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Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania. "Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film" from Edinburgh UP. He/him.

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Saw it as a teenager and thought it was cool, but I wonder
how its politics have aged

07.03.2026 03:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

07.03.2026 01:43 πŸ‘ 1880 πŸ” 540 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 6

Anyone watched Three Kings recently? Does it hold up?

07.03.2026 02:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

mfw I want to make an earnest post about a piece of music and end up making Snow Dogs jokes instead

06.03.2026 09:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"The People Under the Stairs" meets "The Madwoman in the Attic"!

05.03.2026 12:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And surprise! General Tilney really is a murderer

05.03.2026 11:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Feverish melodrama, domestic insanity, vivid colour, queer af - it can't fail

05.03.2026 11:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pedro AlmodΓ³var's Lady Audley's Secret

05.03.2026 11:38 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
A troubling poster for Disney's Snow Dogs with a smiling sunglasses-wearing dog

A troubling poster for Disney's Snow Dogs with a smiling sunglasses-wearing dog

Imagine: you have breathed the air of three centuries, and this is the last thing that you see

04.03.2026 12:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Sonata No. 2 For Cello And Piano
Sonata No. 2 For Cello And Piano YouTube video by Randall Hodgkinson - Topic

Leo Ornstein was born in 1895 and lived long enough to see Snow Dogs starring Cuba Gooding Jr. gross US$115 million worldwide

(Also this piece - we love this piece) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsAW...

04.03.2026 10:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah is it that restaurant in Balbec by the sea? I love that scene

04.03.2026 07:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Sometimes I lifted my gaze to some huge old dwelling-house on which the shutters had not been closed and in which amphibious men and women floated slowly to and fro in the rich liquid that after nightfall rose incessantly from the wells of the lamps to fill the rooms to the very brink of the outer walls of stone and glass, the movement of their bodies sending through it long unctuous golden ripples.

Sometimes I lifted my gaze to some huge old dwelling-house on which the shutters had not been closed and in which amphibious men and women floated slowly to and fro in the rich liquid that after nightfall rose incessantly from the wells of the lamps to fill the rooms to the very brink of the outer walls of stone and glass, the movement of their bodies sending through it long unctuous golden ripples.

Amphibian people floating in halos of light: that's the good stuff, that's what we came for

04.03.2026 06:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Exactly. Whines like a child for pages at a time; always does the same wrong thing; also knows the secrets of the universe

03.03.2026 22:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
for the first time to gaze at my leisure at that plump cheek, that arched neck, that tapering eyebrow (veiled from me hitherto by the swiftness of her passage, the bewilderment of my impressions, the imperfection of memory);

for the first time to gaze at my leisure at that plump cheek, that arched neck, that tapering eyebrow (veiled from me hitherto by the swiftness of her passage, the bewilderment of my impressions, the imperfection of memory);

leonardo recognising something on the tv meme

leonardo recognising something on the tv meme

03.03.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh hey king, you're trying to accidentally bump into a beautiful woman again? do you think your imagination is projecting unrealisable phantasms again?

03.03.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Reading The Guermantes Way and no one gets back on their bullshit quite like Marcel

03.03.2026 11:16 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Torment Nexus U

03.03.2026 01:37 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

For context, this is roughly the cost of one (1) Brimstone missile
#NationalYearofReading

02.03.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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when you fold cool speed flaps and throw it really hard

02.03.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Aldous Harding
Aldous Harding YouTube video by Aldous Harding

πŸ‘€

02.03.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Incredible

02.03.2026 09:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cover of Evelyn Araluen's newest collection The Rot

Cover of Evelyn Araluen's newest collection The Rot

β€œI do not recommend drinking wine in the bath and listening to Mitski and crying and calling that a writing practice,” Araluen says.

But what if ... you end up writing a glorious devastating Mitskified insomniac cha-cha of a poetry collection

02.03.2026 06:06 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Khayyam, by Maryam Rahmani from the album Kamand

Similar vibe, I’ve been listening to Maryam Rahmani maryamrahmani.bandcamp.com/track/khayyam

28.02.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

imperial boomerang goes out: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

imperial boomerang turns back: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

28.02.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) - Concertino for Harp and Orchestra
Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) - Concertino for Harp and Orchestra YouTube video by Roberto Pintos Cadillac

Good to hear #Tailleferre Concertino for harp on
Radio 3 - the work was premiered in Boston in March 1927 by Marcel Grandjany conducted by Koussevitzky @bostonsymphony.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCo4...

27.02.2026 11:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh man the comments on the Mercury website are bad enough - can't imagine the FB feed

26.02.2026 07:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Dulux colour card which includes paint colour 'Simone Weil'

Dulux colour card which includes paint colour 'Simone Weil'

The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind While Painting the Front Fence.

25.02.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Illustrated book cover featuring giant crabs eating people who are running in every direction. Copy and title read:


On a distant planet of crustaceans exists a new and exciting economic system...
CRABITALISM
Humans go in - Crabs become more powerful!
HORK MYXLN

Illustrated book cover featuring giant crabs eating people who are running in every direction. Copy and title read: On a distant planet of crustaceans exists a new and exciting economic system... CRABITALISM Humans go in - Crabs become more powerful! HORK MYXLN

science fiction
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20.09.2024 20:02 πŸ‘ 1837 πŸ” 498 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 52

Ahaha it’s very much a Squid Game of Thrones situation

25.02.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No one would dare call T.J. Horsley Curties Esq. a hack writer

25.02.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0