Kate Spicer says Sort Yourself Out

Kate Spicer says Sort Yourself Out

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Kate Spicer says Sort Yourself Out
Kate Spicer says Sort Yourself Out
Feel like a victim? Have you considered that perhaps you just Ain't Nice.

Feel like a victim? Have you considered that perhaps you just Ain't Nice.

Am I Ain’t Nice with no insight? A Pinterest board for worms that turn

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Hi Honey, I’m home…

The preambleramble

When I sit down to write about my current life, cupboard life as regular readers here will know it, I have a quick word with myself. I’m like a writer with a particularly abusive editor, all inside one brain.

“God, not the cupboard, again. You’re not in a war zone. Think of all the people who are really suffering. Quit moaning about your dreary break up, losing your nice car and having to sleep on a sofa bed. You’re not in Sudan sweetheart, you’re a spoilt bitch.”

“I’m not moaning. I’m doing grisly entertainment describing from the trenches of my home life.”

“You look weak. Write about something other than poor me. Write about, I dunno, council housing architecture, or long Covid, something useful. Face lifts?”

“I like doing describing. I’m a writer. Surely, with plenty of self-critical LOLs, it’s OK.”

“You’re not a writer, you’re a twat.”

“News for you bitch. You’re not an actual editor, you are a twat too.”

Well that makes one of us.

I do it anyway and stuff it discreetly behind the paywall like my Mum used to stuff her loathed boiled sausage nursery tea up the rocking horse’s bottom

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rocking horse rectum: good place to put unwanted food and a novel metaphor for a paywalled substack

private dance? slip £35 in my thong and you’ll get em all year

This substack felt cute but might delete later as t’kiddiwinks say. Reading to the end wins you a Pinterest board and a playlist for any person wallowing in victimhood because they are currently …

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