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Jan 24 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I am always here for campy gay indie-cinema, and I just started watching this new TV show/webseries called Demonhuntr, and it. is. EVERYTHING.

Camp, horror, 90s vibes, ridiculous plots, multiple sex scenes, silly monsters, and all in 10-minute episodes.
This is basically a Buffy tribute show, but with queer and POC people as the leads.

And, um, a lot more full-frontal nudity.
As I said when I watched Vampire Boys, I love love campy gay indie stuff that isn't trying to be real deep or Meaningful. We deserve junk-food tv too!

The line “so you’re being haunted by a ghost…who edges you” was just uttered.
Trying to telepathically communicate with ghosts.
Won’t spoil the resolution but omg lol wut.

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Jan 24
🧵: In my continuing quest to document medieval depictions of queer people, I am looking at depictions from Dante's Inferno of the sodomites, depictions that often seem to emphasize buttocks and temptation (and feature a lot of monks!).

(BnF, Italien 74 f.47v) #MedievalTwitter
Certainly, there are depictions where the sodomites clearly writhe in pain in the fiery rain, like this one, but a lot of the depictions don't show much suffering and present the sodomites as almost tempting Dante.

(BnF, Italien 2017 f.191)
There are a remarkable amount of men with monastic tonsures in this one, suggesting people saw priests as particularly prone to sodomy.

(Morgan Library, MS M.676 fol. 25r)
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Jan 10
The lack of scale in this battle image makes the elephants looks like they are the size of small dogs, which is possibly the cutest thing I've ever seen.

(Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, f. 43v) #MedievalTwitter ImageImage
Lil elephants are like ".....why are we needed in this battle again?" Image
It doesn't help that they're facing off against men mounted on enormous horses with red eyes. Image
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Oct 20, 2021
[TW: sexual harassment & abuse, threats, homophobia, anti-Semitism, drinking culture.]

Please read & share this 2-year investigation of Andy Orchard, UOxford Prof and one of the most notorious sexual predators in medieval studies. #MedievalTwitter
The accompanying podcast episode features stories from incredibly brave women in the profession who've witnessed and been affected by his predatory behavior. I want to acknowledge their work and courage in coming forward.
Orchard remains a respected senior scholar and editor in the field, a member of medievalist organizations, and a presence at conferences.

He remains an editor of the journal Notes & Queries, and of the journal Anglo-Saxon England. I hope that will change.
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Jul 25, 2021
🧵: Let me show you Jacqueline de Weever's pioneering 1994 study on how modern translators of medieval texts often reinforce ideas that Blackness cannot be beautiful, & how they claim, in their translations, that blackness is a "stain".
#MedievalTwitter Screenshot of article reads...
De Weever analyzes translations of a major passage in the Old French romance 'Aucassin et Nicolette', when beautiful Nicolette discovers she's Arab and "anoints" her face black/noire.

Modern translators refuse to translate "noire" as "black" when applied to a beautiful woman.
De Weever notes that "noire" appears 2 times before it is applied to Nicolette. It is used to emphasize how white Nicolette is (so white daises appear "noire" by comparison) or to describe the blackness of a wild man. Translators translates these instances properly as "black". Screenshot reads ". Fu..."The word occurs a sec...
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Jun 30, 2021
Attending @ISASaxonists' talk for the Early Medieval Identities series. I have officially been given permission to livetweet the talk. #MedievalTwitter Image
Lol, and my internet just dropped the talk. Reconnecting!
I'm seemingly back. Fingers crossed. Thank goodness the talk is being recorded.

They are introducing Dr. MRO right now.
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