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This is the place where I give myself permission to make posts about what’s on my mind

[stargirl-and-potts]

Still thinking about how Grace was always treated as disposable. Kicked out of his passion field for his honesty—underpaid as a (very good) teacher, to the point he can’t afford a car—left alone in a room full of argon with a sample that might kill him, while all the indispensable guys who put him there stood on the other side of the glass and watched. Shoved screaming into a mission that would kill him. And then, then this bonkers little alien who just met him gladly trades years off his life (via extended return mission) to save him. Runs burning through deadly air to keep him from dying. Chooses finally to weave their lives together forever and recreate Grace’s best dreams of Earth to make him happy. No wonder Grace told Rocky he doesn’t have to get him a gift, he’s given him everything. To one little spider guy, Grace is irreplaceable. That’s love.

[media-thots]

Project Hail Mary, the movie (spoilers)

I really, really liked the costuming choice to have Dr. Grace wear a yellow raincoat and for the astronaut team to have yellow uniforms. When you first see him in it, it just seems like one of the costuming tricks to draw your eye to the main character. And it is that, but not only that. You already know Dr. Grace ends up on the Hail Mary but it’s not clear at the start how he did. And then you learn what happened and how fate can be cruel and just through color choice it’s so obvious on reflection. But more than that, he’s wearing a raincoat instead of a proper flight jacket, visually demonstrating how he is different from the highly trained people actually trained for this mission, even though he will eventually become a key member.

Overall, I really liked the movie! Andy Weir once again puts you through an experience of everything going wrong in an already desperate situation but through plain smarts, dangerous choices, and some hope, we manage to make it through in the end.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i hate it when people are writing a long ass thing and start a parenthetical aside and forget to close parentheses it makes me feel like i cant escape from the sentence

[media-thots]

Sunrise on the Reaping. Major spoilers.

I loved it. What an interesting dive into how the truth is manipulated for public perception. It’s something she’s explored in every book but this time, Collins demonstrates how much the Capitol has manipulated the narrative in the past. Efforts to start a revolution have happened before, with Haymitch, but almost all of Panem doesn’t know that because of editing. The revolution won’t be televised.

The fact that Katniss became the face of the revolution is demonstrated to be mostly luck. Yes, she’s rebellious at heart and has the burning fury that inspires the districts so she is the right person. But she’s incredibly lucky that she’s the right person at the right time. Haymitch was the right person at the wrong time. And like Collins says in her interview at the back of the book, Katniss had the benefit of people who played the long game for decades pushing her forward. Haymitch was part of a group just learning how to play that game. And I’m so glad he was able to remain a player, become Katniss’ mentor and keep his promise to Lenore Dove.

I enjoyed getting to see so many familiar faces because that reinforces how long it takes to make significant change in the face of authoritarianism. Beetee has been a rebel most of his life but he’s faced such godawful tragedy. It’s admirable he stayed in the fight after Ambert, after his wife had another baby. He fights not just because Panem is oppressive, but for his children. To give his child the possibility of living in a world without reapings, even if it takes decades.

Seeing Wiress was unexpected and exciting. She’s so smart and her knowledge of what the games are like recently really helps Haymitch and Maysilee. We got to know more about her games and see how caring she is before the Capitol tortures her and leaves her permanently psychologically damaged. And how tragic, Wiress survives her games still a child, and only one year later the Capitol punishes her for mentoring Haymitch. I don’t think she’s even 18 yet.

And Mags. Oh, Mags. Her impact on the rebellion. She’s such a caring soul and that is exactly what helps give the rebellion life. In this book, she’s a mother figure to all the district 12 kids, sharing her experience and wisdom and giving these kids the respect that the Capitol would never give. In a way, she lets them grieve. Grieve the loss of Louella but also themselves. They will die and while we know Haymitch survives, he doesn’t at the time. She gives them the bean and ham hock soup and they grieve. Their lives will end and for Haymitch, it will never be the same. The rebellion fights for people like Mags, the rebellion maybe wouldn’t be ready in Katniss’ time if it weren’t for Mags.

The epilogue is hard hitting in many ways. Young Katniss reminded Haymitch of Louella and that’s why he calls her sweetheart. The ghost of Lenore ages with him in his stupors. But what struck me the hardest is this book is all about how the Capitol controlled the narrative of Haymitch’s games so tightly that no one from the younger generation of 12 knew the real story. Until after the revolution when Haymitch can finally tell the story himself because his people are safe. Over 25 years later, Haymitch can tell the honest truth.

In this social media age, under this administration, this book is necessary. Get the kids thinking, get them questioning. Don’t trust the Capitol blindly.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Where do you live right now?/Where’s your current primary residence?

English or French speaking North America

Latin America and/or south and Central America

Western, northern, or Central Europe

Eastern Europe and/or west Asia

East Asia or Southeast Asia

Central or South Asia

Northern Africa

Subsaharan Africa

Australia, New Zealand/ similar region

Pacific islands/Polynesia/Micronesia

Carribean/ any other island region I forgot (sorry)

Other/I move constantly/you forgot my region/bald nuance option/antarctica

Voting ended onMar 4, 2025

Not where you grew up. Not where you’ll be living soon. Where you’re living right now.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Plz reblog this one actually I wanna get as big of a sampling of tumblr as possible. Reblog at any and all times of the day so we can reach different time zones.

[connorwyndham]

Ready or Not (2019) directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett.

[media-thots]

On "The Deep Sky"

I read The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei this past week. It's a sci-fi thriller about an 80 person crew sent from a changing Earth to colonize a far-off Planet X. The thriller aspect of the novel is that a bombs goes off on the ship, pulling them off course, and killing three people. Asuka, our main character, is the one who must discover who did it.

I'm not going to spoil the main plot but I do want to look at Kitasei's use of advanced technology in her story. So, spoilers for that.

We don't get an exact date of when this mission takes place but based on character ages we can surmise that this story takes place in a range of 2050-2090, give or take. The main piece of technology used in the story is DAR, an augmented reality device that starts as glasses/goggles that eventually evolves into a head implant. (Which was really fucking on the nose, probably on purpose, but still.)

I want to focus in on this DAR because currently, in modern life, tech giants are hard at work developing these exact machines for regular human use. A wide range of companies develop VR headsets, namely Meta and Google. Meta has even worked with RayBan to put that tech into glasses. Musk (the fascist dickbag) has Neuralink brain chips, which have begun limited human trials but did kill the monkey subjects. Now, at this time, the headsets are intended as immersive video game devices but the development on the RayBan glasses is an effort to incorporate VR into people's everyday lives. For certain people, this can be a benefit because it can be used as an assistive device.

So, Kitasei has taken a look at the tech we have currently and then speculated a future where this tech is common. This future Earth is ravaged by the effects of climate change: natural disasters are common, many species are dying out, and resources are finite. The children who inherit this Earth were raised with DAR, and they can customize what they see. Our main character Asuka loves birds so her DAR has plenty of augmented birds, some endangered, many extinct, that she incorporates into her display. She must pay for them, of course. Resources being scarce, your common person can't afford beautiful clothes so they just use DAR to make their shirt cooler, cleaner, and trendy. Only other people with DAR can see it though. Oh, and they can make their faces look different with DAR, quite like certain popular apps of today. These children can make the seasons seem more normal by appearance, they can create virtual safe havens from the world when it gets too scary, be who they wish they were in appearance only. They can deny reality. And I can't blame them.

The characters inherit a world that is becoming actively hostile to human existence. The domino was tipped long before they were born and unfortunately, they were born at the point when many people believe it can't be walked back. Because of that, they will at least make their final years, or decades of they're lucky, comfortable by using DAR. They can see parts of the world covered in water as they were, they can design beautiful things for their friends to use in their DAR, and it also operates akin to a phone so they can connect with loved ones. If I was in that generations shoes, with that environmental disaster, I would probably use DAR too just to make living just a little less bleak.

But here's the problem, everyone is collectively so focused on making their lives a little less bleak that not enough energy is being put toward solving their problem. If everyone put that energy toward a solution, that may not be perfect, then they can slow down the clock on their own eventual demise. And if they do that enough, keep it going generation after generation, then they might be able to reverse their environmental collapse. They need to look at their reality and choose to do something.

And this is what I love about sci-fi. It can be set in a galaxy far, far away, or a future generation decades from now, but the story about them is always really about us.

We have the chance right now to do something about climate change. Yes, the fallout is fucking terrifying and it feels impossible to make any impact as one individual person. But that's why we need to work as a collective. All of us need to pull our heads out of the sand and work together. Together we can move our governments to regulate the corporations responsible for majority of the pollution, and we can because we've done it before. In the 1970s, the people led by C. C. Patterson convinced the American government to regulate commercial lead usage in gas, toys, and paint. This lead to regulations for lead in food and water later on. It was a hard fight, the corporations did their best to discredit Patterson, but he won in the end. And now the entire American populace is less at risk for lead poisoning, and it benefits our wildlife too. It's possible.

We have to believe that it's possible and fight for the reality we and our future generations deserve.

[media-thots]

Coming to a piece of media years late is really interesting in how it affects your approach to it once you finally get around to enjoying it.

I'm finally playing the Portal game duology. I've been hearing about both games ever since they were released. I've been exposed to many spoilers just through internet osmosis. Because of that, my experience is likely nothing like it was for the people who played the games on release. But I don't think it ruins the horror entirely.

I've already completed Portal (1) and prior to playing that, I was aware that a robot named Glados was not to be trusted. I didn't know exactly why she shouldn't be but cake was involved somehow. Once I started playing, I was already on guard/edge, looking for something threatening related to this robot. It wasn't hard to deduce that she must be watching me though the surveillance cameras but otherwise she didn't seem so threatening, at least the first few levels.

The testing environment turned dangerous due to the toxic water, plasma pellets, and the gun turret robots, but these were all created by Aperture. This unethical company created these unsafe environments and tools, it's their fault I'm nearly dying. While I was still unsure about this robot I kept hearing through the levels, I began to chalk up her lack of concern for these hazards to the scientists who programed her. They were unconcerned/uncaring therefore so is she. This still makes her dangerous, but not malicious.

Well. I learned to my frustrated horror that she actually is maliciously out to kill me and now I'm in a 'kill or be killed' scenario. I was frustrated because I should have known better, everything I've picked up on about this game for years says Glados cannot be trusted, Glados will hurt you. And even with the warnings within the game itself by the past test subject who left messages, I still was ready to believe that this advanced robot did not have the agency to actively choose to hurt me. And yet she did, and I had to reflect on the fact that she watched me complete test after test in eager anticipation for when she would kill me. And now I had to kill her to have a chance at escape.

Once I destroyed Glados and she claimed that this collapse would kill me too, I was okay with that, knowing that if there are any other people to be "tested" that Glados couldn't torture them. I land outside, clearly hurt but Glados lies in ruins, it's okay. And then I'm dragged back inside. And I'm newly horrified by the realization that, of course, Glados isn't the only robot in this insane facility and everything I did to get out of there didn't matter. Also, Glados must have a backup somewhere because what testing facility wouldn't have a fail-safe?

I had so many spoilers and I still was taken in by the story and got to experience the horror of it. I think that just goes to show how well it was made. Very glad I finally got around to it.

I've started Portal 2, I'm already aware Wheatley is not to be trusted but I've so far avoided the exact reason why. (Please don't spoil). I'm not happy that I'm Glados' test subject again but the puzzles have been fun. I'll update with a Portal 2 reflection once I'm done.

[media-thots]

okay, beat Portal 2...

fuck Cave Johnson. even if Caroline believed in his vision, she should never have been forced to become an AI, to become part of Glados.

For me, the most horrifying thing was learning of the history of the facility and what would eventually become Glados from the Johnson recordings. Massively powered robot out to kill me? Played before, no longer scared by that. Learning over time as I make a dangerous trek out of the depths of hell (narrated by satan/cave johnson/j.k. simmons) that my previous tormentor and now companion is actually the consciousness of a human woman copied into an AI, likely altered and experimented on for years? Jesus fucking christ. No wonder she has a thirst for blood. Did Caroline even survive that "upload"? Likely not, based on the recordings. Glados is still dangerous but we have to work together.

When we begin to be tested by a power drunk Wheatley, Glados even tries to comfort me when he tries to mock Chell for being an orphan, which she has previously mocked me for, and even admonishes him for trying to call me fat. Those moments seem to be more Caroline than Glados, or it may just be that only Glados can mock me. It's a little strange but it made me laugh.

I love that Glados was able to actively help me defeat Wheatley though I almost died because I couldn't spot where she had the final personality core waiting for many precious seconds. Though it made my heart skip a beat, I enjoyed that Glados took her chance to scare the shit out of me one last time with all the turret robots. I'm happy Chell finally made it outside with a companion cube no less.

Goodbye Glados, enjoy your experiments with you new robots. Thanks for saving my life. See you never again, thank goodness.

<3

[media-thots]

Coming to a piece of media years late is really interesting in how it affects your approach to it once you finally get around to enjoying it.

I'm finally playing the Portal game duology. I've been hearing about both games ever since they were released. I've been exposed to many spoilers just through internet osmosis. Because of that, my experience is likely nothing like it was for the people who played the games on release. But I don't think it ruins the horror entirely.

I've already completed Portal (1) and prior to playing that, I was aware that a robot named Glados was not to be trusted. I didn't know exactly why she shouldn't be but cake was involved somehow. Once I started playing, I was already on guard/edge, looking for something threatening related to this robot. It wasn't hard to deduce that she must be watching me though the surveillance cameras but otherwise she didn't seem so threatening, at least the first few levels.

The testing environment turned dangerous due to the toxic water, plasma pellets, and the gun turret robots, but these were all created by Aperture. This unethical company created these unsafe environments and tools, it's their fault I'm nearly dying. While I was still unsure about this robot I kept hearing through the levels, I began to chalk up her lack of concern for these hazards to the scientists who programed her. They were unconcerned/uncaring therefore so is she. This still makes her dangerous, but not malicious.

Well. I learned to my frustrated horror that she actually is maliciously out to kill me and now I'm in a 'kill or be killed' scenario. I was frustrated because I should have known better, everything I've picked up on about this game for years says Glados cannot be trusted, Glados will hurt you. And even with the warnings within the game itself by the past test subject who left messages, I still was ready to believe that this advanced robot did not have the agency to actively choose to hurt me. And yet she did, and I had to reflect on the fact that she watched me complete test after test in eager anticipation for when she would kill me. And now I had to kill her to have a chance at escape.

Once I destroyed Glados and she claimed that this collapse would kill me too, I was okay with that, knowing that if there are any other people to be "tested" that Glados couldn't torture them. I land outside, clearly hurt but Glados lies in ruins, it's okay. And then I'm dragged back inside. And I'm newly horrified by the realization that, of course, Glados isn't the only robot in this insane facility and everything I did to get out of there didn't matter. Also, Glados must have a backup somewhere because what testing facility wouldn't have a fail-safe?

I had so many spoilers and I still was taken in by the story and got to experience the horror of it. I think that just goes to show how well it was made. Very glad I finally got around to it.

I've started Portal 2, I'm already aware Wheatley is not to be trusted but I've so far avoided the exact reason why. (Please don't spoil). I'm not happy that I'm Glados' test subject again but the puzzles have been fun. I'll update with a Portal 2 reflection once I'm done.

[ytphobia-deactivated20210908]

Opinion | Don’t Tell Me to Despair About the Climate: Hope Is a Right We Must Protect

There is no point at which we can no longer strive to make the future better than it otherwise would be.

[thetragicallynerdy]

[ID: four screenshots of select parts of the linked article, Don’t Tell Me to Despair About the Climate: Hope Is a Right We Must Protect, by Morgan Florsheim. The screenshots read as follows, with some sections highlighted for emphasis:

One - Recently I read an essay that kept me up at night. The piece, Under the Weather by climate journalist Ash Sanders, left me with an unsettled feeling in the pit of my stomach that I found myself struggling to shake, even weeks later.The personal essay tells the story of Sanders and a mentor of hers, Chris Foster. Sanders recounts how both she and Foster have struggled for much of their adult lives with a gripping sense of impending doom, a depression deeply tied to their grief for a world lost. She writes about the newly coined terms for environmentally related mental health problems—eco-anxiety, climate grief, pre-traumatic stress disorder—and suggests that these conditions should not necessarily be viewed as disorders, but rather as the only reasonable response to a world experiencing catastrophe. Two - But equally, I know what it is to watch someone you love feel crushed by the weight of the world, and to feel helpless in lifting that burden. I’m 22, barely out of college, and already I have seen more friends than I could have ever imagined fall into deep depression, magnified by their care for the world and the way they felt helpless to stop the suffering within it. I know the way depression closes a person off to the good and spotlights the bad, how it sows seeds of shame and self-doubt and sits back to watch them grow. I wish that I didn’t. Highlighted for emphasis: Depression tells us that we are at once powerless and culpable, and therefore the only logical response is to disengage, turn inward, eschew connection—a response which only serves to reinforce the oppressive systems like racial injustice and capitalism that are truly responsible for our suffering.

Three - In one of my final college classes over Zoom in spring 2020, my professor, environmental anthropologist Myles Lennon, led us through a discussion of Braiding Sweetgrass, the awe-inspiring book by Indigenous scholar Robin Wall Kimmerer. Kimmerer writes of the endurance of Indigenous people (highlighted for emphasis): “despite exile, despite a siege four hundred years long, there is something, some heart of living stone, that will not surrender.” The climate crisis is not the first time a people has faced the end of the world. As we navigate this latest existential threat, we would do well to listen to Kimmerer and other Indigenous leaders. As my professor put it that day, (highlighted for emphasis) existence can cohabitate with collapse. It is not one or the other.

Four - I have a lot of decisions ahead of me. As I consider how I want to live my life, where to dedicate my energy, I refuse to accept the idea that I must sacrifice all joy to attend to the world’s problems. I know myself to be more helpful when I have addressed my own needs: needs for good food and good company, for hope, for long afternoons in the sunshine. I am grateful for the teachers that I have had in this movement, such as professor Lennon, and the people who have reminded me of all the reasons to imagine a brighter future. I know that hope is not a happy accident. (Highlighted for emphasis) Hope is a right we must protect. Hope is a discipline, according to Mariame Kaba, an organizer and educator building the movement for transformative justice.

(Entire paragraph highlighted for emphasis) The climate crisis is ongoing. And, also, a bird is building a nest in the eaves outside my window. Come spring, there will be new birth. In shaky hands, I hold these two truths together.

End ID.]

[hope-for-the-planet]

“The climate crisis is ongoing. And, also, a bird is building a nest in the eaves outside my window. Come spring, there will be new birth. In shaky hands, I hold these two truths together.”

[edg3ydaddies]

If ya'll ain't listening to Jesse Welles what are you doing?

[ginnymoonbeam]

Instead of apologizing for liking "trashy" media, consider: what is it doing well? If you like it, if it's making you feel pleasure and interest, then it must be succeeding at something. Is it shaping a set of emotional beats that you find satisfying to watch play out? Did it craft a character you find really compelling? Is something in the styling and aesthetics speaking to you? Did it unexpectedly resonate with a mood or experience you needed to see reflected right then?

However shallow or flawed a piece of media is, if you like it, it's because of something it did well - at least well enough to affect you, on the day that you encountered it.

There are a lot of good reasons to acknowledge this. One is about gratitude and manners: someone worked hard on that thing, and if they provided something that gave you happiness and pleasure, it's nice to honor that. Another is about breaking down the insidious habit of sorting everything into simple good/bad boxes. A piece of media, like a person, can do a lot of things wrong and a lot of things right, and the things on one side do not magically erase the other.

But the most important reason, I believe, is to get in the habit of celebrating what brings you pleasure and happiness. All your life there have been and there will be people telling you that you find joy in the wrong things, that if a particular thing makes you feel good it shows that there's something wrong with you. I reject that utterly. If a particular thing makes you feel good then there's something right, about you and about that thing. I'm not saying that pleasure is the only important thing or that every pleasure should be indulged indiscriminately. All I'm saying is that pleasure is in and of itself a good thing, and deserves notice.

[media-thots]

I’m thinking about Galinda and her song Popular and how it demonstrates her understanding of how to get what she wants.

This has probably been talked about before, I know. I read the book Wicked but over a decade ago. I knew very little about the musical until now.

Anyway, Popular is about how Galinda decides to alter Elphaba’s social image for the better, to make her popular. Surface level, this just seems to be the typical move of a popular girl, to make the unpopular girl more like herself, to “help” her. But Galinda understands that image is sometimes more important than content, how you are perceived can have more impact than what you stand for. She’s her own best example of this, Galinda stands for no real cause, but she’s molded her image to be seemingly Good, beautiful, and charming, so Galinda is popular. This informs her greater view of how to get what she wants, as in if she’s likable and popular, then she can achieve what she dreams of, magic. It’s always worked for herself before but popularity won’t help her gain the ability to use magic.

Galinda’s perspective of how to achieve what you want is at direct odds with Elphaba’s perspective. Her whole life, Elphaba’s mere existence, her presence has been a disturbance, in more than one sense of the word. She’s naturally done her best to go unnoticed and when that isn’t possible, she will stare down the mockery and derision. In munchkinland, she had no possibility to be popular so she has to achieve what she wants another way. Through pure hard work and talent for magic. And this ultimately leads to Elphaba’s perspective that it doesn’t matter what people think of her, as long as she is doing the right thing.

These differences in perspective ultimately comes to a head with Defying Gravity. Elphaba and Glinda learn the truth of the Wizard, Madame Morrible, and their vilification of the Animals. For Elphaba, there is only one course of action, to tell the truth and stop the Wizard from causing more harm. If this makes her a fugitive then so be it, she will be doing the right thing. But she can do this because she has raw magic power. For Glinda, popularity is power (look at how well that works for the Wizard), if she is hated then she has no power because at the time of this song, Glinda isn’t magically powerful, not like Elphaba. As much as they care for each other and say that their partnership makes them unlimited, Glinda’s decision to stay behind demonstrates that she knows, that as she is right then, she would be of no help to Elphaba’s cause. So they part, heartbroken but accepting of the path the other person chooses.

It’s a catchy song, I understand now why my mom will hum it out of nowhere. But it has so many more layers to it than that, quite like the character who sings it.

Anyway, I had a lot of fun watching the movie and am looking forward to Act 2.

[calkestis]

MANNY JACINTO, about playing the role of Qimir / The Stranger in The Acolyte (source)

[matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll]

@hotvintagepoll Apparently The Stanger/Quimr had roots in our boy Mifune

[elephantlovemedleys]

PRACTICAL MAGIC (1998) dir. GRIFFIN DUNNE

[staidwaters]

I've been seeing a bunch of posts about "why didn't the government do anything in advance" Here are things that were done:

Massive amounts of food, bottled water, medical supplies, and beds were delivered to strong buildings designated as shelters in every town.

The National guard was sandbagging everything they could and knocking on doors all along the coast trying to convince people to evacuate. They were literally going door-to-door.

The government paid for free Uber rides to shelters and provided free buses to evacuate. Unfortunately it appears not many people knew about it.

The government organized and prioritized getting gas stations refilled along evacuation routes. It wasn't enough but it would have been much worse without official help. They also organizes tow trucks to get dead cars off the roads.

Everyone will probably get the same aid Helen victims got - $750 instantly to anyone with ID showing they lived in a hurricane damaged area, and then thousands to tens of thousands to help rebuild or move later on, once there are more detailed damage assessments and victims fill out a request for aid.

The government also speed ran trying to get debris from Helene off the streets before Milton so it wouldn't become projectiles (again not enough but they managed waaaaay more than expected), and will be the ones clearing roads tomorrow ASAP.

Heck, the government runs NOAA and is what told people approximately where it would hit and with what power days ago. They were the ones that did all the research to build the devices that let them make predictions like that. They were the ones flying into the storm to get windspeed measurements every couple hours.

Tomorrow the government will be delivering more generators and gas and bottled water, and a fleet of ambulances and firemen to rescue people.

Yeah we could do better. We could always do better. Florida needs better building codes in storm surge zones for one thing.

But to say the government did nothing? Nah, that's not true. It's not true at all.

[elexuscal]

"it's concerning if university students are genuinely struggling to read full adult-level books for class" and "don't overstate the reporting of a single news article" and "if this shift is genuinely real, it's reflective of broad curriculum changes in lower education levels, probably at least in part due to remote schooling during COVID, and doesn't mean the new generation is being willfully Stupid and Vapid" and "when reading for personal pleasure people should read whatever they like without shame" and "reading from a broad variety of genres, styles, and authorial backgrounds will improve your understanding of both literature and the real world" and "actively mocking people for their tastes in books does not encourage them to become more adventurous you're just being mean" and also "but seriously adult books are not just boringly pretentious nothingburgers padded with pointless sex scenes, and claiming they are just shows how little you've read" all can and should co-exist.

[starfieldcanvas]

one of the teachers interviewed for that article said the reporter flat-out ignored anything the teacher said that contradicted the reporter's thesis

The Atlantic Did Me Dirty

Early this summer I was interviewed by Rose Horowitch, an editor for The Atlantic. She told me that she had heard from a university professo

she said her kids DO actually read books all the way through, including classics like the Odyssey, and the reporter just cherry-picked her words to focus on the books the class reads as excerpts only

remember that the atlantic is the same paper that wrote the scaremongering article about how kids are transitioning too fast and too often even though they didn't even have any examples