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you can call me nickel! i am also snickettes on AO3 and persnickettes on tumblr. I am here for Wang Yibo and Wang Yibo leading me around by the nose into fandoms. Yizhan-flavored. #booksky #MovieChallenge #artskychallenge #musicadvent #charactermeme

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · Mar 18

i am loling that the CCTV is just like "feel the beauty of spring through Wang Yibo's singing!" and the songs are just:
- CHINA'S POLICE FORCE IS THE BEST POLICE FORCE
- YOU SHOULD DO AEROBICS
- BEING A PERSON WITH AN IDENTITY CREATES ENDLESS EXISTENTIAL ANGST
- CALL YOUR MOM

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 3h

He also never apologized for or recanted his deeply held bigotry. It's frankly shocking to hear someone insist so firmly that he was "harmless." Lovecraft is entirely the opposite of a harmless, benign writer.

www.wweek.com/culture/2017...

It’s Too Late to Redeem HP Lovecraft, Who Was An Unapologetic Racist and Anti-Semite

One of the major problems with The Product of the Time argument is that it hinges on the belief that the person didn’t know better, that they lived in a time of naivete and innocence. They didn’t unde...

www.wweek.com

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 4h

sorry to intrude, but this is false. He was enthusiastically, repeatedly expressive about how Black people were "fundamentally biologically inferior" and how Jewish people were 'mongrels.' He was not just "a product of his time"—he was *extremely* racist even for his time. lithub.com/we-cant-igno...

We Can’t Ignore H.P. Lovecraft’s White Supremacy

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the mastermind of cosmic horror, brought madness and existential dread to new heights. He ruptured the imagination in tandem with history itself becoming unimaginable in …

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 4h

a young man wearing a white t-shirt with a microphone around his neck

ALT: a young man wearing a white t-shirt with a microphone around his neck

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 5h

Emma is my favorite book of all time. It's such a shrewd exploration of how you perform your role in a community when everyone in that community is just as obnoxious and flawed and human as you are. I loved it growing up yet I appreciate it even more as I age. It also has the BEST romance dynamic 😭🥺

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 9h

The correct order is
Pride and Prejudice
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
(Several yards)
Sense and Sensibility
(Dozens of yards)
Emma
(A football stadium)
Mansfield Park

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

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

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 6h

Meanwhile Tati continues to be the sweetest most lively curious cat I have ever known. She purrs and plays all day long.<333

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 6h

thank you! I like to document these moments of progress for when things are haywire and I despair that I am the world's worst cat mom etc

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 6h

Artemis has rapidly progressed to roughly where she was before The Hellion arrived, which is: wanting to cuddle at all times and hop into my lap whether or not a lap exists <3

this could also be because the weather is turning chillier and she craves warmth but I like to think she's Adjusting 🙏

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 8h

i think i was put off by the worldbuilding out of the gate, plus some "as you know" exposition etc. maybe i will give it another shot.

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 8h

i didn't particularly love or hate either one, i was very much a Twelfth Night and a Macbeth person!! I really love Macbeth, it's so delightfully unhinged. Twelfth Night was the first Shakespeare i saw performed, and It made my nascent queer heart sing; thank you, local bible college production 😂

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 8h

100% on more funding and more niche teaching, but what do you do with the kids who glom onto Shakespeare *and* audiobooks *and* comics *and* genre etc etc?

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 8h

a few months ago my mom went to *remind* me what my childhood phone number was, like she thought I might have forgotten, and i am still so insulted by this. MOM!!!!!!!!!

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 8h

this boy has never missed an opportunity to appreciate the ~joy~ of human connection

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 8h

this boy

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 8h

oh i started to read this a month or so ago and it was an instant discard for me within a few pages, i guess i should give it another try!

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 8h

Freshman year of college my prof included a Stephen King short story in our syllabus, and it was a genuine revelation to me that I could read horror and genre alongside what had til then been a diet exclusively of literary~ short stories.

Also Jerusalem's Lot should legit be used to teach pastiche.

Drewcifer DIEtsch 🎃 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 11h

Stephen King is the most important American author of the 20th century and should be taught across the entire spectrum of schooling.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

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

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 8h

I'd start in on the iambic pentameter, and within 10 minutes she'd go from tense and hissing to relaxed and curled up and purring on the couch, every time, like clockwork. It was just magic to watch.

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 8h

re: all of these takes bashing Shakespeare

of course they're wrong, but moreover, Shakespeare is meant to be performed, recited, not read silently.

When I first adopted Artemis, I read reams of poetry aloud to her, and none of it soothed her scared, anxious soul, except for Shakespeare's sonnets.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

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

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 8h

all the people bashing second-person and present tense are just making me want to write everything in second-person present tense

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

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

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 8h

there are two wolves inside of me, and one wolf is gleefully liking all the "Faulkner sucks" posts and one wolf is gleefully liking all the "Faulkner slaps" posts

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 8h

in re: "Kids shouldn't read To Kill a Mockingbird before high school"

My mom put a copy in my Easter basket when I was 9. Yes, it's a problematic white savior narrative, but it's also a foundational lesson in humanity. I read and reread it as a kid, and I'm so grateful I had it when I was young.

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 9h

*adds "James Joyce writing literary RPF" to my list of literary RPF prompts for next year's Yuletide*

some donkus @anarchojakeism.bsky.social · 11h

It's a shame James Joyce didn't live into the era of fanfiction because he would have written some fucked up shit and loved every moment of it

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

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

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 9h

that's not even unhinged, that's just facts 💅

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 9h

went and found this and had a nice librarian read it to me! www.facebook.com/watch/?v=107...

screencap of a nice lady holding up a children's picture book (The Big Red Barn) as she flips through it.

BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 9h