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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 10m

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 · 23m

50 quid and I’ll tell you.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 25m

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

Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 51m

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 · 1h

RIP Drew Struzan
A master.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

Strong disagree but respect the opinion.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 2h

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

It’s the older ones that get me. What a baffling regression to make in life. Like they’re actually becoming dumber.

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

Much too much. Nice width but to dominating and the material isn’t flattering.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 18h

The lost their dignity in 22 and now just cheer on the latest corpse god.

darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 19h

God I wish I wasn’t allergic to that type of leather seeing those.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 19h

That’s the main problem for the change tbh.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 19h

a man with a beard says i need it .

ALT: a man with a beard says i need it .

media.tenor.com

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 19h

As guilty as I am a Catholic.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 20h

Good man.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 20h

The surgeries worked then.

darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 20h

Genuinely have no idea what the other kind of tank watch is.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 20h

We have such small dreams and yet

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 21h

I’ve written two in two days. I wrote my best one that night. I don’t know what’s happening to me.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 21h

Did think you just had great moments of marching memorise tbh.

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 21h

Being too old to care of bother witb finding out what particular ism one has is very relatable.

Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think I am on any kind of spectrum and I am way too old to think it any use in finding out, but one of my greatest personal challenges is not reacting to the price at a supermarket till by telling the cashier what happened on a marching historical date - “Seven Thirty Two? Battle of Tours”

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 21h

I am not touching this with a barge pole to be clear lads

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darcyswickham.bsky.social @darcyswickham.bsky.social · 21h

Not to be funny but I get why people turn them down for me when I shout and not for others, but what a bstarding thing to do in public. I hate raising my voice in my job as I’m just scary when I do it. My dad’s the same like. Why it’s so much easier to just ignore them. If exhausting too.

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