Jack, Shattered

Happy Medieval Monday-ween! If you haven't chosen a Halloween costume why not visit Digital Bodleian for some inspiration. These images are all taken from MS Douce 134: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/171e2f9a-37fa-4d0b-ac70-9cab486f7ace/surfaces/8fbb7f90-658f-4f91-afc0-b8b8e6393f41/.

Tolkien's light as a licensing history: Two Trees: open access, geoblocked Silmarils: all rights reserved, oath-enforced Sun & Moon: lossy public release Eärendil's star: CC0 Galadriel's Phial: CC BY-SA White Tree: a fork lineage

@juliebeth.bsky.social , for the choir? m.youtube.com/watch?v=hkTg...

As Halloween is round the corner we thought we’d share some medieval bats. A thread… 🧵 🦇

The Worst Vegetable

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The French trashed the McDonalds, looted the Apple Store and Luis Vuitton's hand bags. All run by global billionaires. But they left the French Chicken shop untouched.

Today is Septidi the 27th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate chili peppers. #JacobinDay See today's page

The perfect Halloween costume doesn't exi...

I love that cats just endlessly reenact their species’ history of domestication. “What if I went inside? Hmm yes good decision.”

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

For all who celebrate

The Writings of the Venerable Bede is available now! Read selections from his History, educational treatises, biblical commentaries, homilies, poems, letters, and even a few riddles, all in facing-page translation. geni.us/LYt4A7

Sex so good that all shall love me and despair

Today is Septidi the 17th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate pumpkins. #JacobinDay See today's page

If I ever open a pub, it will be called 'The Horse & Eel'

Today is Primidi the 11th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate potatoes. #JacobinDay See today's page

@grahamscheper.bsky.social

new favourite Smaug dropped

I will be a guest at Le Festival America in Vincennes, France, which starts tomorrow the 24th through the 27th of September. https://www.festival-america.com/les-auteurs/1752-ada-palmer The festival's homepage is linked below.

Today is the 89th anniversary of the publication of The Hobbit. Here's a thread on interesting glimpses the book gave us into the legendarium Tolkien had at that stage already been working on for over twenty years but which readers at the time would have had no sense of.

@thebearheir.bsky.social I'm starting a new library job soon, and adding a bunch of related follows. This may be of interest to you. righttoreadohio.bsky.social

“Aella is fighting gyges about if ai safety is just a sex cult” You bolt awake. You are not online. It is 1415. You are Charles d’albret, and you have seen the future. It cannot come to pass. The English army must be destroyed.

And scene.

True story.

GATTO MAIUSCOLO E GATTO MINUSCOLO

In case you were curious, here’s the transcript for Emilia Clarke’s #HighValyrian speech at the #Emmys. I received the request two days prior, so she really only had a day to work on it. #conlang Jemme ilagon rīgles ezīmītsōs issa— "It is an honor and a privilege to be amongst you all—“

AUTUMN FAIRIES John Anster Fitzgerald's painting is a glorious depiction of fairies in #autumn but if you look closely the rabbit is held captive by the tricksy fairies, symbolised by a rather menacing fairy to the left wielding a hawthorn spear #GothicFairies

Turns out he's only MOSTLY dead.

There is hope. bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/t...

FORMIDABLE FELINE GARGOYLES & GROTESQUES Cat Watcher in Aachen, Germany; Winged Cat at St Vitis Cathedral #Caturday #cats #gothic

Frankly amazed that despite wall-to-wall Bayeux Tapestry coverage nobody has mentioned the Playmobil version I made back in 2016.

@oldgodspod.bsky.social "The greatness of mountain families are built on the bones of such women." Glory Ann or Dolly?

RIP Tim Curry, who had the range to star in the two greatest movies about a mutiny in the middle of a transatlantic sea voyage, and also the crew occasionally breaks into song

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Now she belongs to the ages

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty French historian: to understand the debate about the cup, we need to start in 1789

YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT WE DO

The word “tired” is from Old English ġetēorod, which literally meant ‘exhausted.’ Two more commonly used synonyms in Old English were wēriġ (weary) and mēþe,which would have been ‘*meethe’ in Modern English. Hēo dyde stæflīċe nāwiht tōdæġ (She did literally nothing today)

big video update today! 🚢 now in beta: - you can upload videos up to 10 min long - video uploads should be much faster than before - upload progress indicator should be more accurate try it by enabling beta features here: bsky.app/settings/bet... may take a bit to fully roll out. lmk how it goes!