Hate that my nightmares have become so inventive in my 30s. What’s wrong with ordinary monsters?

thank god roses aren’t toxic to floofs

If you like ums & sort-ofs, this could be the podcast for you! 🌿 (Grateful to @saronikbosu.bsky.social & @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social for this chance. I promise the core point of the book is that history can be changed: no disastrous process, however apparently total, is ever set in stone.)

NEW EPISODE: ACTION WITHOUT HOPE NATHAN K. HENSLEY (@nathankhensley.bsky.social) reveals the prehistory of the contemporary feeling of powerlessness while inhabiting a world omnivorously captured by capital. hightheory.net/2025/03/17/a... @uchicagopress.bsky.social #BookSky #PodSky #AcademicSky

Where I’m at in life is buying (with overnight shipping) electric snot suckers for one sick cat

No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.

SNL last night went and did an Orientalism from the 19th century: equating the worship of Kali with Satanism

I recently got the chance to talk to Kim Adams, from @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social, to talk about the history of alcohol and my book "The Hour of Absinthe". The episode is now out: hightheory.net/2025/03/03/a... #DrinkingStudies #Colonialism #History #NorthAfrica 🗃️🍸

NEW EPISODE: ALCOHOL NINA STUDER (@drninastuder.bsky.social) tells us what discourses surrounding alcohol reveal about a society in a historical moment, like colonial North Africa. hightheory.net/2025/03/03/a... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social #booksky #podsky #alcoholsky #historysky #academicsky

I’m craving something at the intersection of Trollope and Barbara Pym, with a dash of E F Benson What should I read?

Can’t wait!

One of my favorite American experiences was that we went to the Big E and went to a store to have soft serve. The owner asked would you like to meet Misty, the cow whose milk made that soft serve? We said yes and went around to the back of the tent and there was Misty chewing hay in all her glory.

the Oscars are today!! awards culture is very silly, but it’s a great occasion to think and write about film, which is exactly why we ran our Oscars series at Mid Theory! read members of the Mid Theory Collective on some of the nominated films here: mid-theory.com/category/cha...

If you see this, post a horse. (Recently taught José Martí and his iconography, and the horse from the Central Park equestrian statue by Anna Hyatt Huntington a top horse)

Affect theory has taught me how to decode different types of meows

Loved this conversation and feel inspired to try to read poetry every day 🌹

NEW EPISODE: POETRY RYAN RUBY (@ryanruby.bsky.social) argues that this indefinable thing humans have been doing well nigh forever is better understood as a medium than a form. hightheory.net/2025/02/20/p... @sevenstories.bsky.social #booksky #academicsky #podsky #poetrysky #books #podcasts

One month into the new semester, based on sample size of 91, I'll tell you what works (even if for the duration of a single class session) in the face of fatigue and enshittification all around - looking at art with your students, that basic-ass humanist activity still delivers

NEW EPISODE: FAILED PASSING IAN FLEISHMAN (@ianfleishman.bsky.social), talking about his new book Flamboyant Fictions, reimagines free will in queer literature and film. hightheory.net/2025/02/12/f... @nupress.bsky.social #BookSky #AcademicSky #FilmSky #MovieSky #QueerLiterature #QueerTheory

NEW EPISODE: CHANDIGARH VIKRAMADITYA PRAKASH talks about the #modernist and #brutalist #architect #LeCorbusier, the city #Chandigarh, emblematic of the #postcolonial Indian state. hightheory.net/2025/02/04/c... #AcademicSky #BookSky #ArchitectureSky #Modernism #Brutalism #midcentury #modernart

Will you comment or quote with your favorite illustrators/artists who create immersive worlds? Reality isn’t doing it for me these days.

Before and after ‘Are you a baby?” Note that he didn’t answer directly, he’s thinking about it

the outré factor of A24 is getting visibly standardized

Reddit is where sanity is right now

After years of whining about the loss of my reading stamina, dare I say that it seems to be back? Completed by this day in January ⬇️

hanging on to scraps of good news

For all the new followers interested in art and art history, I'd highly recommend the Bluesky for Art History starter pack created by @joshuajfriedman.com go.bsky.app/NKHmh87

Writing a letter of recommendation for law school, what should I focus on?

INTRODUCING: MTC Oscars series! Just in time for Oscar nominations this coming Thursday. For the month of February, we'll run an ongoing series (with work from almost 30 writers) of essays, reviews, blurbs, & conversations about a whole range of Oscar frontrunners and hopefuls.

My book DARK LAB is out today!! And I’m featured in the @nytimes.com book review!!

Quite proud of this salmon curry

Very generative questions from @oliviastowell.bsky.social. I really appreciate being featured in this exciting new publication (@mid-theory.bsky.social) which everybody should check out!

Add sleuthing and you have one of my top absolute favorite mystery genres

He reserves this expression for the times when he’s communing with the shoes of the household

Yes I do have a packed to-do list but instead of doing anything on that, here I am at a cafe reading Cold Comfort Farm for the first time, and chuckling loudly enough to startle a nearby puppy

Wayne Thiebaud, Dog, 1966 www.kemperart.org/collection/dog

There is so much need, but if you could spare anything for my sons' school it'd be greatly appreciated. Odyssey is a small, parent-founded, non-profit charter whose teachers and teaching philosophy really changed my oldest child's (T, 5th grade) educational life gofund.me/7cbf0c29

Friends! If you are looking for local groups to support, my friend and former student is working with NDLON, heroic work described below, + you can donate to them or I can give you her Venmo directly. I got a pic of a car full of baby formula going where it was needed yesterday ❤️❤️‍🩹

I continue to fundraise for my #Altadena neighbor Miss Christine Robinson. Miss Christine is 70 & undergoing cancer treatment for lymphoma. She's a dear friend who welcomed us to Altadena when we moved there & has lived there since 1971. Any amount helps. www.gofundme.com/f/2becc7-hel...

Sculpture and installation by American artist Portia Munson, 1990s-2020s, whose work explores environmentalist and feminist themes through masses of consumer objects.

A friend who grew up in Australia, and I (who grew up in India) are always surprised (unfairly of course) that folks are unfamiliar with British cultural texts that were the bedrock of our childhoods. What do you mean you don’t know Enid Blyton?

Haven’t read this one. But the memories of spending all day in bed with giant DK books are suddenly overwhelming.

We are dead gods for a time already collapsed Not even our dreams were saved Only the shadow has remained #portfolioday

The best thing that has happened for me in my 30s is a deep appreciation for sleep, which I detested throughout my 20s

Hi #PortfolioDay I'm Mike, a freelance illustrator with a big focus on expressive figures, mood and fantasy. I've worked for a number for TTRPGs, recently D&D, really hoping to work for MTG

Hi 😊 happy #PortfolioDay 🥳 I Camille and I make small squares with color, Enjoy

Hi hello and happy #portfolioday ! I'm Marco Bernardini, a freelancer cartographer and illustrator from Italy who LOVES detail and colorful maps you want to move and live into! My clients are WotC, Critical Role, Darrington Press, KB Presents and many other!

Hey, #PortfolioDay ! I'm Azur! I draw gothic fantasy and book covers 🖤 ◇ More examples and links below.

It's #portfolioday again! Hi! My name's Edouard, I'm a concept artist who's been working in games for more than a decade. I specialize in environment concept art, which I currently do at Crytek (Hunt Showdown). Previously worked on Assassin's Creed, Syberia and more. linktr.ee/ednoisette