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Erin Keating

@drerinnerung.bsky.social

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Associate professor (Restoration secret history, celebrity, fantasy fiction, and fan cultures), haphazard gardener, dog and cat parent, AuDHD, she/her 🖤🩶🤍💜

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Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social · 5d

Had a great time chatting with David from Four Corners of the Page in my new Malazan video on heroes and heroism. #MBotF #Erikson #booktube #fantasy
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Heroes and Heroism in Malazan with Four Corners of the Page *SPOILERS*

YouTube video by Dr. Erinnerung

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Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social · 20h

New AuDHD strategy for presentation/essay first drafts: do it while watching sports (hockey or football)in the background. Relieves the pressure of the empty page. (Fingers crossed that it keep working)

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 21h

Today I'm doing a talk about Women and the (early) Gothic and it might be time for a list!

So here are ten early women writers of the Gothic to give an idea of the range of things that women were creating in the period!

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Hannah Rutherford (she/her) @lomadiah.bsky.social · 4d

Please signal boost, it's for a good cause! 🙏

Hey folks - I'm working with an MS (multiple sclerosis) charity to find streamers to support fundraising in November. It's retro gaming themed, so if you're interested in more info - or you know someone who would be amazing - please chuck me a reply 💚

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Ziedrich Pengels @thebigzeo.bsky.social · 4d

Fan Studies question: does anyone know the exact origin of the term "headcanon"? I know it comes from fic around 2007, but can't find anything more specific than that.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 2d

CONFERENCE: Always Here (SUNY Binghamton):

memorients.com/events/cfp-a...

CONFERENCE: Always Here | MEMOs

Binghamton University's Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies brings together those studying premodern non-binary gender, trans identities, & queerness

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Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social · 3d

Just a week away from #CSECS2025 in Regina! Hope I'm not the only one still working on the presentation 😅😭 #18thcentury #earlymodern #academicsky

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 4d

Thou shalt not make AI videos of dead people saying what you want. You wouldn’t dig them up and use their skull as a puppet, would you?

The people doing these things must be shamed into oblivion.

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 3d

Simply spectacular

Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 4d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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Richard Pace @rpace.bsky.social · 4d

Just don't share A.I. slop of any sort. I've seen a wave of Sora shit on various social media platforms.
A.I. is destructive on too many levels to ever encourage anyone to use it, and sharing or liking is encouragement.
Complicity in the destruction of our planet and humanity.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 3d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 5d

Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 5d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 5d

Sent this q to VICTORIA, but also figure I should ask here — does anyone know of scholarship on strategies that advertisers (e.g. of fraudulent or illegal goods or services) used to evade surveillence, esp in Victorian Britain? Or strategies that advertisers used to track responses to ads in +

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 4d

#EarlyModern

EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 4d

Does anyone know of any good scholarship on John Fletcher's The Elder Brother?

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Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social · 5d

Had a great time chatting with David from Four Corners of the Page in my new Malazan video on heroes and heroism. #MBotF #Erikson #booktube #fantasy
youtu.be/a8lnvxurH1I

Heroes and Heroism in Malazan with Four Corners of the Page *SPOILERS*

YouTube video by Dr. Erinnerung

youtu.be

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Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social · 5d

Had a great time chatting with David from Four Corners of the Page in my new Malazan video on heroes and heroism. #MBotF #Erikson #booktube #fantasy
youtu.be/a8lnvxurH1I

Heroes and Heroism in Malazan with Four Corners of the Page *SPOILERS*

YouTube video by Dr. Erinnerung

youtu.be

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 5d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 5d

This is true for students too. Yes there are many factors impacting student reading, but working 30+ hours a week to be able to afford college is definitely one of them.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 6d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 6d

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Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social · 12d

Studies in Comics
General CFP

Papers are welcomed for Studies in Comics, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal that aims to describe the nature of comics, to identify the medium as a distinct art form and to address its formal properties.

More 👉https://ow.ly/iUA550X2EZo

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Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 9d

Call for Papers

Scandalisation across media: New scandal trajectories, temporalities, and actors

Nordic Journal of Media Studies

www.nordicom.gu.se/en/latest/ne...

Call for Papers: Scandalisation across media: New scandal trajectories, temporalities, and actors | Nordicom

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Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social · 19d

Film International
Special Issue Calls for Papers: ‘Popular Music and Identity in Cinema’

We welcome submissions that explore the relationships between popular music and the representation and communication of identity in cinema.

Deadline: 1 Feb 2026

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 7d

In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer.

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 21d

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Historical Journal Call for Special Issues

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 9d

New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship

Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close

#FanStudies

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The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship

This cutting-edge collection explores the histories, aesthetics, and cultural work of fan video across a wide variety of manifestations and genres. Editors Louisa Ellen Stein and Samantha Close have a...

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Sophie G. Einwächter @einwaechter.bsky.social · 12d

Call for a Themed Issue on “Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance”! There will also be a workshop on Feb 27th, 2026! Authors are invited to present and develop their ideas in dialogue with peers. The workshop will be in 2026, on Feb. 27th (Marburg University). Deadline: December 1st! #FanStudies

Nina Heise @ninaheise.bsky.social · 18d

The CfP for the 1st themed issue of our journal Fandom | Cultures | Research is out & I'm especially excited for this one, since it combines two of the things I'm most interested in: #fanstudies & #memorystudies. Added bonus: a workshop in Marburg in Feb 26.

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Call for Abstracts - Themed Issue 2/26 & Accompanying Workshop: “Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance” | Fandom | Cultures | Research

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