Meg

all the girls being supportive and nice to her versus these men finding sincerity and an earnest interest in life cringe/making fun of her is why MANY men deserve to die alone

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FearBuck

@FearedBuck

Aug 13

She was way too cool for any of these guys

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surely they & them at least

I’m doing 4.48 Psychosis for my dissertation & have so far been dealing with it objectively, from an academic distance, I suppose. But today I was reading it again and was brought to tears. It’s a tragedy that we lost her.

Meg

@pearlinwine

Feb 2, 2022

every single day I wish sarah kane was still with us

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last night EXTREMELY good. New fiction all dealing with different forms of encounter. There was Catholicism, anorexia, body horror, menage à trois, entanglement, sex, and e-girls being recruited to a micro state. Much of it very funny.

This is my favourite story from my childhood: it's world maths day. Primary school has a full day of maths planned. A full DAY. 8 year old me has no intention of joining in with that tomfoolery. So, I fake a cold. My mum can't take care of me so she sends me to my dad's,

Meg

@pearlinwine

May 25

she was very savvy during lockdown and promoted her music on there, foreseeing the platform’s potential before the rest of the music industry clocked it. she’s been making things for a long time, is clearly a tastemaker, and has a rare thing: artistry

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My new account: @LaraTheAtheist

@lara82753

May 24

Pinkpantheress is a "TikToker" who thinks she's a singer

Meg

@pearlinwine

May 29, 2023

Yesterday I went to visit what will be my college

@Selwyn1882

come autumn. I’m so so excited

Have just been to the dress rehearsal of

@SlavePlayBway

at the Noël Coward. Jaw on floor still. Galvanising. THEATRE. Hilarious, confrontational, gut-punching, clever. I was stunned into silence by the end. Thank you to

@jeremyoharris

for the invitation. Unreal unreal

I am both a receipt and scrap paper repurposer and a page number rememberer

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couldn’t agree more. truly dreadful stuff

Inside you are two wolves: PhD or move to London

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Aw. You’ve told us all we need to know. Thanks !

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do you not mean the kafkpack

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This infuriated/devastated me as an undergrad. I longed for peers who were passionate. It baffled me that people who volunteered for a programme of study spent the entire thing trying to shirk it, wasting it, not engaging

yay<3

I think that might have been the best episode of #Fleabag yet. I am sobbing and also shouting at the telly like it's a football match but also stunned into mouth-gaping silence and this is HAIR-RAISINGLY EXCITING TELEVISION

Meg

@pearlinwine

Jun 6, 2024

I’ve been thoroughly enjoying being a part of the research team on this project! Looking forward to contributing to its progress as it grows.

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Chasing Aphrodite

@ChasingAphrodit

Jun 6, 2024

I'm excited to announce the launch of a new project: @MuseumofLoot, a virtual gallery to collect, display and study looted antiquities repatriated since 1950 – and the trafficking networks behind them. A thread on why loot needs its own museum… Museumofloot.org

I have a Substack; I am posting on there more regularly now

I have some essays forthcoming on Cindy Sherman, Anna Akhmatova, & Pauline Réage. But in the meantime have a read of some of my existing posts ! open.substack.com/pub/apearldiss

Had an unexpected free afternoon so I took myself to the lido on Jesus Green and walked home in the sunshine

chillmaxxing

Oh, you wore a black turtleneck to the English faculty? Should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party? Should we call Merve Emre?

I committed the world’s worst crime of being taken aback when a beautiful/glamorous woman also had the sauce intellectually

me and rose are at da SPA and no one is here but us

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And the desperate emailing and calling around to find someone who will complain alongside her (!!) is just strikingly self-pitying. Perhaps the veering upon spiteful misdirection of her imagination is why she has not published a book herself.

Meg

@pearlinwine

Mar 6, 2022

Overheard in the queue to watch the Batman: ‘anyone you see with a decent fashion sense is a falmouth student. If they’ve got baggy jeans on and a north face jacket, that’s Exeter’.

Meg

@pearlinwine

Nov 24, 2023

There should be a room in the library specially for little freaks who talk to themselves like Gollum when they’re writing an essay (me)

Meg

@pearlinwine

Jun 21

100 subs

we could plausibly have the best house party of all time ily guys

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and

plus extract from the much anticipated forthcoming debut novel from

@providenceluvr

whose premise is *brilliant and deranged*, but told with melancholy, precision, & sensitivity

Happy to report I got a distinction for my first term of work at Cambridge

Meg

@pearlinwine

Jan 25, 2024

In thrilling news there was no bin on my way to my meeting with the literary fellow. So I had to sit there with my mostly eaten HORRIBLE BANANA in my lap the whole time

A beautiful afternoon at the lido

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and

luminous, witty, erotic. Painfully TRUE writing about desire/rejection/your friend who’s kind of a bitch/the maddening grip of a game of sexual obsession. Whole room laughing and cheering. Excellent excellent stuff can’t wait to read more of his

The trouble with Cambridge men is they all think they’re Harold Bloom’s heir apparent when they’ve published nothing themselves.

Some of the most accomplished and beautiful elegant intelligent women I have ever met, and whom I adore, are being MESSED with by RAT MEN who never deserved their luminance IN the first place. I’m going to get them. If you’re a rat man reading this I’m going to get you

I wrote about the London literary scene, specifically the recent Soho Reading Series summer gala

You can read here: open.substack.com/pub/apearldiss

Meg

@pearlinwine

Jan 25, 2024

Macbeth at the Donmar is a whirlwind: cinematic, hypnotic, and FAST. David Tennant is, of course, a force of nature. Cush Jumbo’s Lady Macbeth compellingly restrained. Whole thing stylish, clever, modern. Leant into hauntings & ghostliness in a thoroughly enjoyable way. 5

Unbelievably excited for graduation. I’ve been dreaming of this my entire life, I got a first, & I’m going to Cambridge. My younger self would fall to her KNEES

Meg

@pearlinwine

May 14

Another afternoon at the lido… I am becoming a life-is-good truther

The most beautiful writing spot, sun streaming through the windows

Did my duty as a bisexual woman today by playing Phoebe Bridgers in the car & crying behind closed eyelids

Meg

@pearlinwine

Mar 23, 2024

Despite my evil, I am being rewarded

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they don’t see it is what’s crazy

imagine, acting hatefully towards women 24/7 makes you unappealing

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A highlight included

reading a high-femme x body horror short story featuring serving cunt for twenty seconds and tending to horrific injuries with a sanitary pad. And, crucially, she did this wearing a pink satin dress reading from *matching* pink paper

Have finally landed in Cambridge. Have unpacked some books and the whiskey but crucially also my sylvanian so the vibes are off the charts

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So yeah, whoever that costume lady was: thank you. I've never forgotten that & I don't think I ever will. And that, ladies, gents and everyone in between, is the death defying story of how I escaped maths day at school and went and hung out in the tardis instead. Best day ever.

Meg

@pearlinwine

Aug 29, 2023

Sat down to write this evening and wrote 1,000 words in one sitting, at last. After a period of feeling unproductive, I’m getting squarely back in the saddle

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there is a whole world floating above your head, and you won’t look up, even briefly? Never? We can never see quite eye to eye, then. The angles are off

Meg

@pearlinwine

Oct 15, 2023

Had the most magical evening in

@realmagicbooks

at their Poets for Homer event, listening to poems by candlelight, and swooning at their brilliance. Something deeply hypnotic about the darkening windows and the plentiful wine, whilst thinking about the classical world

I lost my sense of smell in August. Today I was walking by the university gardens and all I could smell was freshly-cut grass and—and— the *daffodils*. I swooned.

Meg

@pearlinwine

Nov 8, 2023

life can be so good when you are beautiful and a genius

This piece on Sally Rooney by Ella Cory-Wright... does she really believe that suggesting readers are simply a philistine herd without critical sensibilities is an even vaguely useful point to make? It seems INCREDIBLY shallow to simply decide: ‘well, people just have no taste’

Meg

@pearlinwine

Sep 8, 2022

someone just thought that I am straight I need I need I need to sit down

Meg

@pearlinwine

Feb 9, 2022

sometimes even I look at myself and ask: how do you do it? every day

immaculately

turned out. it’s statistically unlikely. & yet I manage it.

Meg

@pearlinwine

Nov 15, 2023

So much of essay writing is just staring

Just been to see

new play, The Book of Margery Kempe. Heartfelt, sublime writing that cuts to the bone of what it is to love & rings in the head afterwards. At once miraculously funny and deeply affecting. Get the bragging rights to seeing it first.

imagine being me, who never watches superhero movies, experiencing this image. I have been the peasant boy eating the dorito

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@NebsGoodTakes

Aug 16

Superman (2025)

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I bought three pairs of headphones to uni and one by one they have failed me do you know what a Greek fucking Tragedy this is for a girl like me

Meg

@pearlinwine

Aug 12, 2022

my contribution to my bestie circle is that I coin terminology. It’s a subtle influence, but I’m there. the éminence grise. guiding the dialect. you think the silly things I say won’t stick in your vocabulary. you are wrong. months later, it’ll be rolling off your tongue

Meg

@pearlinwine

Dec 9, 2023

the ability to be normal, by which I mean behave in a sane and or cool way, tragically rare.