Maria Dahvana Headley

❤️❤️❤️❤️ best nerd moment!! Thank you!!

Also amazing!!! Whee!

This is amazing!!!

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

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.

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.

Yeassss thank you!!!!

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.

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

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

I wish you were coming!

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”

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.

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...

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

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.

dudes rock

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.

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.

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)

Thank you!!!!

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

The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods - Reactor Gods won’t save you. Gods will break you. Nevertheless, you will persist. And become anew

"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.

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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

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.

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.

Oooh I'm excited about this!!'

He is my heart!

I am obsessed with this shirt and wish it came in my size. This one is a size 12 kids, so it is way too big for Grimoire but...whatever. It had to be his.

A happy 6 year old child displaying a shirt with a green dragon prominently displayed facing front on the chest.

The same dragon shirt, on the same child, now with the mouth of the dragon unzipped to reveal pull out quilted flames.

A certain child in the best ever dragon shirt with zip-out flames. I got him this shirt, and he came rushing into the bedroom to show me this morning.

Go read this. It's wonderful.