Recent content by Autumnal

She’s not unaware of gaming, though I can’t remember if she plays. But she just keeps being really, really busy. Her book Inventing the Renaissance is kind of a spin-off of a research project that’s still ongoing, I think, which involves a lot of travel for on-site examinations and a lot of...

What, starting now? Without any warning or warmup or warning or W words?

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/1204/1547118-watch-tcd-debuts-worlds-first-film-in-ancient-sumerian/

This one comes via John Scalzi:

I just learned about this this morning.

Cotton’s thoughts deserve expression too, you tissueist bigot.

Falling Angel, by William Hjortsberg, the basis for the movie Angel Heart. It’s 1959, and private eye Harry Angel is hired to find a jazz singer who dropped out of sight during World War II. Complications ensue. There’s black magic in the midst of things, and a revelation about why Angel is...

“In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only moi.”