Ron Evans
@grandrevans.bsky.social
Archivist/special collections librarian. Former production editor. Occasional bookbinder. Just a guy who loves books. He/him. 🏳️🌈
"Lord, we know what we are but
know not what we may be."
–Ophelia (Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5)
"Lord, we know what we are but
know not what we may be."
–Ophelia (Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5)
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Ron Evans
@grandrevans.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Good morning, new followers! I should probably introduce myself at some point. I post about books (both the content and the objects themselves), libraries, humanities, art, music, science, cooking, gardening, nature & pop culture. My interests are varied & passionate.
Also I’m very gay.
Also I’m very gay.
Y'ALL. THE 1980s HUNTERS.
"The Art of K-Pop Demon Hunters" artbook (physical) is coming in 2026.
In the meantime, here's the free digital version.
>> theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
In the meantime, here's the free digital version.
>> theartofkpopdemonhunters.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Y'ALL. THE 1980s HUNTERS.
I have complicated thoughts about Thanksgiving. The First Thanksgiving story is pretty much pure myth. It's weird that we have a federally mandated observance of what was historically a religious/cultural observance with no fixed date. Roast turkey can be so hit or miss. Families are complicated. 🧵
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I have complicated thoughts about Thanksgiving. The First Thanksgiving story is pretty much pure myth. It's weird that we have a federally mandated observance of what was historically a religious/cultural observance with no fixed date. Roast turkey can be so hit or miss. Families are complicated. 🧵
A Muppet Family Christmas is a joy and a treasure.
Dying at the first time Swedish Chef sees Big Bird
November 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A Muppet Family Christmas is a joy and a treasure.
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Pssst, hey! Yes you. The one suffering through an awful holiday just because: "well, they're my family, what else am I going to do, etc."
You can just not go. You can walk away. You don't have to endure people who don't respect you. You can find your people and build your own family and future.
You can just not go. You can walk away. You don't have to endure people who don't respect you. You can find your people and build your own family and future.
November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Pssst, hey! Yes you. The one suffering through an awful holiday just because: "well, they're my family, what else am I going to do, etc."
You can just not go. You can walk away. You don't have to endure people who don't respect you. You can find your people and build your own family and future.
You can just not go. You can walk away. You don't have to endure people who don't respect you. You can find your people and build your own family and future.
Spent my Thanksgiving day watching the parade* and rolling up a new D&D character. So, you know. I'm thankful for that.
*Pro tip: the YouTube stream has less commentary and gives the marching bands the screen time they deserve. They worked hard to be there, gosh darn it!
*Pro tip: the YouTube stream has less commentary and gives the marching bands the screen time they deserve. They worked hard to be there, gosh darn it!
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Spent my Thanksgiving day watching the parade* and rolling up a new D&D character. So, you know. I'm thankful for that.
*Pro tip: the YouTube stream has less commentary and gives the marching bands the screen time they deserve. They worked hard to be there, gosh darn it!
*Pro tip: the YouTube stream has less commentary and gives the marching bands the screen time they deserve. They worked hard to be there, gosh darn it!
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Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
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Happy Chompsgiving!
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Happy Chompsgiving!
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone except politicians who try to destroy libraries and public schools.
I hope their turkey is super dry today.
I hope their turkey is super dry today.
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone except politicians who try to destroy libraries and public schools.
I hope their turkey is super dry today.
I hope their turkey is super dry today.
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Which breed of dog can create print-ready proofs?
A Type Setter.
A Type Setter.
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Which breed of dog can create print-ready proofs?
A Type Setter.
A Type Setter.
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I appreciate the work @littlejusticeleaders is doing on Instagram to provide white settler parents with resources for talking to children about social injustice. Here is an example for engaging in discussion about Thanksgiving (and its myths).
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I appreciate the work @littlejusticeleaders is doing on Instagram to provide white settler parents with resources for talking to children about social injustice. Here is an example for engaging in discussion about Thanksgiving (and its myths).
I'm cooking for myself and only for myself tomorrow (thank goodness), which means I'm just using recipes from The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen. It makes me very, very happy to learn that Sean Sherman has a new cookbook.
"I hope that people can have this opportunity to be lured in by this beautiful food and actually learn something and maybe, hopefully, develop some empathy where there might not have been."
Read award-winning chef Sean Sherman's interview with @amlibraries.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/3LgoIN7
Read award-winning chef Sean Sherman's interview with @amlibraries.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/3LgoIN7
November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm cooking for myself and only for myself tomorrow (thank goodness), which means I'm just using recipes from The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen. It makes me very, very happy to learn that Sean Sherman has a new cookbook.
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my time-saving holiday shopping tip is to just get everybody books. white elephant? book. child? picture book. stocking? small book. i am a neutral & trustworthy source on this subject
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
my time-saving holiday shopping tip is to just get everybody books. white elephant? book. child? picture book. stocking? small book. i am a neutral & trustworthy source on this subject
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Just as the page of a preferred pie crust recipe bears traces of flour and butter, the pages of two German medical manuals from 1531 hold traces of the ingredients used by medicine makers, a proteomic analysis from @stefanhanss.bsky.social and coworkers reveals
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
Proteins plucked from the pages of Renaissance recipes
Analyses of German medical manuals from 1531 reveal what ingredients those who handled the books used
cen.acs.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Just as the page of a preferred pie crust recipe bears traces of flour and butter, the pages of two German medical manuals from 1531 hold traces of the ingredients used by medicine makers, a proteomic analysis from @stefanhanss.bsky.social and coworkers reveals
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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Yes. Every librarian and literacy expert will likely say yes. Now shut up.
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Yes. Every librarian and literacy expert will likely say yes. Now shut up.
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I'm honestly surprised that with all this renewed interest in the Wizard of Oz that nobody's tried to do a thing with Ozma recently, but I guess studios just assume mainstream audiences are only familiar with things from the 1939 movie
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I'm honestly surprised that with all this renewed interest in the Wizard of Oz that nobody's tried to do a thing with Ozma recently, but I guess studios just assume mainstream audiences are only familiar with things from the 1939 movie
THIS IS THE PLOT OF THE SERIES FINALE OF DINOSAURS.
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
THIS IS THE PLOT OF THE SERIES FINALE OF DINOSAURS.
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Mushroom paprikash and latkes
November 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Mushroom paprikash and latkes
A movie that takes place where you're from:
November 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from:
Unpopular book opinion: the traditional Western codex (this thing: 📘) is not an inherently superior format.
There is a poem in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds that is so much more powerful in the ebook. It's entirely an accident of how the format handles footnotes, but it works oh, so well
There is a poem in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds that is so much more powerful in the ebook. It's entirely an accident of how the format handles footnotes, but it works oh, so well
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Unpopular book opinion: the traditional Western codex (this thing: 📘) is not an inherently superior format.
There is a poem in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds that is so much more powerful in the ebook. It's entirely an accident of how the format handles footnotes, but it works oh, so well
There is a poem in Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds that is so much more powerful in the ebook. It's entirely an accident of how the format handles footnotes, but it works oh, so well
I needed an extra elective in my last semester of undergrad, so I took an Art of the Book course.
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I needed an extra elective in my last semester of undergrad, so I took an Art of the Book course.
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Cats often wandered across early medieval manuscripts, sometimes leaving inky pawprints, as in a Croatian example. One Dutch monk even noted a cat had peed on his page, adding: “Cursed be that wretched cat.”
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Cats often wandered across early medieval manuscripts, sometimes leaving inky pawprints, as in a Croatian example. One Dutch monk even noted a cat had peed on his page, adding: “Cursed be that wretched cat.”
I played Chrono Cross before I'd played Chrono Trigger, so maybe it was just easier for me to judge it on its own merits, but it has always been my favorite of the two.
'Chrono Cross' was released on the PlayStation 26 years ago today in Japan.
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I played Chrono Cross before I'd played Chrono Trigger, so maybe it was just easier for me to judge it on its own merits, but it has always been my favorite of the two.