Pliny the Bolder (the first in a series of rather lame puns, for which I apologise) is the archive where I collect information on human/beyond-human interactions. I am doing a PhD on the history of bestiality, a field in which I encounter stories ranging from the horrific to the curious, and even the amusing. These accounts bear witness to views of non-human animals that often differ radically from our own—glimpses of relationships that were shaped, to varying degrees, by institutional frameworks. Religious authority, judicial power, and scientific knowledge have each produced different subjectivities over time, and this applies not only to humans but to animals as well, who were also positioned as subjects within these discourses. I liked the idea of sharing things I come across along the way with others as my work progresses.