Reading @chanda.blacksky.app ‘s The Disordered Cosmos, and struck by the vast difference between how complicated the real universe is and how neatly current Fantasy worldbuilding makes things fit together. Where is my chaos folks? My opportunity to not understand?

I just read the sentence “biblical masculinity is cultural gluten” and I cannot bear the resulting feelings alone so you all have to read it too

2026 Ceræ Call For Papers We are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 13 of Ceræ, as well as for our 3rd annual online Conference, is Fame and Fortune. We invite submissions to both the conference and the journal on this theme. Fame and fortune are slippery things. They can be welcome or…

I need some help book folk, for an article. Can anyone give me any recent successful urban fantasy books, kinda in the vein of Rivers of London? BONUS points if queer.

Did an ant write this?

Foxtel subtitles came up with lyrics for the Australian national anthem that really fit today’s play in #TheAshes

Please boost! @Jed Hartman, Melanie Fishbane, Emily Tesh and Farah Mendlesohn talk about the fantastic, weird, controversial and now 50 year old! The Female Man. Free online, December 30th. Tickets at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549... or at facebook: fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh

Wine on my flight severely over promised

New colleague in the home office

On tomorrow's episode of 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on @3crmelbourne.bsky.social, @sexenheimer.bsky.social & I talk to @heyouonline.bsky.social re medievalism, the far right & more. 4.30pm, Thurs, NOV 20 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio+ app, podcats 🐈 slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=53765

#ChildrensLit #UK I know what I will be writing over the next decade, and I have full book cases, so I am purging the children's fiction lit crit. If you are interested in any book on this list, DM. Price: £5 per book + £2 p&p. First come, first served. Pls Share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Building Lego Barad-dur but there’s a hidden design for “the 3 rings given the Elves” and I’m not sure I can finish it.

Gonna call my new social media platform this

Looking for any scholarly stuff on the demographic composition of contemporary Australian extreme right. Like gender, age, class, geography, etc

And we need to wrestle with what this means for how American politics works. Because the 2024 election of Trump shows what happens when emotions are directly tapped and manipulated by a politician. Until we wrestle with the presence of fandom in politics, we cannot address the structural features

Would quite like to be wrong about the implications of my latest publication onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/IEJAIY...

Indiana Jones and the training module on the new portal for claiming travel reimbursement that monitors compliance with the updated policy on spending internal research funds

Some brilliant Cammeraygal High students have become the first Australian public school robotics team to qualify for the FIRST tech challenge European Premier Event in the Netherlands. But…they don’t have the money to get over there. You can help by donating here. www.gofundme.com/f/nsw-public...

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

People need to stop trying to make me learn things from videos. I’m from the 1900s ffs

#mobsky Opportunity for First Nations reviewers and litetary scholars: the second Rosemary van den Berg prize for literary criticism by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writer/scholar. People can nominate you, or you can self nominate. Details > www.asal.org.au/awards/rosem...

Put this on your fucking Hugo ballots or be dead to me tbh

Artshub article about AI music and far right hate www.artshub.com.au/news/feature... with comment from me, @heyouonline.bsky.social @liamgillespie.bsky.social

Happy NYE from a house with this view but also spiders so intense there’s a huntsman living in the fridge

Well that was a nice 45 minutes today when I thought I was on top of my deadlines. Never answer your phone or read your email people. Take it from me, that’s always a mistake

Me: I need deadlines to be productive. Also me: No! Not this week!! Repeat until death.

I wrote a thing and now it’s published

Receptionistas! Will you be in Naarm/Melbourne next month for a work-in-progress/networking event and a book launch? GREAT NEWS, even if you're not, you can still join: it's hybrid! (The venue is also COVID-safe-ish: for the indoor part, ventilation awesome, masks encouraged: launch is outdoors.)

Please share - I’ve got a great postdoc project I’d love to undertake, on the role of hymns in the British Atlantic world of C17 and 18, specifically in contexts of mission, colonialism, slavery, and abolition. I’m looking for a prospective supervisor/institution - thanks

Me making the most of all the balls I’ve dropped this year (photo credit Creativimage)

Job in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Literary Studies. Come and work with me and excellent colleagues docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I’ve signed. Maybe you want to as well. @anzamems.bsky.social RT please

Job in Creative Writing and Literary Studies! Come and work with me and excellent colleagues careers.deakin.edu.au/cw/en/job/54...

Current mood

The Medieval and Early Modern studies program at ACU & partners at Melbourne & Monash Uni are delighted to invite you to a lecture by Prof Miri Rubin: 'Black/Beautiful: Song of Songs 1:5, and the Historical Question of Blackness' Nov 1, in person, RSVP essential - details below!

PhD scholarship (plus fee waiver and health cover for international students) for a creative writing project on global medievalism and popular fiction. Study with me! www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...

Revised CFP, extended deadline for our 2024 conference. Want to join us in NZ? We're welcoming paper and panel proposals on all aspects of medieval and early modern studies, including medievalism. Get your submissions in by 15 October anzamems.org?p=12384

"ai is making it so everyone can make art" everyone can make art dumbass it came free with your fucking humanity

Hahaha. Die mad losers

Medievalists’ child. Book randomly supplied by Grandma - not an heirloom as such.

The Boo makes her inaugural appearance her to protest the child that stole her spot on my lap

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ANZAMEMS stands in solidarity with all staff at ACU and urgently calls on its executive and senate to rescind their plans to cut 32 academic jobs and disestablish humanities programs including the world-leading centre for medieval and early modern studies. Public statement below.

We're here. Let the revelry commence.

I’m going to say it out loud here where I don’t have many followers: I’m genuinely excited for season 2 of Rings of Power