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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 19:33:56 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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   • Jae

   @considermycat I've been reading this thread (it's been a journey) and I am so happy for you!

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     Jae (considermycat@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 19:33:58 JST Jae

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     IT WAS REPUBLISHED LAST YEAR. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIRTY YEARS. I'LL BE ABLE TO BUY A COPY TOMORROW. I'm *reeling*.
     https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Blue-by-Derek-Jarman/9781644230886

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     Jae (considermycat@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 19:34:00 JST Jae

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     The one that breaks my heart is the text of Derek Jarman’s Blue, which was a limited edition of about 3,000 copies and is now totally unobtainable (unless you pay several hundred pounds)

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     Jae (considermycat@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 19:34:02 JST Jae

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     Anyway, I wanted the original hardback because that’s the one I owned as a teen, before disposing of it in (I assume) the same orgy of internalised homophobia that caused me to get rid of all my other queer-themed books when I became an evangelical Christian in 1994

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     Jae (considermycat@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 19:34:04 JST Jae

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     Not that it cost the original owner anything

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     Jae (considermycat@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 19:34:06 JST Jae

     If anyone’s ever considered buying first editions as an investment, this first edition of bisexual classic The Buddha of Suburbia cost £12.99 when published in 1990 – and I just paid £8.99 for it 😳