Courtney

they. 32. emo. autistic. queer. commie. furby enthusiast. writer. fan of AEW and the Used

[weedass]

woke up and turned over and there was a roach next to me.... wtf did we do last night....?

[mr-freezo-42069-inactive]

how dare you make me read this

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[tearsofrefugees]

Clerks smile and 'flip off' security camera while 'sneaking' immigrants out of courthouse: DOJ

Two Utah court clerks have been dubbed "anti-ICE vigilantes" after they were allegedly caught "sneaking" immigrants out the back door of the

[antifainternational]

That's how you show real solidarity!

"After they overheard that ICE was at the courthouse to arrest someone, they improperly accessed court databases to determine who was not born in the United States," a DOJ detention filing says. "They then snuck every suspected illegal alien who was at the courthouse out a back door, where ICE, who was waiting in the parking lot for their target to leave the building, could not see them."

Think about what you can do at your job or in your daily life to resist fascism when the opportunity presents itself!

[bean-pronounced-bawn]

I can't find the post but there's this one post that's like "aging is less than 1% as terrifying as whatever the fuck is going on with people desperately trying not to age"

That but with weight.

Getting or being fat is less than 1% as terrifying as whatever the fuck is going on with people desperately trying to not be fat.

[mls-classics]

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

a little warm up for the day

ink: diamine oxblood

[cal3ris]

is this gonna get me fired you think

[depsidase]

[incisedwound]

[tosety]

Bumps your ankle

Bumps your ankle

Bumps your ankle

Bumps your ankle

Bumps your ankle

[lesbyterianchurch]

Please help and share!

Hey y'all--We need some help. A cat had kittens on our porch and one fell in love with us. Immediately started climbing us!! Then got deathly ill. Captain Chunk is one month old. We nursed her back to health, but now we're behind on bills.I'm about to get a second job, and both of us are doing all we can. Please share if possible.

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[lesbyterianchurch]

CAPTAIN CHUNK UPDATE! she is now almost 5 weeks old. She has made a dramatic recovery after being at death's door not even a week ago

[lesbyterianchurch]

Captain Chunk update 2!! Her first nonemergency vet visit 💜 please help us still have a house to keep her in 💜

[lesbyterianchurch]

Fit check! Featuring the top I got from Hot Topic 💜

[lesbyterianchurch]

Lavender milk tea with strawberry popping boba 🧋 🪻 🍓

[lesbyterianchurch]

Happy pride 2026

[lesbyterianchurch]

Wonder what it's like to drive a Cybertruck and just see people roil with disgust as you pass by. Must've been like me walking down the hallway in middle school

[briannyssey]

some people read an awful lot, but don't read very well. deep reading is itself a skill. being able to untangle the threads of theme, subtext, characterization, narrative style, and more are all things that it takes time and intentional engagement to learn.

if you've ever watched a movie with your film buff friend and chatted about it afterwards, that friend might have pulled hours more of conversation out of the same 90 minutes of screentime, and wondered how the fuck they did that - it's not raw intelligence, it's a skill that's been honed. And I learned a lot about film from talking to friends who knew about film, and reading critique by film scholars

literature works exactly the same. so if you want to get more out of your reading, there are things you can do to train that. Find a book or short story you think you've got a pretty good grasp on, preferably from a widely read & respected author like Ursula K Le Guin or Ray Bradbury (if you're new at this don't swing for the Toni Morrison or the Samuel Beckett yet unless you feel very comfortable with the complexity of the text - the point is to develop a complicated new skill on good foundations). Then go to JSTOR, create a free account, and look up criticism on the story you've chosen. Find something that looks readable to you and at least somewhat interesting. Read that article, and look at what that writer got out of the same story you've read that you didn't get. Do you see the critic's points? Did they teach you something about the text? Go reread that story and see if the criticism has changed how you read it. Are you seeing more? Are you thinking about the implications of a line that you hadn't noticed before? Does the story feel richer now?

there are other more involved ways of finding criticism. Learning to use academic databases, going to your local library to do interlibrary loans, finding critical voices you appreciate; these are all useful subskills. Literacy isn't just being able to read words, it's being able to read words in context and think about what they tell you about the text, the author, or the time and culture in which the text was produced. Literacy is the skill of being able to look at the world with open eyes and think clearly about how its parts are connected. It'll change your life

[briannyssey]

this keeps getting shared around and ive seen some different tags responding differently so i just want to make some important clarifications and distillations

you don't have to read more deeply if you don't want to (but i'd recommend it, i genuinely think it makes you a better person)

if you want to learn to read more deeply, the resources are out there. try to find critical literature (that is, academic writing that analyzes the text) on works your familiar with so you can get a sense for how to do that analysis too

learning to deep read literature can help you deep read many areas of your life

writers tend to put a lot of work into their stories. if you learn to read that work you'll (probably) appreciate the stories you love even more. And if not, then you'll have developed your taste. This too is worth doing

[depsidase]

[moonstonecassie]

@isuggestrevolution

[hagnanimous]

Me when I read a book by a famous author that’s a modern classic and everyone says it’s really good and then it’s really good

[lesbyterianchurch]

hey i like your blog :) how many tats do you have?

Thank you!! 😁 I wanted to have so many more by now but just have two: a UFO abducting a Bigfoot on my thigh and a clown from Hell House LLC on my arm