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English Literature PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield. Interested in all aspects of religious belief in speculative fiction.
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YAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSS

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

i visited several prehistoric caverns last week and saw some amazing art and i'm happy to report this comic is absolutely 100% accurate.. we haven't really done anything better than the pudgy lascaux horses

submitted 10 hours ago • 7 comments

I know posting Twitter screenshots is poor form around here, but I also don't want anyone to miss this, which seems to sum up the state of the site now.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

This looks like a really disappointing Raymond Briggs book

submitted 12 hours ago • 17 comments

Gandhi was a much, much more messed up dude than we like to admit.

submitted 8 hours ago • 21 comments

"I didn't even want to go to your stupid Conclave anyway. ConcLAME I call it"

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

This is so silly, up to and including the fact that this celebration of moveable type is printed from a gigantic woodblock (which also recreates the hand-drawn decorated letters). Technology is recursive! Periodization is fake!

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

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submitted 55 days ago • 6 comments

"On the doorstep people don’t make a distinction between graduate visas & small boats" This is: a) objectively wrong (plenty of polling evidence) b) suggests utter contempt for electorate's thought processes c) is a dreadful way to make policy Otherwise fine www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 18 hours ago • 71 comments

As a mature student I take a Latin class with some younger people. Yesterday I Claudius came up. They _had_ heard of Brian Blessed (‘he’s the shouty meme guy’), but not John Hurt, Derek Jacobi or Christopher Biggins* They hadn’t even seen Alien 😫 (ok, fair enough with Biggins)

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

I cast my first vote under Thatcher’s government. I remember being full of righteous ire and idealism, as is only correct when you are 18 years old. 1/

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

It's the kind of weather this week where people purposely look for stuff to wash so it dries in an hour on the line outside

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Good. Not enough though. Supermarket jeans Plain white t-shirt Non-branded trainers. And for the love of god, let the kids wear a damn coat instead of pushing them into walking to school without one in the rain because Ofsted want them removed the moment they step in the front door.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Just like those MPs who earn eye-watering stipends for their numerous ‘directorships’ then?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“The Chancellor sparked anger when she revealed that govt wants to enable young people from Europe and UK to work and travel overseas” FFS. What ‘Brexit freedom’ exactly is being betrayed here? The freedom to NOT be free to work and travel overseas? One of the stupidest front pages I’ve ever seen.

submitted 1 day ago • 361 comments

Is this London's ugliest surviving Art Deco building? Just has a real 'we'll get to the middle bit later...whoops today is deadline day' vibe to it.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Happy #TerryPratchettDay remembering and celebrating the author who ignited our imaginations and made us all laugh so much. Also the author who gave us Sam Vimes’ ‘Boots’ Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Birthday #TerryPratchett ~ 28th Apr, 1948. “It reached the boat. Long clammy fingers grabbed the side, and a lugubrious face rose level with Nanny Ogg’s. ‘’ullo,’ it said. ‘It’sss my birthday.” (WA) Released today: 🔗 discworld.com/products/new... #TerryPratchettDay #TerryPratchett #Discworld

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I’m marking #TerryPratchettDay today with some words of wisdom from Nanny Ogg: “When you break rules, break 'em good and hard.” (Lords and Ladies) Also remember you should never trust a dog with orange eyebrows, and always get the young man’s name and address.

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Discworld Calendar - April 2008 She Ain't Heavy, She's Our Kelda by Stephen Player A feegle-eye's view of a spring scene, but with winter in the background. Happy birthday to Sir Terry! And Happy Terry Pratchett Day to everyone else!

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