Be there or be square! It free. It online. It October 18. Maybe come hang out with us in the @podcast.athrabeth.com discord where we usually get a little nuts during Tolkien events 🐢

Great podcast episode in which @gingerprof.bsky.social discuss one of my favorite Tolkien characters, Lúthien Tinúviel: open.spotify.com/episode/4BgH...

In which @tolkienpop.substack.com kindly let me ramble about how feminism and disability theory impact my work on Tolkien (and my outlook on life!)

The Committee for the First Amendment first launched in the 1940s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee accused Hollywood actors, directors and writers of being communists or sympathizers.

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

If you’re working on any area of fantasy and the fantastic, come and join us at Glasgow in June 2026 and do consider presenting or running a workshop! All the info you need and the full CFP is here: fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20... @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social

12/10 would kinslay for this little guy

Pray for me as the dodgers enter the postseason and the games start at 9pm ET 🙏🏻⚾️💙

An abundance of mushrooms on my walk today. Very hobbity 🍄🍄‍🟫🍄🍄‍🟫

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Just gonna drop this banger from Sam Lee here then: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGnf...

I’m sure I was the only one who loved Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur and I’ll always be sad we didn’t get a second one/get to see his take on Guinevere.

HANG IN THERE! 화이팅! #art|#kpdh

@stranger010.bsky.social our time approaches…

Let me think. What were we talking about before we were interrupted? Oh, right, the Epstein files. I knew there was something.

Look at these little hats I made for my niece and nephew!! My nephew is very into Peter Pan right now and this is my attempt to win favorite aunt award after my SIL’s sister hand-sewed my nephew and niece little backpacks with baseball and strawberry themes respectively 🫠

@lore.house casually introducing me to the most powerful performance of the most significant song from one of the most important English language operas 😂😭

Wow 😍

Honestly outraged I cannot find tiny pink cowboy boots for less than $100

@jude.athrabeth.com reveals the original unpublished ending of the Athrabeth!!

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

Tylenol is the only over-the-counter pain reliever I take because the others (ibuprofen, for example) are too hard on the digestive system for people with autoimmune diseases. Likewise for pregnancies and other conditions. Tylenol is the only safe pain reliever for many types of people.

This is the most anti-science thing I have watched today. What is most shocking about this is all of these statements are being made without any scientific evidence to back it up. There are very few safe options to treat pain and fever in pregnancy so this is also an attack on women's health.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue Wave Maine, 1926 #WomensArt

Exploring cultural history at the Country Music Hall of Fame

Late notice but I’ve got 24 hours in Nashville for work so I’d appreciate any recommendations! Mostly for coffee shops ☕️ but really anything! (I do not love country music…)

Today is #HobbitDay because both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were born on September 22nd. Normally we'd shire a hobbit pun or two but it might just feel like a tolkien gesture and we don't want to embarrass our elves. Anyway come and boromir #Tolkien books.

I miss Joann’s every day 🧶🧵🪡

A morning birding 🦆🦅🦜

Tolkien’s A Secret Vice, his “manifesto” on invented languages edited from his manuscripts by me and @ashiggins.bsky.social, has now been released by HarperCollins as a Tolkien “signature” edition. Amazing to see my name on a book cover alongside Tolkien’s authorised signature!

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

US photographer Lynn Goldsmith, portrait of her friend and muse Patti Smith, 1977 #WomensArt

Things are rough rn so bought myself a little treat (because nothing comforts like horny misogynistic poems from my favorite historic era)

The US Justice Department appears to have removed from its website a study into political violence in America by the National Institute of Justice, the Justice Department’s research agency, which concluded that far-right extremism outpaced “all other types of domestic violent extremism”.

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

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It important to me that people think I’m smart. But it is more important to me that people think I’m funny.

Keep pressuring!

Richard the Lionheart : Prince John :: Finrod Felagund : Orodreth In this essay I will

Envisioning Lúthien and her pair of sign like

Judith Butler on UC-Berkeley's delivery of 160 names to the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.

Someone is truly living her best retired life 😂 (do you like The Beatles? Lord of the Rings? Then do I have the class for you…) politics-prose.com/list/online-...

The impact of The Silmarillion on our understanding of Tolkien’s legendarium is immense. And it was just the beginning! Forever grateful that Christopher Tolkien did so much work to publish his father’s writings 🙏🏻

Lo siento para mi mal español pero necesito la práctica…

Es muy importante para estudiar…

Co-watching the Tolkien movie with @mercuryreads.bsky.social and reminded of just how perfect the first part of this movie is with the younger boys. Great acting from the younger cast, excellent chemistry, and the kind of brash tom foolery I expect from boys that age 😂🥺

How I feel every time I have to read a romance/romcom (is there a difference these days?) for my book club

Seeing goldfinches in the neighborhood is always a small delight 🦜

I am not easily impressed by books. But this book had me sat

Mi clase de español comienza mañana por la noche y no estudié 😣