the hitler youth book we have in the MS library is an excellent resource on this— I think it’s really helpful in pointing out the role/use of young adults in fascist movements, too
‘my queen! the most beautiful girl! god is good! god is a new yorker!’ - guy on broadway to me
and no I have no plans to write one anytime soon — gay vestal virgins have been buried indefinitely due to grad school
also worried that if I do find them, I won’t think they’re any good because my degree in latin literature, focused on erotic elegy, exposed me to so much BRILLIANT ancient literature (including the OG romance-ish novels!) that my expectations for those settings will just be too high/strange
as an author, I can’t ask “why are there no good* ROMANCE novels set in ancient Rome” but I can and will ask why I don’t know they exist !!!
*modern and decently well-researched plz&thnx
The actual case being made here, that AI can be a kind of sounding board or conceivably a tutor, is already satisfied by working with other human beings, which in addition brings benefits AI cannot bring.
Also, I am tired of the blanket assertions AI is here "forever."
I’m on allergy meds!!
I spent like two hours total outside / with windows open today and my skin is on fire, my throat is squeezed, my eyeballs itch, etc. I hate this!!!!!!!
anyone else’s allergies just fucking insane right now?
pretty frocks
hmm I think that’s too personal / not ideal formatting
I’m glad they have something to reach for.
persepolis parts 1 and 2 are some of the most checked out books in the middle school library this week. we have several copies of each and I couldn’t keep any of them on the shelves for more than what felt like minutes.
in artistry
fix your hearts or fucking die.
ah yes my nightly fit of silent scream-sobbing.
I don’t want it to be public or even like a big audience, and I want the audio to be there for whenever/if ever a friend wants to listen. I do want to make it a regular practice. Free, private patreon?
Recorded some of Greene’s Catullus translations. Still need to figure out how to put these recordings up somewhere private / invite-only for friends to listen to when they feel like hearing me recite poetry (never? often? don’t really care, mostly just having fun performing my favorite poetry)
My preening need for medical professionals’ approval is starting to surpass, as disabilities progress, my need for academic authorities’ approval. DEFCON 3!!
The last thing anyone needs is for me to get self-competitive and smug about how good at being sick I am. Oops! I’m already doing it :)
wow I am far too much of a narcissist already to hear my new dentist assume I had braces because of how neat and nice my teeth are— when I have never had any kind of orthodontic work done!
there
Will be no bones left in me by the time I die?
no cavities! just TMJ.
also, yet another x-ray showing less bone than there should be? this time it’s “weird! your second premolar roots all turn inward and that one specifically is just stubby — a third of the length it should be, huh”
but nothing’s ~wrong~ and there’s nothing I can DO :)
It is, of course, all gender.
We're doing War-as-Gender-Affirming-Care. Some men get hair transplants, some buy a too-expensive car, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth accidentally-on-purpose tank the global economy killing thousands in an idiot war.
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the new Chris Fleming special is diabolically good
I did my own research (vaguely remember something a guy next to me at a restaurant was saying last year)
drain the swamp? nah, let’s flood DC with iced coffee. it’ll be a party :)
Lander V Goldman is so dumb. it’s infighting ! They are both competent, experienced, DECENT not perfect humans— BOTH people I want in congress!!! wtf and fuck u scotus and also, dems, this is a terrible idea so just like figure something out STAT
FUCK SCOTUS FOR PROTECTING REPUBLICAN-FAVORED CONGRESSIONAL MAPS IN NY AND PREVENTING GOLDMAN FROM CHALLENGING MALLIOTAKIS AND LEAVING HIS FORMER SEAT OPEN FOR LANDER — as was the fucking plan
— AND NOW FORCING TWO GOOD DEMOCRATS THAT I LIKE!!! TO FACE OFF OVER (frankly) IDEOLOGICAL TECHNICALITIES
actually that’s pretty on theme for the economic realities of the time
cannot focus on reconstruction south reading bc I’m starving
