We didn’t always know that ammonites are the fossilised remains of extinct cephalopods.
In Whitby, legend has it that they are snakes which were turned to stone by St. Hilda. Local curiosity dealers used to carve out snake heads to encourage the idea!🐍
#SnakeStone #FossilFriday

Me proudly writing myself out of one ridiculous plot contrivance only to find I completely undermined the entire motivation of the main antagonist in the process...

Forget the Last Supper...
Da Vinci would have painted a bunch of homos toasting over goulash if he'd been allowed to!

An absolutely astonishing ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Neustift/Novacella, Augustiner-Chorherrenstift, Cod. 166, f. 27r

People who write fiction:
When you've written yourself into a bit of a corner ... What's the best approach? Try and write your way out of it. Or go back and unpick where things have gone off course?

A graduate of the William T. Riker school of refusing to sit properly

ten years as an antiquarian, hearing nothing but 'my relative kept these untouched in a box their whole life but they died, and I don't want this stuff' has radicalized me. annotate the books. use the china. wear the clothes until they wear out. your life should not be a museum

Hey you, whoever you are, hi!
This internet stranger wants you to know that whilst things are really rough at the moment, you are a valuable, interesting, wonderful human.

Now, tell me about your favourite book!

I choose to interpret this as a critique of capitalism and consumerism.

My husband is in the woods fighting sexy vikings and so I get to narrate all the sexy vikings. #BoardgameHomos

Solidarity to all the sweet, funny, creative, quite capable of making their own decisions young trans people who come to my events and are not one single thing like how they’re currently being portrayed.