Training For the Ballet, Potter?

Rebeccaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Fearer of Morlocks Lover of Loki Be the change you want to see in the world. Vegan, out of practice musician, lover of fiction, fantasy and my Netflix account. My message box is always open to anyone who needs someone to talk to.

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Remembering to actually make a blog post! IGA 2026!

IGA Conference 2026 in Hull, UK

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Sea Changes Conference (September 2025)

This September, I had the opportunity to present a paper at the Open Graves, Open Minds Project‘s Sea Changes conference at the British Library in London. It was a fantastic event focusing on mermaids, hybrids and all sorts of bodies of water, in Literature, film, and other forms. The scope of the papers was so interesting, and it was hard to decide between several panels across two rooms! I…

Sea Changes Conference (September 2025)

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Mind the Gap PGR conference wrap-up @UHcreatives @uniofherts

Mind The Gap Conference ⋆｡°✩ Wednesday 21st May 2025

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January Reading Wrap Up

Here is my January Reading Wrap Up - a habit I'm hoping to stick to in 2025! :)

Although I’m almost certain that a monthly goal of remembering to do this is unachievable, I want to try and wrap up each month’s reading for 2025 here! I’m going to include the books that end up on my Goodreads, something academic, and some Bobby favourites. In reality, I read Julia Donaldson about 10 times a day, but that never counts towards my Goodreads goal… :’D Main books: Where the Dark…

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2024's Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag

It may be September already, but the Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag is now complete!

It has somehow got to September already, but I felt like a reading reflection before starting my PhD would be fun! Even if half the books I’ve been reading fit that theme anyway… At this point, I have read 16 books this year. I may not be super on it, but I’ve enjoyed a fair few of them! Best book of 2024: The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent. Best sequel you read in…

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Faustian Fatales: A few Faustian Females to Read

A quick post about some feisty Faustian female protagonists for #FaustianFriday. Addie LaRue from The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab V.E. Schwab’s Addie makes a deal to avoid marriage and give herself autonomy over her life. She goes against the advice of her mystical neighbour Estele who warns her to ‘never pray to the gods who answer after dark’. Her prayers are answered, in…

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These Deadly Words by Nicole Heydenburg

Book review of 'These Deadly Words' by Nicole Heydenburg. ARC received for free from @booksirens.

I received an advance review copy for free from BookSirens, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. Four young adults are stuck in a snowstorm and find sanctuary in a cabin in the woods. Nicole Heydenburg has managed to add an interesting development to the classic horror film set up which was intriguing. Four people (Leah, Vincent, Noah, and Ava) get stranded in a snowstorm and stumble upon…

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House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

Book review of House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson @alexhwrites. A deliciously horrific sapphic tale.

It’s been a while since I have devoured a book as quickly as Alexis Henderson’s House of Hunger (pun very intended). I was gripped from the first few pages and never lost my fervour as it went along. A beautifully horrific sapphic tale that keeps you playing fox and hound (you’ll get the reference when you read it) until the last pages. We follow Marion Shaw, a poverty-stricken girl who lives in…

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Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez

New book review: Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez.

I have finally come to the end of my master’s degree, and I am now free to read non-Faustian fiction! I picked up ‘Things We Lost in the Fire’ ages ago, and boy am I glad I’ve finally read it. TWLITF is a short story collection that brings together the atmosphere of Buenos Aires and Gothic fiction to create a disturbing and strange range of tales. I really enjoyed her settings exploring the…

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Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag 2022

Mid-Year Book Freakout Tag 2022

I loved doing this tag last year! I have read about half of what I’d read last year because this year is a horrible mess, but let’s see how it compares! So far this year I’ve read 17 books. Best book of 2022: Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber Best sequel you read in 2022: Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco Book you haven’t read yet: Lots of theory for my dissertation… Most…

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I really like this gif because Stitch does that little squinty thing that animals do when they’re really happy and relaxed and you can tell that he’s having such a superb time playing that little ukulele

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fucking superb you funky little alien

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a teleporting cat. It’s just a regular housecat, but it appears in random places when you could have sworn you just saw it somewhere else

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that’s just a cat

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literally any cat

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bookstore cat

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harry potter meme ϟ [7/9] characters: luna lovegood (born 13 february, 1981)

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the ways we expect.

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You lack conviction. 

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I love it when people ask shit like “Which world would you rather live in? Star Trek or Star Wars?” When like, Star Trek takes place in a world where mankind has erradicated diseases and war and explore space to make contact with new civilizations, and in Star Wars everything is old and dusty and every 20 years a new angry white man murders half the galaxy.

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HarryPotterOnline’s 10k followers celebration | Favorite Friendship - Harry x Ron x Hermione (1/8)

“ There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”