Finn Longman
@finnlongman.com
Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra.
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
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https://finnlongman.com
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
♿
https://finnlongman.com
Introducing the US edition! I could've done a better video than this probably but you don't want to see my face, my jaw is swollen and I haven't slept. So. You get to see how messy this corner of my living room is instead 😅
January 13, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Introducing the US edition! I could've done a better video than this probably but you don't want to see my face, my jaw is swollen and I haven't slept. So. You get to see how messy this corner of my living room is instead 😅
This isn't a joke I did actually do that
January 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
This isn't a joke I did actually do that
January 12, 2026 at 12:34 PM
I did write a deeply stupid scene once where the 10th century one is having a crisis about forgetting his own language and the 17th century one is trying to cheer him up by offering to study Old Irish with him & it turns into giving each other shit about their mutually unintelligible dialects
January 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
I did write a deeply stupid scene once where the 10th century one is having a crisis about forgetting his own language and the 17th century one is trying to cheer him up by offering to study Old Irish with him & it turns into giving each other shit about their mutually unintelligible dialects
How I'm coping when I just want to scream at the document (please note that it is more than 13.5 years since I was in regular practice as a flautist and quite often I go years without playing once; this is my first time in recent memory)
January 11, 2026 at 6:35 PM
How I'm coping when I just want to scream at the document (please note that it is more than 13.5 years since I was in regular practice as a flautist and quite often I go years without playing once; this is my first time in recent memory)
Anyway, it wasn't wholly a wasted trip, because I popped into college and checked my pigeonhole and found that @sissiarte.bsky.social had sent me a festive gift of a veritable army of little Cú Chulainn stickers! Which I am sure I will put to nefarious use :)
January 7, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Anyway, it wasn't wholly a wasted trip, because I popped into college and checked my pigeonhole and found that @sissiarte.bsky.social had sent me a festive gift of a veritable army of little Cú Chulainn stickers! Which I am sure I will put to nefarious use :)
We've hit a new low on chronology (mostly because I realised it was actually only fifteen years but it was more confusing to be correct)
January 5, 2026 at 10:23 PM
We've hit a new low on chronology (mostly because I realised it was actually only fifteen years but it was more confusing to be correct)
The birds and I have both been using this bridge
January 5, 2026 at 3:43 PM
The birds and I have both been using this bridge
Foxprints (Wildling shoes leave excellent prints in snow on ice, it turns out)
January 5, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Foxprints (Wildling shoes leave excellent prints in snow on ice, it turns out)
The frozen lake has a question for you
January 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
The frozen lake has a question for you
How cold is it in Cambridge?
Bike on lake.
Bike on lake.
January 5, 2026 at 3:34 PM
How cold is it in Cambridge?
Bike on lake.
Bike on lake.
Look at this small beast I met recently
January 3, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Look at this small beast I met recently
I got to the end! The next step is to go off and read or reread a bunch of academic articles related to a few decisions I need to make about terminology and phrasing, and then I go back and re-edit the chapters suspiciously lacking in tracked changes.
December 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I got to the end! The next step is to go off and read or reread a bunch of academic articles related to a few decisions I need to make about terminology and phrasing, and then I go back and re-edit the chapters suspiciously lacking in tracked changes.
Proofreading text based on this and like. why. It's 22:50 on the last Friday before Christmas and this is what I'm dealing with. Free me
December 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Proofreading text based on this and like. why. It's 22:50 on the last Friday before Christmas and this is what I'm dealing with. Free me
Me seeing the Daily Mail and the Telegraph both turning on him this week:
December 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Me seeing the Daily Mail and the Telegraph both turning on him this week:
From the acclaimed author of.
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You know what those things have in common? They're not titles. Why are they are in the title field
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You know what those things have in common? They're not titles. Why are they are in the title field
December 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
From the acclaimed author of.
Author blurb.
Tagline.
Misplaced series tag which tbf could be an ebook conversion thing.
Tagline again.
You know what those things have in common? They're not titles. Why are they are in the title field
Author blurb.
Tagline.
Misplaced series tag which tbf could be an ebook conversion thing.
Tagline again.
You know what those things have in common? They're not titles. Why are they are in the title field
Only the classiest and, honestly, eeriest of seasonal music from the Maypole Folk Collective at our last session of 2025
December 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Only the classiest and, honestly, eeriest of seasonal music from the Maypole Folk Collective at our last session of 2025
(Butterfly of Night is the original title of The Butterfly Assassin, ftr.)
December 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
(Butterfly of Night is the original title of The Butterfly Assassin, ftr.)
If, like me, you're dismayed to learn that it's less than 2 weeks until Christmas and haven't bought a single present yet, may I suggest my YA trilogy about a traumatised teenage assassin trying to live a normal life for the older teens and other YA readers in your life?:
finnlongman.com/books/
finnlongman.com/books/
December 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If, like me, you're dismayed to learn that it's less than 2 weeks until Christmas and haven't bought a single present yet, may I suggest my YA trilogy about a traumatised teenage assassin trying to live a normal life for the older teens and other YA readers in your life?:
finnlongman.com/books/
finnlongman.com/books/
We're so nearly there. I'm going to be so glad when this article is done and submitted.
December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
We're so nearly there. I'm going to be so glad when this article is done and submitted.
So it turns out that even if you suddenly figure out how to fix your article's Problem Paragraph at half midnight, you should not try opening it on your phone if it contains diagrams, because Microsoft Word will not be happy about it, and you will face the consequences the next day
December 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
So it turns out that even if you suddenly figure out how to fix your article's Problem Paragraph at half midnight, you should not try opening it on your phone if it contains diagrams, because Microsoft Word will not be happy about it, and you will face the consequences the next day
December 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Well, this is going incredibly slowly and is proving a bit fiddly and difficult, but I have made it as far as the first diagram (currently page 11 of 26), and I have a stronger idea of how I'm going to tackle the next couple of sections, so... yay?
December 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Well, this is going incredibly slowly and is proving a bit fiddly and difficult, but I have made it as far as the first diagram (currently page 11 of 26), and I have a stronger idea of how I'm going to tackle the next couple of sections, so... yay?
Painful realisation that this article is exclusively about 17th-19th century manuscripts and there is no justification for clinging to a spelling that absolutely none of them use
December 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Painful realisation that this article is exclusively about 17th-19th century manuscripts and there is no justification for clinging to a spelling that absolutely none of them use
Sometimes you do just have to cycle over to the UL and print the damn thing so you can scribble all over it.
December 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Sometimes you do just have to cycle over to the UL and print the damn thing so you can scribble all over it.