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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
@greenleejw.bsky.social
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You screw the back into your helmet, obviously. It’s both effective and portable
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD@greenleejw.bsky.social |
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Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval history. Talking about eels, maps, the Spaniel, and funny things kids say.
Custom maps on commission:
surprisedeelmaps.com/
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
@greenleejw.bsky.social
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You screw the back into your helmet, obviously. It’s both effective and portable
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
@greenleejw.bsky.social
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That’s authentically fake, to be sure
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Back when you could bribe voters with an eel-tax holiday
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
@greenleejw.bsky.social
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Yup
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Sigh. You’re right
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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It’s England that has the very pronounced historical eel culture, much more so than the rest of Britain. Hence the wording
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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I'm sure he would have! There's no evidence of jellied eels before the late 19th C., though. There *could* have been. Medieval people knew how to jelly things. But they don't appear in the historical record at all.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Recently. But that's likely just in the last 150 years or so.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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For my friends in England, it's election day! Happy voting to you all. Just remember: you have a long and proud history as a people who really fucking loved eels. Remember that, when you cast your vote. What would the eels want you to do? 🗃️🧪
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Oh, yeah
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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I love the desert.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Worth it
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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This is a hell of a thing to wake up to
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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It’s like teaching. Start with your learning outcomes — what do you want the interviewer to take away from the conversation — and make sure your answers steer towards those goals.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Thank you. I was inspired
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Ha!
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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I'm sayin...
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
@greenleejw.bsky.social
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Your perception isn't slipping! He surely left me sauce for dipping.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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I've written a ballad about the experience, because such an event requires original doggerel.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
@greenleejw.bsky.social
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I’m up to the challenge
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Curses!
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
@greenleejw.bsky.social
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I just adopted a plate full of chicken nuggets. I’m at a coffee shop & there was a family eating dinner from Wendy’s on the patio by me. They had to go, and couldn’t carry their leftovers home on their ATVs. So now I’m the proud parent of 9, no…8. No, wait…7 nuggets.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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That's not pickles...
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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An autopsy? Can't we just assume Old Age as the cause of death by now?
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
@greenleejw.bsky.social
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There aren't any rivers on the map, which makes it harder for the eels to show up at all
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
@greenleejw.bsky.social
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My other favorite map that I've drawn this month: this one is for a fantasy world that my client uses as a base for their writing. Before you ask: an invisible barrier stands between the verdant south and the black sand desert of the north, cutting a sharp line across the world.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
@greenleejw.bsky.social
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The Horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound once more as a beep
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Shadowfax, ford of all horses
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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I don’t know! I haven’t read it
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David M. Perry
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it is, according to the folks I've read, the only place on the planet with precisely this kind of crater. and of course there's a major battle fought there.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
@greenleejw.bsky.social
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Right? I hadn't know about it before, either
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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It's been a quite mapsome month, and I thought I'd share one of my favorites that I've done. This is a map of The Nördlinger Ries impact crater, for @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social 's forthcoming book, "Oathbreakers."
It's the first time I've drawn a topographical map like this.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Fishing, of course! It is, tbf, harder now than it used to be
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
@greenleejw.bsky.social
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The origin of the term isn’t chest, but my best understanding is that 25 eels was probably about s as many eels as you could thread on a stick for smoking (mostly eel-rents were paid in smoked eels). And over time that became a standard unit.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Not at all!!
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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It is. She did a great job
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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It's fine. It's just a medievalist's reflex. Flung rhetoric aside, I'm very much with you
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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But I thought you valued expertise, no? And despaired at uninformed people making judgements about things they don’t understand? Perhaps I misunderstood.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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As soon as you delve into it
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Public policy set by “I did my own research” judges. Fuck.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Thanks!
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Thank you!
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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That’s a good article. She did a nice job. It was a thing! A big part of my doctoral dissertation involved pulling that story together
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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My man...medieval thinkers were generally *way* better at this sort of thing than modern jurists.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Eel-rents in medieval England became less common over the centuries, but didn't completely disappear for a long time. In 1572, for example, Gilbert Attwell rented a water mill in Brambridge from the High Sheriff of Hampshire for 41s 6d each year, as well as 125 eels (5 sticks). 🗃️🧪
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Or a historian, fwiw
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Gotta keep labor in place, and let money travel seamlessly. That’s the goal.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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Thank you!
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
@greenleejw.bsky.social
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You can’t forget things from Home Depot if you don’t go.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
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NICE
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