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Rhiannon Grant

@rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social

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I research, write, and teach about the Quaker tradition. I also write fiction (mainly sapphic romance novels set in prehistory) and poetry. She/her.

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Rhiannon Grant @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social · Nov 21

There are several versions of this going round, and this is something I'd considered posting anyway (sometimes I've made a pinned thread or similar which covers it). So let's play this evening: one like, one piece of my writing. Could be nonfiction, academic, fiction, poetry.

A black and a white text which reads 'Get to know my writing. For every like, I will post one piece I wrote' followed by a heart shape. The words 'writing' and 'piece I wrote' are white text on black stickers, unlike the rest, because the image has been edited from a previous version with different key words.

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Rhiannon Grant @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social · 20h

You don't have to do anything. Just your presence is a contribution to the community.

(Easier said than believed, I'm aware, and communities which would agree with the theory sometimes struggle to act accordingly, but I think this is true nevertheless.)

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Stephen Cox But Spookier @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 1d

I see we have a likeable populist attacking the elites and addressing popular concerns, and his party is soaring in the polls, so we'll see a lot more of @zackpolanski.bsky.social on the BBC et al, won't we?

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Rhiannon Grant @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social · 3d

I wish I could be there!

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Rhiannon Grant @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social · 3d

This. I imagine it has uses, but I wish I could turn off the constant offers. It's no good reading a summarised version of a PhD student's draft. It's no good having a summarised version when I'm proofreading. It's not really any good if I'm reading just to find out what someone wrote!

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KateU @kateullman.bsky.social · 6d

The huge sarsen stones guarding the entrance to West Kennet Long Barrow, with a glimpse of Silbury Hill beyond. Pic from a couple of years ago. #StandingStoneSunday

Several tall upright stones in front of the grassy mound of the long barrow. Behind the sun is setting so the sky is turning pink. On the right, in the background the unmistakable shape of Silbury Hill is visible.

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 7d

@classicstober.bsky.social Day 4 of #ClassicsTober25: shroud. Greek women weaving a cloth. Terracotta lekythos (oil flask), black-figured pottery, Amasis Painter, c. 550–530 BC. #ClassicsTober

The vase with two women standing and weaving

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 8d

Please use alt text when posting illustrations or photos or other images. I realize it feels like an inconvenience if you didn't ever do it at the other place, but folks who need it are a zillion times more inconvenienced every single day.

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Rhiannon Grant @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social · 8d

My reading today is a draft PhD thesis, so not quite a book.

Rhiannon Grant @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social · 8d

OcTBR update: finished this. I think I've been returning to it periodically for about a year, stalled by several changes to the project I thought it might help with and in life in general, but today I was off sick but awake enough to amble through the last sixty pages. @octbrchallenge.bsky.social

The cover of The Beginnings of Quakerism, which it describes as "The late William C. Braithwaite's standard history of the early days (to 1660) of the Quaker movement, based largely on the writings of the first Friends. This second edition is prepared by Henry J Cadbury, with a preface by L Hugh Doncaster." The text below says Cambridge University Press.

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 9d

In our new blog, Rhiannon discusses the meanings behind this year's Quaker Week theme and explores how different Quakers might think about its Biblical origins.

Love Your Neighbour, but struggle with Scripture?

Within the Quaker community in Britain, there are a wide range of perspectives on the Bible.

www.quaker.org.uk

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Rhiannon Grant @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social · 9d

Here's my complete TBR pile at the moment (including several items on the Kindle). I think there are two reservations at the library which I will also count! Stone Lands is no longer on the shelf because I finished it today - very good. #OcTBR

My bookshelf - one book is horizontal and the others vertical. Legible book titles: Between tomb and cist, Britain's oldest art, Loki, Star Carr Revisited, The Leap, Friends to China, The Mitford Girls, Civil War, Mistress of the House, Materialising Religion, Agincourt 1415, Birmingham, Reading Between the Lines, behind you is the sea, Prince Harry Spare, Children of Time, Inscribed Across the Landscape, and The Beginnings of Quakerism. At the very end is the worn case of my Kindle which includes several more items.

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Ben Wood /|\🔶️🌿✝️ @cosmichope.bsky.social · 10d

On #Halloween night I'm offering a session exploring #Quaker attitudes to the supernatural, then and now. You can sign up here. 🎃

Quakers and the Supernatural - Woodbrooke

The Liberal theologian Rudolf Bultmann once observed: ‘We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the event of illness, avail ourselves of modern

www.woodbrooke.org.uk

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Rhiannon Grant @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social · 10d

My lecture/Pendle Hill Pamphlet on radical hospitality may be relevant? And I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts if you feel like sharing what you're writing.

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🌈CJ Aralore @cjaralore.bsky.social · 11d

🌈 Hi #QueerWriters! #QueerPrompts is your chance to talk about your WIP/story/book, meet other queer authors, and have fun! 🏳️‍🌈

📚 While focussed on queer fiction, any writers are welcome to use these prompts! Include the tag #QueerPrompts and join at any time and on any days you want. 🎃

1. Introduce yourself & your WIP/story/book
2. LGBTQ History Month: Any queer history mentioned in your story?
3. Free Friday or National Body Language Day: Do you add body language when writing conversations between characters?
4. National Cinnamon Roll Day: Any cinnamon roll character?
5. Banned Books Week Begins: What might someone try to ban your story for having?
6. National Coaches Day: Any coaches in your story? (fitness, life coach, etc.)
7. National Inner Beauty Day: Does your story address outer vs inner beauty?
8. International Lesbian Day: GIF/Audio or description of personality of a favorite lesbian character
9. Curses or bad luck in story?
10. Free Friday or World Mental Health Day: Has positive queer rep in books helped your mental health?
11. National Coming Out Day: Do any of your characters come out in your story?
12. Astrology/horoscopes in story?
13. Indigenous People's Day: What people would be indigenous to where your story takes place?
14. Ghosts or spirits in story?
15. International Pronoun Day: GIF/Audio or description of how easily your character(s) adjust(s) to new pronouns
16. Dictionary Day: What word in the dictionary would have your MC's face next to it?
17. Free Friday or pitch your story as a horror novel
18. Line that foreshadows danger or scary scene/snippet
19. National LGBT Center Awareness Day: Where do your characters go to feel safe?
20. National Day on Writing: Favorite/least favorite part of the writing process
21. Asexual Awareness Week: Ace rep in story?
22. GIF/Audio or description of what emotion(s) you want/expect your story to make readers feel?
23. Does your MC/characters like being scared?
24. Free Friday or spooky queer reading recs
25. International Artist Day: Art share or role of art in your story
26. Intersex Awareness Day: Intersex or non-traditional gendered character(s)?
27. MC/character's worst nightmare
28. Rate your MC's and/or villain's scariness level from 1-10
29. National Cat Day: GIF/Audio or descrip

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Rhiannon Grant @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social · 16d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. Quaker theology
2. British prehistory
3. Religious feminism
4. Multiple religious belonging
5. Fictionalism regarding mathematics (and time)

Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 16d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. The history of the Tanakh/Hebrew Bible
2. Copyright law
3. Neurodiversity

spiritomb ⚧✡🏴‍☠️Ⓐ @spiritomb.bsky.social · 16d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. Pokémon games
2. Kant's epistemology's relevance to neuroscience today
3. Catholic doctrine being incoherent without an understanding of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, and how tradcaths are lying to you about Catholic tradition

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 16d

🚨BREAKING: Last night the Global Sumud Flotilla was attacked by drones - again.

British-Palestinian journalist Kieran Andrieu was aboard one of the ships.

Despite these attacks the flotilla sails on, because the mission is too important.

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 17d

As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour.

Find out more about Quaker Week and this year’s theme: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Quaker Week 2025: Love Your Neighbour - a call for compassion in a divided world

As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour.

www.quaker.org.uk

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Rhiannon Grant @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social · 18d

What a fantastic crown! It's like the May Queen staying all year :)

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aslynn's tremendous 'tism horror show 👻 🎃 @audhd-psychnp.com · 18d

the answer to autism is 42

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 19d

Recognition is no doubt significant but it will be a hollow gesture if the UK does not also seek to end Israel's genocide, illegal occupation, and system of apartheid against the Palestinian people.

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Photo with Keir Starmer and copy that reads: RECOGNITION OF A PALESTINIAN STATE IS A HOLLOW GESTURE WITHOUT MEANINGFUL ACTION TO END ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE, APARTHEID & OCCUPATION

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Rhiannon Grant @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social · 19d

Looks like it - no official confirmation, but the UK/EU focus and the fact that the site did allow unmoderated user interaction means that would be a relevant factor.

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Mark D Russ @markdruss.bsky.social · 19d

Had a lovely day with Watford Quakers talking about a Quaker approach to Christianity. It's so invigorating to talk theology with enthusiastic Friends 🥰

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 22d

A goddess for #FindsFriday

In 1882 antiquary Edward Cunnington dug at the #Roman temple at Maiden Castle hillfort in #Dorset

Sadly his excavations were never published although one important find was this copper alloy plaque with repoussée figure, possibly Minerva

Now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social

Thin copper alloy sheet with a lightly hammered image of a female figure wearing an archaic Greek helmet and holding a spear in her right hand, the left resting on a shield

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 24d

In London, hate will never win.

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Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ @rajannaidu.bsky.social · 25d

'Brummies United Against Racism and Hate' aims to spread messages of unity throughout Birmingham. Every donation helps print more posters and stickers, making a real impact in our community, promoting positivity, standing against hate.

Please donate and share
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Donate to 'Brummies United Against Racism and Hate' Poster Campaign, organized by Brummies United

Help Us Flood Birmingham with a Message of Unity and Hope … Brummies United needs your support for 'Brummies United Against Racism and Hate' Poster Campaign

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