chan eil sìth gun cheartas
@coimeas.bsky.social
ph.d. ann an litreachas coimeasach (fantasachd is ficsean-saidheansa). sgrìobhadair. e/esan | ph.d. in comparative literature (fantasy and sci-fi). he/him
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I'm currently looking for freelance editing work! I have experience doing everything from copyediting to substantive edits, mainly for academic texts but also for literary ones. I've worked extensively with non-native English-speakers, including editing literary translations.
review of #SSBA2025 finalist Ghost Apparent, by Jelena Dunato, a loving and gleeful tearing-apart of fairy-tale romance by subjecting both the conventions of fairy tales and the conventions of romance to Renaissance/early modern Realpolitik: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...
Ghost Apparent / an duilleag gheal
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November 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
review of #SSBA2025 finalist Ghost Apparent, by Jelena Dunato, a loving and gleeful tearing-apart of fairy-tale romance by subjecting both the conventions of fairy tales and the conventions of romance to Renaissance/early modern Realpolitik: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...
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NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
journalpanorama.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
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The hidden history of Indigenous slavery in New England and beyond — @linford.bsky.social appeared on this segment from @ctpublic.bsky.social to discuss the history of slavery in New England and his collaboration with tribal communities in the Northeast on @stolenrelations.bsky.social.
The hidden history of Indigenous slavery in New England and beyond
It's a surprising and overlooked story, a blind spot in the narrative of early America: the hidden history of Indigenous slavery. As colonial powers took over Native land, white settlers were enslavin...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The hidden history of Indigenous slavery in New England and beyond — @linford.bsky.social appeared on this segment from @ctpublic.bsky.social to discuss the history of slavery in New England and his collaboration with tribal communities in the Northeast on @stolenrelations.bsky.social.
review of Kristin Osani's The Extravaganza Eternia, an #SSBA2025 fantasy finalist, which I really enjoyed! tightly-plotted and fast-paced but without sacrificing a depth of character and world: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...
The Extravaganza Eternia / an duilleag gheal
anduilleaggheal.neocities.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
review of Kristin Osani's The Extravaganza Eternia, an #SSBA2025 fantasy finalist, which I really enjoyed! tightly-plotted and fast-paced but without sacrificing a depth of character and world: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...
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I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
xtramagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
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Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤
We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️
#tdor
We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️
#tdor
Observing Trans Day of Remembrance 2025
Remembering those we’ve lost over the past year.
thetransfemininereview.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Good evening all. For this year's Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR), TFR remembers three transfeminine authors who passed away this year: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (78), Valerie Amelia Thompson (38), and Michelle Duff (85) 🖤
We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️
#tdor
We also remember 367+ victims of anti-trans violence and suicide 🕯️
#tdor
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On this day in 1967, the City of Halifax bulldozed Africville's century-old church in the night after forging documents to change the date of sale from 1968 to 1967.
Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
canadaehx.com/2020/03/25/t...
Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
canadaehx.com/2020/03/25/t...
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
On this day in 1967, the City of Halifax bulldozed Africville's century-old church in the night after forging documents to change the date of sale from 1968 to 1967.
Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
canadaehx.com/2020/03/25/t...
Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
canadaehx.com/2020/03/25/t...
a side question all of this raised was the origin of D&D's use of "fey" as a noun, but some poking around suggests this reduces to the 2nd edition Monster Compendiums occasionally using "fey" in the sense of "otherworldly" to describe some creatures.
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
a side question all of this raised was the origin of D&D's use of "fey" as a noun, but some poking around suggests this reduces to the 2nd edition Monster Compendiums occasionally using "fey" in the sense of "otherworldly" to describe some creatures.
my initial response to seeing the asker's follow-up was "how DID The Fae™ becomes so institutionalized?" but having investigated the origins of the term I think the answer just comes down to "Changeling crystallized a bunch of tendencies in early urban fantasy + everyone else is copying their work"
November 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
my initial response to seeing the asker's follow-up was "how DID The Fae™ becomes so institutionalized?" but having investigated the origins of the term I think the answer just comes down to "Changeling crystallized a bunch of tendencies in early urban fantasy + everyone else is copying their work"
other than Catherine Greenen-Thrush's Quest of the Faes (1985, seems likely to be an independent early outlier), thus far it seems like the genesis of the term may be White Wolf's Changeling: The Dreaming in 1995?
This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English?
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
other than Catherine Greenen-Thrush's Quest of the Faes (1985, seems likely to be an independent early outlier), thus far it seems like the genesis of the term may be White Wolf's Changeling: The Dreaming in 1995?
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OK, fantasy scholars, help us out here. What is the earliest known use of ‘fae’, with that specific spelling, in a fantasy novel?
FYI @effjayem.bsky.social @dimitrafimi.bsky.social @adamroberts.bsky.social @profrmaslen.bsky.social @garykwolfe.bsky.social
FYI @effjayem.bsky.social @dimitrafimi.bsky.social @adamroberts.bsky.social @profrmaslen.bsky.social @garykwolfe.bsky.social
This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English?
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
OK, fantasy scholars, help us out here. What is the earliest known use of ‘fae’, with that specific spelling, in a fantasy novel?
FYI @effjayem.bsky.social @dimitrafimi.bsky.social @adamroberts.bsky.social @profrmaslen.bsky.social @garykwolfe.bsky.social
FYI @effjayem.bsky.social @dimitrafimi.bsky.social @adamroberts.bsky.social @profrmaslen.bsky.social @garykwolfe.bsky.social
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It would be funny if, in fact, this person is in one sense righter than all of us assuming "the fae" is an ancient folkloric usage 😉
November 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It would be funny if, in fact, this person is in one sense righter than all of us assuming "the fae" is an ancient folkloric usage 😉
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This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English?
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This has brought up a question I actually don't know - when did the specific form "the fae" become so popular in English?
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
OED has "Faerie" going back to Spenser, "fey" as "fairylike" in 1823, and there's obviously "Morgan le Fay" from French, but can't find much for "the fae" til quite recently!
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Hoy Editorial Publicar al Sur, gracias a la gestión del querido Kano, me publica este libro: Ensayos sobre transfeminismo, política y resistencia. Como es una editorial con una mirada desde el sur el libro digital se puede descargar en el siguiente enlace.
publicaralsur.com/biblioteca-d...
publicaralsur.com/biblioteca-d...
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Hoy Editorial Publicar al Sur, gracias a la gestión del querido Kano, me publica este libro: Ensayos sobre transfeminismo, política y resistencia. Como es una editorial con una mirada desde el sur el libro digital se puede descargar en el siguiente enlace.
publicaralsur.com/biblioteca-d...
publicaralsur.com/biblioteca-d...
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While PM Carney’s fast-tracking initiative has been touted as a response to U.S. President Trump’s trade war, critics have pointed out the projects are largely backed by foreign-owned corporations — and include substantial U.S. investment.
@amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #uspoli #canpoli #LNG
@amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #uspoli #canpoli #LNG
Ksi Lisims LNG Makes Federal List of ‘Nation-Building’ Projects | The Tyee
The prime minister sidestepped questions about US ownership and First Nations opposition at a northern BC presser.
thetyee.ca
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
While PM Carney’s fast-tracking initiative has been touted as a response to U.S. President Trump’s trade war, critics have pointed out the projects are largely backed by foreign-owned corporations — and include substantial U.S. investment.
@amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #uspoli #canpoli #LNG
@amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #uspoli #canpoli #LNG
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My latest essay in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series is about Lin Carter's Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings, his 1969 book about, well, Tolkien. It's also Carter's attempt to tell the history of "epic fantasy." It's messy and weird but, as I argue, really important:
Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Reading “Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings” by Lin Carter
The tenth essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series, which looks at Lin Carter’s curious non-fiction study Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings (1969), a book that helped pa…
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November 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
My latest essay in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series is about Lin Carter's Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings, his 1969 book about, well, Tolkien. It's also Carter's attempt to tell the history of "epic fantasy." It's messy and weird but, as I argue, really important:
agus lèirmheas air Blood for the Undying Throne, le Kim Sung-il, lean-sgeul do Blood of the Old Kings, fhathast air eadar-theangachadh le Anton Hur: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...
leabhar iongantach — bidh fiughar agam ris an treas leabhar!
leabhar iongantach — bidh fiughar agam ris an treas leabhar!
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
agus lèirmheas air Blood for the Undying Throne, le Kim Sung-il, lean-sgeul do Blood of the Old Kings, fhathast air eadar-theangachadh le Anton Hur: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...
leabhar iongantach — bidh fiughar agam ris an treas leabhar!
leabhar iongantach — bidh fiughar agam ris an treas leabhar!
LMAO just got a rejection email for an internship I applied for like nine months ago that was supposed to start in July. like. yeah, I figured I didn't get this July-December 2025 internship given that it's currently November 2025 and I had heard nothing from you until today!
November 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
LMAO just got a rejection email for an internship I applied for like nine months ago that was supposed to start in July. like. yeah, I figured I didn't get this July-December 2025 internship given that it's currently November 2025 and I had heard nothing from you until today!
the people truly long for Pern; they just don't know it
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
the people truly long for Pern; they just don't know it
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12. No one online understands the real concept of “the Noble Savage”. It was mostly used as a mirror/foil for Euro society & it had a tragic cast—the tragedy being that Indigenous people are “noble” in some way in spite of the fact that they ARE STILL inferior “savages” doomed to vanish.
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
12. No one online understands the real concept of “the Noble Savage”. It was mostly used as a mirror/foil for Euro society & it had a tragic cast—the tragedy being that Indigenous people are “noble” in some way in spite of the fact that they ARE STILL inferior “savages” doomed to vanish.
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it is also in the nature of speculative fiction criticism that a few times a year someone reinvents Tolkien's argument in "On Fairy-Stories", from 1947
it is the nature of speculative fiction criticism that a few times a year someone reinvents Samuel R. Delany's critical work from the ’70s and ’80s
July 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
it is also in the nature of speculative fiction criticism that a few times a year someone reinvents Tolkien's argument in "On Fairy-Stories", from 1947
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Reminder.
Can we please get this Shona → English translation paid for? $2935 to go.
(We're out of time to fundraise for the Kiswahili book (Dunia na Watu Wake), but if anyone has $5000, that would fund it - I could get you in touch!)
Can we please get this Shona → English translation paid for? $2935 to go.
(We're out of time to fundraise for the Kiswahili book (Dunia na Watu Wake), but if anyone has $5000, that would fund it - I could get you in touch!)
Please, let's fund the translation of Zvinobvinza. It's been a long seven months.
Many thanks to the first cis white man who we see talk about the project.
At this point, we can't translate the third book unless someone can donate $5,000 (reach out directly) but we *can* close up these first two.
Many thanks to the first cis white man who we see talk about the project.
At this point, we can't translate the third book unless someone can donate $5,000 (reach out directly) but we *can* close up these first two.
Support African Translation Project
African Translation Project, Funding needed to complete two translations: Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza, still needed: $2970, 70%, ko-fi: African Translation Project
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November 8, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Reminder.
Can we please get this Shona → English translation paid for? $2935 to go.
(We're out of time to fundraise for the Kiswahili book (Dunia na Watu Wake), but if anyone has $5000, that would fund it - I could get you in touch!)
Can we please get this Shona → English translation paid for? $2935 to go.
(We're out of time to fundraise for the Kiswahili book (Dunia na Watu Wake), but if anyone has $5000, that would fund it - I could get you in touch!)
lèirmheas air Blood of the Old Kings, le Kim Sung-il, air eadar-theangachadh le Anton Hur: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...
sàr-leabhar fantasachd. mas toil leat idir àrd-fhantasachd no dìreach deagh sgeulachd air fòirneart na h-ìmpireachd, bu chòir dhut a leughadh.
sàr-leabhar fantasachd. mas toil leat idir àrd-fhantasachd no dìreach deagh sgeulachd air fòirneart na h-ìmpireachd, bu chòir dhut a leughadh.
Blood of the Old Kings (The Bleeding Empire, #1) / an duilleag gheal
anduilleaggheal.neocities.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
lèirmheas air Blood of the Old Kings, le Kim Sung-il, air eadar-theangachadh le Anton Hur: anduilleaggheal.neocities.org/leirmheasan/...
sàr-leabhar fantasachd. mas toil leat idir àrd-fhantasachd no dìreach deagh sgeulachd air fòirneart na h-ìmpireachd, bu chòir dhut a leughadh.
sàr-leabhar fantasachd. mas toil leat idir àrd-fhantasachd no dìreach deagh sgeulachd air fòirneart na h-ìmpireachd, bu chòir dhut a leughadh.
to be honest I'm not sure I'm convinced that Tolkien is actually The Most Influential Fantasy Writer Of All Time, at least in terms of the contemporary configuration of the genre. to the extent that literary inheritance is quantifiable I think it might "actually" be Vance or Howard, by way of D&D.
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
to be honest I'm not sure I'm convinced that Tolkien is actually The Most Influential Fantasy Writer Of All Time, at least in terms of the contemporary configuration of the genre. to the extent that literary inheritance is quantifiable I think it might "actually" be Vance or Howard, by way of D&D.
I think when I say "the fantasy genre would not exist without Ossian" people think I'm exaggerating/being hyperbolic, but the claymore-wielding "barbarian" war-leader in Kim Sung-il's Blood of the Old Kings is named "Griogal" (a Gaelic name best known from the popular lament "Griogal Cridhe")
November 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I think when I say "the fantasy genre would not exist without Ossian" people think I'm exaggerating/being hyperbolic, but the claymore-wielding "barbarian" war-leader in Kim Sung-il's Blood of the Old Kings is named "Griogal" (a Gaelic name best known from the popular lament "Griogal Cridhe")