What a silly little goose

LET WOMEN HAVE HOBBIES

LOL we all know the ending. It’s really not a spoiler to reveal the ending of a story that is thousands of years old.

I’m on cat sitting duty this week 😍

My book, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games" is out in paperback tomorrow (2 Jun). If you've been waiting to get hold of it, now could be a good time! boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-mid...

Little stop outside Manchester to see friends

World premier of Outlander in Concert was magical!

Glasgow! Bit of city history and bit of Outlander film location tour. Hope springs eternal.

Duly noted!

Good grief, it’s 91 F/33 C in Bristol today. We don’t have AC. I’m dying over here. If it were a dry heat it would be one thing but this is HUMID 🥵

Sundays are for tennis 🎾 first time playing on grass turf!

The only Odyssey controversy I care about, y’all. 🍜 “The latest clash began when Dimitris Tsarouhas, 53-year-old owner of a restaurant in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, sought UNESCO status for patsa, arguing the soup’s origins stretch back to ancient Greece and even Homer’s ‘Odyssey.’”

Pet very carefully

I truly despise the Wilson haters who decided to lob absurd “corrections” all because they hate that a woman translated Homer into accessible English and kept it in pentameter.

Takeout/delivery and cooking your own food are both wrong. Instead you should be extracting atmospheric dust, nutrients, and moisture using specialized microscopic hairs called trichomes.

1000% would vote for @number10cat.bsky.social

I miss my sweet Bella kitty 😍 thanks iPhone memories

Regrettably for me, it's that time where I have to reshare my GoFundMe. Still looking for any possible help in getting me through the summer until I can access my student loans. The exchange rate has been stubbornly high this past month so any little bit helps a ton, thanks!! gofund.me/804b6aa85

Now they're all mad that Odysseus doesn't go snorkeling off a yacht. Apparently this is a cause near and dear to Sorbo’s heart since he always fought to make Hercules as historically accurate as possible… 😅🤣

Eurovision Grand Final watch party!! Let’s goooo!! I love living in Europe again because I get to do things like this again. 🥰

He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

Conference day 2! I’m presenting this afternoon.

Just a PhD student and her super awesome supervisor enjoying Granada rooftop views after a long first day of conference.

Today on AOH, Dr. @roelkonijn.bsky.social, the Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, Oxford, discusses psychological warfare and imperial brutality in antiquity,Greek ambivalence about war’s glory and horror, & myth-busts Sparta as less uniquely militarist than popularly imagined.

Conference day 1!

Such a pleasure getting to walk around and enjoy some time in Granada before conference starts tomorrow.

Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

If you have to clarify that it’s not a golden calf, it’s a golden calf. Can the iconoclasts please come back?!?!

Graduation photos taken 8 years ago today! Wow nostalgia attack.

I had the pleasure of virtually presenting my MA thesis research for DePaul University’s SIP Lab this evening! Thanks so much to Dr. Christine Reyna for inviting me to speak! It was so fun to come back to this material for the first time since 2022.

Very excited to travel to Granada next week to present my paper "From Player Agency to Cinematic Distance: Reading/Playing the Odyssey in The Last of Us" at the Ancient World on Screen Conference, celebrating 50+ years of classics and film reception! Abstract below!

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May the 4th be with you!

Yeowwww

Great to have @alexvandewalle.bsky.social present on some of the findings from his forthcoming book and research in Bristol today!

There's just really no way to exaggerate how dumb & pathetic & offputting I find everything about this.

An absolute joy to panel chair for an excellent group of experts. We have both scholars and game devs participating as part of the University of Bristol’s Festival of History and Heritage in Games!

This is the current director of Pompeii. I could not be more furious and I believe he could not be more wrong. www.westernwheel.ca/weather-news...

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

I am SCREAMING. Firstly, an American senator doesn’t have any power or control to dictate how Türkiye, a sovereign nation, regulates its religious sites. As of 2020, Hagia Sophia is under control of the Diyanet, the directorate of religious affairs, an internal governmental body.

Finally made my way to Apollo’s Muse, one of the top 10 bars in Europe apparently. I just wanted it cause it’s Greco-Roman themed! I got the Medusa cocktail.