Alice Slater

All vintage Humpty Dumpties fit in to one of three categories
🥚the worst little gross nightmare creep
🥚tight trousers benevolent rotund friend
🥚serving a surprising amount of cunt for an egg

This is the shit I live for

I studied in Berlin in the late 90s. One Sunday afternoon on Alexanderplatz, I encountered what can only be called a super goth—head to toe black leather, corpse makeup, thigh-high boots, *batwings*—sharing an ice cream cone with his normie girlfriend.

I think it’s got legs!

My brain’s so fried, I just called a haircut “getting the trims”

I'd like to share with you this perfect moss ball 🌿✨

This is crushing. Hugs to all my queer friends. Hugs and more hugs.

Yes, impeccable ❤️‍🔥

This was the goat btw, in case you’re imagining a black Philip “wouldst thou like to live deliciously” situation, which is of course inherently goth.

I love to see goths in the wild. Incongruous goths. Goths on the bus at 3pm. Goths in B&Q. Goths in big Tesco. I was at a farm the other day petting a goat, and a goth appeared next to me to admire the same goat. Fantastic.

ah i can answer this trick question actually. novels are not a race

Oh no

On this day, thirty years ago, "Murder Ballads" was released as the ninth studio album by #NickCaveandTheBadSeeds.

Can’t believe we used to flit to and fro together man I hardly ever see you in the meadow anymore

I don't want to exaggerate but all of my hopes for 2026 are hanging on this novel described as "lesbian Malory Towers meets The Conjuring". It's out in March so I'll let you know.

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

Oh no :(

The Creatives Grant let's make art less middle class

£500 given out to a working class writer every month.

Details in link.

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I can’t believe Fred Durst wrote the line “heavy is the head that wears the crown.” The man is a poet 🥀

When I start hanging out at the tip, I’ll make a dedicated area 🙌🏻

129: The Lads' January 2026 Reading Update

If you love the idea of two lady authors chatting through everything they read in January, one of whom personifies a chic LRB totebag with an iced matcha, and the other is a bag of cans from Tesco, boy do l have a podcast for YEW: open.spotify.com/episode/0IZY...

🖤🖤🖤

Queering the tip: Reclaiming the dump from hegemonic heterosexual masculinity

Maybe as a chic divorcée, I’ll get really into going to the tip, like dads on bank holidays.

Went to the tip today and had a fucking blast. There was a whole skip for pots and pans? Never seen so many fucked up fridges. A broken Henry hoover watched everything unfold with his cheerful yet knowing smile.

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Bestselling author @alicemjslater (who also runs the Walthamstow Writers’ Retreats) says, “I wrote chunks of Death of a Bookseller on my phone on the way to work, knackered in front of the telly, in bed late at night. It wasn’t ideal, obviously, but it was an accessible way of working."

f you read that Guardian article about writing retreats, please don’t panic. You can absolutely write your novel in short snatches of time and you don’t need to bankrupt yourself going on repeated super fancy writing retreats 🧵

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