Anderson Moss-Weaver
@edgyprof.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of American Religions @ Bates College
Lifelong TTRPG-nerd
Black Haiku obsessed
What does liberation feel like? Sound like? Smell and taste like? I want to know these things
Lifelong TTRPG-nerd
Black Haiku obsessed
What does liberation feel like? Sound like? Smell and taste like? I want to know these things
Pinned
Finally decided to make an account. I'm a Religious Studies PhD Candidate working on religious world building in experimental African American literature. I'm especially interested in how Black authors cultivate alternative perceptions of freedom by experimenting with East and South Asian thought.
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It's really a treasure to get to teach August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean for the rest of my life. Every time I read this play, I end up filled with a strong feeling of wind.
October 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
It's really a treasure to get to teach August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean for the rest of my life. Every time I read this play, I end up filled with a strong feeling of wind.
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Lunch was a fairly simple one: sliced fruits—apple, pear, greengage, and plum, some fresh-baked scones and gooseberry and damson jam, and plum cordial, foamy and cold from Corksnout Spikkle's vaults.
October 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Lunch was a fairly simple one: sliced fruits—apple, pear, greengage, and plum, some fresh-baked scones and gooseberry and damson jam, and plum cordial, foamy and cold from Corksnout Spikkle's vaults.
It says a lot about Sliwa that the only question he outflanked both Mamdani and Cuomo on was about parades
October 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
It says a lot about Sliwa that the only question he outflanked both Mamdani and Cuomo on was about parades
Education is so weird. What do you mean I've lectured to these kids for seven weeks, and then they write papers, and those papers say the things I said in the lectures? Wtf???
October 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Education is so weird. What do you mean I've lectured to these kids for seven weeks, and then they write papers, and those papers say the things I said in the lectures? Wtf???
The transition from TA to Prof means that I can no longer curse the lead instructor for making me grade so much. Now I am my own grading clown.
September 28, 2025 at 3:23 AM
The transition from TA to Prof means that I can no longer curse the lead instructor for making me grade so much. Now I am my own grading clown.
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manadtory id cards? uh, wake me up when we get mandatory EGO cards!!
September 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
manadtory id cards? uh, wake me up when we get mandatory EGO cards!!
I'm about to pick up a post-graduation bread machine hobby. We're talking milk breads, cheese breads, nut breads, goddamn raisin bread. The whole bread (machine) horizon is in front of me
September 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I'm about to pick up a post-graduation bread machine hobby. We're talking milk breads, cheese breads, nut breads, goddamn raisin bread. The whole bread (machine) horizon is in front of me
The upside to having my students complete kinda complex reading guides before every class is that they do read and have very well put together thoughts for discussion, 10/10 would recommend. The downside is that I have to make those reading guides...
September 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The upside to having my students complete kinda complex reading guides before every class is that they do read and have very well put together thoughts for discussion, 10/10 would recommend. The downside is that I have to make those reading guides...
So I can't claim Mainer... yet?? Ever?? But I can tell people I'm a... Maniac? There has to be an in-between that has a little bit more aura than "I'm from Maine." Maine-boi? I'm North-North? I'm your Maine squeeze? Maine protagonist? Mainely from Maine. Lobster-lander?
July 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
So I can't claim Mainer... yet?? Ever?? But I can tell people I'm a... Maniac? There has to be an in-between that has a little bit more aura than "I'm from Maine." Maine-boi? I'm North-North? I'm your Maine squeeze? Maine protagonist? Mainely from Maine. Lobster-lander?
Whoa! I'm a doctor now!
July 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Whoa! I'm a doctor now!
My dissertation defense got me out here dressing unseasonably warm.
July 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My dissertation defense got me out here dressing unseasonably warm.
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this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
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Laughter and merry chatter rose to the rafters of the big room beneath the Abbey. On the tables, preserved strawberries and honeyed pears vied for place with summer salad and vegetable turnovers.
June 19, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Laughter and merry chatter rose to the rafters of the big room beneath the Abbey. On the tables, preserved strawberries and honeyed pears vied for place with summer salad and vegetable turnovers.
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Next is @cappsjuliano.bsky.social's article, 'Modernist and Postcolonial Bridges of Sound: Jazz as Poetic Form in Kamau Brathwaite’s “Jah” and T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland,' in which Juliano compares the jazz-inflected innovations of both poets.
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Modernist and Postcolonial Bridges of Sound: Jazz as Poetic Form in Kamau Brathwaite’s “Jah” and T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland
13 June 2025 Capps Juliano, University of Virginia, MA 2025; University of Oxford, incoming DPhil student One of the most unexpected sources Kamau Brathwaite cites as integral to his formation of n…
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com
June 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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there was a reason why folks demanded to abolish ICE and to defund the police.
June 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
there was a reason why folks demanded to abolish ICE and to defund the police.
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Inbox pitch: "As a person who has done a TON of research - without AI - it drained what felt like years from my life—time, Alex. Time that could be spent on more fun stuff…"
Research IS the fun stuff, my guy. It is the sauce.
Research IS the fun stuff, my guy. It is the sauce.
May 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Inbox pitch: "As a person who has done a TON of research - without AI - it drained what felt like years from my life—time, Alex. Time that could be spent on more fun stuff…"
Research IS the fun stuff, my guy. It is the sauce.
Research IS the fun stuff, my guy. It is the sauce.
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These are the Fortress Dwellers! I’ve seen video of them performing at a couple of Ren Faires and they are the coolest people there
This is the best thing I’ve seen today and I need a source. Bluesky, please help. Credit to whoever this rad group is.
May 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
These are the Fortress Dwellers! I’ve seen video of them performing at a couple of Ren Faires and they are the coolest people there
I had to take a break from D20 for a few months and I'm ready to get back to it with the upcoming live show and the new IH season
May 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I had to take a break from D20 for a few months and I'm ready to get back to it with the upcoming live show and the new IH season
Me
I could do a spot o' damage to a pear and redcurrant tart right now. Wouldn't mind if it was hot or jolly well cold...
May 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Me
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best unicode character is "ꙮ" without a doubt. used one time in a single 15th century manuscript to emphasise "many-eyed seraphim" and unicode thought it was really important that we can type that whenever we want
May 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
best unicode character is "ꙮ" without a doubt. used one time in a single 15th century manuscript to emphasise "many-eyed seraphim" and unicode thought it was really important that we can type that whenever we want
I submitted my first course textbook form of my career. I'm beyond excited!!!
May 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I submitted my first course textbook form of my career. I'm beyond excited!!!
Writing about anything Black with serious emotional openness is daunting. I'm breathing through gut punches of realization that are hard to push through, and even harder to articulate in academic prose. In its joyful moments, it's bright--soaring. In its painful ones, it pokes and pokes and pokes.
May 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Writing about anything Black with serious emotional openness is daunting. I'm breathing through gut punches of realization that are hard to push through, and even harder to articulate in academic prose. In its joyful moments, it's bright--soaring. In its painful ones, it pokes and pokes and pokes.
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If you follow me because of TTRPGs or Actual Play, you likely know my deep respect for WBN.
But if you follow me & don’t know about Actual Play, or have been skeptical, this is the podcast I recommend as proof of what the form can do.
But if you follow me & don’t know about Actual Play, or have been skeptical, this is the podcast I recommend as proof of what the form can do.
Last week, episode 47 of The Wizard, the Witch and the Wild One, titled “The Battle of Twelve Brooks Part 1”, premiered on @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social, and after months of waiting, this moment, rendered here in stunning visual by the incredible @kortizart.bsky.social —
May 5, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If you follow me because of TTRPGs or Actual Play, you likely know my deep respect for WBN.
But if you follow me & don’t know about Actual Play, or have been skeptical, this is the podcast I recommend as proof of what the form can do.
But if you follow me & don’t know about Actual Play, or have been skeptical, this is the podcast I recommend as proof of what the form can do.
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Looking for the very best examples of writing about games you've encountered. Any games, any time. Folks can self-rec.
Links or citations extraordinarily helpful.
And I will read everything that shows up in this thread.
Links or citations extraordinarily helpful.
And I will read everything that shows up in this thread.
May 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Looking for the very best examples of writing about games you've encountered. Any games, any time. Folks can self-rec.
Links or citations extraordinarily helpful.
And I will read everything that shows up in this thread.
Links or citations extraordinarily helpful.
And I will read everything that shows up in this thread.