Meinir Rhos

@rhosmeinir.bsky.social

Mid-30s multifandom menace | Writing things that make you feel since 2003 | GO, Dr Who, OFMD, HH/HB, Tolkien, etc. | she/elle/hi/sí | hashtag PhDlife Author of Among the Stacks, Avē Imperātor, & other things you might enjoy 👇🏻 https://linktr.ee/meinirrhos

okay while we’re all having a great time dunking on Ed Sheeran, and don’t let me stop you, but I just wanna pop in quickly and remind everyone that the “redheads don’t have souls” thing comes directly from medieval antisemitism, like directly, so let’s give that a miss. okay carry on

On the train home from holiday reading a draft of a play about Gráinne Ní Mháille, written by a former academic supervisor turned friend and colleague, which I’ve been asked to give feedback on due to my peculiar confluence of expertises. I have made correct life choices 😂😍

Periodic Fringe proof of life update: -14 days -32 reviews -1 feature -20,678 words -current backlog: still 7, but a different 7 This update brought to you by the 4.5 hour ‘I, Claudius’ adaptation I just watched that has 19 cast members playing up to 9 characters each.

One time I was working in the gallery of Duke Humfrey’s and a bat flew by and I had no idea what to do and didn’t want to leave my desk so I @‘d the Bodleian and ten minutes later I saw a porter sprint past, out of breath, with a butterfly net

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 4w ago

Museums pro tip: Want to know if there's a bat flying around your galleries? Simply listen to all the visitors saying "there is a bat flying around the galleries."

"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

nytimes.com

The Fringe really is a test of ‘not everything I write has to be my absolute best work.’ We’re 10 days in, I’ve reviewed 24 shows for a total of 14,280 words, and I have a backlog of 7 shows still to write up on my “day off” tomorrow 😂😅