Abbaetha, forever team parsnip
@abbaetha.bsky.social
Quilter, crafter, baker. Sff/romance/history reader. Boosting books. Amateur victorianist. Posts and follows re: books, crafts, and food. LGBTQ+ ally. D. Dunnett cultist. No politics or automatic follow-backs. E pur si muove. Banner: Macbeth cake.
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Welcome new followers! I am Abbaetha. I mostly follow historians, academics, authors and bookish types, crafters, and cooks. My feed is mostly breads, cakes, books, and crafts, which continues the theme. I like a quiet peaceful corner and that’s the goal of this account. No cat, but ferrets.
#cooksky
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The pear filling has escaped containment. Please respond accordingly (ideally with whipped cream).
@nethertonfoundry.bsky.social
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The pear filling has escaped containment. Please respond accordingly (ideally with whipped cream).
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November 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
#cooksky
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The pear filling has escaped containment. Please respond accordingly (ideally with whipped cream).
@nethertonfoundry.bsky.social
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The pear filling has escaped containment. Please respond accordingly (ideally with whipped cream).
@nethertonfoundry.bsky.social
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Today’s bake is a batch of everything bagels with za’atar mixed in. Not pictured 3 double crust pie crusts I prepped for the freezer.
November 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Today’s bake is a batch of everything bagels with za’atar mixed in. Not pictured 3 double crust pie crusts I prepped for the freezer.
These are fabulous books and I was just posting about them. Completely formative for me.
You know what’s ripe for a comeback is the Wolves of Willoughby Chase series by Joan Aiken. Smart & non-condescending YA, fantastical without being fantasy, dark and Dickensian as hell, extremely lefty and anticapitalist, a full dozen sequels, amazing Edward Gorey covers.
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
These are fabulous books and I was just posting about them. Completely formative for me.
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
Because @lollardfish.bsky.social says we should promote our books: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477313138/
Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back
Triumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty—it’s fun to be a fan. But when a football player takes a hi...
utpress.utexas.edu
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
Pleased with this. My crimps are never what I want (except for raised pie, for some reason) but I’m still pleased.
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Pleased with this. My crimps are never what I want (except for raised pie, for some reason) but I’m still pleased.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are coming to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Not only will I be fine, I will be wrapped in love and I will be wiser.
Not only will I be fine, I will be wrapped in love and I will be wiser.
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are coming to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Not only will I be fine, I will be wrapped in love and I will be wiser.
Not only will I be fine, I will be wrapped in love and I will be wiser.
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Okay but here me out:
A nighttime library in which the only lighting comes from lanterns, an emotional support library ghost leads you to the books you are looking to find, and midnight croissants are served during every full moon.
A nighttime library in which the only lighting comes from lanterns, an emotional support library ghost leads you to the books you are looking to find, and midnight croissants are served during every full moon.
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Okay but here me out:
A nighttime library in which the only lighting comes from lanterns, an emotional support library ghost leads you to the books you are looking to find, and midnight croissants are served during every full moon.
A nighttime library in which the only lighting comes from lanterns, an emotional support library ghost leads you to the books you are looking to find, and midnight croissants are served during every full moon.
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🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History.
This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance”
Deadline: 17 Dec 2025
Please share widely!
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Begun, the marmalade has.
November 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Begun, the marmalade has.
Timeline cleanse: it’s like Alien, but with a little sleep pod, and including beans.
November 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Timeline cleanse: it’s like Alien, but with a little sleep pod, and including beans.
This is a very good book and if you want more of the books you need to pay the author, people. This is not hard.
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
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Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is a very good book and if you want more of the books you need to pay the author, people. This is not hard.
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#cooksky
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Make blueberry pound cake, kid said. I said sure, blueberry lemon? Kid said nothing. Kid ate the cake and said they didn’t want lemon. Anyone want blueberry lemon almond cake with lemon glaze?
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Make blueberry pound cake, kid said. I said sure, blueberry lemon? Kid said nothing. Kid ate the cake and said they didn’t want lemon. Anyone want blueberry lemon almond cake with lemon glaze?
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
#cooksky
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Make blueberry pound cake, kid said. I said sure, blueberry lemon? Kid said nothing. Kid ate the cake and said they didn’t want lemon. Anyone want blueberry lemon almond cake with lemon glaze?
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Make blueberry pound cake, kid said. I said sure, blueberry lemon? Kid said nothing. Kid ate the cake and said they didn’t want lemon. Anyone want blueberry lemon almond cake with lemon glaze?
#cooksky
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Yeah, I found Persian tangerines so I am doing this again. My shreds last time were a little chunky so I’m making them smaller. I want to add a hint of rose. It’s an obsession but I have found the ultimate house gift so I can excuse it.
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Yeah, I found Persian tangerines so I am doing this again. My shreds last time were a little chunky so I’m making them smaller. I want to add a hint of rose. It’s an obsession but I have found the ultimate house gift so I can excuse it.
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
#cooksky
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Yeah, I found Persian tangerines so I am doing this again. My shreds last time were a little chunky so I’m making them smaller. I want to add a hint of rose. It’s an obsession but I have found the ultimate house gift so I can excuse it.
🍜🍽️
Yeah, I found Persian tangerines so I am doing this again. My shreds last time were a little chunky so I’m making them smaller. I want to add a hint of rose. It’s an obsession but I have found the ultimate house gift so I can excuse it.
#booksky
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Read @levgrossman.com ‘s the bright sword and loved it-it’s still living in my head. My experience of it reminded me of when I first read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell - perhaps the first 1/4-1/3 felt like a slightly unfocused dream, which worked thematically because it’s an
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Read @levgrossman.com ‘s the bright sword and loved it-it’s still living in my head. My experience of it reminded me of when I first read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell - perhaps the first 1/4-1/3 felt like a slightly unfocused dream, which worked thematically because it’s an
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
#booksky
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Read @levgrossman.com ‘s the bright sword and loved it-it’s still living in my head. My experience of it reminded me of when I first read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell - perhaps the first 1/4-1/3 felt like a slightly unfocused dream, which worked thematically because it’s an
💙📚
Read @levgrossman.com ‘s the bright sword and loved it-it’s still living in my head. My experience of it reminded me of when I first read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell - perhaps the first 1/4-1/3 felt like a slightly unfocused dream, which worked thematically because it’s an
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People get so so weird about this; I'll never understand.
"Because I'm driving everyone home after" always leads to "oh well you can still have one!"
How about you fuck off into the sun instead? Too many goddamn idiots on the roads and I won't be one of them, thanks. Every event, every time.
"Because I'm driving everyone home after" always leads to "oh well you can still have one!"
How about you fuck off into the sun instead? Too many goddamn idiots on the roads and I won't be one of them, thanks. Every event, every time.
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
People get so so weird about this; I'll never understand.
"Because I'm driving everyone home after" always leads to "oh well you can still have one!"
How about you fuck off into the sun instead? Too many goddamn idiots on the roads and I won't be one of them, thanks. Every event, every time.
"Because I'm driving everyone home after" always leads to "oh well you can still have one!"
How about you fuck off into the sun instead? Too many goddamn idiots on the roads and I won't be one of them, thanks. Every event, every time.
#dunnettcontent
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I have to pack up a lot of things to accommodate work on the house, so I’m being vicious about the books that get to live outside boxes. So far the only ones that clearly make the cut are Lymond, Niccoló, King Hereafter, and Book of the New Sun.
@rereadingwolfe.bsky.social
I have to pack up a lot of things to accommodate work on the house, so I’m being vicious about the books that get to live outside boxes. So far the only ones that clearly make the cut are Lymond, Niccoló, King Hereafter, and Book of the New Sun.
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
#dunnettcontent
@rereadingwolfe.bsky.social
I have to pack up a lot of things to accommodate work on the house, so I’m being vicious about the books that get to live outside boxes. So far the only ones that clearly make the cut are Lymond, Niccoló, King Hereafter, and Book of the New Sun.
@rereadingwolfe.bsky.social
I have to pack up a lot of things to accommodate work on the house, so I’m being vicious about the books that get to live outside boxes. So far the only ones that clearly make the cut are Lymond, Niccoló, King Hereafter, and Book of the New Sun.
That far-away prize, a world of success
Is waiting for me if I heed the call
I won't settle down, won't settle for less
As long as there's a chance that I can have it all
Is waiting for me if I heed the call
I won't settle down, won't settle for less
As long as there's a chance that I can have it all
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
That far-away prize, a world of success
Is waiting for me if I heed the call
I won't settle down, won't settle for less
As long as there's a chance that I can have it all
Is waiting for me if I heed the call
I won't settle down, won't settle for less
As long as there's a chance that I can have it all
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My crazy crochet flower blanket is finished apart from a few ends I'll do in daylight, plus it needs blocking 🧶
November 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
My crazy crochet flower blanket is finished apart from a few ends I'll do in daylight, plus it needs blocking 🧶
In honor of this thread, a story that a family friend witnessed at a gourmet store in the late 80s/early 90s (when there were fewer gourmet stores, which matters).
Scene: early morning at gourmet store. It has just opened for the day (weekday) and it is thinly staffed.
Scene: early morning at gourmet store. It has just opened for the day (weekday) and it is thinly staffed.
In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.
November 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
In honor of this thread, a story that a family friend witnessed at a gourmet store in the late 80s/early 90s (when there were fewer gourmet stores, which matters).
Scene: early morning at gourmet store. It has just opened for the day (weekday) and it is thinly staffed.
Scene: early morning at gourmet store. It has just opened for the day (weekday) and it is thinly staffed.
Go home, bingo card. You’re drunk.
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Go home, bingo card. You’re drunk.
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This short came out recently, and I watched it, and then a friend sent it to me after that and i watched it again, and now I send it to you.
I wish uppies for you.
youtube.com/shorts/hdXjc...
I wish uppies for you.
youtube.com/shorts/hdXjc...
I know it’s wrong. But…#funny #googlingongummies #gummies #raccoon #raccoons
YouTube video by Refashioned Hippie
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November 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This short came out recently, and I watched it, and then a friend sent it to me after that and i watched it again, and now I send it to you.
I wish uppies for you.
youtube.com/shorts/hdXjc...
I wish uppies for you.
youtube.com/shorts/hdXjc...
This is magnificent.
Does Mrs Thornton show up on her own sons Reddit thread and dox him of course she does
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
This is magnificent.
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Other series I want more people to read is @tkingfisher.com ‘s Sworn Soldier series.
Yes yes it has trans rep and that’s cool but what’s COOLER is how the first book is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher and it fucks severely.
Yes yes it has trans rep and that’s cool but what’s COOLER is how the first book is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher and it fucks severely.
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Other series I want more people to read is @tkingfisher.com ‘s Sworn Soldier series.
Yes yes it has trans rep and that’s cool but what’s COOLER is how the first book is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher and it fucks severely.
Yes yes it has trans rep and that’s cool but what’s COOLER is how the first book is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher and it fucks severely.