Abbaetha: did you suppose there could be only one Parsnip?

Hello Bluesky! I am looking for anyone who cares about/writes about/thinks about Rebecca West.

I've been on a 10 year mission to get her a blue plaque in London and am finally allowed to re-apply after it was last turned down.

I'd welcome help building a strong application.

Thank you 💙🙏

Blood orange season is THE BEST

My childhood/adolescent doctor died when I was 17, so I had this weird gap where I went to someone random. They let me in to college so I must have gotten it but my Dr recommended it anyway. Fistbump right back!

I knew I’d gotten mine, but I couldn’t prove it, so I got another. I feel good about this.

If anybody local in Britain can help, or knows someone who can…

Maybe there’s a whole time travel plot he forgot to write up.

That’s not true. But Leonidas opted to go fight a bunch of Persians at Thermopylae rather than stay in Sparta when Chotiner came to visit.

It was all a hoax and everyone faked injury and death and they’re fine in Svalbard PROVE THEY AREN’T I DARE YOU

Maybe this is liberating. I can just move into a decrepit mansion and act weird. I’d go for pajamas though.

That’s not true. But William the Conqueror was seen scrambling onto a boat with Chotiner behind him in the surf.

😳

Great. Just great. Now I’ve even missed my ragged-wedding-dress window.

No sadness right now Bill. All happy endings.

Today’s persona is bullying people on the internet to only think and say happy thoughts. I am, sadly, unable to send anyone to the cornfield. I would be very busy.

[screaming, fingers in ears] la la la la la I CAN’T HEAR YOU

No. She’s a million years old. I can’t cope with anything else.

Everything stops for tea.

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It’s an amazing item, it really is.

That would make me check flood warnings very carefully indeed.

No, I couldn’t. Please, you can have it back. Take mine while you’re at it - it does me no good.

Yikes

And now I have to make it to the store before tomorrow because I am taking a zoom class. AUGH.

Me, engaging with a new craft: excellent, I will go get [tool] that I got for this.
[tears everything apart, no tool]
Brain: looks smug
Me: brain?
Brain: mmmm?
Me: is this the ONE THING we didn’t get on spec?
Brain (shrugging): you wanted to stop doing stuff like that.

Casting call! Looking for a woman voice actor, 50+ who is versatile and a vocal chameleon / can play many different bit parts in an audio comedy.

We’re recording in London on 13th & 14th April. This is a paid opportunity. Actor does not need to be autistic!

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I finished first re-read a couple of months ago. It was wrenching but rewarded a slow thoughtful read.

#booksky
#medievalists
📚💙

Read Heather O’Donoghue’s Beowulf: Poem, Poet, and Hero, and loved it. Fascinating contextualization of the poem as well as a literary analysis. For those of us who can’t get enough Beowulf (there are dozens of us! Dozens!) very much worth it.

I tried to explain and I got the looks I get when that happens and I stopped.

When I made my Macbeth cake (see my banner) I made a point of putting them in Tudor clothes so as not to profane the memories of Groa and Thorfinn.

This went largely unremarked by, you know, everyone, but it was important to ME.

Oh god I hurt even thinking about that one.

I’m reading a Beowulf study right now, and it’s also informative and would probably help the re-read of King Hereafter. If I can cope.

I am here for a mysterious, damaged, psychic Miss Piggy as River Tam.

Sign me up 100%.

I didn’t find it until a couple of years ago - bluesky book convos put me on to it and I’m obsessed now. I re-read Lymond recently and if anything it was harder second time around.

Pawn In Frankincense, by Dorothy Dunnett.

That thousand-yard stare lasted for some time.

#dunnettcontent