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Aven

@avensarah.bsky.social

Roman poetry & culture | Endless Knot Podcast & YT http://alliterative.net | 🇨🇦Fed govt, former prof | She/her | circumsiliens modo huc modo illuc, pipio

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Aven@avensarah.bsky.social · 3h ago

I think I was also primed by @hugeshark.bsky.social’s musings on how current Bluesky feels less everyday communal than it used to (in large part due to the loss of Wombat, but for other reasons too).

Aven@avensarah.bsky.social · 3h ago

On my lunchtime walk I looked up and saw this little guy, and it suddenly made me think about TwitterWanders way back in the day, and @captaindoodle.bsky.social and @wombat37.bsky.social. So for old time’s sake, here’s a mini BlueskyWander from the walk to the Ottawa River from my office.

A carved stone owl on a plinth on the side of a block stone building.
Mattia Corso@mcorso7.bsky.social · 24h ago

A long shot: is anyone currently doing research at the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú in Lima? I'm trying to track down two seventeenth-century single-sheet printed broadsides. I'd be very grateful to connect. Thanks! #earlymodern

Aven@avensarah.bsky.social · 4d ago

I took my 5-yr-old niece to the 🇨🇦 Museum of Nature today. The special exhibit is “Wild Colours” which seems really neat, but she only wanted to look at the bugs and the dinosaurs. So I just took pictures of cool things in the gift shop, in honour of our recent episode with @korystamper.bsky.social

A round container labeled “Cavallinin& co. Color chart vintage puzzle” and “natural system of colours”, with an image of a circular spectrum of colours.Blue book with the title “Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours adapted to Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Anatomy, and the Arts” by P. Syme. There are a series of coloured squares on a banner across the book, with the caption “The book Charles Darwin used to describe colours in nature on his HMS Beagle voyage”A tote bag with a series of circles displaying the colour spectrum, with the title The Chromatic Scale of colors A book with paint swatches of colour and the title A Field Guide to Color, a watercolor workbook, Lisa Solomon
Aven@avensarah.bsky.social · 6d ago

New podcast episode! We talked to Kory Stamper, lexicographer and author, about the unexpectedly gripping story of the struggle to define colours. One of my favourite recent reads! www.alliterative.net/podcast/2026...

Episode 126: True Color, with Kory Stamper — The Endless Knot

We talked to Kory Stamper, lexicographer and author, about the unexpectedly gripping story of the struggle to define colours and wrestle the kaleidoscope of our social, scientific, artistic, sartorial...

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Aven@avensarah.bsky.social · 2w ago

We haven't had a chance to see the new movie yet, but for anyone looking for more Odyssey content (if there isn't enough out there already!) we interviewed Emily Wilson about her translation when it first came out, on our podcast. www.alliterative.net/podcast/2017...

Episode 50: Translating the Odyssey, with Emily Wilson — The Endless Knot

We interview Emily Wilson, whose new translation of the Odyssey for Norton was published in November to great acclaim and critical praise. She tells us about some of her choices in the areas of metr...

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Aven@avensarah.bsky.social · 3w ago

I played the physical version of this game with my Latin classes back when I was teaching and it was lots of fun, so I recommend checking this out!

Kevin Ballestrini@kballestrini.bsky.social · 3w ago

Earlier this summer we brought the Latin version of VERBA online; web-based, free to use -- verba-game.com We're excited to soft-open the English version (for ML learners) and French. Spanish *will* follow, but it's a matter of being cautious and conservative with scale.

Pontifacts: Ranking the Popes@pontifactspod.bsky.social · 3w ago

We are over halfway booked, but there is still time to join us for the Pontifacts tour of Italy in 2027! Sign up now with just a down payment, and Celeste will work with whatever payment schedule you require!! celeste.wetravel.com/i/69fc95965e...

Pontifacts: The Road to Papacy

A cultural itinerary and historical deep dive with the Podcaster Fry and Bry. A tour through Rome, Viterbo, Orvieto and Florence, discovering the roots of early Christianity, the splendor of the Rena...

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Pontifacts: Ranking the Popes@pontifactspod.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 Join us for the PONTIFACTS TOUR OF ITALY! Jan 30 - Feb 7, 2027 9 days across Rome, Viterbo, Orvieto, and Florence! See the major papal basilicas and crypts, attend a papal audience, spend a night in a monastery, visit the most spectacular museums in Italy, and more! tinyurl.com/pontifactstour

Aven@avensarah.bsky.social · 4w ago

OMG. Overturning the yellow, sure, fair. But to call that diving when nothing else has been called? To give their star a red? That is EXTREME, and I can’t believe they’d have ever done that to Argentina or another team. #WorldCup

Aven@avensarah.bsky.social · 4w ago

@helenzaltzman.bsky.social Just listened to your fanfic ep (Draculae IV) and was heartened to hear you say you had no urge to write fanfic. I’ve never had the urge either, and sometimes felt like the only person out there who just likes reading/listening to/consuming art! 🤣 l

Aven@avensarah.bsky.social · last mo.

Ester has always been a very affectionate cat, but as she reaches her 15th year she’s become even more snuggly (an unkind person would say clingy). I can’t sit down without her finding a way to sit on/with me, even on a hot summer afternoon. ❤️

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Aven@avensarah.bsky.social · last mo.

Ah well. It was, indeed, a very fun game to watch. I really thought we had a chance after the opening 15 minutes, but coming out of that great half without a goal did, in the end, come back to bite us. But a spectacular run through the tournament, congrats to the whole team. 🇨🇦