Wordwyrda
@wordwyrda.bsky.social
MA student studying the nexus of the queer divine and the natural world. Recommend me reads!
The traditional appeasement of the tech gods has taken place and British Fantasy Society's "Creative Fix" seminar has now kicked off! So grateful for the ✨ magic ✨ of technology - I'd never be able to attend this as an IRL event, but here I am in my slippers with a cuppa.
January 10, 2026 at 10:11 AM
The traditional appeasement of the tech gods has taken place and British Fantasy Society's "Creative Fix" seminar has now kicked off! So grateful for the ✨ magic ✨ of technology - I'd never be able to attend this as an IRL event, but here I am in my slippers with a cuppa.
Finally signed up for membership to the British Fantasy Society this year. So excited! This Saturday they are running an online event on Social Justice through creative writing. ✊
January 5, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Finally signed up for membership to the British Fantasy Society this year. So excited! This Saturday they are running an online event on Social Justice through creative writing. ✊
First distinction 🎉
All term one essays now submitted 🙌
Today I got a promotion at my job 🤩
And it's one week until Yule! 🌲
All term one essays now submitted 🙌
Today I got a promotion at my job 🤩
And it's one week until Yule! 🌲
December 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
First distinction 🎉
All term one essays now submitted 🙌
Today I got a promotion at my job 🤩
And it's one week until Yule! 🌲
All term one essays now submitted 🙌
Today I got a promotion at my job 🤩
And it's one week until Yule! 🌲
I got my marks back for our first assignment and I GOT MY FIRST FIRST! May it be one of many! 🎉
December 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I got my marks back for our first assignment and I GOT MY FIRST FIRST! May it be one of many! 🎉
The words are on the page. 🙌 We're entering a week of edits in good stead. It's a Christmas miracle, etc.
a sunset over a mountain range with a gifkaro logo on the bottom
Alt: an animated sunrise over a mountain range
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December 9, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The words are on the page. 🙌 We're entering a week of edits in good stead. It's a Christmas miracle, etc.
Essay #1 down, essay #2 ...half down. Not where I wanted to be by tonight but I did also get the food shop and some Christmas presents done so trying to trust the process. Here's hoping to knocking out one or two k more words tomorrow and having a week to edit! 🤞
December 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Essay #1 down, essay #2 ...half down. Not where I wanted to be by tonight but I did also get the food shop and some Christmas presents done so trying to trust the process. Here's hoping to knocking out one or two k more words tomorrow and having a week to edit! 🤞
Officially finished with contact hours and into the essay trenches. Two weeks, 7500 words to go. I oscillate hourly between "I have never had a thought in my life" and "this is the entire reason why I was put on this planet".
December 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Officially finished with contact hours and into the essay trenches. Two weeks, 7500 words to go. I oscillate hourly between "I have never had a thought in my life" and "this is the entire reason why I was put on this planet".
Today it was Black & Blue Oceanic Ecologies of the Middle Passage, a meeting with a potential supervisor (🤞), quick PowerPoint on digital research and authorial attribution, then a workshop on funding and grant writing ... Thursdays are my busiest and also my favourite day!
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Today it was Black & Blue Oceanic Ecologies of the Middle Passage, a meeting with a potential supervisor (🤞), quick PowerPoint on digital research and authorial attribution, then a workshop on funding and grant writing ... Thursdays are my busiest and also my favourite day!
Next week's reading on the Modernism pathway addresses digital authorship and marketing in the internet era, and is an excellent time for me to remind everyone on Earth to read the free short story "The Egg" by Andy Weir who is a viral "success story" for indie authors!
October 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Next week's reading on the Modernism pathway addresses digital authorship and marketing in the internet era, and is an excellent time for me to remind everyone on Earth to read the free short story "The Egg" by Andy Weir who is a viral "success story" for indie authors!
Controversial topic in the seminar today on the use or avoidance of "I" in academic writing. Honestly seems like it could be a socioeconomic or demographic indicator based on the split of opinions!
October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Controversial topic in the seminar today on the use or avoidance of "I" in academic writing. Honestly seems like it could be a socioeconomic or demographic indicator based on the split of opinions!
So excited to be attending the Tolkein Society's seminar on Arda & Entangled Bodies today, reading Tolkein's works ecocritically. Thanks so much to the organisers for making this so accessible and free on Zoom!
October 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
So excited to be attending the Tolkein Society's seminar on Arda & Entangled Bodies today, reading Tolkein's works ecocritically. Thanks so much to the organisers for making this so accessible and free on Zoom!
Ran into a professor who taught me at undergraduate level today. "How wonderful," he said, on learning I'd been doing nothing of joy or importance or even related to my field for the last ten years, "-that you've come back to us." 🥺
October 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Ran into a professor who taught me at undergraduate level today. "How wonderful," he said, on learning I'd been doing nothing of joy or importance or even related to my field for the last ten years, "-that you've come back to us." 🥺
Discovered this little beauty on Substack today and think we could all use a little reminder. Alienation is not a consequence of capitalism - it's a feature.
October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Discovered this little beauty on Substack today and think we could all use a little reminder. Alienation is not a consequence of capitalism - it's a feature.
Busy day studying "texts in translation" (in quotations because I'm a sad monolingual). Might need to start learning a new language on a platform that isn't Duolingo... But do I pick for practicality, ease, or literary distance from my mother tongue?
September 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Busy day studying "texts in translation" (in quotations because I'm a sad monolingual). Might need to start learning a new language on a platform that isn't Duolingo... But do I pick for practicality, ease, or literary distance from my mother tongue?
It's the first seminar of my Literature MA today! Texts include Hamlet, The Waste Land, a letter from Keats to his friend Woodhouse and two poems by Plath. So about what you might expect for an Introduction to Literary Research (...)
September 23, 2025 at 9:56 AM
It's the first seminar of my Literature MA today! Texts include Hamlet, The Waste Land, a letter from Keats to his friend Woodhouse and two poems by Plath. So about what you might expect for an Introduction to Literary Research (...)
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Join moderator PS Livingstone and panellists Zamil Akhtar, Gareth Hanrahan, and Peter McLean for their insight on building a belief system in fictional worlds. Find out more about our panel here: tinyurl.com/bfsfare.
@mytholder.bsky.social @petemc666.bsky.social @pslivingstone.bsky.social
@mytholder.bsky.social @petemc666.bsky.social @pslivingstone.bsky.social
BFS Online: Worldbuilding – Faith & Religion – The British Fantasy Society
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March 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Join moderator PS Livingstone and panellists Zamil Akhtar, Gareth Hanrahan, and Peter McLean for their insight on building a belief system in fictional worlds. Find out more about our panel here: tinyurl.com/bfsfare.
@mytholder.bsky.social @petemc666.bsky.social @pslivingstone.bsky.social
@mytholder.bsky.social @petemc666.bsky.social @pslivingstone.bsky.social
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Hi All! I am a scholar of BIPOC science fiction and fantasy literature. My new book Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre is now available to preoder. I am so excited to see this book, the companion to my first book Diverse Futures, come to life: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre
Examines how authors of color, in writing against white-dominated, Eurocentric fantasy narratives, counteract Christian and colonial tropes and offer alternate versions of morality, race, gender, and ...
ohiostatepress.org
February 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hi All! I am a scholar of BIPOC science fiction and fantasy literature. My new book Dispelling Fantasies: Authors of Color Reimagine a Genre is now available to preoder. I am so excited to see this book, the companion to my first book Diverse Futures, come to life: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
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Jay Hulme is a treasure that we do not deserve. Christian LGBT+ Poetry was not a genre I knew I wanted more of. Now I'm like...grabby hands.
You're feeding the sheep, Jay. Job well done.
You're feeding the sheep, Jay. Job well done.
"They say I died a virgin, but
then they say every martyred
woman was a virgin. I want"
From 'The Vanishing Song'
then they say every martyred
woman was a virgin. I want"
From 'The Vanishing Song'
January 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Jay Hulme is a treasure that we do not deserve. Christian LGBT+ Poetry was not a genre I knew I wanted more of. Now I'm like...grabby hands.
You're feeding the sheep, Jay. Job well done.
You're feeding the sheep, Jay. Job well done.
