Emma Ann
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I haunt libraries, read books, and drink tea. Also I teach people Latin sometimes. 🧡🤍🩷
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This one doesn't need too much interpretation imo. This in an anonymous medieval proverb from a collection gathered from various manuscripts and published in, "Lateinische Sprichworter und Sinnspruche des Mittelalters," Jakob Werner, 1912.
June 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This one doesn't need too much interpretation imo. This in an anonymous medieval proverb from a collection gathered from various manuscripts and published in, "Lateinische Sprichworter und Sinnspruche des Mittelalters," Jakob Werner, 1912.
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I cannot think of a more bizarre group to go after than asexuals. All they want is for people to be nice to them and Joanne is like, 'hmm, no thanks'
April 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I cannot think of a more bizarre group to go after than asexuals. All they want is for people to be nice to them and Joanne is like, 'hmm, no thanks'
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here’s my protest take: stop being snarky about people doing literally anything we need all of it even if it’s not your thing
April 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
here’s my protest take: stop being snarky about people doing literally anything we need all of it even if it’s not your thing
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Cory Booker just gave the longest speech in the history of Congress and concluded by apologizing to everyone who had to stay up all night keeping the chamber open and operating.
April 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Cory Booker just gave the longest speech in the history of Congress and concluded by apologizing to everyone who had to stay up all night keeping the chamber open and operating.
A few books that I think work BETTER on audiobook than in print, if you’re looking for something new to listen to: 🧵
March 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A few books that I think work BETTER on audiobook than in print, if you’re looking for something new to listen to: 🧵
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Recently Le Guin's biographer noted that in notes for the story Le Guin contemplated having people try to rescue the Omelas child, but then she realized that would be dumb.
Then a generation of writers rolled up their sleeves, went to to their keyboards and started typing up a GREAT IDEA they had
Then a generation of writers rolled up their sleeves, went to to their keyboards and started typing up a GREAT IDEA they had
It’s weird people forget, in the context of the short story, Omelas is not a “real” place. It’s a thought experiment in a Socratic dialogue, a philosophical trap about complicity in structural violence… that everyone keeps falling into, with gusto.
This person is right. It would be good for SFF as a field to stop trying to outsmart Le Guin / sidestep our own complicity by writing our way out of the problem, because both are impossible and the latter is the far worse impulse for the reasons already laid out in the OG Omelas story.
March 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Recently Le Guin's biographer noted that in notes for the story Le Guin contemplated having people try to rescue the Omelas child, but then she realized that would be dumb.
Then a generation of writers rolled up their sleeves, went to to their keyboards and started typing up a GREAT IDEA they had
Then a generation of writers rolled up their sleeves, went to to their keyboards and started typing up a GREAT IDEA they had
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Uniquely wild to me that Catullus' translation-plus of Sappho's poem is a *half a millennium* younger.
To our eyes, both are ancient, but each stands hundreds of years apart!
#AncientBluesky
To our eyes, both are ancient, but each stands hundreds of years apart!
#AncientBluesky
![φάινεταί μοι κῆνος ἴσος θέοισιν
ἔμμεν ὤνερ, ὄττις ἐναντίος τοι
ἰσδάνει καὶ πλάσιον ἆδυ φωνεί-
σας ὐπακούει
καὶ γελαίσας ἰμερόεν τό μ᾽ ἦ μάν
καρδίαν ἐν στήθεσιν ἐπτόησεν·
ὠς γὰρ εἰσίδω βροχέως σε, φώνας
οὐδὲν ἔτ᾽ ἴκει·
ἀλλὰ κάμ μὲν γλῶσσα ἔαγε, λέπτον
δ᾽ αὔτικα χρῷ πῦρ ὐπαδεδρόμηκεν,
ὀππάτεσσι δ᾽ οὐδὲν ὄρημ᾽,ἐπιρρόμ-
βεισι δ᾽ ἄκουαι.
καδ δέ μ᾽ ἴδρως κακχέεται, τρόμος δὲ
παῖσαν ἄγρει, χλωροτέρα δὲ ποίας
ἔμμι, τεθνάκην δ᾽ ὀλίγω ᾽πιδεύης
φαίνομαι […].
ἀλλὰ πᾶν τόλματον …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:edl4azol4o2bdncuutqknzod/bafkreiexmjra7caizxqxcpb3vucyjw4lip7saemcqais5xudc73265rcte@jpeg)
March 6, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Uniquely wild to me that Catullus' translation-plus of Sappho's poem is a *half a millennium* younger.
To our eyes, both are ancient, but each stands hundreds of years apart!
#AncientBluesky
To our eyes, both are ancient, but each stands hundreds of years apart!
#AncientBluesky
So I finally finished The Book of the New Sun, and I’m fascinated by whatever it is Wolfe is saying about semiotics and signs and symbols. Unfortunately I don’t know enough about semiotics to have any idea what he means
March 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
So I finally finished The Book of the New Sun, and I’m fascinated by whatever it is Wolfe is saying about semiotics and signs and symbols. Unfortunately I don’t know enough about semiotics to have any idea what he means
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Regular reminder to go get a public library card. As book bans become more and more common, supporting libraries is going to be essential.
For most places I've lived, all you need to get a library card is a photo ID and a piece of mail that shows you live in the city. It's free!
For most places I've lived, all you need to get a library card is a photo ID and a piece of mail that shows you live in the city. It's free!
February 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Regular reminder to go get a public library card. As book bans become more and more common, supporting libraries is going to be essential.
For most places I've lived, all you need to get a library card is a photo ID and a piece of mail that shows you live in the city. It's free!
For most places I've lived, all you need to get a library card is a photo ID and a piece of mail that shows you live in the city. It's free!
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Reader question received today via my website: "What is your stance on reality and truth in relation to annihilation?" Answer: Fuck if I know at this point.
February 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Reader question received today via my website: "What is your stance on reality and truth in relation to annihilation?" Answer: Fuck if I know at this point.
She-Hulk is underrated and I will die on this hill. The law bits might not be super accurate, but it’s funny and heartfelt and earnest, and I would watch a billion episodes
Rewatching She-Hulk: Attorney at Law whilst signing a genuinely interminable number of signature sheets this week and was reminded how clever and fun this series is; it's probably my favorite of the Disney+ Marvel series (along with Ms. Marvel, also a delight).
February 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
She-Hulk is underrated and I will die on this hill. The law bits might not be super accurate, but it’s funny and heartfelt and earnest, and I would watch a billion episodes
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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
January 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I know. I was there in those camps.
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SPEAKING OF GARDENS
yall better have library cards. Some (most!!) public library systems have seed libraries and libraries of things where you can borrow things you may not need to own.
Also libraries are revolutionary and librarians have always been on the front lines
yall better have library cards. Some (most!!) public library systems have seed libraries and libraries of things where you can borrow things you may not need to own.
Also libraries are revolutionary and librarians have always been on the front lines
January 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
SPEAKING OF GARDENS
yall better have library cards. Some (most!!) public library systems have seed libraries and libraries of things where you can borrow things you may not need to own.
Also libraries are revolutionary and librarians have always been on the front lines
yall better have library cards. Some (most!!) public library systems have seed libraries and libraries of things where you can borrow things you may not need to own.
Also libraries are revolutionary and librarians have always been on the front lines
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
January 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
In honor of Booktok, what is a book you found because of Booktok that ended up being a 5⭐️ read?
Mine is Klara & the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
#booksky 🪐📚💙
Mine is Klara & the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
#booksky 🪐📚💙
January 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
In honor of Booktok, what is a book you found because of Booktok that ended up being a 5⭐️ read?
Mine is Klara & the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
#booksky 🪐📚💙
Mine is Klara & the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
#booksky 🪐📚💙
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Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.
January 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.
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It's fun to be living in a moment when it seems like we are about to enter an era of terrifying authoritarianism OR an era of authoritarian overreach that immediately crumbles and gives way to something better, and these two things might happen simultaneously, and we won't know for sure for A BIT.
January 19, 2025 at 2:07 AM
It's fun to be living in a moment when it seems like we are about to enter an era of terrifying authoritarianism OR an era of authoritarian overreach that immediately crumbles and gives way to something better, and these two things might happen simultaneously, and we won't know for sure for A BIT.
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seasons greasons everyone
December 23, 2024 at 11:47 PM
seasons greasons everyone
#ClassicsBlueSky how do you keep up your languages if you’re not working as a classicist/pursuing a PhD? I graduated with my MA in May & now I’m going into a career completely unrelated to classics. I don’t want to lose my Latin
December 22, 2024 at 7:22 PM
#ClassicsBlueSky how do you keep up your languages if you’re not working as a classicist/pursuing a PhD? I graduated with my MA in May & now I’m going into a career completely unrelated to classics. I don’t want to lose my Latin
Handed in my keys at my high school teaching job yesterday. It’s bittersweet, but I’ll be working as a writing tutor going forward, & I think I’ll have more work/life balance. I was planning to resume posting on TikTok this week, & I probably still will, but it’s a bummer that TT may not last
December 21, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Handed in my keys at my high school teaching job yesterday. It’s bittersweet, but I’ll be working as a writing tutor going forward, & I think I’ll have more work/life balance. I was planning to resume posting on TikTok this week, & I probably still will, but it’s a bummer that TT may not last
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Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.
December 21, 2024 at 3:01 AM
Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.
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Just a random and totally not self-serving reminder that middle grade and young adult books are often fun reads, and quick reads, and not forbidden to you just because you grew up! If a book where the protagonist is a kid sounds like fun, give it a look! Ain't no shame in it!
December 17, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Just a random and totally not self-serving reminder that middle grade and young adult books are often fun reads, and quick reads, and not forbidden to you just because you grew up! If a book where the protagonist is a kid sounds like fun, give it a look! Ain't no shame in it!
the hunger games is a near-perfect YA novel and I will die on this hill
Katniss Everdeen has to be one of my most favourite unreliable narrators ever. Like she doesn’t even lie to the reader, she’s just completely unaware of her own self and feelings that it’s incredible to read
December 16, 2024 at 2:26 AM
the hunger games is a near-perfect YA novel and I will die on this hill
bringing one of my very favorite tweets here. love is quieter than gunshots, but there’s more of it.
December 16, 2024 at 2:24 AM
bringing one of my very favorite tweets here. love is quieter than gunshots, but there’s more of it.
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jumping into the “does listening to a story count as reading” discourse with this except from irene vallejo’s PAPYRUS: “the greeks and romans believed that any written text must take possession of a living voice to become complete”
November 23, 2024 at 7:00 PM
jumping into the “does listening to a story count as reading” discourse with this except from irene vallejo’s PAPYRUS: “the greeks and romans believed that any written text must take possession of a living voice to become complete”