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matt ❁ 21 ❁ she/they

currently reading: dubliners by james joyce, a passage to india by em forster, little women by louisa may alcott, nicholas nickleby by charles dickens, and lila by marilynne robinson

i like music, literature, knitting, crocheting, making jewelry, & making/customizing my own clothes :)

physical media enjoyer <3

mutuals can dm for my discord!!

personal posts are tagged with [matt speaks]. mutuals can rb but if we are not friends. don’t rb my posts.

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i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

#journal. meds. tums. branston pickle jar (empty) full of pens. mail (proof of address to renew my library card). prescription toothpaste.#itch ointment. empty mug of tea. empty glass of water. saline for my sinuses. scraps of yarn #(made beanie baby sweater vests over the weekend)#also my nightstand is a vintage lamp with a built in table and everyone should know this because it's awesome

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me when im reading a good book, and it’s a good book, and i love a good book

#sent to me #MEEEE I LOVE TO READ A GOOD BOOK

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you have to spend a week in the last series you watched how is it going

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#house of guinness i believe… prev tags i think i could do alright depending on where i was. if i was guinness number 5 id be fine as long #as i wasn’t married off or smth #it might be black sails tho i’m rewatching both and i don’t remember which was most recent. but in that case i would be kilt

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#going back to england :) no i haven’t planned a trip but i am hoping to go back soon #maybe after i graduate….#but also hanging out with my friends this summer since we’re all staying at uni… and doing more thesis research :]

sneaking bites of my forbidden blueberry donut in the mit library rn life is so beautiful

#matt speaks #lowkey i kinda love the mit library it’s open to the public and the basement is one of my favorite places to work… i wish #my library basement was this awesome #the only downside is no food. hence the sneaking

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accurate view of my kitten Tchotchke when he's laying on my neck and staring at me

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the kitten in question

#MY SWEET BOY

crazy how reading good literature makes you want to write good literature

#matt speaks #finished my gilead reread (150 pages) yesterday and i am a new man

finished my james joyce paper 😞

#matt speaks #i’m so weary but that was a fun paper overall tbh #i did accidentally email it to him tho bc it was 4am and i wasn’t firing on all cylinders so then i had to submit via canvas and send a #second apology email. so sorry dr w

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#me tonight bc i just realized i need to meet with my thesis advisor like four days ago. fuck!!!!#it’s so over #worst email ever too bc i’m gonna be like heyyy dr s sorry for the week late email. i’m behind on reading and i am thinking abt changing the #whole scope of my thesis when can i meet to talk with you next week 💅

litmag publication soon….. ☺️

#matt speaks #i’m very very excited

semester is almost over and tbh i think that i have learned i hate theory

#matt speaks #i don’t deny there are important things being said and talked about but at the same time do we have to use every six-syllable word we can #possibly think of at every opportunity #like sure sometimes u need a specific word but at a certain point this is just unreadable #it seems very ‘ohhh look at me i’m so much smarter than you see how many unnecessary big words i use’

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Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs about them. Friedrich Nietzsche (1828-1900)

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

[Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Anna Karenina are] loose, baggy monsters. Henry James (1843-1916)

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

#this post is so fucking funny to me #get his ass oscar

did you guys know. allen ginsberg

#matt speaks #rewatched kill your darlings last weekend and i’ve been thinking about him #i loveee allen ginsberg

watching war and peace 2016 and tbh this is a pretty good adaptation. i do feel that it moves too fast but it’s also a 1400(?) page book condensed into 8 hours so like that’s bound to happen lol. but overall i think it’s quite enjoyable

#matt speaks #everyone complains that there’s no war in this one and like are we watching the same miniseries. lol #they do lean into the humor a bit tho which i appreciate <3

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TBH I've never read a fanfic that's better than most published books because I read good books

#prev tags genuinely

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lots of good "reblog and tell me" posts recently so i wanna play. reblog and tell me the last film you watched on physical media. i'll go first mine was predators (2010) and i watched it on blu-ray.

#pirates of the caribbean :] i’m rewatching them

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