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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 7h

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 8h

I kill a tree a day.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 8h

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 10h

The thing with teaching English, is that the longer I do it, the more important Shakespeare is to studying. 500 years and there’s still none that match his breadth and depth.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 11h

50 quid and I’ll tell you.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 11h

An actual line I’ve used in teaching. Still, so love the way he strung a sonnet.

Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 15h

If you made Shakespeare do a GCSE exam in any of his plays he'd be baffled. He just wrote stuff that he thought people would pay to see.

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Chris Brosnahan @chrisbrosnahan.com · 11h

Drew Struzan made some of the greatest, most fun movies of all time look even more epic than they were. An artist who understood the soul of movies.

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 11h

RIP Drew Struzan
A master.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 11h

Remember my dad talking about the Polish builders he partnered up with back in the day. He couldn’t understand what people had against them as they were the only ones that could match his work and among the few that worked his mad hours.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 12h

Strong disagree but respect the opinion.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 12h

Lost a job after having to head into ane at 6pm, not getting out till 4. My anxiety over the heart palpitations was unwarranted and shouldn’t have affected my performance apparently.

darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 12h

We have no real concept of why we teach English literature and while literacy rates have increased exponentially, it’s little surprise media literacy has decreased so badly at the same rate.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 13h

Woolly. Skills based maybe but that you need depends on the exam board and little of it has been updated for skills we need today. So little thought out into it.

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