i like getting paid to play music but i don't like the part where random people climb onto the stage to sit next to me and talk to me all evening and then try to add me on social media. i am literally working. would you do this to a waiter

people on bluesky LOVE to reply to your posts with apparent non-sequiturs and you're left frowning at it trying to work out what they misinterpreted that led them to think that was a relevant anecdote to provide

messing around in the Scriptorium playtest instead of working on my Bisclavret chapter. surely this counts as scholarship somehow

generally in most life situations i am not a huge fan of hierarchies but frankly i think the class i am currently in could do with a stronger teacher-student hierarchy so the other students stop completely derailing the class and i can actually learn what i'm here to learn

i feel like the difference between historians on the internet and history enthusiasts on the internet is the latter will present you with Facts They've Learned, As Facts, and the former will give you a lengthy explanation of what people for the last however many years have thought might be the case.

what if. the terrible headache that keeps tipping into migraine territory that i've had for at least two weeks and probably longer. went away wouldn't that be nice

if you were considering trains through london today... do not trains

trans healthcare is often lifesaving for more reasons than suicidality. for example, my disordered eating basically disappeared overnight after i got top surgery, because it was dysphoria the whole time (lose weight = smaller boobs = pursue indefinitely until it becomes unsafe). this is important!

i was not designed to be normal about medieval literature, i was designed to write unhinged fanfic about it and when i'm not doing that i am not Fulfilling My Destiny

Normal Greeks: “emergency exit procedure.” Me, a late antique Hellenist: “liturgy of the exodus of danger.”

a mildly irritating internet phenomenon is people who have a fairly thorough understanding of particular aspects of history but seemingly no grasp of historiography or the process through which that history has reached current understandings

i do not know how i made it through so many years of my life without an air purifier. like i know where i live now is more of a pollen hotspot than some of my past addresses and also that climate change is affecting hayfever but truly how did my immune system not just kill me

trying to tidy my house enough that i could feasibly get a cleaner in to do a deep clean for allergy purposes but of course i've done like. two surfaces and then run out of energy and also have a terrible headache and feel super dizzy. i am never getting this flat clean am i

these days i've come to the conclusion that neither gender nor sex (insofar as they are understood to be separate at all) should be regulated by law and there is no actual reason for the government to be involved in either that doesn't represent some form of discrimination or inequality

yeah I guess what I’m saying it, I wouldn’t judge a person based on their art, but I’ll absolutely judge art based on who created it

My daughter and her friend go to a Gaelic immersion primary school

one (1) local friend expressed enough interest for me to take this as encouragement so i have texted the one person i know who both plays ttrpgs and is better at irish than me (from what i can tell from brief conversations)

how dead is twitter? well, these are the default options on tumblr's "share post" button that's right. bluesky and mastodon made it on there and twitter didn't

i have zero interest in roleplaying in english but i think this would actually be a banger way to learn languages and i'm legit contemplating whether i can set up an irish-language ttrpg group in my local pub

i miss when memrise was good and i could just go learn three hundred words of vocab from my own lists and it was a fun and practical way to fidget on my phone and learn stuff at the same time. it was compelling! i learned so much!

i think pride book lists might have a better chance of not just being the same authors over and over again if people making them set themselves a quota for white american trad-pub cis authors cos like. what about everyone else. the ones without the marketing budget

i was at a session recently where someone had put their car keys on the table (to get them out of their pocket/out of the way, i guess) and this accordion player joined us, looked at the keys, and went "wow, what kind of a session is this??" AND NOBODY ELSE GOT THE JOKE

every year as a child we used to go to spring harvest (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_...) and later i went on a lot of scripture union camps (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptu...). i also attended soul survivor when i was 15 (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Su... ). these are my protestant credentials

sometimes i see people talking about what protestants do/believe and despite growing up in extremely protestant (inc. evangelical) environments i don't really recognise it at all and idk if they're misunderstanding/misrepresenting things or if american protestants are just really weird. maybe both

FINALLY TRACKED DOWN SOME LYRICS TO A FOLK SONG I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR FOR MONTHS in a chapbook from the 1840s which definitely isn't where I learned them the first time so that mystery remains but they're real! they exist! I didn't imagine it!

wrote like 1/3 of a chapter for a fic i have been procrastinating in for a year only to realise it was the wrong chapter and i still gotta write the one before it. whoops

drives me nuts when people start talking about misogyny in history or whatever using debunked or inaccurate examples. there's plenty of actual misogyny out there, you don't have to go on about how that gender-neutral word was actually all about women and that's why it became derogatory

the thing about posting about morris dancing on tumblr is you immediately discover how many of your followers and mutuals in law are Morris dancers which is a hop skip and jump from discovering how many mutual friends you have with these complete strangers which is a great way to dox yourself

The fact that you're more likely to hear Kneecap on the news than on the pop radio stations underlines their significance. If I was a softbaby songwriter and I heard a radio exec say "Kneecap are huge but we can't play them, too controversial, play Darach’s single instead" I'd be radicalised.

The apology is dignified in the context of the entire statement. Everything is directed back to their anti-genocide position and its popularity with audiences.

one of my friends started with greenwing & dart so i've been getting their reactions to stargazy pie trickle in this evening, which is delightful. also enjoying explaining the worldbuilding, which i also did NOT grasp when i first read it

one of my favourite things was when i was on holiday in wales with friends and one of them asked another what the four branches of the mabinogi were. they went "why don't you ask néide?" and first friend replied "okay but. i only want to know a *little* bit about it" FAIR TBH

i don't know what we're meant to do now

why do we even have legal genders anyway. maybe we should not have those

i appreciate content warnings in fiction but i don't like it when they start being over familiar and telling me what to do. "please take care of yourself 💚" just give me a heads-up of what's in the book and don't make assumptions about how i might respond to that, thanks

i actually wish british food was as bland as people on the internet think it is bc then it would be easier for me, a person with food allergies and sensory issues, to eat in restaurants without getting poisoned

also sidenote: i agree the "separate but equal" bullshit is shitty and unisex toilets are not an acceptable alternative to being able to use appropriate gendered toilets. as a nonbinary person who doesn't have an appropriate gendered toilets though i would still quite like unisex toilets as well

seen a few people saying that unisex toilets solve no problems and that inclusive gendered toilets are the only acceptable goal but like. they do solve *a* problem. even if it's not *that* problem. please don't forget that nonbinary people exist. we shouldn't have to pick a gender to pee, esp. now

jemis greenwing is the only character who really understands what i'm going through (hayfever)

authors on ao3 love to say "not a real fic, I'm just tidying up the livefic" and then it's 246,000 words long

when people start deciding whose lives have value based on what those people supposedly can or can't do, the response is not "but those people CAN do it!", it's "fuck you, their lives have value regardless of whether or not they can do that"

me when i haven't left the house or spoken to another person in several days and also went to bed at 3.30am and haven't been eating sensibly and am on the edge of a migraine: anyway no idea why i keep wanting to cry about nothing today. weird

you ever hear people talking about social rules/expectations in environments you've been in that never even occurred to you as a possibility and wonder if either everybody else is overthinking it OR you've been fucking it up and that's why you're not more professionally successful

as above (gave myself a monk tonsure) so below (also tonsured my pussy)

the thing about asking for feedback on your work is that sometimes you get feedback on your work yes i AM hiding from opening an email that contains feedback on my work because i'm not sure if i'm strong enough today

i want to go hang out in the woods for a bit even though the woods near me are deeply inadequate but also it's tree pollen season and the woods are trying to kill me. so you see the problem

followers of pythagoras, on the other hand, ...

Let me get this straight: the archaeological term 'henge' came from a clipping of 'Stonehenge' (rather than 'Stonehenge' coming from 'henge'), and then, after creating the term 'henge', archaeologists concluded that Stonehenge is not in fact a true henge?

had a guy over to service the boiler today and he asked what i do and i said that among other things i translate medieval irish and he was like. what on earth is medieval irish. so i showed him and then i showed him some modern irish and he was baffled but intrigued. i love a captive audience

On Monday he killed his way through one hundred people, but he was still angry. On Tuesday he killed his way through two hundred people, but he was still angry. On Wednesday—