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if you tag me in a chain post and i don't do it it's not because i hate you it's because i am very lazy. i love you thank you for tagging me.

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"Nobody gave a voice to these Greek Mythology female characters."

Euripides after writing Andromache, Andromeda, Antigone, Danaë, Electra, Hecuba, Helen, Iphigenia in Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, Medea, Merope, Wise Melanippe, Captive Melanippe, Peliades, The Phoenician Women, The Trojan Women etc.

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Mephistopheles, Following a Series of Funny Events

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[Faust posting again…. Thinking heavily upon 1400’s-1500s doublets]

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hmmm. ok poll time just because i'm always curious what people's relationships to this topic are:

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thinking about Brad Dourif in "Istanbul" and the fact is Grima Wormtongue would have gotten away with it forever if they'd let him be hot. with better hair he could've run that horse girl country into the ground for decades. eomer would've been like "dang, seems like my uncle is a very bad king for no reason, oh well." pretty privilege grima wormtongue could have girlbossed middle earth into the flames of mordor

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Whenever an artist who makes dark content gets outed as a sexual predator people will be like 'aha it was obvious something was up because their work was so dark and nasty' and whenever an artist who makes wholesome content gets outed as a sexual predator people will be like 'aha it was obvious something was up because their work was so aggressively wholesome' and it's like you know I think maybe you can't tell whether or not someone is a predator based on their artistic output.

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@ my fellow u.s. americans who can’t afford to subscribe to every random news source but want to support paid journalism when you can—it’s worth checking if your library system provides online access via libby or similar!

this post brought to you by my recent realization that my (east coast city) library subscribes to a TON of paywalled content—for example, i was able to read that vulture article people have been sharing about neil gaiman for free

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hate when an f/f ship does nothing for me. feels like treachery on my part

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I'm gonna regret this

So, this... dish? Food item? Thing to eat?:

Seems to have a lot of names. And now I'm going to make a poll with a bunch of the names I've heard this dish called.

I am already 100% certain that this will be one of those "OP is about to find out their experience isn't universal" polls.

In fact, what I call this *isn't even listed in the Wikipedia article about this dish*.

I'm starting to believe that it what I call it is a regionalism so narrow in both place and time that the only other people who call it what I call it went to sleepaway camp in the Berkshire Mountains in the early 1980s.

P.S. WHY THE HELL ARE REPLIES RESTRICTED?? I DID NOT SET ANY RESTRICTIONS!

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Sumerian/Mesopotamian Amulet Seal in the Form of a Bull, c. 3250 BCE.

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Across centuries and the void of a world, sleepless, I seek you. (insp.)

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25, 17, 15!!

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

There are a handful of books that I started to read in the last 3-5 years and didn't finish that I think I need to either give myself amnesty about or go back and read again from the beginning! For the most part these were books I really enjoyed that I just wasn't in the right headspace for, so: in 2025 I will be prioritizing finishing Persuasion, Count of Monte Cristo, and Doctor Faustus in particular.

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

I already answered this one (Gone Girl) but I'm also going to add that I have always kind of avoided reading anything by Naomi Novik or Lev Grossman, but I enjoyed both Spinning Silver and The Bright Sword so much that now I'm wondering if I should reassess both authors!

15. Did you read any books that were nominated for or won awards this year (Booker, Women’s Prize, National Book Award, Pulitzer, Hugo, etc.)? What did you think of them?

I am cheating by counting a book that won prizes in 2020, and I also can't remember if I read Hamnet in late 2023 or early 2024--but, kind of, Hamnet! (I loved it and wanted to know what would happen so bad that I read it in a single afternoon--even though I basically knew the ending.)

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call me a dirty communist radical but I think everyone should know if they live near toxic waste

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huber0203

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2, 4, and 17 for the book asks!

2. Did you reread anything? What?

At the beginning of last year I reread a bunch of Tamora Pierce's Tortall books. They held up about as well as I expected, although sadly I bounced hard off the audiobook production for the Daine series about five minutes in.

I also dipped in and out of several old favorites, but I don't think I managed a full reread of anything else.

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

Gillian Flynn and Sarah Gailey! (After I read Gone Girl I immediately turned around and read every other book Flynn had written. I didn't quite do the same thing with Gailey, but I thought Just Like Home and The Echo Wife were both excellent and I'm planning to read more of their work.)

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

Gone Girl. I thought the movie was forgettable, but the book absolutely blew me away.