Got my JLPT exam on Sunday. I have reached the point where I'm just watching Ghibli movies because my brain is full 🇯🇵

THREAD. A Deconstruction Of Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales Books, 1964-74. You will find the analysis of these beloved books in the alt text below. 1. The Gingerbread Boy.

Ernie, the happiest cat in the world

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INCIDENTALLY you should know THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is currently ranked #700 for 'Mystery and Thriller' at Libro and I *know* we can get that up to 666

My most-used words in 2025 were, to nobody's great surprise:

I, for one, am not having anything to do with charities and organisations that claim to be serving girls and/or women but exclude trans women.

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

Ernie, the happiest cat in the world

I'm looking for participants for my master's study about transmasc/trans men fans of manga and anime! Please fill out my 10-minute survey: form.jotform.com/253308772919... #transmasc #t4t #ftm #nonbinary #transresearch #transsurvey #nonbinarysurvey #transresearchbytransrsearchers

The thing I find so baffling about AI and its boosters is how many people find thinking to be a burden.

This weekend's Romancing the Gothic 'blast from the past' is this video from last year by yours truly! 'Interminable Realms of Space': Cosmic Voyages and Demonic Theo-Aesthetics in Byron's 'Cain' youtu.be/f8GJzKqVNsg

This is where Ernie slept last night

I feel like actually access to knowledge and learning is a universal good which shouldn't be available only to the rich, to the 'time rich', to the 'clever', or to the 'hard-working'. It should literally be available to everyone to engage with, for enrichment, for knowledge, for a better world.

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Just out of interest... what have people gone on to do inspired by a Romancing the Gothic class or event? I know people have done podcast episodes, started research projects, gone to do courses, written short stories and books, written blogs, read a frankly ridiculous amount... I'd love to know!

Yeah, those blue velvet trousers have got to go. He cannot be trusted in them 🙈

Minor Threat A fantastic, great band with a far too quick ending. Minor Threat - (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #straightedge #minorthreat #history #punkrockhistory

If you're in and around Manchester today, come say hello and buy some books and badges from us as you browse the market! #BookSky #Manchester

taemin once again proving why he's the idol of idols 🙏🏻🔥

Ok but why do they look like they were never in the same room together??

It was 1988, I was 16, a British kid in the US. I ended up being friends with the weird kids (surprise!), and one of them dubbed me a copy of Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables. I didn't yet understand the language of punk, but I knew it was important 🔥

AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!

Judgemental Eric is judgemental

If you're interested in folklore, Romancing the Gothic has talks on folklore in lots of countries: from Scotland, Ireland and England to Appalachia, Hawaii, Pakistan, India and more! Check out our playlist www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8nz...

If you missed this week's Romancing the Gothic talk, you can catch it here. It was an absolutely fantastic exploration. Highly recommended. youtu.be/bgmV4Sz1AC8

Yippee! Top 50! It can't be any sodding worse than 2025, which, with a small number of exceptions, was an absolute shitshow 🤯

Just Taeminning the feed up a bit

Released 33 years ago Rage Against the Machine: Killing In The Name Live at Pinkpop 1993 #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #RATM #crossover #history #punkrockhistory

Did anyone enjoy the stories I wrote for the AScareADay challenge in October? If so I rewrote the 4-part necromancy one a bit, and it's now a Ko-Fi exclusive short story. #QueerAdultSFF #Fantasy #BookSky 🌈📚💙 ko-fi.com/s/095ae061d6

24hrs left for this sale!! Get the eBook at £1.99 until Sunday night, 23/Nov (UK time). Then it goes back to £4.99. Audiobook is £6.99, on Ko-Fi only. 🌈📚💙

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I just know that some of my best pals and I would have had an amazing time had we lived together in a Medieval monastery: singing Dies Irae, translating philosophers, preparing illuminated manuscripts, growing a herb garden, reading about demons.

happy mens day to dudes

Tried to get this published but no luck, so might as well ‘publish’ it here so it’s not a complete waste! ➡️ Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow #asylum #Mahmood #history #humanrights

Eric at 6.30am today when I switched on the light

The five genres are Dracula, Frankenstein, Godzilla, Cat, Human

🌍 42.5m refugees Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. 🇬🇧 548k refugees = 0.78% of the UK population. It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us. My letter to my MP. #asylum #Mahmood 🧵

forever obsessed with this version of 'heaven'

get to know ur mutuals! list 10 random things you like 💕 ♡ cats ♡ reading horror/sci-fi/queer ♡ Japanese (the language) ♡ Taemin ♡ not having to get up early ♡ massive cups of tea ♡ Korean zombies ♡ kitchen disco 🪩 ♡ sore muscles from lifting ♡ time alone

This week's Romancing the Gothic's blast from the past is from the distant realm of 2023! We were joined by Javaria Farroqi for a talk on Jinns, Muhabbat & Mithai: Code-Switching for Horror in Ayesha Muzaffar's work youtu.be/FNmX4I8Fk_g

In the middle of an unassuming new-build housing estate in Prestonpans, just outside Edinburgh, you can find this imposing statue. The work of Andy Scott’s, who also designed the Kelpies, it is a memorial to the 81 men and women who, throughout the 17thC, were executed in the town for witchcraft.

"Completely absurd, violent and absolutely wonderful. Perfectly blending eldritch horror with family drama that's both tender and hilarious." - Hester Steel, author of The Faceless Thing We Adore Queer horror with tentacles, bad men, angry girls. #Horror #BookSky 🌈📚😱 buy.bookfunnel.com/kwqd6x2s9w

Universal basic income Allow people to be creative and take risks doing things they love, rather than spending every hour working (multiple) jobs just to make ends meet So what if some people will choose not to work? Nowt wrong with that, just like there's nowt wrong with working cos you love it

When people say that Wuthering Heights doesn't have anything to do with race or that no film has engaged with race, what they mean is that for them Romani people do not count and they also haven't been paying attention. I'm going to share a little material from a recent talk. Content note: racism 1/

Watching old mummy movies with Ernie. He particularly likes the more murdery ones