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

[xp_wildchild]

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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[xp_darcy]

mm, peak gothic.

you aren't teaching that shitty f scott fitzgerald novel, are you? if it's on the list just skip it.

[xp_wildchild]

Gatsby? Oh fuck no. I'm in a UNION, Darcy. They let us strike for shit like that.

(I mean no they don't but I wish they would, but thank fuck no, I don't have to teach that for this gig)

[xp_darcy]

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.

[xp_wildchild]

ooooooooooooooogh

okay like

look I don't hate Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls is so vivid and messy skillfully written and and and it's just a goddamn brutal novel, I should not have read it in the hospital that was a bad idea (young kyle didn't make good reading decisions) and like, the CIA or FBI I forget really -was- lurking and making him feel stalked and fuck THAT shit

but like I am also kinda glad that there's some options for lit class assignments for high school than 'read this exerpt from The Sun Also Rises'

[xp_darcy]

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).