22 people.
All paying €890 to share rooms.
In a converted office.
Close to a quarter a mil a year.
Be great if we had laws against endangering renters lives for greed.

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yesssss it’s a verified good’un from me!!! i’m so excited man

v happy to have the game sticker accompany my Etruscan boar vessel now, too

listen, @failbettergames.com are *cooking* (complimentary) with mandrake. just had a blast playing the demo at LGF & cannot wait to get my paws on it again whenever it’s ready to come out into the world. utterly gorgeous setting & prose 🌿

A hand holding a book entitled ‘The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope’ above a desk

opened this up only intending to briefly flip through… and then consumed about 7 essays back to back. excellent stuff

Painting of the harrowing of hell, Christ stands above a door which lies flat, having squished a demon looney-tunes style, with his right arm extended to the Old Testament figures he is here to release from captivity

At this time every year I must draw your attention to the demon who appeared to have the misfortune to be standing by the door and was squished looney-tunes style when the harrowing commenced

Culturally incoherent naming. Names mean things to the people who name them. They're tied to real language and historical and mythological sources. Having characters with names like Edge next to Cynthia and La'ciere implies things about your setting that I should see in worldbuilding.

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

Woman's boned bodice, 1660s, ivory satin, trimmed with bobbin lace with parchment & coloured silk

(V&A Museum, London)

A digital illustration of a fat cat, done in yellow, cream, vermilion and forest green. The cat is stretching to try grab some treats, with the treat box being stuck around its waist.

failing is hot girl behaviour 🫵🏻💥

“Fullones uḷulamque cano non arma virumq(ue)” 🦉

“I sing about fullers and an owl, not about arms and a man"

CIL IV, 9131, Pompeii (IX.13.5), 79 CE, a graffito near a door entrance parodying the fist line of Virgil. ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/gra...

The opening of Beowulf from the unique surviving manuscript of the Old English text, beginning with a large initial 'H'.

Hwaet! The Beowulf manuscript (Cotton MS Vitellius A XV) is now back online.

You can consult the entire manuscript through the online catalogue:

searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

I got to colour some scenes for this and it looks so fuckin gooood ✨ and I cried during the trailer lmao

𝐔𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝟖
The Eighth International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Rathcroghan Visitor Centre 23-25 June 2026.

Rathcroghan Visitor Centre is delighted to announce that it will be hosting the eighth edition of the International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales.

Just a reminder that I’ve taken to recording all my blog posts.

So if you’re doing the dishes and want to listen to me recite Beowulf in rhyming couplets, well, have I got just the thing for you:

Texts about/from the Iron Age/Early Medieval North: "They feasted on venison and cattle, or hunted the swift boar"
Repeated studies of actual last meals/recent diet: porridge porridge porridge

A meme from the format of several armored warriors putting their swords into the center of a table, with the three visible figures labeled "tollund man," "me," and "the picts." In the center of the table is the label "yum oatmeal."

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

You shiver, and the city shivers with you.

Sketch of a person (?)

The inkless doodles of Eadburg, an 8th-c. nun, discovered by new technology: now published by Jessica Hendy-Hodgkinson in EME doi.org/10.1111/emed... (Open access)

Women, marriage and the law in later medieval Ireland with Dr Sparky Booker

Happy New Year! In our new episode Dr Sparky Booker @historytcd.bsky.social shares some wonderful, instructive, insights into how we can explore gender, class, ethnicity & community through an exam of individual legal cases in a fascinating period of Irish history. open.spotify.com/episode/38Aq...

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

fantastical drawing of Diplomoceras, a large extinct ammonite with a shell shaped like a paperclip somehow. It is colored in orange and brown tones. surrounding it are eight Pseudocenoceras, extinct nautiloids with round spiral shells, colored tan and orange.

Diplomoceras (the clippy) and Pseudocenoceras

drawing of a chaotic winter scene of various woodland animals, mostly amphibians, frolicking in the snow outside a rustic hobbit-type dwelling

more frog, again. seasonal frog

🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆

Folúntais: Scoláireachtaí Uí Dhonnabháin @scs-dias.bsky.social @dias.ie. Spriocdháta 5 Eanáir 2026

2 O’Donovan Scholarship vacancies at the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Deadline 5 January 2026:

www.dias.ie/2025/12/05/v...

a shot of a god botherer in a car, next to him on the passenger seat is a skull in an ornate box

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez