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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 2h

whenever I post “I would ride to war for [xyz]” I need you all to imagine me riding side-saddle on a clydesdale as Kylie Minogue’s “Your Disco Needs You” blares at full volume.

Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 5h

- starred in a Terence Davies movie as one of his first roles
- cowrote un film de Xavier Dolan
- did “gays guys in a small town” comedy several orders of magnitude better than Schitt’s Creek

Jacob Tierney, I would ride to war for you.

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 2h

my GOAT

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 3h

just remembered one of my favourites

Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 5h

it’s not a collection she stood by later on in her career, but Louise Glück’s Firstborn really saved my life when I read it in high school.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 5h

- starred in a Terence Davies movie as one of his first roles
- cowrote un film de Xavier Dolan
- did “gays guys in a small town” comedy several orders of magnitude better than Schitt’s Creek

Jacob Tierney, I would ride to war for you.

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 5h

didn’t really want to watch it, but apparently the TV adaptation of that yaoi hockey novel is being adapted by the same guys who made Letterkenny / Shoresy?????

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 5h

was actually really curious about what you made of Late Fame given it’s a Zweig adaptation / seems up your alley.

Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 5h

I finally have an armchair in my apartment after getting rid of my old one in June and can’t believe I didn’t try to replace it sooner.

Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously good to read them to get acquainted with the Canon, but you’re much better off reading Mallarmé (or someone like Hope Mirrlees) than Eliot after a certain point.

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of the poetry by the Big Names of anglophone modernism just isn’t interesting to me / read as the microwaved leftovers of the Symbolists.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 1d

it’s barely been 24 hours since I heard “So You Wanna Be a Superhero” for the first time & it’s already changed my life.

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 1d

just learned about this album (& about Carissa’s Wierd in general) for the first time this weekend and it has already become a load-bearing work of art.

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gryme @gryme.bsky.social · May 8

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 3d

motherquake of the century

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 4d

why am I hearing Stayin’ Alive over 808s and plucked guitar in this chain restaurant…

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 4d

I think it was on twitter, but I think the most right anyone has been about anything ever was that person who said that the only music you hear in public (i.e. malls, restaurants) are “Ibizacore Tracy Chapman covers.”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 4d

quietly a top 5 painting of all-time for me

Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social · 4d

Allegory of Winter
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19190

"Allegory of Winter" by Remedios Varo presents an enchanting and surreal forest scene with whimsical, tree-like figures encasing delicate animals and plants within translucent vessels. The composition evokes a sense of mysterious stillness and intricate beauty, characteristic of Varo's symbolic and mystical artistic vision.

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Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social · 4d

« Mais la vie te prive de ton amour, Gabriel, et tu fais ce geste sublime d'enterrer ton œuvre avec ton amour, la littérature même n'a plus d'importance, c'est l'amour, l'amour que la mort scelle dans l'absolu, qui renvoie la littérature à sa futilité. »

— Jourde

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 4d

yeah, I do think the class stuff isn’t great / is part of the reason why I didn’t really love To Paradise.

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 4d

yeah, I think that (& the fact she’s so cagey about it) what makes her interesting as opposed to annoying (imo, anyways).

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 4d

CLAMP’s manga ran so she could soar.

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 4d

same & understandable

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Colin @yrcnr.bsky.social · 4d

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