Rebecca AND|OR Speas
@speasyspice.bsky.social
Public historian and archivist. MA, NCSU ‘24. MSLS, UNC SILS ‘26. Theatremaker, printmaker, podcaster, and indie bookseller. Leftist Southern Harpy. Cheerwine connoisseur. She/her. 🌾📚✨
just another day at the office
October 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
just another day at the office
semester’s done, let’s get FUCKED UP
May 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
semester’s done, let’s get FUCKED UP
Mhmmm smells like deoderanttttt
May 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Mhmmm smells like deoderanttttt
I graduated a semester earlier than the rest of my Public History cohort, but we spent today taking some group grad pics and I got to meet one of their family dogs
Lyza says Happy May Day, Happy Beltane, and wiggle more butts
Lyza says Happy May Day, Happy Beltane, and wiggle more butts
May 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I graduated a semester earlier than the rest of my Public History cohort, but we spent today taking some group grad pics and I got to meet one of their family dogs
Lyza says Happy May Day, Happy Beltane, and wiggle more butts
Lyza says Happy May Day, Happy Beltane, and wiggle more butts
live footage of me receiving the worst news
April 16, 2025 at 2:14 AM
live footage of me receiving the worst news
Listen I’m not a stickler for minute historical accuracy but I am a stickler for the costumes looking like they belong in the same universe aka WHY DOES CATHY HAVE A BIG TACKY GOLD CROSS LIKE IT’S EASTER SUNDAY AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
April 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Listen I’m not a stickler for minute historical accuracy but I am a stickler for the costumes looking like they belong in the same universe aka WHY DOES CATHY HAVE A BIG TACKY GOLD CROSS LIKE IT’S EASTER SUNDAY AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
emily brontë did not write “you say you killed me—haunt me then” for cathy to look like she ran through the clearance section at hot topic
April 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
emily brontë did not write “you say you killed me—haunt me then” for cathy to look like she ran through the clearance section at hot topic
[*Tom Hardy in Mad Max Fury Road finger shake*]
Mmmm that’ssss bait.
Mmmm that’ssss bait.
April 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
[*Tom Hardy in Mad Max Fury Road finger shake*]
Mmmm that’ssss bait.
Mmmm that’ssss bait.
we all need to be moving into our saw gerrera eras with a quickness
February 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
we all need to be moving into our saw gerrera eras with a quickness
I didn’t reach my reading goal, but who cares, my brain got eaten from grad school and I still read some absolute bangers
(Graphic from @thestorygraph.com, who rules, and everyone should use instead of the other reading tracker that’s owned by one of the major axis of evil in the world)
(Graphic from @thestorygraph.com, who rules, and everyone should use instead of the other reading tracker that’s owned by one of the major axis of evil in the world)
January 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I didn’t reach my reading goal, but who cares, my brain got eaten from grad school and I still read some absolute bangers
(Graphic from @thestorygraph.com, who rules, and everyone should use instead of the other reading tracker that’s owned by one of the major axis of evil in the world)
(Graphic from @thestorygraph.com, who rules, and everyone should use instead of the other reading tracker that’s owned by one of the major axis of evil in the world)
i appear to have summoned a familiar, what do
(highly recommend a yearly ritual of doing a new year’s reading with @yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social’s stunning Tarot of the Divine, cat not included)
(highly recommend a yearly ritual of doing a new year’s reading with @yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social’s stunning Tarot of the Divine, cat not included)
January 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
i appear to have summoned a familiar, what do
(highly recommend a yearly ritual of doing a new year’s reading with @yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social’s stunning Tarot of the Divine, cat not included)
(highly recommend a yearly ritual of doing a new year’s reading with @yoshiyoshitani.bsky.social’s stunning Tarot of the Divine, cat not included)
What was your peak millennial hipster moment, I’ll go first:
Attending a friend’s birthday party where the theme was the music video of “Elephant Gun” by Beirut.
Attending a friend’s birthday party where the theme was the music video of “Elephant Gun” by Beirut.
December 19, 2024 at 5:21 PM
What was your peak millennial hipster moment, I’ll go first:
Attending a friend’s birthday party where the theme was the music video of “Elephant Gun” by Beirut.
Attending a friend’s birthday party where the theme was the music video of “Elephant Gun” by Beirut.
brb in my machine breaking era
December 10, 2024 at 1:17 AM
brb in my machine breaking era
“Look at how they massacred my boy”
November 28, 2024 at 5:39 PM
“Look at how they massacred my boy”
I'm writing up a very very very overdue paper on the historiography of Japanese video games, and was reminded of this absolutely unhinged moment at the 2016 Rio Olympics when then-Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe climbed out of a pipe dressed as Super Mario
November 26, 2024 at 7:53 PM
I'm writing up a very very very overdue paper on the historiography of Japanese video games, and was reminded of this absolutely unhinged moment at the 2016 Rio Olympics when then-Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe climbed out of a pipe dressed as Super Mario
To me there is no greater luxury than a Terry’s chocolate orange, I will eat every bit of it myself, and I would eat it until I became genuinely ill and probably even after that
November 19, 2024 at 10:22 PM
To me there is no greater luxury than a Terry’s chocolate orange, I will eat every bit of it myself, and I would eat it until I became genuinely ill and probably even after that
LO, from the East, I have redownloaded Bluesky because it turns out I DO need an outlet for all of my unhinged opinions on things tangential to the daily grind of existence
November 19, 2024 at 3:34 AM
LO, from the East, I have redownloaded Bluesky because it turns out I DO need an outlet for all of my unhinged opinions on things tangential to the daily grind of existence
No spoilers for #DragonAgeVeilguard but this did destroy me, so thanks for that I guess
November 2, 2024 at 2:41 PM
No spoilers for #DragonAgeVeilguard but this did destroy me, so thanks for that I guess
Here is my first Rook, Tamsin Thorn, elf Grey Warden and I am having a Great Time
November 2, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Here is my first Rook, Tamsin Thorn, elf Grey Warden and I am having a Great Time
Meanwhile at NWSL Boston
October 16, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Meanwhile at NWSL Boston
the illustrated covers HAVE TO STOP y’all i am BEGGING you
October 16, 2024 at 9:23 PM
the illustrated covers HAVE TO STOP y’all i am BEGGING you