Mimi
@mimi-mortmain.bsky.social
✨𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓇𝓎 𝓌𝒶𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔🧚♀️
🏰 PhD student @ Uni of Glasgow & Imperial War Museums
🐉 researching patriotic fairy tales
🏰 PhD student @ Uni of Glasgow & Imperial War Museums
🐉 researching patriotic fairy tales
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Illustrations from ‘The Gates of Horn’ (1926) by Bernard Sleigh, a novel about a fictional Fairy Investigation Society that inspired the creation of the real Fairy Investigation Society 🧚♀️ #ostension
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Illustrations from ‘The Gates of Horn’ (1926) by Bernard Sleigh, a novel about a fictional Fairy Investigation Society that inspired the creation of the real Fairy Investigation Society 🧚♀️ #ostension
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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Yeah you know what, the description of Lugaid beheading Cú Chulainn was really missing hand-drawn emoticons, that's absolutely what we needed in this specific moment
November 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Yeah you know what, the description of Lugaid beheading Cú Chulainn was really missing hand-drawn emoticons, that's absolutely what we needed in this specific moment
sorry to be that person but the LNER train from peterborough to london hits too close to home (literally)
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
sorry to be that person but the LNER train from peterborough to london hits too close to home (literally)
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
my main takeaway from the past week is that someone will for sure write a media studies phd thesis about dan and phil’s internet careers
October 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
my main takeaway from the past week is that someone will for sure write a media studies phd thesis about dan and phil’s internet careers
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Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
October 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
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The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
October 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...
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The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. He convinced countless others to donate blood during the war.
September 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. He convinced countless others to donate blood during the war.
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It's been a great day for fascinating events! Really enjoyed hearing @chriskempshall.bsky.social, @mimi-mortmain.bsky.social, @drtimpeacock.bsky.social & Fruzsina Pittner (chaired by @enwright.bsky.social) discussing history and fantasy in video games (and books) tonight!
September 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It's been a great day for fascinating events! Really enjoyed hearing @chriskempshall.bsky.social, @mimi-mortmain.bsky.social, @drtimpeacock.bsky.social & Fruzsina Pittner (chaired by @enwright.bsky.social) discussing history and fantasy in video games (and books) tonight!
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don't underestimate how daunting this task will be, two centuries from now after the internet is gone, when all the data we unquestionably put in the cloud evaporated, the silicon-based electronic storage devices degraded or lost, Windows, Linux and Python languages dead and forgotten
in the 23rd century historians are going to need have their Routledge Handbook of 21st-Century Internet Memes, their Cambridge Companion to 4Chan, and their Oxford Guidebook to Computer Gaming Culture handy to make sense of the rise of American fascism and the fall of the United States
September 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
don't underestimate how daunting this task will be, two centuries from now after the internet is gone, when all the data we unquestionably put in the cloud evaporated, the silicon-based electronic storage devices degraded or lost, Windows, Linux and Python languages dead and forgotten
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June 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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it does make me giggle when people online accuse me of having no media literacy, like yes please let’s crack out our copies of Hayden White and Todorov and have a chat about narrativity (I’m not even being cheeky, I am always DESPERATE for someone to talk to about narrative theory)
June 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
it does make me giggle when people online accuse me of having no media literacy, like yes please let’s crack out our copies of Hayden White and Todorov and have a chat about narrativity (I’m not even being cheeky, I am always DESPERATE for someone to talk to about narrative theory)
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I hereby deny that I made Beike write my book!
May 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I hereby deny that I made Beike write my book!
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It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
May 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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Me: "I'm so overwhelmed and burned out, how am I supposed to do all of this work???"
Also me: "what I need is a Brand New Labour Intensive Project. That'll fix me."
Also me: "what I need is a Brand New Labour Intensive Project. That'll fix me."
May 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Me: "I'm so overwhelmed and burned out, how am I supposed to do all of this work???"
Also me: "what I need is a Brand New Labour Intensive Project. That'll fix me."
Also me: "what I need is a Brand New Labour Intensive Project. That'll fix me."
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Thomas Sternberg’s ‘Dialect and Folk-lore of Northamptonshire’ (1851), published only 5 years after the term ‘folklore’ was coined, is also one of the first books on the folklore of southern England to have a dedicated chapter on fairies
May 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Thomas Sternberg’s ‘Dialect and Folk-lore of Northamptonshire’ (1851), published only 5 years after the term ‘folklore’ was coined, is also one of the first books on the folklore of southern England to have a dedicated chapter on fairies
good lord this is far too many people who have listened to my silly thoughts
May 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
good lord this is far too many people who have listened to my silly thoughts
enjoying my first #gifcon as a UoG student!! 🐉🧝♀️ I had to catch up on the recordings last year because I was away at work and the Museums and Heritage Show, so it’s super fun to see it live!
May 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
enjoying my first #gifcon as a UoG student!! 🐉🧝♀️ I had to catch up on the recordings last year because I was away at work and the Museums and Heritage Show, so it’s super fun to see it live!
why was submitting the work for the Annual Progress Review so stressful?? I was having flashbacks to applying to PhDs 💀
April 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
why was submitting the work for the Annual Progress Review so stressful?? I was having flashbacks to applying to PhDs 💀
I feel this on a spiritual level
I need to work, but I WANT TO READ EVERYTHING. But I can't work unless I READ EVERYTHING. But reading doesn't feel like work, so I work, but then I feel I can't write anything because I NEED TO READ EVERYTHING
a cartoon of homer simpson hanging from a rock in front of a hard place
ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson hanging from a rock in front of a hard place
media.tenor.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I feel this on a spiritual level
people who know me may have heard me threatening to start a podcast 📻 I’m afraid to say I’m in the later stages of planning it all out and this is the first time I’ve been hyped about making content since my Great Burnout of 2024!!
April 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
people who know me may have heard me threatening to start a podcast 📻 I’m afraid to say I’m in the later stages of planning it all out and this is the first time I’ve been hyped about making content since my Great Burnout of 2024!!
disastrous scenes for my productivity today as spotify went down for two hours
April 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
disastrous scenes for my productivity today as spotify went down for two hours
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"Its basic biology"
Yes. You're right. And in "basic english" we learn "i before e except after c". Then in ADVANCED english we learn that rule is wrong more often than it is right.
Just like in advanced biology we learn there are more than 2 sexes
Yes. You're right. And in "basic english" we learn "i before e except after c". Then in ADVANCED english we learn that rule is wrong more often than it is right.
Just like in advanced biology we learn there are more than 2 sexes
April 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"Its basic biology"
Yes. You're right. And in "basic english" we learn "i before e except after c". Then in ADVANCED english we learn that rule is wrong more often than it is right.
Just like in advanced biology we learn there are more than 2 sexes
Yes. You're right. And in "basic english" we learn "i before e except after c". Then in ADVANCED english we learn that rule is wrong more often than it is right.
Just like in advanced biology we learn there are more than 2 sexes