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Essays

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of essays I like/find interesting/are food for thought; I’ve tried to sort them as much as possible. The starred (*) ones are those I especially love

also quick note: some of these links, especially the ones that are from books/anthologies redirect you to libgen or scihub, and if that doesn’t work for you, do message me; I’d be happy to send them across!

Literature + Writing

Godot Comes to Sarajevo - Susan Sontag

The Strangeness of Grief - V. S. Naipaul*

Memories of V. S. Naipaul - Paul Theroux*

A Rainy Day with Ruskin Bond - Mayank Austen Soofi

How Albert Camus Faced History - Adam Gopnik

Listen, Bro - Jo Livingstone

Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel - Judith Thurman

Lost in Translation: What the First Line of “The Stranger” Should Be - Ryan Bloom

The Duke in His Domain - Truman Capote*

The Cult of Donna Tartt: Themes and Strategies in The Secret History - Ana Rita Catalão Guedes

Never Do That to a Book - Anne Fadiman*

Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel - Rohan Chauhan*

Why I Write - George Orwell*

Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance - Carrie Jaurès Noland*

Art + Photography (+ Aesthetics)

Looking at War - Susan Sontag*

Love, sex, art, and death - Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz

Lyons, Szarkowski, and the Perception of Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker

The Feminist Critique of Art History - Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Mathews

In Plato’s Cave - Susan Sontag*

On reproduction of art (Chapter 1, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

On nudity and women in art (Chapter 3, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

Kalighat Paintings  - Sharmishtha Chaudhuri

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images From the Past -  Maël Renouard

Arthur Rimbaud: the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Enid Rhodes Peschel

Cities

Tragic Fable of Mumbai Mills - Gyan Prakash

Whose Bandra is it? - Dustin Silgardo*

Timur’s Registan: noblest public square in the world? - Srinath Perur

The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle - Colin Marshall*

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai’s iconic railway station - Srinath Perur

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective -  Andrew Harris

The Limits of “White Town” in Colonial Calcutta - Swati Chattopadhyay

The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel

Colonial Policy and the Culture of Immigration: Citing the Social History of Varanasi - Vinod Kumar, Shiv Narayan

A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica - Coln G. Clarke (from Colonial Cities by Robert Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp

The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World - G. A. de Bruijne

The Nowhere City - Amos Elon*

The Vertical Flâneur: Narratorial Tradecraft in the Colonial Metropolis - Paul K. Saint-Amour

Philosophy

The trolley problem problem - James Wilson

A Brief History of Death - Nir Baram

Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical - John Rawls*

Should Marxists be Interested in Exploitation? - John E. Roemer

The Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief - Scott Berinato*

The Pandemic and the Crisis of Faith - Makarand Paranjape

If God Is Dead, Your Time is Everything - James Wood

Giving Up on God - Ronald Inglehart

The Limits of Consensual Decision - Douglas Rae*

The Science of “Muddling Through” - Charles Lindblom*

History

The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine - Maria Dolan

The History of Loneliness - Jill Lepore*

From Tuskegee to Togo: the Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert*

Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism - E. P. Thompson*

All By Myself - Martha Bailey*

The Geographical Pivot of History - H. J. Mackinder

The sea/ocean

Rim of Life - Manu Pillai

Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history – above and below the water line - Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery

‘Piracy’, connectivity and seaborne power in the Middle Ages - Nikolas Jaspert (from The Sea in History)*

The Vikings and their age - Nils Blomkvist (from The Sea in History)*

Mercantile Networks, Port Cities, and “Pirate” States - Roxani Eleni Margariti

Phantom Peril in the Arctic - Robert David English, Morgan Grant Gardner*

Assorted ones on India

A departure from history: Kashmiri Pandits, 1990-2001 - Alexander Evans *

Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World - Gyan Prakash

Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain - Aditya Mukherjee

Feminism and Nationalism in India, 1917-1947 - Aparna Basu

The Epic Riddle of Dating Ramayana, Mahabharata - Sunaina Kumar*

Caste and Politics: Identity Over System - Dipankar Gupta

Our worldview is Delhi based*

Sports (you’ll have to excuse the fact that it’s only cricket but what can i say, i’m indian)

‘Massa Day Done:’ Cricket as a Catalyst for West Indian Independence: 1950-1962 - John Newman*

Playing for power? rugby, Afrikaner nationalism and masculinity in South Africa, c.1900–70 - Albert Grundlingh

When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport - Baz Dreisinger

Cricket, caste, community, colonialism: the politics of a great game - Ramachandra Guha*

Cricket and Politics in Colonial India - Ramchandra Guha

MS Dhoni: A quiet radical who did it his way*

Music

Brega: Music and Conflict in Urban Brazil - Samuel M. Araújo

Color, Music and Conflict: A Study of Aggression in Trinidad with Reference to the Role of Traditional Music - J. D. Elder

The 1975 - ‘Notes On a Conditional Form’ review - Dan Stubbs*

Life Without Live - Rob Sheffield*

How Britney Spears Changed Pop - Rob Sheffield

Concert for Bangladesh

From “Help!” to “Helping out a Friend”: Imagining South Asia through the Beatles and the Concert for Bangladesh - Samantha Christiansen 

Gender

Clothing Behaviour as Non-verbal Resistance - Diana Crane

The Normalisation of Queer Theory - David M. Halperin

Menstruation and the Holocaust - Jo-Ann Owusu*

Women’s Suffrage the Democratic Peace - Allan Dafoe

Pink and Blue: Coloring Inside the Lines of Gender - Catherine Zuckerman*

Women’s health concerns are dismissed more, studied less - Zoanne Clack

Food

How Food-Obsessed Millennials Shape the Future of Food - Rachel A. Becker (as a non-food obsessed somewhat-millennial, this was interesting)

Colonialism’s effect on how and what we eat - Coral Lee

Tracing Europe’s influence on India’s culinary heritage - Ruth Dsouza Prabhu

Chicken Kiev: the world’s most contested ready-meal*

From Russia with mayo: the story of a Soviet super-salad*

The Politics of Pancakes - Taylor Aucoin*

How Doughnuts Fuelled the American Dream*

Pav from the Nau

A Short History of the Vada Pav - Saira Menezes

Fantasy (mostly just harry potter and lord of the rings)

Purebloods and Mudbloods: Race, Species, and Power (from The Politics of Harry Potter)

Azkaban: Discipline, Punishment, and Human Rights (from The Politics of Harry Potter)*

Good and Evil in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lengendarium - Jyrki Korpua

The Fairy Story: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Colin Duriez (from Tree of Tales)*

Tolkien’s Augustinian Understanding of Good and Evil: Why The Lord of the Rings Is Not Manichean - Ralph Wood (from Tree of Tales)*

Travel

The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism

Chronicles of a Writer’s 1950s Road Trip Across France - Kathleen Phelan

On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking - Gwenyth Loose

On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains - Ed Douglas*

More random assorted ones

The cosmos from the wheelchair (The Economist obituaries)*

In El Salvador - Joan Didion

Scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain - Yudhijit Banerjee

Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell*

What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? - Agnes Callard*

The Politics of Joker - Kyle Smith

Sushant Singh Rajput: The outsider - Uday Bhatia*

Credibility and Mystery - John Berger

happy reading :)

[uksfinestmen]

Things read in April

Articles and Essays:

The Challenge of Change

The Nuclear Family Was A Mistake

The Songs That Got Us Through the Year

Criminal justice algorithms: Being race-neutral doesn't mean race-blind

The Other's Other: Against Identity Poetry

During Ramadan, Israel Seems to Relish Attacking Palestinians

Amtrack is streaming an empty railroad on Twitch to beef with freight rail companies

The Inspiring Story of the Trans Actress Behind Your Favorite Pokémon's Voice

Japan's police see no evil

Who's There? Every Story is A Ghost Story

Attending to Technology

The magical miniature worlds of terrariums

Socialists Need to Take Back the Term "Emotional Labor"

In "The Green Knight," Chivalry Was Always Dead

I'm Deaf and I Have 'Perfect Speech.' Here's Why it's Actually A Nightmare

Found Images: On the nostalgia for image scarcity

The American Origins of the Not-So-Traditional Celtic Knot Tattoo

How Do You Mourn A 250-Year-Old Giant?

The Library Ends Late Fees, and the Treasures Roll In

Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops

Causes of Depression: Beyond Chemical Imbalances and Genetics

How Japan Built Cities Where You Could Send Your Toddler on an Errand

Reactive Abuse: What it is and Why Abusers Rely on it

The Reality of Reactive Abuse

Commonplace Books Are Like Diaries Without the Risk of Annoying Yourself

The Concept Creep of 'Emotional Labor'

The Meaning and Origin of 'April is the Cruellest Month'

Poetry:

Iowa City: Early April by Robert Hass

Elegy for the Four Chambers of my Brother's Heart by Steven Espada Dawson

The Boy Who Sells Sweet Oranges by Alicia Cadilla

When the Guest Speaker Told Us by Jennifer Saunders

April by Alicia Ostriker

April by Jean Valentine

A Little Closer to the Edge by Ocean Vuong

Our Wandering by Dawn Lundy Martin

Stricken by Jan Beatty

When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving by Reginald Dwayne Betts

Books:

Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kelon

The Seas by Samantha Hunt

The Snowpiercer by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette

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Father and son bonding time. They have the same type ;)

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✿𝐓𝐒𝐔𝐊𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐌𝐀 𝐊𝐄𝐈✿

✿𝐇𝐂’𝐒✿

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•He has a bath/shower, so instead of a walk in shower, you have to stand in the tub. But he's too motherfucking tall so he can't wash his hair whilst he showers, he has to use like a little cup to pour over his hair or he'll detach the shower hose and lean over the bath tub so he doesn't get his entire bathroom soaked. But because he's constantly leaning over, it makes his back hurt.

•He tries to maintain a healthy sleep schedule by using that "sleep goal" thing on his alarm app, but he never sticks to it.

•He stays up all night listening to true crime and buzzfeed unsolved (definitely relates to shane) or conspiracy theories. Will never admit this though.

•Victim of deez nuts jokes. Mainly because he can never understand what they're saying. "what the fuck is what?" "Did you saw sawcon?"

Or he tried to be smart about things.

"Are you dumb? Hamood spelt backwards isn't hamood. It's Doomah. And that isn't even a word."

•Definitely has discord.

•You know that feature on discord where you can see what other people are listening to on spotify? Well Tsukki will always want to see what people are listening to. 9 times out of 10 he will be judging them for their disgusting music taste.

•He has long eyelashes.

•He has spotify, soundcloud and apple music.

•He'll mistake someone for being friendly and nice to him when they were actually flirting with him.

•Avid user of 123movies

•Definitely has a meme folder in his camera roll. But really cursed memes.

•Cats>dogs. I said what i said.

•He plays and enjoys the legend of zelda

•2010's songs are his guilty pleasures.

•Makes fun of people for playing minecraft. But he used to always play it as a kid. Definitely wants to continue playing it though.

•Really good at first person shooter games, so like Call Of Duty. He'll definitely message the people who rage and tease them/make fun of them.

•Can leave homework 'til the last minute because it's too easy for him.

•Prefers cold weather, only because he never knows what to wear in the summer. Other than that, he hates both really hot days and cold days.

•Never liked horoscopes.

•But Yamaguchi calculated his chart and told Tsukishima everything and he found it very accurate. But he won't tell anyone that.

•Definitely checks his horoscope everyday. But no one will ever know that.

•A very good singer.

•Can play piano. He had lessons as a child.

•He'll try and break down every instrument he can hear in a song. Or will try and figure out techniques they used to make the song. For example, different vocal notes, vocal arrangements. Oh? This song has a hidden snare in it.

•Listens to ASMR to help him sleep. His Mum gets worried that his headphones will strangle him in his sleep so she makes sure to take them off of him in the middle of the night.

•Doesn't snore.

•Always falls asleep with his glasses on. The amount of times he's had to buy new pairs is astronomical.

•Had a pewdiepie phase. But old old olddd pewdiepie.

•Loves gossip. He'll be sitting in class and over hear people talking about some drama and he'll be all ears. He'll discreetly scoot over so he can hear better.

•Smooth skin. Like really smooth. Drop ur moisturiser name babe!

•He finds things like crossing the road embarrassing. Or running to catch up for his bus, he’d rather just wait for another one.

•Extremely short-sighted. Like i’m talking his vision is in the minus’

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hello hottie x

my asks are open, check out my rules for what i write/dont write :D

or just talk to me about sexy characters idc

love u thanks for reading

also

i think this mf tsukki would have memes like this

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ok so there’s a game me and my friends play called “don’t get me started” and basically someone gives another person a random topic and they have to go on an angry rant about it and it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to us at parties and car rides so I highly recommend playing sometimes with your friends

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corporations trying to profit off of queer people by showing their support for only one month of the year is bad

and

it’s fun to watch conservatives get pissed that they can’t shop at target anymore because the big bad rainbows will corrupt their children :(

and

the existence of rainbow capitalism in the first place proves that society is now in a place where supporting queer people is the more profitable and thus more popular opinion and that means something

are all viewpoints that can absolutely coexist

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Things read in April

Articles and Essays:

The Challenge of Change

The Nuclear Family Was A Mistake

The Songs That Got Us Through the Year

Criminal justice algorithms: Being race-neutral doesn't mean race-blind

The Other's Other: Against Identity Poetry

During Ramadan, Israel Seems to Relish Attacking Palestinians

Amtrack is streaming an empty railroad on Twitch to beef with freight rail companies

The Inspiring Story of the Trans Actress Behind Your Favorite Pokémon's Voice

Japan's police see no evil

Who's There? Every Story is A Ghost Story

Attending to Technology

The magical miniature worlds of terrariums

Socialists Need to Take Back the Term "Emotional Labor"

In "The Green Knight," Chivalry Was Always Dead

I'm Deaf and I Have 'Perfect Speech.' Here's Why it's Actually A Nightmare

Found Images: On the nostalgia for image scarcity

The American Origins of the Not-So-Traditional Celtic Knot Tattoo

How Do You Mourn A 250-Year-Old Giant?

The Library Ends Late Fees, and the Treasures Roll In

Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops

Causes of Depression: Beyond Chemical Imbalances and Genetics

How Japan Built Cities Where You Could Send Your Toddler on an Errand

Reactive Abuse: What it is and Why Abusers Rely on it

The Reality of Reactive Abuse

Commonplace Books Are Like Diaries Without the Risk of Annoying Yourself

The Concept Creep of 'Emotional Labor'

The Meaning and Origin of 'April is the Cruellest Month'

Poetry:

Iowa City: Early April by Robert Hass

Elegy for the Four Chambers of my Brother's Heart by Steven Espada Dawson

The Boy Who Sells Sweet Oranges by Alicia Cadilla

When the Guest Speaker Told Us by Jennifer Saunders

April by Alicia Ostriker

April by Jean Valentine

A Little Closer to the Edge by Ocean Vuong

Our Wandering by Dawn Lundy Martin

Stricken by Jan Beatty

When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving by Reginald Dwayne Betts

Books:

Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kelon

The Seas by Samantha Hunt

The Snowpiercer by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette

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Hello! Do you have any articles or essays spun around horror? Thank you and have a nice day!

yes of course 💞

Ghost in the machine: inside the internet's paranormal history

Blood, Bodies, and Binaries: Trans Women in Horror

Raw and Aamis: Stories of Meat and Desire

The History and Transformation of the Final Girl

Isolation and Subjugation: The Telephone in the Slasher Film

A Timeline of Transgender Horror

Modern Horror Films are Finding Their Scares in Dead Batteries

Marketing the Monster: Has Trans Identity Become a Sales Pitch?

"Perfect Blue" Perfectly Captures the Loss of Identity in the Internet Age

Can Blood Guts and Gore be Beautiful?

True Crime is Rotting Our Brains

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things that are angels: fungi. computer programming. bioluminescent creatures in the middle of the pacific ocean that have never been seen by people. a weird restaurant server late at night pouring coffee. overgrown things. androids and robots. etc

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Essays

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of essays I like/find interesting/are food for thought; I’ve tried to sort them as much as possible. The starred (*) ones are those I especially love

also quick note: some of these links, especially the ones that are from books/anthologies redirect you to libgen or scihub, and if that doesn’t work for you, do message me; I’d be happy to send them across!

Literature + Writing

Godot Comes to Sarajevo - Susan Sontag

The Strangeness of Grief - V. S. Naipaul*

Memories of V. S. Naipaul - Paul Theroux*

A Rainy Day with Ruskin Bond - Mayank Austen Soofi

How Albert Camus Faced History - Adam Gopnik

Listen, Bro - Jo Livingstone

Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel - Judith Thurman

Lost in Translation: What the First Line of “The Stranger” Should Be - Ryan Bloom

The Duke in His Domain - Truman Capote*

The Cult of Donna Tartt: Themes and Strategies in The Secret History - Ana Rita Catalão Guedes

Never Do That to a Book - Anne Fadiman*

Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel - Rohan Chauhan*

Why I Write - George Orwell*

Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance - Carrie Jaurès Noland*

Art + Photography (+ Aesthetics)

Looking at War - Susan Sontag*

Love, sex, art, and death - Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz

Lyons, Szarkowski, and the Perception of Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker

The Feminist Critique of Art History - Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Mathews

In Plato’s Cave - Susan Sontag*

On reproduction of art (Chapter 1, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

On nudity and women in art (Chapter 3, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*

Kalighat Paintings  - Sharmishtha Chaudhuri

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images From the Past -  Maël Renouard

Arthur Rimbaud: the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Enid Rhodes Peschel

Cities

Tragic Fable of Mumbai Mills - Gyan Prakash

Whose Bandra is it? - Dustin Silgardo*

Timur’s Registan: noblest public square in the world? - Srinath Perur

The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle - Colin Marshall*

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai’s iconic railway station - Srinath Perur

From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective -  Andrew Harris

The Limits of “White Town” in Colonial Calcutta - Swati Chattopadhyay

The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel

Colonial Policy and the Culture of Immigration: Citing the Social History of Varanasi - Vinod Kumar, Shiv Narayan

A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica - Coln G. Clarke (from Colonial Cities by Robert Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp

The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World - G. A. de Bruijne

The Nowhere City - Amos Elon*

The Vertical Flâneur: Narratorial Tradecraft in the Colonial Metropolis - Paul K. Saint-Amour

Philosophy

The trolley problem problem - James Wilson

A Brief History of Death - Nir Baram

Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical - John Rawls*

Should Marxists be Interested in Exploitation? - John E. Roemer

The Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief - Scott Berinato*

The Pandemic and the Crisis of Faith - Makarand Paranjape

If God Is Dead, Your Time is Everything - James Wood

Giving Up on God - Ronald Inglehart

The Limits of Consensual Decision - Douglas Rae*

The Science of “Muddling Through” - Charles Lindblom*

History

The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine - Maria Dolan

The History of Loneliness - Jill Lepore*

From Tuskegee to Togo: the Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert*

Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism - E. P. Thompson*

All By Myself - Martha Bailey*

The Geographical Pivot of History - H. J. Mackinder

The sea/ocean

Rim of Life - Manu Pillai

Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history – above and below the water line - Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery

‘Piracy’, connectivity and seaborne power in the Middle Ages - Nikolas Jaspert (from The Sea in History)*

The Vikings and their age - Nils Blomkvist (from The Sea in History)*

Mercantile Networks, Port Cities, and “Pirate” States - Roxani Eleni Margariti

Phantom Peril in the Arctic - Robert David English, Morgan Grant Gardner*

Assorted ones on India

A departure from history: Kashmiri Pandits, 1990-2001 - Alexander Evans *

Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World - Gyan Prakash

Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain - Aditya Mukherjee

Feminism and Nationalism in India, 1917-1947 - Aparna Basu

The Epic Riddle of Dating Ramayana, Mahabharata - Sunaina Kumar*

Caste and Politics: Identity Over System - Dipankar Gupta

Our worldview is Delhi based*

Sports (you’ll have to excuse the fact that it’s only cricket but what can i say, i’m indian)

‘Massa Day Done:’ Cricket as a Catalyst for West Indian Independence: 1950-1962 - John Newman*

Playing for power? rugby, Afrikaner nationalism and masculinity in South Africa, c.1900–70 - Albert Grundlingh

When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport - Baz Dreisinger

Cricket, caste, community, colonialism: the politics of a great game - Ramachandra Guha*

Cricket and Politics in Colonial India - Ramchandra Guha

MS Dhoni: A quiet radical who did it his way*

Music

Brega: Music and Conflict in Urban Brazil - Samuel M. Araújo

Color, Music and Conflict: A Study of Aggression in Trinidad with Reference to the Role of Traditional Music - J. D. Elder

The 1975 - ‘Notes On a Conditional Form’ review - Dan Stubbs*

Life Without Live - Rob Sheffield*

How Britney Spears Changed Pop - Rob Sheffield

Concert for Bangladesh

From “Help!” to “Helping out a Friend”: Imagining South Asia through the Beatles and the Concert for Bangladesh - Samantha Christiansen 

Gender

Clothing Behaviour as Non-verbal Resistance - Diana Crane

The Normalisation of Queer Theory - David M. Halperin

Menstruation and the Holocaust - Jo-Ann Owusu*

Women’s Suffrage the Democratic Peace - Allan Dafoe

Pink and Blue: Coloring Inside the Lines of Gender - Catherine Zuckerman*

Women’s health concerns are dismissed more, studied less - Zoanne Clack

Food

How Food-Obsessed Millennials Shape the Future of Food - Rachel A. Becker (as a non-food obsessed somewhat-millennial, this was interesting)

Colonialism’s effect on how and what we eat - Coral Lee

Tracing Europe’s influence on India’s culinary heritage - Ruth Dsouza Prabhu

Chicken Kiev: the world’s most contested ready-meal*

From Russia with mayo: the story of a Soviet super-salad*

The Politics of Pancakes - Taylor Aucoin*

How Doughnuts Fuelled the American Dream*

Pav from the Nau

A Short History of the Vada Pav - Saira Menezes

Fantasy (mostly just harry potter and lord of the rings)

Purebloods and Mudbloods: Race, Species, and Power (from The Politics of Harry Potter)

Azkaban: Discipline, Punishment, and Human Rights (from The Politics of Harry Potter)*

Good and Evil in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lengendarium - Jyrki Korpua

The Fairy Story: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Colin Duriez (from Tree of Tales)*

Tolkien’s Augustinian Understanding of Good and Evil: Why The Lord of the Rings Is Not Manichean - Ralph Wood (from Tree of Tales)*

Travel

The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism

Chronicles of a Writer’s 1950s Road Trip Across France - Kathleen Phelan

On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking - Gwenyth Loose

On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains - Ed Douglas*

More random assorted ones

The cosmos from the wheelchair (The Economist obituaries)*

In El Salvador - Joan Didion

Scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain - Yudhijit Banerjee

Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell

Politics and the English Language - George Orwell*

What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? - Agnes Callard*

The Politics of Joker - Kyle Smith

Sushant Singh Rajput: The outsider - Uday Bhatia*

Credibility and Mystery - John Berger

happy reading :)

[uksfinestmen]

BUZZFFED UNSOLVED (2016-2021)

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Dildo Generator

Online 3D experiment by Ikaros Kappler which is described as a “Extrusion/Revolution Generator” ….

Created with three.js, you can alter the bezier curves and angle of the form, and is designed with 3D printing in mind (models can be exported and saved, as well as calculated weight in silicone).

Try it out for yourself (if you wish) here

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hahahah i'm re-reading hp1, and harry was so upset over losing 2 points during his first week. the poor boy has no idea what's coming/how little 2 points matter 😂

first year harry

sixth year harry

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PAUL MCCARTNEY AND RINGO STARR on the set of Give My Regards To Broadstreet, 1984

Happy birthday, Richie! It’s hard to describe in words how much you mean to me, but I am forever grateful for the comfort you and your music have brought to me over the years. I love you dearly, have the best day ever <3

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hey i just want u to know i copied ur gender/sexuality.

what the-! teacher! teacher!!! he cheated off of me!

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Loads of Beatles videos on the Internet Archive

https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22The+Beatles%22&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22movies%22

Includes A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, Let It Be, Shea Stadium Performance, Anthology etc.

Keep reading

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i might start making the beatles one shots😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 i have nothing else to do in life