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If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!
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diomedrian · 1 day
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It's important to read to your kids but not too much lest they start saying words like "perchance" and "undoubtedly"
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heart’s desire, louise glück
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diomedrian · 2 days
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Bouquet of fresh tulips in daylight
Vradiy Art
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diomedrian · 2 days
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“oh no we’re all doomed by the narrative” maybe you are. i’m the narrative’s favourite.
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diomedrian · 2 days
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as someone with a bachelor’s degree in english, i am inexpressibly tired of people telling me to get highly specific jobs that often require highly specific degrees. “just go write for a magazine!” you need a journalism degree for that. “just teach!” you need a teaching certificate, and also fuck you. “just go work at a tutoring place!” tutoring children with learning disabilities, which make up the majority of the clientele at those places, requires not only a teaching certificate but a specialized master’s degree. “just go work at a library!” you need a master’s degree in library science to be a librarian. it is actually a highly skilled and extremely competitive field. you don’t just “go work at a library,” you train for years in the vain hope that you will get one of handful of available jobs. “just go work at a library.” the nerve. the unmitigated gall. “just go work at a library.” ugh.
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diomedrian · 2 days
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to begin with, the sweet grass by mary oliver, from “devotions”
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diomedrian · 3 days
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VERY IMPORTANT a dam in the Netherlands, the weerdsluis lock, is directly on a migratory path for spawning fish. They have a worker stationed there to open the door for the fish, but they can take a while to open it. So to keep the fish from getting preyed on by birds they installed a doorbell. Only, the fish don't have hands to ring the doorbell. If you go to their website, they have a LIVE CAMERA AND A DOORBELL that YOU RING FOR THE FISH when they're waiting, and then the dam worker opens the door for them! I can't express how obsessed I am with this. look at this shit. oh my god.
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Please check on the fish doorbell once in a while :)
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diomedrian · 3 days
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Amal El-Mohtar/Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War
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diomedrian · 3 days
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a girl of fear, a woman of anger— look how we've grown
girls contain multitudes, heather o'neill / king, florence + the machine / The Affront (L'affronto), by Antonio Piatti / In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado / this pin / cassandra, florence + the machine / What If This Were Enough?: Essays by Heather Havrilesky) / crush, richard siken / the closest thing i could find was this soundcloud link / a womans beauty, susan sontag / a vision of fiammetta, dante gabriel rossetti / stop me, natalia kills / fury, yevgeny yevtushenko
everyone say god bless you to @pe4rl-diver for the sources
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diomedrian · 3 days
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do u ever miss your own energy. like damn what happened to me
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Why did sophocles name his son that. iphone
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diomedrian · 4 days
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is it just me or does the way people treat like "dopamine" and "serotonin" in modern pop psych context read exactly like balancing the humors
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diomedrian · 4 days
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LEWIS GRIBBEN in a MIU MIU mini skirt, jumper and red DUNHILL rollneck for Fantastic Man photographed by ROBBIE LAWRENCE and styled by STUART WILLIAMSON
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diomedrian · 4 days
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girls only want one thing
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from The Crown Ain’t Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib
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diomedrian · 5 days
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no no no, it’s totally fine—will you excuse me for a moment? (steps outside to shriek and sob)
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