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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Writer, freelance journo + the female Cameron Frye. Words in many places, especially the notes app. Commissions: lauren-entwistle at hotmail dot com (she/her)
Manchester, Englandlinktr.ee/laurenvictoriaJoined January 2014
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
After 7 or so months in the works, my article on the beautiful history of mourning jewellery and its resurgence is finally alive and kicking on
@ExploreWellcome
. It’s a very special piece formed from thoughts that have kicked around in my head, heart - and notes - for years.
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@ExploreWellcome
Scattering her father’s ashes, @laurentwistle found herself longing for something physical that proved he once was a living, breathing person. Here she reflects on the objects that help us to grieve and remember. Artwork by Shay Azzari wellcomecollection.org/articles/Yl6x8
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
sad? have a Linda McCartney veggie sausage roll. happy? have a Linda McCartney veggie sausage roll. anxious? have a Linda McCartney veggie sausage roll. angry? have a Linda McCartney veggie sausage roll. dead? make sure your funeral has Linda McCartney veggie sausage rolls.
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@laurentwistle
“...haunt me, then! Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!” - Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë, 1847)
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Lauren Victoria
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It’s been 16 years but I still think the reason my life is lacking meaningful happiness is because I never got a “Bratz Plugged In - Luscious Lips Landline Telephone” and I just have to accept that
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Do you know what I really miss? Company Magazine. How dare they give me such grand aspirations of working at a print publication that had a fun layout, while balancing (incredibly 2010) fashion and sound features with a huge topic range only to stop printing in 2014? Upsetting.
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
very excited for autumn when the lads can officially start reading their slutty little mystery books while wearing their slutty little fisherman’s jumpers
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
So my dissertation got a very (no, seriously) unexpected first! All that time spent blubbing over legislation that kept changing every few weeks and profuse sweating paid off, I guess!
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Here’s photographic evidence that I’m the mother of a bound and bouncing baby dissertation (that I both love and loathe in equal measure.) Higher education has been a real slice, guys.
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
October is rough. All I want is to be three years old again, holding my Dad’s hand at the beach. I miss him all the time. Even though it’s a Happy Haunting 💛
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
oh dear - i don’t want to do the laundry
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Astro Bebs
@astrobebs
Libra ascendants, a laundry list of things you have to work on: - Evaluating being good-looking as a personality trait - Expecting there to be a solid, common theme to all the aesthetics you embody - Don't be such a people-pleaser - Losing yourself in your relationships
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
#Eurovision is cute these days, but I think it misses the healthy dose of Batshit™ that once graced its stage. I’m tired of watching gorgeous men with a wavering falsetto go plinky-plonk. Bring back the sentient disco balls PLEASE.
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Remember when Hayao Miyazaki introduced us to Ursula, the artist lesbian who lives in the woods, and expected us not to fixate over her lifestyle, enamel mugs and magpie friends??
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Back briefly on Twitter to reiterate that Young Bill from Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! is truly, madly, deeply fit and the whole bit with Donna wearing his fishing jumper has given me much to think about
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Gave a lift to a little hitchhiker this morning - he conked out on the train steps so picked him up to stop him getting squashed. Ended up carrying half the way to work before he flew off! 🐝✨
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Here’s a nice, normal girl 🤚 😭/ _/|| _/¯ ¯\_ In an ordinary world 👋 \ 😫 || \_ _/¯ ¯\_ Show us your fangs 🤚 😳/ _/|| _/¯ ¯\_ YAY MONA 😜 👊/||\_ _/¯ ¯\_
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Entering the 2nd month of 2021 with my 2nd (ever) embroidery! Spent many hours cramping my hand on hundreds of tiny French knots, but that’s time I would’ve used doom-scrolling on Twitter. It’s a tiny boat on huge rolling waves, with lighthouse beams breaking through. Fitting.
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
when i got these glasses i was convinced it was through the divine influence of Louis Theroux, but the real inspiration came from Yorkie, of San Junipero origin, the whole time✨
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
As a platform, you need to have a good fucking look at how your site hosts, funds and spreads the rhetoric of hateful, insidious people - which has been proven, time and time again, to fuel horrific acts like this. Shove your platitudes. It feels like too little, too late.
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Our hearts are broken over today’s terrible tragedy in New Zealand. Please know we are working vigilantly to remove any violent footage.
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Hello World, this is Ted. He’s 9 weeks old, cracks a mean fart, loves tummy rubs and thinks anything black-and-white is friend-coloured. He’s taking everything in his stride. And in his mouth.
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Over the past two years I’ve taken (almost too many) photos of artwork that I’ve enjoyed, so I wanted to make a lil’ project looking at ~curves~ and outlines!
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Can we please ban men telling me I look tired in the year of our lord 2019? I know I’m tired. I feel it. In my bones. And when you say this to me, I want to unhinge my jaw and suck the energy out of you like a Capri-sun.
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Today I submitted my dissertation, which was the heftiest, longest and easily the hardest piece of academic work I’ve ever done (the damn thing stressed me half to death, but I still managed to do it!) In short, I’m ridiculously and unashamedly proud of myself.
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Girl stares lovingly at her iPhone (Digital photograph, 2018) // Portrait of a lady looking into a mirror by Cyprien Eugéne Boulet (Oil on canvas, 192-something)
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Got complimented on my lovely “matte plum lipstick” today, but didn’t have the heart to tell her the reason it’s gone matte is because my entire mouth is laden with flour from the top of a Greggs breakfast butty.
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
I have Generalised Anxiety Disorder and last year, during a very bad brain spell, I chopped all my hair off. So I wrote for
@Greatist
about the therapeutic qualities of haircuts and how pop-culture has cemented their mystical powers.
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Healthy Hair Tips: 13 Common Mistakes to Avoid
No doubt you love your hair and want the best for it – so why do you still keep making these 13 mistakes? We spoke to the experts on what *not* to do when caring for your hair.
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
“Are you wearing-?” “The Pikachu boots? Yeah, I am.”
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ELLE India
@ELLEINDIA
"If you are somebody in our community who decides to go against the grain, you better excel at that. Otherwise you’re the punchline of your family. I needed to make sure that if somebody says, ‘Oh are you going to pull a Tan France?’ ’Yeah bitch, I’m going to pull a @tanfrance.'”
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
Today I got my first weekly column printed in the relaunch of our 164 year old paper and I’m so incredibly proud. Prepare yourselves locals, my terrible opinions are officially on paper.
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
The clapping is a wonderful gesture and our frontline healthcare workers are something else entirely but wouldn’t something else... like cash... or legal tender... or a bigger budget... be useful to them... in these dark times....?
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
pals, I’m happy to report that my confidence has finally been irreversibly bolstered by sneaking a big ol’ bag of wine into a fest arena by concealing the whole thing in my bra - tap between the tits and everything.
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Lauren Victoria
@laurentwistle
I wasn’t going to post anything but then again, I’m 5 years down the line and hey! It fucking hurts. The sting doesn’t even come from missing him. It comes from no longer being able to remember the good, unsick bits. I’d never seen this photo before today.
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@laurentwistle
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That magazine made me want to write for publications. I remember its papery art-style pages (never glossy) and the Tumblr-esque chalk typeface in black boxes. A product of its time but also, I think, what mainstream magazines are trying to do with their vapid 'girlboss' approach.
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