Tap, tap, tapping. Poets. Agony. And a girl running away, too late.

Wishing you a 2026 full of WONDER! 🧡

Wishing you a 2026 full of WONDER! 🧡

Snacks, pajamas and Mario currently underway. As is tradition!

hey hey! as promised, we're back with a new episode! here we talk with @meganlcook.bsky.social about book history (including how reading works now) and grungy, gritty "dirtbag" visions of the Middle Ages. happy listening #medievalsky! pca.st/zt66xxja

Tiddly continues her evolution into a squishmallow…

We posted 516 articles last year at Broken Frontier. Not bad for a small team of activists working around full-time day jobs to promote the form and deserving voices working within it! www.brokenfrontier.com

@ironohki.jer.art Hiya - was just going through my ThoughtBubble notes and found your email with the note “the guy who owes you 10£” so though I would check in. 😁

🌟The deadline to apply for these @newberrylibrary.bsky.social fellowships is this Saturday, January 3!🌟 www.newberry.org/research/art...

So I have been listening to Suede since like 1995 but never seen them live. Turns out they are playing a TINY venue in Zurich in March and I nearly hyperventilated buying tickets. Interrupted my bath to place to order (serious business!!).

Also we need more alt/small press/self-published comics from outside the UK submitted for review at @brokenfrontier.bsky.social PDFs are fine (and those of you who sent us stuff post-Thought Bubble may well be on the list for early 2026 coverage.) www.brokenfrontier.com/contact-us/

Merry Christmas and happy cat-wrangling! Can’t share this year’s card until they have gone out in the mail, but here’s a previous card that still feels true today!

Want to teache young people creativitye? Problem-solvinge? Teamworke? Awarenesse of the power and influence of language? Wayes of workinge thrugh the beautiful and terrifyinge and complex contradictiouns and ambiguities of thys worlde? Teache them poetrye. Teache them a lot of poetrye.

@drisaac.bsky.social Is this you just hanging out in the OED?!? SO COOOOOOL.

New diary comic: soundtrack of an average day.

New diary comic: soundtrack of an average day.

I will be there! So looking forward to this!

Got Bee to do a jam comic with me: meet Chef Pierre and his powerfully potent tears! 😂

Got Bee to do a jam comic with me: meet Chef Pierre and his powerfully potent tears! 😂

You look like you could use some cozy in your day…

Looking for a little upbeat reading with your morning coffee/tea/wheat grass/flat soda gulped right from the bottle (wait, that’s just me?!)? Check out what the Guild has been up to!

SUCH a thrill to read this! I’m so proud of the community that we have built- huge thanks to all who have joined us!!! 🥹💞💪 And huge thanks to Kristen & Eleanor for inviting me into the scheming! @hellomizk.bsky.social @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social

In our initial discussions about the Guild we thought we'd be doing well if we gathered a community of 20 medievalists in our first year. We now have over 100! None of it would have been possible without the outstanding @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @hellomizk.bsky.social (whose comics are below).

Over the moon about our glorious @guildmedmak.bsky.social ! What a first year we’ve had (and in only eight-ish months?!?)

Good moooooorning!!

I have accomplished approximately one million tiny tasks today. Hurrah!

Another super fun project I’ve contributed to this year is a French comics anthology by doctoral students who also make comics. It has been such a fun experience to contribute to the first volume and I have so many ideas for future editions! Get your copy here: fr.ulule.com/limposteur/

Another super fun project I’ve contributed to this year is a French comics anthology by doctoral students who also make comics. It has been such a fun experience to contribute to the first volume and I have so many ideas for future editions! Get your copy here: fr.ulule.com/limposteur/

New Book Day! Please tell the world. Read a comic about it here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sawyer... Or if you just want to buy it: us.macmillan.com/books/978037... Thanks everyone! It took me over a year to write, but I think you and/or your kid(s) will have many laughs together.

"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."

'What are we looking for when we pick up a “reimagined classic” or a “bold and subversive retelling” of a centuries-old tale?' Our latest Meet a Medievalist Maker post is by @sarafredman.bsky.social, author of 'Griselda is Dead, and Also Her Patience', a reimagining of Chaucer’s 'Clerk's Tale'👇

Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A great gift for your favorite doodler AND FOR YOURSELF!

@aavrilart.bsky.social Hi - any chance you can send me a quick DM? Having problems emailing!

I had a great "Making Space" session this evening, working in companionable silence with a community of cartoonists, fabric artists, printmakers, woodworkers, poets, novelists & nonfiction writers. In the midst of a busy week, towards the end of the semester, it felt great to reconnect with writing.

Kristen’s imagination blows me away once again! 😳🤩

Great “Making Space” session with @guildmedmak.bsky.social tonight! Started playing with character design for Chaucer’s Goddess Fame…

Re-upping this today, citing the concluding paragraph we wrote as I just responded to a frustrating survey about integrating GenAI into humanities education at my institution.

On Tuesday 2nd of December we are holding our final Making Space session of the calendar year! Join us 5:30-7:00pm (GMT) to work on YOUR creative-critical project, or flex your creative-critical faculties and respond to our optional theme: festivities🎊🍺🥳

FRIDAY SHOP PLUG! No Black Friday deals were used in the making of this promotional guff. matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com

New self-portrait by Bee!

Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism needs you! In the wake of our conference, we are now preparing a collective volume and seeking additional chapters to complement the proceedings. Please share widely! #medievalsky modmed.hypotheses.org/8517

Absolutely cackling over this! Perfection!!

I'm delighted to say that the recording my Historical Research lecture for @ihr.bsky.social (4 November, 2025) is now available to view online. I reflect on my own experience of writing a 'trade' book, and conclude with a manifesto for #radical #popular #history. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

New post: a little reflection on my adventures at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social last weekend! open.substack.com/pub/kristenh...

New post: a little reflection on my adventures at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social last weekend! open.substack.com/pub/kristenh...

Catherine & I had a lot of fun running this workshop on Creativity in the Classroom at the ‘Chaucer our Contemporary’ colloquium last month. Check out the blogpost for suggestions of activities from a wordhoard task to re-voicing the tales, and @hellomizk.bsky.social’s six-word adaptation comic!

'The provisionality and dynamism of play enables creative thinking and dispenses with fears of failure'. Read our new blogpost discussing the 'Creativity in the Classroom' workshop run by @drlauravarnam.bsky.social and @cathamclarke.bsky.social at the 'Chaucer our Contemporary' event 👇

Slowly going through my Thought Bubble comics. What a powerful and devastating (and beautifully painted) little book from @streakofpith.bsky.social .

Racl-acho party!! My favorite food-crime!!