Mayy ✨

Sheff English graduate; MA Medieval Studies from Bristol uni. Ecocriticism & queer theory. Student communications officer. // they/she.

[Mayy ✨ @damihigaudium]

@lauravarnam thank you!

[Mayy ✨ @damihigaudium]

in a weird twist of fate, i'm writing an article for an academic journal, about student communications in UK universities. i've not written one before and the last academic thing i wrote was in 2020. does anyone have any advice for writing your first journal article?! 😅

[pastoral fantasies @apastoraldream]

you make an almost overwhelming amount of vegetable soup and invite the neighbours in to enjoy it with you

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"I have been treading on leaves all day until I am autumn-tired. God knows all the color & form of leaves I have trodden on & mired. Perhaps I have put forth too much strength & been too fierce from fear. I have safely trodden under foot the leaves of another year."

Robert Frost

[Paul Blart @swagmastarpaul]

It’s Friday the 13th (in October) which means you have to give all black cats an extra treat and a little smooch on their head

[Mayy ✨ @damihigaudium]

time for a wild friday night uhhh writing fiction and eating cinnamon buns

[Mayy ✨ @damihigaudium]

@roachyshauna i did love my MA in medieval stuff at Bristol... so maybe one day!

[Mayy ✨ @damihigaudium]

do i actually want to run away from everything and do a PhD or am i just having a garbage week at my corporate(ish) job: the eternal question

[Mayy ✨ @damihigaudium]

can i stay in stockholm with this bookshop instead of going back to the uk today thank u

[hubbert 𓆏🇵🇸 @Bonarno_]

Medieval herbalists when their supplies are delayed

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

Happy birthday, Mary Oliver: ✨

[Cathy Hume @cathyhume]

Medievalist klaxon - please consider my and Alaric’s CFP. We DO have the funnest sessions though this may not be quite as funny as 2010 when I proved that Margery Kempe wrote ‘Beowulf’. But seriously we’re credible scholars please retweet.

[Kristen Arnett @Kristen_Arnett]

yelling “sing, my angel of music” to the frog loudly croaking outside my window

[Irish History Bitesize! @lorraineelizab6]

Cat names from Old Irish legal texts:

Bréone = ‘little flame’
Cruibne = ‘little paws’
Glas Nenta = ‘nettle grey’
Méone = ‘little meow’

🎨Book of Kells in @TCDResearchColl. Source: Kelly, Early Irish Farming #InternationalCatDay 🐱

[Stephen Hopkins @phil_lol_ogist]

Ken the Coast Guard who
🤝 confronts Beowulf

"My job is just beach"

[Chaucer Doth Tweet @LeVostreGC]

Thys Barbie ys goinge to Caunterburye

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

mer-knight, netherlands, 15th century

[jodie c @jodcoll]

bar staff: madam, the gentleman across the room has paid for this drink for you

the gentleman: