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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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owlways watching

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Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mae'n bosibl mai'r gair "iawn" yw'r gair mwy aml-ddefnydd erioed. Y fersiwn Gymraeg o “eh” y Canadaiad

Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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A spell in a 15th-century grimoire for summoning a demon to find buried treasure. Sloane MS 3849, f. 18r. #medievalsky

Medieval spell to find buried treasure, with diagrams. When you come to a place where you believe there to be treasure hidden, you must draw a quadrangle in the earth as shown in the diagrams. Then burn or boil frankincense, saffron, and a dyed red rose and breath in the fumes, presenting the concoction to each corner of the quadrangle, this will bind the spirit to you when he appears in one of the corners.

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Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Met an owl called Bob lads

A picture of me, a white man in a cream hoodie with dark hair and glasses. On my gloved hand sits a tawny owl. We are looking the same direction, three-quarters to the camera.

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Gwenffrewi Morgan @gjmorgan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Now published in final form with page numbers!

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Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m so deep in PhD that I thought for a moment *why is Rhys proposing we get Idris Foster back from beyond the grave?*

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Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Every time I drive past the Devon town of Honiton all that rings in my head is “Honiton Qui Mal Y Pense”

Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

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Fancy a trip round Anglo Saxon England? A wonderful collection of hand drawn maps have been digitised and are available here:https://archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/maps-of-anglo-saxon-england #anglosaxon #maps #england

A detailed map of England and Wales showing Anglo Saxon place names.
Drawn by and in black ink.

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Some truly brilliant scholarly assessment, too. “A Fascinating disaster”, “third-rate backwash”, etc. Fun to think about how to write academically about something you consider to be terrible

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Quite struck with Gania Barlow’s argument that it must be deliberate, because otherwise we must surely consider Chestre one of the great historical morons

Working on Sir Launfal at the moment and it is fascinating how badly Thomas Chestre messes this up. It’s such a good and engaging tale, how could you possibly make such a simple narrative so incongruous and glaringly incoherent?

Interesting! I suppose it’s the removal of a middleman who’d do that talking for them?

Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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Come for the batshit cover art on this 1970 Mentor ed of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stay for the incredibly bitchy annotated bibliography

Cover of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Burton Raffel

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Several books cited only in the Afterword are here included; however, in all cases the annotations are by the translator.
Benson, Larry D., Art and Tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Rutgers University Press, 1965.
Sensitive and learned discussion of sources; literary convention and characterization; style; narrative and descriptive techniques; meaning. The book is modest in tone but richly informative; much the best study in print.
Blanch, Robert J., ed., Sir Gawain and Pearl: Critical Essays, Indiana U.P., 1966. Very much a mixed bag: six essays, some of them horrendously awful, some spottily intelligent. Not recommended.
Borroff, Marie, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Stylistic and Metrical Study, Yale U.P., 1962. A rather ponderous, wordy, and frequently insensitive study of difficult matters; sometimes useful, but to be consulted with caution, despite the heavy scholarly apparatus.
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Burrow, J. A., A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Gren Knight, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965. Literary dully effective. Not recommended.
criticism on a very low level, though sometimes Fox, Denton, ed., Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, Prentice-Fall,
1968. A brief but sometimes rewarding collection; some of the essays are at best spottily intelligent, but the selection is distinctly superior to that in the Blanch compendium. Recommended, with due cas-tion.
Howard, Donald R. and Christian Zacher, eds. Critical
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Studies of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, University of Notre Dame Press, 1968. Useful; fuller than the Fox collection; sometimes a bit pedantic.
Kittredge, George Lyman, A Study of Gawain and the Green Knight, Peter Smith, 1960 (first printed in
1916). A highly speculative, well-written study de voted exclusively to literary sources, actual, pos-sible, and imaginary. Of moderate interest, it used both sparingly and appropriately.
Longnon, Jean, and Raymond Cazelles, eds., The Très Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry, George Bra-ziller, 1969. No direct connection with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, but many of the illustrations beautifully reproduced-are vivid evocations of the spirit, and often much of the detail, of the poem.
Loomis, Roger Sherman, The Development of Arthurian Romances, Harper Torchbooks, 1964. Biased and crotchety, but clear and, for the beginner, modestly informative; deeply traditional, hostile to much in contemporary criticism, Recommended, if used with due caution.
Savage, Henry L., The Gawain-Poet: Studies in His Personality and Background, University of North Carolina Press, 1956. A set of crotchety historical essays having no proven connecti a to the Gawain-poet and no relevance whatever to the poem. Na recommended.

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Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Oh my God show me that review of R S Loomis on a T-shirt and I’ll show you all my life savings

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Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Quite interested in the (implicit?) implication that gentlemen should learn Welsh; is that something you come across a lot?

Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Thank you dude !!! 💜

Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Unsure if this means I’m allowed to introduce myself as Le Bel Inconnu until next August. May try

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Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Really excited + honoured by this! Looking forward to turning it into a readable paper (cutting out all my jokes about how to pronounce “Percyvell”)

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Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thank you for putting it together! Had multiple moments of “oh I didn’t know that person had Bluesky” so it’s wonderful to be able to follow friends and colleagues :))

Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

No problem at all, thank you so much! (I may already have been on there, I don’t know that it would necessarily show me myself?)

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Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Would love to be on this :)

Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Eclipse heart from yesterday

A sliver of sun, eclipsed by a circle, projected onto a heart shaped stone

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Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Tremendously good essay thank you for sharing!

diana myers @dianahmyers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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can’t decide if in the end this essay is still too generous to straight men but uh. damn. this is what it’s like out here thepointmag.com/criticism/st...

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Student of Desire | The Point Magazine

Years ago, I had an intense relationship with a man who was brilliant and deeply interesting to talk to. I didn’t doubt he felt similarly […]

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

gets incredible air here

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Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🙂‍↔️ ontology and epistemology 🙂‍↕️ ways of being and ways of seeing

Myriah Williams @myriahwilliams.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

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Culhwch & Olwen is an Arthurian comedy horror just waiting to be filmed

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milk bottle champion @stepheniscowboy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

King Arthur when his court wizard snubs Guinevere

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Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

You know your PhD writing process is doomed when you spend five minutes laughing uncontrollably in the library because you accidentally typed ‘unfished’ instead of ‘unfinished’

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This will get worse before it gets better. A 64 team World Cup to chase ever bigger TV rights, more games that mean nothing other than a 5 minute highlight package, a game of quarters. The monkeys type and type, but not Shakespeare: schlock for FIFA to sell in the airports flying fans game to game.

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favourite single moment and ignore all the rest. Five famous people doing a moment in the sun, infinite articles, no through line, no story. A sad, bitter, pale imitation of what makes Super Bowl half time shows good (a chance for an extended piece of national storytelling).

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Not to dunk on the half-time show more than others have, but even judged as it was (rather than whether or not it should exist), it was an incoherent mess. What does Madonna into Muppet Seven Nation Army into orchestra does the Viking Row into BTS have to say? Nothing at all, other than pick your…

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Football is a beautiful, funny, silly game. Nothing has demonstrated that so well as the utterly pointless, universally disliked third place playoff. What a bitter irony that that was the most enjoyable insane game of the whole tournament. FIFA are ghouls and we all dance to their sick tune.

Conspiratorially, I might connect Hydration Breaks™️ to this. Obviously 3 mins of extra adverts, but also giving players rest so they can produce in Instagramable bursts, 25 minute sprints rather than 45 minute marathons.

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The crowd is so silent at the final! No instruments, no songs, no swathes of colour in the crowd. Just livestreams, pop songs from twenty plus years ago, and Gianni cam.

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I haven’t properly caught World Cup Fever™️ this year, and I think it’s because this tournament has become a series of exercises in clipping. From the celebrities in the stand getting 10 seconds every ten minutes, to the songs after victory, even the beloved rowing celebration. It’s all about Moments

Kit @ascolotl.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It feels like this final is what the tournament deserves: it is going to hinge on a single, sixty-second moment of capital-c-Content. Ignore the other eighty-nine plus minutes, only one moment matters.

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I saw him too! Not quite sure what the idea is there