Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf
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Queer, trans, purveyor of werewolfy things // PhD candidate, medieval lit // Muldumarec's number one fan // they/them // 🌈 ∞ 🌈
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if we are all reintroducing ourselves: I’m Miles, I’m doing my PhD on rhetoric and nonnormative embodiment (disability, neurodivergence, animality) in late medieval literature, and I am very much into werewolves and shapeshifting and premodern trans studies. Also Muldumarec the birdman’s no. 1 fan
final total: 12/19 students! that's the most I've ever had show up to a class the day before break! and for an 8:30 class!
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
final total: 12/19 students! that's the most I've ever had show up to a class the day before break! and for an 8:30 class!
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November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
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Let's play "how many students will show up to my 8:30 class the day before Thanksgiving break starts"
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Let's play "how many students will show up to my 8:30 class the day before Thanksgiving break starts"
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You can literally say what you want about trans people and the UK courts are fine with it.
This was a *child*
This was a *child*
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
Father Ted creator Graham Linehan has been found guilty of criminal damage to the phone of a trans activist but not guilty of harassment.
news.sky.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
You can literally say what you want about trans people and the UK courts are fine with it.
This was a *child*
This was a *child*
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Also made sure to include the clip of the "werewolf" (hyena) fr the movie even though it has nothing to do with the topic of class, for the same reason
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Also made sure to include the clip of the "werewolf" (hyena) fr the movie even though it has nothing to do with the topic of class, for the same reason
Put the SpongeBob Nosferatu clip at the beginning of my slides for Nosferatu class tomorrow so my students can learn about their important cultural contexts
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Put the SpongeBob Nosferatu clip at the beginning of my slides for Nosferatu class tomorrow so my students can learn about their important cultural contexts
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The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented. Hear more on today's episode of "The Daily." nyti.ms/480eqtm
The Autism Diagnosis Problem
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.
Just had the horrifying thought that someone is DEFINITELY going to try to use chatgpt, etc., to "solve" the Voynich Manuscript. If that hasn't already happened.
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Just had the horrifying thought that someone is DEFINITELY going to try to use chatgpt, etc., to "solve" the Voynich Manuscript. If that hasn't already happened.
like, I went to preschool at the county special education agency where they had a speech therapist and an OT, etc., and I STILL didn't get officially diagnosed until I was 26, because I did not fit the idea of the stereotypical autistic child in the 1990s.
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
like, I went to preschool at the county special education agency where they had a speech therapist and an OT, etc., and I STILL didn't get officially diagnosed until I was 26, because I did not fit the idea of the stereotypical autistic child in the 1990s.
the number of people diagnosed is going to go up when the diagnostic criteria is adjusted to attempt to make room for autistic people who don't fit into the very white, very male understanding of autism that used to be the diagnostic criteria!
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
the number of people diagnosed is going to go up when the diagnostic criteria is adjusted to attempt to make room for autistic people who don't fit into the very white, very male understanding of autism that used to be the diagnostic criteria!
"autism diagnosis epidemic" shut up forever, please and thank you!
November 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"autism diagnosis epidemic" shut up forever, please and thank you!
painting in the style of a classic piece of 19th century art and it was great while I was painting the faces and hands, etc., but now I have to paint clothing (ugh) and the background (no thank you)
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
painting in the style of a classic piece of 19th century art and it was great while I was painting the faces and hands, etc., but now I have to paint clothing (ugh) and the background (no thank you)
oh fuck yes
If you could set aside 4 hours and 18 minutes today for my new video, that would be much appreciated.
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
oh fuck yes
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I can promise you, they're not the same inks and they're not the same scribes. Because they were created a century apart in two different countries. Unless you've got some medieval Methuselah running around from France to Italy to create wildly different manuscripts in wildly different scripts
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I can promise you, they're not the same inks and they're not the same scribes. Because they were created a century apart in two different countries. Unless you've got some medieval Methuselah running around from France to Italy to create wildly different manuscripts in wildly different scripts
"I asked a mysticist about this weird manuscript image once and it might have connections to the Voynich MS" and they're from two different countries, not stylistically similar at all, and, perhaps most importantly, produced an entire century apart from one another. Ok.
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"I asked a mysticist about this weird manuscript image once and it might have connections to the Voynich MS" and they're from two different countries, not stylistically similar at all, and, perhaps most importantly, produced an entire century apart from one another. Ok.
Let me tell you. 1) an obscure manuscript illustration reference I made to characters from a TV show on my other account made it onto the discover feed somehow and 2) now I've got some guy doing Voynich MS conspiracies on my obscure manuscript reference to blorbo from my shows 😔
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Let me tell you. 1) an obscure manuscript illustration reference I made to characters from a TV show on my other account made it onto the discover feed somehow and 2) now I've got some guy doing Voynich MS conspiracies on my obscure manuscript reference to blorbo from my shows 😔
I think I may have to get aggressive with the final blocking on the body once the whole thing is done, since I think it’s gonna be a bit tight across the hips when buttoned up, but I think it is going to work out despite this evil pattern and its many hated problems
November 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I think I may have to get aggressive with the final blocking on the body once the whole thing is done, since I think it’s gonna be a bit tight across the hips when buttoned up, but I think it is going to work out despite this evil pattern and its many hated problems
my sweater is not completely dry from blocking yet but the sleeve fits!! and is even a little long the way I like my cardigan sleeves!
November 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
my sweater is not completely dry from blocking yet but the sleeve fits!! and is even a little long the way I like my cardigan sleeves!
I have like one sleeve and the button bands/neckband left to finish so I’m just going to finish it with the modifications I’ve made, but I WILL be leaving a looooot of notes on ravelry once I finish it
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I have like one sleeve and the button bands/neckband left to finish so I’m just going to finish it with the modifications I’ve made, but I WILL be leaving a looooot of notes on ravelry once I finish it
my ravelry notes once I've finished it will be both extensive and excoriating!
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
my ravelry notes once I've finished it will be both extensive and excoriating!
Also this knitting pattern is making me do math because it has "increase/decrease x number of stitches evenly across the row" in here for numbers of stitches not divisible by the number it wants me to increase/decrease. I buy knitting patterns so I don't have to do the math myself!! 😭
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Also this knitting pattern is making me do math because it has "increase/decrease x number of stitches evenly across the row" in here for numbers of stitches not divisible by the number it wants me to increase/decrease. I buy knitting patterns so I don't have to do the math myself!! 😭
I think once I've knitted the neckband it might be very slightly drop shouldered, I don't particularly care either way, but it's annoying me that this pattern is forcing me to make so many modifications because it's not written correctly
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I think once I've knitted the neckband it might be very slightly drop shouldered, I don't particularly care either way, but it's annoying me that this pattern is forcing me to make so many modifications because it's not written correctly
it's going to look fine! it's a nice cardigan and it will look nice. But it certainly is not going to look like the pattern photos because that's mathematically impossible.
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
it's going to look fine! it's a nice cardigan and it will look nice. But it certainly is not going to look like the pattern photos because that's mathematically impossible.