Lorcán Black

It’s another art form: again, if you don’t get that, you’re missing another point.

I just… I don’t understand what people don’t seem to understand. It’s not meant to be a totally exact representation of the novel. WHO SAID IT WAS?! WHO said it should be?! Let art and interpretations of it BE.

Which can sort of, thinly and weakly, be broken down to: hurt people hurt people. And other hurt people perpetuate it or strain against it and live or fail.

It’s brutal. It’s explicit, & the last thing it’s is romantic & if you can’t see that I worry about your definition of ‘romance’.

If you disagree - why? Why do you feel so viscerally that any interpretation that is not vile, violently explicit and toxic as hell is incorrect?! It is not a romance at all. If you think it was, in any respect, you need to go see a therapist because that is 100% missing the point of that novel.

That novel is super fucked up. Film adaptations give and take and edit. That’s what the medium is for. To reinterpret which is what it does anyway. I think what better director to direct a movie version of a novel like WH than Fennell?! I think she’s perfect and I honestly think Brönte would agree.

And please tell me what movie made a decent version of this novel? None of not one was true. This is NOT a romance. It was never meant to be a romance. If you think it is, you’re not paying attention.

Let me just say on the topic of #emeraldfennell & #wutheringheights - it’s about deeply broken people, toxic relationships & Brönte wrote an horrifically uncomfortable, vile novel for the time & I think she’d go for what Fennell is doing with an interpretation having studied that novel for YEARS.

Does anyone actually understand what NATO’s Article 4 is or potentially means? It doesn’t seem so, allow me to put it plainly:

One more provocation is a dare for NATO to move to a progression: they will have no choice but to execute Article 5. It is serious.

If you don’t get that, pipe down.

And yet Miranda nearly turned down an apartment because a neighbour had a yappy dog. Good lord.

None of it made sense. I honest to Christ on two nailed sticks wished I hadn’t been so curious but I was a huge gay teen fan from the start and - ugh. This was… it was a tragedy watch for sure.

Finally watched the last episodes.

New theory:
All of #AndJustLikeThat was written by AI.

I am 90% convinced. The storylines make way more sense with their nonsense this way.

You **know** he was shown how to do it because I will say this: it ALWAYS looks consistent.

And that is not a compliment to that breathing excuse of walking human skin.

It’s just a fact.
That is all.

Watching #equaliser3 & I know I don’t seem like I love action movies but… can someone PLEASE explain to me how the fuck Denzel is 71?!

I still would.

Not 3 hrs into my 39th birthday after drinks with my significant other, I’m sipping a tequila shot & watching Down Low with @lukasgage.bsky.social realising if I was 65 & single, I’d be Sandy.

“Three more can’t hurt…”
Probably not, Sands.

Probs not babes.

The implication of language used versus the sexes discussed. Jesus Christ.

This is why we tell each other to just not bother with reviews.

“…women aren’t shown to be overly stupid or overly intelligent….”

So… they’re just meant to be average then?!

I am genuinely left aghast at most reviewers for fucking anything really.

This is why artists tell other artists to ignore non-peer reviews because that shit is what you get.

I love uni students getting in touch to ask questions on poems. I do LIKE the idea of working out the meaning for yourself but I love the fact they can come to us, DM and ask questions. It’s just such an amazing thing and the questions? They blow my mind how they come at angles I never thought of!

I don’t mind if you don’t largely agree with a #manuscriptevalualtion but no, you can’t just have it for free because you wanted a list of compliments. That’s not what you’re asking help with. You’re paying for a critique. You don’t need to take any advice but… that’s surely what you’ve asked for?

If any #poets need an objective voice to help hone a blossoming #poetry #manuscript, I have free time so maybe I can help.

#poet #poetry #editing #writing

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Yeah it’s almost as if the writers in their vast privilege don’t remember how normal people live. 🤔

So glad I don’t fly from #heathrow because that sounds like fucking torture. It’s bad enough already being in an airport.

They do know we all mostly wear noise cancelling earbuds, right? If I weren’t already looking for a beer and a smoking area I certainly would be now.

My theory, as a writer, is they’re all high as shit and writing these storylines week to week because nothing else makes sense.

Don’t get me started on the Samantha texts. Jesus H. Christ. That’s petty as fuck. Let the character go. Just make up a plane crash or something. KC would be popping if she cared. What a petty lack of respect.

Hate watching #andjustlikethat but is anyone else wondering HOW THE FUCK Seema can’t afford at this point to rent an office?!… that’s just a small detail in this entire season. Did the writers bang their heads? I don’t recognise any of these characters & the new ones don’t even make sense.

Rather disconcerting that my phone Face ID doesn’t recognise me when I smile.

I can live with it.

If any #poets need an objective voice to help hone a blossoming #poetry #manuscript, I have free time so maybe I can help.

#poet #poetry #editing #writing

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What a loss to #irish #poetry.
Durcan was such an incredible voice in the art.

Horace.

I am deeply elated to announce that my book of poems, Afterbody is out through Blue Diode Press in June.

It has been touched and seen by all my living heroes and I bring this to you with all that is good inside me.

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Making a start at a 3rd #poetry #collection.

It’s slow going. Painful. But goddamn if it doesn’t feel good. #poetry #poet #poem #writing