Jillianne Hamilton

@jilly

Author of Delightful Historical Romance + Fiction: arts shill by day • bookworm • costume dramas enthusiast • millennial History, theatre, crafts, cozy games, hobbits + bad jokes • she/her 🇨🇦 Epekwitk

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Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· 29d

My fav Sam Neill TikTok. Enjoy. 🐝

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Jul 5

🎮 Cozy game review: WAX HEADS #CozyGames #CozyGamers #CosyGames

WAX HEADS IS A NARRATIVE COZY GAME WHERE YOU WORK AT A STRUGGLING RECORD STORE.
THE GAME IS PUNK, IT'S QUEER, ITS SOUNDTRACK IS SHOCKINGLY AWESOME, AND IT MADE ME CARE.

Three characters from the game: one is a middle-aged guy with wide shoulders and whiskers, another is a woman with grey hair and the third is a young queer woman saying “(REALLY CUTE girl behind me, okay?)”

WAX HEADS is a narrative cozy game where you play as an employee at a struggling record store called Repeater Records, owned by a former 80s rock legend. You help customers pick out albums depending on their requests and do various little puzzles. The game is punk and queer and wonderful. It’s vocally anti-AI—it’s even a part of the storyline. I adore the comic bookish art style. (I might just be a sucker for anything hand-drawn.) The soundtrack is legitimately great. Like, shockingly so. The banter between the employees at the store is laugh-out-loud funny.

This game made me want to get emotionally invested in music again—I haven’t felt that way in years. (I got a tattoo of headphones inside my right wrist when I was in college because music was a big part of my life then. Not so much anymore.) It also made me want to finally make a zine, something I’ve never tried but always kind of thought I was too old to do— which is really silly, I know.

Yeah, Wax Heads is really great, big fan. I played it on the Nintendo Switch 2 but I believe it’s available on all major consoles. It was released in early May 2026. And I can’t believe more cozy gamers aren’t talking about it.

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Jul 4

weird-looking boat but ok

As for Viking Cruises: “You could win and 9-day Viking voyage for 2” with a photo of a vaguely European looking dessert — a raspberry tart thing and a lemon pie thing I think on a floral plate

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Jul 3

girl, same.

A screenshot from Wax Heads (Switch game) featuring an illustration of a guy with wild red hair standing at the counter of a record store: “Gelk Man (influencer): (I’m bloody 38 years old, and I wanna nap!)”

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Jun 27

can we fkn not

Kelsey Grammar wearing a t-shirt that says “would it bother us more if they used guns?”

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Jun 21

Just finished this DEEEEELIGHTFUL contemporary romance. Looooved it. Retelling of You’ve Got Mail, enemies to friends to lovers, reverse grumpy sunshine, bookworm leads. Laugh-out-loud funny, touching, amusingly self-aware. I definitely need more bookstore romances now. #romancelandia #booksky

Battle of the Bookstores by Ali Brady - cartoonish illustrative book cover featuring two bookstores on a street and the romantic leads standing back to back holding books.

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Jun 14

Yes. That sounds truly horrendous. Can you imagine just a debacle? #history (Excerpt from Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything that hit a little too close to home)

Lincoln, to his credit, seemed to recognize that the blue mass [mercury tablet] might be making him worse rather than better, and he apparently decreased his use once he entered the White House. And not a moment too soon. One shudders to imagine a mercury-toxic, pathologically moody leader of our nation calling the shots during the Civil War.

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Jun 13

It’s giving

The Master of Laketown and Alfrid the deputy in The Hobbit trilogy

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Jun 11

I have watched the WISHBONE documentary. Suddenly revisiting my previous idea of getting a Wishbone/Odysseus tattoo. Side note for Christopher Nolan specifically: notice how Wishbone isn’t wearing pants? THAT’S HOW THE GREEKS DID IT.

Wishbone in his Greek Odysseus outfit, looking very stoic

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Jun 6

same font

A graphic showing a book title in a classic serif font but the bottom part of the lower part of the lowercase e in "dress" and "Europe" is stretched out with a hook at the end of the ligature

James William Bottomtooth III from Family Guy

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Jun 2

frig, now I’m worried he did something terrible. I should have checked.

Bo Burnham sings “straight white man” through gritted teeth

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Jun 1

This portrait was done when powdered wigs were the norm. I loooove that this young man with his glorious locks was like "NO. I DON'T NEED YOUR BULLSHIT POWDERED WIG, SIR. LOOK AT THIS MANE. LOOK. AT. IT. WHY WOULD I COVER THESE PERFECT TRESSES?" #history

1789 portrait of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, age 17 - he is wearing a very nice brown jacket with a very high collar. His cravat is a ruffle of white lace at his throat. He has fair skin, dark eyes and the most glorious mane of dark wavy hair I have ever seen in a man's portrait, especially in this period

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· May 31

I always serve my guests Fudge Bars on the heirloom bone china plates.

A No Name Club Size box of Fudge Bars (a Fudgcicle). In the picture, it has a bite out of it and it is laying on a small plate.

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· May 27

P is for penises. There are 93 penises depicted on the Bayeux tapestry.

A children’s book cover featuring a medieval solider on a horse’s back

The British
Museum
MY BAYEUX ABC
A Bayeux Tapestry
Alphabet
Book

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· May 25

Brennan Lee Mulligan saying “and then I bust in the waves” on Noise Boys

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· May 25

Posted 10 years ago. Oh, I thought I owned too many books THEN? Oh. Oh how naive I was. #booksky

Things I learned while moving
today:
1. I own too many books.
2. Books are heavy.
3. @ColbyGC doesn't actually own anything.

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· May 24

Dorothy to Scarecrow: “I think I’ll miss you most of all.” Lion and Tin Man: “the fuck”

Dorothy hugs Scarecrow goodbye at the end of The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· May 23

oh okay

The fire was not unexpected, according to SpaceX

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· May 17

gang, I have questions about the vehicle behind us

Photo taken of a rear view mirror from the front passenger seat. In it is a van behind the car. Buckled into the passenger seat of the van is a skeleton.

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· May 12

yeah, so, wanna fight about it #costumedramas

isabellaofparma
historical inaccuracies in period dramas are okay as long as i like them

isabellaofparma
they are, however, punishable by death if i don't

Two photos side by side: Kirsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette and then a screenshot from I wanna say Reign?

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· May 11

My dude, I am SO sorry.

A talking head in a historical show. He is looking very serious. His name plate says “Harry Potter — Barrister & Legal Historian”

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· May 5

I only buy furniture made by experts

GREAT VALUE
Big white chair
$1,623.98
Cindy Crawford Home
Kailyn 54" Fabric
Power Reclining Chair
Four and a half stars

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Apr 21

But she's driving and striving and hugging the turns And thinking of someone for whom she still CHURNS 🧈

An engraving of a woman in an apron and cap churning butter - Woman Churning Butter by Jean-François Millet

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Apr 16

May professional graphic designers never, ever doubt their value.

A hideous pile of AI-generated vomit for a Mrs. Roper-themed fundraiser??? It’s the busiest thing I’ve ever seen.

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Apr 6

I always thought Caroline of Brunswick should get a biopic. Now I’m 100% certain it’s a full-on crime if she doesn’t get a movie. This book is fun, it’s got intrigue and drama, Italian villas, and stars a baddie. Fantastic. Someone adapt this right the heck now. #booksky #history #nonfiction 💙📚

Rebel of the Regency by Ann Foster: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Apr 1

#booksky 📚💙

A text exchange between my husband and I:
He sent me a photo of his Word of the Day calendar, featuring the word “tsundoku” which is a Japanese word for letting unread books pile up.
I replied with “Why are you attacking me like this?”

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Mar 27

The best typo I’ve seen in a while

Email screenshot: Apologies for the infonveniendcfe.

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Mar 18

Nothing says “I care about you and the challenges you’re dealing with” like using a canned AI response from Gmail.

The bullshit AI magic pencil icon next to Suggestions. The first option underneath says “Sorry to hear that. Oh man, that is a lot for everyone to…” and there is another option next to it cut off.

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Mar 15

A *very* strong start for BBC’s new #JaneAusten adaptation, #TheOtherBennetSister. The Janice Hadlow novel was great, and this series seems like it could really be something great to add to the Austensphere. #costumedramas #perioddramas 📺 #historicalfiction

Cast photo of The Other Bennet Sister with Mary Bennet up front and her family behind her.

Jillianne Hamilton@jilly· Mar 9

This book was so good. Friggin’ traumatic but very good. #HistoricalFiction #HalifaxExplosion