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Up until a few days ago, the latest published work I'd found recommending the use of poop for medicinal purposes was from 1862. But I just found one from 1899! Apparently pheasant dung "excites [a person] to venery". (that means LUST!) #victorianera #history #medicalhistory

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You know it's hot when you have Reynauds and take your socks off to sleep. #reynauds #Melbourne

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I just slept for nearly 12 hours. Incredible experience. 💜😴 #insomnia

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Why is it in movies that lost past civilizations who create some magical powerful thing that goes horribly wrong and must be destroyed always just separate pieces and spread them "on opposite ends of the Earth" or hide them in a hole. IDK, just destroy it? probably don't hang on to the instructions?

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I'm freeeeee!!! After a successful isolation during which neither of my housemates got sick. Go team! #covid

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Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community. Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

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I‘m developing a phobia of German sausage. I fear the wurst

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Don’t let the desire to make “good” art stand in the way of making art. Make bad art earnestly and joyfully. Pour your heart into poorly executed, derivative creations. And maybe it will end up “good” eventually or maybe it won’t, but either way you got to experience the magic of creating.

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Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

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Maybe not so controversial opinion: listening to audiobooks still counts as reading. People with dyslexia who love books exist. Two people in my life are like this, and they've torn through more books than me. One of them being my dad.

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As a food writer I feel it's important to report that sometimes the solution to your problems is eating as much mac and cheese as physically possible

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I hate the way that writers have to also be influencers and salespeople these days. Selling our books is what publishers are for!!! And yes, we are still whole people outside of our books.

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#christmas #waronchristmas #atheism #atheist

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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

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If you’re anxious follow the 3-3-3 rule. Name three thing you can see, listen to three sounds you can hear, and kill three people that annoy you.

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I admit that the use of excrement in historical healthcare is something of a special interest of mine.... stacyshort.substack.com/p/shitty-med... #history #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #historyofmedicine #hippocrates

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Ancient treatments for the common cold! Don't try these at home. stacyshort.substack.com/p/ancient-tr... #history #ancienthistory #historyofmedicine #writer #substack

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Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

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Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!

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It feels so good to be writing again, I'd stagnated for a while there. Hope you guys enjoy it; I know I do! #writing

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stacyshort.substack.com/p/cursed-to-... Cursed to Dance: What you didn't know about the outbreak of St Vitus' Dance in Strasbourg. #history #earlymoderneurope #europeanhistory #holyromanempire #france #frenchhistory #medicalhistory #historyofmedicine

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You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.

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New short fiction now available free on Substack: The Housemate! substack.com/@stacyshort/... #writing #originalfiction #gothic #shortstory

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I know Dua Lipa's Cold Heart was supposed to be a tribute to Elton John, and I know he said he liked it, but it's the blandest boringest crap anyone could ever do to Elton. I despise it from the depths of my queer soul. 😛 #queer #lgbtqia #eltonjohn

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Vibes seem correct, but not QUITE set in Spain: "Andorra" by Peter Cameron. Haunting, and with a twist that you should see coming but probably won't. #books #reading

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diarrhoea (that is the correct spelling in England & Australia) whether to use affect/effect conscious #writing #spelling

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Hi fam, I've just joined Bluesky... looking for people and communities relating to the following: #ancienthistory #writing #queer #asexual #science #nerd .... that isn't anywhere close to covering everything I like to post about, but it's a good start!

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