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Gail Carriger

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NYT best selling author of book hugs, queer, tea snob, avid reader & nerd girl. Fond of hedgehogs & soup ladles. GailCarriger.com

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Everything stops for tea.

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06.03.2026 17:35 👍 40 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Want a peak into Soulless Manga character design? Here's Professor Lyall

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05.03.2026 18:30 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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The Intellectual Salon: Alexia & Ofelia from Pan’s Labyrinth
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04.03.2026 21:15 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Eating my first tea leaf.

24.02.2026 05:02 👍 44 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Yes, I did in fact write the Hedgehog Incident. gailcarriger.com/MC_AD

26.02.2026 14:08 👍 42 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
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Soulless: The Complete Omnibus is coming soon! Join me next month (Saturday, March 28) for a launch party at Alameda Books, Inc!

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28.02.2026 22:00 👍 30 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Play the Gail Carriger Bingo Card

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01.03.2026 17:00 👍 29 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

*waves*

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yes!

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yay!!!!

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thank you!

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My photo shows the front of a warm-yellow coloured Minoan clay flask, hand painted in black with a frontally depicted octopus. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side. The octopus is swimming diagonally with its eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the whole surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the ‘Marine Style’. The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The Palaikastro excavations, carried out between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.

My photo shows the front of a warm-yellow coloured Minoan clay flask, hand painted in black with a frontally depicted octopus. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side. The octopus is swimming diagonally with its eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the whole surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the ‘Marine Style’. The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The Palaikastro excavations, carried out between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.

Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙❤️

Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro, Crete.

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

28.02.2026 13:49 👍 966 🔁 232 💬 21 📌 19
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The 2 snacks I ate the most in Thailand (from Seven of course).

04.03.2026 04:12 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
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Opening Lines to Chapter Three of the Parasolverse gailcarriger.com/2015/09/14/o...

03.03.2026 19:30 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Your random moment of wikia: Duke of Hematol gailcarriger.fandom.com/wiki/Hematol...

02.03.2026 17:00 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Play the Gail Carriger Bingo Card

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01.03.2026 17:00 👍 29 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Soulless: The Complete Omnibus is coming soon! Join me next month (Saturday, March 28) for a launch party at Alameda Books, Inc!

RSVP here: forms.gle/VDxtuL7HXxP2...

28.02.2026 22:00 👍 30 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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An Author’s Research, 1890s Singapore & Peru for Competence

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The Enforcer Enigma Special Extras

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27.02.2026 19:00 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ever wonder about Alexia Tarabotti, Lord Maccon, and that hedgehog? Well I wrote about it in MEAT CUTE and today is it’s book birthday. gailcarriger.com/MC_AD

27.02.2026 05:08 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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How did Alexia & Conall meet? Or more properly, meat? And what’s with the hedgehog? Today is MEAT CUTE’S birthday. gailcarriger.com/MC_AD

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Have you been waiting for the Hedgehog Incident since SOULLESS? Wait no more! gailcarriger.com/MC_AD

26.02.2026 19:08 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Yes, I did in fact write the Hedgehog Incident. gailcarriger.com/MC_AD

26.02.2026 14:08 👍 42 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
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10 SF/F Books That Have Stuck With Me

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25.02.2026 17:45 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s Story Time! My First Fast Food Experience

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how we celebrated lunar new year

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Piper ordered them from a place here in Bangkok. I can ask her if you’re local. they tasted as good as they looked.

24.02.2026 05:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A very smug Gail getting to sample delicious tea.

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I tried McDonald’s jok with nuggets today. It was surprisingly tasty!

20.02.2026 11:08 👍 33 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Eating my first tea leaf.

24.02.2026 05:02 👍 44 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0