Tessa B, MA MRes
@academictessa.dftba.social
Academic. Educator. Fiber Artist.
Studying our oldest stories and how they make us human
Part California Sunshine, Part English Rain
Studying our oldest stories and how they make us human
Part California Sunshine, Part English Rain
If you’re feeling in need of joy, I honestly and earnestly recommend watching some of the @projectforawesome.bsky.social livestream this weekend. It is always such incredible joy.
February 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
If you’re feeling in need of joy, I honestly and earnestly recommend watching some of the @projectforawesome.bsky.social livestream this weekend. It is always such incredible joy.
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Where can you get Tudor Gothic, Women's apocalyptic writing, monster-f**king, deadly dance, folklore and landscape, doppelgangers, horror theatre, grave-diggers, horror-making on a budget, Poe and Mesmerism, Gothic tourism and more all in one place?
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...
Goths for Breakfast 2025
Romancing the Gothic is running an online charity event to support Magic Breakfast, which provides school breakfasts for children who need them. The event is a day of online classes and workshops w…
romancingthegothic.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Where can you get Tudor Gothic, Women's apocalyptic writing, monster-f**king, deadly dance, folklore and landscape, doppelgangers, horror theatre, grave-diggers, horror-making on a budget, Poe and Mesmerism, Gothic tourism and more all in one place?
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...
romancingthegothic.com/2025/01/20/g...
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1/🧵 National Park Service, Librarians, Cartoonists, Historians, Folklorists all unhesitatingly resisting. Sound like a weird "front line"? Here's (a taste of) why #THREAD:
NPS looks after natural & CULTURAL resources: education, support of local tribes & communities, preserving local history #resist
NPS looks after natural & CULTURAL resources: education, support of local tribes & communities, preserving local history #resist
January 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
How I feel every time my cats don’t eat their dinner after whining for it.
a woman is feeding a llama with a spoon and the llama says tina eat eat the food !
Alt: Napoleon Dynamite is feeding a llama with a spoon and says “Tina eat the food!”
media.tenor.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
How I feel every time my cats don’t eat their dinner after whining for it.
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THIRTEEN TWENTY-EIGHT DAY MONTHS. 364 DAYS. THE 365TH DAY IS A GLOBAL CELEBRATION. #FIXTHEMONTHS
January 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
THIRTEEN TWENTY-EIGHT DAY MONTHS. 364 DAYS. THE 365TH DAY IS A GLOBAL CELEBRATION. #FIXTHEMONTHS
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Robert Eggers "The vampire of folklore is not a nobleman. The vampire of folklore is not a suave, dinner jacket-wearing seducer. The vampire of folklore is a corpse. An undead corpse. These early vampires are visually closer to a cinematic zombie"
‘I had to make the vampire as scary as possible’: Nosferatu’s Robert Eggers on how folklore fuelled his film
The director of the latest movie in the bloodsucker tradition explains why he went back to the Transylvanian source for his version of one of cinema’s enduring adaptations
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Robert Eggers "The vampire of folklore is not a nobleman. The vampire of folklore is not a suave, dinner jacket-wearing seducer. The vampire of folklore is a corpse. An undead corpse. These early vampires are visually closer to a cinematic zombie"
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As the annual celebration of Christ and capitalism smothers us in its holly jolly smog, may your grading be only mildly awful, your research be highly cromulent, and your consumption of cheese/wine/chocolate be simply extravagant! 🎄💜 #academicsky #academicchatter
December 24, 2024 at 4:40 PM
As the annual celebration of Christ and capitalism smothers us in its holly jolly smog, may your grading be only mildly awful, your research be highly cromulent, and your consumption of cheese/wine/chocolate be simply extravagant! 🎄💜 #academicsky #academicchatter
Watching my boyfriend play the old Super Nintendo Donkey Kong:
“This is why so many millennials have anxiety”
“This is why so many millennials have anxiety”
December 23, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Watching my boyfriend play the old Super Nintendo Donkey Kong:
“This is why so many millennials have anxiety”
“This is why so many millennials have anxiety”
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Fully-funded PhD in Folklore
We're pleased to announce that @uclofficial.bsky.social will be offering a fully-funded PhD studentship (with stipend), in partnership with the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
For further description, specific candidate requirements and how to apply, go to: bit.ly/3ZKMggt
UCL and EFDSS announce partnership offering a fully-funded PhD studentship
We're pleased to announce that University College London (UCL) will be offering a fully-funded PhD studentship (with stipend), in partnership with the English Folk Dance and Song Society. This opportu...
bit.ly
December 19, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Fully-funded PhD in Folklore
As said in the next post….GO WRITE YOUR FREAKY SHIT
I don’t want to read the same story written again and again, I want to read something weird.
I don’t want to read the same story written again and again, I want to read something weird.
If you're feeling insecure about your book's premise today, remember that someone really walked into a pitch meeting and said, "Hear me out -- it's Hamlet . . . but with lions."
December 16, 2024 at 5:19 AM
As said in the next post….GO WRITE YOUR FREAKY SHIT
I don’t want to read the same story written again and again, I want to read something weird.
I don’t want to read the same story written again and again, I want to read something weird.
As you’re making new year’s resolutions be sure to also think about what you accomplished in 2024. So often we focus on what we still need or want to do and forget to reflect on the successes we’ve already had.
December 12, 2024 at 9:11 PM
As you’re making new year’s resolutions be sure to also think about what you accomplished in 2024. So often we focus on what we still need or want to do and forget to reflect on the successes we’ve already had.
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Write that thing. Pluck it outta your soul with rusty pliers. Hit the keyboard like it owes you money. Write whenever, wherever you can. Tell your story. Make the words dance. Whatever you want—a novel, a short story, an agent, a movie—it all starts with the writing.
December 12, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Write that thing. Pluck it outta your soul with rusty pliers. Hit the keyboard like it owes you money. Write whenever, wherever you can. Tell your story. Make the words dance. Whatever you want—a novel, a short story, an agent, a movie—it all starts with the writing.
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The science of reading for pleasure
'it’s worth considering what might happen to us as a species if skills like reading become less prioritised. Our capacity to interpret the world around us and understand the minds of others would surely diminish' theconversation.com/people-who-a...
'it’s worth considering what might happen to us as a species if skills like reading become less prioritised. Our capacity to interpret the world around us and understand the minds of others would surely diminish' theconversation.com/people-who-a...
People who are good at reading have different brains
Reading can change the brain.
theconversation.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:31 AM
The science of reading for pleasure
'it’s worth considering what might happen to us as a species if skills like reading become less prioritised. Our capacity to interpret the world around us and understand the minds of others would surely diminish' theconversation.com/people-who-a...
'it’s worth considering what might happen to us as a species if skills like reading become less prioritised. Our capacity to interpret the world around us and understand the minds of others would surely diminish' theconversation.com/people-who-a...
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"A ship in port is safe,
but
that's not what
ships are built for."
- Grace Hopper
b today 1906
#pioneer #change
#nature #photography
but
that's not what
ships are built for."
- Grace Hopper
b today 1906
#pioneer #change
#nature #photography
December 9, 2024 at 1:00 PM
"A ship in port is safe,
but
that's not what
ships are built for."
- Grace Hopper
b today 1906
#pioneer #change
#nature #photography
but
that's not what
ships are built for."
- Grace Hopper
b today 1906
#pioneer #change
#nature #photography
This is not me, but I wish it was!
"Mongol Connections" project at The Courtauld, led by Sussan Babaie, is calling for applications from early career (post-doctoral) & advanced doctoral levels for a three-year (2025-2027) travelling seminar.
(I'm not related to it, just spreading the word)
#mongolsky
courtauld.ac.uk/call-for-app...
(I'm not related to it, just spreading the word)
#mongolsky
courtauld.ac.uk/call-for-app...
Call For Applications: Mongol Connections
Call For Applications: Mongol Connections
courtauld.ac.uk
December 5, 2024 at 11:11 PM
This is not me, but I wish it was!
December 5, 2024 at 2:09 AM
Life tip from a moderately successful (I’m not a millionaire but I have a career I enjoy, I’m worth more $ than I owe, and I have two Master’s degrees) person:
Find clothes that make you feel powerful and wear them as much as possible. When you feel good, you will do good.
Find clothes that make you feel powerful and wear them as much as possible. When you feel good, you will do good.
December 3, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Life tip from a moderately successful (I’m not a millionaire but I have a career I enjoy, I’m worth more $ than I owe, and I have two Master’s degrees) person:
Find clothes that make you feel powerful and wear them as much as possible. When you feel good, you will do good.
Find clothes that make you feel powerful and wear them as much as possible. When you feel good, you will do good.
You know what kind of family you have when you pull the couch cushions off and find bookmarks.
December 2, 2024 at 11:07 PM
You know what kind of family you have when you pull the couch cushions off and find bookmarks.
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CFP: Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, & enchanted hybrids of ocean & river
Open Graves, Open Minds Conference 2025
5–6 Sep 2025, @britishlibrary.bsky.social & online
Deadline for abstracts for papers/panel proposals: 7 Feb 2025
www.opengravesopenminds.com/cfp-conferen...
Open Graves, Open Minds Conference 2025
5–6 Sep 2025, @britishlibrary.bsky.social & online
Deadline for abstracts for papers/panel proposals: 7 Feb 2025
www.opengravesopenminds.com/cfp-conferen...
CFP OGOM Conference 2025: Sea changes - Open Graves, Open Minds
Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river Venue: The British Library, London, UK (and online) Date: 5–6 September 2025 Full fathom five thy fathe...
www.opengravesopenminds.com
November 24, 2024 at 5:12 PM
CFP: Sea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, & enchanted hybrids of ocean & river
Open Graves, Open Minds Conference 2025
5–6 Sep 2025, @britishlibrary.bsky.social & online
Deadline for abstracts for papers/panel proposals: 7 Feb 2025
www.opengravesopenminds.com/cfp-conferen...
Open Graves, Open Minds Conference 2025
5–6 Sep 2025, @britishlibrary.bsky.social & online
Deadline for abstracts for papers/panel proposals: 7 Feb 2025
www.opengravesopenminds.com/cfp-conferen...
Stringing cranberries for the Yule tree 🌲
November 29, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Stringing cranberries for the Yule tree 🌲
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I love this and also hate it so, so much.
#MedSky #IDSky
Surprise! Your friends (& your friends’ friends) shape your microbiome! Scientists found that bacteria in your 💩 were a better predictor than demographics like age group, gender, or wealth, of who you’re friends with: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... 🤯
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Surprise! Your friends (& your friends’ friends) shape your microbiome! Scientists found that bacteria in your 💩 were a better predictor than demographics like age group, gender, or wealth, of who you’re friends with: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... 🤯
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Your friends shape your microbiome — and so do their friends
Analysis of nearly 2,000 people living in remote villages in Honduras reveals who’s spreading gut microorganisms to whom.
www.nature.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:30 AM
I love this and also hate it so, so much.
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If you are a trans person in Illinois arrested, harassed, or discriminated against for using a public bathroom, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.
November 21, 2024 at 3:42 AM
If you are a trans person in Illinois arrested, harassed, or discriminated against for using a public bathroom, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com.
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Wish I could buy ads for the good.store on BlueSky. But since I can't: Give the gift of good store this holiday season! Coffee! Tea! Puzzles! Socks! Soap! Shampoo bars!
100% of profit goes to charity. It's a great gift that you can feel great about.
100% of profit goes to charity. It's a great gift that you can feel great about.
Good Store
Founded by John and Hank Green with the belief that humanity can be good news. At Good Store, we’re searching the world for the best versions of the products that you use daily, like socks, coffee, or...
good.store
November 21, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Wish I could buy ads for the good.store on BlueSky. But since I can't: Give the gift of good store this holiday season! Coffee! Tea! Puzzles! Socks! Soap! Shampoo bars!
100% of profit goes to charity. It's a great gift that you can feel great about.
100% of profit goes to charity. It's a great gift that you can feel great about.