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So rude when characters won’t cooperate with your story arc!

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I’m not forgetting it’s #MementoMoriMonday! - This little skull is part of a large ornate tomb in Greyfriars, Edinburgh, where I had a lovely autumnal walk almost a year ago.

A small curved skull facing to the left is positioned on the side of a large tomb. Only a little of the tomb is visible, a carved column. It’s dark stone against a lighter stone wall.

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I did it, I sent the form that officially sets things in motion towards doing a PhD…

A screenshot of a webpage, mostly red with a white section below, showing that I submitted a postgraduate research enquiry to the University of Chester.

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Day 5 of #31DaysOfGraves prompt is ‘vehicle’. - Richard Tams’ memorial has an engraved scene featuring what I think is a Romani vardo, though please correct my terminology if it’s not accurate, I mean to be respectful.

A black gravestone with gold lettering. At the top is an engraved scene featuring a Romani wagon, a cart, and horses.

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Devin Townsend’s ‘Spirits Will Collide’ has never made me cry before, but with various Life Things going on right now, it got me good. Fuck, I love live music! That was a heartachingly beautiful solo acoustic show 🖤

An unflatteringly angled selfie. Im a white 40-something with brown hair and black framed glasses and a septum piercing. I’m smiling, holding my phone on my lap, and there’s a mirror ball behind me. Two white men are to my left, looking at the stage.

Devin Townsend, a white man in a sage green shirt playing an acoustic guitar on a small stage with soft purple-y lighting.

A large crocheted octopus sitting to the aide of a wooden stage

Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I had SO MANY photos to choose from for today’s #31DaysOfGraves prompt - ‘entrance’. - This is the way down into the catacombs at Brompton. I’ve added a closeup of the gates, because the imagery is 🔥

A set of stairs leading down to a locked iron gate. It’s set onto a columned and arched structure with pillars.

Closeup of the gates, with imagery of an Ouroboros, upturned torches, snakes, and a winged hourglass.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves - ‘glass’ - There were various pieces of old broken ceramics and glass on the overgrown paths around St John’s, and being an absolute magpie for shiny things, this one caught my attention.

My hand holding a piece of broken glass with most of the word ‘Newcastle’ on it.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

During my Masters, I delivered a presentation entirely in BSL to an audience who didn't know any sign language to make a point about accessibility of experience and information. Disabled people deserve equitable access to art, culture, heritage, and history.

A screenshot of the headline “blind man sues British Museum over lack of Bayeux Tapestry audio description” with a photo of the Tapestry displayed below.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 2 - ‘urn’ - Memorial to Minnie Wolff in the Jewish section of St John’s Cemetery in Newcastle.

A grey granite memorial with inscriptions in Hebrew and English, topped with a draped urn

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Watching the After Dark episode on Artemisia Gentileschi, for reasons…

Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting Judith and Holofernes

Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Are you happy for me to post my responses to your prompts on my Insta too?

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Day 1 of #31DaysOfGraves list of prompts by @annaandthedead.bsky.social. - For ‘flower’, I looked back at my visit to Sheffield General Cemetery a few winters ago with my friend, her sister, and her niece. I loved this posey. Kinda wish I’d moved the grass stems, though!

A closeup of a gravestone with a carved posey of flowers above the name WILLIAM. There are a few frosty leaves, moss, and grass stems on the stone.

An image of the New Jewish Cemetery, Kraków, overlaid with text:
#31 Days of Graves

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I want to read the essays those seven fraternity members wrote. If they even wrote them. I expect it was a ChatGPT job.

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Dr Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#31DaysOfGraves prompts are ready for October 1st 2026! 🪦Welcoming posts from graveyards, cemeteries, or related places throughout October. No rules - interpret however and wherever you want, but AI is strongly discouraged. Browse previous posts using the tag. Translations welcome, German is below 👇

An image of the New Jewish Cemetery, Kraków, overlaid with text:
#31 Days of Graves
Day 1: Flower
Day 2: Urn
Day 3: Glass
Day 4: Entrance
Day 5: Vehicle
Day 6: Weather
Day 7: Home
Day 8: Animal
Day 9: Lettering
Day 10: Missing
Day 11: Humorous
Day 12: Ordinary
Day 13: Unusual
Day 14: Brick
Day 15: Language
Day 16: Faith
Day 17: Music
Day 18: Earth
Day 19: Water
Day 20: Fire
Day 21: Air
Day 22: Mourning
Day 23: Wings
Day 24: Contrast
Day 25: Tree
Day 26: Accident
Day 27: Portrait
Day 28: Landscape
Day 29: Fruits/Vegetables
Day 30: Colour
Day 31: Memento Mori

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Good guys” aren’t friends with abusers. “Good guys” don’t ignore the perpetrators in their social circles. Choosing the bear. Every. Single. Time.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy birthday Mrs Lee’s Granny from my morning commute through Fife, Scotland

Trees and a blue sky with white clouds seen through a train window

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think the annotation writer is an absolute queen, btw, no shade! Her notes gave me life!

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My second hand copy of The Song of Achilles came with some incredible annotations be a previous reader who… yeah, I don’t think she knew the story ahead of time! @madelinemiller.bsky.social! Also @nataliehaynes.bsky.social and @gregjenner.bsky.social, and any classicists!

Photo of a book page, annotated in pencil to say that Agamemnon is a dick

Photo of a book page, annotated in pencil to say that Achilles has a big ego

Photo of a book page, annotated in pencil to say that Patroclus is bisexual

Photo of a book page, annotated in pencil in utter shock and horror the Patroclus dies

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

felt coot, might delete later

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I had never lost an end from my nose piercings (I have paired nostrils) til June this year, when one of my beautiful white gold ends disappeared right before graduation. Since then, I’ve lost THREE more. Sake.

Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I visited Belle Elmore’s grave yesterday, and lacking as I was in secateurs or gardening gloves, cut back the brambles with my embroidery scissors. Her resting place deserves the care. If you haven’t read Hallie Rubenhold’s ‘Story of a Murder’, it’s well worth your attention.

A side by side before and after photo of a grave site. On the left, the space has brambles growing over it, and in the right, they’ve been cleared.

A close up of the inscription on a gravestone, reading:

IN MEMORIAM

CORA CRIPPEN (BELLE ELMORE)

WHO PASSED AWAY 1st FEB 1910

REST IN PEACE

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I regularly stick old Time Team episodes on in the background while I’m drawing or crafting - Tony bloody Blair popping up towards the end of S10 E12 was a jump scare!

Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I’m more surrounding myself *with* library cards - my local, British Library, and National Library of Scotland…

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m intending on being there.

A screenshot from Instagram showing the details of a vigil for Prof Jason Arday

Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Can’t see it any other way

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I keep forgetting to post Memento Mori Monday on here as well as Insta - this absolute beauty is in Penicuik, Midlothian.

An old gravestone featuring a carved
human skeleton, flanked by two small cherubs standing on skulls

Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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I think every northerner has met this guy.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A site created by his former students

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Earlier this week….

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jason Arday’s death is heartbreaking. Fucking hell.

Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I feel like this photo captures my essence!

A photo of me, a white early 40s woman with visible tattoos, paddling in the sea while wearing my graduation gown, holding a bottle of Prosecco.

Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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On this day in 1981, Richard Cobb got an honorary degree from the University of Essex. That may not seem significant to you, but it makes this afternoon the 45th anniversary of one of the finest graduation addresses ever delivered 🧵

A grey slate plaque with white lettering reads: Historian Richard Cobb got an honorary degree here on a sweltering day in 1981. His speech, in full: “Well, it’s very hot and the pubs are open.”

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Just a lil pond appreciation post - waterlily, marsh marigold, and water forget-me-not all flowering #bloomscrolling

Marsh marigolds, yellow five petalled flowers, and water forget-me-notes, tiny pale blue flowers.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Watermelon salt electrolyte in a pint of water, and an iced coffee.

Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I keep forgetting I have this app… Anyway, it was Pride in Edinburgh over the weekend. My disabled body wasn’t up to the march, but I drank bubbles in the sun with my glorious community.

A sticker in trans pride colours saying STOP KEEKIN IN MA BREEKS YA WEIRDOS

The t-shirt I wore to Pride - it’s black with a trans flag on it, with SILLY GOTHS FOR TRANS RIGHTS above it in white lettering

A selfie. I’m a white 41 year old woman with brown hair tied up in a knotted scarf. I’m wearing sunglasses and grinning at the camera, holding up a bottle of cheap Prosecco. I have botanical tattoos on my visible forearm, and a black t-shirt saying SILLY GOTHS FOR TRANS RIGHTS on it.

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Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Dr Q Manivannan is one of two new out trans MSPs with the Scottish Green Party (the other being Iris Duane), and it brings me great joy that they’re now the Scottish Parliament representative for terf-in-chief JKR’s constituency.

Kathryn Leia @voxossa.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Queer history and a named woman’s bequeathed contribution to girls’ education in 1740s York.

Blue plaque to Anne Lister at the church where she and Ann Walker took sacrament

A plaque stating a woman’s 1741 bequest of financial support for the education of four poor girls in York