Arielle Mc
@arielleemcee.bsky.social
Medievalist from ATX | Fairies & Forms & Chaos & Resistance | Out here keepin' it fictional | she/her | BLM | All view’s are my cat’s
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One more while we’re at it! We’re interested in offering TSW authors the chance to commission images to companion their pieces (if they wish). If you are an artist whose work aligns with our values & you'd be interested in being listed, send us an email (thesowhatpub [at]gmail [dot]com) #medievalsky
September 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
One more while we’re at it! We’re interested in offering TSW authors the chance to commission images to companion their pieces (if they wish). If you are an artist whose work aligns with our values & you'd be interested in being listed, send us an email (thesowhatpub [at]gmail [dot]com) #medievalsky
YUP
September 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
YUP
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Call for #medievalsky & related other ski’s!! Guest editors for issues & clusters—we summon you!!! We’re currently looking for individuals or teams interested in #bardcore, craft medievalism & medieval crafts, changing climates, early globalities, & more! #cfp
Full guest ed call linked 👇
Full guest ed call linked 👇
Call for Guest Editors
Call for Guest Editors: The So What Special Issues The So What welcomes proposals for individual or teams interested in guest editing a special issue on one of the following topics: Bardcore Medieva...
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September 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Call for #medievalsky & related other ski’s!! Guest editors for issues & clusters—we summon you!!! We’re currently looking for individuals or teams interested in #bardcore, craft medievalism & medieval crafts, changing climates, early globalities, & more! #cfp
Full guest ed call linked 👇
Full guest ed call linked 👇
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Critical thinkinge ys vitallye ymportant and manye academic fieldes rightfullye clayme that thei teache it. Englisshe majors learne critical thinkinge too, but thei also learne creative thinkinge and compassionate thinkinge.
September 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Critical thinkinge ys vitallye ymportant and manye academic fieldes rightfullye clayme that thei teache it. Englisshe majors learne critical thinkinge too, but thei also learne creative thinkinge and compassionate thinkinge.
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Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
September 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
The number of people buying used DVDs in this store, especially of Disney movies, is oddly heartening?
shrek from the movie shrek is smiling and looking at something
ALT: shrek from the movie shrek is smiling and looking at something
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September 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
The number of people buying used DVDs in this store, especially of Disney movies, is oddly heartening?
There are few looks of disdain as withering as that of a teen happening upon a Millennial emotively lip syncing to “Backstreet’s Back” in the aisle of a grocery store.
I kept dancing tho. Can’t stop won’t stop…as the kids no longer say 😂
I kept dancing tho. Can’t stop won’t stop…as the kids no longer say 😂
September 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
There are few looks of disdain as withering as that of a teen happening upon a Millennial emotively lip syncing to “Backstreet’s Back” in the aisle of a grocery store.
I kept dancing tho. Can’t stop won’t stop…as the kids no longer say 😂
I kept dancing tho. Can’t stop won’t stop…as the kids no longer say 😂
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September 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Friends. It’s international dog day, and we need to talk about one of the greatest unrecognized threats to dogs … U.S. Republican Leadership — video: www.instagram.com/reel/DN0_9v4...
#republicans #gop #internationaldogsday #nationaldogday #trump #kristinoem
#republicans #gop #internationaldogsday #nationaldogday #trump #kristinoem
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August 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Friends. It’s international dog day, and we need to talk about one of the greatest unrecognized threats to dogs … U.S. Republican Leadership — video: www.instagram.com/reel/DN0_9v4...
#republicans #gop #internationaldogsday #nationaldogday #trump #kristinoem
#republicans #gop #internationaldogsday #nationaldogday #trump #kristinoem
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6/ last but very certainly not least, Sarah Barringer offers detailed lesson plans and pedagogical guidance for having students investigate and critique the appeal #Beowulf to the Far Right.
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/beowulf-...
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Beowulf and the Far Right (Pedagogical) — Arthuriana
Why do we still read medieval stories? This is the question I ask my students before my lesson on Beowulf and far-right groups. One reason, they decided, was that many medieval lessons and ideas r...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
6/ last but very certainly not least, Sarah Barringer offers detailed lesson plans and pedagogical guidance for having students investigate and critique the appeal #Beowulf to the Far Right.
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/beowulf-...
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/beowulf-...
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5/ check out a creative piece in context! Amanda Brighton Payne shares her poem, “The Window Bog,” and it’s origins in: “A New Poem in Context: A Medieval Bog Woman in Northern Europe.”
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A New Poem in Context: A Medieval Bog Woman in Northern Europe — Arthuriana
It’s not easy being a historian of the early Middle Ages. Historians most commonly use primary sources to reach into the experience of people whose world was far different from our own. But the very l...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
5/ check out a creative piece in context! Amanda Brighton Payne shares her poem, “The Window Bog,” and it’s origins in: “A New Poem in Context: A Medieval Bog Woman in Northern Europe.”
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/a-new-po...
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/a-new-po...
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4/ then read Seeta Chaganti’s “IRRECOVERY,” a powerfully written exploration of scholarly methods, medieval outlawry, and contemporary resistance; a moving call to “leave the agents of certain collective actions undetectable.”
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/irrecovery
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/irrecovery
IRRECOVERY — Arthuriana
Archival and critical projects referred to as ‘recovery’ allow scholars to make heard the voices of those historically inaudible and marginalized. When discourses of representation, centers and margin...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
4/ then read Seeta Chaganti’s “IRRECOVERY,” a powerfully written exploration of scholarly methods, medieval outlawry, and contemporary resistance; a moving call to “leave the agents of certain collective actions undetectable.”
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/irrecovery
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/irrecovery
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3/ next we have Maggie Hawkins’ fascinating essay on “Black Neomedievalisms in Late and Post-Covid Music Videos”! And yes, those do include videos by Lil Nas X and hemlocke springs, thank you for asking!
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/black-ne...
More on the author: liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/grad...
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/black-ne...
More on the author: liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/grad...
Black Neomedievalisms in Late and Post-Covid Music Videos — Arthuriana
The world of man was ending, rapidly, or so it seemed to me as I sat in my lonely New Jersey apartment in late Spring of 2020. Looking out at the skyline of the city I loved, I watched my friends flee...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
3/ next we have Maggie Hawkins’ fascinating essay on “Black Neomedievalisms in Late and Post-Covid Music Videos”! And yes, those do include videos by Lil Nas X and hemlocke springs, thank you for asking!
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/black-ne...
More on the author: liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/grad...
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/black-ne...
More on the author: liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/grad...
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2/ First up, “Queer Medieval Outing with @nicolaz.bsky.social: A Public Humanities Event,” in which María Bullón-Fernández & Sarah Faulkner discuss an amazing #pubhums event on the Queer Medieval sponsored by Humanities Washington
Queer Medieval Outing with Nicola Griffith: A Public Humanities Event — Arthuriana
How do we recover the voices of those throughout history who have not been in positions of power and who, therefore, have been either left out of records or only represented in partial or stigmatizing...
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August 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
2/ First up, “Queer Medieval Outing with @nicolaz.bsky.social: A Public Humanities Event,” in which María Bullón-Fernández & Sarah Faulkner discuss an amazing #pubhums event on the Queer Medieval sponsored by Humanities Washington
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Hi #medievalsky! We’re excited to announce that Issue 2 of The So What is available on our site: www.arthuriana.com/tsw-issues! #pubhums #arthuriansky
And now, a quick teaser 🧵 of the pieces in this issue… /1
And now, a quick teaser 🧵 of the pieces in this issue… /1
TSW Issues and Collections — Arthuriana
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August 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Hi #medievalsky! We’re excited to announce that Issue 2 of The So What is available on our site: www.arthuriana.com/tsw-issues! #pubhums #arthuriansky
And now, a quick teaser 🧵 of the pieces in this issue… /1
And now, a quick teaser 🧵 of the pieces in this issue… /1
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and--idk quite how to articulate this--but the work of it is... critical to art-making. like you discover your intentions through the labor of expressing them. if I'd woken up at 17 with the technical ability to write a novel, i wouldn't have known what i was trying to say. the work IS the product.
August 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
and--idk quite how to articulate this--but the work of it is... critical to art-making. like you discover your intentions through the labor of expressing them. if I'd woken up at 17 with the technical ability to write a novel, i wouldn't have known what i was trying to say. the work IS the product.
Not comparatively important, but billboards featuring Michael B. Jordan staring out at the driver with FULL MODEL SMOLDER are a driving hazard. That’s all
a man is sitting in a chair with his fist in the air .
ALT: a man is sitting in a chair with his fist in the air .
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August 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Not comparatively important, but billboards featuring Michael B. Jordan staring out at the driver with FULL MODEL SMOLDER are a driving hazard. That’s all
I have never laughed so hard at something I also felt so raw and deep in my soul 😂😰😂
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
August 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I have never laughed so hard at something I also felt so raw and deep in my soul 😂😰😂
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What's the best article or essay (not book!) you've read recently about women/gender in late medieval and/or early modern Europe?
#earlymodern #medievalsky
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#earlymodern #medievalsky
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August 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
What's the best article or essay (not book!) you've read recently about women/gender in late medieval and/or early modern Europe?
#earlymodern #medievalsky
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#earlymodern #medievalsky
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Hey #medievalsky, #skystorians, #arthuriansky et al! The So What has its own Bsky acct now; give us a follow to learn about new issues and CFPs as they drop (that’s the appropriate verb for this sort of thing, yes?)!
The So What is on Bluesky! Check out our website at www.arthuriana.com/tsw to read our first two issues!
Blog 2 — Arthuriana
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August 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Hey #medievalsky, #skystorians, #arthuriansky et al! The So What has its own Bsky acct now; give us a follow to learn about new issues and CFPs as they drop (that’s the appropriate verb for this sort of thing, yes?)!
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there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win
August 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win
There should be an academic missed connections page where you can post the answers you wish you’d given to questions on your conference papers as well as the questions you’ve belatedly thought of for others
a man in a black shirt is screaming with his mouth open and the word aha is on the screen behind him .
Alt: Joel McHale dramatically points and yells, the text of the gif reads: “AHA!”
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June 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
There should be an academic missed connections page where you can post the answers you wish you’d given to questions on your conference papers as well as the questions you’ve belatedly thought of for others
Did in fact need to see this
Did you need to see a round bunny with greenery in its mouth?
May 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Did in fact need to see this
#kzoo2025 book haul part 1!!! So excited I can’t decide which to read first!!! #medievalsky
May 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
#kzoo2025 book haul part 1!!! So excited I can’t decide which to read first!!! #medievalsky
Listen, this isn’t even close to the most important thing rn, but can I just say the person who selected the image for this story deserves some sort of prize
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GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Make All Porn a Federal Crime, Following Project 2025 Playbook
Mike Lee wants to deliver a death knell to PornHub.
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May 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Listen, this isn’t even close to the most important thing rn, but can I just say the person who selected the image for this story deserves some sort of prize
gizmodo.com/gop-senator-...
gizmodo.com/gop-senator-...