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sometimes going on tumblr feels like being held hostage at smith college

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Walking around the city and punching people til they die cus its fridayyy

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joining the war on tofu on the side of tofu

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going into the witchy nerd store i sure hope all the merchandise is respectful of other cultures

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going into the witchy nerd store i sure hope all the merchandise is respectful of other cultures

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my parents visited today and their latest item of ‘what people you knew in school are up to lately’ gossip was about the absolutely BONKERS thing they’re trying to talk their friend out of doing to her daughter. I’m still in shock tbh

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I redownload this app for one day once every maybe two months and unfortunately I’m rewarded every time

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i entirely do not give a fuck if men are getting their feelings hurt because one of them saw a lesbian or a woman with trauma say "i hate men" twice in one week or whatever. like are we for real serious. i'm going to say this in the nicest way possible : grow thicker skin & get over it.

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We have got to put an end to the taller younger sibling industrial complex

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let's struggle to dine with mama

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the art of camel barbering

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warm welcome back

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2025 is a terrible year to be a jazz singer. the word scat is basically unusable and you can't even say skibidi

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I like preschool lunch time because it means I get to observe the Preschool Agora. or 3-4 year olds having conversations amongst each other in a large group. such as today they discussed who's been a baby before (conclusion: "even people we don't know") and who the first people were on earth ("let me guess," said one, "me.")

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It's okay to have blatant double standards that favor women

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Everyones like Just hire mercenaries Just hire mercenaries IM NOT HIRING MERCENARIES

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"dante's divine comedy is fanfiction" is just such a boring claim. it fails to say anything interesting about either the divine comedy or fanfiction. and in fact it actively discourages actual analysis of the text by simplifying the whole thing into something more understandable to the modern reader at the expense of real engagement. it attempts to answer interesting questions the text in the most boring way possible.

why does dante chose to include himself as the protagonist? "well it's self-insert fanfiction!" why does dante chose virgil, a pagan poet, to be his guide through the christian afterlife? "that was his celebrity crush!" why did dante chose to put [italian political figure] in [insert circle of hell]? "oh it's just wish fulfillment"

just boring interpretations. these are all real questions that can be asked about the text and that have been asked about the text and that have been answered in more complex and interesting ways. not everything can be shoved into a more familiar context and it's not interesting to approach them that way.

also, it's not interesting to approach fanfiction as just "anything influenced by mythology/prior fiction/history/religion/author's own life/etc" because that would make just about everything fanfiction. and i think there are interesting things that can be said about fanfiction (why it emerges, its relationship to the original text, development of fanfiction-specific tropes/style, etc) but in order to have those conversations we do have to first set sensical parameters about what fanfiction is

let's all hold hands and approach texts with more nuance