Paraic O’Donnell
@paraicodonnell.bsky.social
Writer | The Naming of the Birds (Jan. 2025) l The House on Vesper Sands | Lives in a very small way.
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The kids are explaining dark academia to me, and as far as I can tell it involves reading precisely three books and just never getting over it.
So sorry, everyone. I’ve been here for a bit, which is why I’m now missing out on all the pub day fun. It’s tiresome, but what—apart from a spectacular suicide involving a funicular and a porpoise costume—can you do? I’ll be back soon. Love and peace, weirdos.
February 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
So sorry, everyone. I’ve been here for a bit, which is why I’m now missing out on all the pub day fun. It’s tiresome, but what—apart from a spectacular suicide involving a funicular and a porpoise costume—can you do? I’ll be back soon. Love and peace, weirdos.
Honestly, if it had been up to me, she’d have won again the following year just for this.
January 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Honestly, if it had been up to me, she’d have won again the following year just for this.
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January 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Rhetorical questions; what’s that all about?
January 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Rhetorical questions; what’s that all about?
I see that Connections has its own little scoring bot now, which is nice. I’m especially tickled by this screen, where it gamely tries to piece together what those hapless meat puppets can possibly have been thinking.
January 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I see that Connections has its own little scoring bot now, which is nice. I’m especially tickled by this screen, where it gamely tries to piece together what those hapless meat puppets can possibly have been thinking.
What idiot called it The Lord of the Rings and not Unexpected Item in the Baggins Area?
January 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
What idiot called it The Lord of the Rings and not Unexpected Item in the Baggins Area?
On special at Lidl today:
• A vacuum robot
• A blood pressure monitor
• Kangaroo steaks
• A cocktail shaker
• A flame gun
If we could but live the lives that have been dreamed for us.
• A vacuum robot
• A blood pressure monitor
• Kangaroo steaks
• A cocktail shaker
• A flame gun
If we could but live the lives that have been dreamed for us.
January 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
On special at Lidl today:
• A vacuum robot
• A blood pressure monitor
• Kangaroo steaks
• A cocktail shaker
• A flame gun
If we could but live the lives that have been dreamed for us.
• A vacuum robot
• A blood pressure monitor
• Kangaroo steaks
• A cocktail shaker
• A flame gun
If we could but live the lives that have been dreamed for us.
Wanna go back downstairs and unsee my etchings?
January 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Wanna go back downstairs and unsee my etchings?
British Amazon ratings: A primer
⭐ : Good lord, no.
⭐⭐ : Still a no, I'm afraid.
⭐⭐⭐ : Well, if you absolutely must.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ : Fine, if you like that sort of thing.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ : Quite interesting, actually.
⭐ : Good lord, no.
⭐⭐ : Still a no, I'm afraid.
⭐⭐⭐ : Well, if you absolutely must.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ : Fine, if you like that sort of thing.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ : Quite interesting, actually.
January 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
British Amazon ratings: A primer
⭐ : Good lord, no.
⭐⭐ : Still a no, I'm afraid.
⭐⭐⭐ : Well, if you absolutely must.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ : Fine, if you like that sort of thing.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ : Quite interesting, actually.
⭐ : Good lord, no.
⭐⭐ : Still a no, I'm afraid.
⭐⭐⭐ : Well, if you absolutely must.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ : Fine, if you like that sort of thing.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ : Quite interesting, actually.
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Tomorrow!
Join @paraicodonnell.bsky.social author of The Naming of the Birds The Writer's Center !🖤🐦⬛💙🗡️✨
In convo w/ Tin House Publisher & Editorial Director Masie Cochran.
4pm PT / 7pm ET - Tues 1/7/25
Free, but pls register: writer.org/event/paraic...
Join @paraicodonnell.bsky.social author of The Naming of the Birds The Writer's Center !🖤🐦⬛💙🗡️✨
In convo w/ Tin House Publisher & Editorial Director Masie Cochran.
4pm PT / 7pm ET - Tues 1/7/25
Free, but pls register: writer.org/event/paraic...
January 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Tomorrow!
Join @paraicodonnell.bsky.social author of The Naming of the Birds The Writer's Center !🖤🐦⬛💙🗡️✨
In convo w/ Tin House Publisher & Editorial Director Masie Cochran.
4pm PT / 7pm ET - Tues 1/7/25
Free, but pls register: writer.org/event/paraic...
Join @paraicodonnell.bsky.social author of The Naming of the Birds The Writer's Center !🖤🐦⬛💙🗡️✨
In convo w/ Tin House Publisher & Editorial Director Masie Cochran.
4pm PT / 7pm ET - Tues 1/7/25
Free, but pls register: writer.org/event/paraic...
The Well, Actually of Loneliness.
January 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The Well, Actually of Loneliness.
When you do a demonstrably perfect joke and it gets precisely two likes.
January 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
When you do a demonstrably perfect joke and it gets precisely two likes.
My favourite episode of Frasier? Gotta be the one where the irresistible farce meets the immovable objet d'art.
January 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My favourite episode of Frasier? Gotta be the one where the irresistible farce meets the immovable objet d'art.
Just tweaking my list of all-time favourite games for 2025. One new entrant, but otherwise no major upsets.
• The one where everyone is undead, so it's nice and quiet.
• The one where you get to ride around gathering herbs on a horse.
• The one where you get to tidy up a whole planet.
• The one where everyone is undead, so it's nice and quiet.
• The one where you get to ride around gathering herbs on a horse.
• The one where you get to tidy up a whole planet.
January 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Just tweaking my list of all-time favourite games for 2025. One new entrant, but otherwise no major upsets.
• The one where everyone is undead, so it's nice and quiet.
• The one where you get to ride around gathering herbs on a horse.
• The one where you get to tidy up a whole planet.
• The one where everyone is undead, so it's nice and quiet.
• The one where you get to ride around gathering herbs on a horse.
• The one where you get to tidy up a whole planet.
Probably not ideal that I keep forgetting this is happening. In my defence, though, pretty much nothing else that's happening feels remotely plausible just now.
🗡🐦⬛ Counting down the days until The Naming of the Birds by @paraicodonnell.bsky.social is out....
January 7th, 2025!🗡️🐦⬛
bit.ly/NamingofBird...
January 7th, 2025!🗡️🐦⬛
bit.ly/NamingofBird...
January 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Probably not ideal that I keep forgetting this is happening. In my defence, though, pretty much nothing else that's happening feels remotely plausible just now.
`...thinned / To an air-sharpened blade...‘
January 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
`...thinned / To an air-sharpened blade...‘
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Today marks 6 years since the passing of my friend Simon, who many of you will know as @simonnricketts on the other place.
He was a good boy, who I miss terribly. If you knew Simon in any way, please remember him. Thank you. x
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfXj...
He was a good boy, who I miss terribly. If you knew Simon in any way, please remember him. Thank you. x
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfXj...
Morecambe & Wise - Bring Me Sunshine
YouTube video by SherwoodofRobin
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December 29, 2024 at 6:23 AM
Today marks 6 years since the passing of my friend Simon, who many of you will know as @simonnricketts on the other place.
He was a good boy, who I miss terribly. If you knew Simon in any way, please remember him. Thank you. x
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfXj...
He was a good boy, who I miss terribly. If you knew Simon in any way, please remember him. Thank you. x
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfXj...
Every Sigur Rós has its thorn.
December 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Every Sigur Rós has its thorn.
My friends, I have discovered the existence of decorative electrical tape and nothing is ever going to be the same.
December 28, 2024 at 2:13 PM
My friends, I have discovered the existence of decorative electrical tape and nothing is ever going to be the same.
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Fiction to look out for in 2025: From Eimear McBride to Ben Okri. Emma Donoghue, Joseph O’Connor and Colum McCann are just some of the big names with new books coming out in 2025. Here’s our pick of Irish and international fiction for the year ahead
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Fiction to look out for in 2025: From Eimear McBride to Ben Okri
Emma Donoghue, Joseph O’Connor and Colum McCann are just some of the big names with new books coming out in 2025. Here’s our pick of fiction for the year ahead
www.irishtimes.com
December 28, 2024 at 6:51 AM
Fiction to look out for in 2025: From Eimear McBride to Ben Okri. Emma Donoghue, Joseph O’Connor and Colum McCann are just some of the big names with new books coming out in 2025. Here’s our pick of Irish and international fiction for the year ahead
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Well, the people outside are frightful.
December 24, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Well, the people outside are frightful.
Molière walks into a bar. Bartender says, why the long farce?
December 23, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Molière walks into a bar. Bartender says, why the long farce?
Unresting death, a whole disco slide closer now.
December 21, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Unresting death, a whole disco slide closer now.
21.XII.24
In deference to festive custom (and by way of belated introduction), here’s my thing about gardens and dying again.
CW: Swearing, dying, miscellaneous filth.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
In deference to festive custom (and by way of belated introduction), here’s my thing about gardens and dying again.
CW: Swearing, dying, miscellaneous filth.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Paraic O’Donnell: MS is meticulously destroying me. I am being unmade
In this moving essay, the writer charts his disease’s progression against the seasons
www.irishtimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 1:22 PM
21.XII.24
In deference to festive custom (and by way of belated introduction), here’s my thing about gardens and dying again.
CW: Swearing, dying, miscellaneous filth.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
In deference to festive custom (and by way of belated introduction), here’s my thing about gardens and dying again.
CW: Swearing, dying, miscellaneous filth.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Then Jesus turned to me and said, ‘Child, where you saw only one set of footsteps, it was then that you started in about your cold press technique.’
December 21, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Then Jesus turned to me and said, ‘Child, where you saw only one set of footsteps, it was then that you started in about your cold press technique.’