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'From Fantasyland to Discworld': #MarchMagics2026 represents the annual celebration of the life and work of #DianaWynneJones and #TerryPratchett through the month of March. wp.me/pezD85-10u
My American father once told Gordon Brown (while he was Prime Minister) that my British husband is very weird.
Your periodic reminder that you can start learning ancient Greek right now, free of charge!
perhaps you'll say: was it really necessary for this to be a four hour episode? to which I say: look forward to at LEAST another hour of Hexwood Time in this season's Q&A. Happy Hexwood Day, everyone!
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It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".
Happy Shrew Year
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video
A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone
I still recommend this dramatisation every year since its launch. The sound design is magnificent so worth listening on headphones. Interested in discovering any other winter listening rituals that others have.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙♀️🎄
'AI is coming' I tell the museum stakeholders as I proudly cut the ribbon of our new Artificial Insemination exhibition
This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
This whole thread 😍
my new book is published tomorrow! I have put an extract here for free of what I think might be the most important thing I say in the whole book - how to preserve friendships during an information crisis (and why it's important to try, if you can)
naomialderman.substack.com/p/how-to-pre...
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Just reading through this list and seeing all those wonderful, familiar book covers made me feel all warm and wistful inside. But I also particularly enjoyed the recommendations from 2010 on, when my own children were past the picture book stage.
www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
We're finally wrapping up S2 today with our last bonus episode for the season -- thank you all so much for the many thoughtful, interesting and insightful letters you sent in for our Q&A!
Quote from Rainbow Rowell's Attachments: October baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O Autumn! O teakettle! O grace!
Callooh Callay!
Merry October to everyone!
"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."
@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):
reactormag.com/with-the-ser...
I love Tam Lin retellings. This is a great list!
It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.
This is so wholesome I don’t know what to do with my face.