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Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀

@kitwrenaway.bsky.social

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Sports, books, other stuff intermittently. El Paso Man About Town. Director, Tumblewords Project. Producer and Host, Barbed Wire Open Mic Series. My head's a dictionary of long spring days and the speech of crows. IG: kitwrenaway. he/him.

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Clownings @clownings.bsky.social · 19h

There are very few scenes in movies which always hit for me, when Madeleine Lebeau sings La Marseillaise, it doesn't matter what kind of mood I am in, it always moves me to tears.

It is incredible to think they made this movie during the war.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...

La Marseillaise Casablanca

YouTube video by Andrew Barbin

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Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 12h

Statue avi plato. What a giveaway.

Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 17h

Your shadow really do be following you around though.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 21h

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Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

someone needs to out-retro the others and start dressing like George Halas.

Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

Sid Luckman had the single season touchdown record for the Bears until 1995.

Justin Russo @flybyknite.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know if this stat should make me laugh or cry.

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Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus what a nickname

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 1d

"what the fuck just happened"

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Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

Does earning the Smart Boy Third Challenge sway your calculus on this

Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

If the first paragraph doesn't immediately grab you then wait until next halloween to try again

Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

Limiting myself to American lit, roughly chronological:

Autobiography of Fredrick Douglass
Billy Budd
A Connecticut Yankee in king Arthur's court
Grendel
The poisonwood bible

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 1d

Let's be positive, what are 5 books you'd assign for a high school English class to get the kids on board with literature? I'll start
The Remains of the Day
Fatelessness
A Bend in the River
The Life & Times of Michael K
The Handmaid's Tale

Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, sorry, no thank you

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Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

What?

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

“What a lot of people don’t know, before you eat a turkey, you have to cook it.”

John Smoltz and Joe Davis carving a turkey

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Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

Slight amendment, memoir is memoir for liars, autofiction is memoir for liars without lawyers

Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d

Autofiction is memoir for liars

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d

Autofiction is memoir for liars

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

It's a cliché to refer to a certain type of football coach as a mad scientist. It’s a cliché I really like, and keep returning to, because I like the image of Clark Shaughnessy in a Swiss Castle cutting his reel to reels in perfect time to a thunderclap. ko-fi.com/post/1940-NF...

1940 NFL Championship Game: December 8, 1940

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Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

also if you DNF things you're weak.

Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

last one sorry! I like reading negative reviews of things I like! Either I hear an interesting perspective, or I get pissed about something low stakes, which can be fun and productive!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

i yelled at my least favorite friend like a decade ago because he said some novel was a work of art and i said that means nothing! you just told me this novel was a work of art, why didn't you tell me that this novel has pages with symbols on them which represent words.

Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

also! something I think about a lot: the bad ones are art too, and maybe it's good that we're treating previously disposable subgenres with respect! "Work of art" is not a title that only the quality entries get, work of art is a type of endeavor, and endeavors can fail!

Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

this will eventually become a market problem, but kinda always is. making it a moral argument to guilt people is done with markets in mind, but it's not gonna work, because people are better than ever at pretending the things they want to do are actually moral decisions.

Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

but at the same time Snobs Classic keep wanting to make this a moral panic and like...no? I don't even necessarily think this is new, I just think people are oddly more sophisticated in self-justification than ever before.

Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

also read more poetry. even if it's crappy it's fine.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

Kit 💀💀Were-Wren💀💀 @kitwrenaway.bsky.social · 1d

there needs to be a snappy term for the people who are proud of reading junk. reverse snobs.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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