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Avedaggio (she/her)
@avedaggio.bsky.social
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Uni Professor, polyam demi cis queer, spinner & spinster, weaver, medieval historian, archer, leather worker, kenning-smith, animist, rabbit mom and roommate to a snake. Working on the Viking Age, Icelandic sagas, Tolkien, folklore, and pedagogy above all.
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Well, consider my shit slapped. Dang.
Screenshot tumblr post from user homonculus-argument reading: "Nothing slapped my shit back into place like someone pointing out that the "genius gifted child with so much potential who got burnout and mental illness" is just the nerd equivalent to the jock "could have been a pro at sportsball if it wasn't for the injury"."
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Juniper the snake is keeping me company while I grade final projects from my Icelandic Saga class.
A cinnamon pastel morph (dark and light brown irregular spots) ball python in a pastel knit cozy, with his head sticking out from under two of his coils.
October 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Á large black horse and a small white horse stand with their front right legs extended. Comment underneath reads, “give em the ol razzle dazzle”
September 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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My rabbits are the primary beneficiaries of my aerogardens, and I’m not mad about it.
Two pet rabbits eating freshly harvested mixed greens
August 30, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Today’s teaching professional look:
White woman with dark hair wearing a blue scarf, blue shirt, and black cardigan sitting in front of two filled bookshelves and smiling at the camera
August 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Success! The leather laces are just tucked into the braided hatband but I hope that will be secure enough. I might redo it and cut the ends of the laces to look more like a feather.
Blue and silver leather lace woven into a black braided hatband on a black hat A woman wearing a black leather cowboy hat with metallic silver and blue leather laces sticking out of the hatband in the vague suggestion of a feather
August 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Working on making a lively but otherwise non-descript black leather hat into something I can point at and declare, Hey! That’s my hat!
A black leather cowboy hat with a black braided hatband. There are some pieces of blue and silver leather lace tucked into the hatband
August 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Depression suuuuuucks, and I didn't know I had this fantasy, also, until I read someone else articulating it.
A screenshot of a tumblr post which by @feaftlikeabeaft which says, "I wish depression were an emergency. I wish someone could take one look at how sick I am and go “oh my god, we need to get you to a hospital!” and then when we get there I get rushed into surgery and the surgeons say “it’s a good thing you brought her here when you did, this is a seriously advanced case” and then they put me under and spend the next ten hours pulling metres of long, sticky black strands of gunk out of my body, throwing it immediately into an incinerator so that it can’t infect anyone else. And then they could stitch me back up and I could rest a few days, and when I leave the hospital everyone can see how much better I am and they congratulate me saying “well done, you’ve been so brave, I’m so glad you’re ok. I love you.”"
August 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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My new rescue rabbit let me pet her and massage her ears for five solid minutes today. When I brought her home months ago she wasn’t afraid, but also did not want to be pet.
White pet rabbit on a carpet in a home.
August 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Hey, tell Jinx that the rabbits just want to know if she has carrots—er, if she has games on her phone.
Á white pet rabbit with grey ears and nose coming towards the camera.
August 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Old Man bun stands ready to avenge Holland’s dignity!
A white rabbit with grey ears and nose changing the camera.
July 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Spinning fine yarn. #spinning #fiberart
Picture of fine single yarn being spun on a Lendrum spinning wheel. It is being spun from a grab, blue, purple and grey rolag.
July 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Four hours later, three holes have been dug and no sign of the turtle, who I assume is back in the lake.
Three small holes dig into the dirt between a path and the pond Á closer look at two holes dig by turtles
July 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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I walked past this turtle digging with her hind legs and got a good look at the claws on them. I wonder what she’s doing. Laying eggs? When do turtles do that? I’ll check on her progress when I leave work later today.
Á turtle digging in the ground with clawed hind legs. The turtle has red spots behind her eyes. Á turtle digging in the ground with clawed hind legs. The turtle has red spots behind her eyes. She is next to a paving stone path.
July 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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What is this insect? Eating marigolds and grape leaves in CO, USA. Beetle, dark green head, iridescent orange shell. Seemed to enjoy waving one leg high at me. 1mm ish long. #insect #beetle #entomology #bugs
An iridescent orange beetle eating a marigold leaf. Several iridescent dark orange beetles eating a grape leaf. An iridescent orange beetle on my blue jeans An iridescent dark orange beetle with green head eating a marigold leaf.
July 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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No cheating, post the last pic of your pet!
Á ball python chilling in a bulky, hand knit bag
July 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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I knit a snake-purse/a living room hide the other night. Snek fits. It looks awful, but in my defense I only had size 50 needles in straights and I still somehow managed to make a shaped, in-the-round-ish thing. And it fits snek snugly which is what he prefers.
A misshapen bag knit with bulky yarn sitting on a desk. The top of the bag opens to reveal part of a curled up pet ball python
July 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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I had my hearing tested and while my hearing and audio processing is great, the audiologist sent me home with this list of communication strategies that I really appreciate. It includes a section for what you can do, and what others can do for you.
List of communication strategies
July 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Reminds me of Simon Drew's work coastalcraftcollective.co.uk/products/sim...
drawing with two panels: the leftmost has a drawing of a puffin bird sitting on a shore labeled "PUFFIN'. The rightmost panel has the same landscape but with no bird labeled "NUFFIN"
July 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Sharing this doodle from www.tumblr.com/a-literate-c... because it makes me really happy.
A charming drawing of (left to right) a white chicken with rainbow baseball cap, a red chicken with a rainbow skirt, and a buff chicken with rainbow scarf standing in the grass under a rainbow in the sky.
July 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Spinning for the first time in months. Alpaca/silk/cashmere in “Aspens” colorway from Upstream Alpacas.
White, grey, black and gold fiber rolag held next to a spinning wheel bobbin with some finely spun singles yarn.
July 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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This is the gardener version of ‘man poses with the fish he caught’.
Woman holding up next to her a handful of thorny weeds almost as tall as she is. A big pile of 5ft tall weeds, pulled and on the ground in front of a trash can.
June 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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It's 82 degrees F in my office, but I feel cute anyways! #officeselfies #professorsinthesummer
white woman with dark hair smiling, wearing a rainbow striped shirt under a dark blue over-shirt sitting at a desk in an office with full bookshelves and art behind her.
June 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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These dogs have the right idea. At the local farmers market.
Two golden retriever dogs lying in the shade of an umbrella, on top of a thick pile of ice cubes.
June 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Um.

Was anyone going to tell me that burrowing owls are TINY, or was I just expected to find out when I saw one at the raptor rehab booth at the local renaissance festival?
A young adult professional with a brown and white burrowing owl only a little larger than their hand perched on their glove. A brown and white burrowing owl on a rehabber’s hand, only slightly larger than said gloved hand.
June 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM