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sometimes i open up house of leaves and sit with the

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"Why is it a problem if students use AI to get through college"

Because if you demonstrate to me that you're willing to set aside concern for truth, evidence, and verifying things with your own eyes whenever it happens to be inconvenient for you, I have a solemn responsibility to make sure you don't get into medical school.

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my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “ekumenical mission to gethen” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever I don’t feel shit

me 5 minutes later: dude I swear i just saw a sarf agent in the kemmerhouse

my buddy estraven pacing: argaven is lying to us

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It's been way too long since I've talked about books in here, I recently finished one of the best books I've read this year and I obviously can't keep my mouth shut about it, so this is a review of The left hand of darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin.

I' m going to start by saying that I didn't think I was going to like this book that much (I even foud it a bit slow at the begining) but boy was I wrong. So if you start it and think it's boring I can assure you you'll probably like it if you keep on reading.

So what's this book really about? It's a science fiction novel in which the main character, Genly Ai, a man from Terra (our Earth), is sent to the planet of Gethen to try to convince its people to join an spacial human alliance. What's really interesting about Gethen (appart from it being super cold) is that all of its people are ambisexual. They usually only present sexual characteristics once a month, in some kind of heat called kemmer that lasts about a week. During this time they can present either female ol male characteristics, but these rols can vary, one month you may have male genitalia and on the next one you might present as sexually female. The rest of the month, when they're in sommer they don't present any sexual characteristics whatsoever and look kind of androgynous. Gender isn't a thing in Gethen. And Genly Ai, who isn't used to that, will have to adapt to Gethen's culture.

I think I must also mention Estraven, my favourite character (I'm sorry, you know I had to), who guides Genly in this new world and shows him how things work there. I think he's a remarkable character, his relationship with Genly evolves into a pure and strong bond, not necessarily romantic, but described by both of them as love.

The left hand of darkness has heavy feminist topics that are treated in a really interesting point of view. It doesn't talk about women (there aren't any female characters in it), but it shows a society without gender norms or differences because gender does simply not exist. It shows that humans, at the end, are all humans, at that's what really is important. When Genly indentifies some steriotipically feminine behaviours in other characters and treats them as inferior you'll probably get mad at him, because he doesn't seem to really want to understand the people arround him. That's a strong message itself.

This book's exploration of gender is fascinating. It might be because I've always felt something for the concept for androgyny, but Gethen's people and culture go further and make you question your own. A book published in 1969 happens to have more feminist values than most books of the same genre nowadays. And that's what I love about this book, and specially about Le Guin. Oh, and it also critizices extreme nationalism!

So yeah, I think that's it. If anyone read this post completely I want to thank them because this got really long (I'm sorry). But I really loved this book and I can't stop thinking about it, so I needed to write something. Anyway, I really recommend this book, and I'll probably be reading more of Le Guin's novels because this woman's amazing. (And if you've read it please talk to me about it because it's now my new hyperfixation).

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currently doing fine

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people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway here’s a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?”

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i'm sorry i don't know the source of this because it was posted on reddit without credit but i'm obsessed with this

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You know what. Fuck you.

*unhallows your ween*

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Oh no he found me

A comprehensive ranking of Dostoevsky’s hottest men (by me, a lesbian)

1. Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin (Demons): this man is so fucking hot he borders on being too much. Dostoevsky dedicated an like an entire page to how hot Stavrogin is. His terribleness just makes him hotter, and everyone in the book agrees with me on this. Literally everyone wants this man. Liza fucks him. Marya Timofeevna marries him. 99% sure Verkhovensky would fuck him if given the chance. Even Shatov seems like he was once gay for Stavrogin. What can I say? Stavrogin is just Like That. 

2. Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov (The Brothers Karamazov): THIS ONE SEEMS TO BE CONTROVERSIAL.  Mitya is a military man, and god dammit I really like military dudes. They’re buff. Dmitri’s recklessness honestly just makes him MORE attractive, and his devotion to Grushenka gives him a sweet side too.

3. Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment): ANOTHER CHARACTER DOSTOEVSKY DEDICATED AN ENTIRE PAGE TO. Raskolnikov is fucking beautiful, but he’s as breakable as fucking glass. He’d probably be tied with Stavrogin if only he took better care of himself. Instead, he lets himself starve, constantly faints, and makes terrible decisions every single time he’s given the chance. Not to mention he’s kind of a dick to everyone. He’s good-looking, but his sickliness gets in the way of his attractiveness.

4. Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov (The Brothers Karamazov): Similar to Raskolnikov. Ivan is hot at the beginning of the novel, but his religious breakdown and descent into madness sends him spiraling, so by the end he just looks sick. 

5. Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky (Demons): Verkhovensky is good-looking, but something about his description holds him back from peak hotness. Probably his “pinched face” (Dostoevsky’s words, not mine). I really like the idea of him having longer hair, like in the TV series (movie? help???) I found his cunning really attractive at the beginning of the book, but by the end he was more psychotic than anything. Not an awesome look.

6. Dmitri Prokofych Razumikhin (Crime and Punishment): Okay hear me out: I always imagined Raz as being kinda scruffy and disheveled. Couple that with the fact that he’s canonically tall, and you got yourself a hottie. He’s also so incredibly sweet but also very passionate, making him the ideal partner. Too bad he’s in love with the Raskolnikovs (take your pick of which sibling).

7. Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov (The Brothers Karamazov): Alyosha is a major cutie, but he’s not exactly hot. He’s described as being tall and good-looking, but his chaste nature holds him back from his true potential. DON’T GET ME WRONG ALYOSHA IS THE SWEETEST CHARACTER HE IS MY BABY AND I LOVE HIM but I wouldn’t fuck him.

8. Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin (The Idiot): Myshkin is a fucking angel. He’s a beautiful ray of sunshine and the light of my life, but like Alyosha, he’s too pure to really be hot. Also, I always imagined him as looking thin and sickly due to his epilepsy, being kind of perpetually sick, which detracts from his looks.

9. Gavrila Ardalionovich Ivolgin (The Idiot): I see Ganya as reasonably attractive, but god he’s such a dick. If only he was nicer. Still, he takes care of himself, which is more than I can say for others on this list.

10. Evgeny Pavlovich Radomsky (The Idiot): A polite, smart, handsome friend. Unfortunately, he’s kinda boring, which makes him forgettable to me.

11. Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin (The Idiot): A dark, roguish lad. His passion is really what puts him up here, but I never saw him as particularly hot. The fact that he kills his girlfriend and tries to kill his best friend isn’t helping his case. Bonus points for having distinctive eyes though, even if you can’t escape his gaze.

12. Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin (Crime and Punishment): Luzhin is a dilf (minus being a dad) until he opens his mouth. Then he speaks and becomes the biggest dick in the book (which is saying something, because Svidrigailov is also in this book). 

13. Alexei Nilych Kirillov (Demons): I have no real thoughts on Kirillov. He’s of average looks, I guess. A bit too edgy for my taste. I also see him as being pretty disheveled and not really taking care of himself in his depressive state, but unlike Raskolnikov and Ivan Karamazov, Kirillov doesn’t have anyone to take care of him.

14. Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov (Crime and Punishment): I love to hate this guy. I see him as being reasonably attractive for his age (which goes with his canon description), but he’s such a fucking creep that he will never be truly hot. Unfortunately, he’s a pedophile/rapist, which would automatically put him at the bottom of the list if this list wasn’t based on physical appearance alone.

15. Porfiry Petrovich (Crime and Punishment): A man of average looks. I see him as being a bit paunchy and looking a little older than his age, but his cunning and sense of humor make him more attractive (he’d be near the top if this list was based on personality).

16. Ivan Pavlovich Shatov (Demons): Not particularly good-looking, but made better by the fact that he can see how ludicrous Verkhovensky’s plan is.

17. The Underground Man (Notes From Underground): A complete fucking wreck. Would look better if he was maybe a little less of a wreck.

18. Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov (The Brothers Karamazov): Disgusting old man.

19. Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov (The Brothers Karamazov): get this thing away from me this instant

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one of my favorite tropes ever is "doomed surrogate father-son relationship"

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go get your embarrassing napoleon nerd razumikhin

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my very autistic mom is looking up reviews for Catch-22 on google, but for whatever reason it's also showing reviews for a restaurant in south carolina called Catch-22. so in between all the reviews like "brilliant satire!" "all-time literary classic!" and "unputdownable!" there's random reviews like "loved it. great pasta here. i got the chicken alfredo :)"