Mochyn 🏴🏳️🌈
@mochyn.bsky.social
Welsh medievalist. Dafydd ap Gruffudd apologist. Julian of Norwich obsessive. Boar of Babylon. Castle botherer. Map drawer. Annibyniaeth. Socialist. Gamer. Horror fan. Queer. He/him.
Gwnewch y pethau bychain.
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Gwnewch y pethau bychain.
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Pinned
Me writing an essay: queering the middle ages is not about uncovering sexual identities, but about examining the ways in which things don't conform to heteronormative study and thereby unsettle the established orthodoxy through which we view the middle ages
Also me: hahaha he's so gay
Also me: hahaha he's so gay
Students who are affiliated with a political party are inevitably the most repulsive people you've ever met.
Last night, Dick Tice launched Students4Reform (See what they did there, the scamps? They replaced "for" WITH THE NUMBER).
It will be led by Matt Goodwin, a man in his mid-forties, and it looked exactly like you imagine. ~AA
It will be led by Matt Goodwin, a man in his mid-forties, and it looked exactly like you imagine. ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Students who are affiliated with a political party are inevitably the most repulsive people you've ever met.
Elizabeth in the new Frankenstein is an absolute FREAK
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Elizabeth in the new Frankenstein is an absolute FREAK
This thing needs a Close Friends function. I want to complain about things that would be unseemly to complain about in public
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This thing needs a Close Friends function. I want to complain about things that would be unseemly to complain about in public
Rounding off this weekend with a late night viewing of Over the Garden Wall and it really is the most perfect show. Heartwarming and incessantly eerie, every scene feels like a childhood dream that's constantly threatening to become a nightmare
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Rounding off this weekend with a late night viewing of Over the Garden Wall and it really is the most perfect show. Heartwarming and incessantly eerie, every scene feels like a childhood dream that's constantly threatening to become a nightmare
Me and Rach were on the train to Cardiff and there were a bunch of guys from Ipswich discussing how it's weird that Wales has no national musical traditions and we were *flabbergasted*
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Me and Rach were on the train to Cardiff and there were a bunch of guys from Ipswich discussing how it's weird that Wales has no national musical traditions and we were *flabbergasted*
The amount of food influencers in the Albert Hall is upsetting. Put down that camera I am trying to eat in relative privacy...pervert
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The amount of food influencers in the Albert Hall is upsetting. Put down that camera I am trying to eat in relative privacy...pervert
We recently found out that our queer book club has been slandered by another local queer book club and I'm obsessed with this tiny, insignificant feud that's developing. I'r gad bois
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We recently found out that our queer book club has been slandered by another local queer book club and I'm obsessed with this tiny, insignificant feud that's developing. I'r gad bois
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#OTD 1839 • The Chartist Uprising at Newport 🏴
Reports suggest that some seven or eight thousand men marched on the Westgate Hotel.
It is thought that around 50 were injured and some 22 of the Chartists were killed.
www.peoplescollection.wales/content/newp...
#Wales ##History
Reports suggest that some seven or eight thousand men marched on the Westgate Hotel.
It is thought that around 50 were injured and some 22 of the Chartists were killed.
www.peoplescollection.wales/content/newp...
#Wales ##History
November 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
#OTD 1839 • The Chartist Uprising at Newport 🏴
Reports suggest that some seven or eight thousand men marched on the Westgate Hotel.
It is thought that around 50 were injured and some 22 of the Chartists were killed.
www.peoplescollection.wales/content/newp...
#Wales ##History
Reports suggest that some seven or eight thousand men marched on the Westgate Hotel.
It is thought that around 50 were injured and some 22 of the Chartists were killed.
www.peoplescollection.wales/content/newp...
#Wales ##History
All things aside, I think we can agree that Dafydd ap Gruffudd was the hottest figure medieval Wales produced. Sexy land pirate that he was
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
All things aside, I think we can agree that Dafydd ap Gruffudd was the hottest figure medieval Wales produced. Sexy land pirate that he was
Love being on anti-psychotics because what do you mean I don't take them for three days and now everything looks 2D?? What an adventure my life is hahahah kill me
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Love being on anti-psychotics because what do you mean I don't take them for three days and now everything looks 2D?? What an adventure my life is hahahah kill me
My mate was like "shall we go to watch Pillion together?" and I had to be like "are you fucking stupid I do not need or want an audience tyvm"
November 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
My mate was like "shall we go to watch Pillion together?" and I had to be like "are you fucking stupid I do not need or want an audience tyvm"
Ban twitter. Ban every mention of it and its owner. Scrub every mention of them from the media. The people yearn for damnatio memoriae
November 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Ban twitter. Ban every mention of it and its owner. Scrub every mention of them from the media. The people yearn for damnatio memoriae
Crashing out in the worst, most self-destructive way possible but it's okay because I've taken up exercise
November 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Crashing out in the worst, most self-destructive way possible but it's okay because I've taken up exercise
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Cultural appropriation
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Cultural appropriation
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I'm excited to share that the latest episode of 'Gone Medieval' podcast features the Shropshire Witches! We talked about medieval ghosts and all things spooky! Teenage me would be pinching herself!
open.spotify.com/episode/303k...
#history #halloween #medieval #folklore #medievalist
open.spotify.com/episode/303k...
#history #halloween #medieval #folklore #medievalist
Medieval Hallowe'en
open.spotify.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I'm excited to share that the latest episode of 'Gone Medieval' podcast features the Shropshire Witches! We talked about medieval ghosts and all things spooky! Teenage me would be pinching herself!
open.spotify.com/episode/303k...
#history #halloween #medieval #folklore #medievalist
open.spotify.com/episode/303k...
#history #halloween #medieval #folklore #medievalist
Gone Medieval's episode on Glyndwr? When I'm hungover?? On a two hour car journey??? This should cure me
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Gone Medieval's episode on Glyndwr? When I'm hungover?? On a two hour car journey??? This should cure me
Went to Laugharne castle yesterday and I walked in, predictably wearing my favourite Rhaglan castle hoodie, and the people working in the giftshop immediately started ripping into me for having the nerve to walk in wearing another castle's hoodie lol
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Went to Laugharne castle yesterday and I walked in, predictably wearing my favourite Rhaglan castle hoodie, and the people working in the giftshop immediately started ripping into me for having the nerve to walk in wearing another castle's hoodie lol
"Downloading the 'Reveleations of Divine Love' on my phone", "and all shall be well, all shall be be well" - Florence & the Machine's new song Perfume and Milk references Julian of Norwich's work, which is lovely since it is hands down the most beautiful religious text ever written
October 31, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Downloading the 'Reveleations of Divine Love' on my phone", "and all shall be well, all shall be be well" - Florence & the Machine's new song Perfume and Milk references Julian of Norwich's work, which is lovely since it is hands down the most beautiful religious text ever written
Calan Gaeaf Hapus Pawb
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Calan Gaeaf Hapus Pawb
One near fatal slip down the castle steps later and I'm perched on a picnic bench in the middle of Laugharne castle, drinking in the ambiance and pretending a pigeon didn't just shit down my arm
October 31, 2025 at 3:13 PM
One near fatal slip down the castle steps later and I'm perched on a picnic bench in the middle of Laugharne castle, drinking in the ambiance and pretending a pigeon didn't just shit down my arm
Happy New Florence and the Machine Album Day to those who celebrate
October 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Happy New Florence and the Machine Album Day to those who celebrate
Stripping royals of their titles isn't enough, I want them jettisoned into the sun
October 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Stripping royals of their titles isn't enough, I want them jettisoned into the sun
Congratulations to everyone who puts actual effort into their Halloween costumes but I'm built of different, much lazier, stuff
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Congratulations to everyone who puts actual effort into their Halloween costumes but I'm built of different, much lazier, stuff
Suddenly, out of nowhere, the taste of mint has started making me puke the second it touches my tongue so I'm back to using children's strawberry flavoured toothpaste lmao brushing my teeth in a cloud of shame
October 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Suddenly, out of nowhere, the taste of mint has started making me puke the second it touches my tongue so I'm back to using children's strawberry flavoured toothpaste lmao brushing my teeth in a cloud of shame