A Mumsnet thread about a book about a Mumsnet thread “Under the Duvet of Darkness” written by the women of Mumsnet THREAD 2

[Boiledbeetle]

Thread 1:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4776556-a-mumsnet-thread-about-a-book-about-a-mumsnet-thread-under-the-duvet-of-darkness-written-by-the-women-of-mumsnet?utm_campaign=thread&utm_medium=share

You do not need to have read thread 1 – this is not that sort of thread.

But to recap… Over Christmas and New Year after the passing of the GRR (Scotland) Bill a thread was started with a poem about Nicola Sturgeon. Eventually on that thread (and a couple of other threads) over 80 poems were written.

“Under the Duvet of Darkness: Poems written by angry women for angry women because WOMEN WON’T WHEESHT” was published as a paperback on 31st March 2023.

Available on Amazon only: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C129WKDD

In a rather bizarre turn of events at one point it reached No 2 in poetry best sellers and No 5 in Feminist Criticism best sellers. No one will be surprised to discover that a book that is in the main about people, especially men, claiming to be something they are not was kept off the No1 spot in poetry best sellers by a crime novel, identifying as poetry, written by a man ;-)

E-BOOK:

Some people wanted an e-book rather than a paperback, but for that we needed someone who could actually make an e-book and some extra poems.

FairyKindleMother came to the rescue with regards the e-book and posters wrote enough poems that we could add 20 more poems into the e-book.

I pressed publish on the e-book a few hours ago. It can take usually up to 3 days to appear and populate all the info etc on the various sites, and there is always the chance they knock it back for some reason. But I've done all I can do at this point. We just have to wait and see who spots it on sale first! It will appear on the Amazon link above hopefully soon, (or I'll get an email asking me to change something).

MONEY FROM SALES OF ALL FORMATS:

In honour of Magdalen Berns, who co-founded the Scottish campaign group For Women Scotland, 100% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to For Women Scotland.

“It’s not hate to defend your rights, and it’s not hate to speak the truth.”
Magdalen Berns (1983 – 2019)

As I started work on the e-book posters continued to write poems. So we had a choice: leave them there, languishing on the thread, unloved, forgotten, never to have their words uttered again OR we could just do volume 2.

Posters voted for Volume 2 but we still need more poems!

And that’s the gist of thread 1.

PARTY IN THE PARK

1PM 23RD JULY 2023

SEE BELOW FOR DETAILS

Duthie Park is where it’s at.
No need to bring your baseball bat.

There will be singing and dancing,
whilst on the women we’re advancing.

So mask up tight.
Be ready to fight.

The women will provide the props
you’ll use to assault the sops.

Your fist is good, but their banner is better.
You will get away with it, honest! I bet yer!

You’ll get a slap on the wrist!
God, those women will be pissed.

You see the Scottish Police are all MRAs
They’ll be doing the bidding of us TRAs.

So bring all your friends to the party in the park,
Because punching women is such a lark!

if you can't beat them join them!

Perhaps another chapter called 'Terfery Rhymes'

they can go in the silly poems that got written when the book was getting one star reviews off Lola and hitting 200 sales. section! which will now include the silly poems that got written whilst i tried to pull the second volume together

except mine obviously that is going in the current chapter i'm working on (god im still only at chapter 2)

You're doing brilliant @Boiledbeetle

I'm thinking it might wind up the book equivalent of the Forth Bridge trope. New poems get written as fast as the older ones are published.

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Boiled Beetle was her name
Tunnocks and poems were her game
In disguise she was famed
And her first edition it was framed.

😍

Poor boiled beetle works so hard,
labouring like a modern bard.
Editing and collating rhymes,
which some will tell us may be crimes.

Why all the fuss, why do we chatter?
Why should we think that women matter?
Listen close now, prick up your ears,
some dogma is just bad ideas.

I know it feels like it is true,
that inside your head there's a you.
That isn't true that isn't real,
it's just a way that people feel.

And that is why it is not wise,
to spend your time demanding lies.
There will be things you can't pick.
Don't let the wanting make you sick.

She said no more odes.
Yet plenty more kept coming.
Beetle just went pop.

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Boiled Beetle cried 'oh no'
No more poems, say it ain't so
Her brain was a-humming
As the poems still kept coming,
Volume three was a definite goal!

Ignores poems. Ignores poems.

I'm on the TRA chapter and got the urge for the tea of a 5 year old for some reason.

totally justified

In Beetle's sweet dreams,
The poems are repeating
Their constant refrain.

Lyric, sonnet, ode,
haiku, limerick, couplet,
quatrain, a ballad.

Paper all around,
Chapters vying for their space.
A Beetle's brain boils.

You are all bastards!

so so sorry

I'm not!

I'm not sure that is what you intended @Boiledbeetle but I rather think

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should go in too

Peaks head round door...

Tries not to count up all the new poems.

you naughty naughty women!

Tomorrow, I'll sort them tomorrow!

I've just got to the end of chapter three.

that is me done for the day.

(would have been earlier, but I keep stopping to watch Sci-Fi)

"A witch is nothing without her coven"

A chapter title for you perhaps @Boiledbeetle? It's from Hocus Pocus 2.

"It's all a load of hocus pocus" from Hocus Pocus 1 might be good for a general gender woo nonsense chapter?

Ughhhhh. can I stop for the night?

I've just hit poem 90 in the new order of poems and I've done 8 chapters so far out of 15.

I reckon all the stuff up to that point is about 85-90% there.

But I'm knackered and my back hurts, and not one single person has brought me a Tunnock's bar all day.!!!!

I'm going to go be horizontal and watch the last one and a half episodes of the Orville in one go rather than 10 minute chunks when I have a break.

Tomorrow I ease in gently with a three poem chapter, followed by some pockets and then i get to shove all the new ones in the third chapter I will be tackling.

ughhhhh!

Sending you stacks of Tunnocks (or as close to a chocolate Wafer as I can get on the gifs available)

its better than nothing.

shoves bar in gob!

Orville as in "I wish I could fly"??
I ʼate that duck.

Sending you Tunnocks. Asda had them briefly yesterday then they were all gone today. Maybe my small town has a large population of FWR residents.