Dr Amanda Dillon
@oddityofwings.bsky.social
SFF, gothic, time&gender&history, Victoriana. Time travelling women historians are my jam.
UEA History, sometimes UEA LDC. FHEA, Expat PA/VA. Wrangler of academics, books, & words. Sometime flutist. #wiasn Views own; she/her.
UEA History, sometimes UEA LDC. FHEA, Expat PA/VA. Wrangler of academics, books, & words. Sometime flutist. #wiasn Views own; she/her.
Ha! (Click to embiggen)
June 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Ha! (Click to embiggen)
Quote skeet with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe
May 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Quote skeet with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe
UEA HIS (and other wonderful colleagues and friends!) on the picket today! @uea-ucu.bsky.social @ueahistory.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
UEA HIS (and other wonderful colleagues and friends!) on the picket today! @uea-ucu.bsky.social @ueahistory.bsky.social
Solidari-bee on the @uea-ucu.bsky.social pickets this morning. When even nature is joining in (workers of all species unite), I feel like that means something…
May 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Solidari-bee on the @uea-ucu.bsky.social pickets this morning. When even nature is joining in (workers of all species unite), I feel like that means something…
Save jobs - save the doggos! (Treatos are pricey.) @uea-ucu.bsky.social #saveuea (Talulah, Lottie, Frankie Peaches, and Pebble showing their solidarity at Cow Drive today.)
May 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Save jobs - save the doggos! (Treatos are pricey.) @uea-ucu.bsky.social #saveuea (Talulah, Lottie, Frankie Peaches, and Pebble showing their solidarity at Cow Drive today.)
Anytime the worm comes up, I think of this…
May 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Anytime the worm comes up, I think of this…
Some good news from home - deep red Lancaster Co had an election and went dem. First time since the 1980s.
March 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Some good news from home - deep red Lancaster Co had an election and went dem. First time since the 1980s.
UEA HIS @ueahistory.bsky.social represent on the picket this morning.
March 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
UEA HIS @ueahistory.bsky.social represent on the picket this morning.
Also, what it’s like in our office most days.
March 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Also, what it’s like in our office most days.
Some lovely times on the picket for @uea-ucu.bsky.social this morning! Gurning from yours truly and @conorbollins.bsky.social .
March 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Some lovely times on the picket for @uea-ucu.bsky.social this morning! Gurning from yours truly and @conorbollins.bsky.social .
Picket biscuits for Wednesday.
There’s another Tupperware of them, too.
Bring your own jam/ham/filling, @uea-ucu.bsky.social !
There’s another Tupperware of them, too.
Bring your own jam/ham/filling, @uea-ucu.bsky.social !
March 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Picket biscuits for Wednesday.
There’s another Tupperware of them, too.
Bring your own jam/ham/filling, @uea-ucu.bsky.social !
There’s another Tupperware of them, too.
Bring your own jam/ham/filling, @uea-ucu.bsky.social !
Number 1*: music. I love it - listening, performing, just noodling around on an instrument. I’m a classically trained flutist with 23+2 years under my belt (took a break for academia and now back). I also sing and pretend piano.
Can’t dance, tho.
*how the frick do you pick just one?!
Can’t dance, tho.
*how the frick do you pick just one?!
January 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Number 1*: music. I love it - listening, performing, just noodling around on an instrument. I’m a classically trained flutist with 23+2 years under my belt (took a break for academia and now back). I also sing and pretend piano.
Can’t dance, tho.
*how the frick do you pick just one?!
Can’t dance, tho.
*how the frick do you pick just one?!
Just posted my ballot in the UEA dispute. @uea-ucu.bsky.social vote vote vote!
January 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Just posted my ballot in the UEA dispute. @uea-ucu.bsky.social vote vote vote!
Number 1:
Moniquill Blackgoose’s To Shape a Dragon’s Breath.
This has been #1 since I read it in January. It is what SFF should be; it is what historical fiction should be; it is what alt hist should be: relentless and raw and hypnotic. I immediately put it on my hist fic module. Sequel now, pls.
Moniquill Blackgoose’s To Shape a Dragon’s Breath.
This has been #1 since I read it in January. It is what SFF should be; it is what historical fiction should be; it is what alt hist should be: relentless and raw and hypnotic. I immediately put it on my hist fic module. Sequel now, pls.
January 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Number 1:
Moniquill Blackgoose’s To Shape a Dragon’s Breath.
This has been #1 since I read it in January. It is what SFF should be; it is what historical fiction should be; it is what alt hist should be: relentless and raw and hypnotic. I immediately put it on my hist fic module. Sequel now, pls.
Moniquill Blackgoose’s To Shape a Dragon’s Breath.
This has been #1 since I read it in January. It is what SFF should be; it is what historical fiction should be; it is what alt hist should be: relentless and raw and hypnotic. I immediately put it on my hist fic module. Sequel now, pls.
Number 2:
Debra Magpie Earling’s The Lost Journals of Sacajawea.
Impressionistic in the best possible way, devastating and necessary. Marches through the sanitised version of the history of Sacajawea’s life with righteous fire. Read it.
Debra Magpie Earling’s The Lost Journals of Sacajawea.
Impressionistic in the best possible way, devastating and necessary. Marches through the sanitised version of the history of Sacajawea’s life with righteous fire. Read it.
January 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Number 2:
Debra Magpie Earling’s The Lost Journals of Sacajawea.
Impressionistic in the best possible way, devastating and necessary. Marches through the sanitised version of the history of Sacajawea’s life with righteous fire. Read it.
Debra Magpie Earling’s The Lost Journals of Sacajawea.
Impressionistic in the best possible way, devastating and necessary. Marches through the sanitised version of the history of Sacajawea’s life with righteous fire. Read it.
Number 3:
Ashley Poston’s The Seven Year Slip.
I make no bones about being a massive romance fan, and I love all sorts (yes, even THOSE sorts). Poston’s novels are consistent and use the form in fresh and fun ways, and SYS is a delightful and thoughtful spin on the time travel romance.
Ashley Poston’s The Seven Year Slip.
I make no bones about being a massive romance fan, and I love all sorts (yes, even THOSE sorts). Poston’s novels are consistent and use the form in fresh and fun ways, and SYS is a delightful and thoughtful spin on the time travel romance.
January 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Number 3:
Ashley Poston’s The Seven Year Slip.
I make no bones about being a massive romance fan, and I love all sorts (yes, even THOSE sorts). Poston’s novels are consistent and use the form in fresh and fun ways, and SYS is a delightful and thoughtful spin on the time travel romance.
Ashley Poston’s The Seven Year Slip.
I make no bones about being a massive romance fan, and I love all sorts (yes, even THOSE sorts). Poston’s novels are consistent and use the form in fresh and fun ways, and SYS is a delightful and thoughtful spin on the time travel romance.
Number 4:
Sophie K Rosa’s Radical Intimacy.
In a nutshell: capitalism makes us unable to truly love and it undermines every single one of our emotional and psychological needs. I may be the choir it’s preaching to, but I needed to read someone else put all of this into words.
Sophie K Rosa’s Radical Intimacy.
In a nutshell: capitalism makes us unable to truly love and it undermines every single one of our emotional and psychological needs. I may be the choir it’s preaching to, but I needed to read someone else put all of this into words.
January 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Number 4:
Sophie K Rosa’s Radical Intimacy.
In a nutshell: capitalism makes us unable to truly love and it undermines every single one of our emotional and psychological needs. I may be the choir it’s preaching to, but I needed to read someone else put all of this into words.
Sophie K Rosa’s Radical Intimacy.
In a nutshell: capitalism makes us unable to truly love and it undermines every single one of our emotional and psychological needs. I may be the choir it’s preaching to, but I needed to read someone else put all of this into words.
Number 5:
Emily Habeck’s Shark Heart: A Love Story. An utterly sublime meditation on chronic/terminal illness but also what makes us human - and animal, and just how blurred the border is. And it is a love story.
Emily Habeck’s Shark Heart: A Love Story. An utterly sublime meditation on chronic/terminal illness but also what makes us human - and animal, and just how blurred the border is. And it is a love story.
January 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Number 5:
Emily Habeck’s Shark Heart: A Love Story. An utterly sublime meditation on chronic/terminal illness but also what makes us human - and animal, and just how blurred the border is. And it is a love story.
Emily Habeck’s Shark Heart: A Love Story. An utterly sublime meditation on chronic/terminal illness but also what makes us human - and animal, and just how blurred the border is. And it is a love story.
Job one: think about fake pasts based on truefax.
Job two: move words around.
Job two: move words around.
December 31, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Job one: think about fake pasts based on truefax.
Job two: move words around.
Job two: move words around.
Tad cold in the home country today. (This is in Celsius.)
December 23, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Tad cold in the home country today. (This is in Celsius.)
I appear to have snuck in before the 1M mark!
September 18, 2024 at 7:10 AM
I appear to have snuck in before the 1M mark!
For your anger-making today, from the Bird Site. To put ito perspective, £97k = my salary for 5 years.
January 8, 2024 at 12:17 PM
For your anger-making today, from the Bird Site. To put ito perspective, £97k = my salary for 5 years.
Bringing some culture to this very silly place. (Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, for those who don’t recognise it.)
December 16, 2023 at 9:24 PM
Bringing some culture to this very silly place. (Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, for those who don’t recognise it.)