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Hannah N Malcolm

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PhD in History from IUBloomington on archival labor and the French Revolution. Works for American Historical Review. Knitter, cyclist, cat bed, and ardent fountain pen enthusiast. www.hannahnmalcolm.com Lumbee. they/them

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Beach scene with “visit your village homosexual” written in the style of a tourism poster

Beach scene with “visit your village homosexual” written in the style of a tourism poster

Illuminati eye over the text “i believe in the one book theory”

Illuminati eye over the text “i believe in the one book theory”

Due to popular demand, we’ve introduced some new merch designs, including the highly requested village homosexual

ifbookspod.dashery.com

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Shop Official Merch by If Books Could Kill The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds

After many years, we’ve finally given in and launched a merch store. Only one design for now, but we’ve got shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs, stickers - all the classic items you know and love.

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If Books Could Kill: The Podcast: The Table

@ifbookspod.bsky.social

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Two blue urushi pens in different styles on a ceramic leaf dish on top of a marbled paper notebook in shades of turquoise with leather binding

Two blue urushi pens in different styles on a ceramic leaf dish on top of a marbled paper notebook in shades of turquoise with leather binding

Urushi fountain pen closeups

Urushi fountain pen closeups

🩵 Turquoise Tuesday 🩵 two urushi beauties - Nakaya Piccolo Negoro AMA Iro and Tamenuri Studio spiral kawari-nuri. Notebook from Galen Leather, leaf dish made by a friend #fountainpen

24.06.2025 11:24 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Does anyone who draws comics/draws A LOT with a fountain pen have any beginner guides for maintenance/cleaning? I have a fude pen I really like that I’ve refilled a couple times without issue but I want to make sure

18.06.2025 13:56 — 👍 20    🔁 4    💬 7    📌 0

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

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The US could use a pro-democracy party and one or two newspapers that share that outlook

12.06.2025 11:27 — 👍 159    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 1

No, Elsevier, I don't want to "chat" with a paper on 19th century textiles. I want to read it. Stop making things worse for no reason.

12.06.2025 13:50 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Hand holding a small knit swatch of a brown chicken. In the background is a sketchbook with drawings of stardew valley chickens and three small skeins of yarn in red, yellow, and brown.

Hand holding a small knit swatch of a brown chicken. In the background is a sketchbook with drawings of stardew valley chickens and three small skeins of yarn in red, yellow, and brown.

Testing a modification to the herding hens socks by Stone Knits to make stardew valley chickens! I essentially made the chickens more round and have picked up sock yarn in the right colors (beige, brown, black, blue, red and purple!)

🧶🧦🐔🐓

#knitsky #colorwork #stardewvalley

12.06.2025 14:25 — 👍 41    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Fountain pens in every color of the rainbow emerging from a multicolored pen case

Fountain pens in every color of the rainbow emerging from a multicolored pen case

Thursday Theme - a pen rainbow for Pride month. I appreciate all the lovely LGBTQIA+ folks in the pen community. #pridemonth🌈 #fountainpen

12.06.2025 12:47 — 👍 31    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social & @notalawyer.bsky.social
Could we please get some @ifbookspod.bsky.social merch? It'd be so awesome to have a "One Book Theory" sticker!

12.06.2025 14:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cover of Charity and Sylvia by Rachel Hope Cleves.

Cover of Charity and Sylvia by Rachel Hope Cleves.

Starting off #AHAReads with the perfect Pride Month history, Charity and Sylvia, which has been on my shelf for too long.

10.06.2025 02:19 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

A week late but finally got my first #AHAReads book in the mail!! I’m reading Fierce Desires by Rebecca L. Davis to check off “Read a history of a resistance movement”

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Benjamin Park’s book American Zion with a school playground and youth soccer practice in the background.

Benjamin Park’s book American Zion with a school playground and youth soccer practice in the background.

I am not the only parent hanging out at soccer practice with a book. But I *am* the only one reading a history of Mormonism in America. @benjaminepark.bsky.social #AHAReads

06.06.2025 21:52 — 👍 28    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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About The Nap Ministry was founded in 2016 by Tricia Hersey and is an organization that examines the liberating power of naps. Our “REST IS RESISTANCE” framework and practice engages with the…

Amid 🔥🔥🔥 I've recommitted to reading novels and non-fiction this summer, reading for pleasure though can't fully get the nerd out of this nerd. #AHAReads

First up, the brilliant Tricia Hersey (of The Nap Ministry), Rest Is Resistance
thenapministry.wordpress.com/about/

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how your eelmail finds me

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Meme. Medieval painting of Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman at the well. The painting shows a woman coming to well with a jar on her head, carrying a bucket. The well is beyond a set of city gates; there are wild-looking rocks just past the well. There's a man sitting on the well talking to the woman (Jesus showing off his prophetic chops in an effort to score a drink). There are several men coming out of the gates, looking a bit surprised (the disciples, being scandalized).

This scene is made more interesting if you imagine this as a married couple having a rather public fight. The wife is scolding the man for hanging out at the well and hitting on thirsty women, and he is defending himself by telling her that she had a giant tick on her head. Their neighbors are eves-dropping, and silently congratulating themselves on at least not being as terrible as the Andersons.

Meme text reads:
Welcome to the wishing well
Now accepting eels *

*Fresh eels only . Terms and conditions apply

Meme. Medieval painting of Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman at the well. The painting shows a woman coming to well with a jar on her head, carrying a bucket. The well is beyond a set of city gates; there are wild-looking rocks just past the well. There's a man sitting on the well talking to the woman (Jesus showing off his prophetic chops in an effort to score a drink). There are several men coming out of the gates, looking a bit surprised (the disciples, being scandalized). This scene is made more interesting if you imagine this as a married couple having a rather public fight. The wife is scolding the man for hanging out at the well and hitting on thirsty women, and he is defending himself by telling her that she had a giant tick on her head. Their neighbors are eves-dropping, and silently congratulating themselves on at least not being as terrible as the Andersons. Meme text reads: Welcome to the wishing well Now accepting eels * *Fresh eels only . Terms and conditions apply

Sometimes the food goes bad before you use it. Then what?

Just don't be like Salamon Salamon! In 1390, the London fishmonger was charged w/ hiding his bad eels in someone else's cellar. This was his second offense: earlier he was caught slipping rotting eels into a local well!
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11.06.2025 14:38 — 👍 91    🔁 9    💬 8    📌 0

Meanwhile there are still children stitching trainers in sweatshops around the globe. Priorities?

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Eat the Rich pattern by Lanja Khon-Engheim Welcome to the world of oligarchy. Oligarchy is not just a Russian phenomenon. It exists right here in the USA. --Bernie Sanders

I am currently knitting this amazing pattern designed by Lanja Khon-Engheim and recommended by @isasaxonists.bsky.social and it has me wondering if someone more skilled at patterns with me wants to draw up an abolish ice pattern...

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Lamb in red sweater.

Lamb in red sweater.

It’s a good day for knitting. #knitsky

11.06.2025 14:34 — 👍 639    🔁 46    💬 16    📌 5

I've been chipping away at a sweater. Every other time I've knitted a sweater, it's been ready to wear as summer's ending, so this time I'm knitting it over summer.

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A pink-to-white gradient knitted panel with a basketweave stitch pattern.

A pink-to-white gradient knitted panel with a basketweave stitch pattern.

Happy #WIPWednesday Everyone! What #creative things have you been up to this week? I've been #knitting away on a wrap that'll be a present for a friend of mine.

11.06.2025 14:46 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Today is #InternationalYarnbombingDay

Here are a selection of examples from our archives.

If you have yarnbombing images to submit, please email them to us at folklorelibrary@gmail.com or tag us, preferably with location details, photographer, date and artist where known. Thank you

11.06.2025 13:45 — 👍 35    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 1

I've not had anything drastic like that happen, but I have never had good luck with Monteverde inks (or pens for that matter)

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At a customer's request, I applied 'Aka-tame' finish to a Pelikan M800.

At a customer's request, I applied 'Aka-tame' finish to a Pelikan M800.

At a customer's request, I applied 'Aka-tame' finish to a Pelikan M800.

At a customer's request, I applied 'Aka-tame' finish to a Pelikan M800.

At a customer's request, we applied 'Aka-tame' finish to a Pelikan M800. It turned out elegant! #fountainpen

11.06.2025 11:45 — 👍 55    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 0

I've grown to LOVE the sound of my Sailor MF nib on paper and often turn to it when I need grounding

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Dream Weavers Black women in textile arts reimagine the artform as a means of storytelling, identity, and entrepreneurship.

Black women in textile arts reimagine the artform as a means of storytelling and identity.

11.06.2025 13:41 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

also want to add that the fountain pen peeps avoid noodler's and goulet for a bunch of reasons (actual antisemitism on noodler's end, homophobia on goulet's)

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Oh my god that is amazing

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Impossible Subjects

Like many of you, I'm starting out #AHAReads with the book that's been sitting on my shelf too long.
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae Ngai (2004).
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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