Deanna Kreisel 🌱
@doctorwaffle.substack.com
Victorianist • Utopianist • Environmentalist • Essayist
Links to All the Things: linktr.ee/doctorwafflewrites
Links to All the Things: linktr.ee/doctorwafflewrites
Meanwhile in Mississippi
October 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Meanwhile in Mississippi
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
October 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
A U.S. District Court judge just granted plaintiffs in Mississippi a temporary injunction against the state's horrid new anti-DEI bill! Read it and weep (with joy)! #AcademicSky
August 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A U.S. District Court judge just granted plaintiffs in Mississippi a temporary injunction against the state's horrid new anti-DEI bill! Read it and weep (with joy)! #AcademicSky
Jiffy Pop says Happy Sunday. Put down the doomscrolling thing and try a blanket burrito
August 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Jiffy Pop says Happy Sunday. Put down the doomscrolling thing and try a blanket burrito
I see your toast sandwich and I raise you
August 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I see your toast sandwich and I raise you
She's baaaaaaaaaack
August 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
She's baaaaaaaaaack
Wow the barista really got my name wrong this time
August 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Wow the barista really got my name wrong this time
August 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Yes! With a dash of Richard Scarry....
August 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Yes! With a dash of Richard Scarry....
Here is Jiffy Pop as a kitten discovering a ukulele
July 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Here is Jiffy Pop as a kitten discovering a ukulele
No Kings except
June 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
No Kings except
Well this is a hell of a graphic on the front page of the @nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Well this is a hell of a graphic on the front page of the @nytimes.com
Kept getting ads for a learning app called “Nibble” so out of morbid curiosity I checked out their Literature offerings. Holy shit is this some steaming hot garbage #AcademicSky
June 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Kept getting ads for a learning app called “Nibble” so out of morbid curiosity I checked out their Literature offerings. Holy shit is this some steaming hot garbage #AcademicSky
My late father just received this junk mailer. Seems like a pretty good deal on Hello Fresh’s end
June 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
My late father just received this junk mailer. Seems like a pretty good deal on Hello Fresh’s end
Alan Hollinghurst’s Line of Beauty
May 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Alan Hollinghurst’s Line of Beauty
I want a conversation pit
May 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I want a conversation pit
I took a letterpress workshop and here is what I made. The first of (I hope) many cool new things!
May 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I took a letterpress workshop and here is what I made. The first of (I hope) many cool new things!
Okay! Here is a screen shot of a handout I use to explain FID, which has a bunch more specific info. In the case of GE, she rarely shifts verb tenses (that would be a truly pure, "classic" instance of FID), but she VERY often uses those typographical tics that Suzanne noticed.
May 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Okay! Here is a screen shot of a handout I use to explain FID, which has a bunch more specific info. In the case of GE, she rarely shifts verb tenses (that would be a truly pure, "classic" instance of FID), but she VERY often uses those typographical tics that Suzanne noticed.
As always, charmed and impressed by the super-duper-secret Canada absentee ballot system, with its multiple inner envelopes, signatures, and prepaid postage. The only problem is trusting the US Postal Service to get it over the border 😓
April 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
As always, charmed and impressed by the super-duper-secret Canada absentee ballot system, with its multiple inner envelopes, signatures, and prepaid postage. The only problem is trusting the US Postal Service to get it over the border 😓
Just came from giving a lecture in my Victorian literature class on medicine and health in the 19th century. Ended with this slide
April 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Just came from giving a lecture in my Victorian literature class on medicine and health in the 19th century. Ended with this slide