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Abby

@arobertswrites.com
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BSFA-nominated essayist. SFF author you’ve never heard of. SocDem. Tolkien nerd. Relapsed Catholic. Armchair medievalist. She/her. Header by chorischia.bsky.social. Website: arobertswrites.com Newsletter: buttondown.email/arobertswrites

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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 26/09/2026
Until next week.
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Presented without comment
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 26/09/2026
Accurate.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 26/09/2026
Average bluesky poster
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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A new poem www.patreon.com/posts/170589...
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Baskets are fucking disgusting and won't exist under authoritarianism
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BENOIT BLANC: ladies and gentlemen, i would like to request that you all welcome... the weekend
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 26/09/2026
The music is great but also the songbook that came with the vinyl album is gorgeous.
The cover of a paper booklet. Black paper, embossed with a silver border and an archway that looks like a spaceship, framing a scene of outer space.Lyric sheet for The Governor's Waltz. An illustration of a small black dog sitting on a bed. Above the bed is a double loop of leafy branches. One loop encircles a picture of a hand holding an axe. The other loop surrounds an illustration of the feet of a person ascending to heaven.Lyric sheet for the Phoebe Bridgers song Panarama. A sequence of images is arranged in a ring. Each image shows a different location--a city or a ruined temple or a volcano. In the center of a ring is a tower viewer, a device that tourists can pay money to look at things far away.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 26/09/2026
Also medieval people wrote to each other asking to be loaned books/for books that had been loaned to return to them A LOT.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 26/09/2026
Yeah something that irritates me when reading secondary sources about Alcuin's letters and Heloise and Abelard's is that modern people tend to interpret medieval letters as confessions of people's deepest most private thoughts when they almost certainly weren't.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 26/09/2026
Sorta of telling that when I researched language that medieval monastics might use to describe intimate relationships (variously defined) I really didn't get much from the letters of Heloise and Abelard but I got loads from Alcuin's letters to Archbishop Arno.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 26/09/2026
Regrettably this is the weekend I'm attending rennfest.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Aftir several listens to the new Phoebe Bridgers album "Lost Weekend," prettye sure Ich am readye to declare it a great and lastinge worke of art
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Daunse Fever www.phillyvoice.com/mutter-museu...
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Mütter Museum's Halloween party will recreate a medieval 'dancing plague' with DJs, cocktails and immersive theater
Choreomania returns Oct. 30 with a 16th-century village inspired by a mysterious phenomenon that compelled people to dance uncontrollably for days.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New, incredibly specific competitor 🪶 In the continuous archaeological news race to label finds as “first” just, um, dropped.
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These are the first feathers ever found in fossilized dinosaur poop
The rare fossil hints that differences in plumage may explain why some Cretaceous-era birds survived an asteroid impact but others died.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 26/09/2026
I'm almost fully booked for the weekend or I would attend this.
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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is happening TOMORROW!! If you've ever struggled to get past the murky middle & to the glorious words "The End", you'll want to catch this panel
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 25/09/2026
The movies make this all sweet but the book is like "Frodo, you misunderstand. You physically can't leave without us. This is not a negotiation."
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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com · 25/09/2026
@arobertswrites.com this is what I was gonna send bc you know I love a bespoke meme
still of Shrek standing in front of the door of his hut, looking disgruntled, saying "What are you doing in my swamp?" captioned "Ira when he finds Arthur in his bed"
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Guys is this anything
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lev Grossman, the wrytere of *The Magicians* and *The Bright Sword,* on traunslatinge *Sir Gawain and the Green Knighte*
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 25/09/2026
It's so hard to make small talk when my two conversation topics are upsetting works of medieval mysticim and the 300yo shark that's full of pee.
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Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026
Today’s word of the day: Fantasize (verb). To cause to become the size of a can of Fanta.
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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think the most “adult who was in a gifted and talented program as a kid” thing I could have done to myself was become an author. Just giving myself endless homework and a need for people to be proud of me forever.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 25/09/2026
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/b...
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 25/09/2026
A while ago there was a "what lost works of history would you rescue?" post going around and yeah I'd rescue the writings of the desert mothers.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 25/09/2026
Yeah another thing McGuire does that I like is that he points out how many of the early theologians were financially and/or emotionally dependent on women.
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 25/09/2026
I love this. At a panel at @armadillocon.bsky.social I talked on a panel about how characters and their backgrounds help create a world and what one can do with it...
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Per Ahlberg @perahlberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a petition to save the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Please sign, the closure of this wonderful museum would be a disastrous loss to Philadelphia and the world. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
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Petition to Keep the Academy of Natural Sciences Open to the Public
The scientific community in Philadelphia and concerned neighbors are calling on Drexel University to keep the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia’s public-facing museum open beyond their impos...
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 25/09/2026
Met a ladybug while walking Violet.
Photo of my hand holding a leash attached to a medium-sized black and gray dog. A ladybug has landed on my thumb.
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C.J. Subko @cjsubko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Get THE GHOST OF HIGHTOWER POND, a Gothic horror novella, released October 13! Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6PC6JJJ Signed copies: www.etsy.com/listing/4571...
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The Ghost of Hightower Pond
Cordelia Delacroix has only been in London for a season when plague strikes. Desperate to escape both the plague and her declining financial situation, she accepts a mysterious invitation to join a pa...
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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I haven't updated in a while. There's been a lot going on. - My calcium levels are still worrying. - My eye scans aren't good. - I have to get a CT scan soon. I need help to pay for everything to be done privately. Any amount would be helpful. Thanks. www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
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Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar
Hi everyone, I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 25/09/2026
Yall are making Merry do everything.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 25/09/2026
There are like 3 separate discourses going on around me that I have nothing to contribute to.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 25/09/2026
A case for having an outline before you start writing.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
we need chicago pope to step in and say "you will follow the rules or you will get a visit from [pulls down sunglasses] the Batican"
Pope Leo with a black baseball bat. Do not mess with Chicago Pope!
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 25/09/2026
Fall weather's coming in and doing weird things to my sinuses.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 25/09/2026
Pardon my language, but this is just sexy. youtu.be/pI9LN5wje5E?...
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Micro-excavation of the Iron Age Norfolk Carnyx Hoard
YouTube video by PCA archaeology
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Stori3d Past @stori3dpast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every city is a memorial as well as a living thing. I think that's part of why the "Urban Renewal" efforts of the 1950s & 1960s looks even worse & worse as time goes on. Neighborhoods aren't meant to be erased wholesale. That breaks the pact. That's not what a city - a community - is meant to do.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
always "why are those eggs so long" never "thank you for crashing our potluck"
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 25/09/2026
"Is Minas Tirith brutalist?" now that's where things get interesting. It was also a Numenorean construction so presumably it was built with a similar architectural style but fan interpretations/adaptations generally lean towards Classical or Gothic.
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Nikolaj Bill @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My son eating Greek roasted lamb for the first time yesterday: This is wonderful! This is the best thing I’ve ever had! No wonder God demanded this to be offered up for him.
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Serena Malyon 🌞🌛 @serenamalyon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've added some recent illustrations to my print shop, and INPRNT is having a 'free shipping' event ✨
An iridescent orb of liquid morphs into hands that reach for a star in the center of the orb. An abstract cityscape is in the background
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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ONE DAY LEFT to sign up for Staying Power: Finishing Books With ADHD! Grab your ticket & join us to learn how to work with YOUR brain to get books done from @premeemohamed.com, @elizmanderson.com, @authoreanoble.bsky.social & Savannah Stephens!
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Staying Power: Finishing Books With ADHD - Weeknight Writers
Writing a book is hard. And it’s a lot harder when you have ADHD—which is why we’re bringing together four incredible ADHD authors to share their strategies for finishing books in Staying Power: Finis...
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t want to be awake at 2am, but since I am:
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
tolkien‘s elves don’t actually have perfect memory. that’s just ptsd and they’re neuroses worsened by immortality, leaving them eternally stuck writing poetry about battles 3000 plus years ago
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Demonic entity caught on film. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black-and-white photo and a shiny black cat lying on its side. There’s motion blur around its head and forepaws as it is clearly biting and chewing on a folder or stack of papers in its grip.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 25/09/2026
Discourse topic: is Isengard brutalist?
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 25/09/2026
You need to own a real flashlight. Go to the store. Buy a real flashlight and a bunch of batteries.
A man holding a glowing fish during a power out. The text reads: Flashlight fish? Not a real flashlight. It’s hurricane season. Own a real flashlight. Have fresh batteries.
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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
flat fishtopher friday
Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat, laying on his side. His front legs are stretched out
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