Reading A Ruin, Great and Free
@akilamantado
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Ignyte-nominated critic, beta reader, bookstagrammer. Words in @strangehorizons @badformreview @rebelwomenlit, Divergent Terror anth @offlimitspress. She/Her
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Joined July 2011
In Dec 2024 I gave the introduction to Kim Robinson-Walcott's searing stories collection "You Have to Harden Your Heart in Times Like These" (Blouse & Skirt Books) at its launch. Caribbean Quarterly published it in its recent issue. Have a read if you like. Link in next tweet.
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"To write is to refuse to let emergency speech be the only speech, to argue that even in catastrophe we retain the right to sentences that wander, examine, and return."
This beautiful essay by the incomparable Alaa Alqaisi. https://t.co/4bAzX9Hhvs
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Red flag Ilya discourse getting points on the board. Whew.
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This opening montage is everything. That locker room scene! #HeatedRivalryEp4
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You should always read a new essay by Alaa Alqaisi. Today on ArabLit.
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Movie pundits' myopia on the political implications of a Paramount win because "Hey, we'll get a a Democrat president soon" is...? Too many USians are simply not paying attention. Still, somehow.
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Just a reminder that Duke Ellington's "The Nutcracker Suite" is filled with very Black, soulful jazz renditions of all those classical music faves we all know from the Nutcracker ballet. It's my favorite thing to listen to this time of year!
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Me: “time to get some serious work done” My brain: “for mysterious reasons, I will be of no use today”
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💥 Letterboxd Video Store launches December 10 (ET). 👀 Announcing our Unreleased Gems shelf: rent these must-see films you can’t watch anywhere else. Available for a limited time only, through January 2. Regions and prices vary by title. Read more: https://t.co/4vkPRr1oY1
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Forget the goodreads count, what were the best books you read for the first time this year?
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At some point you just have to look at stuff like this and say “skill issue.” This kind of defeatism is ahistorical. Serious intellectual life has always existed outside the modern university and will continue long after the modern university ceases to exist.
I’ve realized it’s almost impossible to avoid de-intellectualization once you leave the university scene. I try my best to read at least 15+ books a year, I take courses, volunteer etc. but there’s still nothing like the environment of a university which constantly engages you
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This is what the folx bawling about the Netflix purchase don't understand. Mek dem stay there.
i’m genuinely stunned that somehow the netflix merger isn’t even the worst case scenario lol
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#NWCNewstream | Customers served by the NWC's Constant Spring Treatment Facility are advised that a temporary regulation schedule is implemented with immediate effect. This has become necessary due to electro-mechanical issues impacting the raw-water conveyance system.
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Wolf Parade was SUCH a throwback. That Subpop era take me back.
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The Jamaican Blackbird aka Wild Pine Sergeant. It is one of the rarest birds in Jamaica. This endangered species is endemic to Jamaica and is found only in the Blue & John Crow Mountains and the Cockpit Country. Many people mistake it for other black birds, but very few ever get
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✨ MARK YOUR CALENDARS✨ Mike Figgis' MEGADOC — the epic true story of the making of Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS — will begin streaming exclusively on the @criterionchannl starting December 16! Granted unsurpassed access to the set, Figgis weaves together archival
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I just know this Heated Rivalry fandom gonna cross the line with the actors. Goddess protect them because the comfortable objectification I'm seeing is gross. Fujoshis always....Kmt.
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Where are the anti Paramount letters?
EXCLUSIVE: A group of major industry players has sent an urgent open letter to Congress, warning of an economic and institutional meltdown in Hollywood if Netflix succeeds in acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery. The letter was sent via email to members of Congress from both parties
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And surely Skydance Paramount getting WB would have been much worse, especially in the current US political landscape? Bigger stakes than theatrical distribution? Yo, over deh suh nuh mek nuh sense to me. Mek mi mind mi business.
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