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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 4h

Not sure if I'm supposed to wait for an official announcement on this one, but as it's available to order, I may as well share the link: goldsborobooks.com/products/the... Gender, trauma, toxic families, non-consensual shapeshifting ... and sprayed edges. What more could you want in a book

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The Animals We Became

You exist because of a crime, because of a curse, and because of a trick.Blodeuedd never asked to be made.Created from flowers of oak, broom, and meadowsweet to marry a man cursed never to have a huma...

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 4h

Took my violin to get serviced for... possibly the first time ever, and it's in for a week or so, which means I *will* be declining session invitations this week by telling people my fiddle is at the vet.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 28/09/2026

My hair is currently too long for a barber or to clipper cut it myself over the bathroom sink, so for the first time ever I am trying to find a hairdresser, and oh boy. I can't afford a haircut. I guess I'm growing my hair out indefinitely.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 28/09/2026

Sometimes my ereader eats the extra line breaks and I have to guess where they should have been (particularly for ebooks converted between formats, e.g. old Kindle books I've converted for Kobo). It's very confusing. Give us a wee dingbat.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 22/09/2026

Tried to log into Facebook on my phone. Couldn't remember my password. Tried inputting my phone number. It attempted to link my account to... somebody else's Facebook account? I'm not that person. So I said "this isn't me", and now they've locked that person's account down. I'm so confused.

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Uncharismatic Megafauna @liminalitea.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One of the most niche bits of self-care I have ever done is get an erasure print about Section 28 that makes it about promoting homosexuality to children, frame it, and hang it above my drawing desk.

A photograph of my desk. A sketchbook lies on a small portable drawing board, with a stack of pens and a pot of brushes. Above it hangs a print with the phrase "children have an inalienable right to be gay" made by placing pink blocks over the words of a speech about Section 28. Below, paragraphs of Section 28 are written, passages erased with pink blocks to make it so that it is encouraging the promotion of homosexuality by local government authorities.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 18/09/2026

Cuts include Celtic and Scottish Lit (UG), Celtic (UG), Celtic and Archaeology (UG), Celtic and English Language (UG)... Christ. As if we didn't have few enough Celtic Studies departments as it is. There'll be none of us left.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 17/09/2026

When I was about sixteen I tried to write a mystery/crime novel type thing, except I'm bad at plot and was worse then, so I never figured out who the murderer was myself and thus couldn't finish it. Turns out that's deeply unsatisfying. Later stole the best characters for a different book, though.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 16/09/2026

Still trying to find accommodation for a conference in Dublin and the price of it is honestly making me consider pulling out. How is anyone meant to afford visiting this city, for any reason?

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 15/09/2026

Celtic Languages Experience™ unlocked: got recommended an Instagram reel by some Gàidhlig speakers, whom I do not follow, about their time in Ireland hanging out with Gaeilge speakers, playing tunes, etc, and who do I see there in the video but myself

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Teàrlaidh @parttimecorvid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"They've lenited the eyeballs" may be one of the funniest things I've read today

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 14/09/2026

When my sister was heavily pregnant she told the family chat she felt like a South London icon. When prompted to elaborate, she followed it with a picture of this walrus.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 04/09/2026

help I've just seen a book set in the 11th century labelled as a Regency romance

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 14/09/2026

I didn't know this and will now be avoiding this word forever to eliminate any risk of getting it wrong OR sounding weird by getting it right. A reasonable and rational response, I think

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 10/09/2026

The great thing about wearing a hat and mask at sessions is that I don't have to see my own concentration faces when somebody films us playing. However I have just learned what my hair currently looks like from the back

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Celia Lake @celialake.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just finished reading @finnlongman.com 's The Wolf and His King, which is absolutely stunning - I'm going to be thinking about it for a long time. (Bisclavret, identity, relationships with power and disability, fascinating use of POV, evocative setting, and a fascinating sense of minor chars.)

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 10/09/2026

Have now bought my nephew two books in Manx to add to the books he already has in Irish, Welsh, French, and Cree. He is going to be SO confused when he learns to read but he's going to grow up knowing things I couldn't imagine as a child.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 08/09/2026

Me looking at Manx: I do not know this word Me hearing Manx out loud or sounding it out from a phonetic punctuation guide: Oh I do know this word! We went to Irish together!

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 06/09/2026

I've been trying to write openings of my next book for a couple of years now (yup, years) and I have reasonable stabs at openings for both narrators. Unfortunately they don't work together AT ALL. They belong to different books, frankly. I pin down one POV, I lose the other. It's killing me.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 04/09/2026

I really enjoy adding Greek tragedies to my Storygraph. This is going to ruin all my date graphs

Language: English
Original Pub Year: -405. Yes that's a minus sign

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 04/09/2026

One of the origin points for The Animals We Became, for the record...: finnlongman.com/books/the-an...

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 04/09/2026

help I've just seen a book set in the 11th century labelled as a Regency romance

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 04/09/2026

What are your favourite historical or fantasy or historical fantasy novels from, I don't know, c. 1950-1980 (especially but not exclusively from the UK)? What would you recommend to somebody who has particularly enjoyed Dorothy Dunnett and Rosemary Sutcliff, among others?

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Victoria Goddard @victoriagoddard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm doing a Storygraph giveaway in honour of the audiobook of AT THE FEET OF THE SUN! Enter for a chance to win one of 250 ebooks or 3 audiobooks! Giveaway runs until September 18th! app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/bb...

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victoriascribens's giveaway for At the Feet of the Sun on The StoryGraph

In honour of the recent release of the audiobook edition, I am giving away 250 copies of the e...

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 02/09/2026

Can anyone here recommend an affordable, reliable eSIM for use on the **Isle of Man**? Only data required. It is not covered by my phone network at all and unfortunately I can't drop off the grid for a week at this time.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 02/09/2026

Trying to find somewhere to stay in Dublin deeply makes me mourn the days when I dared risk a hostel dorm, because boy, I cannot afford any of this

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 01/09/2026

The thing about a straight road is that if you start going in the wrong direction you just continue going in the wrong direction indefinitely

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 01/09/2026

How my day's going: - show I was going to London for got cancelled - train I was on got cancelled - gave up on London, went for walk - got lost and walked a full mile in the wrong direction, now have to walk it back 😭

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 01/09/2026

My next novel comes out on 26 November and I've decided to celebrate it by... giving a conference paper on something unrelated to my novel 🎉 (Hey, it's one way to take your mind off publication day)

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 01/09/2026

You know the trains to London are having a bad day when you ask Google Maps for directions and it suggests you walk there. (When are the trains to London NOT having a bad day) (When has anyone from Cambridge ever made it to London undelayed recently)

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 31/08/2026

Today's AI marketing spam is like "um excuse me, did you know that your book metadata isn't labelling it as romance or romantasy? We must alert you to this terrible oversight". Ah yeah 'cause there's no other reason for that such as it Not Being Romantasy, of course.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 31/08/2026

Proofed about 80 pages so far. Exhausted, doubting everything I know about English, making my sentences worse. Taking a break to go and read more Dunnett (which will not remotely help the situation).

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 31/08/2026

I've forgotten how English works. Can you say things like "I was put to reflect on that" in English? "Is it any wonder I was put to reflect on it?" etc ??? On the one hand, it makes perfect sense to me. On the other hand, sometimes I do early modern Irish grammar in English, so

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 31/08/2026

OED giving me a 500/internal server error whenever I try to log in, and my proofs deadline is this week. How am I meant to work under these conditions

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 30/08/2026

As a teenager, particularly an older teenager, I absolutely hated the idea that there were books I wasn't ready for because I was too young. How condescending! I could handle it! It wasn't like I didn't know the words! Currently rereading a book I was give at 18, read once, didn't "get", and... oh

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 29/08/2026

Terrible man who suffers immensely, at least partially as a consequence of his own actions, but is also only about 70% as terrible as everybody thinks he is. Like there's some good in there. You have to dig for it and he's not going to make it easy. Also he's suffering. Can't stress that enough.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 29/08/2026

Is and sin do thuit cenn gaile ⁊ gaiscidh, einigh ⁊ engnama, cosnuma ⁊ cródachta Érenn. Fabulously, of course.

Finn standing dramatically against a leaning standing stone, with one hand raised and one leg bent, their head thrown back. They're wearing a t-shirt that reads "#1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra"

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 29/08/2026

Okay, well, 1) has got back to me and doesn't seem mad that I thought they might be robots. And are not in fact robots. So that's nice. We'll see if I can do their thing, though it does clash with my flu jab at the moment.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 29/08/2026

Some people enjoyed learning this word, so here are some words *I* had to look up this week: - hebetude - lucent - acidulous - rebarbative - whaup - whin - erumpent - thews I also learned another excellent word for, essentially, "bitter", but can't find it again. :( Sad times.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 29/08/2026

Reading my book aloud to proofread is a great way to find out which words I simply cannot say. Today: amarulent.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 28/08/2026

I hate that AI spam/scam emails have made me doubt literally every email that comes to my public author inbox. I *think* I have been offered at least one, if not two, genuine opportunities recently... but like hell if I can tell for sure without five rounds of sleuthing and double-checking.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 27/08/2026

Today's AI marketing spam email thinks I'm not capitalising enough on, uh, also being @premeemohamed.com, apparently. Hmm, I wonder why some of those titles aren't linked to my profile. Truly a mystery.

You have an impressive academic background as a medievalist and PhD student at Cambridge, and you write both young adult and adult fiction with a focus on genre-bending stories exploring friendship, identity, and monstrosity. You have other titles in your bibliography, including The Butcher of the Forest and your YA work. But when I look at your broader author presence on Amazon, I see limited visibility for your full body of work. Your author page does not clearly surface all of your titles, and there is no series branding or cross promotion connecting your books.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 04/08/2026

COVER REVEAL! My next novel, The Animals We Became, retells the medieval Welsh tale 'Math fab Mathonwy'. It's a book about gender, trauma, and compulsory heterosexuality expressed through non-consensual animal transformations and some deeply unreliable narration... finnlongman.com/books/the-an...

The cover of THE ANIMALS WE BECAME by Finn Longman, featuring an illustration of an owl emerging from flowers and foliage against a starry backdrop. Tree trunks on either side are carved with knotwork forming the shapes of boar, deer, and wolves.

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Heartening to see an adaptation put the most baroquely fucked-up bit of the tale right there in the blurb front and centre Been looking forward to this one!

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 04/08/2026

The sheer horror I just felt at seeing that my mum had seen the Instagram story where I mentioned Blodeuwedd pegging Gronw does not bode well for how I'll cope when my family and colleagues actually read this book

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 04/08/2026

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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Yes, we strongly recommend PPE respiratory masks on public transport in England including at airports and on aircraft.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 04/08/2026

Anecdotally, a couple of people I know have tested positive recently or friends and relatives have, after a pause without that. I think summer travel, airports etc are the culprits in some cases. Highly recommend masking while travelling to minimise chances of catching or spreading anything.

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Finn Longman is only here occasionally @finnlongman.com · 03/08/2026

Tried to send a parcel to France today. I'd looked it up in advance and had an idea of the costs for different options. The costs they quoted me in the post office started at double the cheapest I'd seen on their website (for in-store prices). Baffling. Didn't post it, will try another method.

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