Today a trot around Manchester!
Cheese toastie check thoughh.
Definitely jealous of Alice’s book
Although it’s so good as a debut any writer would get a twinge of envy. But she is salty Alice got a whole ep of the podcast and you could just hear how happy and confident she was and bigged up Bethany’s paperback. Alice got a book quote from Caroline Kepnes of You on Netflix! Bethany got someone who writes cosy Cornish cream tea romance.
Which is harsh. She genuinely doesn’t seem to like scones
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So my path IRL intersected with hers around her dating/poly/queer era. I met her for all of 2 minutes in the middle of an ego fest of other people that was like narcissism fighting like rats in a sack and she seemed quite pleasant although my bar was very low at this point.
I kept hearing from my flatmate all Bert’s dating exploits as FM was basically fighting for the same pool on OKC and whatever the club night was. As I read I got the immense ick that many of Nicole’s dates were straight up the dates Bethany had. The Nordic one? Soon as I read it, I was ‘she is not? She is not going to describe his bits in huge size? Oh god. She did.’ The one who likes both Nicole and Serena: he was the Shoreditch chubby chaser the epic fight was about. He was working round the whole group and none of them realised he was a fetishist until the middle of this girl power get together which went East London Real Housewives batshit.
Four of them all thinking he was into them. Maybe more. I left quickly. There was some jewellery making thing happening so sharp objects and handbags at dawn.
That was a really long six month lease with my flatmate. She was more obsessed with it me Bethany than all of us combined.
I also could not believe it’s empowering to objectify men on sexual characteristics but comment on their bodies and its eugenics or something…