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Claire A

3 months

Really excited to say I've launched a poetry substack, & w a specific focus! I"ll be writing & posting one new poem for a year, focusing on poems of joy mostly. Please check it out! (I have 3 poems up so far, including a summer poem) #poetrytwitter

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Claire A

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2 months

@NaNoWriMo @ProWritingAid unfollowing due to your support for AI @NaNoWriMo

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Claire A

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2 months

So, so fun to attend a webinar from @BethanyJarmul about how to publish a poetry collection (she does incredible work). And I love connecting writers so let's follow each other! @bdcutkomp @JenniferMolidor @dominique_1234 @EZhang77 @katherinechiemi @dsstudebaker @CarstentenBrink

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@cstegman you've got to be joking

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Claire A

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2 months

Instant classic tweet

Taco Bell Quarterly

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2 months

just vomit up your whole novel up in a month the old fashioned way: using your brain and raw unadulterated self-loathing

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Dolores Umbridge: "Oh my dear, we're not here to WRITE in this writing class. The AI will do it!" #NaNoWriMo #writingcommunity

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@stephenRB4 Cutting way back on TV, reading instead, and going to bed an hour earlier than usual

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@AlannaBennett IT WILL CHANGE your life

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@goodreads LOTR, Pride and Prejudice

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@thinkingwest Pride and Prejudice, Sherlock, or The Three Musketeers. But I think it depends on whether we're talking children's classics or adult classics

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Claire A

@CoffeeandIrony

3 months

Stunning, by @jmasseypoet Lost in the mind, or lost in the world, I watch a storm rake over the mountain; fine lines wind slants sideways, slurring sun.

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"why should I read something you can't be bothered to write" is a GREAT one-line response to all generative AI

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I met a guy who owns a business, air conditioning I think, he was singing the praises of AI and using it to write emails to his staff, when I hit him with the “why should I read something you couldnt be bothered to write” he started saying he had dyslexia and I was being ableist-

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Light always irradiates. High key honeydew, @leahgardnerart .

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"September came in with golden days and silver nights" - J.R.R. Tolkein Warwick Fuller, contemporary plein air painter

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Claire A

@CoffeeandIrony

1 year

@KaivanShroff @ClareMalone um - so Hasan doesn't dispute any of the FBI claims in the article? that he completely made up all of that?

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Claire A

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@ThatBeardoAdam @NaNoWriMo but aren't those all writing softwares? why does writing software care whether or not you're using AI? (also, Nanowrimo's policy is obviously ethically bankrupt and I unfollowed them this morning)

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@goodreads Boxcar Children, House on the Prairie, Famous Five, Nancy Drew, Phantom Tollbooth

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@CoffeeandIrony

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Some of the books I've read so far this year! -poetry ( @JcScharl , Whitman, @jmasseypoet ) -some contemporary "literary" authors: Hernan Diaz, Donna Tartt -the always superb Tana French, who writes precise, beautiful literary crime & is one of my favorite living authors -fantasy

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Claire A

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Bring back good architecture and walkable towns. Beauty matters

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Transylvania University sent a recruiting mailer and it included this photo of Lexington. This is a very carefully angled view of downtown as just off camera are modern glass buildings. Why did they choose this photo? Because everyone knows that’s what appeals to people.

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@JenniferMolidor @BethanyJarmul @bdcutkomp @dominique_1234 @EZhang77 @katherinechiemi @dsstudebaker @CarstentenBrink @westeawest @LRLwrites @suz_chef @christinaltudor @michelerule @marcelineawhite @whirlwindtots @stefanienorlin @klgrasso5 THANK YOU! (I couldn't find everyone)

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@whatsben @NateSilver538 Extremely popular governor of Pennsylvania, which is the primary swing state

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good Lord this is absolutely GORGEOUS

Stone Circle Review

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NEW POEM #156 : "Natural Instincts in a Human-Harsh World" by Audrey T. Carroll ( @AudreyTCarroll ) "the opposite of a cat call is a finch singing at you as you fill a bronze bowl with seed; they come to recognize the vague shape of your body" LINKTREE LINK IN PROFILE #Poem

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@Stacie_loves @ThatBeardoAdam @NaNoWriMo ohhhhh. wow

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Claire A

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn stretches so far beyond its topic and subject matter and technical status as a children's book. It's one of the greats. It will always be read. Shimmering and heartbreaking

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Claire A

@CoffeeandIrony

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@VFAubrey_Author @NateSilver538 In Russia Telegram is the ONLY non government controlled platform the people could access. It's a huge death to free speech and one of the last threads of democratic life there to have it gone

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Claire A

@CoffeeandIrony

2 months

Friends, I am ONE subscriber away from 190 subscribers to my poetry newsletter! (I send out one joy-filled poem a week paired with a light-filled piece of art). Please consider going to the link in my bio and subscribing! (can't include link here as X demotes it)

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Claire A

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@SketchesbyBoze The Peanut Butter Falcoln, starring Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen, and Shia LaBouf, is an incredibly funny, surprising, heart-wrenching, warm movie that has stuck with me for years. Based on this list of your favorites I think you'd love it. The plot makes it sound like it will

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Claire A

@CoffeeandIrony

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@KaivanShroff @ClareMalone I care about factual truth and you're not willing to have a conversation about that. New Yorker proved that Minhaj lied about going to the hospital btw - we have nothing but his word now (that of someone who admitted he lied) that he ever got an envelope of white powder at all

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Claire A

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@JohnBLeonard @Passage37 @drewlind_ @Tbombadill0 @laethcore @VanMarsBooks @_royalfool_ @SeanBerube4 @happy_at_home_ @TomMageeHimself @accentedreality @stretchyWombat this is incredible!! What an inspired idea to write a story based on a Rembrandt painting, especially one so rich with potential emotion. Off to read the stories now!

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Claire A

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@Katie_Dozier I have 2 very opposing thoughts: 1 is that we need a lot more blue-collar poetry. the other is that The Four Quartets & Dante's Inferno are some of the greatest poetry ever written and are not accessible at all. so, there are/should be different goals in writing.

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Claire A

@CoffeeandIrony

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"Maybe then we'll be content to let it whir on without us"

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@newversereview

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"The Butlerian Prohibition against Thinking Machines" by @jessekbutler is one of the stranger and more surprising poems in NVR 1.1, but it is also very much a poem for our times. In short, it is genius. Here is the opening section, full poem at link.

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Claire A

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@Lighthouses_NE @JEngelMattern @SketchesbyBoze @JThomasABC @KarynCurtis21 @AndrewsSusanM @JennyTwrites @StephenAHenry @JamesWelsh35 @misslinsayo @aliceoutthere1 only one, I looked it up after you asked! And it's not a traditional lighthouse shape, but has its own beauty Middle Bay Lighthouse, Mobile AL

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"The beauty of the house is immeasurable: its kindness infinite." -Piranesi, Susanna Clarke ❤️

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@TobiasvRyan Girl with a Pearl Earring

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@GRCinemaTicket Grosse Point Blank, Better Off Dead

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@BenGalley idk sounds like something Hogwarts would have and I love it!

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Claire A

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@KaivanShroff @ClareMalone Per NYT "Minhaj said he fell victim to the U.S. government’s spying on Muslim communities in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks...In reality, Minhaj acknowledged in the video, his story stemmed from being “physically harassed” while playing basketball". So, he lied

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@davidcinema Oppenheimer, Blade Runner 2049, Grand Budapest Hotel as pictured, The Fall

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Claire A

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@hubermanlab Myself and most women I know apply sunscreen religiously to avoid wrinkles. I'm frustrated at the lack of fully safe ones though - I use Asian ones as they're generally more colorless and slightly less toxic. If anyone has any recs let me know!!

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🪔🪟🔰👏

Owl! at the Library 😴🧙‍♀️

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we need to bring back beauty and ornament. stained glass. brass knobs. high-speed trains that resemble the setting of a Poirot novel. gargoyles atop the Starbucks. this country could be so great

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@StephenAHenry @Lighthouses_NE @JEngelMattern @SketchesbyBoze @JThomasABC @KarynCurtis21 @AndrewsSusanM @JennyTwrites @JamesWelsh35 @misslinsayo @aliceoutthere1 stunning!!

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@Lighthouses_NE @JEngelMattern @SketchesbyBoze @JThomasABC @KarynCurtis21 @AndrewsSusanM @JennyTwrites @StephenAHenry @JamesWelsh35 @misslinsayo @aliceoutthere1 following!

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@AmericanGwyn that's so cool. I've only read two of McCarthy's books but not this one. Need to read it. My favorite literary podcast did a fantastic retrospective of his work when he died btw, I think you'd enjoy it

Remembering Cormac McCarthy, Part 1

Podcast Episode · Close Reads Podcast · 06/21/2023 · 52m

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Claire A

@CoffeeandIrony

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@toddedillard what the hell.

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@wrenscarborough *hard agree* Human beings can sense when something is off with the world or with art

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Claire A

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@SketchesbyBoze I'm so sorry. That's so so much to process. I pray you remain steadfast in the people who love you and the security of being loved by them!

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Claire A

@CoffeeandIrony

3 months

@cottageinwood ??? this is a direct sature of The Last Supper, one of the most revered religious images in the world. This post seems contemptuous of faith??

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Claire A

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2 months

☀️Something I'm quietly delighted about is that my poetry newsletter, which I launched in July and where I send out one joy-focused original poem a week, is 1 away from hitting 200 subscribers. What a gift. If you'd like to be that 200th person, feel free to check it out, I'll

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@JEngelMattern ooh please suggest a few people to follow! this is very nearly my dream!

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@TinyWriterLaura HARD AGREE

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@austin_rief hmmm I wonder how many studies this is backed by and if they had control groups. I'm def open to this I just wonder how much actual evidence there is. Schizophrenia was much more rare before but existed LONG before ultra processed foods.

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It's almost impossible to *over*state the impact the LOTR trilogy has had

DiscussingFilm

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Denis Villeneuve says watching the ‘LORD OF THE RINGS’ trilogy inspired him to stay faithful to the source material of ‘DUNE’ “If [my adaptation] can bring more people to read the book, it would be great.” (Source: )

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@jgjaxon @TheCinesthetic that was SUCH a great show. Way better than it looked

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@timmckay52 Gonna go against all the advice in the threads & say that when it's done immediately in first few pages it always feels like a cheap attempt to shock the reader AND breaks trust with the reader. draw reader back into world & then do it at end of first chapter or in chapter 2

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@athulkrishna385 @TheCinesthetic this summary is obviously AI-generated which is disappointing

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Claire A

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@TinyWriterLaura gorgeous - the dark green walls and huge wood bookshelves are pretty much my future dream!!! also - is that chair actually comfortable? I've been on the hunt for a while for a comfortable reading chair

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Claire A

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@_MarissaGlover_ Poetry seems to fundamentally pursue the ecstatic, or a moment of sublime inspiration. It seems fundamentally unlike stoicism

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@LisaLSchmid wait what is happening? I know it's been discouraging but I wasn't aware there was a broader trend

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@VersoBooks Crime and Punishment, Dawn of this Hunger poetry book by @sallyreadwriter , and An Exile of Water and Gold by @JWalkerWrites

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Claire A

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@BeardofDarkness @robinhobb she liked one of my comments the other day and it made my day :))

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Claire A

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Posted a long, unpolished but satisfying poem to the blog. About depression, and joy. One of the most vulnerable I've ever written. Excerpt below, read the rest at the link in the comment or link in bio!

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@Andrewnsnyder Puddleglum is one of the greatest literary characters

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@TheLincoln interesting - what are the academics saying?

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Claire A

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. @NaNoWriMo has, unfortunately, lost its mind and stepped into waters WAY too deep for it. "It's actually classist and ablist to NOT use the artificial machine that dehumanizes human creativity and intelligence!"

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guys is it ableist to expect people to write their own novels during national novel writing month

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@TheGreatB00ks my parents read aloud to me until I was around 8 or 9 :) Old Yeller, Little House on the Prairie, Where the Red Fern Grows, Little Princess, The Secret Garden

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Cannot wait

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available one week from tomorrow:

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@goodreads Piranesi

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@AmericanGwyn I was talking to a guy on the Stack who I think is in his late 20s and had literally just started reading a couple years ago. He went down the Hemingway-Cormac road first and LOVED it and has since been reading everything. There's a real power to masculine writing

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Claire A

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@AmericanGwyn LOLLLLLL

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Claire A

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Spare, gorgeous, and relentlessly evocative. I love this one @marty_benz , and thanks to @irinibus for sharing so I saw it

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Absolutely thrilled to have a poem in the Summer 2021 issue of @3pennyreview ! Feels surreal to be published in the same magazine as so many of my heroes. (Charles Simic, anyone??) Thank you, Wendy Lesser!

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All that you need in your life is some Edward Hopper. Rooms by the Sea, 1951

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Claire A

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1 year

I don't think I have the bandwidth but this looks delightful!! @TeawithTolkien

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come read The Lord of the Rings with us :)

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@NateSilver538 I was puzzled from the start why media and pollsters were so dismissive of the impact of RFK dropping out. Very unpopular but 5% should produce a noticeable if small shift in an election this tight

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Claire A

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Honestly inspiring

Heidi Priebe ✍️🌷

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I don’t really worry about getting addicted to things but once I read a story about a man who went to Nepal & started walking & then just never stopped walking & at the time of the interview he was one & a half years into his walk & had completely abandoned his life back home.

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Comments like THIS are what keeps me writing :) One joy-filled poem a week, every week. (link in bio if you'd like to sign up!) Blessed and encouraged. #WritingCommunity

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@Andrewnsnyder accurate. Also, the ending scene of Gladiator for all men

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I've been re-reading The Dresden Files and the authorial shift that happens as of book 7 should be studied. The series becomes entirely different in tone and scope after that: much serious, darker, more epic, more mature. The magic that happens when an inexperienced author

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@cottageinwood it doesn't do anyone any credit to dehumanize someone. this is a weird, dehumanizing take

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@RealEmirHan Jessica Jones. The Fall

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