I’ve seen enough. I am now fully prepared for Guillermo del Toro’s Middlemarch adaptation.

Miss Piggy is still the leading choice for Rosamond. No other Muppet actors appear.

Now now. This could descend into ribaldry and get us into a public spat, and we left all that behind on twitter. (Will Self?)

Great quote on Del Toro’s Mexican Frankenstein from this interview: www.gq.com/story/oscar-...

I refuse to discard one. They spent their lives being squashed into taking up less space and I have room. I'll take both and ditch some enormous male literary ego *picks name almost at random*

guillermo del toro's movies r all primarily cute and sort of sad/melancholy. like. people r always trying to call him stuff like "master of horror" but it's not true. he's master of cute monsters. cutie sympathetic little guys.

For #MosaicMonday a charming duck. Found in Trier, dating 4th century AD 📷 me On display at Museum am Dom, Trier 🏺 #archaeology

The answer is Austen cos Austen could write a novel about an unhinged creator playing god with her creation’s lives (Emma) whereas Shelley could not write Pride & Prejudice (I mean, Lodore? Falkner?)

This is it - the tweet that broke me! 🤯😢💀

I love owls and I love owl pictures. This one is an inhabitant of the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, painted by Moses Haughton (the Elder) around 1780 or 90. Isn't she adorable? #OwlMonday #OwlPainting #art #18thCentury

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

Teaching Wollstonecraft is truly wild right now

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Meet my newest creation: Jasper the Festive Moth of Doom! I designed, hand-sewed, and hand-embroidered him. Jasper fervently believes that just because he's a moth of doom doesn't mean that he can't also be a fun and celebratory fellow. www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

🎧 Did you catch our special anniversary broadcast on BBC Radio 4? Sharing stories from the BBC archive and beyond, ‘Jodrell Bank at 80’ is a fascinating look at our site’s heritage and legacy! Listen: https://ow.ly/6a6I50XonAO #JodrellBank

Ok ok Northanger Abbey is a masterpiece. I have abandoned my previous condescension towards this novel. I was a sad little shatter-brained creature before but now I have had a change of feelings and spirits and am in perfect felicity.

Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept

The BBC is the latest part of ‘the public realm’ to feel the wrath of the right. The playbook is wearyingly similar. Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2

i must say, the whole “frankenstein is actually the dr”/“no he was actually an undergrad” thing is very relatable to me as an undergraduate who spends all my time cosplaying as an academic and then having to tell people i’m actually 20 and degree-less

"This country’s taste for self-harm seemed to reach its zenith with the Brexit referendum, but maybe not." A good wrap up by @pollytoynbee.bsky.social 👇

* Radio 3 Late Junction back to two hours, three times a week, starting at 11pm. * New prime time series in which Matt Berry and Tom Baker visit a different pub each week, and it’s just two hours of them talking about whatever they want.

My vision as BBC Director General: * More Jonathan Meades documentaries. * 70% less soundtrack on Doctor Who; remaining soundtrack to be experimental electronica. * Newsnight Review is back (without Pearson, obviously). * Events on BBC game shows no longer reported as news. * No Chris Mason.

Apparently, the problem with the Panorama edit is that it connected Trump's statement of walking to the Capitol with a incitement to fight made an hour later. I can see how that would be misleading, if Trump hadn't referred to walking to the Capitol only 35 seconds *after* talking about fighting.

I’m surprised Davie has resigned over that Panorama edit (seems like a bit of a nothingburger to me) but I’m glad he’s gone. On his watch the BBC simply gave up the ghost on factual documentary TV, and decided the best way to serve its audience was to patronise it. 1/2

Tips for the next DG: 1 - Don't stake your future on impartiality. Perfect impartiality is impossible. Focus on accuracy and accountability. Let journalists and producers do their job. If they get it badly wrong, sack them. 2 - Reverse the deliberate, prolonged cut to arts programming.

#ReasonsToSupportTheBBC The BBC makes radio like Unclassified - unclassifiable music presented with grace and expertise by the ever-listenable-to Elizabeth Alker

Regardless of how you feel about the new Frankenstein adaptation, I think we can all agree it is a rousing success at producing meme-content, and, in that alone, is well worth existing.

I want Oscar Isaac to play a different version of the Victor Frankenstein character every three years for the rest of his life

*me, trying to get the school to pay for food and drinks at events

Creature schmeature - if you’re an academic, I gleefully inform you Victor Frankenstein is One of Us 🖤

Very pleased to have been elected a Fellow of the Finnish Historical Society from today! /// Suuri kiitos Suomen Historialliselle Seuralle kutsusta tutkijajäseneksi!

This is a great piece on a great film 🖤

There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate

Obviously, it’s been a tough day for the BBC. Big organisations, working under big pressure, will sadly make errors But I still feel huge pride in hosting a BBC podcast, and having previously spent 11 years making a world-renowned children’s show that no other broadcaster would have made

My cozy fantasy novel inspired by my love (and fear…) of Scotland’s mountains, misadventures in academia, and time spent adventuring in Dungeons and Dragons, will be out next July!!

CFP: Fantasy’s Present Pasts The inaugural European Conference on the Fantastic 23–25 June 2026 @uofglasgow.bsky.social Proposals invited for papers on how speculative genres engage with the interplay of past & present. Deadline 12 December #litcrit #fantasy fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/20...

Predator: Badlands is a super fun, super pulpy, super cute sci fi / 12A horror about hunting for your found family of a chirpy android and a hard shelled monkey creature with fun stuff about ecology and doubling and repetition and maybe the slightest whiff of Freudian psychosexuality 🖤

It was a fantastic 3 days in Liverpool at the conference, ‘Terraqueous Globe: Land & Sea in the Age of Sterne’. Well done to the organizers and contributors! I gave a keynote on transatlantic material Marias, with unintended shopping consequences 👇🏻

Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply. Link below. Please share :)

Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%. policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...

500 badges, programs, folders all set— whoa @navsa2025.bsky.social

This November is just too warm. We've reached that time when scarves and gloves should be in order, and I'm regularly going out in a jumper. All I know is that compassion and grace will never be a poor or inappropriate response to what we face.

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #Contemporary #Canadian #MarcelDzama Marcel Dzama (b. 1974) BATS, ca. 2000 (?) Plate, porcelain

“neither particular nor universal, the example is a singular object that presents itself as such” (agamben); i.e. it's a secret third thing

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

In ‘Female Gothic’, Ellen Moers argues Frankenstein represents a specifically young woman’s gothic by grappling with ‘the horror of the afterbirth’ in a ‘phantasmagoria of the nursery’-antagonistic & forbidden feelings btwn creator & creation turn the patriarchal family into a gory nightmare! 1/5

Great cartoon on the weirdness, aggression, and desperation of the AI grift!

Striking crockery from 2007 commemorating the abolition of the slave trade with an anti-abolitionist vomiting onto a plate painted on paint and a jug below with a portrait of a black man