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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 3h

Also amazing!!! Whee!

Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 3h

This is amazing!!!

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 15h

I went to a huge party and thought a bunch of people would know. But no one knew what I was...except for people who were already my friends! Hahaha

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 15h

Also, related, the time I was the Voynich Manuscript for Halloween and painted my own version of Voynich and made it into a manuscript dress.

A woman wearing a dress painted with cryptic language and flowers. Also her skin is painted with cryptic things.

A close up of a Voynich bodice, with encrypted language and a couple of mystery flowers.

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 15h

Wheee! Exciting to see this replaying - it's an awesome performance by Becca Blackwell, and also one of my favorite stories I've ever written.

Symphony Space @symphonyspace.bsky.social · 16h

On this week's Selected Shorts episode, actors Teagle F. Bougere, Becca Blackwell, and Jane Curtin perform stories by Meron Hadero, @mariadahvana.bsky.social, and Anne Tyler. Take a listen wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/4mSJgs0
(Photos by Kevin Yatarola)

Teagle F. Bougere stands on the stage in front of a microphone reading a story.

Becca Blackwell stands on the stage in front of a microphone reading a story.

Jane Curtin stands on the stage in front of a microphone reading a story.

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 20h

Yeassss thank you!!!!

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 20h

This is my favorite thing I've seen in ages, and also it is precisely my daily life with a 6-year-old lair companion named Grimoire, and a whole bunch of facsimile codices on the shelves.

Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 1d

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure? It's a medieval monster conference keynote, so I don't think it's being streamed? But it might be.

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 4d

I'm coming to Chicago to talk about medieval monsters...

Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 14d

Just in case any of you are in rhe Midwest and want to attend this Medieval Monsters conference, I'm giving the keynote on Oct 17! www.dom.edu/medieval-mon...

Medieval + Monsters Conference | Dominican University

www.dom.edu

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 5d

I wish you were coming!

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A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 7d

going to start using the equivalent of “a writer’s writer” for everything—“an abyss’s abyss,” “the twins’ twins,” “the absolute fucker’s absolute fucker”

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 7d

Sitting at a bar after teaching my class on writing from the world's myths & stories, catching up on today's events, thinking about ancient world graffiti and how lots of it is just people saying essentially, FUCK. In both 'yep, I fucked here' ways & 'fuck, I hate everything' ways.

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 14d

Just in case any of you are in rhe Midwest and want to attend this Medieval Monsters conference, I'm giving the keynote on Oct 17! www.dom.edu/medieval-mon...

Medieval + Monsters Conference | Dominican University

www.dom.edu

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 15d

My OB-GYN friend posted this elsewhere, from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

SCIENCE IS CLEAR:
there is no link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism in children.
High-quality studies confirm acetaminophen's safety for use during pregnancy.
Pregnant patients can continue to rely on this trusted medicine for managing pain and fever.
ACOG

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 16d

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

Follow up tumblr post
every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 17d

The New Vegetarian Epicure is the cookbook that made me a good cook - I got it when I was in college and it taught me so many things. I still cook from it all the time.

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 17d

I made cornbread & my child thought it smelled like pizza cooking so he requested garlic tomato sauce as a dip. This is a good & comforting thing to make for dinner. Who doesn't need good & comforting right now? (The cornbread's Anna Thomas' New Vegetarian Epicure recipe, see pics)

A round of bronzed cornbread in a cast iron skillet, straight from the oven.

A slice of that cornbread in a shallow round bowl with a colorful bowl containing garlic tomato sauce beside it.

Anna Thomas' New Vegetarian Epicure Honey Buttermilk Cornbread recipe.

Honey Buttermilk Cornbread
from The New Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Thomas
Serves 8
1 cup (120 g) white flour
1 1/2 cups (340 g) cornmeal
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
3 large eggs
1 1/3 cups (320 ml) buttermilk
3 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons (30 g) butter, melted
Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
Sift together the flour, cornmeal, soda, baking powder and salt. In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, buttermilk, honey and melted butter. Combine the wet and dry ingredients, stirring gently just until the lumps are gone (don’t overmix). Pour the batter into a buttered 12 x 15-inch baking dish and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a tester inserted in the center of the cornbread comes out clean. Cut into squares and serve hot or warm.

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you!!!!

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 17d

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Nicola Griffith @nicolaz.bsky.social · 17d

This is a nifty write up of both sets of novels—go read GENERATION LOSS!—plus an interview with me about why Aud, with her “slivers of strangeness” is a “unique character who could enliven a book in any genre”. Quite right!

The badass return of crime novels by Nicola Griffith and Elizabeth Hand

Griffith’s Aud Torvingen novels and Hand’s Cass Neary series are back in new editions and they’re terrific.

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 18d

I wrote this a few years back, and it's about myths and love and selfareliance.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 18d

"This is the first myth: that your boyfriend from when you were fifteen will come and get you out of hell."

We welcome you to revisit "The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods" by @mariadahvana.bsky.social from the Reactor short fiction archives.

reactormag.com/a-girlfriend...

The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods - Reactor

Gods won’t save you. Gods will break you. Nevertheless, you will persist. And become anew

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 18d

"This is the first myth: that your boyfriend from when you were fifteen will come and get you out of hell."

We welcome you to revisit "The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods" by @mariadahvana.bsky.social from the Reactor short fiction archives.

reactormag.com/a-girlfriend...

The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods - Reactor

Gods won’t save you. Gods will break you. Nevertheless, you will persist. And become anew

reactormag.com

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 21d

Hahahahaa I mean, the thing that would really happen is that we'd meet on the headlands and start laughing because we like to hang out. We might have swords, but we wouldn't be fighting eachother. @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 24d

Force animates the word (har comes from heri, a Germanic word for troop, martial band), but so does refuge (berga, a built space of safety, a secure dwelling in a world imagined as inimical). Harbinger is danger and omen at once, refuge and seeker, force and announcement.

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · 24d

obsessed w the medieval origin of harbinger, it's an amazing word:
traveled from Old Saxon through medieval French, conveys in origins harbor, a place of safety. A medieval harbinger was one who provides lodging, as well as one who travels ahead in search of safe dwelling, a herald and guarantor.

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 23d

Oooh I'm excited about this!!'

Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 23d

If you're a fan of Sanjay Patel, as I am, you'll be excited to read that his retelling of the Mahabharata is coming out this October:

www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...

Mahabharata: Designs of Dharma

Mahabharata: Designs of Dharma [Patel, Sanjay] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Mahabharata: Designs of Dharma

www.amazon.com

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