Finn Longman is only here occasionally

Thank you for reading 💚 UK paperback release is set for July, I believe.

I think I have met all of my February deadlines. (Book, article, conference abstract, a few other bits and pieces.)

This is just as well as it's almost 9pm on the 27th, but hey, not as late as it could be. Maybe March will be the month when I actually work on my PhD.

Thank you. I'm thoroughly sick of the wretched book at this point and convinced it's still deeply flawed 😅😅 But hopefully in ways that copyedits will fix. It is, at least, no longer flawed in the ways it was before this particular rewrite, so even if I didn't fix anything else, I fixed them!

I am still popping in intermittently to check notifications etc fyi, I'm just not here on a daily/hourly/minutely basis like I was before.

But since I am here currently, here's an event I'm doing end of next month: www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/weari...

I have finally sent in my line edits. I've had them since September and a "light edit" turned into three passes including a total rewrite and over eight thousand revisions in the final document. It was not, it turned out, a light edit. But I'm free!

However I've enjoyed the break so not back yet.

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The @carantes.bsky.social online anti-fascist Celtic Studies reading group is back back back March 20th at 4-6pm Welsh time

This time we are doing a series on GENDER, starting with freely accessible work by @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social and @finnlongman.com

Join us here: carantes.org/contact/

Ah thank you, I'm glad you're enjoying it! Hope you continue to do so :)

I will not be singling out the Revivalists for their spellings when I have seen every possible cursed spelling from Irish scribes (those that don't avoid the whole issue by abbreviating to C.C. 90% of the time)

Meanwhile 18th century manuscripts: QQlain

I'm still Not Here but I *am* going to be spending the rest of the morning looking at this manuscript, thank you ISOS for justifying the incompleteness of my self-imposed social media ban

Remembering why I only blocked Bluesky for 90% of my working hours and not 100% ... logged on briefly today to see this, which is one of the manuscripts of OCC that I haven't seen yet, and which my spreadsheet notes I was particularly keen to look at because the catalogue made it sound Interesting 👀

It was 27th Nov UK, 27th Jan US, so only a 2-month gap :) (Alas the interval will be larger for the next one -- US publishing turnaround is much longer than UK.)

Thank you for reading and your kind words!

The idea is for me to be less online in order to get more done and have more time to develop my own thoughts rather than being constantly bombarded with other people's, so I will be less contactable, for a while, but I am not entirely unavailable. Will be here intermittently from my computer.

Back because I realised I forgot to actually give any "where to find me while I'm gone" notes

My website: finnlongman.com Gonna be doing some updates and admin on there over the weekend and in the coming weeks. Contact email is there tho note I do drown in spam.
Also Tumblr: finnlongman.tumblr.com

medieval manuscript style illustration that reads "the wolf and his king." inside the "w" there are 2 scenes: Bisclavret and the King sparring and the King knighting Bisclavret. Inside the "K", Bisclavret's wolf form sleeps while his wife steals his clothes.

Happy US publication week to @finnlongman.com 's Wolf and His King!! It's been 6 months since I read it, and I'm still in love with it

Okay. Now that TWAHK is actually out in the US and my event this week is over and therefore I can't convince myself I Need to be online all the time, I am actually going to do this. I will be here sometimes. Not often. If you see me here often then tell me to go away.

The trouble with my current schedule isn't the eight hours of Welsh classes every week so much as the eight hours of naps I end up taking after and between them

Quacking Like A Genre What is SF? Idk, vibes.

I promised ducks, quacking: well! @chloroformtea.bsky.social (not a duck) provides Thursday's essay on knowing genre when you see it.

"We need a more expansive approach to any attempt at definition today. The genre can and plainly does sit alongside other genres which operate on different axes."

London and Cambridge, yes, quite a few places I've lived have only had a front door or the back door is difficult to access externally / only gives access to a garden so it's the only option. In one house WE used the back door because the bikes were parked out back but everyone else used the front.

Thank you for coming so far to attend! It was lovely to meet you.

Honestly he's quite reticent about his own opinions so it's hard to gauge what he might think himself. I can see him earnestly listening to others debating it, though.

The king in his exile was befriending scholars and clerics and learning about all the most important intellectual questions of the day! Like what to do about the spiders—

Actually to be honest that particular group chat rabbithole started out as being about Jesus's foreskin so the spiders were a considerable improvement and I feel like my readers this evening got off lightly by only getting that half of it lobbed at them unexpectedly.

Just Medieval Theology Things

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I got super lucky in second year that the unseen passage was from the text my dissertation was about. Not the section I was writing about, but at least I'd read it, several times, so could make a reasonable guess at it even when I absolutely didn't have the vocab.

Pangur Bán is long! I'm pretty sure that was the one I had the wrong part of.

The author signing a copy of their book, The Wolf and His King

A poster for the event on an easel in the lobby of Waterstones Cambridge

Such a fun and fascinating evening at Waterstones Cambs with authors @finnlongman.com and @hollyrace.bsky.social earlier today.

Always a delight when an author is so passionate about their research - I really want to read more on the medieval werewolf renaissance now!

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At least you didn't do what I did and try to rely on memorising the set poems but then write down the wrong stanzas of it, making it very clear that was what you'd done 💀

I promise I did actually learn it properly when I did my MA lol

I find looking up Irish words isn't as bad as Welsh ones because at least the original letter is still there, mutated or otherwise. Welsh has fully run off with it and put a totally different one in. Rude of it tbh

(I passed all my undergrad language exams purely on the strength of my lit essays)

A narrow track through thick ferns among trees in the woods.

Sunlight filtering through tall fir (?) trees to rest on gorse bushes, smaller tres, and other undergrowth.

"Here the sunlight settled on ferns and gorse and the needle-strewn track one beast or another wore in the unceasing fight for endurance..."

A view from halfway up a hill, looking down and across at forested hillsides with dense trees. In the foreground is a sort of clearing with fernes and smaller vegetation, a track worn through them (probably by humans)

"The paths were not true paths, a wanderer would quickly learn, only the echo of animal feet, making their winding way towards the sky with no respect for human limits..."