Brooke Thomas

First ever article has been accepted for publication 🥳

I’m officially “serious”

Rewatching The Conjuring (2013) scene where Ed yells out the witch/demon thing’s name (found it in historical records) to kill it.

Demons really got screwed over by print culture, I guess.

Please, this guy called “A Princess of Mars” a CLASSIC novel and put it next to Monmouth’s “History of the Kings of Britain” 🤣 I get that he’s saying these are “classics of the fantasy genre” but it’s very telling of where derives his info about the Middle Ages and how he stratifies that info.

I’ll be damned before I fail to eat the garnishes in my cocktails. In this economy?

APA style sucks, and I will not be revising that opinion.

That is all.

Panda Express cookie fortune stating:“Don’t live beyond your means”

Not the fortune you want when your car dies and you have to get a new one

Wild! My 1099 is gonna be the death of ME. #thanksCUNY

(Me finding out I owe $4k in taxes as a grad student making tens of thousands BELOW a living wage ☠️)

I’ve been reading my copy already!

Navy flyer with golden star designs in the top corners and golden and white text that reads: ENGLISH PROGRAM 2025 AWARD WINNERS Kadison Award Brooke Thomas Cohen Travel Award Jeff Voss Alumni and Faculty Dissertation Year Fellowship Vallerie Matos The Millennium Dissertation Year Fellowship Charlie Markbreiter The Robert Adams Day Dissertation Year Fellowship Joseph Cáceres The Jane Marcus Fellowship Award Madeleine Barnes Milton F. Steinhardt Memorial Fellowship Award Sandra Goldstein Lehnert The Irving Howe Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature Nicole Cote, “Mediating Disaster: Shaping Perceptions of Risk, Environment, and Ways Forward” The Alfred Kazin Prize for the Best Dissertation in American Literature and Culture Stefano Morello, “Let’s Make a Scene!: East Bay Punk and Subcultural Worlding” The Paul Monette Prize for the Best Dissertation in Lesbian/Gay Studies Matthew Knip, “Before Melville’s Masts: Sex in the Age of Sail” The Timothy Healy Prize for the Best Dissertation on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Poetics Sokunthary Svay, “The Resonance of Generation Loss: Cambodian Diasporic Cultural Production After The Khmer Rouge” The Calder Prize for the Best Dissertation Involving Interdisciplinary Work Andrew Thomas Dunn, “Post-Truth and the Poetics of Attitude on Media” The Alumni and Doctoral Faculty Prize for the Most Distinguished Dissertation of the Year Destry Maria Sibley, “Narrating Mother, Narrating Twenty-First Century America: On Choice, Refusal, and Relation”

Announcing the 2025 English Department Awards! We're delighted to share this year's winners - please join us in congratulating the students who received Dissertation Year Fellowships and Dissertation Prizes!

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I have no idea, but I’ll ask! I know it’s a hybrid session, so it shouldn’t be hard to record.

Going to be at Kalamazoo for the medieval conference next week! If you’re there too, come to the Ecocriticisms I: Animals session to see me talk about Sir Gowther, dogs, and video game theory! Let’s get beers if you don’t hate it (or even if you do hate it, as long as you’re nice about it lol)

Two stuffy dudes in red robes from the late 17th to 18th century as typified by those dumb wigs they wore

And remember ladies, if his hair looks like this, he probably believes chastity belts were a real thing.

Someone’s knockoff purse on the ground full of water coming out of a public drinking hose in Rome.

Rome has some of the most incredible and artistically innovative fountains. The Trevi fountain is sure to be crammed with tourists this time of year, but do not to miss hidden gems like this: Saccus Neptuni

Let’s say ur at someone’s house & u have a glass with a lime, but they aren’t there to tell u what to do w/ it at night’s end. What do u do? Be honest not ideal.

A) leave it in sink w/ lime
B) leave in sink & toss lime in trash
C) hand wash
D) leave on counter lime in
E) counter w/ lime in trash

Realizing I’m from an era where the “posers” were all wannabe hipsters fighting over who knew Bon Iver in his Volcano Choir iteration instead of something cooler is a real punch to the ego . . .

IPAs but only bc dudes who DONT like IPAs talk about them in the same way ppl who think crystals are a joke talk about that, but those who DO “like” them have to convince themselves of it in the same way crystal girlies have to tell themselves the rocks work. It’s magical thinking + hipster vibes

Just learned that an acquaintance got denied a passport renewal bc he’s trans—something I’ve already seen ppl report happening to them on TikTok—I’m talking KEPT & sent in a BLACK HOLE. Not just denied gender marker, but effectively REVOKED. I’ve seen others online report the same . . . Taken! KEPT!

It’s wild that there are animals out there—dogs, donkeys, squirrels—that are more famous and culturally relevant than 99% of us will EVER be.

This is the future #posthumanists want.

I feel that at times, it's hard for us to find each other in community. I made a Starter Pack for Ryūkyūan Academics-Artists.

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#wargames folks #medievalsky and #historicalgames folks:

Has anyone played Mount & Blade ( #Bannerlord or #Warband ) either for leisure or for pedagogical reasons? If so, what are your thoughts on the game as a medievalism/historical fiction

My dogs are enjoying their snow days

I can’t talk rn—I’m too busy playing INFINITY NIKKI!!!

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Best Medieval Books of 2024 - Medievalists.net Medieval Studies has no shortage of amazing books coming out each year, but which ones are the best of the best? This week, Danièle continues the annual tradition of listing her top five book…

This week on The Medieval Podcast with
@5minmedievalist.bsky.social : Best Medieval Books of 2024 https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/best-medieval-books-of-2024/ #medievalsky #books

Amazon one-star review saying “I looked like a polygamist” in reference to a cotton, puff-sleeve shirt.

The best Amazon review I’ve seen in a while, which stinks because the shirt was actually 100% cotton and natural fibers are hard to come by on sites like that.

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I think I just threw up

Okinawan Journal of Island Studies (OJIS) Volume 5 | 琉球大学 島嶼地域科学研究所（RIIS）

Fellow islanders, especially academics:

The Okinawan Journal of Island Studies just put out their 5th volume!

It has cool articles like “Water Heals and Grows Indigeneity” by Risako Sakai.

(This site is mostly in Japanese, but the articles are in English.)
riis.skr.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/publication/...

Let me know if I've missed you: this is a list of folks who talk and post (and some write) about historical games and history
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