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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

It's just fun to say!

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

Okay, that's enough takes for one night

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

Wise!

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

All the cool kids were into them, and I was okay with not being cool on that particular point.

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

I tried and tried and I just don't get it

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OMG YES

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Nathan Andrew is opening The Gate - Auld Hornie telt me t’dae’t @feralharp.bsky.social · 8h

#hARToween25
“Baba Yaga”

I cranked up some appropriate Mussorgsky tunes (Pictures at an Exhibition, with its “Hut on Fowl’s Legs” section, and Night on Bald Mountain), and channeled some Russian fairy tale lore.

Sketch of a chicken on the left, looking at a big, wooden mortar and pestle on the right.

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YayForThat @yayforthat.bsky.social · 10h

#hARToween25
Day 14: Ghost Bride

Watercolor painting depicting a slender, ghostly bride. Her skin and long hair are turquoise-green, she wears a floral wreath with apricot-colored roses and green leaves, and her eyes are brown. She wears a transparent veil with small white dots and a wedding dress with lace at the neckline.

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

Yay!

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

My unhinged music opinion counterpart to this is that The Smiths ruined British music for a couple of decades

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 2h

Hemingway ruined prose writers forever

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

James Franco is a piece of shit but his adaptation of As I Lay Dying is admirable, if not wholly successful.

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

The House of Seven Gables is a complete snoozefest but almost worth it for the part where the omniscient narrator spends an entire chapter absolutely ROASTING a corpse

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

Ooh yes I have heard this

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone snickers about Oedipus banging his mom, but the story is genuinely TRAGIC. A perfectly plotted narrative. Everyone should read Sophocles's play.

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

Okay that last one wasn't particularly unhinged

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

Richard Matheson doesn't get enough respect for churning out banger after banger.

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

I legitimately liked many of Dave Eggers's books

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

So far, I've only read Pride and Prejudice, which I quite enjoyed. Just never had a burning desire for more.

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

I promise it's a thing (or was 10-15 years ago). I probably heard it more than average because I was a writer and taught English, so it felt like guys (sometimes students) were trying to impress me with their poetry knowledge.

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 1h

I've only read what was assigned for classes, and it's...fine? I can appreciate the craft but it doesn't resonate for me.

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 2h

The House of Leaves is not a difficult book, and I'm confused whenever people say that.

The normal HoL opinion is that Johnny has got to fucking go.

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 2h

Bukowski's books should be banned, but only for white men under 24. I just think it would be funny.

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 2h

Chaucer was FILTHY and I love it

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 2h

I might have appreciated Sylvia Plath more if so much of the focus hadn't been on her fucked up relationship with Ted Hughes. I don't give a shit! Girl, you're annoying! Good writer, though.

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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 2h

TS Eliot is a two-hit wonder (but they are sublime)

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