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Kyle Gibney ([personal profile] xp_wildchild) wrote2022-05-05 08:19 am

Okay, like I know I'm the only one who cares about this.

https://lithub.com/apparently-the-brontes-all-died-so-early-because-they-spent-their-lives-drinking-graveyard-water/

But the fact that all the Brontes basically grew up drinking corpse water explains SO FUCKING MUCH.

This message brought to you by a really fucking tired Kyle who has a three week gig teaching gig for a 10th grade lit class and I'm 4 days in and I want to die I'm going to throw myself out the window

ima disrupt the lesson plans and talk about how Wuthering Heights is the way it is because Emily Bronte was drinking corpse water.
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[personal profile] xp_daredevil 2022-05-05 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
that's amazing. and terrifying.

and honestly explains so much about Charles Darwin, too.
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[personal profile] xp_darcy 2022-05-05 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
mm, peak gothic.

you aren't teaching that shitty f scott fitzgerald novel, are you? if it's on the list just skip it.
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[personal profile] xp_loa 2022-05-05 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Kyle, the English were just like that, drinking their dirty corpse water. Would you truly talk of the disenfranchised like that?
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[personal profile] xp_daredevil 2022-05-05 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Lovecraft had a lot of problems. himself being the first one
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[personal profile] xp_loa 2022-05-05 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I don’t know if there’s actually a cause and effect there, but maybe?

Why does this make me think of LaCroix? Flavor of overfilled graveyard, with a hint of dysentery?
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[personal profile] xp_darcy 2022-05-05 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
good, i have a whole "in this essay i will" about why that novel is G A R B A G E. also some insults about hemingway, even if he's marginally better than f scott.
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[personal profile] xp_darcy 2022-05-05 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
i don't haaaaaaaaaaaaaaate hemingway but there are so many other exceptional writers from that time (and he has better works than the old man and the sea and the sun also rises).
Edited 2022-05-05 19:31 (UTC)
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[personal profile] xp_cypher 2022-05-06 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
It's only a corpse if it's from the Cor P'Se region.

Otherwise it's just sparkling dead body.

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[personal profile] xp_darcy 2022-05-06 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
i can't believe you made me see this with my own eyes
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[personal profile] xp_colossus 2022-05-06 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Can I interest you in Russian lit? It, too, is long and depressing.

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[personal profile] xp_jubilee 2022-05-07 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Someone had to drink the corpse water.
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[personal profile] xp_phoenix 2022-05-08 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
In my medical opinion...yep. Drinking corpse water is very bad.