Clare Moore

Time for day 2 of #oms4 More Perilous and Fair! Looking forward to another great day of talks on women in Mythopoeic fantasy 😍

What a first day for #oms4! Thank you to everyone who joined and to our incredible speakers! And be sure to be back tomorrow for more incredible talks on women in Mythopoeic fantasy ❤️

Incredible, as always!

What a #oms4 keynote! What a partnership @banzailibrarian.bsky.social and Leslie A. Donovan that produced Perilous and Fair. So grateful for all your hard work that brought that book to life!!

Ngila Dickson really knew her way around a piece of velvet

I love her - the mourning dress 😍

I’m sorry where is that Éowyn from???? I musts know

#oms4 is officially off! The opening keynote with Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donavan, the editors of Perilous and Fair, starts in 10 minutes!!!

#oms4 so easy to remember!

Do not miss this talk!! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Looking forward to joining everyone soon at @mythsoc.bsky.social’s More Perilous and Fair seminar in just a few short hours! Feel free to share your thoughts here if you’re joining us, and we’ll see you on zoom and discord!

#BOTD Born on this day Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 1943) English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist #WomensArt

If I had a nickel for every time I had to record a conference chat on my way to/from Spain, I’d only have ten cents but it’s funny it’s happened twice 😂

An opportunity for me to plug my favorite fantasy series (I’m a true evangelist for these books!):

Time to head back to the States I guess 🫤

Don’t miss this incredible talks! See you in a week!

A view over looks green mountains and a distant valley.

Green grapes grow on a vine.

Three statues of women playing music are set against a tile mosaic.

Colorful stain glass windows let light into a church.

España, te quiero ❤️🥂

A decorative copy of The Hobbit (green) and The Lord of the Rings (red) in Spanish.

I’ve been on a quest for a cool (used) copy of The Fellowship of the Ring or The Return of the King en español and have so far been unsuccessful but look at these beauties 😍

OMS is coming up in a little over the week and the schedule is now live! there's still some time to register if you haven't already! mythsoc.org/oms/oms-04.htm

No conozco el catalán…😭

Lo siento por a todos las personas que tienen que escuchar mi español en Barcelona durante los próximos tres días

Millions of us first listened to classical, opera, and other music genres via PBS and NPR.

The right yells about the destruction of Western civ and culture, but aren't really interested in cultural preservation. If they were, they'd support funding for public broadcasting, the arts and humanities.

Also true 🥲

A college quad with a green lawn surrounded by sandstone buildings.

A pamphlet on Merton College Oxford that states Tolkien taught at the college.

A sandstone building with the street name Merton Street displayed.

Tolkien was a student at Exeter and taught the majority of his career at Pembroke, but a plebeian like me cannot visit those colleges. I was able to visit Merton, which is where Tolkien finished his career as a professor at Oxford ❤️

Disagree. You should see your faves at every possible moment. I have seen Newsies an embarrassing amount of times in theaters across the country 😏

Propaganda!

A path runs between trees.

A plaque with an excerpt from a poem by C.S. Lewis about Addison’s Walk.

A pasture lies on the other side of a fence.

A sign on a gate reads “Keep the badgers off the lawns!”

Addison’s Walk

A stone grave with plants growing in the center. The headstone is for Edith Mary Tolkien and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

Sunflowers lie in front of a grave headstone that reads: Edith Mary Tolkien, Luthien, 1889-1971, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Beren, 1892-1973.

The Tolkien road trip continues…

An old Tudor-styled house with glass windows and yellow flowers out front.

A white Tudor-styled cottage with a thatched roof and brick chimneys sits behind an extensive garden.

Oh yeah and I guess in the middle there was a visit to some old houses significant to another English writer? Some guy called Bill Shakespeare? (Un)popular opinion: Anne Hathaway’s cottage was cooler than Shakespeare’s birthplace…