Welcome!

[lunadelcorvo]

Consider this the obligatory (-ish) introduction sticky.

Having said that, I have no clue where to start... I did a life update thing a few posts back, but that was more of a 'what I've been doing since' sort of thing.

I'm a teacher/professor (depending on what gig I can get), and I specialize in history, medieval history in particular. However, I taught a bang-up English class for 7 years, and I have taught art, literature, religious studies (as in history, not theology), culture, and even graduate-level courses in video game studies. Lately, though, it's middle school history, which is insanely frustrating, and not just because it's middle school.

I'm a gamer (shocking given above, I know!), artist, frustrated reader (who has the time?), and I dabble in fanfic (by 'dabble' I mean I have two 75K+ word fics and a handful of shorter ones on AO3 & FF.net). I have an amazing adult son who lives at home (because economy, also we're kind of besties), and 4 cats, I bake like a fiend over holidays, drink too much coffee, and have been vegetarian for..let's just say decades and leave it at that.

I am unapologetically left, atheist with a mostly stylistic & literary witchy streak, anti-capitalist, feminist, anti-racist, totally supportive of LGBTQ+ folks. I am also strongly pro-science, evidence, reality, and that sort of thing.

Here you will find everything from life updates, political commentary, tales from the (junior) academy, fandom squeeing, and fair warning: I can never see one of those 'fill out these weird questions' kind of memes.

Beyond that, welcome!

Comments

[cmcmck]

We're both historians by qualification but it's other half who's the medievalist- I'm early modern.

[in_sufficientdata]

Welcome back to DW! I recently returned after a long hiatus myself. It's been nice to meet you!

[glowingfish]

I am an English professor too, but in a way that I usually have to describe my job for a while.

[jehanne1431]

Nice to meet you! I need to explore some of your sidebar links. They look interesting!

[nightcall]

I'm so in love with your profile. Just took a peek, and so many of your "Things I have come to believe strongly" items resonate deeply. I'm happy to make your acquaintance and hope to get to know one another more!

[user_rqdnn]

I found you through the addme_fandom community. I'm embarrassed to say that we really don't share any fandoms, main or fannish. I am just interested in following a historian is all. I hope you don't mind me subscribing to your journal entries and commenting every now and then. I'm quite new here, so IDK who to follow yet.