Sidevent Adkick Day 20: Heroes Forever with @ForeverRollcall!

As the movies have taught us, Christmas is a time of great peril. We don't just need a hero. We need ALL the heroes. And with that in mind, let us introduce today's advent bot!

The courageous TECTONO-SPEAR! Body composed entirely of spectral piranhas.

— Heroes Forever (@ForeverRollcall) December 3, 2016

Roll out (the barrel)!

Sidevent Adkick Day 18: What's Going On Here?

We're nearly at the end of our Advent romp, with just under a week to go until the Christmas monkeys arrive. Here's a speedy recap of the Sidekick madness so far:

1. Lots and lots of bots!

His Silken Fetters I Unty'd, / And THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY display'd

— Tephra Behrrigan (@BostonLibertine) December 18, 2016

Choose from Percianne Shellmoore, aka @anarchypangolin, Edwhirl Learchester, aka @QuoththePelican, @PearlvQueen, @AnimeCarson, @SunsetPlaytime, Tephra Behrrigan, aka @BostonLibertine, @Gertrudes_Gifts, the humble award winner @BestMaleLead and Dorothy Parker meeting Philip Larkin for an @AmbulanceParty.

2. Special gift editions of our micro-anthologies!

Our mini-collections get the special treatment with hand-collaged cards and themed charms!

3. Play-poems galore!

Explore Twine-made verse adventures with Meat & Mustard, Shag v Cormorant, Mothra and In Search of Lost Species!

4. Miscellaneous Fulmaniacal utterances, including our call for submissions, the good doctor's Naughty/Nice list and a poem collaged from words of "gender alchemist" RuPaul Charles.

Sidevent Adkick Day 16: And the winner is...

Today's Advent Twitterbot is Victor Humble, aka @BestMaleLead. Drunk on fame, he has resolved to accept all of the awards, and speaks in the tongues of all the male Oscar winners before him.

It's Daddy. I want to thank the Ray Stark by the gift bag.

Oh my mother who's here tonight.

— Victor Humble (@BestMaleLead) November 29, 2016

Oh Lord, I promised myself I wasn't going to cry...

Sidevent Adkick Day 13: Introducing @BostonLibertine!

You heard the wo/man! No pants!


Today's advent Twitterbot, Tephra Behrrigan, aka @BostonLibertine is a diabolical mixture of New York School Poet Ted Berrigan and Restoration polymath Aphra Behn. This bot is here to stay, with no plans for a Final Sonnet. Dear Chris, hello.

Sidevent Adkick Day 12: @Gertrude's_Gifts

Christmas shopping need not be a chore! Put your trust and debit card details in the hands of one of the greatest Modernist poets, with @Gertrudes_Gifts!

That's right! For one day only, queer icon Gertrude Stein has taken over QVC Homewares for some tender bargains. Shop till you drop why is it drop this being a loving shop (repeat to fade)

Sidevent Adkick Day 10: Philothy Parkin, the gloomiest bot

Is all the forced merrymaking of Christmas making you want to curl up with your Nietszche and hide till it's over? Well there's a bot that understands exactly how you feel!

Glory in gloom with @AmbulanceParty, a mashing of mardiness featuring the writings of arch-shade-thrower Dorothy Parker and dourest of the dour, Philip Larkin.

My woven hands upon my breast were fucked up in their turn / By fools

— Philothy Parkin (@AmbulanceParty) December 7, 2016

Sidevent Adkick Day 8: Frank O'Hara meets Paul Celan!

Oh @SunshinePlaytime we love you get up!

Frank O'Hara meets Paul Celan for today's advent Twitterbot. Teutonic, camp and glorious, Ich 💗 this NY bot.

I think of you / and the Fahrtgeschoß brilliant and arid / and the slender heart

— Fraul O'Celara (@SunsetPlaytime) December 1, 2016

Viel Spass, und vorsicht auf dem Krampus, Kinder!

Sidevent Adkick Day 7: You are no match for @AnimeCarson!

Just as Christmas is indeed a time for eating, it is a time for fighting too. If we were to send our champion into the arena, it would be mythmaking, genre-breaking Canadian poet Anne Carson. But how would this dextrous wordsmith fare in the sword-swiping, explosive world of anime? Could she smack-talk it with the best of them? Time to find out with our latest bot, @AnimeCarson!

Me... a monster? I think we are the only guests in this hotel.

— Anime Carson (@AnimeCarson) December 3, 2016

Sidevent Adkick Day 5: Introducing Edwhirl Learchester!

Brilliant burlesque meets sublime nonsense as another Twitterbot this way comes, in the form of Edwhirl Learchester!

A bizarre alliance between Edward Lear and the Earl of Rochester, this bot is out to lampoon by the light of the moon!

O my aged Uncle Arly! / Sitting on the lover's servile chain

— Edwhirl Learchester (@QuothThePelican) December 1, 2016

Restore that Pobble!

Sidevent Adkick Day 3: Talking of Shags...

Our second Advent Twitterbot is loose! With blue blood and bluer content, @PearlvQueen combines Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas messages through the years with smut from Victorian porn mag The Pearl.

I usually make my Christmas Broadcast to the Commonwealth from the pillow under my bottom

— PearlvQueen (@PearlvQueen) December 3, 2016

May it warm your chestnuts and top your tree.

Sidevent Adkick Calendar Day 1: Percianne Shellmoore

Happy Advent, Sidekick friends!

To celebrate the festive season, Dr F has gone hogwild with his splice 'n' dice apparatus, and has formed Twitterbots that mash together famous and very different poets.

Today's unholy alliance merges Marianne Moore and Percy Shelley into the very dapper Percianne Shellmoore!

Follow @anarchypangolin for gems like:

I met Murder on the way - / He had a mask like replicas of violet - / like Sidney, leaning in his striped jacket

— Percianne Shellmoore (@anarchypangolin) December 1, 2016

More tinselbots to come - stay tuned!