Laura

i wear the mummy on my head while i eat croissants over the manuscripts and smoke with the cigarette hanging out the window

I'm guessing maybe? it had meringue on the top. I'm not convinced it's a combination. It reminds me of how when I was 4 or something I theorised that ketchup was good and ice cream was good so i had ketchup on ice cream and realised that good things don't necessarily combine...

i just saw a lemon meringue croissant and it's like the most gorgeous couple you know just had an absolutely hideous, revolting baby

and yes this is my office

I have loved working with this. I remember a medievalist once telling a lecture hall that medievalists who don't work with manuscripts are missing out on the most fun you can have with your clothes still on, and I have to say I agree 😁

selfie in a blue dress with a mummy head visible behind

told you i had mummy issues

btw, this mess is a fifth-century fragment of pre-justinianic Roman law in b-d uncial, written on vellum somewhere in the eastern half of the empire and reused in the binding of a later manuscript

palaeographer who gets a piercing so they can have a nasal bar

ok weirdo just go on inventing stuff in your head and attacking random women on the internet who didn't say it

ok whatever dude haven't you got a cloud to shout at

A rectangle sub-divided into four rectangles in a meme format. The upper left says “medieval” opposite the upper right which consists of a manuscript opening (The Lichfield Gospels, pp. 140-141); the lower left says “‘mid’ evil” opposite the lower right which is a screenshot of the ‘AI Overview’ that appears at the top of many Google searches.

the “dark” ages vs the “information age”

it's ridiculous how some people seem to think the only possible reason to do a humanities phd is to become a tenured professor. i use the considerable fruits of my philological training all day every single day to overanalyse every word anyone says to or around me within an inch of its life

thinking about the time I referred to myself as a Latinist and some random guy came in with 'actually the term is latina' and anyway that's when I deleted my mastodon account

we made a decentralized social network! it's full of tech people, germans, and people who don't have sex

it's ridiculous how some people seem to think the only possible reason to do a humanities phd is to become a tenured professor. i use the considerable fruits of my philological training all day every single day to overanalyse every word anyone says to or around me within an inch of its life

i am stealing it half-remembered from wg sebald...

there's some Kafka line about how people say opera is unrealistic but what's more realistic than slowly dying as you lie in front of a bored audience who mostly can't understand a word you're saying and probably don't care

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

Epic; no notes

'sult era', I whisper to myself, as I go around Christiania starving and going mad in a stark first-person narrative of a shattered self

before 'Pan', there was of course Hamsun's breakthrough with 'Slut'

Knut Hamsun's revolutionary novel, 'Pan'. Strindberg's classic play, 'Bi'. Ibsen's unforgettable masterpiece, 'Lesbian'

today we honour the relic of the finger of st anonymous of the internet archive

the most selfless, and therefore noblest, type of immortality for future generations is being the anonymous hand in a PDF scan of a book holding it open

I'd have jumped at this not too long ago, but I'm pretty happy where I am now...

Tenure-track assistant professor in early medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

Early medieval job in Copenhagen!

employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

I'm stoked for the inevitable new post-apocalyptic religion that does Sortes Vergilianae using dril tweets.

in the future due to internet shortages everyone will have to palimpsest old posts to make new ones, and 2000 years from now we will have academics who are super excited about finding part of a lost dril tweet or a hitherto undiscovered alf hog reference underneath an argument on moderation policy

anarchie in österreich 🎶
sie kommt irgendwann, aber nicht zu spät
i geh in billa um 1845
kauf a gösser mit a rebattpickel ABER I BIN NED IN DER Ö-KLUB

black flag flying from the Wiener Rathaus today. have the anarchists seized control? no sign of it yet but we will see. anarchy in austria is if the shops are open past 1900

i am one with everything. i am dead and yet alive, nowhere and yet everywhere. as long as it's somewhere with a ton of fucking used books