Finlay J Beatson

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Imma need a bucket of popcorn for this chapter

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I may have to give this a watch 👀

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and says i don 't wike it ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and says i don 't wike it

It's too hot in Scotland right now.

It is simply gorgeous! To the point where I'm almost scared to touch it lest I somehow ruin it 🤣 My father bought it for me for Christmas

A small white penguin archive book with red text. "Bram Stoker. The Burial of the Rats."

A red book with silver holographic decoration detailing numerous rats. In the middle it says "The Burial of the Rats & other tales of the macabre by Bram Stoker. Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes." This book is published by The British Library.

Saw this in Southampton Waterstones and just had to get my hands on it! I already have a beautiful copy of Stoker's short stories, so this is a copy I can highlight to pieces!

It also has the newly discovered Gibbet Hill 🦇

It shows a conversation chair positioned in the corner of a room. The chair features two seats, connected but facing in opposite directions.

Did you know?

In the Victorian era, there was a special chair designed specifically for courtship.

The courting or conversation chair allowed a young couple to sit together—without actually touching.

A chaperone would be present in the same room, seated in a separate chair.

#Victorian #history

Starting to think these headaches are Kernberg specific 🫠 W. Grossman and C. Brenner are a gentle breeze by comparison

Reading him feels like my own personal masochism, how apt.

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“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

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The OG leftist drag queens

Diving back into psychoanalysis and now I have a headache.

Coincidence? I think not.

Thanks Kernberg.

In some parts of Shropshire, there was a belief that one should never look behind them once a journey had started. This was because the Devil was always close to the traveller, waiting to claim their soul.

#Superstition #Folklore #Shropshire #Devil #folkbelief

Could you mentor a neurodivergent, early career humanities academic? I did this last time: it's not a big time commitment and is massively rewarding. You don't necessarily have to be neurodivergent/in humanities yourself. @ndhumanities.bsky.social

Plain white genderless figure crying, laying on their back in a pool of their own tears

Even in Arcadia. What an album.

Abebooks saving my bacon once again! Two books for £50 that would have cost me about £90 brand new! 🥳

Good luck!! :D

A title page from a book that says "JEREMY ROSEN. minor CHARACTERS HAVE their DAY. Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace.

Finally reading through this number! Surprisingly easy to digest and would recommend for anyone casting their eye towards minor characters in fiction!

Definitely fueling my inspiration for my next PhD chapter 🦇

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We've been working behind-the-scenes to add even more horror fun to Dundead!

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Jason Derulo/Falling Down Stairs Meme but with Noah Webster

BREAKING: Noah Webster just fell down the stairs at the Met Gala!

I never thought of it that way, but now that you mention it I can see a correlation as to what horror characters I enjoy 🤣 I can definitely empathise with them more than perhaps a neurotypical person would, but that is me assuming!!

It shows a visually impaired man looking towards the sky. He's sitting on a park bench, holding a book on his lap.

Did you know?

In the Victorian era, a rather large contingent of the population believed in the therapeutic benefits of sun gazing.

Doctors and scientists of the time warned against it, but many people ignored them.

Permanent eye damage was their reward. 🤷‍♀️

#Victorian #history

Relatable honestly 🤣

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I wish we could have seen the "turn" of Art going from infantile child to murderer in that scene :( but alas we shall only have our imaginations!!

I still need to watch that one, but as someone who is also autistic I am so curious as to what they have to say :D I'm glad you started to like the character!! Obviously I do think she was supposed to be creepy and jarring, but underneath that I think she did genuinely care for Art. 1/2

Me too 😭 I loved everyone's talks. I hope that they were recorded so I can watch some of the ones I missed!!

Thank you 💕 it was so fun to delve into their characters - especially Cat Lady! Her scenes with Art are haunting!!

Terrifier Conference was so damn fun! I miss it already 😭 And I think I got over my fear of public speaking :O

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Oh look!! That's me! 🦇

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From analysing motherhood, to a token from my own mother, needless to say Shaun is scared to turn around