Melissa W
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Melissa W
@melissarw.bsky.social
Academic editor in Bavaria. Faulpelz extraordinaire. Medievalist in training. Vermonter. President of the Saif Ali Khan Fan Club.
Wernher von Braun, yes
January 24, 2026 at 4:10 PM
I'm reading Sense and Sensibility in German and struggling because I'm not sure how much of what I'm understanding is genuinely skill-based (my German is only B2) and how much comes from having practically memorized the book after reading it 10+ times in English 😂
January 7, 2026 at 11:04 AM
(our town's official NYE event takes place less than 100 feet from our apartment and most years we wake up to debris from the fireworks all over our balcony and window sills — I'm constantly worried that one of the windows will be blown out the way they set this shit off so close)
December 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Time to start requiring papers have an appendix with screenshots of the first page of every cited source used
December 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
DCH (and KHNH) were where he first caught my eye so I didn't come up on much of his earlier work, but Yeh Dillagi was fun (Ole Ole has always been one of my favorite of his songs). I adore him but bless, it took him a long time to develop as an actor lol...some of the early stuff is unwatchable.
November 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I aggressively boycott all Salman Khan films so I've never watched either of them, but even without him I can't imagine I'd find them any more appealing than you did 😂
November 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This was an excellent read — I finally got around to watching DDLJ the other day after years of avoiding it and found it so cringe I didn't finish it. Raj and Baldev were each repulsive in their own ways; I don't know if there was a single redeemable male character in the entire movie.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
October 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM