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living for the hope of it all | she/hers | 25

[i-am-a-lazy-mess]

hate when I type :) and this 🙂 fucker appears. Go away you evil soul

[vulpinesaint]

saying "question mark?" and "however comma," out loud are game changers. punctuation on the go. and it's always the funniest thing that anyone around you has ever heard

[cmfarmer]

unhinged things i would do as a high school english teacher because the rules don’t apply to them (short stories edition)

make my kids play the lottery except “winning” is an automatic 5 point deduction on their next assignment and then i introduce them to ms shirley jackson. she’s a classic for a reason.

we watch rachel’s confession from the drama, and then we read all summer in a day (ray bradbury) and Discuss ™️

i condense all the desks into a corner of the room away from the door and we read house taken over by julio cortázar

we absolutely do not read the gift of the magi. i’d burn a copy ceremonially if i could.

we do read the scarlet ibis (james hurst) out loud, and then sit in silence for the remainder of class time.

we have silent reading time for the yellow wallpaper (charlotte perkins gillman) while i pace in the same circle around the perimeter of the room

[diamondlikestoread]

fanfiction counts towards your reading streak.

[taiey]

The curtains were blue because everything in the room was carefully colour coordinated, reinforcing the character’s stylish and controlled characterisation. The curtains were blue because everything in the room was a different colour, reinforcing the character’s eclectic and globe-trotting personality. The curtains were blue because the character is elsewhere established to hate the colour blue, subtextually implying that their deceased spouse was responsible for that decoration choice.

The curtains were blue because throughout their filmography the director consistently uses cool tones to mark moments of distance between characters. The curtains were blue to tie the events in that room into the broader oceanic motif of this particular novel. The curtains were blue because the assonance evoked a contrast with the following stanza of the poem.

Even the curtains looked expensive: floor to ceiling velvet drapes, in a flawless royal blue. She tucked the saucer up on the windowsill and tied back faded blue curtains with a loop of string. The narrow blinds were the same navy blue as the pinstripe suit of the man who served eviction notice that sent them to this office.

The curtains were blue because the author’s childhood home had blue curtains, which they discussed in their letters related to their feelings of comfort in that place. The curtains were blue because the author’s childhood home had blue curtains, which they discussed in their letters related to their feelings of grief in that place.

The curtains were blue as an allusion to the contemporary joke about literary criticism, an extension of the author’s autocritical approach that will be further discussed in section seven.

The curtains were red, as a pun on;

The curtains were read.

[cmfarmer]

i made the mistake of reading the space lesbians book (atmosphere by taylor jenkins reid) during the artemis ii mission and it did permanently alter my brain chemistry

[spacedewey]

Call me old fashioned, but I think the president saying "a whole civilization will die tonight" is the part where he should be deposed immediately.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

accidentally said "invasive thoughts" instead of "intrusive thoughts" today and actually I think I'm onto something. this thought does not belong here and it is harming the local ecosystem

[cmfarmer]

9/11 ended ellen’s career eventually but it also ended matt bomer’s broadway career before it ever got off the ground and one of those things deserved better

[lovely-v]

Being crazy about a piece of media for any amount of time will leave a weird mark on you forever because years later you’ll see someone posting something about it like “can we talk about this frame” and you’ll be like “ah that frame. i know all about that frame. I was once a scholar of that frame.”

[lesbianjaxsondart]

if you put the new harry potter show on my dash in any way it's gonna be an automatic unfollow from me, guys. like. it's 2026. come the fuck on

[staff]

we fucked up

[kosmogrl]

being passionate about what you do/love is the coolest thing you can do. never let anyone tell you otherwise

[fageleh]

the problem with used books is that they are, individually, very cheap, so buying many of them feels affordable. but the math maths even when you aren't looking.

[shaneposting]

'he would not fucking say that' maybe he would if he knew he was starring in his very own porn fic for the sole purpose of delighting some freaks on archive of our own dot org. maybe he'd play it up for the cameras. ever consider that

[akindplace]

do you guys remember when we googled something and we would get results that were actually related to the things we searched

[helenvaughans]

the thing is that everyone does actually want the skill set that comes with a humanities degree but a) they refuse to acknowledge that actual WORK goes into acquiring those skills and b) they want to do it all without actually reading a book