Dr. Holly Walters

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Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷‍♀️ She/They) https://ko-fi.com/manigarm

An "exploded skull" preparation showing each individual bone suspended on an armature.
Four images of the archaeological excavation of the village of Akrotiri on the island of Santorini. The excavation is now indoors, as a large structure has been build to permanently house it.
The Aegean Sea. Deep blue with the island of Syros appearing on the horizon.
Hat, my distinctive field hat now some thirty years old. Plus my passport.
Apologies, I cannot frolic or galavant with you in the woods today. For upon exiting my domicile I appear to have burst into flames. Art , a stylized man covered in fiery sashes, is "Fire" by French artist Christian Bérard
An arrangement of Shaligram Stones, the sacred fossil ammonites of the Nepal Himalayas.
Book cover: Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas by Holly Walters
Today's weather in Boston, where the temperature is expected to exceed 100 degrees for most of the afternoon.
The Old World is dying, and the New World struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. - Antonio Gramsci
A simple cup of tea next to a wooden sugar bowl sitting on a plain wooden table in the high Himalayas of Nepal.
A rainbow of curled flames rings a sharp triangle (mountain) in the colors of Trans and BIPOC pride. The sun at the center is the intersex symbol.
Third Notice: The SAVE Plan has ended, but you have options (email)
A small Japanese iris with myriad colors. A white and blue-ish top, yellow in the center, and pink and purple on the outer petals.
Basically, it's a cartoon me. With a pith helmet for some reason, field clothes, and holding up an ammonite.
A white sculpture of the goddess Kali, rushing forward with swords read and screaming in rage.
A thrift store ocean painting that has had a ghost ship and the long spidery tentacles of an Eldritch Horror added to the background.
A thrifted ocean painting with a ghost ship and Great Old One (purple tentacles and eyes) added to the background.
The Washington D.C. reflecting pool, completely overgrown with algae turning it green.
An ocean painting with high waves and grey skies. Thin pencil lines are just barely visible in the open space above the water.
A small spread of anthropological items from my original fieldwork in Nepal, including my fieldnotes, my Hat, and some Shaligram stones.
My book table from last year's Woburn Book Fair piled high with books, art, and all kinds of fun stickers and stamps.
My two novels, The Way By and By The Way. Taken from a bookshelf at Pegasus Games in Madison, Wisconsin.
My two novels on the shelf at a gaming and fiction store in Wisconsin!
Three sequential photos of my dog Carter hanging his head out of the card window as we pass from a highway tunnel, to a busy intersection, to the Maine sea shore.
The reason RAM prices went up 4x is that a massive amount of not-yet-manufactured memory was bought with money that doesn't really exist to put into GPUs that haven't been made yet, to be installed in data centers that haven't been built, powered by infrastructure that may never exist, to satisfy demand that isn't actually there, in order to generate profits that are mathematically impossible.
A painting of Judith and Holofernes but the nurse begins with a comment "What happened?" Judith responds, "He told me to calm down." The nurse replies, "Damn. Too bad."
Report Warns of Declining Standards in Humanities Scholarship Last updated 39 minutes ago A report led by philosopher Paul Boghossian, commissioned by Vanderbilt and Washington University chancellors, finds signs of deterioration in humanities and interpretive social sciences, with political goals often replacing rigorous, evidence-based inquiry. Anthropology faces the harshest critique for a toxic climate that punishes dissent, like canceling panels on biological sex, while philosophy shows issues in subfields and relativism undermines objectivity across disciplines. Academics praise the nuanced analysis as a needed wake-up call amid falling enrollments and public skepticism, though skeptics doubt it will drive real change. This story is a summary of posts on X and may evolve over time. Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs.
A battered fairy in sneakers and a knit cap with tattered hoodie sits on a sidewalk. The caption reads: It's ok to be the flower that fucks up the sidewalk. Art by Wonder Fae.
The cover of The Way By by Holly Walters. It has a black background with a blue-eyed unicorn's face coming into view on the front. This copy, however, is sitting on top of a library shelf with a sticker placed onto the lower left corner. The sticker, with pride colors around it says, "You are safe with me."
Queer Wrath done in stickers and pins.
The symbol of queer wrath. Rainbow flames in a South Asian art style engulf a triangle, representing a mountain, with trans and BIPOC colors. The rising sun, a circle on the tip of the mountain, holds the intersex symbol.
1,202 people were killed by police in the U.S. in 2025, a 5% decline over 2024. More than 200 people were killed by police in the first three months of 2026.
A post by Archaeology Wonders that reads: The Inca called him Viracocha, the Maya called him Quetzalcoatl a bearded stranger who arrived after a great flood and taught humanity how to rebuild civilization.
My dog Carter as a 9 week old puppy. Small, white, fluffy, and sticking his tongue out.
Shelly's Body Washed We stop in Mungayang, At last soft tears flow, cry soft easy tears until Conchita asks if I want Shelly's body washed To dress her I choose brown pants Pale green shirt. I cannot leave Shelly's nightgown her Middlemarch, then tell Sam and Manny we'll soon leave Mom will catch up. I pack a pacifier diapers a toy truch pajamas Tintin in America
The cover of my second fiction book, By The Way: The Tales Fairies Tell About Us. It has a black background with a fairy girl in the center wearing a green dress and walking away from the reader.
The I-90 to I-93 interchange in Massachusetts. A snarl of roads, bridges, signs, and off ramps that come at you in a half second and expect you to know which of six specific lanes you need to be in right this very moment!
Pride month starts in 3 days. Pride isn't brought to you by T-Mobile and Absolut Vodka. It was brought to you by drag queens, trans women throwing bricks. By lesbians and queer women taking care of gay men dying of AIDS in the face of intentional government neglect.
Stadium construction begins at White House for UFC Freedom 250. Headline from MSNBC.
My publisher's, TLS Press, sale page for By The Way: Tales Fairies Tell About Us. The book description reads: Ever wonder what stories fairies tell about humans? By the Way is a collection of fairy tales with a twist. It flips the script on classic fantasy, exploring a world where mythical creatures are the main characters and humans are the stuff of legend. In these pages, a dying swamp spirit contemplates the little girl who brings her a goldfish, while three scheming goblins are outsmarted by a clever child. A caravan of changelings searches for the mysterious people who walk the roads with hounds and horses, and a brave teddy bear knight sets out to rescue his best friend from nightly terrors. From a stray cat's sinister encounter to many more strange adventures, the stories in By the Way are filled with whimsical characters and unusual circumstances. Blending poetry with prose and a dose of art and humor, this collection offers something for everyone. All you need is a little imagination and a careful glance over your shoulder.
A black pen drawing of a rocky shore at night. But the waves of the sea end in hands that grasp at the rocks.
A resin sculpture of a baby unicorn mummy laying on a bed of pine needles.