I see in your Current Predicament Simply this: that you are in Want of Money and of the Regard of your Fellow Men, Aims which run Contrary to your Radicalism and your Conduct. To achieve your Ends is a Simple Matter, as it requires Only that you begin to do the Exact Contrary Action of All your are Inclined to, by ignoring this Infamous Man’s Exhortations, turning your Beloved into your Wife, and obtaining an Honest Profession, perhaps as a Typesetter, Clerk, Peat-cutter, or Some Other Hardy Profession to refine your Manly Virtues.
In Several Years’ Time you will have recouped your Reputation to Such a Degree that it is Possible to enter the Better-esteemed Professions of Law, Trade, and So On; Through one of these you may amass your Fortune and direct it, at Last, to Either the Purchase of your own Press or the Commission of Whatever Incendiary Pamphlets, Polemics, Poeticals, or Plays your Heart desires to thrust into the Literary World. The Veil of Anonymity will allow your Ideas, and not your Name, to be heard, and you shall be Able at this Juncture to express your Opinions with Absolute Freedom.
I have no Counsel on how you may contrive to meet this Infamous Poet at a Later Date, for the Plain Reason that I Thoroughly advise Against it; Infamy is a Condition one can Only enjoy once it is Long Ended.
today I learned that there’s a town in Quebec where a bunch of people grow giant pumpkins, and on one very special day a year, cut them up, empty them, and use them as a canoe. then have a race. a pumpkin race. it’s even called ‘the potirothon’
Like, if you’re gonna be an adult who’s really into children’s media the least you can do is actually internalize all those themes of being a good and kind person
Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way,
you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction
in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”
What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?
I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.
I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.
Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.
Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.
unless you’re planning on starting and completing a socialist revolution by november 6th there is absolutely no reason to abstain from voting. it is not a blood pact. you are not beholden to democrats when you vote for them over abstaining. there IS a lesser of two evils and it’s not inaction. every republican voted in kavanaugh and only one democrat did. statistically we are literally safer with democrats in office.
and no, i’m not planning on relinquishing communist ideals in deference to dems. i just don’t think as black and white as “anything short of a communist revolution is useless.” roe v wade is in jeopardy and women WILL die if it gets overturned. leftists sitting on their asses are about as useful as the thoughts and prayers of school shootings
speaking, uh, as a formerly-trafficked sex worker, it’s extremely difficult to come forward as a trafficking victim in countries where sex work is criminalized; you just… get criminalized under those same anti-prostitution laws. of course reported trafficking would increase when the sole fact of coming forward as a sex worker at all no longer endangers you.
This line of argument is the same one that you see with conservatives who point to the increase in divorce rates as proof that making divorce safer is endangering marriage, while ignoring the massive drops in domestic abuse, murder, and suicide.
It’s a shot argument with them, and it’s a shot argument here.
In WWI, when they introduced helmets, they saw a sudden spike in head injuries.
What the casual observer may miss was that they were seeing the increase because of a dramatic decrease in deaths from head wounds.
hot take: fat girls are allowed to have standards. fat girls are allowed to think you’re ugly and gross and unattractive and that you’re not worth their time. they shouldn’t have to settle because you already have dehumanized them and determined they are worth less than you. why would any woman want to be with a person who thinks she doesn’t respect herself because of the shape of her body? fat women are not easy, we’re not freaks who will do whatever you want to feel approval. we’re not desperate. We have no reason to be grateful for you.
Tom hardy can’t be that hard to draw y’all are just used to drawing uke twink boys. You’ll have to learn how to draw one bear… one!!!!!!!!!!
the concept of hardy bein a bear is like the funniest shit ive ever heard especially since hardy described himself as a ‘petite little bourgeois boy from London’ one time. accept god and accept twunks op
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