Maria Damkjær
@mdamkjaer
Dr.Dr. (no, really!) Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now
Colby keynote #rsvp2026 🥰 Teja Varma Pusapati and Andrew Lewis in conversation!
I have made it to Dublin for #rsvp2026, and I have successfully located and sampled some biang biang noodles
Kick-off of ‘Fantasy’s Present Pasts’, the inaugural European Fantasy conference! It will be a warm day in Glasgow but I will be indoor all day
Hey, watch Rivals, won’t you? Some episodes of S2 are truly spectacular, and I want them to keep making it (ep2 and ep6 are my favourites so far)
Today I have successfully* sewn in knitting for the first time. *When I attempted this over Easter, my mum’s sewing machine pedal set itself on fire
I love the glee with which @annleckie.com repeats the phrase ’crunchy worm bits’
I did a scarf like this but with scrap yarn. The weaving of ends was hellish, but it did turn out lovely
At the National Library of Finland and I found the periodicals in the gorgeous colonnade hall!
I baked some cakes for my department colleagues today - first fika in the flat!
The tall building is the Steam Hotel, an old power station turned destination hotel
I’ll lose my sunsets in the summer behind the neighbouring building, so I have to enjoy them now
I’m only on the second floor but there’s a big empty lot in the back and my house is on an incline
For at least part of the year, my flat in Västerås has a spectacular evening sky
I should start a thread of sunsets; for the first time in my life, I now live in a sunset flat
You can’t tell me there isn’t an environmental puzzle that unlocks this gate, and then when you touch the lil’ tower it shoots up 50 metres and unlocks a portion of the map