Simon Roy Hughes 🧌

Translated The Book on #NorwegianFolktales.
Teacher.
British/ Norwegian.
Dwells in northern Norway.
A human being.

Norwegian Folktales:: https://www.norwegianfolktales.net/
Where to find me:: https://norwegianfolktales.net/personal/simon-roy-hughes#links
Pronouns and flags:: he/ him 🇬🇧🇳🇴🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴🚩
Antifa:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascism

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2026-11-11 20:52:21 UTC

Story time. I was an older student; I wasted seven years of my life before having to finish my upper-secondary education so that I could study at university.
I took comparative literature in my fourth year, as the last subject in my under-graduate degree. At the end of the second semester, the head of the comp. lit. department, one of my lecturers, came out for a drink with the students to celebrate the end of the academic year.
As the evening drew on, and the drink was flowing, this lecturer leaned in closer to me, and began pointing out some of the female students, expressing his lust in no uncertain terms, and trying to get me on board (he was only a few years my senior, which perhaps is why he thought I would go along).
I wasn't interested, and I was frankly appalled at his behaviour. So when he said, “I do like the young students,” I looked him dead in the eye, and said: “Yes, I’ve heard that about you.”
He was shocked. Even though I hadn’t heard any rumour about him, I think I must have struck a chord. He reddened, went back to his drink, and tried to shake off the shade.
I sat there, glaring at him until he grew uncomfortable enough to leave the bar.
My point is this: SHUT THEM DOWN, FELLAS!
Young women who only desire to live their lives in peace and security should be allowed to do so; and if our helping out means we lose the friendship of a creep, then we have lost nothing worth keeping.
#SexualHarrassment

2026-10-15 14:29:44 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/117445142517690321
Blocking ads is a matter of personal security.

2026-09-15 06:54:43 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 15. September: What's a situation where you feel a ';' definitely works better than a '.' ?
Don't get me started...

2026-08-15 11:38:06 UTC

The University of Ghent should immediately terminate Nathan Cofnas, the racist piece of shit who hounded Jason Arday to death (literally).
Lynchings should have severe consequences.
https://research.ugent.be/web/person/nathan-cofnas-0/en#
#JasonArday #RIP
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2026-08-02 17:14:25 UTC

The names of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812–1885) and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe (1813–1882) are in Norway nothing less than synonymous with folktales and legends. Their collection comprises the most influential work of Norwegian literature of all time. It gave Ibsen material for his metrical masterpiece, Peer Gynt (1867), which in turn inspired some of Edvard Grieg’s best-known music. It alerts readers to the prospect of riding white bears across mountain and valley – whether princess or pauper – and introduces the troll to the world at large. Knowledge of these trolls has since spread, and now permeates popular culture, from Tolkien’s high-fantasy universe, to the sewer of Stephen King’s IT (1996), and throughout modern literature and media.
I published the The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe in paperback in 2024; now I am releasing an electronic edition in fifteen volumes.
#Folklore #NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folktales #Legends #ScandinavianFolklore #FolkloreThursday #SelfPublishing #Bookstodon
(Volumes posted in the thread below, as each is made available.)
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2026-07-06 18:12:30 UTC

And now archive.is has betrayed us into the hands of #Google.
Verification is now dependent on access through a Google app that knows exactly who we are.
#Privacy #archive #bloodmoney
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2026-06-26 07:43:13 UTC

#Goose
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2026-05-31 09:44:11 UTC

Update:
Blocking All the Bots on the Internet from crawling my website appears to have worked. AI summaries no longer reference me except through third parties (Amazon, etc). My website has also fallen down to the third page of search results on Google. It only took a week or so.
The result may appear to be unfortunate; I am trying to disseminate Norwegian folktales and legends (i.e. sell books), after all. But to me the most important consideration is preventing corporate vampires from feeding on my creative juices. It looks like I am succeeding at this.
But what about spreading the word? I have a plan. Whether it will work remains to be seen.
(Previously: https://beige.party/@SimonRoyHughes/116612852960051062)
#FuckAI #FuckGoogle #NorwegianFolktales #Folklore #AmPublishing #AmWriting #AmTranslating

2026-04-07 10:19:13 UTC

There is no "Mastodon", only a loose network of federating servers. So "Mastodon" cannot "bring in" more of this, that, or the other. Nor can "Mastodon" prevent people spinning up their own servers and trying to federate with others.
And lastly, "Mastodon" cannot make individual users look at anything they don't want to look at – there are no pushy algorithms here.
Seems to me that some people who ought to know this need instructing.
#Echochamber

2026-02-25 09:35:59 UTC

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2026-01-22 21:29:18 UTC

By 17. January 1851, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen’s Christmas annual, Juletræet for 1850, had sold nearly 23,000 copies. It’s a remarkable sales figure in a country of fewer than 1.5 million people, many of whom had little-to-no disposable income, and many of whom were barely literate.
My recent foray into Christmas annuals was, shall we say, not quite so commercially successful. (I sold ~15 copies, although my Ko-fi customers (the majority of my sales) were very generous.)
#NorwegianFolktales #Folktales #Folklore #Bookstodon

2026-01-13 14:19:35 UTC

Første oppgave på 8. trinnets høstterminprøve i matematikk, del 2 (Cappelen Damm).
This is your brain on AI. (Kan ikke engang skrive «fellesnevner» på ordentlig norsk!)
Skolen skal få høre!
#skoletut #norsktut #allheimen #kunstigintelligens #KI #AI
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2025-12-07 12:57:59 UTC

A true depiction of me at family parties, sitting quietly in the corner, reading my book.
#AmReading
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2025-11-06 07:56:36 UTC

#WritersCoffeeClub 6. November: Do you make use of unconventional punctuation?
Punctuation *is* a convention, in the same way that spelling, syntax, paragraphing, etc. are conventions.
Is my punctuation unconventional? No.
Is my employment of punctuation conventions idiosyncratic? Probably.

2025-10-29 16:44:13 UTC

It's live! Christmas in Norway, 2025.
Buy an unrestricted ePub, or get it on Kindle.
Then wait a month or so before you begin to read a text a day for Advent.
https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/Christmas-in-Norway-2025
Table of contents, links to buy the book, and financial details (to ward off any idea that I am enriching myself at your expense).
#Bookstodon #NorwegianFolktales #NorwegianLegends #Folktales #Folklore #SelfPublishing #Christmas #Norway #AdventCalendar
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2025-10-19 19:13:37 UTC

Tom Hanks was unavailable, so #MuséeDuLouvre has brought in the next best investigator.
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2025-09-12 18:32:28 UTC

Bangor Cathedral choir has been suspended for singing an "inappropriate" hymn. What was inappropriate?
From the article:
"The Telegraph reported lyrics from the canticle written by a chorister included 'Lord, how long shall the ungodly triumph?' and 'how long shall all wicked doers speak so disdainfully?'"
Yes indeed. The choir has been suspended for singing lyrics from the Bible (see below).
(Perhaps they would have fared better singing the service in Latin, like the Pope wanted all along.)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79vd5qn30lo.amp
#ReligiousHypocrisy #Censorship #Psalm94 #BangorCathedral #ChurchInWales #Ignorance
Psalm 94: 3–4
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

2025-08-30 08:31:05 UTC

I recently read an article on how a particular strain of podcasting has died the death, and how another strain has gained ascendency in the podcasting world. There has been a pivot towards "chat show" format, apparently, at the expence of a "narrative" format.
As I continued reading, it became clear that the article concerned itself only with podcasts published as commericial ventures by corporations of one sort or another, and that the metric by which they judged success was revenue generated.
No hobbyists mentioned. No public dissemination podcasts mentioned. No struggling artists mentioned. Only filthy lucre! Ugh!
How anaemic is the commercial world! How narrow the vision of mercenary journalists who dance to their groat-tossing masters' drum!
#Podcasting #OnlineCulture #Media

2025-08-12 20:53:51 UTC

I have now made an unrestricted .ePub edition of Regine Normann’s Legends from Arctic Norway available for purchase.
Information and direct links on my website:
https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/legends-from-arctic-norway
#NorwegianLegends #folklore @npub1yp7…5mz4 @npub13ss…cjth #fairytales #bookstodon #DarkFolklore

2025-07-25 10:51:12 UTC

#ScribesAndMakers 25. July: Create a multiple choices poll listing 3 books you personally consider “classics” and ask others to choose the ones they have read. Create a fourth option for None of the Above.
Well, which of these three classics have you read?

2025-06-12 06:56:50 UTC

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Walk around outside or inside?

2025-05-25 09:31:38 UTC

Y'know how #Bluesky was supposed to be better than #Twitter, and how the centralised, VC-funded leadership team would never repeat the same mistakes as that of their whackjob predecessor?
Yeah. Bluesky is deleting #Palestinian voices.
https://bsky.app/profile/mommunism.bsky.social/post/3lpwsjnm2n22y
(No one can delete Palestinian voices from #Mastodon.)
#Palestine #Genocide

2025-01-21 09:36:06 UTC

Try out the new #censorship for yourself. If you have an #Instagram account, do you get these results?
And if you do, can you continue to trust the company in any way whatsoever?
(H/t to @npub1dlj…zttg in this post: https://tutoteket.no/@tanketom/113865456924509955.)
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2025-01-18 17:59:40 UTC

This year, shall I put together an illustrated electronic (.epub/ .pdf) Christmas annual of Norwegian folktales and legends that are unknown in English? (I need to get planning already.)
#norwegian #folktales #legends #folklore #scandinavian #trolls #folklorethursday #Christmas2025 @npub1yp7…5mz4 @npub13ss…cjth #fairytales @npub1suy…8lz8 #bookstodon

2025-01-15 15:46:13 UTC

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Screenshot for those who'va also cancelled Meta. #NeilGaiman
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2024-12-22 10:51:38 UTC

All I want for #Christmas is the end of reply-guy culture on #Mastodon.

2024-12-15 10:54:55 UTC

Well, I’ve set myself up to produce a magnificent #introduction, so here goes.
My name is Simon.
I have lived in the north of Norway since 1992.
I am a teacher in middle school.
I translate Norwegian and other Scandinavian folklore.
I have published several collections of this material, including the first ever English edition of The Complete Norwegian Folktales and Legends of Asbjørnsen & Moe in its entirety.
I have a Website, and various other social media accounts from which I point back to my Website.
Mastodon is the site on which I am social (to the extent that I ever am).
(I only post/ boost images that include alt-text.)
Website: https://norwegianfolktales.net
More about me, and where I link back to my Website: https://norwegianfolktales.net/personal/simon-roy-hughes
#Migration #NewInstance