lamenting all the tiny deaths of scholarship we’ve seen over the past few decades: folks being pushed out of abusive PhD programs; schools refusing to hire full-time faculty; “austerity” measures designed for program cuts; general defunding of education; forced AI adoption; etc.

I have a running bibliography in Scrivener. It’s the only way I can keep track of everything. So many great books on the eighteenth century that I hadn’t had the reason/excuse to pick up until now.

I know I said I would but I couldn’t get a good post together. Next time I’ll be able to plan more than 48 hours in advance.

Going to try #QuestPit for the first time this year with the current WIP. #HistoricalRomance #18thCentury #FrenchRevolution #Neurospicy Would love suggestions if anyone has them!

Another reminder of #questpit happening this Saturday rather than tomorrow!!

Somebody needs to cast Jonathan Bailey in an adaptation of a @kjcharleswriter.com novel.

I wanna invent time travel and then require every high school student to take a class called "All The Shit We Fixed Before You Got Here" where they tour smog-filled US cities, polio wards, pre-vaccine hospitals, buildings with no safety regulations, kids working in mines, etc.

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

if anyone is looking for last-minute gift ideas, I picked a different person from this list to make a small donation for every member of my family & share a little of their story. Molly's thread is an amazing resource with links to vetted fundraisers, many of which need big help to reach big goals

Related to previous post: There's a new chapter and a new POV! archiveofourown.org/works/127453...

When I posted Chapter 7 of "Brittle Glory" after having been on hiatus for seven goddamn years. archiveofourown.org/works/12745350

age yourself with a movie you saw in the cinema as a kid

""Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid." "What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?" "That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him." Bran to Ned AGOT Bran I

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

WRITING TIP FOR TODAY Sale racks at bookstores. I'm dead serious. Buy reference books when they are practically giving them away and build a little library. I cannot explain the difference between a book and the ENTIRE WEB. A good reference book will give you a dozen ideas in the first chapter.

I made the mistake of reading an article about the Aaron Sorkin production of Camelot, and all I could think was that I wrote this Henry VI fic ten years ago and it's called Drama Queens. https://archiveofourown.org/works/60608

I'm going to be on @WesterosHistory this Sunday, where I will be either scandalizing or delighting fellow medievalists by comparing "The Testimony of Mushroom" to "The Book of Margery Kempe." Among other things.

NOW COMPLETE: This Palpable Device, aka CSI: Westeros, aka Harwin Strong Solves Crime. Read it at @ao3org here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43059138 #HouseOfTheDragon #hotd #fanfiction

It's official! As threatened, I have committed #HouseoftheDragon fic. CSI: King's Landing, aka "This Palpable Device". Chapter 1: Harwin Strong is tasked with solving the "murder" of Joffrey Lonmouth. https://archiveofourown.org/works/43059138

https://poorshadowspaintedqueens.tumblr.com/post/700039748304207872/excerpt-from-this-palpable-device #hotd #HouseOfTheDragonHBO #harwinstrong Sometimes you need the Strong boys solving crime in King's Landing. Even if it's a crime where you think you already know the answer.

Stupid dragon show making me feel stuff for dragons. #Vhagar

Dragon's Heart Wrapt in Woman's Hide by La Reine Noire - Multifandom https://archiveofourown.org/works/37524034 via @ao3org I updated this fic last weekend and forgot to share till now. Featuring #rhaenyratargaryen and #Alicent finding unexpected common ground. also...

Finally catching up on the latest @LearnedHandsPod and thoroughly enjoying as always. I have so many thoughts about the tragedy of Rhaenyra Targaryen. 🔥🐉🤩

A good afternoon to the lovely person going through all my ASOIAF fics and leaving these tiny one-line compliments on them. You are a ray of sunshine in a dreary world.

Chapter 4 of Dragon's Heart Wrapt in Woman's Hide, now up on AO3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/37524034/chapters/96412086

Fandom koan: If a fic updates and nobody reads it, did it really update? (Ok, not really a koan, but an observation.)

Dragon's Heart Wrapt in Woman's Hide by La Reine Noire - https://archiveofourown.org/works/37524034 via @ao3org - Chapter 2 now up! "A King, A Knight, A Dragon."

Dragon's Heart Wrapt in Woman's Hide by La Reine Noire - Being the rise and most tragical fall of Rhaenyra Targaryen, First and Last of her Name, known to history as the Realm’s Delight and the Half-Year Queen. In Five Acts. Ch. 1/??. For @NaomiMakesArt....

In what can only be described as a fit of poor judgement, I will shortly be posting the first chapter of the Dance of the Dragons fic I've been working on for the past several years. Does the world need another WIP from me? Probably not. But hopefully it will bring someone joy.

Shout-out to my Yuletide author, who made me laugh during what has been a legit awful week. Thank you, thank you, for giving me Catherine Morland, Twilight fangirl, and a Northanger Abbey high school AU. https://archiveofourown.org/works/35794309

#TheExpanse rewatch continues. Avasarala/Arjun 5eva. That’s it. That’s the tweet.