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Kristen Jeanveau
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This year, get them English Muffins™️

Non-binary PhD Candidate History @ Western University. My research looks at London tube shelter newspapers in the Blitz. I spent too much time playing Baldur's Gate 3 in 2024...and 2025.
Cats and wellbutrin over here!
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Today I'll be thinking about William Dawson, CAMC & Harry G. Dickson Jr, RCAF who died in the First & Second World Wars. Both from London, Ontario, and the same age (22/20) as many of the students that I teach today. It's a privilege to share William & Harry's stories with them every year 🗃️ #cdnhist
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The fun thing about doing a Canadian history comp field is that you never know when Granatstein is going to leap out from behind a metaphorical bush when you least expect him.

(For the record I think The Canadian war on queers is essential reading now more than ever 🤔) 🗃️ #cdnhist
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Mentally, I'm here right now.
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
High school history day was a success - I swear there were actual engaged students in this room a mere five minutes later. 🗃️ #cdnhist
November 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Happy Halloween from 1988? 1992, 1999, and 2003.

I want to say the 1999 look was for Halloween but that was everyday wear for me when I was an angsty 17 year old.

No idea what the last one was. Inebriated university student who liked emo music? (I miss that Jimmy Eat World shirt!)
October 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
More thoughts no one asked for: the 2024 rule re-haul completely nerfs the twinned spell metamagic option (goodbye, dual casted haste) but the transmute spell option is ridiculously good.

Also meet Pfeffernusse. Every sorcerer needs a jaunty hat.
October 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Evidently I once cared about baseball!
October 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I am watching this game out of spite because of a bizarre fantasy nhl pool/bet that I made with my PhD office mate (a die hard Leafs fan) in which I inexplicably chose the Kraken solely "on vibes" to perform better than the Leafs for the entire season.
October 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Seven years of almost (or actually) coming in last, half-way point stroopwafel selfies, & reducing my already glacial speeds. Another Phoenix 25k trail race* in the books.

This medal will join its brethren in a cardboard box in my closet.

*Per tradition, I mostly walked after 7-8km. Whoops.
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Happy "10th Anniversary Edition of Carly Rae Jepsen's masterpiece E.mo.tion with unreleased bonus tracks" day to all who celebrate.
October 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Trying to determine if this "trench art vase" I bought for $10 off fb marketplace is real, but I don't know enough about shells. The base seems off?

Seems more like post war tourist claptrap. Either way, it's a fun knick knack to have. #cdnhist 🗃️
October 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Keeping this & a bag of chips for right after the race next week.
October 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Me, last October after limping across a finish line: "I'm going to register for this 25k trail race again and really train over the next 12 months"

Me, this afternoon, one week prior to the 25k race, forgetting that I registered last year and having not run in 8 months: "Well, shit."
October 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I'm only forty pages in and this is already knocking my socks off. I've read so little about queer spaces in mid 20th century Canada that were not Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver and this is a welcome addition. 🗃️
October 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Tori Amos tour/album announcement time
✅ info leaked beforehand
✅ Endless debate about whether the title is a joke or not.
✅ Fake tracklist gags
✅ Typos or issues with website
✅ Launch graphics that will have nothing to do with the project
✅ Head tilting explanation of album

We're so back, baby!
October 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
We are moving to weird new heights to soothe our ever-anxious Waffles by trying a Thunder Shirt.

She didn't hate it - progress!
October 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Obligatory Cher quote:
October 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
BRB, going to find an early 20th century "group of moneyed men" so I can quit my day job and conduct research in Canadian history. 🗃️
October 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
So kind of @dropout.tv President @vicmmic.bsky.social to grace Toronto with their presence. (Micro celebrity Kurt Maloney was ok, I guess.)
The real comedy was the ~ 7 hour~ round trip drive from London that usually takes 4.5 hours. Hats off to the Gardiner Expressway.
September 28, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Did a prohibition era escape room at Casa Loma and then went to this authentic historical experience.

They call it the "Dark Ages" not because we have a lack of sources but because it was full of neon lights and $13 daiquiris.
September 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Oh, to be a Pancakes in a sun patch.
September 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Made a total fool of myself at London Comic Con with Maggie Robertson & Dave Jones (actors from Baldur's Gate 3.) Asked for some admonishment to stop playing the damn game and finish my comps readings and they delivered.
September 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
September 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Time honoured tradition of "avoiding writing the SSHRC proposal by looking through primary sources again." This was a favourite find from TNA this summer - a shelter magazine I had never encountered before for Warren Street station. They made their own logo and I love the rabbit doodle. 🗃️
September 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM