Lucy Mercer
lucymercer.bsky.social
Lucy Mercer
@lucymercer.bsky.social
writer, Emblem (Prototype) & Afterlife forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo;🕯️
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Will be in conversation with on this further with @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social Peninsula Press and Cipher Books at Bookseller futurebook conference on dec 1
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Sarah Brouillette has written an excellent article on escapist reading & romance narratives
which is more informed & nuanced than my take & maybe speaks to this also

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/com...
Compulsive Reading — Parapraxis
Our popular genres of escape Sarah Brouillette
www.parapraxismagazine.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
💖😂😊 I am glad of youuu!
July 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
reads 24/7 on their phones; basic literacy is not the same as reading literature, which needs differing levels of attention, just printing verbal slurry or AI slop w/o conceptual or linguistic complexity as books is the continuous refrain of: you are too stupid to read literature or abt ideas
July 2, 2025 at 4:33 PM
@theguardian.com will you cover this story of national importance?
June 28, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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June 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Their interests are not our interests

They do not represent us and will not represent us

[The interests of the ruling class in this country are not our interests]

[The ruling class in this country does not represent us and will not represent us]
June 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
June 20, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I have….
The absurdity of even having to argue AI is shit
How to advocate for practices founded on doubt
The joyful demise of NFTs

& more!!
June 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM