bookish astronaut

you put a dog on a diet and he'll start begging for plain ass vinegar like he's christ on the cross

"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

they did the research in the first place because they believed you and wanted to tell people about it. they are not our enemies.

That particular disappointment of the more literate-than-average child upon discovering that “gaol” is just pronounced “jail”

what

People have overused Catholic Guilt to the point they cannot recognize the clear and haunting Protestant Shame in front of their eyes. that character Knows they could have worked harder

#also known as: the ronan lynch vs the adam parrish @cheeeryos

…wait, actually, Emily Wilson saying that she translated the Odyssey without literary allusions is…well, it’s bitchy to say “nonsense,” but it is nonsense. She translated it into blank verse. That is in itself a literary allusion!! There was a specific guy who innovated writing epic English verse in unrhymed iambic pentameter! His name was John Milton! That is not a neutral choice that skirts the history of English verse!

the enemy drank water today. did you?

i drank water three days ago. im several steps ahead of the enemy. this is what it takes to win

the sequel to therapy speak joker is feminist theory men’s hockey players

im realizing very fast that people do not in fact know that sometimes things in stories suck on purpose and it sucking is the point