Caustic Cover Critic

causticcovercritic.bsky.social

22 October 2026 06:57

So I was expecting the bear, but not so much the dildos. ([me, reading this] I guess this had a different meaning back then? [checks] oh, it didn't, righto)

Brían Hanrahan

hanrahanistan.bsky.social

22 October 2026 06:53

could be! must brush up on my Etruscan 😅 lovely to see those strange old letters in my feed 🙏🙏

Toscha 🍂

poemless.bsky.social

22 October 2026 06:52

Choosing to believe it's from fen: fen, swamp, moat, mud & estre: to be (in) because that's what would happen if you leaned out of that gaping hole in the wall before the invention of glass windows.

Paul Connolly

thepaulconnolly.bsky.social

21 October 2026 17:23

Intrigued by this thought, Brían, I looked in the OED and got an Old Norse etymology for window of vindr [wind] + auga [eye] which creates an ambiguity. Is that the eye, as in eye(hole), through which the wind comes, or the eye that looks upon the wind?

Brían Hanrahan

hanrahanistan.bsky.social

21 October 2026 17:22

both "window" (EN) and "ventana" (ES) are named after the air that circulates through the wall-opening, not for the possibility of seeing through it Obvious Things That Only Now Occur to Me (a long & continuing series)