I learned it by… READING!!! my telekinesis throws everything across the room
Christopher Yates
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corrupt Renaissance courtier and English PhD; molochofficial on some other unnameable site
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(I know that it's just Calvinism)
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I really want to know what’s going on in the class that meets here before mine
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(just kidding, like everyone else I've only read the screenshotted excerpts-of-the-excerpts)
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choosing to read the Olivia Nuzzi piece in a kind of Harley Quinn voice just to make it all seem more plausible
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presumably it's just the middle finger but what's fascinating is that the author felt the need to censor something so minor, so repeatedly, in a book series where the protagonists have graphically-described sex while (for example) flying, invisibly (magic), above a crowded town square (etc.)
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my contribution to the "romantasy" discourse is that I wrote about one of the "a court of" books for sparknotes and the author uses the phrase "she gave a vulgar gesture" so repetitively that the mystery of the vulgar gesture in question quickly became the most interesting thing about the book
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That friend dies of a cold after fainting on wet grass and with her dying breath warns the protagonist: "Beware of swoons Dear Laura.... A frenzy fit is not one quarter so pernicious; it is an exercise to the Body [...] Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint—"
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at the climax (this story isn't long or serious enough to worry about spoilers) the protagonist and her friend take turns fainting and "running mad" when they see an overturned carriage; they do this for an hour and fifteen minutes before noticing that one of its occupants is still alive
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she's already so critical of the cult of "sensibility" and the conventions of the (romantic, epistolary) novel at such an early age, and with so much more bite (though less control) than in her satire of the gothic in Northanger Abbey
