dr. christopher
@eatthatbee.bsky.social
Medievalist • Assistant Professor of medieval literature in Louisiana • University of California, Riverside, PhD
feelings, manuscripts, medievalism, queer studies, & haunting • he/him
opinions expressed are my own
feelings, manuscripts, medievalism, queer studies, & haunting • he/him
opinions expressed are my own
Pinned
To those who may not know me:
I’m an assistant professor of English in Louisiana; I teach medieval literature. I work at the intersection of Middle English manuscripts, aesthetics, affect, and queerness. Talk to me about the Middle English Cleanness.
I’m an assistant professor of English in Louisiana; I teach medieval literature. I work at the intersection of Middle English manuscripts, aesthetics, affect, and queerness. Talk to me about the Middle English Cleanness.
If anyone has the Charizard promo from the new UPC—I’m interested in trading / buying.
November 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
If anyone has the Charizard promo from the new UPC—I’m interested in trading / buying.
oh
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
oh
well if we take the signs literally
I really want to know what’s going on in the class that meets here before mine
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
well if we take the signs literally
oh this is unhinged
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
oh this is unhinged
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November 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The fact that THIS GUY continues to say anything about this at all is astounding.
Jim Jordan: "We're all for protecting innocent victims, we're all for exposing the bad guys who did bad guys who did bad things, but ... "
November 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The fact that THIS GUY continues to say anything about this at all is astounding.
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The scale of the damage at the British Library is difficult to fathom from the outside. Working in the wreckage of the hack has made me even less sanguine about the digital age into which we have leapt feet first.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The scale of the damage at the British Library is difficult to fathom from the outside. Working in the wreckage of the hack has made me even less sanguine about the digital age into which we have leapt feet first.
Really delightful and welcoming group of ghouls we've managed to assemble.
Kristi Noem on FIFA tourists: "Then they would go home. And go home in a timely manner."
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Really delightful and welcoming group of ghouls we've managed to assemble.
these movies JUST came out what are we doing
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 PM
these movies JUST came out what are we doing
i forgot how much I liked Shakespeare’s Richard II
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
i forgot how much I liked Shakespeare’s Richard II
when the face eating leopard begins to eat MY face
This is a Texas Republican who was part of the January 6th mob
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
when the face eating leopard begins to eat MY face
no one talks about how difficult it was to ride a horse considerably smaller than oneself
A representation of the legendary Prester John, labelled 'Rydynge of Prester Johan'
BL Royal MS 17 C XXXVIII; Travels of Sir John Mandeville in Middle English; 15th century; Southern England; f.54v
BL Royal MS 17 C XXXVIII; Travels of Sir John Mandeville in Middle English; 15th century; Southern England; f.54v
November 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
no one talks about how difficult it was to ride a horse considerably smaller than oneself
This all is really pushing the utmost limits of the truism that “denial is not an admission of guilt.”
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This all is really pushing the utmost limits of the truism that “denial is not an admission of guilt.”
THOSE APPLES ARE SO PRETTY
Exciting day in our house: a new apple! The Red Kissable. Slightly mellow tart, pleasant crisp, stunning ombré. Still can't compete with my all-time love, the Golden Delicious (I am sorry for what I am).
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
THOSE APPLES ARE SO PRETTY
the ‘eye’ reflections in that first image are absolutely HAUNTING
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
the ‘eye’ reflections in that first image are absolutely HAUNTING
certainly the least important part of this all but that's an image of the cover of an edition of the odyssey?
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
certainly the least important part of this all but that's an image of the cover of an edition of the odyssey?
oh thank god it’s been partially restored
guys I was able to access a British Library digitized manuscript today for the first time in years. Check it out. www.bl.uk/collection/d...
click on the pdf [save that!] and use its hyperlinks!
+ for the post I wrote for today's MEDIEVAL NATURE class
click on the pdf [save that!] and use its hyperlinks!
+ for the post I wrote for today's MEDIEVAL NATURE class
Digitised manuscripts and archives - British Library
View more than 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents, including the Sherborne Missal and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.
www.bl.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
oh thank god it’s been partially restored
my dumb ass: “advertifement”
Maybe we should bring back wearing "a Choice Sort of Black Inck in Hard Balls, with that Conveniency, that you may wear them about you, without any Damage to the Inck, or your Linnen." just mix with any water or wine (except red)!
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
my dumb ass: “advertifement”
look for my upcoming article “queering straights: non-normative heterosexuality and the …”
actually you know what let me not joke about this lmao
actually you know what let me not joke about this lmao
Loving women is gay. Being attracted to women is gay. Enjoying consentual sex with women is gay.
Is anything straight anymore?
Is anything straight anymore?
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
look for my upcoming article “queering straights: non-normative heterosexuality and the …”
actually you know what let me not joke about this lmao
actually you know what let me not joke about this lmao
I'm reading Lydgate's Siege of Thebes for a class and there is something very funny about medieval notions of research and narrative responsibility.
On the subject of king Polibon's adoption of Oedipus:
"And where that he had a wif or noon;
I fynde not and thefor lat it goo." (I.465-6)
On the subject of king Polibon's adoption of Oedipus:
"And where that he had a wif or noon;
I fynde not and thefor lat it goo." (I.465-6)
November 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I'm reading Lydgate's Siege of Thebes for a class and there is something very funny about medieval notions of research and narrative responsibility.
On the subject of king Polibon's adoption of Oedipus:
"And where that he had a wif or noon;
I fynde not and thefor lat it goo." (I.465-6)
On the subject of king Polibon's adoption of Oedipus:
"And where that he had a wif or noon;
I fynde not and thefor lat it goo." (I.465-6)
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since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
I'm sure there are some departments that have been denied hiring lines that would have something to say about this.
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I'm sure there are some departments that have been denied hiring lines that would have something to say about this.
inside us there are two wolves
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
inside us there are two wolves
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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
the portrait between the two first ladies' portraits is so weird
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
the portrait between the two first ladies' portraits is so weird