A. Lynn Evenson
@wanderingyeti.bsky.social
Historian, Archivist, Photographer. Will happily chat about most things but especially about pirates, swordfighting, folklore, D&D, and the weird things you find in dusty boxes full of old stuff. She/Her 🏳️🌈
Just finished building a new dice tray. It holds three sets of dice and the storage compartment doubles as an phone/iPad stand. I’m so pleased with how it turned out!
#Dnd #D&D #TTRPG #Daggerheart
#Dnd #D&D #TTRPG #Daggerheart
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Just finished building a new dice tray. It holds three sets of dice and the storage compartment doubles as an phone/iPad stand. I’m so pleased with how it turned out!
#Dnd #D&D #TTRPG #Daggerheart
#Dnd #D&D #TTRPG #Daggerheart
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
Here’s your reminder to take chances even though it’s scary!
I threw my hat into the ring for a freelance design gig-risky because I changed careers & haven’t done design work for about 5 years. The company loved my idea & now I’m designing a really, really cool thing for a #D&D related company!
I threw my hat into the ring for a freelance design gig-risky because I changed careers & haven’t done design work for about 5 years. The company loved my idea & now I’m designing a really, really cool thing for a #D&D related company!
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Here’s your reminder to take chances even though it’s scary!
I threw my hat into the ring for a freelance design gig-risky because I changed careers & haven’t done design work for about 5 years. The company loved my idea & now I’m designing a really, really cool thing for a #D&D related company!
I threw my hat into the ring for a freelance design gig-risky because I changed careers & haven’t done design work for about 5 years. The company loved my idea & now I’m designing a really, really cool thing for a #D&D related company!
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
I just finished my last assignment of grad school! My Masters of Library and Information Science and additional Graduate Certificate in Archival Science are done!
#2MastersDegreesIn5Years #MLIS #VeryTiredArchivist
#2MastersDegreesIn5Years #MLIS #VeryTiredArchivist
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I just finished my last assignment of grad school! My Masters of Library and Information Science and additional Graduate Certificate in Archival Science are done!
#2MastersDegreesIn5Years #MLIS #VeryTiredArchivist
#2MastersDegreesIn5Years #MLIS #VeryTiredArchivist
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my number one most serious writing tip is to make cool friends. in the last year I've needed to know about blacksmithing, neo-medievalism in the american empire, and mid-century lesbian pulp publishing and each time I've been able to just. call a guy.
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
my number one most serious writing tip is to make cool friends. in the last year I've needed to know about blacksmithing, neo-medievalism in the american empire, and mid-century lesbian pulp publishing and each time I've been able to just. call a guy.
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Nov. 18, 1775: The first ship built by Pennsylvania for its new navy, the 30-gun Black Prince, is completed in Philadelphia.
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Nov. 18, 1775: The first ship built by Pennsylvania for its new navy, the 30-gun Black Prince, is completed in Philadelphia.
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'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870)
Kawanabe Kyōsai
Kawanabe Kyōsai
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I am often to be found caring for the unknown dead, who emerge, shattered, from their ancient and forgotten graves. Collecting them, burying them, praying them back to their rest. It makes me think, sometimes, of the transphobic refrain that in a thousand years our bones will somehow betray us.
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I am often to be found caring for the unknown dead, who emerge, shattered, from their ancient and forgotten graves. Collecting them, burying them, praying them back to their rest. It makes me think, sometimes, of the transphobic refrain that in a thousand years our bones will somehow betray us.
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Folks, Tom is back with another Alt Text Masterpiece 🙏
THREAD. A collection of photographs of the best scarecrows I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Folks, Tom is back with another Alt Text Masterpiece 🙏
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Mood, by noonsillustrations on IG.
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Mood, by noonsillustrations on IG.
For me it was Heidi by Johanna Spyri. My grade school library insisted that we read only easy reading until grade4. Heidi was on the older shelf. It was huge and I wanted it because it was a “real book.” I tried to check it out so many times only to be turned away by the librarian. (🧵1/4)
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
For me it was Heidi by Johanna Spyri. My grade school library insisted that we read only easy reading until grade4. Heidi was on the older shelf. It was huge and I wanted it because it was a “real book.” I tried to check it out so many times only to be turned away by the librarian. (🧵1/4)
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yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
Not me, a maritime historian, finding out today that my uncle apparently had breakfast aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald a few days before it sank. He was friends with several members of the crew! Apparently his Coast Guard vessel was doing a resupply run to the Fitz. How has this never come up before?!?
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Not me, a maritime historian, finding out today that my uncle apparently had breakfast aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald a few days before it sank. He was friends with several members of the crew! Apparently his Coast Guard vessel was doing a resupply run to the Fitz. How has this never come up before?!?
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Not bad, sis.
Big lakes do have effects 😊🌊🌊
Just getting going today
Just getting going today
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Not bad, sis.
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
As well they should. Shout out to all the librarians who are standing up for our rights!
I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
As well they should. Shout out to all the librarians who are standing up for our rights!
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Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York
Made glorious summer by this sun of York
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York
Made glorious summer by this sun of York
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A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees
Came here to say this, but Jamelle Bouie has this covered. 👇
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
When the Democratic tent includes candidates like Spanberger and Mamdani, there is no crisis, or fight, for the party. IT’S A COALITION, NOT A POINT ESTIMATE.
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees
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Don’t mind me, just screaming at a pitch only dogs can hear…
Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz Reuniting for Fourth ‘Mummy’ Movie
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are reuniting for a fourth "Mummy" movie.
variety.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Don’t mind me, just screaming at a pitch only dogs can hear…
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Great example. I’ve often heard people say they believe medieval people discouraged or punished female literacy, whereas Mary is usually shown reading during the Annunciation, so every medieval person constantly saw images of the #1 female role model reading. The anti-learning Middle Ages is a myth.
St Anne teaching the Virgin to read, carved stone, France, Troyes, ca. 1500-1530
(V&A Museum, London)
(V&A Museum, London)
November 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Great example. I’ve often heard people say they believe medieval people discouraged or punished female literacy, whereas Mary is usually shown reading during the Annunciation, so every medieval person constantly saw images of the #1 female role model reading. The anti-learning Middle Ages is a myth.
Mine would be navigating this part of the Pacific Crest Trail in Newfoundland on the one year anniversary of my friend falling from a nearby cliff and dying. Who knew you could hold a chain that hard?
November 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Mine would be navigating this part of the Pacific Crest Trail in Newfoundland on the one year anniversary of my friend falling from a nearby cliff and dying. Who knew you could hold a chain that hard?
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Until rent costs the same as a coffee I'm never going to believe a cup of coffee is a frivolity. Start endlessly shaming the people who buy a yacht while filing for bankruptcy first then we'll talk.
Oh hi Gen Z, I hear you're Millennials now. Join the club, no t-shirts tho, we can't afford them. 🙃
Oh hi Gen Z, I hear you're Millennials now. Join the club, no t-shirts tho, we can't afford them. 🙃
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”
archive.ph/2TI8J
archive.ph/2TI8J
October 31, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Until rent costs the same as a coffee I'm never going to believe a cup of coffee is a frivolity. Start endlessly shaming the people who buy a yacht while filing for bankruptcy first then we'll talk.
Oh hi Gen Z, I hear you're Millennials now. Join the club, no t-shirts tho, we can't afford them. 🙃
Oh hi Gen Z, I hear you're Millennials now. Join the club, no t-shirts tho, we can't afford them. 🙃