Steph is a 2011 graduate of Gettysburg College (majored in history, minored in Civil War Era studies) and current graduate student at Pratt Institute (library science with a focus in Archival Studies) who loves baseball, anime, writing, drawing, Rogue Squadron, cars (and Top Gear), comedy (especially its history and, naturally, the British variety) and her cats and Old English Sheepdogs. Fond of Stanford even though she doesn't go there. Has Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism. Created the 30-Day Baseball Meme. One time she made a music video about Buster Keaton's love affair with trains. Since she's an archivist-in-training, she often preserves things on her own. See her scans here.
Author of the webcomic The Historians, the excuse to draw dead comedians called Comedian Heaven, and Londinium, a novel in the making set in 1863 London. Scriptwriter for the webcomic Home By Now, a story about time travel, music, history and general hijinks (meet the incredible artist here!).
Very occasionally posts about herself when she's not posting about baseball, dead people, Top Gear or her pets.
In 2002 artist Rod Dickinson attempted to create a physical copy of a hypothetical mind-control device described by James Tilly Matthews in the early 1800s. Matthews, considered one of the earliest documented paranoid schizophrenic cases in the history of psychiatry, described a device with details “so comprehensive and so absolute it was possible to construct the Air Loom from his measured drawings and plans.”
Read more about The Air Loom at the artist’s site.
This is INCREDIBLE. Somebody actually made the Air Loom that James Tilly Matthews believed was being used to torment him. Wow.
Namely writing Londinium because of reasons.
Reasons = Monty’s schizophrenia. Back in 1863, he would’ve been referred to as suffering from dementia. The case of James Tilly Matthews is one of the greatest resources I have on schizophrenia in the 18th-19th centuries. Check it out if you want - it’s really interesting.
