Pushkar
@pushkarwrites.bsky.social
Author of 'Forbidden Planet'
MA Creative Writing, University of Birmingham
Photographer
Sometimes other forms of art
Based in the UK
Mostly Lukewarm takes and depression-posting here
MA Creative Writing, University of Birmingham
Photographer
Sometimes other forms of art
Based in the UK
Mostly Lukewarm takes and depression-posting here
Maybe it's an insulation thing in the UK, but I don't appreciate having to go through five different doors just to get from one room to another.
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Maybe it's an insulation thing in the UK, but I don't appreciate having to go through five different doors just to get from one room to another.
The Long Walk (2025) is a great bro movie because it gets at the very core of a lot of deep male friendships, which involves, you guessed it, taking long walks together and doing shit like intermittently hanging arms around each other's shoulders.
a group of people walking down a road with the long walk written on the bottom right
ALT: a group of people walking down a road with the long walk written on the bottom right
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October 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The Long Walk (2025) is a great bro movie because it gets at the very core of a lot of deep male friendships, which involves, you guessed it, taking long walks together and doing shit like intermittently hanging arms around each other's shoulders.
Playing a 5 hour noir ambiance white noise video on YouTube while reading the new Pynchon only to realise that it's already it's dark, gloomy, and raining outside my window.
a black and white photo of a man in a trench coat and hat with the year 2023 on the bottom right
ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a trench coat and hat with the year 2023 on the bottom right
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October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Playing a 5 hour noir ambiance white noise video on YouTube while reading the new Pynchon only to realise that it's already it's dark, gloomy, and raining outside my window.
Watching the new Long Way series and as much as I love coming back to the expansive yet intimate adventure feel of the whole thing, it also puts a real fine point on how fun it can be to, you know, have a bunch of money.
October 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Watching the new Long Way series and as much as I love coming back to the expansive yet intimate adventure feel of the whole thing, it also puts a real fine point on how fun it can be to, you know, have a bunch of money.
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a story that gets bogged down in the details. peat fiction
September 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
a story that gets bogged down in the details. peat fiction
Well, plenty of next things fell through and now I have no clue what to do. Rudderless as a headless chicken. I've also stopped making sense.
September 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Well, plenty of next things fell through and now I have no clue what to do. Rudderless as a headless chicken. I've also stopped making sense.
Sometimes it feels like all life is, is waiting for the next thing to happen.
September 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Sometimes it feels like all life is, is waiting for the next thing to happen.
The rush I get from a good cracking of my back can only be described as being transported into your dream home for about five seconds.
September 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
The rush I get from a good cracking of my back can only be described as being transported into your dream home for about five seconds.
Reading Stienbeck is like getting an IV drip of concentrated, beautiful life.
August 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reading Stienbeck is like getting an IV drip of concentrated, beautiful life.
For one, it's been 11 days since my last post. Time is moving too fast. I can barely feel it. At the same time, I feel overwhelmed. Is there a name for that? Its almost 3 am. I could cry.
August 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
For one, it's been 11 days since my last post. Time is moving too fast. I can barely feel it. At the same time, I feel overwhelmed. Is there a name for that? Its almost 3 am. I could cry.
Watched Oliver Stone's Wall Street properly for the first time (fun little Sean Young/Daryl Hannah reunion) but the kicker was reading Roger Ebert's review after and seeing the truth of the last decade of American policy and global economics just out there, plainly laid. Time to watch the sequel ig.
July 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Watched Oliver Stone's Wall Street properly for the first time (fun little Sean Young/Daryl Hannah reunion) but the kicker was reading Roger Ebert's review after and seeing the truth of the last decade of American policy and global economics just out there, plainly laid. Time to watch the sequel ig.
Sleep schedule's fucked because I'm off the grass and dear God I forgot what a nightmare insomnia thought spirals are.
July 16, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Sleep schedule's fucked because I'm off the grass and dear God I forgot what a nightmare insomnia thought spirals are.
Wrote a few hundred proper words after a long few weeks and now it feels like the air's back in my lungs. There really is no comparable feeling to that of a story finally starting to lock into place in my head as well as on the page.
a cartoon character with the words it 's all coming together on the bottom
ALT: a cartoon character with the words it 's all coming together on the bottom
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July 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Wrote a few hundred proper words after a long few weeks and now it feels like the air's back in my lungs. There really is no comparable feeling to that of a story finally starting to lock into place in my head as well as on the page.
Watched Crimson Tide last night, and the movie's definitely aged, but I could still get into it. Can't imagine the electric feeling one would've had seeing it opening night.
July 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Watched Crimson Tide last night, and the movie's definitely aged, but I could still get into it. Can't imagine the electric feeling one would've had seeing it opening night.
Really listened to Another Day in Paradise by Phil Collins right now and I can't imagine how good it must've felt listening to it when it first came out.
July 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Really listened to Another Day in Paradise by Phil Collins right now and I can't imagine how good it must've felt listening to it when it first came out.
Goddamn, women are so beautiful and it sucks that I'm only thinking about my work these days.
July 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Goddamn, women are so beautiful and it sucks that I'm only thinking about my work these days.
Geez, if I wasn't so wasted right now I could've written the next masterpiece, or so I believe.
July 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Geez, if I wasn't so wasted right now I could've written the next masterpiece, or so I believe.
I don't know why I don't think about it enough, but Thunderbolts may genuinely be one of the best films of the decade? There's something so oddly intimate and current about it painted on an abstract superhero landscape. It's like sad Thor on overdrive, The Bear distilled, the unsaid truth said well.
July 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I don't know why I don't think about it enough, but Thunderbolts may genuinely be one of the best films of the decade? There's something so oddly intimate and current about it painted on an abstract superhero landscape. It's like sad Thor on overdrive, The Bear distilled, the unsaid truth said well.
I've become the '20 tabs open since forever' guy and I think I don't like it.
July 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I've become the '20 tabs open since forever' guy and I think I don't like it.
Rewatching The Pheonecian Scheme and it's striking how plainly literary his movies have been since Grand Budapest. Funny and/or serious but always emotionally centered novels, short stories, or prose poems, all tied together by an exploration of the metaphysical edges of film as a narrative medium.
a man with a bandage on his head is sitting at a table and says my reasons
ALT: a man with a bandage on his head is sitting at a table and says my reasons
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July 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Rewatching The Pheonecian Scheme and it's striking how plainly literary his movies have been since Grand Budapest. Funny and/or serious but always emotionally centered novels, short stories, or prose poems, all tied together by an exploration of the metaphysical edges of film as a narrative medium.
Everyone talking about historical inaccuracies in the new Odyssey adaptation as if the whole thing isn't fiction...? I feel like I'm the crazy one here.
July 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Everyone talking about historical inaccuracies in the new Odyssey adaptation as if the whole thing isn't fiction...? I feel like I'm the crazy one here.
So much of Wes Anderson and Edgar Wright's style of humor comes from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and it's honestly beautiful.
June 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
So much of Wes Anderson and Edgar Wright's style of humor comes from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and it's honestly beautiful.
It's kind of amazing that the Phineas & Ferb revival hasn't lost a step, but more than that, getting episodes like 'Deconstructing Doof' or 'Tropey Mctropeface' so early in the season I think shows that the creators anticipated and appreciate that their audience has matured.
June 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
It's kind of amazing that the Phineas & Ferb revival hasn't lost a step, but more than that, getting episodes like 'Deconstructing Doof' or 'Tropey Mctropeface' so early in the season I think shows that the creators anticipated and appreciate that their audience has matured.
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Poem of mine won second prize at the Hay Writers' Circle Poetry Competition, go check it out!
Poem of mine won second prize at the Hay Writers' Circle Poetry Competition, go check it out!
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Hay Writers' Circle ~ Established 1979 Based in Hay-on-Wye, Welsh Borders.
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June 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Poem of mine won second prize at the Hay Writers' Circle Poetry Competition, go check it out!
Poem of mine won second prize at the Hay Writers' Circle Poetry Competition, go check it out!
It's June already. It only just sunk in that it's 2025 and now the dread of half the year being over is creeping up close.
June 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It's June already. It only just sunk in that it's 2025 and now the dread of half the year being over is creeping up close.