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— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘The Third Hour of the Night’", published c. 2017.

#kou.

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actual criticisms of academia:

cost of education acting as class barrier

exploitation of graduate workers

colonialist past and present

ties to military industrial complex

danger of power structure entrenching and justifying orthodox views on social issues

criticisms of academia that get made:

those damn ivory tower academics are wasting money learning about things

#theres a reason why i left academia and it was never for the reasons anti-intellectuals like to make

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This is one of your tricks again.

#love and deepspace.

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last night i dreamt i held you in my arms 🥲

yes this new edition of jane eyre will fix me

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#tragedy is clean. it's restful. it's certain. #please picture me in the weeds.

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Dulce María Loynaz, tr. by James O’Connor, from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

[Text ID: “There is still one difference left between us. You have a tenderness grown weary and I have a weariness grown tender.”]

#secondhand smoke.

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The sick reality is that many of the renowned academics and writers among Gaza's thousands of martyrs will, in twenty years time, be quoted and memorialised by the same universities and institutions that have denigrated them and enabled their slaughter.

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“there is no moral. the wolf eats you one day and until it does, the forest is beautiful.”

#bleem!!

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(english butler voice) Will you be making an attempt on your life this evening, sir?

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port island back alleys

#shes so special to me #persona 3.

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Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre

#maybe finding an old freak to rizz up w my nd ass will fix me

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this changed it all

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“Franny is cool enough to order a sandwich and a glass of milk in a fancy restaurant, yet so wildly enthusiastic she doesn’t bother with bourgeois things like spelling. She carries a gold swizzle stick around in her bag because it’s a birthday gift from a corny boy and she doesn’t have the heart to throw it out. She buys a really darling little iron because it looks like it goes with a doll house. For a while I thought Franny was cute and precocious and unknowable. Now I think that, like Salinger after the war, she knows too much, she’s seen too much, she’s understood things that other people deny or ignore. So of course she wants to flee the world. She knows she can never be complacent again, she can never fit in.”

— Samantha Ellis on Franny Glass, How to Be a Heroine: Or, What I’ve Learned from Reading Too Much

#me during the franny part: wow shes so me coded.... me during the zooey part: wow hes so me coded.....

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me (lying): i will finish this job application by tonight

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mariana zapata get a sensitivity reader and a better editor challenge

#another day another zapata novel where i am left perfectly whelmed

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//CN servers spoilers

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I'VE BRAINROTTING ABOUT ZUO RAN TAKING DRAMA MAJOR, BUT I WILL TAKE DRAMA CLUB ZUO RAN 🫶🫶🫶

#US THEATRE DEADBEATS STAY WINNING 👏👏👏 #tears of themis. #tot spoilers

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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.