Carly Atkinson
@caryaticcar.bsky.social
Professional nitpicker and hobbyist dilettante | PhD escapee | Space, place and 🇨🇦 detective fiction | Catcalling cats like nature intended
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It's my first time combining yarns for a project, and I am over the moon for how these mittens are turning out. This colour is just ❤️🔥.
January 29, 2026 at 7:01 PM
It's my first time combining yarns for a project, and I am over the moon for how these mittens are turning out. This colour is just ❤️🔥.
This has been the most Carly-coded Christmas ever, and it's been so lovely. With Mum and Dad sick, my cousin, aunt and I have been all about binging whodunnit movies, knitting, cooking, and playing board games from the 70s together. Total bliss.
December 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
This has been the most Carly-coded Christmas ever, and it's been so lovely. With Mum and Dad sick, my cousin, aunt and I have been all about binging whodunnit movies, knitting, cooking, and playing board games from the 70s together. Total bliss.
Vancouver is feeling like another world compared to my tiny, flat corner of Ontario.
October 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Vancouver is feeling like another world compared to my tiny, flat corner of Ontario.
September 20, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I just received the physical book for a Kickstarter that I backed ages ago, and it's gorgeous (and well worth the wait). I love the combination of draconic and floral elements. 😍
September 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I just received the physical book for a Kickstarter that I backed ages ago, and it's gorgeous (and well worth the wait). I love the combination of draconic and floral elements. 😍
Got brutally dragged by my dad this weekend for bringing my knitting with me to a festival but the joke was on him: I was the only one in the family enjoying great chats with nerdy strangers and walking away with a handful of new crafting buddies. 😅🧶
August 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Got brutally dragged by my dad this weekend for bringing my knitting with me to a festival but the joke was on him: I was the only one in the family enjoying great chats with nerdy strangers and walking away with a handful of new crafting buddies. 😅🧶
I have to say that I was really not anticipating that, four episodes in, Charmed would be treating me to a very swoon-worthy 26-year-old John Cho.
(Also cool to see that 1998 fashion coming back around now 😅)
(Also cool to see that 1998 fashion coming back around now 😅)
August 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I have to say that I was really not anticipating that, four episodes in, Charmed would be treating me to a very swoon-worthy 26-year-old John Cho.
(Also cool to see that 1998 fashion coming back around now 😅)
(Also cool to see that 1998 fashion coming back around now 😅)
And I thought that today couldn't get any lovelier. ❤️
August 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And I thought that today couldn't get any lovelier. ❤️
I'm doing my best to not succumb to Second Sock Syndrome, but the pink yarn is so pretty. 😭
August 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I'm doing my best to not succumb to Second Sock Syndrome, but the pink yarn is so pretty. 😭
I love that one of my local art galleries has a studio where they host fun, creative events. Even though she looks like she came straight from a fever dream, I love my resulting bird sentry.
#AWE
#AWE
August 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I love that one of my local art galleries has a studio where they host fun, creative events. Even though she looks like she came straight from a fever dream, I love my resulting bird sentry.
#AWE
#AWE
A favourite Sunday activity is curling up with my knitting needles, my sweet girl, and a horror movie (we're rewatching Heretic tonight).
August 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
A favourite Sunday activity is curling up with my knitting needles, my sweet girl, and a horror movie (we're rewatching Heretic tonight).
Even my cat is questioning my life choices now ☠️
July 8, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Even my cat is questioning my life choices now ☠️
New therapist: Now, what if you directed that love and care that you show for others at yourself?
Me, having just told her that I show care for people by surprising them with gifts:
Me, having just told her that I show care for people by surprising them with gifts:
a man in a hat and jacket says i am never going to financially recover from this
ALT: a man in a hat and jacket says i am never going to financially recover from this
media.tenor.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
New therapist: Now, what if you directed that love and care that you show for others at yourself?
Me, having just told her that I show care for people by surprising them with gifts:
Me, having just told her that I show care for people by surprising them with gifts:
In a tragic turn of events, the Jurassic Park/Lost World audiobooks have made it clear that Dr. Ian Malcolm is only sexy and roguishly charming when played by Jeff Goldblum and limited by a two-hour running time. Book Malcolm has enough soliloquies that even Hamlet would find it to be a *bit* much.
March 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
In a tragic turn of events, the Jurassic Park/Lost World audiobooks have made it clear that Dr. Ian Malcolm is only sexy and roguishly charming when played by Jeff Goldblum and limited by a two-hour running time. Book Malcolm has enough soliloquies that even Hamlet would find it to be a *bit* much.
Reposted by Carly Atkinson
My lovely dept, The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. We’re a lovely bunch, I promise. Please spread the word!
March 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
My lovely dept, The School of English at Trinity College Dublin, is hiring! We are looking for a postcolonial scholar who can also teach American literature. We’re a lovely bunch, I promise. Please spread the word!
I mistook the pack of drinks that I saw at my regular grocery store for the one I tried from the fancy store and just discovered that I've been pounding back an energy drink with breakfast every day this week instead of tea. ☠️☠️☠️
March 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I mistook the pack of drinks that I saw at my regular grocery store for the one I tried from the fancy store and just discovered that I've been pounding back an energy drink with breakfast every day this week instead of tea. ☠️☠️☠️
This funding is so important for early childhood programs in Nunavut, and it will be a huge step backward—away from reconciliation—if it isn't extended.
written to Minister Hajdu on the Inuit Child First Initiative, demanding it be extended. We must ensure these vital supports continue.
With an NDP government - no child will be left behind.
Sign here to extend ICFI funding:
loriidlout.ndp.ca/sign-to-exte...
With an NDP government - no child will be left behind.
Sign here to extend ICFI funding:
loriidlout.ndp.ca/sign-to-exte...
Sign to Extend ICFI Funding
Over 13,000 Inuit children are supported by the Inuit Child First Initiative. Funding runs out in March. Show your support to continue the program.
loriidlout.ndp.ca
March 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This funding is so important for early childhood programs in Nunavut, and it will be a huge step backward—away from reconciliation—if it isn't extended.
Very happy to see that David Geherin was selected for this year's Dove Award! When I was working on my dissertation, his Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction was a favourite that helped to inform my thinking about spatiality.
#PCA #DoveAward #DetectiveFiction
#PCA #DoveAward #DetectiveFiction
March 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Very happy to see that David Geherin was selected for this year's Dove Award! When I was working on my dissertation, his Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction was a favourite that helped to inform my thinking about spatiality.
#PCA #DoveAward #DetectiveFiction
#PCA #DoveAward #DetectiveFiction
My small town (<1000 ppl) used to have a calendar with everyone's birthdays and I grew up laughing at the coincidence of there being a completely unrelated Carl Atkinson whose birthday was four days before mine.
Now it turns out that my brother is dating his granddaughter...who shares my birthday.
Now it turns out that my brother is dating his granddaughter...who shares my birthday.
February 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My small town (<1000 ppl) used to have a calendar with everyone's birthdays and I grew up laughing at the coincidence of there being a completely unrelated Carl Atkinson whose birthday was four days before mine.
Now it turns out that my brother is dating his granddaughter...who shares my birthday.
Now it turns out that my brother is dating his granddaughter...who shares my birthday.
My home riding is bleak as always, but it's heartening to see Catherine McKenney absolutely destroying the competition in Ottawa Centre.
#OntarioElection #OttawaCentre
#OntarioElection #OttawaCentre
February 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM
My home riding is bleak as always, but it's heartening to see Catherine McKenney absolutely destroying the competition in Ottawa Centre.
#OntarioElection #OttawaCentre
#OntarioElection #OttawaCentre
While they're wintering somewhere warm, my parents texted to see if I could send condolences and set up a flower delivery for an acquaintance that recently passed.
It now occurs to me that *I* am my family's administrative assistant. Same amount of access to blackmail material, slightly less pay.
It now occurs to me that *I* am my family's administrative assistant. Same amount of access to blackmail material, slightly less pay.
February 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
While they're wintering somewhere warm, my parents texted to see if I could send condolences and set up a flower delivery for an acquaintance that recently passed.
It now occurs to me that *I* am my family's administrative assistant. Same amount of access to blackmail material, slightly less pay.
It now occurs to me that *I* am my family's administrative assistant. Same amount of access to blackmail material, slightly less pay.
I'm in the middle of binging Miracle Workers, and it is a GEM! I really feel like the main characters all shine from season to season because of the character and setting changes (though Steve Buscemi should be cast as a dad more often; his character in the second season is the sweetest). Must watch
February 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I'm in the middle of binging Miracle Workers, and it is a GEM! I really feel like the main characters all shine from season to season because of the character and setting changes (though Steve Buscemi should be cast as a dad more often; his character in the second season is the sweetest). Must watch
As someone who listens to French music while being unable to replicate any kind of French accent, I always find it both painful and funny that I have to resort to utterly bastardizing song titles in order to get my Google Home to play anything. Will never recover from asking for A Cause Day Gar Cons
February 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
As someone who listens to French music while being unable to replicate any kind of French accent, I always find it both painful and funny that I have to resort to utterly bastardizing song titles in order to get my Google Home to play anything. Will never recover from asking for A Cause Day Gar Cons
I really hate that I keep deliberately walking into the bear trap that is answering overtly subjective, no stakes questions on Reddit and getting absolutely railed no matter what my answer is.
a woman walking down a sidewalk next to a car with the website vayagif.com at the bottom of the image
ALT: a woman walking down a sidewalk next to a car with the website vayagif.com at the bottom of the image
media.tenor.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I really hate that I keep deliberately walking into the bear trap that is answering overtly subjective, no stakes questions on Reddit and getting absolutely railed no matter what my answer is.