I'm a deeply flawed individual, but I bring joy to the world.

i still believe we need an ablative absolute "grass having been touched" in learnèd english to evince when the narrator is coming back to reality. "i just think that all nonelectric car owners should be imprisoned for life. sigh ... 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰, we should probably incentivize solar panels more"

History is spun by victors in the moment, but won by historians in the long run, y’all.

Hearing of schools closing. Courts being disrupted and social work outreach being cancelled. Nowhere else would put up with it.

very happy to see that the oot remake sticks to its localized title in the german version

today: a mini-manuscript, Ethiopian, with a picture of St George and the dragon. again if anyone can tell me what text it is you'd be doing me a great favour...

The picture on the Wikipedia article for static cling, taken in 2006

Good morning! Ever wanted to learn Godot? I would like for you to make cool stuff. I keep a list of tutorials here, I hope they help get you started making cool stuff: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Pear wood sculpture is titled "Tödlein" (Little Death), created by Hans Leinberger around 1519. www.khm.at/kunstwerke/t...

For more references and reading recommendations, take a look at the full blog post!

Malory is also something of a scholar, and proudly owns a small collection of books. Perhaps they'll lend you one – we're working on a scholarship system for Mandrake. Some of the books you'll be able to read draw inspiration from historical texts, like the medieval Welsh Triads.

I asked @chrisgardiner.bsky.social for some references to the various kinds of UK folklore we've been reading about for our upcoming game, Mandrake, and here's a long and juicy thread! There are so many worth telling you about!

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

Llongyfarchiadau i Rhys Kaminski-Jones o’r Ganolfan ar ennill Gwobr Francis Jones 2025 am ei gyfrol Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain, 1707–1819: True Britons and Celtic Empires (Woodbridge, 2025). @rhyskamjones.bsky.social 📚👏👇 www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/college-anno...

This story, insofar as it deals with the National Railway Museum, is utterly absurd. If you rock up to a museum event expecting to dump a load of stuff on the staff, and are then surprised to be politely refused, then you clearly have no idea what museums are for. www.cityam.com/a-state-of-t...

May this cute skull bring you joy on this Tuesday.

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

New fund for UK game developers launched today and I'm super proud to say I worked on it! Please go and apply if you have a suitable game as its been a labour of love! New fund of up to 50k per game for localisation, marketing, PR, Influencers, etc  www.bfi.org.uk/get-funding-...

To be very clear, I'm not trying to use the AI — I'm just trying to read the court documents. It's clear that the AI is programmed to replace offensive language. But what does that mean when it's being used to summarize historical documents? What happens when people rely on the summary?

Firmament: Chapter 8 is out now! The hinterlands of Hell are abandoned. The lights of Balmoral are out. Moulin is aflame, the Hurlers are smouldering, ice melting into a new lake that already threatens to flood. Steam rises from the water where the sunlight falls. How long does any of this have?

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

when ur on a walk and there's a dog

A strong statement from @ucu.org.uk on the University of Sussex win against the OfS. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1449...

This is not the main point, but I think "absolute unit" would be a fine translation for the monstrous boar in Herodotos 1.36.2, ὑὸς χρῆμα γίνεται μέγα, "in Mysian Olympos there arose a big thing of pig"

For those in Oxford, we're also doing the Romantic Research Seminar on Tuesday May 12th (Balliol College, Massey Room, 5:30pm) The only seminar I've ever been to that gives the wine out *before* the talk, if you need extra temptation.

had a beautiful blue prince moment earlier today: i was playing on the train, going absolutely nuts over the gallery puzzle. i was getting off at the last stop: so when it was called, i turned off my steam deck to pack up, and a guy leaned over to me and said “would you like a hint?”

22 people. All paying €890 to share rooms. In a converted office. Close to a quarter a mil a year. Be great if we had laws against endangering renters lives for greed.

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listen, @failbettergames.com are *cooking* (complimentary) with mandrake. just had a blast playing the demo at LGF & cannot wait to get my paws on it again whenever it’s ready to come out into the world. utterly gorgeous setting & prose 🌿

opened this up only intending to briefly flip through… and then consumed about 7 essays back to back. excellent stuff

At this time every year I must draw your attention to the demon who appeared to have the misfortune to be standing by the door and was squished looney-tunes style when the harrowing commenced

Culturally incoherent naming. Names mean things to the people who name them. They're tied to real language and historical and mythological sources. Having characters with names like Edge next to Cynthia and La'ciere implies things about your setting that I should see in worldbuilding.

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

Woman's boned bodice, 1660s, ivory satin, trimmed with bobbin lace with parchment & coloured silk (V&A Museum, London)

failing is hot girl behaviour 🫵🏻💥

“Fullones uḷulamque cano non arma virumq(ue)” 🦉 “I sing about fullers and an owl, not about arms and a man" CIL IV, 9131, Pompeii (IX.13.5), 79 CE, a graffito near a door entrance parodying the fist line of Virgil. ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/gra...

Hwaet! The Beowulf manuscript (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV) is now back online. You can consult the entire manuscript through the online catalogue: searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

I got to colour some scenes for this and it looks so fuckin gooood ✨ and I cried during the trailer lmao

𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝟖 The Eighth International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Rathcroghan Visitor Centre 23-25 June 2026. Rathcroghan Visitor Centre is delighted to announce that it will be hosting the eighth edition of the International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales.

Just a reminder that I’ve taken to recording all my blog posts. So if you’re doing the dishes and want to listen to me recite Beowulf in rhyming couplets, well, have I got just the thing for you:

Texts about/from the Iron Age/Early Medieval North: "They feasted on venison and cattle, or hunted the swift boar" Repeated studies of actual last meals/recent diet: porridge porridge porridge

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

You shiver, and the city shivers with you.

The inkless doodles of Eadburg, an 8th-c. nun, discovered by new technology: now published by Jessica Hendy-Hodgkinson in EME doi.org/10.1111/emed... (Open access)