Hildegard Feng

Still feels so cool, seeing my writing displayed on a shelf, available for everyone to read.

Normal adults get their middle-schooler singing coach's name tattooed on their dominant arm

The man is insufferable!

A miniature of the construction of the Tower of Babel, from Boccaccio's Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes (Add MS 35321).

The British Library’s Medieval MSS team now have a presence on Bluesky @blmedieval.bsky.social

Follow for updates as we restore more of our digitised content online!

A Roman mosaic depicting an owl with wide eyes, brown and red body, and blue feet, set against a cream-colored background with a black geometric border. The owl looks a bit deranged.

Just another Monday…

A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.

📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap

🏺 #MosaicMonday

'Owl' - Yukio Katsuda, 1973.

#OwlishMonday 🎨'Owl' - Yukio Katsuda, 1973.

An illustration of an owl with head slightly tilted and crescent moon above. Poem text reads "かたむいた月のふくろうとして" I am unsure of an appropriate translation.

'Owl and Crescent Moon' - Kozaki Kan, ca. 1990s.
#OwlishMonday #JapaneseArt

Doglike old man enjoys being ordered around by his 20-yr-old lover

My farmer holding up the Legend. From the game Stardew Valley.

Got the King of All Fish early spring, 2nd Year. Only one try!

Angry adelie penguin yelling at the camera

Satomi, in Kyouji's eyes:

trying to find the polymorph tomes

That's what she does best, dropping breadcrumbs here and there as much as the visual medium of manga allows it. It also gives me the idea Satomi is into some of the more "serious" literature and might use examples like Dante/Beatrice and Abelard/Heloise to justify his own age-gap romance.

The Krabat story fits Kyouji and Satomi so well it is kind of heartbreaking

Yes he does! I don't remember which chapter but it is on the bookshelf next to some law textbooks and the Kyouji savings jar.

Oh yes! Also for some reasons I feel like their interests might overlap in spy novels/ espionage thrillers, such as John le Carré.

Satomi: My boyfriend didn't attend college but he likes to read. His favorite is crime/mystery novels and I'm like okay-ish with those but I read them because he forces me to. We did watch Casablanca together though...

Women’s writing in the ancient world Although most of the literature that we have from the ancient Mediterranean and Near East was written by men, we do also have compositions by women – most famously the Greek poet Sappho, as w…

‘Women’s writing in the ancient world’, a blog by Anna P. Judson:

itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com/2020/03/06/w...

I should just start another fandom/Fujoshi account here in Bsky because that and unserious contents are what consist of over 90% of my free time

TANGO NOIR by Akina Nakamori on Apple Music Song · 1987 · Duration 4:09

music.apple.com/us/album/tan...

The Historiography of a Construct: “Feudalism” and the Medieval Historian - Medievalists.net Was medieval Europe truly a "feudal" society, or is feudalism a modern construct imposed on the past? This article explores how historians have debated, redefined, and even rejected the term, shaping…

The Historiography of a Construct: “Feudalism” and the Medieval Historian www.medievalists.net/2025/03/hist... #feudalism

A large wooden box painted in USA flag. The sign says: "American Flag Retirement Box! Place Old Flags in Box to be Properly Retired."

They have this in Florida huh (which I think is nice)

Status update: back to my Fujoshi era, which means spontaneously scrolling through Simplified/Traditional Chinese/English fanfics on AO3 and browsing Japanese/Korean fanarts on Pixiv/Bluesky. Great incentive for catching up on my JPN/KRN learning.

I love how Kyouji's finger fits perfectly into the space between Satomi's wrist and the watch... So suggestive ❤️😇

Queen Himiko in Himiko (1974).

Himiko (1974) is an excellent movie, btw. Been on my Douban list for a while.

In my "overthrow the Manchu, retvrn to Ming" era.

King Zhou of Shang and Consort Daji in The Investiture of the Gods (1990)

For some reason they believed Greco-Roman style tunics and headbands were a good fit for Shang.

At least we get the curious Greco-Roman rendition of King Zhou and Daji in the 1990 TV series of the Investiture of the Gods... (I heard some of the hairstyles are actually fairly historically/ archaeologically accurate)

Kafu IKO!

just a reminder that the amazing @kafu-iko.bsky.social has a bunch of translated wayama interviews and Q&As up on his karafami fansite and they are SO worth reading. there's so many fascinating tidbits tucked away in them kafu-iko.neocities.org/resources/

We must maintain the right to vigorously criticize nations. All nations, for that matter. What we cannot do is countenance imperial wars of aggression framed in the idiom of “humanitarianism” or “security.” Whose humanity, whose security? Certainly not the people of Palestine, Lebanon, or Iran.

how about a buddy comedy featuring Ah Q but introducing a new character, Ah Q's American sidekick, Ah Shucks

Two-headed cat... Two cats poking out behind the poster.

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