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Classic literature and fist fights

@hit-by-the-lit-prof

Yeah, that's about it. Oh and my name is Alva by the way.

happy Thursday the 20th

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

August 2015

October 2016

April 2017

July 2017

September 2018

December 2018

June 2019

February 2020

August 2020

You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

TODAY

Since it’s now August 20, 2020… The next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th:

  • May 2021
  • January 2022
  • October 2022
  • April 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2024
  • February 2025
  • March 2025
  • November 2025
  • August 2026

If you wanted to set your queue for the next six years.

I gotta take my chances

Today's crab is: patiently waiting and polite

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lesbian flag color-picked from this crab...

[id: two images. first is a orange pink and white crab with its pinchers in front standing in a way that makes it look polite. second is the five striped lesbian flag with its orange white and pink shades picked from the crab. end id]

I feel like people should be made more aware of the fact that the artist who made the Great Wave, you know, this one?

The print that's slapped on every single handbag, bookmark and phone case from here to Japan?

Well, guess what

That is the same artist that is responsible for KICKSTARTING HENTAI

DREAM OF THE FISHERMANS WIFE, THE DRAWING THAT STARTED IT ALL

Made by the one and only Katsushika Hokusai.

This man truly made an incredible impact on art history.

This man truly made

an incredible impact

on art history.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Ursula K. Le Guin's 1969 novel The Left Hand of Darkness was a big deal in feminist science fiction for being one of the first widely popular and critically acclaimed works to do cool shit with sex and gender (which was certainly nothing new, but previous such works had rarely "taken off" the way LHoD did). It was criticized for referring to the genderfluid characters with the indefinite "he," which was a la mode in style guides at the time, instead of using alternating or gender-neutral pronouns. In time Le Guin came to agree with this criticism; she considered her decision not to take things further one of her biggest literary regrets, stating that "I am haunted and bedeviled by the matter of the pronouns."

I tell you this only because the phrase "I am haunted and bedeviled by the matter of the pronouns" is one I think about a lot.