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Co-founder, co-creator, co-conspirator (Codex Machina podcast, Strange Land Books). Luddite. Artist with the soul of a poet. Academic trying to help decolonize Book Studies/Book History. Loves periodicals. Addicted to art supplies. Plays #ttrpgs.
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“Reading Kew Gardens with a Carving Tool” - from a linocut workshop I participated in yesterday at the University of Münster Book Studio. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s self-printed work “Kew Gardens”, 1919 and 1927 editions.
A deep blue on white linocut print, featuring an early 1900s women’s shoe (in a foot) with a buckle, and a dragonfly to the left of the shoe. Underneath are abstract flowers. There is a quote from Virginia Woolf’s Kew Gardens, and around the pasted on quote are random lines/squiggles. The quote says“15 years ago I came here with Lily, he thought we sat somewhere over there by the lake, and I begged her to marry me all through the hot afternoon. How the dragonfly kept circling around us how clearly I see the dragonfly in her shoe with the square silver buckle at the toe. All the time I spoke, I saw her shoe and when it moved impatiently, I knew without looking up what she was going to say the whole of her seem to be in her shoe. And my love, my desire, we’re in the dragonfly; for some reason, I thought that if it’s settled there on that leaf the broad one with the red flower in the middle of it, if the dragonflies settled on the leaf, she would say yes at once, but the dragonfly went round and round. It never settled anywhere, of course not happily not or I shouldn’t be walking here with Eleanor and the children tell me.” A linocut board of the previous picture.
May 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Fun times at the Thessaloniki Book Fair 2025. #books #publishing #bookfair #bookhistory
May 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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The Blue Falcon comic book character blowing a kiss with both hands. He is wearing a blue outfit that is a blue falcon suit, with his face coming out of the falcon’s head. He has a blue mask on, and gold gauntlets. There’s a trapezoidal crest on his chest, a gold background with a red letter F
April 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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In honor of #WorldPoetryDay I’m sharing my poem “Sirens” from Satura, Volume 5.
#poetry
#WomeninLiterature

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March 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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How do we face the unfamiliar when it breaks through the cracks of identity, place and perception?

The #CfP for Satura, Volume 7 is now out. The call is open for students of all levels from Bachelors to PhD. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art all welcome! #AcademicSky #bookhistory
Satura Vol. 7 DEFORMED Call For Papers. How do we face the unfamiliar when it breaks through the cracks of identity, place and perception? When growth, displacement or pressure distorts the image of who we are? We’re seeking bold voices and fresh perspectives to explore the grotesque, the gothic, and the fractured. Stories of estranged spaces, uncanny transformations, and identities redefined. Send us your narratives that unsettle and reshape. Retell. Reimagine. Deform. Who: Any currently enrolled student, anywhere in the world. What: Fiction (poems, short stories, short plays) Nonfiction (academic writing, research articles, reviews, essays) Artwork (Illustrations, photographs) Where: on our website https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ejournals/Index.php/satura/ When: final version deadline May 31, 2025 Please contact us for any further questions: Instagram: satura_journal Email: satura.journal@uni-muenster.de
March 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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My favorite ornament this year. Love my #manicule! Thanks @britishlibrary.bsky.social ! (and @dbellingradt.bsky.social for telling us it was available). An ornament for #bookhistory.
A close up picture of an ornament on a Christmas tree. The ornament is in the style of a manicule - a finger pointing - that was often found in manuscripts starting in the early medieval period. This form of marginalia was usually used to point out an important passage or something noteworthy in the text.
December 16, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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I’m not sure if it means hell froze over, if it’s a Christmas miracle, or it’s a new wonder of the world, but Thessaloniki finally opened the first line of the Metro (underground train). It was only promised to open in 2012…
A picture of the covered roof of the Agia Sophia Metro station in Thessaloniki. In the foreground is traffic from the busy Egnatia street, in the background there are multi-level apartment buildings.
December 4, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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My first bird cam visitor. I’m way too excited about a common European Robin. 🤣
Close up image of a European Robin, a small bird with a yellow-orange under throat, a white bottom and a grey back. The bottom of the picture shows mixed bird food - seeds, worms, nuts, etc. The framing is from the bird feeder camera. I won’t describe the background because it’s a dead garden rooftop terrace 🤣 Tall brick building in the background.
November 24, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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And this the day after the WHO hosts this meeting. It’s fine, right? We’ll be fine.
A page from the front of a World Health organization agenda for a meeting held yesterday on preparing for “containment and pandemic, H5N1 influenza”
November 14, 2024 at 11:58 PM
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This is for all y’all.
A sign reading “You are fucking awesome and you deserve a good drink”
November 12, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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One of the best things about living in Germany is having my bathroom clock tell me to “DIE” once a week. 🤣
A round, digital clock that shows time on the top line, date, month and day on the second line, with the day showing as DIE (for Dienstag). Bottom line shows temperature.
October 22, 2024 at 11:43 AM
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Just got back from a whirlwind three days at the Frankfurt Book Fair where I got lots of yummy book industry data, attended several interesting/moving/inspiring talks, and had loads of laughs with my book studies friends. Never got the courage to go to the Wiley booth and chant “SHAME”, though.
A picture of moi, glasses and happy, in front of the Frankfurt Book Fair entrance. A panel on “Publishing Perspectives in Kazakhstan - reclaiming of identity and language through literature”. Foreground two people in audience facing the panel on a red carpeted stage. Four panelists, three women and one man. A screen next to them has the title of the talk. Examples of books made by kids in Germany. Top foreground book with rainbow colors “Raben Haben Recht”. To the right pamphlets for “Buchkinder Seminare”. A blue book on the table entitled “Der Wal Sebastian” and I can’t read the author’s name. 😊 A green book standing in the background is titled “Der Reigen” and has people and animals and I think a car in a circle around the book title holding hands. A red-carpeted stage with a panel (two men, one woman) on “How to be a business punk in publishing” a video screen behind them shows the name of the panel.
October 18, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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I’m admitting we just took our Christmas tree down today. I feel no shame. I’d leave it up year round if it wasn’t in the way. See how pretty it was?
February 11, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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Let’s spread peace this next year. Try something new in the world for a change. Hope I can get people to join me.
A framed image of the top of a Christmas tree with white lights, purple and gold ornaments and a rainbow ornament underneath a gold star at the top. The framing around the picture has greenery with red bows, gingerbread men and red and white ornaments scattered around.
December 25, 2023 at 12:07 AM
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Princeton floof. Feel free to pet the belly.
A floofy giant tan colored cat lying with his belly exposed (head to the right of picture)
December 13, 2023 at 11:13 AM
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Game day. #ttrpg #roleplaying #storytelling #tabletopgaming #Coriolis
Picture of a character sheet and combat pamphlet for the tabletop roleplaying game Coriolis. Also pictured a colorful row of 6-sided-dice.
November 13, 2023 at 4:21 PM
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Happy Halloween!
A picture of a skull with fairy lights inside next to a napkin holder with Halloween themed napkins with pumpkins and bats on them A dozen eyeball decorated cupcakes.
October 31, 2023 at 11:25 PM
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DnD prep. #greengoblinpuffs
A baking tray with spinach-feta filled puffed pastry.
October 16, 2023 at 12:34 PM
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Gaming days. #trrpg #corolis #roleplay #gamer
A picture of a set up for roleplaying Coriolis, a space faring RPG. In the back lies the core rule book for Coriolis, in front my gaming notebook, a pile of colorful six-sides dice. My character sheet is under the notebook, a few notes above.
October 16, 2023 at 11:24 AM
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I took a Thai cooking class. It was a blast, but I don’t remember the names of any of the dishes. So here’s a picture of delicious food blobs on a plate.
October 7, 2023 at 6:40 PM
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Prepare for battle! (with three demons)
September 30, 2023 at 5:13 PM