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Natasha Simonova

@philistella.bsky.social

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Research Fellow @ies-sas.bsky.social, Bougie London Literary Woman, cat concierge. Book on 18th-century women's letters forthcoming from Chatto & Windus. natashasimonova.com

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · Nov 9

Excited for this energy! About me: one foot still in academia (17th/18th c., women's writing, manuscripts, fiction), working on a trade book about 18th-century women's letters, always up for freelance writing/reviewing gigs or new friends and events around London. Servant to small elderly cat.

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1h

Feminism win! The 19th-century robber baron cat is a girl!
www.instagram.com/persian_lucy...

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 3h

What I'm learning is some of you cannot reliably count to 4.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 5h

Personally 'they kept all letters' is also a horror story for me!

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 6h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 1d

The Uncanny Valet

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 13h

'surely this inset narrative about the Spanish Inquisition has to be over soon'

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 13h

Love this thread about reading Melmoth because it DOES contain all of those things and... absolutely none of them will be in the other 500+ pages of the book.

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

melmoth the wanderer absolutely slaps. we've got a sinister manor, a cursed painting, an evil dying miser, a gentle young idiot hero and a sinister irish witch in chapter 1

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

Girl are you Queen Sybilla of Jerusalem, because you keep on choosing a disappointing Guy.

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2d

Taylor Swift's debut album in 2006 coincided with the decline of AOL Instant Messenger; in this essay I will argue that they fill a similar role in society.

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2d

Yes but can you set an away message of ~*@*~significant song lyrics~*@*~??

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 2d

irresistible new elder millennial bait just dropped

ATIM Instant Messenger @atim.app · 2d

Sneak peek at a new client for Bluesky that is nearly ready for a beta release. atim.app

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 4d

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 4d

I know my sausage dogs! 🌭🐾

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 5d

These are FAR too leggy to be sausage dogs, surely they're mini or baby dobermans!

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 5d

The Woman of Colour!

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 5d

I stayed in Astley Castle shortly after it opened and it's so! good!!

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 5d

Same, I thought it was onomatopoeic!

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 5d

Now want to apply this to so many other long 18th-c texts! 'The mixed-race cousin who was forced to marry me discovered my secret wife and has now decided to leave England forever and return home!...no, it was her innate sense of virtue and resignation' etc.