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The days are getting shorter. I may not be able to read outside in natural light until 11 pm much longer. 🇫🇮💙🇫🇮

My husband commenting on the 7 years I was in grad school: "You wouldn't believe the number of workaholic friends you can have at the same time!" Actually, my love, I can. And I survived and our marriage survived because of them. And you, because you're wonderful (and cook 95% of all our meals.) ♥️

This image is beautiful and terrifying, fascinating and panic inducing. I have thalassophobia but am fascinated by the terrors of the deep. As long as they're fictional, in writing, images, or calmingly narrated documentaries, preferably by James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman.

Amen.

Cincinnati! My fave chant: no kings in the Queen City!

Excellent point.

Oathbreakers The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that wou...

Excuse me internet person, have you heard the good word of Carolingian civil wars? www.harpercollins.com/products/oat...

Rebuilding Notre-Dame: What Medievalists Need to Know About the Restoration - Medievalists.net For medievalists and historians, the rebuilding of Notre-Dame offers a unique lens to explore the intersection of medieval craftsmanship, modern science, and cutting-edge research.

For the last several days I have been working on this special piece about the restoration of Notre-Dame Cathedral. I hope you find it an interesting read.

https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/rebuilding-notre-dame-medievalists/ #NotreDame #NotreDamedeParis #medievalsky #medievalists #historysky

RIGHT?!?

Wishing you all the patience for the end of the year! And for The Navigator's Children to be on sale when you get it!

PSA: It exists as an audiobook! Placed on hold at my public library! Sad to not enjoy the maps as I listen, though. I do like me a good map, but ATM if it's not directly related to the book I'm writing I'm listening to it.

Memory, Sorrow and Thorn is a favorite! And Tailchaser's Song. Very excited for the Last King of Osten-Ard -- as soon as the library gets the audiobook!

There goes that strategy for recognizing AI images out the door...

I loved that the Gullaime (which I only learned to spell from social media #audiobooks) was called by the species. The othering effect of the human society on the/all Gullaime worked so well, and centered the rage of one of my favorite characters of all time. 💥 Prequel on the Gullaime?

Yes! Kari Iljin! This was in Finland, so not yet much about the US in those grades, intjink, although he did teach us that the US doesn't use the metric system, which blew our minds! Iljin used a lot of maps, which I am still inspired by and use in my own history classroom.

Coolest holiday doors on campus! @xavieruniversity.bsky.social

I've shared this before. Seems like a good time to share it again.

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

The only downside with audiobooking is no maps. Ok, so not knowing how to spell names of the fabulous characters is not exactly a plus, but I don't mind and the narrators are superb.

I'm torn between 🤦🏻‍♀️ and 🤩, to be honest.

Please don't! 😂

The Stirrup Thesis: A transformative technology that wasn’t - Medievalists.net Sometimes there is a story that’s just so simple and explanatory that it just must be true … even when it isn’t.

The Stirrup Thesis: A transformative technology that wasn’t https://www.medievalists.net/2022/11/stirrup-thesis/ #MiddleAges