Finn Longman
@finnlongman.com
Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra.
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
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https://finnlongman.com
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
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https://finnlongman.com
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Finn Longman
@finnlongman.com
· Oct 15
Books
I write both YA and Adult fiction, with three books published and three forthcoming. You can find more information about most of my books on their dedicated pages — use the dropdown menu or c…
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Intro thread! I'm Finn, an author & medievalist. My books:
· THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy: a teenage assassin tries to live a normal life
· THE WOLF AND HIS KING (2025): a queer retelling of Bisclavret
· THE ANIMALS WE BECAME (2026): a queertrans take on Math fab Mathonwy
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· THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy: a teenage assassin tries to live a normal life
· THE WOLF AND HIS KING (2025): a queer retelling of Bisclavret
· THE ANIMALS WE BECAME (2026): a queertrans take on Math fab Mathonwy
FinnLongman.com/books
I think what I'm feeling currently is some flavour of second novel syndrome, except the books I'm feeling it about will be my fifth and sixth published novels, and I've written twenty-four, so I thought I was immune and now I'm discovering that I'm Not.
December 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I think what I'm feeling currently is some flavour of second novel syndrome, except the books I'm feeling it about will be my fifth and sixth published novels, and I've written twenty-four, so I thought I was immune and now I'm discovering that I'm Not.
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US readers! There are 25 *finished copies* (that's the hardback with sprayed edges) of THE WOLF AND HIS KING available in this Goodreads giveaway for the next two weeks: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Book giveaway for The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman Dec 27-Jan 10, 2026
Enter to win one of 25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Dec 27-Jan 10, 2026. Historian and wordsmith Finn Longman’s atmospheric retelling of B...
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December 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
US readers! There are 25 *finished copies* (that's the hardback with sprayed edges) of THE WOLF AND HIS KING available in this Goodreads giveaway for the next two weeks: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
I have one chapter left to line-edit of THE ANIMALS WE BECAME and then I've got to the end of the book and I just have to... go back and re-do all the parts I did back in October-ish when I had terrible brainfog from migraines and all my sentences were bad :')
December 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I have one chapter left to line-edit of THE ANIMALS WE BECAME and then I've got to the end of the book and I just have to... go back and re-do all the parts I did back in October-ish when I had terrible brainfog from migraines and all my sentences were bad :')
US readers! There are 25 *finished copies* (that's the hardback with sprayed edges) of THE WOLF AND HIS KING available in this Goodreads giveaway for the next two weeks: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Book giveaway for The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman Dec 27-Jan 10, 2026
Enter to win one of 25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Dec 27-Jan 10, 2026. Historian and wordsmith Finn Longman’s atmospheric retelling of B...
www.goodreads.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
US readers! There are 25 *finished copies* (that's the hardback with sprayed edges) of THE WOLF AND HIS KING available in this Goodreads giveaway for the next two weeks: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Anyone know if there's a way to hide "Recommended" files in the Win 11 Start menu while still keeping items in jump lists for individual apps? They seem to be controlled by the same toggle and that's super annoying.
December 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Anyone know if there's a way to hide "Recommended" files in the Win 11 Start menu while still keeping items in jump lists for individual apps? They seem to be controlled by the same toggle and that's super annoying.
A first class parcel from my publisher, postmarked 4th December, arrived today, so if you're expecting a Christmas card or present from somebody *checks notes* about sixty miles down the road, don't hold your breath.
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A first class parcel from my publisher, postmarked 4th December, arrived today, so if you're expecting a Christmas card or present from somebody *checks notes* about sixty miles down the road, don't hold your breath.
I want to be able to mute combos of words and users. Like, that topic is fine, and that person is fine, I just don't like that person's takes on that particular topic so I want to mute the combo.
First social media site to give me this level of control will win a lot of my respect 😆
First social media site to give me this level of control will win a lot of my respect 😆
December 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I want to be able to mute combos of words and users. Like, that topic is fine, and that person is fine, I just don't like that person's takes on that particular topic so I want to mute the combo.
First social media site to give me this level of control will win a lot of my respect 😆
First social media site to give me this level of control will win a lot of my respect 😆
EVEN JANE AUSTEN IS GETTING THESE? Damn.
ICYMI: Authors are being hit with a "deluge" of scam emails, some of which appear to impersonate industry professionals, marketing agencies and famous authors 👇 #BookSky
Authors hit with 'deluge' of scam emails from fake marketers offering paid promotion
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December 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
EVEN JANE AUSTEN IS GETTING THESE? Damn.
Evidence (only one teabag in the dish) suggests this was the first cup. I went out having had no tea at all.
Did I not have tea at all this morning? Or should this have been my second cup? A mystery.
December 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Evidence (only one teabag in the dish) suggests this was the first cup. I went out having had no tea at all.
Remember this big blog post I wrote much earlier in the year about aromantic queer histories?
This is the article I was writing which prompted it: journal.fi/scf/article/...
This is the article I was writing which prompted it: journal.fi/scf/article/...
December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Remember this big blog post I wrote much earlier in the year about aromantic queer histories?
This is the article I was writing which prompted it: journal.fi/scf/article/...
This is the article I was writing which prompted it: journal.fi/scf/article/...
Very sad to come home from the shops and find a cup of tea, undrunk, cold, on the table. My tea...
December 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Very sad to come home from the shops and find a cup of tea, undrunk, cold, on the table. My tea...
Send this to the AI shills who think their apps are useful to me because they're an upgrade on Ctrl+F.
Buddy.
I need to go to another city or sometimes country to look at microfilms of manuscripts for which no detailed catalogue record even exists. I dream of ctrl+F here.
Buddy.
I need to go to another city or sometimes country to look at microfilms of manuscripts for which no detailed catalogue record even exists. I dream of ctrl+F here.
Also, discovered that four manuscripts I haven't been able to view because they're in a city I've not been to and can't currently get to have microfilm copies in the NLI where I WAS, looking at OTHER MICROFILMS and if I'd KNOWN I could have looked at those as well. So that's infuriating.
December 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Send this to the AI shills who think their apps are useful to me because they're an upgrade on Ctrl+F.
Buddy.
I need to go to another city or sometimes country to look at microfilms of manuscripts for which no detailed catalogue record even exists. I dream of ctrl+F here.
Buddy.
I need to go to another city or sometimes country to look at microfilms of manuscripts for which no detailed catalogue record even exists. I dream of ctrl+F here.
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Not only has almost nothing been digitised, 90% of everything isn't even really *described*, except at a very high aggregate level.
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
December 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Not only has almost nothing been digitised, 90% of everything isn't even really *described*, except at a very high aggregate level.
My parents are asking me about the plot of a Christmas play I had a glockenspiel solo in.
In 2001.
It has been twenty-four years. I do not know why Mr Gruber was sad and angry. Perhaps I never did. I'm sorry.
I can still play the glockenspiel solo though, if you need it.
In 2001.
It has been twenty-four years. I do not know why Mr Gruber was sad and angry. Perhaps I never did. I'm sorry.
I can still play the glockenspiel solo though, if you need it.
December 21, 2025 at 8:52 PM
My parents are asking me about the plot of a Christmas play I had a glockenspiel solo in.
In 2001.
It has been twenty-four years. I do not know why Mr Gruber was sad and angry. Perhaps I never did. I'm sorry.
I can still play the glockenspiel solo though, if you need it.
In 2001.
It has been twenty-four years. I do not know why Mr Gruber was sad and angry. Perhaps I never did. I'm sorry.
I can still play the glockenspiel solo though, if you need it.
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Am I fortunate enough to be followed by anyone who could tell me if Inverness had taxi apps in 2016? It didn’t have Uber, I know that much 🏴
December 21, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Am I fortunate enough to be followed by anyone who could tell me if Inverness had taxi apps in 2016? It didn’t have Uber, I know that much 🏴
*in the exhausted tone of somebody crawling across a marathon finish line three hours after everybody else finished* I submitted my manuscripts article
December 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
*in the exhausted tone of somebody crawling across a marathon finish line three hours after everybody else finished* I submitted my manuscripts article
I was very unsuccessful at Christmas shopping today, but I did get about three metres down the road and suddenly realise I could combine two novel ideas into ONE devastatingly sad book set during a seventeenth-century Irish massacre, instead of writing two of those, so, you win some, you lose some.
December 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I was very unsuccessful at Christmas shopping today, but I did get about three metres down the road and suddenly realise I could combine two novel ideas into ONE devastatingly sad book set during a seventeenth-century Irish massacre, instead of writing two of those, so, you win some, you lose some.
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This article is about Láeg, Fer Diad, and Emer all wanting to be buried with Cú Chulainn, and what that might tell us about how relationships are constructed and conceptualised in these particular early modern tales (with an aromantic slant on queer readings of that overlap).
December 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This article is about Láeg, Fer Diad, and Emer all wanting to be buried with Cú Chulainn, and what that might tell us about how relationships are constructed and conceptualised in these particular early modern tales (with an aromantic slant on queer readings of that overlap).
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Newest article came forth just in time to whack the word "forthcoming" off it in the bibliography of this article I'm frantically trying to finish before Christmas...
journal.fi/scf/article/...
journal.fi/scf/article/...
‘Bidh ionann leacht damh is dó’: Shared Graves As An Expression Of Love In Later Ulster Cycle Tales
This paper examines Láeg, Fer Diad, and Emer’s relationships with Cú Chulainn through the lens of their similar desires to be buried in his grave, a motif which creates a parallel between Cú Chulainn’...
journal.fi
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Newest article came forth just in time to whack the word "forthcoming" off it in the bibliography of this article I'm frantically trying to finish before Christmas...
journal.fi/scf/article/...
journal.fi/scf/article/...
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I'll just add to that, when collecting citations from other works, it's not just an AI problem that the citation might not say what the person you're collecting it from thinks it does. As someone who gets obsessive about finding the "first" source of various claims, I see this a lot.
To echo: do not cite anything you have not at least skimmed and can verify it really exists and says what you say it says (or is about what you say it is about). Even if you collect citations from others' work (a legit practice), CHECK THEM.
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
December 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I'll just add to that, when collecting citations from other works, it's not just an AI problem that the citation might not say what the person you're collecting it from thinks it does. As someone who gets obsessive about finding the "first" source of various claims, I see this a lot.
Accidentally pinned something else and then lost my old pinned post, oh no. Gotta go looking for it again or else I'll have to make a new one
December 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Accidentally pinned something else and then lost my old pinned post, oh no. Gotta go looking for it again or else I'll have to make a new one
Proofreading text based on this and like. why. It's 22:50 on the last Friday before Christmas and this is what I'm dealing with. Free me
December 19, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Proofreading text based on this and like. why. It's 22:50 on the last Friday before Christmas and this is what I'm dealing with. Free me
Newest article came forth just in time to whack the word "forthcoming" off it in the bibliography of this article I'm frantically trying to finish before Christmas...
journal.fi/scf/article/...
journal.fi/scf/article/...
‘Bidh ionann leacht damh is dó’: Shared Graves As An Expression Of Love In Later Ulster Cycle Tales
This paper examines Láeg, Fer Diad, and Emer’s relationships with Cú Chulainn through the lens of their similar desires to be buried in his grave, a motif which creates a parallel between Cú Chulainn’...
journal.fi
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Newest article came forth just in time to whack the word "forthcoming" off it in the bibliography of this article I'm frantically trying to finish before Christmas...
journal.fi/scf/article/...
journal.fi/scf/article/...
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This year, we had a special issue of the journal on gender and theory in medieval Celtic literature, which has now just been published. It is available, open access as always, here: journal.fi/scf/issue/vi...
Studia Celtica Fennica Vol. 21 No. 2 (2025): Special Issue: Gender and Theory in Medieval Celtic Literature
journal.fi
December 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This year, we had a special issue of the journal on gender and theory in medieval Celtic literature, which has now just been published. It is available, open access as always, here: journal.fi/scf/issue/vi...
Put all the page/folio numbers in, please clap.
Now I just have to proofread all the edited text which is the fun bit, cos only I can proofread that, because nobody else has got the manuscripts, sob
Now I just have to proofread all the edited text which is the fun bit, cos only I can proofread that, because nobody else has got the manuscripts, sob
Forgot to put the page/folio numbers in.
Need to put the page/folio numbers in.
SIGH.
Need to put the page/folio numbers in.
SIGH.
The bibliography for this article is so funny. There are literally 14 things there, including two of my own articles and three unpublished PhD theses, and then there are like. sixty unedited manuscripts.
December 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Put all the page/folio numbers in, please clap.
Now I just have to proofread all the edited text which is the fun bit, cos only I can proofread that, because nobody else has got the manuscripts, sob
Now I just have to proofread all the edited text which is the fun bit, cos only I can proofread that, because nobody else has got the manuscripts, sob