Leanne MacDonald

Medievalist. Reading and writing about gender and literature. Teaching writing and literature on unceded Coast Salish land. She/Her

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

@zhuphilia The keynote at The New Chaucer Society Congress in Pasadena this year, Stephanie Trigg, did some comparative work with Tony Birch's Ghost River

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

@bouledenerfs_ You gotta be stealth about it. Don't make eye contact and just pretend you felt like stretching your legs anyway.

[Stephen Guy-Bray @SGUYBRAY]

Sending so much neighbourly love to my dear friends in the US today. 💙

[Rachel Lapides @rachellapides]

There should be something just for fun on the ballot, like voting for the best flavor of ice cream . I think that would get a lot of people really excited to get involved

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

@abramxlutes @dieworkwear Came here to say this

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

@blgtylr I don't drink tea every day, but when I am visiting my parents I have at least two cups a day

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

@blgtylr Not like the Brits, but definitely more than Americans. When I lived in the US I offered tea to everyone who came over to the apartment, and I got the feeling that was not usual.

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

No one:

Medieval canon lawyers:

[Cartoons Hate Her! @CartoonsHateHer]

What if a woman’s body count was 999999999999999999999999

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

@JohnSobieski83 @CartoonsHateHer @naanthannaantha

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

The three classic blunders: Never get involved in a land war in Asia, never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line, and never ask a man two questions in an email when you need both of them answered.

[Maria @mlstrat]

at my big age i should know better than to ask a man two questions in an email when i need both of them answered

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

@daniel_m_lavery Ok but also - are boneless rotisserie chickens a thing? Aren't they too floppy?

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

@kisstheblade_ I know someone who fell for it, and the candles were indeed fake

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

@oldenoughtosay Queen Camilla has a shadow Revenue and Customs office on the side

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

@aliciaandrz They should!

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

If someone could make this happen I would gladly give them a hot dog

[Jane Altoids @staticbluebat]

I would give up access to Ai forever for like a hot dog

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

@debscavator You don't do it. The laundry gods have decided that this is not your time.

[Angel Daniel Matos @ProfAngelMatos]

My book, The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature, is now available for pre-sale! Please let your your libraries know about this, and remember that the volume will be open source and freely available online on October 1. So excited for my book to be out soon!

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

This church sign would cause a full meltdown among medieval theologians

[Leanne MacDonald @medievalmac]

One of my students wrote about a movie that she learned about from a coworker who likes to recommend really old movies that were popular back in his time.

The movie? Interstellar (2014).