Maria Hummer

Writer. Trying to pass for human. Currently based on planet Earth.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

The phrases: ‘shut up’, ‘dirt cheap’, ‘dog tired’, ‘dinner-party’, and ‘brace yourself’ were all first recorded in the works of Jane Austen.

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

How could I say no to a deal like this??!

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

@enaselimo @lithub aahahahaa what a random way to reconnect! Life is a wild ride 😆

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

@enaselimo @lithub omg it's you!! I saw this shared natively (I follow lithub) and I literally closed the app and then my brain caught up and was like... 'Ena Selimović... I KNOW THAT NAME' and I came running back to check my facts! you may not remember me but gosh, hi! (from IISTL circa 2010!)

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

I keep giggling to myself every time the English/Welsh coded fantasy characters in this book use the word 'pants'

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

Nothing ever really ends. That’s the horrible part of being in the short-story business—you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. ‘Millicent at last understands.’ Nobody ever understands. KURT VONNEGUT

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

Every book is a self help book.

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

Please, friends, anyone have a spare £30,000 going? I would like 2025 to be my Mocking Bird year

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

Harper Lee’s friends gave her a year’s wages for Christmas in 1956. She wrote To Kill A Mocking Bird in that year.

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

Never completely understood the Snapdragon passage from Through the Looking Glass until now!

[Alice Nebularis @AliceNebularis]

Victorians played Snapdragon at Christmas time.
Consisting of filling a shallow bowl with raisins. Then they’d drown the raisins in brandy and set them alight, and take it in turns to reach into the flames, grab a flaming raisin, and eat it before it would burn fingers or tongue.

🎨 “Snapdragon” (1889) by Gabriel Nicolet 1889

[The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine]

❛You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else... But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

Doris Lessing, born #OTD in 1919.

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

I'm now worried that, having talked it up, people will go watch it and be disappointed. But I'd advise you to approach it like I did: expecting a fun throwaway romp, a mindless watch, a Momoa goof-around. You will find that it's SO much more.

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

The movie Slumberland made me cry. It is beyond baffling to me how a film so obviously made with love, care, and heart-rending attention to detail seems not just to have been quickly forgotten, but not much talked about at all. I beg you to watch it

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

It's also obviously written by someone who cares very deeply about dreams. It's the dream world I wanted (and was denied) from Inception. It's worthy of Pixar and Studio Ghibli. Should not have been condemned to the cinematic mausoleum that is Netflix

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

I read the word 'sillage' before I ever heard it pronounced, and now unfortunately in my head it will always rhyme with porridge

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

Has anyone else noticed the prayer-like language people are using on Threads to petition the algorithm like it's the patron saint of social circles? (which it kind of is)

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

Some 15th-century rainbow-coloured beasts to brighten your Monday: https://t.co/cYph9Kvcll

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

Sometimes I accidentally type 'I love in London' instead of 'I live in London' and I always think to myself, what a beautiful way to phrase it. Yes I do love in London. I live and I love in London

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

We like the smell of old books because they release vanillin, the chemical which gives vanilla its fragrance.

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

@IrigarayJulie It IS a test! It's a way of asking if you speak the same social language. I failed for so many, many years 😆

[Maria Hummer @mariahum]

I think sometimes of the first time I visited England in 2007 and someone (British) offered to make me a cup of tea and when they asked if I took milk or sugar I said, "Black is fine," and they looked at me like I was insane. Which I was.