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amlounsbury · 2 years
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I did it. I made an author website.There's not much on there yet, but you can sign up for a newsletter coming soon, and read a little summary of my book!
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amlounsbury · 2 years
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A little sneak peak into what I have been working on for the last few years. I am so close to finishing my draft, I can hardly concentrate on it! 
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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Found this in Jack London Square and I had to sit and look at it for a moment. So beautiful and so hopeful. ❤️🖤🤍🖤❤️
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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Found this in Jack London Square and I had to sit and look at it for a moment. So beautiful and so hopeful. ❤️🖤🤍🖤❤️
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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James Scott Bell (at the top) said to read the last five chapters of five of your favorite books to learn about endings. Don’t mind if might do!
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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She drew a ragged, betrayed breath. “Stephan has stolen my crown.”
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- Empress Maude from ‘When Christ and His Saints Slept’ by Sharon Kay Penman
I know this history well, but damn it if didn’t get really pissed at that line. British History was never the same from that moment on.
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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Wrote my very first of my book for my new writing group. Never did this before! It’s rather nerve-racking, but man it feel good to get it done.
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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“So it was that the jealousies and quarrels of women I flamed the hearts of courageous men”
-A monastic account of Countess Helvis of Evreux’s actions in 1090.
You say that like it’s a bad thing?
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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I want to add a photo for this poem but Tumblr doesn’t want me to add the pic of my licking a rock I found on the ground at the Catacombs in Paris...
honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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Hey Historians!
Personifying a nation/culture/religion with feminine pronouns doesn’t not make your statements less misogynistic/ethnocentric.
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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I went to a really cool webinar about Neolithic archaeology in Turkey. The lecturer discussed sites at Boncuklu (pronounced bahn-joo-clue) and MAN! Did they have some really cool cultural practices! My favorites were:
- Building animal skulls into the walls of the home so that the can be seen/used as an alcove.
- Buried family under the floors of their home.
- Practiced skull removal, where an individual’s skull is removed (postmortem of course) and displayed elsewhere.
- Their houses were rebuilt in a ritualistic kind of way, removing the roof/collapsing the walls done in a specific order and parts used in the next house the family built next to it.
- One individual was buried in a corprolite pile and a skull (likely not the same individual) was found on a midden pile. I’d like to think of this as being the same person whose body was buried in poop and skull displayed on a pile of trash.
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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I would still love to be Ms. Frizzle. But for history.
*best Ms Fizzle voice* Take a seat kids! We’re going to see what life was REALLY like in the American Colonies!”
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you think you’re going to have a normal field trip and she shows up wyd
✦ find me on instagram @the.flightless.artist ✦
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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I need to make a sticker of this little poem and put it at the front of all my books. Well, and change the name I guess.
“This boke is myne, Eleanor Worcester An I yt lose, and yow yt fynd I pray yow hartely to be so kynd That yow wel take a letil payne To se my boke is brothe home agayne.”
— [Inscription in a Book of Hours belonging to the Duchess of Worcester, ca. 1440]
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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Finally finished is epic book. Lots of notes to take! Yes, I plan to count the flags I used. I have already canabalized some from the front to be able to finish the book, but thus far I have taken notes from 30 flags. More to come!
Book: A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World. Ed. Georges Duby. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer.
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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Sometimes inspiration hits when sitting at a coffee shop and sometimes it hits while WORKING at a coffee shop.
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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You know you’re in deep when you accidentally buy a book you’ve already got... Oh well, I guess I just have to hand it over to my partner for his own collection.
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amlounsbury · 3 years
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Aw man, if only they did ‘Turtle’...
Unmute !
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