Dr Amanda Brunton

@amandycat.bsky.social

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Lover of early modern drama, PhD on early modern epitaphs in manuscripts. Chicken wrangler. she/her

Amanda and her nan are wearing colourful party hats, and Amanda has a big birthday rosette pinned to her dress. Just at the edge of shot is a birthday cake with candles lit, and they are both holding glasses of fizzy wine. Most importantly, it's a candid photo where they are both laughing - not in a pretty and photogenic way. The sort of laugh where you snort a bit like a pig, or (in nan's case) your false teeth are in extreme danger of coming flying out.
A selfie of Amanda setting off in her bright green kayak. She's wearing red lipstick, a peaked cap with a rainbow on it, and headphones. The photo is taken at a high angle so you can see the boat
Amanda stands outside a polling station with her dog Lenny. Lenny is a yellow labrador, and he is sitting patiently by the sign.
Three pairs of irregular choice shoes lined up. The leftmost is a red pair of mid height heels, with bows at the toes and an ankle strap. The middle pair are an ABSURDLY high pair of heels with embroidered detail. The rightmost pair are black shiny shoes with spats, and a decently high heel.
Lenny, a yellow labrador looks at the camera with his mouth open in a big goofy smile. He is on a green meadow where he has been running around like an idiot.
A stack of books by Patrick Ness on a train table. The original Chaos Walking trilogy, as well as the new book, 'Piper at the Gates of Dusk'.
A screenshot of the name of a group chat called 'Book club (fuck Todd). The latest message in the group chat mentions that 'There's been a lot of questions about Manchee' (Manchee is Todd's dog), to which Chris has responded with a crying emoji.
A selfie of Amanda with a small chick perched on top of her head. The chick is called Mayhem, and she is about 3 weeks old here. She has fluffed her feathers up, tucked her head to her chest, and gone to sleep on Amanda's head.
A waste disposal van labelled 'whole man disposal services'. Falling out the back of the van are several iconographic depictions of men (like the ones on toilet doors). Underneath, it says in quotation marks and all caps, "YES, THE ENTIRE MAN."
Lenny, a yellow labrador looks sleepily into the camera. He is swaddled in a pile of blankets and is upside down.
Two young people pose by a huge sign saying 'The University of Sheffield'. They stand close together, smiling.
Lenny, a yellow labrador, sits patiently in front of his food bowl. In the food bowl is a pancake smeared with peanut butter and topped with Brussels sprouts
A table piled with pancakes and lots of toppings
Lenny, a yellow labrador, sits in front of his food bowl looking attentively at the camera. Pay no attention to the bits of toy stuffing all over the carpet, he doesn't know how they got there or why his toy has no stuffing in it. In his bowl is a pancake covered in peanut butter and Brussels sprouts.
A lino print of a tin mine in Cornwall, freshly printed. Behind it is a carved block of some swifts, as-yet uninked. A red glass baren with swirling patterns is visible behind the print.
A screenshot of twitter. The original tweet says 'They traffic them, they rape them, they torture them, they drop chemical weapons on them, they murder them, they starve them, they burn them alive, they harvest their organs and they maybe even eat them.'. The comment from Dr MRO says 'And then they call you "antisemitic" for pointing all this out'
A 1960s Bang and Olufson record player on a table - the table is covered with a brightly coloured striped tablecloth. There are a few part parts sitting around it, and a copy of Phantom of the Opera sits in front of it.
Lenny, a yellow labrador, is on the beach. He is staring intently between a bright orange ball and the human taking the photo, in a real 'ready to go' pose. It is anyone's guess what he wants.
Lenny, a yellow labrador, stares at the camera with a worried expression, looking ready to run. He is on a sandy beach, and in front of him is a sand-covered orange ball. What does he want? Who can say
Lenny, a yellow labrador, stands on a shingly beach at low tide, the sun is just setting. Between his feet is an orange and blue ball, and he has an expectant expression
British 90s TV programme, Tots TV. Three rag dolls stand alongside a red car. One has blue hair and glasses. One has green hair and a green cardigan. The other has red hair and a red shirt.
Graphic in pinks, green and black on a wavy squared-paper background. Text reads: "it's a TLC Twofer!!! both!! classic!!!!! Sympathetic Tailor x Plant Swap. 22nd November, 1-5pm, Lichfield Community Hall, Cherry Hinton. Get yer garms fitted for free AND take home a new plant for your hoard!" There are black & white photos of an old-fashioned sewing machine and a potted succulent.
Lenny, a yellow labrador, looks at the camera with a cheerful expression and a large hide chew hanging out of one side of his mouth. His tail is a blur as it is wagging very hard. Lenny has never had a thought in his life.
A WhatsApp conversation as follows: [begin transcript] Her: Were medieval/early modern fandoms a thing Me: Wtf else do you think saints are for Her: Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Did they have fandom fights like my saint is cooler than your saint BITCH Me: Idk but I know some friends who would know [End of transcript] Historian nerd friends of mine, what do we think?
A huge pile of seaglass, organised by colour. It is mostly white, green, brown and turquoise, but there are a few rarer colours too - some tiny fragments of dark blue, some yellows, and a salmon-coloured piece. Next to it are piles of cool shells and worn pottery pieces.
Amanda walks along a sunny seashore in Cornwall. The waves are breaking and it's clearly windy from the haze at the top of the waves. The sand is smooth and a beautiful yellow. She's wearing a jaunty colourful baseball cap, and carrying her flip-flops. Most importantly, there is a yellow labrador at her side, looking lovingly up at her as they walk along the beach together.
Amanda and Chris are at a picnic with their dog Lenny. Amanda has her hair in two French braids and is wearing red lipstick. Chris is wearing rainbow stripes dungarees. Lenny is a yellow labrador, and he is draped across Chris' legs. He is mid-way through licking his nose so his tongue sticks out a little. Everyone looks like they are having the best time!
A table covered in lino printing supplies. A block depicting a sea shore is inked up ready for printing, with sandy coloured ink in a gradient down into a deep sea-blue. The ink is rolled out on a glass sheet next to it, with the roller covered in ink, and little blobs of various colours of ink used for mixing up at the top. A red blown-glass printing baren with red swirls rests on the table, and two completed prints are drying in the background. It is night, and the table is illuminated with the cosy glow of a desk lamp.
A screenshot of the first post from a series of slides on instagram, advertising a makers' market. The advert is on a hot pink background with borders and blocky uppercase text, with flecking like a low-quality print-out. It reads "Cambridge Alternative Pride. Makers' Market: meet the vendors. 23rd August, 2-5pm, the Blue Moon. Swipe to view the wares." The TLC logo, the anarchy circle-A inside a trans symbol with the group name round the edge, is in the top right corner. The instagram post with the remaining slides is linked in the post.
An advert for the variety show. It has a black background and cyan, white and magenta blocky text. In the centre, diagonally across the rectangle, it reads Cambridge Alternative Pride VARIETY SHOW in a loopy, neon-light-like font. Around this, a pink star orbits. Above and below this tile, it says "chaos! drag! frolics! songs! poems!" randomly scattered about the image. At the bottom, it reads 15th of August, NCI Centre, Cambridge CB4 3DL. 8 - 11pm - Doors at 7.30.
Amanda stands in front of a polling station sign in the sunshine with a yellow labrador sitting next to her. She is wearing a colourful cotton dress. Lenny the labrador is wearing a red collar. He has a facial expression suggesting he has never once been troubled by actual thoughts.
Trans coffee social - Sunday 20th April, 2.30pm @ Thrive, Norfolk Street Join us for coffee on the patio of Thrive. Please take a covid test before coming if possible, and don't come along if you feel ill in ways that are unusual. [Note - below info is now out of date as this is fully funded. I will instead provide links to the other fundraisers we are directing people to] Calling Cis Comrades! Feel like trans people deserve a little treat right now? Got a couple of quid spare? You can cover a trans person's tea, coffee or cake at this social. Any leftover funds will go to FiveforFive, to be split between transfem causes. http://fiveforfive.co.uk Trans Liberation Cambridge donations: https://opencollective.com/tlc
Lenny, a yellow Labrador looks at the camera with a delighted expression. He is absolutely covered head to toe in rancid black water which mainly consists of fermented cow shit. Be grateful you cannot smell video. As Amanda is 'interviewing' Lenny about whether he regrets this decision, he looks at her with intrigued head tilts, until all of a sudden, he bolts into the distance. His bestie, a greyhound named Roscoe, has decided that he too would like to be covered in rotten-cow-shit-water, and they both take off at speed. Roscoe's human yells after him in the manner of everyone's favourite menace of a dog Fenton. Both dogs are now filthy. A good time was had by all. (That's a lie. It was revolting.)
Lenny, a yellow Labrador, lies upside down on the couch. The photo is a close up of his goofy upside down face. He is surrounded by a selection of brightly coloured pillows and hot water bottles and is covered by a pokémon blanket. He looks supremely pleased with himself
Lenny, a yellow Labrador, is laid down atop a pile of couch cushions, bundled tightly in a colourful pokemon blanket. His Kong (a red rubber chew toy) is placed on the pillow next to him in case he needs it in the night. While the blankets and pillows are the work of his human butlers, he put the Kong there himself.
Lily, a cream legbar hen, struts around in a chicken coop while Domino, a black and white hen, watches on from the edge of the picture.
Lily Savage, a cream lebar hen, stands on a towel in the bottom of a shower. She has food plastered all over her beak and is staring at the camera as if to say 'so what'
Lily Savage, a cream legbar hen, stands on a towel in the bottom of a shower cubicle. She is a bit hunched up and looks cranky.
A metal bearing held next to a tape measure. It's about 9mm.
Roscoe, a leggy greyhound, gently licks at a cup of whipped cream held out to him. Meanwhile Lenny, a labrador, frantically rolls his cup across the floor, hoovering down cream in a huge mess.
Two dogs stand between people’s legs on a crowded train. Lenny, a yellow labrador with oversized ears looks up at the camera with a bemused expression. His friend Roscoe, a red greyhound, stands above him with his mouth open and tongue out as if he is laughing. They are absurdly cute.
Lenny, a yellow labrador, lays upside down looking at the camera with a very goofy expression. Where he is upside down, his ears have flipped back and he's having to look down his nose at the camera, making him a little cross eyed. This isn't his intelligent face (does he have one? Jury is out) but he sure is cute.
A square swatch of knitting, pinned into place. It is a deep teal, with a fair isle contrast colour pattern in shades of orange like autumn leaves.
A close up of purple acrylic yarn, showing how it is plied together.
A closeup picture of some mint green yarn, showing how it is comprised of multiple strands plied together
A carved pumpkin is on the doorstep - it is fairly intricately carved with a wide smile, huge eyes, and sharp teeth. Details have been cut into it so that they glow, rather than cutting all the way through the pumpkin. In the background a yellow labrador stands in the doorway, sniffing the misty autumn air.
Lenny, a yellow labrador, is still curled in his bed but now alert, head up, and ears pricked up.
Lenny, a yellow labrador, snoozes deeply in a round fleecy bed. His head is tucked right in, and just one ear flips out over the top of the bed. If photographs had sound, this one would be emitting steady snores.
Lenny, a yellow labrador, is running around with Roscoe, a faun coloured greyhound. Roscoe has his back to the camera and is quietly plodding along, Lenny meanwhile, had crashed into Roscoe mid-zoomies, and wears an expression of utter surprise as he runs face first into greyhound butt.
Bella, a very fluffy black and white dog, looks at Amanda's lap, which is full of colourful crochet polygons. She has a mouth-open smile and an eager expression on her fluffy little face. Alas, lacking thumbs, she is not much use in this endeavour.
Lenny, a yellow labrador, stands on a blue tarpaulin covered in a huge pile of green and red apples.
The back of a terraced house at night. There is a lean-to on the back covering a patio, it is roofed with a mature grapevine, with fairy lights entwined in it. Sitting just at the end of a patio is a small fluffy black and white dog. The house is brightly lit, and a woman is washing up at the kitchen window. Long shadows are cast by flowerpots at the end of the patio, and outside of the lean-to is darkness. The warm glow of the house is gentle and inviting.
Amanda sits beneath a behemoth of a beech tree with her yellow labrador, Lenny. Amanda is smiling at the camera, and so is the dog! The beech tree is over 230 years old, and it would take several people holding hands to reach around the trunk. It has grown with a pronounced 'candy cane' twist in the trunk, and looks like something out of a fairy tale. It is a sunny day, but the filtered light of the massive canopy gives everything a gentle green cast, with one bright golden beam of sunlight shining on Amanda and Lenny like a spotlight.
An inked up lino block of a heron standing in the reeds sits alongside a finished print. Also on the bench is a red swirled glass printing baren, it looks like a paperweight with a handle.
Lenny, a yellow labrador, is bundled in a duvet like a burrito with just his head sticking out. One ear is inside out. He looks sleepy and content. That's because he *is* sleepy and content.
The aurora borealis, with the silhouette of a tree in the foreground. A few stars are visible. The aurora is green towards the bottom of the frame, shading into a deep pink towards the top of the frame, with little streaks of hazy blue. There are distinct, clear streaks of light.
Lenny, a yellow labrador, sleeps on a blue blanket curled in a ball
Lenny, a yellow labrador lays on his back. His eyes are shut and his ears are flipped back, his mouth looks like it's smiling. He has a little bit of a snaggletooth.
Bella, a fluffy black and white collie/sheltie cross, snoozes in front of an armchair.
Lenny, a one year old yellow lab, sleeps on a blanket on the couch surrounded by cushions and with his nose buried in his harness - presumably dreaming of walkies.