Gem🌈
@_GemK_
Aspiring mad woman in the attic | she/her
the woodland post office is hopping this time of year
The week I was accepted to Edinburgh vs graduation day ! Very grateful to have spent four years learning about medieval leprosy, the many mad women of Scottish literature, and the value of a drastic haircut 📖💫🌈


Unsure if I enjoy living in the Scottish countryside despite or because of the fact that my route home is routinely blocked by a herd of cows

“What a glorious day to be learning an Edwardian fibre art” - Asha, in an accent much posher than mine


✨️🌿💚🪻🐦1/2. We are thrilled to announce the release of our beautifully crafted digital pamphlet accompanying the exhibition now open at Museum of Edinburgh! @EdinCulture blogs.ed.ac.uk/selcie/2025/04…
Was great to go to the launch of the @_SELCIE_ Nurture through Nature exhibition today! Teeny Gem would be pretty chuffed to see her fairy-hunting endeavours displayed in a museum 📚🧚♀️


Should be focusing on essays but am instead thinking about this sixteenth-century Dr Seuss character I saw the other day

No weather warning is severe enough to get in the way of Scottish Lit Christmas 🕯️📚 @naiwallace



🌿CFP for a special journal issue of Scottish Literary Review @scotlit, entitled 'Cultures of Care in Scottish Women's Writing', edited by @SarahDunnigan1 and me. Please send abstracts for consideration by 30 January 2025. Full details below.🌿
holding space for defying gravity at our thanksgiving table this year
Gothic doubles < Cath’s salt dough portraits @naiwallace @ilovemrdarcy354



