If McTeague is the best tooth novel, which one is the second best? Also can't believe it lost against Middlingmarch (I actually haven't read either of them... yet)

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Seeing the sweaters that other people are wearing while learning how to knit is torturous. I want to knit what you're wearing so so bad. But I don't know how yet!! 😩

sorry for the late reply, but that's so nice!! what's your favorite thing you've knit so far? I'm currently knitting a hat and am enjoying it a lot :] though I hope to knit a sweater/something more complex soon

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

I'll try to attend the next knitting event at that place, so hopefully I'll see them again!
How long have you been knitting, btw? I started last month and am having a lot of fun with it lol

Met so many cool people at this knitting event I went to and didn't manage to get their contact info. What if I never see them again :((

Oh wait it's actually "voller Liebe" apparently. I still have so much to learn wrt German aaa

Mein Herz, mein Herz ist... NICHT TRAURIG!! 🗣️🗣️ It is full of love for my friends
(idk how to say that last part in German. Would it be von Liebe or mit Liebe 🤔)

I usually don't mind being hard of hearing but sometimes it's so annoying. Why is my hearing aid not functioning properly rn?!! Why does everything sound quieter and muddled. It's frustrating having something as important as hearing be dependent on technology that can be faulty :/

I haven't seen snow like this since December of 2020 🥹 it's so nice

I live in Massachusetts, near Boston! I'll definitely consider joining a hiking group. Do you know of any good ones in that area?

Also how on earth can I get bluesky to show me more content related to history and old books. Even though most of the people I follow are interested in these things, I never see posts about them

I wish I had more friends who liked hiking!! I'd love to hike far more than I do but I don't have a car and don't know too many people yet who enjoy hiking. How can I find them 🤔

Why must conversations end, I want to talk to my friends and acquaintances forever and ever and ever 😔

WOAH THAT'S AMAZING!! Congrats on presenting your first paper!! That conference sounds cool & I wish I could've gone, as there aren't many conferences about British history in the US (or maybe I just don't know about them). Were there any presentations there that you found especially interesting?

And speaking of drawing here's one I finished a few days ago :] it was a gift for a friend and making it helped make drawing things again seem less intimidating to me

I just posted one of my drawings for the first time in ages (haven't regularly done so since early 2020) and man I kind of miss posting my art/having an active art account. It was fun!! I think I'll try to do it more this year, as I'm feeling motivated to draw for the first time in a while

1 year post top surgery today!! One of the best decisions I ever made tbh

what initially inspired you to start learning how to skate? :0

I haven't thought much about les mis after I finished reading it this summer but every time I do it's just like. how did victor hugo do that. how did he write something so good. absolutely insane. I keep getting tempted to re-read it but there's so much other books that I want to read aagh

I can't believe I genuinely forgot how to share/color/render illustrations well. I lost the patience for it too. Im currently following a tutorial on how to color things that I wrote when I was 14 </3

I used to love winter (mostly due to gender dysphoria) but now I want summer back so badly!!! I miss biking everywhere!!! And I never got around to biking to Concord like I planned to 😔

One of my fellow TAs keeps criticizing the students when they write long sentences (like ~25 word sentences maybe?). I feel like they would be very upset if they read one of my essays lmao

I've been trying to talk more in discord servers by not overthinking the things I want to say, but it's far more stressful than I expected. why did my back start intensely hurting after I sent one (1) message

Nice!! Just sent a dm there :D

And yeah I've heard of that law. I don't know too much about it, but it seems kind of odd to require age verification for bluesky dms but not discord dms?? It must be really frustrating to have seemingly random things restricted like that

oh also I’ve finally started reading Shelley the Pursuit!! I’ve really been enjoying it, & have been meaning to dm you to talk about it & Shelley more but I think I recently saw you say you can’t dm on bluesky? so do you have a discord or something like that? :o

I 100% agree that it was very visually interesting!! and the costumes were neat as well. I definitley need to re-watch it at some point soon, maybe I’ll like it better the second time? I mostly didn’t like how Victor’s character was changed & how the Creature didn’t kill anyone out of revenge really

What did you think of the movie? I'm not sure if I liked it personally (especially not as an adaptation of Frankenstein). Still trying to figure out why I didn't like it; maybe once I do I could contribute something to this!

If any of you want to analyse the new Frankenstein film, let us know!!! It would work great in the Romanticism Now/Romantic Reimaginings blog series or on the TikTok 👀

(And of course any other ideas you have! But I've just finished watching Frankenstein lol)