Amy Thorpe
banner
acthorpe.bsky.social
Amy Thorpe
@acthorpe.bsky.social
PGR Northumbria ⭐ Leftist / histories of gender, visual and periodical culture, emotion, femininity and identity / museum and heritage enthusiast ⭐ BSL learner 👍

Views and grammatical errors my own.
Happy Yorkshire Day! #yorkshireday

All images from my own adventures!
August 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Bums.
July 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Unashamed fangirl.
July 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
As someone who writes about visual culture, specifically political visual culture, I just can't get over this banner.

In an increasingly aesthetically clean, monochromatic, paired-back world, a banner so retro it could easily read 'ice cream & balloons' is such a bold choice. Love it.
June 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Single-handedly fitted my kitchen this weekend, in the heat. The hot, hot, heat. Me, the drill and the spirit level are going for a pint.
June 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I present: a momentary reprieve from the horrors.

Images courtesy of @behindherglasses_ on Instagram.
June 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
I don't know whether to be bəger or nausaged at this point.
June 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Et voila! It may be boring, but I'm very pleased!
June 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Playlist on, screwdriver in hand, kitchen cabinet- let's go!
June 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This is fun. I evidently need to visit more of Scotland and Northern Ireland!

smstone0.github.io#/uk-map
May 31, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Creeping into one of these feels like stepping into your almost certain and imminent death, crushed by shelves bulging with every known copy of Farmer's Monthly.
May 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I really enjoyed seeing the Bold Big Band at Newcastle Arts Centre last night. Sadly no dancing, but tonnes of fantastic music!
May 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The North Sea Riviera
May 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I'm almost painfully good at relaxing.
May 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
It feels like we've had a long, hot summer already!
May 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
May 12, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Byland Abbey, Ryedale, North Yorkshire.
May 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I'm privately naming this homoerotic masterpiece 'hammer and horn'.

Discovered at the National Railway Museum, York.
May 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Hench Lord.
May 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Some things are beautiful, aren't they?
May 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal, North Yorkshire.
May 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The average American has three friends.
May 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
World Workers, whatever may bind ye,
This day let your work be undone:
Cast the clouds of the winter behind ye,
And come forth and be glad in the sun.
May 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
May 1, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Pretty apt.
May 1, 2025 at 4:39 AM