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LU2D Games - General Art Goblin! @lu2dgames.bsky.social · 1h

Every time I forget a word or phrase my brain makes one up on the fly - can't remember "mausoleum"? Try "Dead People House". Forget the word "seagull"? Try "Violence Pigeon".

Hubby wishes his brain did that.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 52m

‘And I just wanted to make sure if I was along the right lines?’

And I’m like 🤯🤯🤯 ‘YES! You are DOING criticism - in that you are making something new out of existing material!’

And they went away reassured. 6/6

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 52m

‘And yesterday you said about literature being an experience of otherness,’ the student continues and I’m like 🤯 cos I love it when students make links between classes,
‘but Jane isn’t doing that - she’s using the books she reads to protect herself - she’s reading AGAINST otherness…’ 5/6

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 52m

The slide is about whether or not Jane Eyre IS reading all the books she mentioned or whether she’s doing something else with them: looking at the pictures, fantasising, hiding… 4/6

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 52m

‘So, I downloaded your lecture before class and read it but I didn’t understand one slide - though I think after your lecture I get it more, but I just wanted to check I understood…’ 3/6

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 52m

What did they want to ask so privately? Was it going to be something personal and difficult and perhaps horrific? Was it a complaint? They were VERY determined to wait… 2/6

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 52m

So, the first class of Ways of Reading is about close reading Jane Eyre AND moments of reading in Jane Eyre, and everyone did some really good analysis of the Red room episode which was heartening BUT after class one student determinedly waited for everyone to leave to ask me a question… 🧵 1/6

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 6h

Me, scrolling past this skeet without immediate context: ha ha yeah those anti-intellectual bastards

Me, seeing the actual news story about Tory plans to curb students from taking degrees like English: THOSE ANTI-INTELLECTUAL BASTARDS!

Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social · 6h

The Conservatives: “Tough on Books, Tough on the Causes of Books.”

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10h

CLUE is, in many ways, one of our best games about how we’d all like any excuse to wander around other people’s houses checking for weird shit.

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 8h

The little dog looking out at us should be as famous as The Scream 🖤

wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 17h

hello here are some sausage dogs on a rug painted by edvard munch

a painting of a colourful rug with five sausage dogs on it

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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 5d

Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuk, 1927–2013) :
Floral Passage, 2007
Stonecut and stencil
62.2 x 73.7 cm. | 24.5 x 29 in.

Ashevak, CC ONu RCA is celebrated as a leading figure of modern Inuit art.

Kenojuak Ashevak was born in an igloo in an Inuit camp, Ikirasaq, at the southern coast of Baffin Island. Her father, Ushuakjuk, an Inuit hunter and fur trader, and her mother, Silaqqi, named Kenojuak after Silaqqi's deceased father.

Kenojuak remembered Ushuakjuk as "a kind and benevolent man." Her father, a respected angakkuq (shaman), "had more knowledge than average mortals, and he would help all the Inuit people.” According to Kenojuak, her father believed he could predict weather, predict good hunting seasons and even turn into a walrus. Her father came into conflict with Christian converts, and some enemies assassinated him in a hunting camp in 1933, when she was only six.

After her father's murder, Kenojuak moved with her widowed mother Silaqqi and family to the home of Silaqqi's mother, Koweesa, who taught her traditional crafts, including the repair of sealskins for trade with the Hudson's Bay Company and how to make waterproof clothes sewn with caribou sinew.

When she was 19, her mother, Silaqqi, and stepfather, Takpaugni, arranged for her to marry Johnniebo Ashevak, a local Inuit hunter. Kenojuak was reluctant, but in time, she came to love him for his kindness and gentleness, a man who developed artistic talents in his own right.

In 1950 a public health nurse arrived in her Arctic village; Kenojuak, having tested positive in a tuberculosis screening, was sent against her will to Parc Savard hospital in Quebec City, where she stayed for over three years, from early 1952 to the summer of 1955. She had just given birth when she was forcibly transferred; the baby was adopted by a neighbouring family. Several of Kenojuak's children died while she was confined in hospital.

In 1966, Kenojuak and Johnniebo moved to Cape Dorset. Many of their children and grandchildren succumbed to disease, as did her husband after 26 years of marriage. Three daughters of Kenojuak, Mary, Elisapee Qiqituk, and Aggeok, died in childhood, and four sons, Jamasie, her adopted s…

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James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social · 19h

He has something very grave to impart.

A blue-grey staffie, placing his paw on my arm and wearing a look of grave concern

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19h

it's national taco day! stellar mexicanist ignacio sanchez prado has a new book right on time!

TACO, in the bloomsbury object lessons series.

chicago, go celebrate with a taco and support our neighbors in little village, pilsen, logan, everywhere

www.bloomsbury.com/us/taco-9798...

Taco

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 22h

I joke that it took me twenty years to figure out how to get this off my chest about Herman Melville, starting from my first encounter as an undergrad in 2005. But it kind of did. So thrilled that this essay has a home at J19: Project MUSE - Melville's Idea of a Wife muse.jhu.edu/article/970112

Project MUSE - Melville's Idea of a Wife

muse.jhu.edu

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 22h

Another autoincorrect turned ‘Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl’ from a dense but super fun essay to a dense hot supper…

Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 2d

Just typed suppernatural instead of supernatural and want to launch a Gothic supper club for Halloween 🎃

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Sarah ⚧ ✡︎ @sarahkorse.bsky.social · 1d

"Go to Mastodon". I tried that. But it came off as a honey pot for people who get sexually aroused by the thought of watching normies try to install Linux.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

#litcrit pals, a really interesting question about the history of discipline from a graduate student here, a question that has me totally stumped:
"which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review)
Thank you for your suggestions!

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 2d

🦇 'Bats' are more than one species. They are an incredibly diverse group of mammals with 1,500 species that we know of. There is a huge diversity of sizes, colours, nose shapes, ear shapes, diet, habitat and more!

In the UK, there are 18 resident species: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...

UK Bats - Types of bats - Bat Conservation Trust

We are lucky enough to have 18 species of bat in the UK, 17 of which are known to be breeding here - that's almost a quarter of our mammal species. Ever...

www.bats.org.uk

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 1d

LOVE this! Feels like they’re all singing - Bohemian Rhspsody, perhaps? I would feel good if the left hand devil was put aside for me!

Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning!

[Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, A Soul in Hell, 1670-1700, Wax, 11.5 cm x 10 cm (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)]

A screaming head modeled in wax, surrounded by demons and stylized flames

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dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 1d

the used copy i got from the bookstore paid off when i passed it around so everyone could see where the previous reader remarked about rochester, “he a bitch”

dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 2d

insisting students have the correct edition of the book means going to the campus bookstore to pick up a used copy when you forgot yours at home

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 1d

"Caring about thought in time means caring about scholarship."

Please allow yourself the pleasure of reading Kathy Psomiades, reading a bunch of other people, reading her award-winning book, *Primitive Marriage* (cluster of response-essays now out in VLC)

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Article header:
THINKING IN TIME
Kathy Alexis Psomiades, Duke University

Caring about thought in time means caring
about scholarship as well—it has always seemed strange to me that the call
to deepen and enrich our readings of the literature of the past so often
goes hand in hand with a shallow and impoverished reading of the texts of
our more recent critical past, as if we could throw away the past fifty years
of reading practice to encounter the text in all its purity. This is not so
much an ethics for me—though I think we might inquire about what it
means if you have different ethics for reading one kind of text than
another—but a problem of misrecognition of our own thinking and
reading.

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 23d

📣CFP: 'Byron and Identity', 2026 Newstead Abbey Byron Conference, deadline 1 January 2026
👉 www.thebyronsociety.com/call-for-pap...

#AcademicSky #Romanticism #LordByron

@bars.bsky.social
@byronsociety.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social

Portrait of Lord Byron in a heavy gilded frame; it hangs from chains on a wall in Newstead Abbey, covered in cream and red, strapwork wallpaper

A view of Newstead Abbey from the far side of Eagle Pond

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 20d

📣 Announcing the publication of BARS review Issue 61, my first issue as editor!

www.bars.ac.uk/review/index...

Vol. 61 (2025) | The BARS Review

www.bars.ac.uk

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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 7d

Happy to have my essay on P.B. Shelley and Wordsworth's 'woodland state' included in the 'Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities' special issue of @plantperspectives.bsky.social, ed. by @treeseeker.bsky.social & @planthums-uk.bsky.social 🌿🌳

Article cover image of a blossoming branch in front of a stack of books

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