ghoul-ish • no. 1 elspeth defender

i talk about books and draw ✬ jade city and sword of kaigen enjoyer ✬ kory enthusiast

[ghoul-ish • no. 1 elspeth defender @paper_ish]

thread of my greenbone saga art over the years

[fleur @fleurqts]

off campus made heated rivalry look like something written by shakespeare

[🌸🩷 noema 🩷🌸 @VampireNoema]

We are so back

[sarah🇨🇦| #1 branlou stan @mcbrini9771]

no bc that hetslop trying to make puckbunny seem like a cute term is so aggravating bc hockey is the only sport with a derogatory name for its women fans and that term is not something that be should normalized

[ghoul-ish • no. 1 elspeth defender @paper_ish]

@amjuster who r u

[holly @LITTLEBlRDS]

off campus is getting a pass for this simply because they have the most high school level social politics of any college i’ve ever seen. spiritually maybe 100 people go to this college

[ghoul-ish • no. 1 elspeth defender @paper_ish]

i can’t believe i wasted an hour and half of my life trying to watch off campus 😭 genuine ass cheeks that was recommended to me by people who’s opinion i otherwise respect. what is going awn

[Miss Sandrist @foreverimbetter]

Not to continue the Pap smear discourse but it is painfully obvious most of the people saying it’s unnecessary or calling it a form of medieval torture have obviously never had one and that is not who anyone should be listening to when it comes to your reproductive health.

[latke @latkedelrey]

the speculum does not go inside the cervix https://t.co/fxgwFumdQa

[ghoul-ish • no. 1 elspeth defender @paper_ish]

i would like people to consider use “circe kisser” and “no. 1 circe/scylla fan” may not have the most objective and normal perspective on this aspect of greek mythology lmfaoo

[ghoul-ish • no. 1 elspeth defender @paper_ish]

im seeing so much ridiculously uncharitable interpretation of madeline miller’s circe that it makes me impressed that people are so willing to be out themselves as so openly bad faith and borderline illiterate

[marxist daenerys fans kolkata @danylanzhou]

@realmsevildoer you know these people don’t read. they just saw one Twitter thread about how evil madeline miller is for changing things in circe (as if that’s not the point of a rewrite) but they’ve never read the actual odyssey (a work that frankly requires rereads) so they don’t know this

[kaizer | comms open @KaizerxKing]

had to paint

[cheri ⌁ ۫ ִ ．azuridopilled @cherimizi]

emily wilson haters always have to go out of their way to blame her and act like she bastardised the original text by making it "too modern" when all she does is add modern context. like how most men translated dog-faced to bitch-faced when it doesn't carry the same connotations.

[the merry wörm @zenyanna]

she is a superficial writer fundamentally uninterested in original thought, given to plain regurgitation of things she has read elsewhere. & she has always written like this. [leaning forward] we can't keep doing this every time she publishes a new book

[kay ✽ @velvetsira]

her trying to villainize the one character thats went thru so much abuse and sympathizing w the imperialist was bad enough but making ramy speak urdu when he’s from calcutta was even more jarring given the historical context

[felicity 📖 @belladonnafeli]

What I find ironic about this is that a lot of rf kuang fans defend her writing by being classist asf and bragging about her credentials so clearly her takes on classism in her books aren’t much of people are being classist to defend her poor writing choices.

[sam @magemegane]

my suspicion (and this is maybe giving her too much credit) is that rfk meant this as a sort of throwaway indictment of arts institutions for their passive zionism and i’m sure that’s how she’d defend it. even though the passage is functionally pointless as written lmfao

[zara ꨄ︎ @kqteharker]

we wouldn't know this if she didn't publicly tell us about her very expensive education every 5 business days now would we

[lara @dionysusonfire]

kuang disappointed me with her actions but i'll take this as an opportunity to share literature by palestinian authors, some books are set fully in palestine, some by palestinian immigrants or palestinian americans, etc. there's also some poetry & free palestine always!!

[marxist daenerys fans kolkata @danylanzhou]

“fantasy should talk about these things” It should! but fantasy by its very definition will never be the most successful medium at mounting a true anticolonial critique. colonialism is grounded in material reality, which fantasy is completely removed from.