Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE, out Jan 27
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PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚
MUTING THOSE WHO DON’T ALT-TEXT
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MUTING THOSE WHO DON’T ALT-TEXT
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Banner ID: B&W image—pint of Guinness flanked by 2 books flanked by 2 tabby cat
Well, the geraniums are literally busting out all over, and the snapdragon is snapping. When did the November climate get so weird?
November 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Well, the geraniums are literally busting out all over, and the snapdragon is snapping. When did the November climate get so weird?
For the afternoon crew:
OTD in 680 CE Hild of Whitby died. Every year I celebrate. This year by a) showing off my fabulous, specially commissioned silver snakestone lapel pin, and b) my imagined version of her grave marker (or maybe pillow stone).
#medievalsky
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OTD in 680 CE Hild of Whitby died. Every year I celebrate. This year by a) showing off my fabulous, specially commissioned silver snakestone lapel pin, and b) my imagined version of her grave marker (or maybe pillow stone).
#medievalsky
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November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
For the afternoon crew:
OTD in 680 CE Hild of Whitby died. Every year I celebrate. This year by a) showing off my fabulous, specially commissioned silver snakestone lapel pin, and b) my imagined version of her grave marker (or maybe pillow stone).
#medievalsky
nicolagriffith.com/2025/11/17/c...
OTD in 680 CE Hild of Whitby died. Every year I celebrate. This year by a) showing off my fabulous, specially commissioned silver snakestone lapel pin, and b) my imagined version of her grave marker (or maybe pillow stone).
#medievalsky
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And just for them I think I'll change my profile pic to a Lindisfarne Gospels-inspired image of a cat that's eaten a skein of wool and is singing, 🎶 Kiss My Fuzzy Fundament 🎶
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
And just for them I think I'll change my profile pic to a Lindisfarne Gospels-inspired image of a cat that's eaten a skein of wool and is singing, 🎶 Kiss My Fuzzy Fundament 🎶
On this cold glittering November morning our fuchsia burns so bright it practically *hisses*...
November 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
On this cold glittering November morning our fuchsia burns so bright it practically *hisses*...
Ever get the feeling that you published a book—SLOW RIVER—in the wrong time/universe? A writer dreams of her book finding the right audience—and here they are! Just bad timing. The publisher will be reissuing it 2026/2027, though, so maybe it will find its readers this time.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Ever get the feeling that you published a book—SLOW RIVER—in the wrong time/universe? A writer dreams of her book finding the right audience—and here they are! Just bad timing. The publisher will be reissuing it 2026/2027, though, so maybe it will find its readers this time.
sfra.org/conferences/...
sfra.org/conferences/...
They really do look great all lined up!
October 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
They really do look great all lined up!
For Çaturday, a kitty-in-the round following the Lindisfarne Gospels style (Luke Incipit, with liberties), a sort of kitty triskele (ditto, only more so), and how I imagine a Pict might have carved our beastie, Charlie Bean, on one of his best-behaved days—masquerading as Saint Bean.
October 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
For Çaturday, a kitty-in-the round following the Lindisfarne Gospels style (Luke Incipit, with liberties), a sort of kitty triskele (ditto, only more so), and how I imagine a Pict might have carved our beastie, Charlie Bean, on one of his best-behaved days—masquerading as Saint Bean.
Bruvs furever against the coming of the dark…
October 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Bruvs furever against the coming of the dark…
OMG!!! The vine we planted 5 years ago (6?!) has finally—finally! right at the end of summer—flowered for the first time! An omen: summer 2026 is going to be brilliant and beautiful ✨
September 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
OMG!!! The vine we planted 5 years ago (6?!) has finally—finally! right at the end of summer—flowered for the first time! An omen: summer 2026 is going to be brilliant and beautiful ✨
Well, the prissy little petunias might have got themselves Raptured but the begonia and geranium, the jasmine and more are still their blooming heathen selves, even as autumn runs its cool fingers through their leaves.
September 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Well, the prissy little petunias might have got themselves Raptured but the begonia and geranium, the jasmine and more are still their blooming heathen selves, even as autumn runs its cool fingers through their leaves.
As autumn begins, George, International Cat of Mystery, offers his sitrep: together with asset, Tabby Pimpernel, endeavouring to keep neighbourhood clear of infiltrators. Charlie uncooperative. Flowers still drawing attention of aerial insurgents and small drones
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September 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
As autumn begins, George, International Cat of Mystery, offers his sitrep: together with asset, Tabby Pimpernel, endeavouring to keep neighbourhood clear of infiltrators. Charlie uncooperative. Flowers still drawing attention of aerial insurgents and small drones
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Back to his old, steal-the-wheelchair tricks, sigh. 😻♿️
September 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Back to his old, steal-the-wheelchair tricks, sigh. 😻♿️
The emperor’s shaved self. We let him out for a couple of hours, and, though he made pro forma protests when we brought him in, I think he was glad to rest. He’s definitely healed but not quite—yet—fit.
September 13, 2025 at 6:08 AM
The emperor’s shaved self. We let him out for a couple of hours, and, though he made pro forma protests when we brought him in, I think he was glad to rest. He’s definitely healed but not quite—yet—fit.
My essay "REWRITING THE OLD DISABILITY SCRIPT" is featured in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance and Hope, out from @sagapressbooks on December 2nd. You can preorder (just in time for holiday gift giving!) now at www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
September 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
My essay "REWRITING THE OLD DISABILITY SCRIPT" is featured in WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance and Hope, out from @sagapressbooks on December 2nd. You can preorder (just in time for holiday gift giving!) now at www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
✨Just felt like posting a picture of a happy hedgehog gazing at the stars and wondering what’s out there… ⭐️
September 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
✨Just felt like posting a picture of a happy hedgehog gazing at the stars and wondering what’s out there… ⭐️
Exhausted after throwing so many staff to the wolves, the emperor sleeps.
September 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Exhausted after throwing so many staff to the wolves, the emperor sleeps.
Charlie Bean wears his imperial purple surgical suit well. As an Early Medieval Latin version of 'Emperor Charles' might be CAROLUS IMPERATOR he is henceforth (temporarily) Charlie Imp. Here, clearly, the emperor contemplates sending his two-legged staff to the arena to face wild dogs.
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
September 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Charlie Bean wears his imperial purple surgical suit well. As an Early Medieval Latin version of 'Emperor Charles' might be CAROLUS IMPERATOR he is henceforth (temporarily) Charlie Imp. Here, clearly, the emperor contemplates sending his two-legged staff to the arena to face wild dogs.
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
Well, although our doughty wounded warrior managed somehow to get rid of a stitch or three despite his little suit, the vet says, nope the other stitches won’t be ready to come out for another 2-6(!) days. HE. IS. NOT. HAPPY.
September 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Well, although our doughty wounded warrior managed somehow to get rid of a stitch or three despite his little suit, the vet says, nope the other stitches won’t be ready to come out for another 2-6(!) days. HE. IS. NOT. HAPPY.
Charlie, modeling his post surgical hippy drag—he’d prefer the Armani look to purple tie-dye but they don’t make surgical suits that stylish
September 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Charlie, modeling his post surgical hippy drag—he’d prefer the Armani look to purple tie-dye but they don’t make surgical suits that stylish
The cat who loved hot jazz.
Or really anything that keeps that receiver warm 🎶 And anything that blocks the sound of his brother yowling as we feed the poor stitched back together beast antibiotics and pain meds. Sigh.
Or really anything that keeps that receiver warm 🎶 And anything that blocks the sound of his brother yowling as we feed the poor stitched back together beast antibiotics and pain meds. Sigh.
September 3, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The cat who loved hot jazz.
Or really anything that keeps that receiver warm 🎶 And anything that blocks the sound of his brother yowling as we feed the poor stitched back together beast antibiotics and pain meds. Sigh.
Or really anything that keeps that receiver warm 🎶 And anything that blocks the sound of his brother yowling as we feed the poor stitched back together beast antibiotics and pain meds. Sigh.
Fisher of Stars—I’m playing with a new set of graphics while I research the Iberian peninsula of the early sixth century. (No, they’re not connected—doodling helps me daydream while disparate bits of new and old info meet and recombine in my back brain to make story…)
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
August 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Fisher of Stars—I’m playing with a new set of graphics while I research the Iberian peninsula of the early sixth century. (No, they’re not connected—doodling helps me daydream while disparate bits of new and old info meet and recombine in my back brain to make story…)
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
Now THAT is what I call a happy forecast 🤩
August 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Now THAT is what I call a happy forecast 🤩
Where perhaps he may meet Charlie Bean musing amid the stars before he comes back down to our plane for lunch
August 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Where perhaps he may meet Charlie Bean musing amid the stars before he comes back down to our plane for lunch
August 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
George testing out new role models.
August 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
George testing out new role models.