Belinda Rule

@belindarule

Poet, weird cousin, spinster beer aunt. ‘Hyperbole’, Recent Work Press, 2021. Trying to be on here.

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Belinda Rule@belindarule· 17d

these fat little roast chickens

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Jul 25

can't seem to capture the full extremity of the judgement in this fac

a small fluffy tortoiseshell cat sits on a pyjama clad person's outstretched legs, staring with great solemnity

Belinda Rule@belindarule· May 24

new poems in TEXT journal, which takes metatextual/reflexive creative work. the 2nd has one of my better titles, ha - 'After the poetry reading, the dark' - 'I am going to write a poem that will make everyone want to have sex with me' - 'The real poem' textjournal.scholasticahq.com/article/1614...

Poem by Belinda Rule in TEXT journal - full text at link

Belinda Rule@belindarule· May 3

a fanfiction reader could never, even a broad cross-genre reader could never, I think. guess you can poison your mind with too much literary fiction

During the years from about 1960 to about 1990, I read more than a thousand books, mostly of a sort that could be called literature.

Belinda Rule@belindarule· May 3

not Gerald Murnane in Barley Patch spending pages and pages freaking out about how his child self created self-insert fantasies for all the books he read, as if totally ignorant of how normal this is? sir have you never talked to another person about their inner life

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Apr 7

Two new poems in Literary Matters! One of them is about a poo. The other is about whether it would be nice to be a wolf or maybe about being broke. www.literarymatters.org/18-2-invoice... www.literarymatters.org/18-2-manhood/

Screenshot of poem - full text in link in post.

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Apr 5

this is so good that I am absolutely seething with jealousy, I feel as though I have been transported to a higher plane of being by how good it is, it is set in something close to my personal milieu, I am enraged

Michelle de Kretser's Theory and Practice on a cluttered coffee table with Easter eggs

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Apr 4

when you had to write so many begging letters that predictive text does this

Screenshot of a phone screen where the word 'I'm' has been typed. Predictive Text suggests the next word should be 'unemployed'.

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Mar 28

peak cat cuddle weather is here help I can feel her toe fluff on my bare ankle

fluffy tortoiseshell cat stretched out long along my legs

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Mar 6

I typo'ed button as butoon and now I feel that is a thing, a butoon is a very large button, not sure if most coat buttons would qualify, perhaps it needs to be really delightfully fuck-off big. possibly the word may only be bellowed in a Merchant Ivory accent, UNHAND MY BUTOONS, SIRRAH

A very large black plastic coat button that takes up almost the whole width of the person's palm who is holding it

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Feb 22

listening to this on audio book. it's incredible (derogatory). there's literally no women, if there hadn't been one mention of 'women and children' in a population group I would have thought they reproduce by cell replication. everyone smokes constantly, the ultimate compliment is 'man's man'

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Feb 21

tentatively forgiven for having squirted a very small amount of liquid on the back of her neck from a tube that made a puffing sound, also clipping the claw that slashed open my palm

Fluffy tortoiseshell cat curled on my pyjamaed legs, looking off to the side

A pink scrape, not quite deep enough to scab, along a crease in my palm, just under 1cm long

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Feb 20

did they deliberately touch up the red-eye on only one of his eyes, I love it

pap pic of the horrible former-Prince Andrew in the back of a car by night, with grimly cold lighting. He is slouching in his seat trying to hide, jowls showing, inside of nostrils lit up, with flash turning one, and only one, of his eyes red.

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Feb 18

Haha I just posted this this is a CAT checkpoint, show me the most recent cat image on your phone

Fluffy tortoiseshell cat in the house at the top of the cat tree, with bright window light behind her. Her little fluffy foot and tail are hanging out the door of the house.

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Jan 29

no tv, only watch cat

My very small fluffy tortoiseshell cat is curled up on the couch with her paws controlling two different remote controls. She peers out of her floof suspiciously.

My very small fluffy tortoiseshell cat is now lying on her side asleep on the couch with her paws still controlling two different remote controls.

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Jan 9

recent Freddie moods

torbie cat lounging on side with fluffy pale ginger belly all spread out

torbie cat lying on side with paws in pending-mayhem position and zany face with one ear tucked under head

torbie cat lying along my reclined body, one paw possessively on my bust, and airplane ears

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Jan 9

these are actually fantastic - tiny chunks of crunchy candy cane

torn-open value bag of KitKat Peppermint Candy Cane flavour, on a cluttered coffee table

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Dec 21

purdy (not purdy: 12 minute wait at Footscray for an inbound connection? hoping this will improve in final timetable)

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Dec 15

high quality thoughts from Sussan Ley, it's disrespectful to the victims to air proposals about gun control but not to air proposals to silence criticism of Israel, because banning student speech will defo deradicalise random longstanding Islamic State terror cells www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Sussan Ley won't be drawn on whether she thinks gun control laws should be tightened following last night's terror attack.

The opposition leader says it's not something she wants to discuss today.

"There are families waiting by the bedsides of their loved

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is asked what recommendations included in the report could have made a difference to stop last night's terror attack from happening.

She says it's clear last night's attack "is a terrorism event" and "deeply embedded in that is antisemitism".

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says universities, which have been the scene of many pro-Palestine protests, haven't acted to curb antisemitism.

"University students having to put up with chants like 'From the river to the sea'. Let's be clear, this is a chant that calls for the explicit destruction of the Jewish state and

The ABC understands investigators from the Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) believe the gunmen had pledged allegiance to the IS terrorist group.

An IS flag was found in the men's car at Bondi Beach, according to a senior JCTT official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The official said ASIO took an interest in Naveed Akram six years ago, after police foiled plans for an IS terrorist attack.

The ABC understands ASIO started looking into the man soon after the July 2019 arrest of IS terrorist Isaak El Matari in Sydney.

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Dec 15

succeeded in switching phones, cat portraiture capabilities quite good honestly put her on Vogue. put her on Nelson's Column. put her on the ceiling of a Renaissance Chapel.

another head and shoulders portrait of my exquisite green-eyed fluffy tortoiseshell cat, this one in low light, lying on her side on the sofa. her eyes look almost pale blue in this light, and her pupils are big. I can't decide if she looks zany or pensive.

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Dec 9

I don't have many on this phone but...

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Dec 3

how good's this Emilie Collyer just as I'm composing my thrilled to announce! post cordite.org.au/poetry/preca...

a rotting weatherboard. All of us smartarses
without faith desperately pinning our need
for reassurance on how often we can start a

social media post with the words thrilled to
announce! Why wouldn’t I want to be saved

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Nov 30

my mind went here

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Nov 29

that was a grim series of RTs to start the morning geez, here's my sweeties

Rather portly shorthair torbie cat stretched out along my legs like a luxurious fat cushion, she looks back at camera with sleepy interest

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Nov 25

impossible to stop looking at her

fluffy tortoiseshell cat, she is asleep with her paws stretched out, face half hidden in brindled neck fluff, in the underside of one of her front legs is pale ginger

tortoiseshell cat asleep like a pile brindled fluff that may or may not have a cat in there. she has a pale ginger blaze down her nose and one ginger foot

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Nov 5

immediately after this Freddie decided her ears were getting crowded and started pulling Meg’s side-fluff with her teeth

on the chaise longue of a red sofa, my hefty torbie shorthair cat sprawls diagonally across the whole width, while my tiny fluffy tortoiseshell cat squishes in a loaf in the very corner above the other cat’s head

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Nov 3

it's giving -

Tumblr screenshot of a Poorly Drawn Lines comic. First panel: "The goat, he screams like a man". Second panel: a goat says "I am so tired". Third panel: the goat is now very far away on a hillside. The goat says "I am so tired all the time".

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Oct 31

already don’t have enough lap, hmm

two cats on my lap/outstretched legs! one little fluffy tortoiseshell, one heftier torbie shorthair. their backs are to the viewer but you can tell the heftier one, further down the legs, arrived later and is trying to passive aggressively crowd the little one out

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Oct 31

it’s not even envy of the exquisite Victorian house, it’s like… imagine having the storage space to keep this nonsense in

behind the cast-iron-lace front fence of a freestanding Victorian house, a small army of life-size Halloween ghoul figures menace passers by. grey clouds roil overhead.

Belinda Rule@belindarule· Oct 9

CW the tea!! ol' Bryce was the only author the bogan part of my family ever reliably read, back in the day I think I noped out around book 2 or 3 where there's all the gratuitous brothel workers fellating the wooden dick, white boss raping black housekeeper etc www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...