Dr Rhiannon Easterbrook
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Dr Rhiannon Easterbrook
@rhiannone.bsky.social
Classicist, reception and theatre person
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October 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
You can reach those heights!
October 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This morning, working on the Bloody Book (tm), thinking about Charley’s Aunt and then somehow getting sidetracked by G. K. Chesterton.
September 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
We’ve got fans set up, beautiful green trees to gaze upon, and we’re ready to go!
July 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The popular Richard Ganthony/Charles Hawtrey play A Message From Mars (1899) has a Martian teach a well-off man the problems with selfishness. It was adapted into a film at least three times. Classicists should note the (sort-of) ankhs and the classical temple in the background.
July 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Found out I received a nomination for an Education Excellence Award and the comments I was sent made my day! 🥲 Really touched to know I’ve made a difference for students. #RHEduExcellence
June 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
First fruits from the garden, turned into a vegan clafoutis that was fresh, creamy, almondy and fruity.

#VeganFood #TinyJoys
June 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Check out this bee enjoying my climbing rose. This rose was dormant for a year and I thought it was dead. Then boom! Scent and colour and bees and happy leaf cutters.
June 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
An excellent example of google’s AI overview: I was checking out the origin of a Welsh-language anti-police sticker I saw on a lamppost. “Heddlu” does mean “police”, but “cachwrs” definitely does not mean “officers” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
May 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Handcross 49ers v 1.MC Erzgebirge with Chris Pampel killing it.
April 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Time for the best Lady Marble Player
April 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Greetings from the British and World Marbles Championship
April 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Hmmmm
March 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Foregrounding the lesser-known episode when the Ithacan leader tries to summon a cat.
February 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Another odd eBay purchase: Secretary of State for War, Richard Haldane, as Pygmalion, with Britannia as his statue. She represents the military reforms he proposed after the second Boer War.

#classicalreception
January 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
#TheTraitors

🎵Walk on your tiptoes
Don’t try no dose
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose
Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes
January 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
One thing is clear: these are not trained on Austen’s letters.
January 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Meta’s AI Jane Austen is like if you mixed the twee-eat influencer slop from 6 years ago with the most hallucinatory aspects of the Christmas Prince Extended Universe.
January 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I hope your New Year’s Day is as relaxing as Ianto’s.
January 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Bloodsuckers - A Marxist Vampire Comedy (2021) was pretty fun. It eludes a definitive reading, but sets bourgeois narrative structures against heavy-handed Marxist readings in a surreal and humorous way. However, fascism is an ever-present threat.
December 29, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Important clarification in this Wikipedia article on the Early Modern Glass Delusion
December 21, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Unexpected classical reception: when Kirk dresses up as a Minotaur to announce that Stars Hollow will be turned into a hay bale labyrinth in Gilmore Girls
December 18, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Hermione Gingold! A good time to remind everyone that the best Christmas film is actually John van Druten adaptation Bell, Book and Candle.
(Prepare for more posts on this because I love it)
December 9, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Thought that everyone’s fave millennial makeup brand was into Object-Oriented Ontology
December 5, 2024 at 7:50 AM
Gee, thanks.
November 22, 2024 at 4:05 PM