Stace
@shortace.bsky.social
BA in Ancient History, Masters in Cultural Heritage, and about to complete a Masters in Ancient History. I love learning weird shit and telling other people about it. Overall nerd. Love puns and dad jokes.
Up until a few days ago, the latest published work I'd found recommending the use of poop for medicinal purposes was from 1862. But I just found one from 1899! Apparently pheasant dung "excites [a person] to venery". (that means LUST!)
#victorianera #history #medicalhistory
#victorianera #history #medicalhistory
February 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Up until a few days ago, the latest published work I'd found recommending the use of poop for medicinal purposes was from 1862. But I just found one from 1899! Apparently pheasant dung "excites [a person] to venery". (that means LUST!)
#victorianera #history #medicalhistory
#victorianera #history #medicalhistory
February 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Why is it in movies that lost past civilizations who create some magical powerful thing that goes horribly wrong and must be destroyed always just separate pieces and spread them "on opposite ends of the Earth" or hide them in a hole. IDK, just destroy it? probably don't hang on to the instructions?
December 6, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Why is it in movies that lost past civilizations who create some magical powerful thing that goes horribly wrong and must be destroyed always just separate pieces and spread them "on opposite ends of the Earth" or hide them in a hole. IDK, just destroy it? probably don't hang on to the instructions?
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Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.
Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.
Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.
December 3, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community.
Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.
Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.
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I‘m developing a phobia of German sausage.
I fear the wurst
I fear the wurst
December 4, 2024 at 3:27 PM
I‘m developing a phobia of German sausage.
I fear the wurst
I fear the wurst
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Don’t let the desire to make “good” art stand in the way of making art.
Make bad art earnestly and joyfully. Pour your heart into poorly executed, derivative creations. And maybe it will end up “good” eventually or maybe it won’t, but either way you got to experience the magic of creating.
Make bad art earnestly and joyfully. Pour your heart into poorly executed, derivative creations. And maybe it will end up “good” eventually or maybe it won’t, but either way you got to experience the magic of creating.
December 4, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Don’t let the desire to make “good” art stand in the way of making art.
Make bad art earnestly and joyfully. Pour your heart into poorly executed, derivative creations. And maybe it will end up “good” eventually or maybe it won’t, but either way you got to experience the magic of creating.
Make bad art earnestly and joyfully. Pour your heart into poorly executed, derivative creations. And maybe it will end up “good” eventually or maybe it won’t, but either way you got to experience the magic of creating.
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Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Two stages of writing:
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
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Maybe not so controversial opinion: listening to audiobooks still counts as reading. People with dyslexia who love books exist. Two people in my life are like this, and they've torn through more books than me. One of them being my dad.
December 4, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Maybe not so controversial opinion: listening to audiobooks still counts as reading. People with dyslexia who love books exist. Two people in my life are like this, and they've torn through more books than me. One of them being my dad.
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As a food writer I feel it's important to report that sometimes the solution to your problems is eating as much mac and cheese as physically possible
December 3, 2024 at 11:18 PM
As a food writer I feel it's important to report that sometimes the solution to your problems is eating as much mac and cheese as physically possible
I hate the way that writers have to also be influencers and salespeople these days. Selling our books is what publishers are for!!! And yes, we are still whole people outside of our books.
OK miss me with the bullshit that writers are ONLY on social media to sell books.
We're also humans who have pets and gardens and baked goods and pancakes that improbably come out of the pan looking like goats.
Where else are we supposed to talk about those things? Just stand outside and yell??
We're also humans who have pets and gardens and baked goods and pancakes that improbably come out of the pan looking like goats.
Where else are we supposed to talk about those things? Just stand outside and yell??
December 4, 2024 at 11:25 AM
I hate the way that writers have to also be influencers and salespeople these days. Selling our books is what publishers are for!!! And yes, we are still whole people outside of our books.
December 4, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
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If you’re anxious follow the 3-3-3 rule. Name three thing you can see, listen to three sounds you can hear, and kill three people that annoy you.
December 4, 2024 at 1:00 AM
If you’re anxious follow the 3-3-3 rule. Name three thing you can see, listen to three sounds you can hear, and kill three people that annoy you.
I admit that the use of excrement in historical healthcare is something of a special interest of mine....
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#history #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #historyofmedicine #hippocrates
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#history #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #historyofmedicine #hippocrates
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December 4, 2024 at 4:53 AM
I admit that the use of excrement in historical healthcare is something of a special interest of mine....
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#history #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #historyofmedicine #hippocrates
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#history #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #historyofmedicine #hippocrates
Ancient treatments for the common cold! Don't try these at home.
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December 1, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Ancient treatments for the common cold! Don't try these at home.
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#history #ancienthistory #historyofmedicine #writer #substack
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Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
November 24, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
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Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!
November 23, 2024 at 1:01 AM
Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!
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Cursed to Dance: What you didn't know about the outbreak of St Vitus' Dance in Strasbourg.
#history #earlymoderneurope #europeanhistory #holyromanempire #france #frenchhistory #medicalhistory #historyofmedicine
Cursed to Dance: What you didn't know about the outbreak of St Vitus' Dance in Strasbourg.
#history #earlymoderneurope #europeanhistory #holyromanempire #france #frenchhistory #medicalhistory #historyofmedicine
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November 24, 2024 at 6:05 AM
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Cursed to Dance: What you didn't know about the outbreak of St Vitus' Dance in Strasbourg.
#history #earlymoderneurope #europeanhistory #holyromanempire #france #frenchhistory #medicalhistory #historyofmedicine
Cursed to Dance: What you didn't know about the outbreak of St Vitus' Dance in Strasbourg.
#history #earlymoderneurope #europeanhistory #holyromanempire #france #frenchhistory #medicalhistory #historyofmedicine
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You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.
November 23, 2024 at 2:02 PM
You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.
New short fiction now available free on Substack: The Housemate!
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#writing #originalfiction #gothic #shortstory
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#writing #originalfiction #gothic #shortstory
The Housemate
A little short story to start off with
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November 23, 2024 at 10:11 PM
New short fiction now available free on Substack: The Housemate!
substack.com/@stacyshort/...
#writing #originalfiction #gothic #shortstory
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#writing #originalfiction #gothic #shortstory