Megan L. Cook
@meganlcook.bsky.social
Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 2:30 AM
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up
Hot tip: if you have leftover tempered chocolate you can dip Cheez-Its in it while you contemplate exactly how far we’ve backslid on human rights, democracy, and basically every other measurable public good. And if you were making rum balls in the first place, you’ve already got booze handy
Modern womanhood is tempering chocolate for holiday backing while leaving angry voicemails for your elected representatives on a Saturday afternoon
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Hot tip: if you have leftover tempered chocolate you can dip Cheez-Its in it while you contemplate exactly how far we’ve backslid on human rights, democracy, and basically every other measurable public good. And if you were making rum balls in the first place, you’ve already got booze handy
Modern womanhood is tempering chocolate for holiday backing while leaving angry voicemails for your elected representatives on a Saturday afternoon
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Modern womanhood is tempering chocolate for holiday backing while leaving angry voicemails for your elected representatives on a Saturday afternoon
LOOK AT HOW HANDSOME HE IS!
December 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
LOOK AT HOW HANDSOME HE IS!
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Getting to know this legend has been one of the greatest joys of my life and I'm so pleased to introduce you to her with this gorgeous feature from the Inquirer, where she speaks for the first time in over 30 years on her incredible journey
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Harlow's still here
Fifty years ago, Harlow was the queen of Philadelphia nightlife, Jack Kelly’s girlfriend, and the city's most famous transgender woman. Today, she’s ready to tell her story.
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December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Getting to know this legend has been one of the greatest joys of my life and I'm so pleased to introduce you to her with this gorgeous feature from the Inquirer, where she speaks for the first time in over 30 years on her incredible journey
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9
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The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
Everything is going great, which is why I purchased this print immediately upon seeing it on IG: www.etsy.com/listing/1509...
December 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Everything is going great, which is why I purchased this print immediately upon seeing it on IG: www.etsy.com/listing/1509...
Another semester on the books. Oof.
December 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Another semester on the books. Oof.
Today I finished a challenging semester of first-year writing instruction, *and* said no to a professional opportunity that, while appealing, was not the right thing for me right now. I would like a cookie, and a nap. (But instead I will have a department meeting.)
December 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Today I finished a challenging semester of first-year writing instruction, *and* said no to a professional opportunity that, while appealing, was not the right thing for me right now. I would like a cookie, and a nap. (But instead I will have a department meeting.)
LMAOooooooooooooo
(I listen to first wave ska while I write and hippy new age shit while I fall asleep, so this tracks)
(I listen to first wave ska while I write and hippy new age shit while I fall asleep, so this tracks)
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
LMAOooooooooooooo
(I listen to first wave ska while I write and hippy new age shit while I fall asleep, so this tracks)
(I listen to first wave ska while I write and hippy new age shit while I fall asleep, so this tracks)
It's the time of year-- not even the semester, bc there's a blanket of holiday-related obligations atop the usual academic stuff-- when I am buried under a mountain of tasks that will take one to two hours to complete. Too long to knock out in the odd free moment, too quick to defer without anxiety
December 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
It's the time of year-- not even the semester, bc there's a blanket of holiday-related obligations atop the usual academic stuff-- when I am buried under a mountain of tasks that will take one to two hours to complete. Too long to knock out in the odd free moment, too quick to defer without anxiety
Sorry to say but I don't see a way out of this without faculty getting more involved in administration
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Sorry to say but I don't see a way out of this without faculty getting more involved in administration
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Did you send a fancy hot toddy kit to my office? If so, 1) thank you and 2) please reveal yourself, mysterious benefactor!
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Did you send a fancy hot toddy kit to my office? If so, 1) thank you and 2) please reveal yourself, mysterious benefactor!
Consider it a reminder to wear your blaze orange if you're out in the woods!
For most of my drive to work today, I was behind a truck with large CUSTOM MEAT PROCESSING decals. I know what it means, but it still seems... vaguely threatening
December 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Consider it a reminder to wear your blaze orange if you're out in the woods!
It's December 1, which means that I am exhausted and have no idea how I'll make it to the end of the semester, but also that it's time to indulge my abiding and sincere love for Fairytale of New York, the greatest Christmas song of the 20th century: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSkN...
Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) [Top of The Pops Dec 1987]
YouTube video by ThePoguesOfficial
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December 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
It's December 1, which means that I am exhausted and have no idea how I'll make it to the end of the semester, but also that it's time to indulge my abiding and sincere love for Fairytale of New York, the greatest Christmas song of the 20th century: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSkN...
For most of my drive to work today, I was behind a truck with large CUSTOM MEAT PROCESSING decals. I know what it means, but it still seems... vaguely threatening
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
For most of my drive to work today, I was behind a truck with large CUSTOM MEAT PROCESSING decals. I know what it means, but it still seems... vaguely threatening
For the anti-fascist parents in your life this holiday: this adorable "All you babies bound to snooze" letterpress print www.instagram.com/p/DRpm7pHDo5...
radical emprints 🌹 on Instagram: "NEW LETTERPRESS PRINT & SMALL BIZ SATURDAY PROMO! This print started on a weekend away with some parent friends & their small children, when we were inevitably talkin...
135 likes, 8 comments - radicalemprints on November 29, 2025: "NEW LETTERPRESS PRINT & SMALL BIZ SATURDAY PROMO! This print started on a weekend away with some parent friends & their small children, w...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
For the anti-fascist parents in your life this holiday: this adorable "All you babies bound to snooze" letterpress print www.instagram.com/p/DRpm7pHDo5...
Please send me your cool, funky stationery recs for my 6-year-old niece. She's a precocious reader and writer, into mermaids, unicorns, witches and potions (apparently all the rage with the 1st grade West Philly crowd, which TBH tracks). Looking for fun notebooks, stickers, pens, etc for Christmas
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Please send me your cool, funky stationery recs for my 6-year-old niece. She's a precocious reader and writer, into mermaids, unicorns, witches and potions (apparently all the rage with the 1st grade West Philly crowd, which TBH tracks). Looking for fun notebooks, stickers, pens, etc for Christmas
I'm in-- because if I do not write various and sundry this coming month, there will be Consequences
starting Dec 1st! ie tomorrow!
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time):
you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok!
check in daily at #acadecawriteathon
is there a NaNoWriMo but for December and academic/ nonfiction? Should we start it?
December 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
I'm in-- because if I do not write various and sundry this coming month, there will be Consequences
I was wearing my UMich sweatshirt at the grocery store today and a man in a Darthmouth cap moved aside to give me first pick at the kale. "You deserve a break," he said, and that is how I, a non-football-watcher, learned that Michigan lost to OSU yesterday
November 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I was wearing my UMich sweatshirt at the grocery store today and a man in a Darthmouth cap moved aside to give me first pick at the kale. "You deserve a break," he said, and that is how I, a non-football-watcher, learned that Michigan lost to OSU yesterday
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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Or @hsteffen.bsky.social, in “Adjunct,” giving a concise, bullet-pointed definition of neoliberalism that can go right onto a classroom handout or union meeting flyer — I’ll teach it next week 🙏
November 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Or @hsteffen.bsky.social, in “Adjunct,” giving a concise, bullet-pointed definition of neoliberalism that can go right onto a classroom handout or union meeting flyer — I’ll teach it next week 🙏
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❌ learn to code
✅ learn to read
✅ learn to read
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
❌ learn to code
✅ learn to read
✅ learn to read