Emma Payne
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Emma Payne
@fedbybirds.bsky.social
Screenwriting, poetry, comedy, printmaking, painting, eels, beetles, general detritus
Romantic life becomes the equivalent of fitting out your house & constantly googling ‘best air fryer 2025’ etc
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Yes you’ve only seen them in the most embarrassing possible situation - something that has been announced as a ‘date’ (which I agree didn’t used to exist - you had to just somehow find yourself going out with someone without ever announcing you wanted to)
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It sounds awful - and really nothing to do with being in a relationship. Like constantly going on job interviews but never having a job
November 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Don’t know why it took me so long to discover it. Maybe because the title is so bland? It somehow just passed me by
November 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I can’t prove it was causal obvs - maybe feeling slightly better makes you want to listen to music. But it definitely felt like a need I had to act on
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I once woke to find the word ‘lambscape?’ written in the middle of the paper, no other information. If I was JE I’d have been emailing it out to my contacts as a ‘radical breakthrough’
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 AM
‘Wears yellow knickers & a spotted bra’ is the only part I remember. The rudeness being suggesting Jesus wears mismatched lingerie I suppose
November 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Changing the ending is pretty big though - series 2 was spoilt for me by the awkward nastiness of that ending, that someone was having a large amount of money taken away from them by trusting a friend. Means the finale feels a bit miserable
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
What I’d do is drag them out then put a couple off till tomorrow, to spoil the evening & night as well
November 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
We all had to go inside immediately so my view wasn’t perfect but what I did see was spectacular
November 6, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I wouldn’t count on it - our neighbours have had theirs there for 3 months, even when same firm came & put some up on the other side of the road
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It’s literally how they store it from what I understand - leave it on people’s houses till it’s needed elsewhere rather than pay for the space to keep it
November 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Even people who are normally up in arms about everything seem totally fatalistic about this, like it’s the weather: ‘Oh yeah, they do that’
November 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Just seconding the person suggesting it was Covid related (since you said you did have it) - think we underestimate that post virus gloom - the only time I get that ‘what’s the point of anything’ feeling is just after flu or Covid
November 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
No, but I said it was for a private Covid jab so presume they know that means I don’t qualify? So annoying because up til recently it seemed pharmacist could unofficially use their judgment & find a way to give it to people who *should* qualify
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM