My summer holiday except I apparently exclusively take photos of Things That Are Blue

In relation to Heathcliff's race 'no need to be accurate... it's just a book' Just say you are yet another bunch of cowards who don't want to deal with the histories, legacies and realities of anti-Roma racism. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

Our final paper of the Fairy Tales and Magical Creatures panel at #VPFAExtremes is Cecelia Rose, presenting 'A Fishy Tail: Edward Burne-Jones’s The Depths of the Sea (1886)'

On one of our final panels at #VPFAExtremes today – Fairy Tales and Magical Creatures – Silvia Storti is getting us started with '"Proof of Thought and Depth of Feeling": Gender, Power and Empire in Anne Thackeray’s Fairy Tales'

And our final paper of the Science and Imagination 2 panel at #VPFAExtremes today is Eva Chen, with 'The Lady Doctor and the Witch: Women Medical Missionaries in Peace with Honour and The Naulahka'

Our next speaker in the Science and Imagination panel at #VPFAExtremes is Bridget Morgan, with her paper 'The Rejuvenated Spinster: An Alternative Narrative of Ageing in Marie Corelli’s The Young Diana: An Experiment of the Future (1918)'

On one of the first panels (Science and the Imagination 2) of the final day here at #VPFAExtremes, Alphia Karaseva is talking about ‘Machines Ascendant, Humanity Submerged: Victorian Dystopian Visions of Artificial Intelligence’

Our first keynote here at #VPFAExtremes is Jimmy Packham with ‘Swimming with Snarks: Submarine Gothic and the Monstrous Deep’, examining the emergence and development of what might be termed a ‘submarine gothic’

Finally in the ‘Depths of the Sea’ panel at #VPFAExtremes, Francesca Crisante with her paper ‘In the Whirlpool of an Archaic Curse: The Doom of the Griffiths, by Elizabeth Gaskell’

Second in the ‘Depths of the Sea’ panel at #VPFAExtremes is Eptisum Laskar with ‘Drowning in the Uncanny: Submersion, Psychological Horror and the Abyssal Gothic in Margaret Oliphant’s A Beleaguered City’

Starting the day at #VPFAExtremes with the ‘Depths of the Sea’ panel, and Joanne Knowles’ paper on ‘Improvers, Destroyers and Extremes at the Victorian Seaside’

I graduated this week with a first class BA in English!! Immeasurably grateful for a wonderful three years at Birmingham, and everyone who made this possible

Now on 'A sea(l) maid sings: the role of the selkie's voice in the erosion of land/sea boundaries' by Jamie Gorrod ....'song to the seals' 1930 of note, language as duality, bridging divide between land and sea, and human and seal. #unquietshores

I may not want to think about vampires again for at least a month, but IT’S IN!!!

Birmingham stands AGAINST transphobia. Today and always. 1/

Happy Earth Day 🌎🐻‍❄️💙

Man who is really normal about a character who appears in two chapters of Moby-Dick: no I mean it’s just a quote I don’t even really care about it that much yk.