Becca Miles
Writer and editor | Associate editor for @castofwonders.org | They / She | Performance poet | Autistic | Queer | Jewish
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- Robin Hood but Little John is a golem. That's it, that's the idea, now bully me into writing it. #writing
- "O, Got-bruder, Vu iz dayn erd? Ganvest Yehude Mit a shpadl un a shverd." "Oh, Godbrother Where is your soil? You're stealing Judea With a shovel and a sword..." Got this one on repeat <3 The whole album is so good borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/umru-u... #danielkahn #klezmer #music
- Lukewarm take: Neurotypical culture also has tone indicators for text communication - they're just shit and don't work as well. #autistic
- I have now seen Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and I am NOT NORMAL about it.
- I just explained davening / shuckling to my partner as "religiously-sanctioned stimming".
- Has anyone already written a pretentious article about frogs as a versatile symbol for various political / social movements in the 21st century? Cause if not I might have to.
- When I went into #ChoiceofGames’ Jewish shtetl-themed text adventure ‘The Ghost and the Golem’, I expected to do one, maybe two playthroughs and then put it down. I'm now coming up on 10+ playthroughs and I’m still going. Rest of review here: beccacpmiles.wixsite.com/beccamiles/p...
- thinking of putting together a poetry chapbook, any advice? #poetry #writingcommunity
- I counted 26 instances of people being harassed for using the "correct" bathroom under the guidance. Who could have seen this coming.
- A new report from TransActual shows that trans and cisgender people face job loss, violence, vigilantism and wholesale exclusion following the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC guidance. Read the report at: tinyurl.com/trans-segreg... #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights
- #writingcommunity, what are your *practical* tips for getting past perfectionism? Things like exercises, rituals, communities, specific writing books -- anything that isn't just "Stop being perfectionist / 1st draft should be bad / get words on page." I know these things; I want to act on them.
- One of my favourite things about watching TV with my partner is their compulsive need to know where all the actors went to school. Bonus fun every time they go "Ugh, RADA, of course."
- I'm back in the archives (The Times this time) and I keep getting jump-scared by the name of this play from 1931.
- I'm watching Andor purely because that gifset of the revolution boy with the big forehead and curly hair talking about oppression kept coming up on my feeds. On ep 4 so I've met the revolutionary cinnamon roll in question. I'm not much of a Star Wars person but this series is pretty good so far.
- you ever realise your self-worth is reliant on you being one of the crazies who knows how to manage their symptoms and not make people uncomfortable and the second you slip on that all your supposed self-acceptance goes out the window and you feel unworthy of oxygen
- Life in the UK is absurd. I'm checking the bus app to see where my bus is and it's waiting at Saxondale. That's not a place buses get stuck at it's a place where dragons get slain. Nonsense country.
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- Might have finished the slam poem I wrote most of the material for in early 2020. Now I just gotta wait to have a job that means I'm free in the evening and can go to open mics again. #writingcommunity #amwriting #poetry #slampoetry #spokenword
- When the group chat's gotten downright טמא
- on my second go at 'Frankenstein's Golem' and thus far my MC is way more of a bitch this time around, it might make it easier for me to continue #amwriting #writingcommunity #novel #specfic
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- Would you keep reading from this opening? Tentatively having another go at my novel 'Frankenstein's Golem. #amwriting #writingcommunity #speculativefiction
- Would you keep reading from this opening? Tentatively having another go at my novel 'Frankenstein's Golem. #amwriting #writingcommunity #speculativefiction
- Having now also watched the hearing, this is a great summary. The one beat I'd add is Rosie Duffield towards the end talks about polarisation and frames the issue as "trans-identified people versus feminists". This is the clearest example of gender critical terminology and framing I saw.
- TIL that at the point where dairy production shows up in Mesopotamia shows up, the population almost certainly didn't have the lactase gene. So you had a bunch of lactose intolerant people, eating enough cheese to leave evidence of it in the archaeological record. Some things never change 😂
- The EHRC consultation is open until 30th June. TransActual have a guide to each question with suggested issues that can be raised: transactual.org.uk/equality-act... If from now we answer one question per day, 5 days a week, we can complete this before the deadline.
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=x--N... YESSSSSSSS!! DEL TORO IS THE PERFECT DIRECTOR FOR THIS 😍😍😍
- If I get literally nothing else done today, at least I achieved a killer bilingual pun.
- The two types of D.H. Lawrence poem: 1) "Here's a melancholy, layered poem about the emotional dissonance caused when we're simultaneously repulsed and attracted by the things society tells us are deviant or abject." 2) "Here's 80+ lines about how eating a fig is kinda like eating PUSSYYYYY 😏"
- My new phone case is splendidly decorated thanks to @margueritekenner.bsky.social and @alasdairstuart.com's generous gift of stickers 😁
- Sisters in Arms is doing good work compiling women's voices against the Supreme Court and EHRC. (My gender identity is nuanced but in most social spaces I am, functionally, a cis woman.) www.instagram.com/reel/DJEjXLY...
- Didn't expect to write a #napowrimo poem today but this one wanted to exist. No prompt but the general horrors. CW for internalised misogyny / cissexism #napowrimo2025 #poem #writingcommunity
- Another sponsored #napowrimo poem, this time by my friend Teddy who asked for one about our LARP characters Adeline and Solomon. Yiddish terms: "Meyn teyerer" = "my dear" "schmattes" = "rags, made from scraps" #napowrimo2025 #poetry #writingcommunity
- Today's #napowrimo poem is another sponsored one. My friend Jenna requested one about her LARP character Juniper, and since I play a poet in that game I decided to write it in-character. #napowrimo2025 #poetry #writingcommunity
