Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch

@troynovaunt

she/her. English literature, medievalist, singer in the band, recovering indoor cat. In both research and life, resisting being reductive about religion. I don’t speak for my institution, and it doesn’t speak for me. Expect posts about academic freedom.

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Jul 10

But I’ve just explained to him that we’re going to tax billionaires till he can’t afford one

Orange cat leaning on a windowsill with his front legs stretched out looking intently at something outside (but a silly anthropomorphizing human could say he looks distantly alarmed)

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Jul 10

My cat is thinking about buying a boat

Ginger car sitting like a person on top of a radiator, with his front legs stretched out on the windowsill

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Jul 7

Nathan Fielder just out of frame laughing too meme

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Jul 3

In 👏 this 👏 house We are confined to one temp-controlled room like Mr Freeze

Mr Freeze from Batman the Animated Series holding a snow globe with a girl in it who I think is supposed to represent his wife?

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Jun 26

All shall love me and despair

Political alignment quiz results: I got Zohran Mamdani

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Jun 18

Things never seem to get less stupid, please enjoy my dog at the beach

Smiling sandy black pig mix sitting up under a pink sheet rigged up as a tent between two beach chairs with the ocean in the background

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Jun 5

The mom from moonstruck saying “thank you for answering my question”

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Jun 4

Cover of the children’s book Ghosts Don’t Eat Potato Chips

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· May 25

The encyclical seems great, and I’m looking forward to reading it in full with my scholar hat on, but meanwhile I made a meme for anyone else who was anywhere near a Catholic campus in the early 2000s and feels like they’re having an out of body experience right now

Muscular Hand clasping meme. The two guys are “campus ministry Facebook page in 2005” and “bluesky in 2026” and they’re coming together over “wall to wall quotes from a papal encyclical”

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· May 24

Read theory

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· May 22

Folded up altarpiece of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights showing the crystalline sphere of the moon enclosing the earth

Right panel of Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights showing infernal horrors man wots not

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· May 22

I’m not making any claims about what is or isn’t necessary when training an AI, but this passage made me realize how thoroughly my sympathies are with the Christian existentialists who I think would say this is completely backward.

“It’s very much a virtue ethics perspective,” Green said, “which is trying to train the AI into some sort of moral decision-making process, where it identifies as being a good decision maker, and then, based on the fact that it identifies as a good decision-maker, it then tries to make good decisions.”

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· May 11

OK, let’s give this a try finally

Old copy of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· May 1

Update: when the dog has suddenly walked by

Long haired cat sitting up with his tail wrapped around himself and ears akimbo, looking confused

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· May 1

Sometimes I struggle to wrap my head around how thoroughly he’s not thinking about anything

Long haired ginger cat with a vacant expression loafing on a blue rug

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· May 1

Look I am not AT ALL happy about the Maine senate situation but a lot more of us for our own sanity’s sake could stand to realize we don’t live in Maine

Happy sad guys in tunnel meme. The sad guy is labeled “you, a democrat who doesn’t live in Maine” and the happy guy is labeled “me, a democrat who also doesn’t live in Maine”

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Apr 27

No no no, it’s cool, I’m pretty sure it’s all in Dante

Yates Thompson Dante manuscript. Beatrice and Dante in paradise talking to an eagle made of human souls in the sphere of Jupiter

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Apr 10

Cat has “buried” his food too effectively and now both he and the dog are flummoxed

Ginger cat and brown/black dog standing over a rug that has been folded in half over a food dish

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Apr 9

I feel I am about to get my annual review

Ginger cat looking mildly reproachful with his front legs folded in front of him

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Apr 7

Because we’re going to need every person of good will with a moral compass for the peaceful rebuilding of our democracy

Peaky Blinders “no fighting” meme, with the captions “no posting that you can go to jail over / no fucking posting that you can go to jail over”

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Mar 25

I don’t think Harry Potter is comparable to Guernica

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Mar 14

He can’t read

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Mar 5

Twin Peaks title card but it says “say yes to the dress”

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Mar 1

Yakko from animaniacs drinking coffee and looking depressed as he reads something off a phone or tablet

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Feb 28

My dog and I are both worriers with jobs to do, endlessly watchful and preparing for the next catastrophe, but Carrot’s simplicity lets him be present to the world unconditioned by many expectations and able to enjoy his moments (except those that include vacuums). So you tell me who is smarter.

Long haired ginger cat and black/brown medium dog with an orange collar, both lying in the sun on a blue Persian rug facing away from the camera. The dog is alert with perked ears looking watchful, the cat is resting his head on the dog’s left front leg.

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Feb 28

Everything is horrible but I’m working hard to make the world better so please indulge me as I also take a moment to reflect on my orange cat Carrot. 🥕 (yes, he is named for Capt Carrot of the City Watch bc he has a job to do which is to kill mice)

Long haired ginger cat with a round face sitting on a radiator next to a fern

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Feb 24

The vibe

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Feb 23

He sits here to keep the dog from going outside because he does not approve of it

Long haired ginger cat lying on the ground in front of french doors

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Feb 14

I’m just saying

Dore engraving illustrating Canto 33/34 of Dante’s Inferno. A giant leather winged satan is frozen at the waste in ice with other human sized soils frozen in the ice around him. He is chewing on three human soils and looks like he’s leaning on his elbows on the ice.

Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch@troynovaunt· Feb 11

Gonna tell my Dante students this is Geryon