Last chance to get your Kalamazoo book for free! Tomorrow it goes back to retail price. #kzoo2026 #medievalsky

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Hey #medievalsky , my Kalamazoo novel is pay-what-you-wish for the weekend of the conference only! Get yours now! #kzoo2026 ko-fi.com/s/f77dc35cce

Slightly increase a band: Prudish Mouse

Finally got a chance to listen to this, and have 2 comments: HARD RELATE about trying to explore Notre Dame with students on Assassin's Creed Unity while fighting off attackers in the apse, and I now I NEED to play Pentiment, which I downloaded over a year ago and haven't gotten around to

I wrote a blog post about how fun Kalamazoo is (and also promote my two novels)! #kzoo2026 #medieval tiggymclaughlin.com/2026/05/09/m...

I thoroughly enjoyed this! No more FOMOMP for me, and that's two loads of laundry folded!

In honor of Kalamazoo coming up in a week, I put the ebook of my novel about the conference up on my ko-fi shop. It's $4 (cheaper than retail), but if you wait a week I'll put it on "pay what you wish" for the weekend of the conference. ko-fi.com/s/f77dc35cce #kalamazoo2026 #medieval #kzoo2026

I'm starting to save #medieval podcast episodes I find on here to listen to later when I have time to listen to podcasts, but when will that be? I've never been a podcast listener, and my commute is negligible.

Here's a reminder from me of all that @medievalacademy.bsky.social has to offer in open-access non-AI-infiltrated Digital Medieval Studies! #MedievalSky www.themedievalacademyblog.org/maa-news-fro...

Getting excited for #kzoo2026 Or just procrastinating writing my paper. What's my age again?

#MedievalSky @archumanities.bsky.social books on sale at Kalamazoo. And 25% on everything for those shopping from home. #Kzoo2026

Where are all my women in PHLEGM at? Yes, I will be adopting this phrase henceforth and encouraging female students on this path.

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

New blog post: Meet Stephen, the main character of my forthcoming YA historical fantasy novel set in late Carolingian Francia! tiggymclaughlin.com/2026/04/25/m... #medieval #medievalsky #youngadultfiction #historicalfiction #booksky

The brilliant scholar, Prof. Averil Cameron, who died recently, now has an obituary in the Guardian, written by the excellent Dr Victoria Leonard. Very glad to see this tribute. #MedievalSky www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

Pre-orders are live! ko-fi.com/s/08bfa6868d #medieval #booksky #writingcommunity

My 3 year old thinks the past participle of "break" is "brunk," and I'm here for it. "Go home, helicopter, you're brunk."

Yf thys skeet doth receive 3,000 reposts then the Tolkien Estate will sue Palantir.

Just dusted off my Augustine and just war theory PowerPoint I haven't used since I taught college. I feel like the high school students will benefit from it this year.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

I only just learned of the passing of Professor Dame Averil Cameron, my OG lady historian role model. Of course her research was influential (I just cited her again yesterday, before I knew.) But she was so generous on Academic Twitter back in the 2010s, and I fondly remember our interactions there.

My novel has a cover! Please like and share! tiggymclaughlin.com/breaking-the... #medieval #writingcommunity

In just under 24 hours, you get to see the COVER of Breaking the Silence, my forthcoming young adult novel on magical music in late-Carolingian Trier! #medieval #booksky #writingcommunity #coverreveal

What if you were able to tune your eight-stringed cythara to the eight celestial spheres of the universe and distort time-space by playing chords? That's what Stephen, the hero of my YA novel Breaking the Silence, wonders as he copies Boethius in a Carolingian monastery. #medieval #booksky

New blog post/product review of the BYOK ("Bring Your Own Keyboard") distraction-free writing device. Enjoy! AND ALSO: 9 more days until the cover reveal of Breaking the Silence! tiggymclaughlin.com/2026/03/03/h... #writingcommunity #booksky

It's been awhile since I posted any updates about Breaking the Silence, but COVER REVEAL IN 10 DAYS!!! #booksky #medievalsky

Happy 30th Pokemon Day, to all who celebrate!

See you at Kalamazoo, #medievalsky

This is the best post I've seen like this so far. H/t @chandlerprof.bsky.social

The thing about using generative AI to do creative work is that we can't stop you but we do get to make fun of you for it and that's not colonialism that's not being a fucking tool.

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. 1. Muhammad and the Rise of Islam 2. Portraits of Jesus in the New Testament 3. Roman Imperial Biographies 4. Tolkien's Medieval Roots 5. New Testament Greek

A new blog post about my new novel draft! #writingcommunity #booksky #writersky #historicalfantasy tiggymclaughlin.com/2026/01/14/i...

Look, I have 500 followers! Am I am influencer yet?

Kalamazoo just released the schedule for this year's conference and there is SO MUCH late antique and early medieval! It's going to be lit! #medievalsky #lateantiquity #classicsbluesky #Kalamazoo2026 #kzoo2026

This week in the St Patrick Parish Flesh Chronicles, the seemingly flesh-averse musical director picks this gem for the Epiphany. Are there just not that many choices for this day? Or is it actually the pastor (who was absent) who doesn't like singing about flesh? We may never know...

In related news, my article on touching relics in Merovingian Gaul is out! Enjoy in Materially in Ancient Narrative: www.barkhuis.nl/product/mate... #medieval #medievalsky #lateantiquity #skystorians

Skipped the second verse of Hark the Herald Angels Sing at mass last night. Our parish music director is 0 for 2 with acknowledging Jesus's flesh this liturgical year...

It's kind of mind-blowing that I've been this long in the education and writing fields and didn't have a favorite pen until now. And also that this is the pen. ##writingcommunity #academicsky

The responsorial psalm at mass today, but the cantor sang, "all shall see the salvation..." I guess sixth-century Merovingians aren't the only people who are uncomfortable with flesh.

It's not often that us medievalists encounter an ACTUAL DRAGON in our work, but here is one burninating the countryside and also the city of Laon. Check it out in Bnf. Fr. 22928, fol. 210v (Miracles de Notre Dame by Gautier de Coincy). gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b... #MedievalSky

From a Princeton dean: “This is welcome news. Studying the humanities… isn’t an impractical luxury. … The humanities prepare students not just to get a job, but to keep it and excel while doing so.” 🎁

I finished my novel! First draft of Taming the Beast (sequel to Breaking the Silence - out soon!) is DONE! WorldEmber up next as I work on fleshing out the setting and magic before revisions. #writeRAWR ##writingcommunity #worldember2025

Thank you Chicago Pope!

PSA for everyone who uses the MGH and is looking for a software to handle their ginormous PDFs: PDF XChange has a free version that handles them better than Adobe Pro! #medievalists #medieval #lateantique

Need help from a medievalist: what do we do with these obscenely large PDFs from the MGH? How do you search them? How do you make them smaller? Venantius Fortunatus poems are 1000MB!! Please help! #medieval #medievalsky #lateantique

Just enjoyed scrolling the #AARSBL25 hashtag with my morning coffee, and it's giving old school academic Twitter. It may be too soon to say, but didn't we do it? Are we back?