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* 🍓 rolls down hill* oops!! *skips on over* ahaha that must've fallen outta my basket *close up of wicker basket chock full of 🍓 s covered by gingham cloth napkin* making a pie later...*sighs* if only i could find some rhubarb...

ohhh berry pie for me :) i slip some rhubarb into your basket as well as some fresh peaches and plums for you to enjoy ^_^

i meant it when i said you had the soul of an ancient mutual! i love the way that you speak openly, uncompromisingly, and correctly about difficult subjects. i can always expect support from you to be firmly principled and also deeply kind. thank you. <3

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wdyt of joan didion? i have very very mixed feelings about her. also wdyt her fursona would be (i think she'd choose an objectsona)

Much of my criticism is better said by Myriam Gurba in this article –– Didion takes outsized credit for writing in the "american west" due to her whiteness and citizenship status. Her status willfully ignore the lives and art of people displaced and communities destroyed to make her writing + her status possible.

It's Time to Take California Back from Joan Didion - Electric Literature

The first lady of West Coast letters needs to share that honor with the Mexican diaspora

My broader critique, coming off of this, is that her outsized status overshadows a lot of other woman essayists and journalists who would be her contemporaries. Didion, while immensely talented, is often the token woman used in serial lists. I actually looked at her wikipedia, and guess what I found:

So, yeah. Didion herself? I don't have exceptional beef with. She was excellent at what she did. Her attitudes were critical and progressive, particularly for her time. But she took up a lot of space, both due to her whiteness and due to the misogyny of literary publishing and journalism, and that's not okay.

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what's a novel and/or play that you don't think many have heard of, but they should? or a novel that taught you about a very specific topic you weren't so familiar with before?

i have SO MANY that i wish more people knew about. in particular, i'm constantly banging the drums of Salt Fish Girl, Bird-Eyes, Beyond the Pale, Fat Girl Dances With Rocks, Amatka, Dreadnought (my favorite EVER of Gretchen Felker-Martin's works and no one has heard of it WAHHHH), Tiny, Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, and many more in my book rec tag!

but i want to focus on the other question, which is one i haven't answered as often!

Anatomic by Adam Dickinson (macronutrients, what's possible when you...send off to labs to learn about the weird stuff going on in your body???)

True Biz by Sara Nović (Deaf culture! Deaf dyke culture!)

Tori Amos Bootleg Webring by Megan Milks (exactly what it says on the tin)

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H. (Muslim theology and philosophy in conversation with historical and contemporary philosophical and political movements)

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman (metapedagogical re: speculative history; instructive and immersive in early 20th century queer Black communities)

Trans(re)lating House One by Poupeh Missaghi (great intro to documentary poetics; informative on the affective experience of Iran's 2009 post-election protests)

We Computers by Hamid Ismailov, tr. Shelley Fairweather-Vega (history and construction of the ghazal; European and West Asian literary cultures)

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ripelypine The shirt isn't half as cool as the Paul Blart fanny pack I've got tho

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ohhhh my gosh your spooky tumblr blogs title is one of my favourite mysteries yesssss.

ME TOO!!!!! also it sounds super good

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Rest in peace to my old girl Blackberry, who was...

Sending good vibes !!!

Thanks Holden!! :( <3 

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ripelypine replied to your post “It’s great to watch people who take great pains to act inclusive and...”

Yeah. Or even just asexuals under the bus. I hate it but I'll get hate if I say anything about it.

I am really not good with this idea that being able to pass as straight means that everything is good for you like uh that is not the case.