Dr. Caitlyn Brinkman-Schwartz

Me: Of course I'll cut down on my footnotes.
Also me: It is vital that I tell you about this salmon

Someone on this train just described a friend as ‘naturally avant garde’, which manages to be simultaneously damning and the highest praise

Oh, was there a dog in that photo? Sorry, I was too busy admiring the sigil of Lilith

Chaucer famously asserts that what women want is sovereignty. However, I believe that what women want is to be asked *whether they have sufficient ponies* (and, when the answer is a woebegone negative, offered more ponies). In this essay, I will--

If you send me a photo of your pet, I will be unable to resist replying with what I infer to be your pet’s political opinions

How did it take 5 years of teaching medieval lit for me to finally receive an essay titled ‘Slay, Queen’ 😂

19th century pearl-clutching about terrorists become less classy is the funniest thing I’ve read today

British Museum Seeks Treasure Hunter to Recover Stolen Antiquities The British Museum is stepping up the search for hundreds of antiquities, stolen in 2023, by hiring a dedicated treasure hunter.

Love that my friend sent me this as a vacation idea for us 😂 news.artnet.com/art-world/br...

Your paintings also reminded me of that book!

Sadly unsuccessful in convincing any children that Santa Claus is short for ‘Santa Von Clausewitz’ and that he is not merely judging one’s naughtiness/niceness but one’s grand strategy for the year.

My dad just approvingly commented, 'Sometimes cvilisation advances at a jump, rather than a crawl'.

Christmas has me thinking about trends in the use of gold in Christian iconography

Well that’s the ‘whose historical dinner party’ question answered. Despite years of fangirling, I had no idea the famous bellydancer Tahiyya Carioca was so politically active!

I’ve been lifting to deal with the stress of the academic job market and now I’m fairly likely to represent GB in 2026 so I think that tells you all you need to know

This is just to say—

I have fucked up
some fadhas
that were in
the book manuscript

and which
Reviewer 2
was exasperated
to see

Forgive me
they were coimpléasc
so duaisiúil
and so aimrhéateach

Note-to-self to use this Irish recolutionary handbill as an article title.

I think this is the same royal visit to Ireland in 1903 in which Maud Gonne hung half a black petticoat from a broomstick as a flag outside her home. When the police removed it, she replaced it with a new black flag made from the petticoat's other half.

I’m in rural Wales on a journey to a portal to the Otherworld (as you do). My friend has used half his luggage to bring a rice cooker because, even if we end up at an Otherworldly banquet, this man isn’t convinced there will be correctly-made rice.

'Late 20th c. machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artifical...self-developing and externally designed...Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.'
-Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Outstanding. As long as there is at least mild spookiness. Non-spookiness would be in poor taste.

Absolute burn from Richard the Lionheart [source is Hilary Rhodes, ‘Richard the Lionheart, Contested Queerness, and Crusading Memory’]

'ernbas' (I believe 'ernmaiss' is a form of this) is a nicely effective word: It's 'bás' (death) combined with 'íarn' (iron) to describe death from combat

There's no way to quite get it across in English but I love the saint Colum Cille's description of a young warrior as 'eólach cech ernmaiss'. It's like, 'learned in all forms of death-by-iron'

My defense in my witchcraft trial would be that I'm merely running a sanctuary for supernatural creatures that need forever homes

One phrase in the English language stands out as for its exceptional versatility. In this essay I will--

Normal family whatsapp chat

Irish Language: Belfast City Council votes in favour of policy The policy could see both English and Irish displayed on council vehicles and uniforms, as well as signs.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I first assumed it was a French graal reference (holy grail conceived of as a dish); but after reading it, my best guess is a real dish that evokes a shield, hence the odd placement of the dish being on the arm. Not pinging any associations w/ saga, which is more abt cauldrons.

Why is girls' night so hard to organise