Yeah, but to me I guess the others you mentioned are less real, whereas that's like an issue of metrical orthography

What's the argument against amphibrachs?

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uh...uh oh!

Smell bad? Check. Taste bad? You know it. The Texture? Genuinely the worst of anything I have ever had in my mouth.

Chitlins. Like I wanted to come up with something a little more recherché but it's chitlins.

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imo Star Wars has a similar problem

My lukewarm take is that the pre-Endgame Marvel movies were about something resonant so people liked them even when they were "bad," whereas the post-Endgame Marvel movies aren't about anything, so people don't like them even when they are "good."

Yeah, I think you can hear me realizing how complicated it is in real time. Like, exactly the XKCD joke. "Of course the average person doesn't know about Lucan, just regular stuff like Homer and Shakespeare."

I often worry I am too snobby, but sometimes I am reminded that actually I am not snobby enough.

The thread of people saying the conspiracy theories they believe is the most I have been disappointed in the users of this website since the day a bunch of people were saying Bleak House was too hard.

emily litella from saturday night live, played by gilda radner. a brown-haired lady in a red sweater with messy hair and glasses. her things was comically mixing up words, like violins on television or presidential erections. they stopped doing this bit 7 years before i was born but i know about it anyway and i don't really know how.

I don't see why we need a whole week for thespian visibility. We see them on TV every night!

Probably not, I guess

Like a person who reads books regularly but has never studied film

Do normal people know what cinema pur is?

Confessional article about breaking up with a friend because they use Wegovy written in the most 2016 style I can imagine.

The dream of xoJane persists even in these dark times

The Cut is at it again

You can't be talking like that homophobic baby.

I think a lot of discourses would be better if people acknowledged the difference between "X costs too much" meaning the price of X is actually inflated and "X costs too much" meaning people don't have enough money to buy the things they need and want.

Very disappointed to learn Strunk and White did not actually work together. I always imagined them like Woodward and Bernstein in All The President's Men except they're figuring out whether you should put a comma after an em dash.

I guess if you really believe that writing monographs and essays can defeat Big Brother then the work you don't like must be the most powerful tool of Big Brother.

Do you really think Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism played a crucial role in the popularization of hollow corporate DEI and bourgeois Black excellence politics? That is a thing that you actually, factually, truly believe according to the conventional understanding of cause and effect?

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This made me think about Narnia which reminded me that the ending of those books is insane.

Think of all the sins Edmund Pevensie would've committed if he had access to modern candies and treats or, like, cocaine.

I spent more time than I would like to admit workshopping it, so I am glad you appreciated it.

Of course, I have said before that if my novel fails I will become a public hater, namer of names and airer of grievances, the gossipiest bitch in the world, so maybe I shouldn't be judgmental.

I mean, her ratio is still pretty low. If you want to complain about publishing all the time, all you have to do is publish four brilliant novels.

I have beef with the publishing industry too but I feel that on the whole complaining about publishing should be less 1% of your total literary output.