H. Austin Whitver

Senior Instructor in English Lit at the University of Alabama. Author of Tombs in Shakespearean Drama: Monumental Theater. He / Him. Views are my own.

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

Incredible thread.

[C. M. Kosemen @cmkosemen]

If I had written about Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) as a fictional alien species, people would find the resulting fiction too dark and depressing. 🧵

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

A lot of people want to bring Obama-era insiders back for party building purposes.

While those folks ran successful presidential campaigns, they also oversaw some of the largest downballot losses in modern times.

Party building is different. Look to people w/ recent successes.

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

@majorasmasques Very reminiscent of this tagline:

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

[[A post for nerds trying to take respite from the horrors of our national nightmare]]
I am watching the original Star Trek pilot as a diversion, and I want to know when the show pivoted from the Enterprise as a submarine to a surface naval vessel and why they made that mistake?

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

@DanaHoule I mean, that is the fundamental heart of it. There are all kinds of other factors (national and local) but that is the cold, core, underlying fact.

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

What the fuck, America?

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

Only eight tabs open (plus the TV) so doing pretty well all things considered.

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

@leahanelson My blood pressure in my eardrums?

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

This is wild. I am having an ungodly manic episode today, zipping through grading, doing all kinds of housework, and catching up with all kinds of minutiae left at the wayside for months. I think I really do believe she is gonna win ::knocks on wood::

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

Voted and now am having a shockingly good day grading in the eye of the hurricane.

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

@greenleejw I am Eelated to have voted.

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

Did my part to make red Alabama a drop more blue.

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

@tashaaaaaaa Yes! I think this is the academic curse. If only we read one more key source, it will unlock the mystery and we will know the answers. One could argue cause (academia does this to us) or effect (we are predisposed thus tend toward academia), but it all shakes out the same.

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

"I cannot deal with this. I have been doomscrolling for hours and we are now well beyond just hurting my mental health. I am going to close Twitter until tomorrow."

::closes twitter::

::two seconds pass::

::reopens twitter::

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

@tashaaaaaaa Blue Wave Blue Cheese? Walzzarella? Edamicrat? For the Gouda our country? It will be good to see Trump finally Asiago? (I tried to make Camembert Harris work but I cannot get it to look right (Kamanbert Harris??))

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

Gonna be honest, I thought he was dressed as Wes Anderson after having to deal with Gene Hackman on set.

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Mark Zuckerberg as John Wick for Halloween.

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

@BrianOliu Who knew that the NCAA was just clearing space for the SNL rumors?

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

@BrianOliu Passed this on to my Vandy crew. I have no doubt they will be appreciative.

[H. Austin Whitver @MajikMouse]

Some firsts today. Owen's first Pokemon pre-release party, first new deck + boosters tourney, and his first tournament win. Of course, the best part was that one of the boosters contained a...