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An anon said:

I hate to get mine or anyone else's hopes up but Biden is now leading in GA by ~900 votes, so um *squeaks in nervous excitement & hesitantly raises fist* yay?

nervous anon again, biden is leading in Pennsylvania too, holy shit :o

I replied:

He is! It may end up not even being all that close there (eta: in Pennsylvania) with all the blue outstanding ballots.

Aaaand Decision Desk HQ has called the race for Biden!!!

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It’s 6:40 AM and no way in hell am I going back to sleep

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[A tweet from Nate Silver of 538, saying "Those Maricopa ballots have probably closed down Trump's path in Arizona. He needed to do much better."]

:D :D :D

Tagged: #we don't need az at this point for 270 but i really hope it swings as just. repudiation

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It’d be hilarious if Fox was the first to call the election. They shouldn’t have called AZ when they did, but if Trump is running behind what he needs there and Biden wins it, I think Nevada would be enough to win the election (not counting PA, which alone is enough to win). Biden won the newest batch of votes in Nevada by over 30 points.

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I keep reminding myself not to be too disheartened that it’s so close (even if Biden is likely to win), because beating an incumbent is hard—

—my first election was 2004 and, at 18, I truly didn’t believe Dubya could win again, so him winning for real was a rough wake-up call—

and it’s probably only possible because 45 is such a trashfire, etc etc.

But still. C’mon.

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Nate Silver’s been talking about how weird it is that no one will call Nevada, and … yeah, as far as I understand things (I am not good at math!!), there’s no real way that 45 can come back from the hole he’s in there with so many of the remaining votes coming from Clark County (Vegas). But the networks are just sitting on it because …?

(I get Fox and AP, because they already called Arizona and calling Nevada for Biden would take him to 270. But not everyone else!)

Tagged: #i don't want anything to be done improperly but i also just want this to be over

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The next batch of votes from Maricopa County is coming in about five minutes from now, and will probably decide who wins AZ.

ETA: argh, Trump didn’t win them by quite enough to pull ahead, but didn’t do badly (comparatively speaking) enough to put him completely out of the race, so it’s now down to yet another set of ballots.

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[A screenshot of three consecutive posts in the 538 feed. 1) Nate Silver on Nov 7th at 11:25 AM announced "CNN HAS CALLED THE ELECTION FOR BIDEN" with his own screenshot of Manu Raju on Twitter posting "CNN projects Joe Biden elected the 46th president of the United States after Biden wins Pennsylvania." 2) Micah Cohen at the same time said "CNN and NBC News have projected that Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States. 3) Two minutes later, Nate Silver posted again: "ABC NEWS HAS CALLED PENNSYLVANIA AND THE ELECTION FOR BIDEN."]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tagged: #not putting this one under a cut!

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I can’t stop grinning and laughing tbh

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irresistible-revolution responded to this post:

🤡🤡🤡

I replied:

lol

[ETA 3/6/2024: Ordinarily I'm on quite good terms w/ irresistible-revolution, so I didn't really understand that response. Maybe she thought it was cringe and centrist to care about Trump remaining president, or assumed that I had voted for Biden in the primaries (I actually voted for Bernie, though by the time Washington got to vote, it didn't really matter). Her response came fairly early on election night, when things were much less clear-cut than they had become by the time I replied.]

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I meant to tone down the election posting once it was called, but



[A screencap of a headline reading: "Trump voters in Pennsylvania face distress and disbelief: 'I don't ever remember feeling so devastated.' The article begins: "For many Trump supporters, Biden's narrow victory in the state felt especially disorienting because Trump significantly increased his turnout this..."]

hahahahahaha

Tagged: #sorry joe i have no intention of being gracious about this #mmm i'll just have some delicious schadenfreude in my tea today

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The book I’m reading is difficult (it discusses a lot of Greek and Roman texts I have never read and know only through Ovid), but shout-out to the author (Gordon Braden) for one of my favorite endnotes ever:

“I am sympathetic, but unconvinced.”

Tagged: #also it was about a psychoanalytic take so doubly delicious

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whining:

I understand that classical lit/thought was deeply important to the early modern world, but I don’t want to read about it any more

Tagged: #i can barely follow wtf this guy is talking about #just #maybe pull back on the latin and get to the point????

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I normally try to restrain the impulse to dive back into Silmarillion discourse hell, but there’s Eärendil and Elwing wank in my activity bar, and … damn, some people want them to be proto-Aldarion and Erendis so much.

Tagged: #i actually can imagine that aldarion himself /did/ see his relationship with erendis through an eärendil-elwing filter #until it became manifestly obvious that it was in fact radically different #and even then he's like ... the real problem was not having matching lifespans!! #but that's a separate matter

heget responded:

link? (also i wonder how many children of active duty service members might have a different read to what i bet this hot take is)

I replied:

Oh, it’s nothing new (different post, same take as usual), but I was just thinking over it and like … the whole dynamic that gets promoted in these takes seems so much more like Aldarion/Erendis+Ancalimë than Eärendil/Elwing+the twins.

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Wow, a whole four Republican senators have congratulated Biden and Harris.

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I’m still Done™ with classical stuff, but it’s amazing how much more comprehensible things are when I’m not tired.

Tagged: #i'm taking notes on the sections i read before and it's so much easier to follow rn

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“The revival of classical learning does not ‘cause’ the Renaissance, or import forces that somehow were not there in the later Middle Ages.”

—Gordon Braden, Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition: Anger’s Privilege (pg. 77)

Tagged: #SAY IT LOUDER FOR THOSE IN BACK

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thelibraryiscool responded to this post:

#fucking preach #i had a prof (early modern prof!) #who said greenblatt’s books should be placed on a pyre and burned

I replied:

a;jkdfkja thank you for that mental image

Tagged: #i have to read greenblatt too and ... bless

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I choose to believe that Eärendil periodically upgrades Vingilótë without sacrificing its essential hallowed integrity, and is just zipping around in a constantly evolving spaceship.

Tagged: #elves: *beset by sea-longing* #other elves: *fade away* #maglor: *wanders eternally playing sad songs* #eärendil: would it bother the valar if i added rocket thrusters...? #afsdfjkad i just kind of love that there's so much tragic immortality and meanwhile eärendil - who didn't even /want/ to be immortal #is just zooming around with a silmaril and a spaceship #being an icon of hope #i don't even imagine him getting bored #eärendil (from behind his steampunk goggles): rip to y'all but i'm different

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I know that Republicans trying to make voter fraud a thing to de-legitimize results they don’t like is very serious, but also some of the people trying to jump on the bandwagon are truly ridiculous. They’re like … I lost in a D+71 district, how could this be???!?

Tagged: #he lost by 72 points instead of 71 so obviously shenanigans

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I reblogged rainbow-themed art of two ancient Greek women kissing, and added:

#haha truly my people

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Today’s favorite wtf line from my reading:

But the systematic roughness of the English genre yields darker riches.

(Still Braden’s Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition; pg. 204)

Tagged: #his arguments get pretty strained at points and imo this is def one of them but ... just #lol

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‘Darker riches’ of English aside, a lot of the material I’m reading about is interesting (when I’m not tired). There was this section on an early Italian dramatist who was like “what if some tragedies … had happy endings? but were still Serious Art?” and “I made up the story for this play all on my own and that’s fine, it is actually okay to make up our own stories, too.”

Looking back from the perspective of a corporate, hyper-derivative, yet originality-obsessed culture, it’s like … Earth 2 at times.

Tagged: #the ways that fanfic both resembles ordinary early modern lit and doesn't is pretty unendingly fascinating to me #bc it's not the same but the contempt for /anything/ that uses pre-existing material apart from adaptations and ~subversions~ #is such a total inverse

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Speaking of Greenblatt, the first page of Shakespearean Negotiations:

“But those who love literature tend to find more intensity in simulations.”

Tagged: #he certainly shows up with a bang

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I reblogged a post (originally from birdimages on Tumblr) saying that your Tumblr avatar is your external self, while your Discord avatar is your real self, and added:

#leia on the outside; my aasimar warlock within #i'll take it lol

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I’ve read 100 pgs of Greenblatt and my feelings are a pretty even split between “oh, good point, that’s interesting and I hadn’t noticed” and “the fuck??? that is baseless speculation and also, may I repeat, what the fuck”

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I am such a flake that today almost went horrifically wrong, but my committee is so great :’)

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This anon said:

(hi nervous anon again) okay full disclosure, I’m not even american and maybe I have no right to be stressed about this election, but I WAS and now that the race has been called, I wanna say congratulations!! You guys did it!!! 🎉

I replied:

Thank you so much!! It’s such a relief.

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I reblogged a gifset of Tom Hiddleston as Hal in the Henry IV, Part 1 section of The Hollow Crown, and added:

#my fave henry v!!! fight me

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It’s occurred to me that two of my least favorite scenes in two very different adaptations are … basically the same.

(Predictably, ranting negativity re: Jackson’s LOTR and Davies’s P&P under the cut)

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incognitajones tagged me in a fantasy aesthetic meme!

The prompt: Google “your name + fantasy gown, fantasy crown, and fantasy weapon” and post the results.







Pretty cool look, I have to say.

I originally tagged: heckofabecca, jubaah, grumpyfaceurn, kareenvorbarra, nanyoky, and tulina

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I reblogged a clip of a German Shepherd curling up against a light-colored labradory puppy and added:

Tagged: #aww reminds me of our lab and german shepherd :)

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An anon said (in response to this post):

A thing that annoys me too about that P&P is that, well, in that scene, he’s right. She *has* been willfully misunderstanding him, basing her opinion of him around “mean gossip” and accounts of biased people. But people kind of act like Darcy is the only one who has to change his behavior in P&P and it’s :/

I replied:

Hmm. At that point, I don’t think her judgment is skewed by other people so much as by her own pride; the scene happens before she meets Wickham, say. But she’s still hearing and perceiving everything Darcy does through a heavy filter, and while he doesn’t fully understand it, I agree that he is fundamentally right in that moment.

That is, I think that Elizabeth tends to class people into types that she can make generalizations about, usually in the service of her self-assurance, rather than accounting for the individual qualities that she would have been perfectly capable of perceiving if not for, well, willfully misunderstanding people. It is her core flaw, and I agree that it’s often overlooked in the uneven treatment of their characters.

And yeah, I think changing Darcy’s delivery from a smiling rebuttal to angry UST obscures that. It’s easy to see him as just being an asshole and frustrated by the interchange, rather than genuinely and intelligently interested in a philosophical discussion of human and individual nature.

(As a side note, that debate was a particularly major point of dispute at the time. Many of the topics he brings up are tied to major contemporary debates that he seems to be trying to draw her into.)

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This post only makes sense in context, so:

Firstly, DaftLimmy on Twitter said:

People should be born Cancelled. And you've got to spend your whole life trying to Walk It Back.

Roo Honeychild, still on Twitter, responded:

it's called Catholicism

Hozier (yes, that Hozier) left a like on that response.

angelsaxis on Tumblr posted the screenshot of all three, and captioned it:

Today on Hozier liked

My friend ameliarating, who is Jewish, said:

#sounds like all of christianity? but I don't know enough to know #christian friends #is this just catholicism?

I responded:

Not all Christian sects subscribe to the doctrine, though more than just Catholics do. It is really strongly associated w/ Catholicism, however.

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I’m really feeling my original novel rn … but I don’t have time to work on it. :(

Tagged: #i don't even have time for fíriel :\ #idk maybe i'll make a moodboard or something in my unwinding moments #but i want to fix the chapters i wrote this year #they are Very Flawed and i had an idea for how to fix them but ;_;

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I got some genderbending discourse on my dash, and it remains so weird to me.

This particular take was about how genderbending is inherently gender essentialist and I’m just ???????????

I mean, I can’t speak for everyone who writes genderbent fic, but I have written a lot of it. And for me, it only works when I don’t see the genderbent character as having an essential gender at all; otherwise it couldn’t be changed without making them a fundamentally different person (though no more so than many fandom changes). I once contemplated m!Leia and my brain just about broke.

In fairness, I’m pretty much projecting my own experience onto a lot of my faves and I accept that. I have never felt that I had an essential gender or even really understood gender, just that I have been assigned female and treated as female. I’ve certainly resented it at varying points in my life, but not enough to do anything about it. I just live my female-adjacent-ish life and it’s not quite right, but not quite wrong, so … whatever.

I honestly think that people often characterize gender in terms of what gender you feel like and not how much you feel it, but for me, it’s this mix of “what is gender anyway?” and “eh.” And yeah, there’s probably some repression going on there, but in any case, I deal with it through imagining apparently cis male fictional characters with the experience I have (no essential gender + some not-quite-comfortable social influence), and then converting it to something even closer to mine.

So it’s really weird when people are like … actually, taking ostensibly cis male characters and giving them your wtf experience of gender is gender essentialist and you’re not allowed to process your experiences that way.

I know people will keep doing what they’re doing, of course. But so will I.

Tagged: #hmm #my gb fics are different but have common themes that ... feel very obvious but weren't even obvious to me for awhile #me: why is all my genderbent fic so issueficcy #also me: hmm not sure but i don't think i care

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adventures-in-anecdotes posted a screenshot of an unknown person's author's note on AO3, which reads "Me? Heavily projecting onto my favorite fictional characters? It's more likely than you think."

I reblogged it from brynnmclean right after making my genderbending post, and said:

#lol #speak of the devil