Wisdom from @bibliowingate.bsky.social: “The world is weird tonight; therefore, no.”

Let the games begin!

Happy first day of #RSA2026! @ehxlibris.bsky.social, @undomielise.bsky.social, and Tamara Mahadin, and I have made a new bingo card! Your prize is early modern bragging rights.

Instead of saying “stay in your lane,” try

Sharing on behalf of my colleagues. gofund.me/b6af0bb2b

It’s so cool to see early examples of superstitions and old wives’ tales that still get passed down. See in particular “Of the ominous appearing of owles and ravens,” “Of the falling of salt,” and “Of the cheeks burning, or ear tingling.” Ohio State Spec Coll SPEC.RARE.MS.ENG.0007

Between me, @ehxlibris.bsky.social, and @undomielise.bsky.social, we have created our own #RSA2025 and #Shax2025 bingo after discussing it during dinner. Download and enjoy! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It took me forever, but I finally finished this manuscript-inspired knitted cowl and while it’s not perfect it was an excellent Learning Experience.

It’s so good to be back in the reading room. So much going on in this one annotation!

heh

Really excited to share that I have an article about 1990s zine distribution & learning about zine distros through the catalogs they produced in the new issue of The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America! You can check it out here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

ABD!

Less than 60 days until my candidacy exams! [Translation: please send help/advice/funny memes]

Studying for comps means integrating the English Renaissance into EVERY aspect of my life 🫠

I’ve been enjoying documenting the sights of southern VA

Absolutely nothing beats the absolute rush of unpacking the university library book you feared you accidentally sold to half-price books. Obviously the lesson I took away from this is do not get rid of the books, ever, for any reason; in fact, keep all of the books, forever.

Calling any pottery/ceramic conservation folks: my mom inherited some of her great-grandmother’s china, and the sugar bowl is really discolored. She found a website suggesting soaking it in hydrogen peroxide, but I told her to wait to get a second opinion. Thoughts on how to proceed?

I unexpectedly lost my best girl last night and I am absolutely heartbroken.

T-shirts coming soon??

There was another woman in sweatpants at Half Price Books on a Saturday night and we studiously avoided eye contact and I feel like we would be friends if we weren’t both the kind of people who go to Half Price Books in sweatpants on a Saturday night.

I’ve been doing this long enough to know what I’m looking at but every once in awhile I’m still like wait he did what now

How are you feeling this Monday afternoon? Tag yourself, I’m Matthias Hunniades Ohio State RBML, CT93 F86 v2

Shout out to my cat who takes lazy Saturdays v seriously and makes sure that if I get up for anything I also remember to come back for more snuggles.

If you’re new to the ‘Sky and looking for book folks to follow (or are a book folk yourself!), check out the likes and replies here 📜

Competition time! To celebrate the drawing in of Autumn days, I'm giving away a signed edition of Reynard the Fox, a copy of the Fox for All Seasons journal, complete with map endpapers, and a charming & very fluffy fox companion! Simply like, retweet & follow to enter!

Scenes from class prep this week: