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Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying

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...fled hellscapes, virtual and hardcopy, residing now in a shoebox of a garret, under the shadow of a castle. Between these book-lined walls, I read arcana, drink champagne, and write. angelisawood.blogspot.com and ko-fi.com/angelisa

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Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · Dec 3

words appearing in : khōréō, NewMyths, Penumbric, Shelter of Daylight, The Mythic Circle, Myths Subverted, Dark Horses, Bewildering Stories

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Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 1d

“Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”

- Beatrix Potter.

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 1d

O Autumn, Autumn! O pensive light
and wistful sound!
Gold-haunted sky, green-haunted ground!

—Effie Lee Newsome

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 4d

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a madman in possession of a box must be in want of a companion

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 4d

After the kittehlooshun weh can all haz cheezcaeks

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 12d

I didn't choose the hygge life; the hygge life chose me

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 13d

So who is going to Halloween as Joanna of Naples and who as La Brinvilliers?

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 13d

" Maybe that’s all family is—just the handful of stories we never tell."
-Kei Miller

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 13d

Walk like an Etruscan

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 13d

Anon & on & on & on (hey nonny), non?

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 15d

pondering a home made of cinderella-blocks

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 15d

my favorite poet is Mother Goose

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 15d

I didn't chuse the garret life; the garret life chose me.

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 15d

"Whiteness has its own portrait in the attic."

- Garry Leonard, University of Toronto, discussing The Picture of Dorian Gray and Heart of Darkness, courtesy Arlynda Boyer

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 15d

Figs and pomegranates and persimmons and cyclamen and heather : happy first day of autumn between brisk and basking

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Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 17d

Whosoever danceth not, knoweth not the way of life.
—Jesus Christ, Gnostic Hymn

or

If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution
-- att. Emma Goldman

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 22d

"Why do you use wormwood to deglaze venison? Because absinthe makes the hart grow fonder."

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 24d

saw a beheaded pigeon, a hallucinating tabby, and yet another sparrow taking communion

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 24d

"You're going to make a great number of cats very happy someday"

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 25d

...has a swollen brow from a falling bottle, and finds she much prefers wine going to her head in the more traditional fashion.

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 25d

Women's eyelids were more beautiful in the first half of the nineteenth century

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 25d

I will always chuse winery over whinery

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 27d

just awoke from a dream instructing me to dedicate all my future works to the Bishop of Hereford's mime.

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 27d

it read: "catchymemes" and I thought it was "catachumens"

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 27d

I did not eat nearly enough peaches this summer

Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · 28d

tiny lavender butterflies and a kitten with topaz eyes