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at the risk of being cringe with everything going on — this week, the last six months, the past five years — i keep thinking about that one quote from the great gatsby
“they were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
it’s just every day now, huh.
bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental
No googling, curious about something
daily mantra: I am just a normal dog, you can let me into your remote antarctic research station, I'm normal and won't become scary
love it when a guy is the protagonist in a story within a story and it ruins his life. hell yeah. lets be miserable. heavy is the head that wears the protagonist halo
Murderbot runs the Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon's fan wikia like the fucking navy.
Are we gonna pass on the fire bit at the bottom?
My brain socialist
My heart anarchist
My eyes pacifist
My blood revolutionary
My tits: OUT
I am forcibly removed from the cemetery
I don't need to know anything else about this man to know we would have been great friends. An absolute legend. I wonder if I can find the actual story about that conviction, cause you know there is a story there.
I can and did. He attended a protest against a poll tax, and when he saw a cop choking a protestor and objected, two other cops pinned him to a wall and choked him into unconsciousness. He woke up in jail charged with assault, and one of the cops claimed he'd bitten him on the hand.
The bite mark was proven not to match his teeth, and it's presumed that the cop bit himself to frame Mitchell. But they convicted him anyway despite proof it wasn't his teeth that bit the cop. Ergo, he was convicted of biting a cop with someone else's teeth. The experience led him to a lifetime of activism work and getting a law degree so he could fight injustices like the one he faced.
[ID: A post by Kit Whitfield showing a picture of a gravestone with the caption "A tombstone in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, photgraphed by Andy Darby. Note the border inscription."
The gravestone reads:
"Alistair Stephen Fabian Mitchell
13-6-1957
10-2-2019
Barrister of the Middle Temple
My brain socialist
My heart anarchist
My eyes pacifist
My blood revolutionary"
Around the edge of the stone reads: "The only man in British legal history to be convicted of biting a policeman - with someone else's teeth."
There are two smaller words after this inscription that are obscured by flowers on the grave.
/ end ID]
A Conversation with Richard Siken by Thomas Hobohm
Merry Christmas from Krtek!
M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S
It’s not Christmas unless this giftset has appeared on your dash at least five times.
It’s back 💕
it’s not christmas without wilf on your dash
Annual Wilf reblog.
Wilfposting
