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Vivek Santayana


Doctoral Candidate in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
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#RPGaDay2020: Days 1 to 7

01 Saturday Aug 2020

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QuestRPG, RootRPG, RPGaDay2020, Table-Top Roleplaying Games

August is #RPGaDay month. Seeing that there are several different prompts for every day, and Twitter isn’t the best platform for the length in which I wanted to write, I decided to write my posts to my blog. And instead of writing 31 individual posts for each day, I decided to do them in weekly blasts, starting with this post for days 1 to 7.

The Difficulty of Being Different

10 Thursday Oct 2019

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Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Greta Thunberg, Neurodiversity, World Mental Health Day

Reflections on being diagnosed as neurodiverse as an adult, and why we need to emphasise the challenges faced by neurodiverse people in addition to celebrating their achievements.

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The Magic of Harry Potter: Celebrating Twenty Years

27 Friday Oct 2017

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British Library, Harry Potter, National Library of Scotland

As this is the twentieth anniversary year of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the National Library of Scotland and the British Library in London organised a number of events over the course of the year to celebrate the phenomenon of the Harry Potter books. These are some notes from the two exhibitions I visited, the one at the NLS in June and at the British Library starting October.

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