caused me to cry my way through an entire packet of tissues.
My bemused partner: “Are you not enjoying it?”
Me, snottily: “YES I’M HAVING A GREAT TIME *blows nose loudly*”
My bemused partner: “Are you not enjoying it?”
Me, snottily: “YES I’M HAVING A GREAT TIME *blows nose loudly*”
December 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Watching Paddington with a hangover caused me to cry my way through an entire packet of tissues.
My bemused partner: “Are you not enjoying it?”
Me, snottily: “YES I’M HAVING A GREAT TIME *blows nose loudly*”
My bemused partner: “Are you not enjoying it?”
Me, snottily: “YES I’M HAVING A GREAT TIME *blows nose loudly*”
Woke up a couple of nights ago absolutely cackling to myself about the dream I’d had. I thought it was such comedic genius I’d better write it down.
I just found it in my notes app
I just found it in my notes app
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Woke up a couple of nights ago absolutely cackling to myself about the dream I’d had. I thought it was such comedic genius I’d better write it down.
I just found it in my notes app
I just found it in my notes app
Reading Dark Lover, a biography of Rudolph Valentino, at the mo. Really enjoying it and has got me thinking: was there another star as big as he was that has been as forgotten? I can’t immediately think of one
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Reading Dark Lover, a biography of Rudolph Valentino, at the mo. Really enjoying it and has got me thinking: was there another star as big as he was that has been as forgotten? I can’t immediately think of one
Why is the Guardian comment section always unhinged 😭 #verylargeanus
October 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Why is the Guardian comment section always unhinged 😭 #verylargeanus
“The changes didn’t track”
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
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"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“The changes didn’t track”
This is amazing. I remember how reading On The Road made me feel when I was 16 and desperate to get out of my small-town life: reading this story has given me the shivers. Wonderful. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction
Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature On the Road
www.theguardian.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is amazing. I remember how reading On The Road made me feel when I was 16 and desperate to get out of my small-town life: reading this story has given me the shivers. Wonderful. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
So right, yer buggers, then! We’ll occupy
Yer lousy leasehold Poetry.
RIP Tony Harrison
Yer lousy leasehold Poetry.
RIP Tony Harrison
September 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
So right, yer buggers, then! We’ll occupy
Yer lousy leasehold Poetry.
RIP Tony Harrison
Yer lousy leasehold Poetry.
RIP Tony Harrison
Reposted by Ellie Blow
Funny laundering: when you see a joke online, send it to the group chat and pretend you came up with it
July 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Funny laundering: when you see a joke online, send it to the group chat and pretend you came up with it
Funny laundering: when you see a joke online, send it to the group chat and pretend you came up with it
July 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Funny laundering: when you see a joke online, send it to the group chat and pretend you came up with it
Reading Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News again. I think if I have a favourite book of all time, this is it. Every time I read it it hits me different, from weeping at the tragedy of it to (this time) really appreciating how funny it is. Glorious, life-altering writing.
April 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Reading Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News again. I think if I have a favourite book of all time, this is it. Every time I read it it hits me different, from weeping at the tragedy of it to (this time) really appreciating how funny it is. Glorious, life-altering writing.
Around the time of the post-divorce clubbing pics being published my partner & I once won a pint each for naming ourselves Sex & Drugs & Michael Gove. Don’t think we’ve ever topped it tbh
beautiful memory of going to a pub quiz as Partygate was raging and - no point being humble about this - absolutely knocking it out of the park by convincing my friends to let me name our team Boulevard Of Broken Swings
bar trivia Thursday night, anticipating at least one “Hotties PC Small Group” team name
March 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Around the time of the post-divorce clubbing pics being published my partner & I once won a pint each for naming ourselves Sex & Drugs & Michael Gove. Don’t think we’ve ever topped it tbh
Have I written any more stories? Nope, of course not! Have I finished the embroidery I’m making for my sister’s birthday (which was in January)? Nuh-uh! Have I, even, done the laundry? Nooo I have not.
I have, however, made possibly the best Sporcle I will ever make. www.sporcle.com/games/ellier...
I have, however, made possibly the best Sporcle I will ever make. www.sporcle.com/games/ellier...
Guess the Classic Album from the Bad Review
Can you name the album from the 1001 Albums To Listen To Before You Die list by the reviews on its 1001 Albums Generator page?
www.sporcle.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Have I written any more stories? Nope, of course not! Have I finished the embroidery I’m making for my sister’s birthday (which was in January)? Nuh-uh! Have I, even, done the laundry? Nooo I have not.
I have, however, made possibly the best Sporcle I will ever make. www.sporcle.com/games/ellier...
I have, however, made possibly the best Sporcle I will ever make. www.sporcle.com/games/ellier...
Movies you’ve watched more than six times using only gifs
February 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Movies you’ve watched more than six times using only gifs
Feel like the Independent have really damned this with faint praise
February 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Feel like the Independent have really damned this with faint praise
Steaming hot pot on a freezing day: one of life’s truest pleasures @chefsherlock on insta at Chorley Markets
January 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Steaming hot pot on a freezing day: one of life’s truest pleasures @chefsherlock on insta at Chorley Markets
I start every January determined to read something Improving
January 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I start every January determined to read something Improving
Christmas decs are down; the snow is slowly melting into a pile of grey slush; after a gentle start back, work picks up with a vengeance tomorrow. There are three mince pies left and you can bet I’m having one for lunch. Til next year, festivities!
January 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Christmas decs are down; the snow is slowly melting into a pile of grey slush; after a gentle start back, work picks up with a vengeance tomorrow. There are three mince pies left and you can bet I’m having one for lunch. Til next year, festivities!
This is great!
See in the new year with a visit to the most fucked up cinema you've ever been to.
"This Movie Theater Sits on a Leyline" by Maxine Sophia Wolff, new fiction from Issue #11.
"This Movie Theater Sits on a Leyline" by Maxine Sophia Wolff, new fiction from Issue #11.
“This Movie Theater Sits on a Leyline” by Maxine Sophia Wolff - Seize The Press
I butter the popcorn. I clean the butter machine. The bag runs out, and so I stick my head into its metal belly to screw in a new one. It’s a wet mess of plastic tubes and blood vessels inside there. ...
www.seizethepress.com
January 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is great!
So sad to hear this. I reread How Far Can You Go? at the end of December for what must have been the sixth or seventh time. Such a witty, compassionate novel, you could tell the writer was a real observer of people and their foibles. RIP.
I am very sad to say, David Lodge died on January 1st.
He was a wonderful man and hugely influential writer.
I was lucky to be his agent and he taught me so much.
His campus novels will be read for years to come.
A great loss.
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...
He was a wonderful man and hugely influential writer.
I was lucky to be his agent and he taught me so much.
His campus novels will be read for years to come.
A great loss.
www.penguin.co.uk/articles/202...
January 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
So sad to hear this. I reread How Far Can You Go? at the end of December for what must have been the sixth or seventh time. Such a witty, compassionate novel, you could tell the writer was a real observer of people and their foibles. RIP.
2025 Horror Reads: A Thread
(1) The Black Feathers by Rebecca Netley
Enjoyable gothic thriller. More domestic drama than out-and-out terrifying, but spooky supernatural element & relationships well-drawn and mostly believable. Thought I knew where it was going but I didn’t which was fun.
(1) The Black Feathers by Rebecca Netley
Enjoyable gothic thriller. More domestic drama than out-and-out terrifying, but spooky supernatural element & relationships well-drawn and mostly believable. Thought I knew where it was going but I didn’t which was fun.
January 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
2025 Horror Reads: A Thread
(1) The Black Feathers by Rebecca Netley
Enjoyable gothic thriller. More domestic drama than out-and-out terrifying, but spooky supernatural element & relationships well-drawn and mostly believable. Thought I knew where it was going but I didn’t which was fun.
(1) The Black Feathers by Rebecca Netley
Enjoyable gothic thriller. More domestic drama than out-and-out terrifying, but spooky supernatural element & relationships well-drawn and mostly believable. Thought I knew where it was going but I didn’t which was fun.
I have a lot of time for Sabrina Carpenter (I thought espresso was an absolute BOP) but this Nonsense Christmas song is VERY strongly reminding me of the episode of Community where Annie is a sexy Christmas baby
a man wearing a red boa says " yoo smartee " while sitting in a chair
ALT: a man wearing a red boa says " yoo smartee " while sitting in a chair
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December 18, 2024 at 11:32 AM
I have a lot of time for Sabrina Carpenter (I thought espresso was an absolute BOP) but this Nonsense Christmas song is VERY strongly reminding me of the episode of Community where Annie is a sexy Christmas baby
Trying to organise two buffet-based parties out of one Tesco shop is a game of mental Tetris I was not prepared for
December 13, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Trying to organise two buffet-based parties out of one Tesco shop is a game of mental Tetris I was not prepared for
I hate right-wing fearmongering and misinformation but sometimes I think I hate left-wing fearmongering and misinformation more?! Like I just want to scream, THE FACTS ARE ON YOUR SIDE!! YOU DON’T NEED TO DO THIS!
December 5, 2024 at 12:14 PM
I hate right-wing fearmongering and misinformation but sometimes I think I hate left-wing fearmongering and misinformation more?! Like I just want to scream, THE FACTS ARE ON YOUR SIDE!! YOU DON’T NEED TO DO THIS!
Accidentally agreed to host a Christmas dinner party and am now panicking over how I don’t have any matching glasses, is this what being a grown up feels like because I don’t like it
December 2, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Accidentally agreed to host a Christmas dinner party and am now panicking over how I don’t have any matching glasses, is this what being a grown up feels like because I don’t like it
I honestly can’t decide if as I’ve got older I’ve decided I actually like a lot of the 00s pop I hated at the time, or whether I’ve just fallen victim to the Stockholm syndrome of nostalgia 🤔
November 30, 2024 at 5:11 PM
I honestly can’t decide if as I’ve got older I’ve decided I actually like a lot of the 00s pop I hated at the time, or whether I’ve just fallen victim to the Stockholm syndrome of nostalgia 🤔