H. Austin Whitver

@majikmouse.bsky.social

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Senior Instructor in English Lit at the University of Alabama. PhD in Early Modern Drama. Author of Tombs in Shakespearean Drama; Monumental Theater. Views are very much my own. I instablock any account that posts AI art. He / Him.

Norman Rockwell's 1943 oil painting "Freedom of Speech," used here as a meme to denote an unpopular opinion.
Trinity from The Matrix with a gun pointed to an offscreen agent's head, saying "Overturn this."
An "Oops! All berries" Cap'n Crunch box with the text "Oops! All Bangers"
Title page of John Weever’s Ancient Funeral Monuments within the United Monarchie of Great Britaine…
Opening of Jonson’s “To Penshurst” with the pagination at the bottom “Zzz 2”.
“To the reader” from Ben Jonson’s Workes. “Pray thee, take care, that tak’st my booke in hand, / To reade it well: that is, to understand.”
First Folio pagination at the bottom of Hamlet 1.3 looking a bit googly eyed (O o).
From 1 Henry VI, act 4, scene 1, with everyone talking over Talbot’s body.
Title page of Shakes’ Twelfth Night from the Newberry’s First folio.
Two bound quarto editions.
Picture of Newberry Library readers card and my computer with requests for Early Modern texts.
A crazy wall (a wall with dozens of items connected with red string, notorious for use by those embedded in conspiracy theories) from the show "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
Movie poster for MiB (Men in Black) with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith looking very 90s badass in sunglasses.
The poster image for "Pump Up the Volume" (1990), showing Christian Slater moodily looking at the camera, with the tag line "Talk hard. Steal the Air."
A tweet from Secretary of Defence, Self styled "Secretary of War" Hegseth, announcing that the flu vaccine will no longer be required for our armed forces.
Poster for "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga"
Bob, a Siamese cat, sleeping on my left arm as I try to type at my computer.
Image of the sunset through the trees in Alabama with bands of light blue and pink (and in the image a lot of orange that looks more pink in person).
Poster for Princess Mononoke.
Poster for 28 Days Later. All red, with orange eyes toward the top and a stencil looking lower section of a man walking across an abandoned London city scape.
Skippy (the most rambunctious of the kid rabbits in Disney's Robin Hood), wearing Robin's hat, brandishing a wooden sword, and calling out "Death to tyrants!"
Pictured, six filled grade books with date ranges on them running from Fall ‘06 to Fall ‘25.
Front page for the "Scorched Earth" video game that was pretty much a mainstay for me and my friends in the late 90s / early 00s.
My "Listening Age" according to Spotify Wrapped is 32, which is a good decade and a half less than my actual age.
Poster for The Muppet Christmas Carol.
My amateur bartending setup in a friend’s garage. Pictured: various alcohols, simple syrups, hot cider, Christmas lights, and a signpost in the background with drink options. Not pictured: the angsty music in the background.
Poster for the film Inception.
The sidewalk to the Rowand Johnson building at the University of Alabama. Eight Veo brand electric scooters are carelessly strewn across the area, making it difficult to pass. All this despite a nearly empty bike rack right there to the left.
Penny, looking intently at something as she shoots a laser from her awesome computer book.
Poster for Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Marshawn Lynch expressing the reason he is at a press conference, “I’m just here so I won’t get fined.”
Poster for the film "Pump up the Volume" with Christian Slater looking all pensive and edgy.
Poster for the film Heads of State.
Woodcut of Mary Frith smoking a pipe and holding a sword while giving a particularly intense stare right at the viewer.
Photo of a very sweaty bearded me at a roller rink with some solid glow paint in the background.
Poster for the Pixar film “Ratatouille”
A picture of me, age young (3-4 maybe?) under a blanket in an Eames chair eating cheetos and sipping from a sippy cup. I am also wearing the world's biggest headphones and looking off into the distance.
Poster for the film Coco.
Mon Mothma from the film Return of the Jedi in the scene where she says "Many Bothans died to bring us this information" instead saying "Many pixels have been spilled..."
Screenshot of Kirk facing off with a Horta (sort of a Chicago deep dish looking rock monster).
Poster for the film Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
Poster for the film “The Accountant”.
German Poster for the Battleship Movie. It has my biggest cardinal sin for posters, where the actors' names (Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgard, Rhianna, and Liam Neeson) are all directly above the images of characters... but for 3 out of 4 it is the wrong person.
Cover of Shearwater’s album Jet Plane and Oxbow.
The Righteous Gemstones poster.
A screenshot from the Star Trek Deep Space 9 episode Past Tense (part one I think) with Sisko impersonating Gabriel Bell while holding a shotgun.
Maryville College logo in orange and garnet with a displeased and possibly constipated looking scotsman wearing a tam and holding a sword that forms the "t" in Scots.
A poster for the film “Enemy of the State” with Will Smith and Gene Hackman.
Still from the opening credits of the show The Wild Wild West (1965). A strong black line divides 5 scenes. At the top, there is a curled hand of an offscreen body and, to the right, a hand reaching down to adjust the spurs on a pair of cowboy boots. On the bottom level, there is a body with cowboy hat and boots facedown outside a saloon, a jaunty looking cowboy in the center, and a woman with a tiny parasol and an enormous hoop skirt in the lower right corner.
A photo to two cats, Momo (white with a few black splotches) and Snuggly Bob (a grayish Siamese) curled up YinYang fashion in a box with a blanket at the bottom.
Dr. McCoy, from the episode Spock's Brain. He is lit from below with a blue light, looking downward with an expression that can only be described as sweaty terror.
Little John from Disney's animated Robin Hood looking to his left as he holds a spoon of very bad stew in his right hand.
Two teams of three each in bubble suits standing in the ice during a period break at a hockey match.
Cover of the film The Secret of NIMH
Cover image for 1999 video game Age of Empires II.
Michael Jordan meme template saying "Fuck Them Old Acquaintances"
Two cats, Momo (white with black spots) and Snuggly Bob (Siamese) snuggled on a blanket left on the floor.
A classic style movie still frame saying "Fin"
Spotify Wrapped panel saying that July was my Pink Pilates Princess Strut Pop moment (for all the Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodrigo, and Lizzo).