Hoyt

Post-classroom hyper-disaster.

[secularbakedgoods]

What is significant about fan fiction is that it often spins the kind of stories that showrunners wouldn’t think to tell, because fanficcers often come from a different demographic. The discomfort seems to be not that the shows are being reinterpreted by fans, but that they are being reinterpreted by the wrong sorts of fans - women, people of colour, queer kids, horny teenagers, people who are not professional writers, people who actually care about continuity (sorry). The proper way for cultural mythmaking to progress, it is implied, is for privileged men to recreate the works of privileged men from previous generations whilst everyone else listens quietly.

Laurie Penny, Sherlock and the Adventure of the Overzealous Fanbase (via moniquill)

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So teal deer version: Corporate sources are pissed that the practice of folklore is still going strong.

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THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!

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[theparisreview]

“A nation goes wild. The switchboards at MGE and NBC begin jangled two-day symphonies. Pat Sajak sends three dozen long-stemmed reds to Julie’s dressing table. The market share for the last segment of Jeopardy! slot forty-seven is a fifty—on a par with Super Bowls and assassinations. This is 24 September, 1985.”

—David Foster Wallace, from “Little Expressionless Animals.”

[buchr]

[millionsmillions]

There’s a certain horror in knowing James Wood wouldn’t like your book.

[fishingboatproceeds]

Perspective.

This is the most personal vlogbrothers video I’ve made in several years.

[mrhoyt-blog]

"I recommend pleasant."

[theatlantic]

Study: Public School Students Are Getting Poorer and Poorer

In 2011, 48 percent qualified as low-income.

Read more.

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[ilovecharts]

This guy hates charts

[uispeccoll]

Want to get freaked out in style?  This gorgeous edition of E.A. Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination ought to do the trick.  Each story features ornate illustrations by Harry Clarke which capture the liminal style of the 1920’s, hanging in the balance between Art Nouveau and Art Deco.  Harry Clarke was an Irish stained glass artist and illustrator who played a big role in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. 2,500 copies of this edition were printed for American readers, and we are lucky enough to have one here.  Take a sip of Amontillado for courage and stop by to see it.  –L.H.

Poe, Edgar Allan.  Tales of Mystery and Imagination, illustrated by Harry Clarke.  New York: Brentano’s, 1923. Printed and bound by J.J. Little & Ives Company, New York.  Special Collections Mabbott Poe Collection PS2612 .A1 1923  

[mrhoyt-blog]

Seems right.

[qmsd]

This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals—sounds that say listen to this, it is important.

Gary Provost (via tuongexists) Holy crap, what just happened there… (via cyrusgabriel)