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Writer of myth retellings, Gothic nonsense, and puerile comedy. @cbcreative alumna. Wrote a novella about Medusa. Number one fan of The Mummy (1999). She/they
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Stuff wot I dun:
- a retelling of the myth of Medusa from her POV
- very sweary myth retellings
- a dumb Twitter account where you judge mythic characters TA
@AITAntihero
- rants on Medium
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I just saw someone refer to mansplaining as 'correctile dysfunction' so please excuse me while I laugh hysterically for 6 hours
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This is the best example I've found yet of how derivative AI 'art' is. The person who generated the image on the left asked Midjourney to generate 'an average woman of Afghanistan'. It produced an almost carbon copy of the 1984 photo of Sharbat Gula, taken by Steve McCurry. 1/
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OK but genuine tweet: taking a name from a culture you're not familiar with (especially marginalised cultures) and deciding that it has super uwu gender vibes just because you can't easily place it within your own cultural context is Bad Actually.
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So many conspiracy theory tweets on my timeline right now about Kate Middleton, when the actual answer is staring us all right in the face: she abandoned her family to do an intensive, residential Photoshop course, and pretended to be having surgery to cover it up.
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For proof, here's me curled up on the floor of the 24 hour study room at 5am, devoid of any will to live, with the last piece of paper in the printer, resplendent with meme
I can't take Dark Academia seriously because when I was at uni I stayed up for 36 hours to complete an essay and then realised that I couldn't print it because someone had used up all of the paper by printing dozens of A4 memes of an Ewok with the caption PREPARE YOUR ANUS
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Lmfao my great grandmother had a one night stand with someone she met that day and never saw again when she was 16, and then she went to 'stay with relatives' and came back with a new 'sister', who her parents raised. This shit happened ALL THE TIME
My grandmother who was born in 1930 wants you all to know that there is no Retvrn to Tradition. They constantly had kids out of wedlock, they just hid them. She said I should tweet that.
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@fyeahmfabello
This is... awful, honestly. The idea is fine - we don't always have space to deal with other people's stuff on top of our own - but if a friend sent me this message, I'd feel absolutely dreadful. We can't treat our friends like HR referrals. This is just so cold and impersonal.
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Given the numerous ethical issues surrounding the original National Geographic photo (taking the photo without naming Gula, showing her uncovered face against her beliefs, her life as an uncompensated refugee while her face was famous worldwide) it strikes me as doubly gross. 3/
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I can't take Dark Academia seriously because when I was at uni I stayed up for 36 hours to complete an essay and then realised that I couldn't print it because someone had used up all of the paper by printing dozens of A4 memes of an Ewok with the caption PREPARE YOUR ANUS
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For legal reasons I am obliged to point out that I wrote this and it's not real, I'm just apparently the most talented parody writer of our era
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You shouldn't be able to essentially generate the face of a 12 year old refugee from Afghanistan who was exploited and abandoned. Even outside of the obvious copyright issues with Midjourney being trained on the original photo, it's just icky. 4/
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Others on the same subreddit have found that they can generate almost identical versions of this image without referencing the original photo in the generation prompt. Clearly, Midjourney has been trained on the image of Sharbat Gula. 2/
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(Obligatory gross fact: you would not believe how many posts on that subreddit are just men generating image sets of generically attractive women, and all the comments are like 'damnnnn she hot' - it is truly pathetic)
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It's been pointed out that if you put Sharbat Gula's name into Google, the first image you get is another Reddit AI recreation of the 1984 photo. I used an incognito browser, and... yep. Same result. Ironically, the person who generated it has very strong feelings about credit.
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(Obligatory disclaimer that I don't use Midjourney, I just follow the subreddit to laugh at the horrible AI 'art' and keep up to date with how people are using it and what it's capable of generating)
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@fyeahmfabello
I genuinely find the tone of this message fundamentally chilling. I've had to reach out to friends lately (bereavements are no fun) and some have had to step back, which is fine, but this approach would have absolutely broken me.
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@_ElizabethMay
It's the most blatant attempt at going viral and getting a book deal that I've ever seen on this hellsite, not to mention creepy as heck. She so clearly views this guy as like, a character in the great romance narrative of her life, and not as a PERSON
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(Obligatory second disclaimer: it's only fair for me to point out that lots of people on the subreddit took real issue with this image being generated, and seemed genuinely surprised that Midjourney was capable of performing such blatant copyright theft.)
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You don't get to arbitrarily decide that a name only has the meaning you give it when that name has very specific meanings and contexts in its place and culture of origin, and especially when you wouldn't treat names from your own cultural context in the same way.
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(To me, it indicated that a lot of people are happy to use tools like Midjourney because they're genuinely unaware of the extent of the ethical issues with AI image generation. This obvs isn't the case for everyone - plenty of people know but don't care - but it was interesting.)
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It's completely fine to de/re-gender a name, but not solely on the basis that its non-Anglo roots make it 'sound' genderless to you. If you wouldn't make, idk, Brynnlee or Taylah or Paul gender neutral, then ask yourself why you view non-Anglo names as inherently more malleable.
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tl;dr Eirlys and Aoife and Ryu are only gender neutral if Graham and Rachel and Oliver are gender neutral, on the basis that all names can be divested from a specific gendered context, not just names that you perceive as being somehow ~mystical genderless otherworldly uwu names~
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(Also, pet peeve, but for the love of holy God, don't just pick a name bc you like its uwu mystical Celtic vibes and then spend your whole life mispronouncing it and telling everyone that it means some absolute bullshit like 'fiery dragon' or 'elven princess'. We cri evrytiem.)
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Call yourself what you want! Chosen names are very very valid and very important! Just make sure you know why you view certain names as Sacrosanct And Gendered and other names as ripe for reinterpretation, because often that reason is Anglocentrism and colonialism.
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No idea what prompt or platform they used to generate this one as there's no background info. The framing of her as a 'woman' (she was 12 in the original photo) is a bit concerning though.
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(I think ultimately more accessible education on the way that AI image datasets, and indeed AI datasets in general, are compiled / scraped, plus awareness of copyright laws re AI images, would probably lead to many more people realising that it's unethical, not just weird.)
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I hate to be a cynic but all these social media platforms banning Trump / senators denouncing him with 2 weeks left of his presidency seems a lot like an attempt to go down on the right side of history after squeezing as much money out of his harmful rhetoric as they possibly can
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To avoid confusion: my point here is not solely about Welsh (or Irish) names. It's about taking names from other cultures in general, esp. ones which have experienced colonisation, cultural genocide or linguistic erasure. I'm not mad at The Other Tweet, just the responses to it.
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Because somehow people are reading this thread and thinking I'm somehow saying 'noooo don't take a Welsh name, take a name from another culture :(' despite literally the whole thread saying the exact opposite thing, it's necessary to state it in exceptionally bold terms.
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(For reasons of stupidity I fear I must clarify that the issue here is that the prompter is referring to her as a woman in the specific 1984 photo, in which she is a 12 year old girl. The issue is not the fact that she later aged. So happy to have to clear that up.)
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A hit tweet! I'd like to take this opportunity to promote this great new product I've been using lately. It's called 'reading comprehension', and I highly recommend it to all the people losing their shit at me for things I did not and cannot reasonably be construed to say.
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My mummy has cross-stitched me a QR code, and when you scan it, it logs you into my WiFi… she’s revolutionised my life
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My pettiest trait is that if someone misspells my slightly odd Welsh name in an email after I've already sent them one, I will then start to misspell their typical Anglo names in a series of very obvious ways. If you call me Arwen, I WILL call you Ammanda, or Clayre, or Sairah.
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Interesting how the Doctor Who casting announcement reflects real life issues such as time travel, as most comments about it date from 1534.
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Ergo copyrighted works are not safe from being used to train AI, ergo work is being fed into it without the consent of the creator, ergo this is an ethical issue re how AI models are trained and what they generate in relation to the data they've been fed. The end.
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'It's not being review-bombed, it's just people who have read the book and genuinely didn't like it!'
Are you sure about that
Are you sure
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The point being that the image is copyrighted but has clearly found its way into the dataset multiple times due to its proliferation online, which negates the argument that it's possible to only use public domain works in Midjourney generation - clearly it's not working.
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@roseybeeme
This would be a lot more meaningful if you hadn't blocked everyone who called you out for your behaviour, if you hadn't used the story to beg for a film deal and a job at Buzzfeed, and if you hadn't now again named the woman who's been doxxed.
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@ShappiKhorsandi
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Michelangelo, hacking away blindly at a slab of marble: oh shit, what am I doing? Is she supposed to be laughing? Smiling? Is that what a parent would do in this situation? Fuck, I should have sired a bastard. I sure hope that this enormous oversight doesn't destroy the pathos!!
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Muting this thread now because the replies are getting annoying. One final disclaimer: I know that Gula's image is what comes up when you search 'Afghan girl' and that's why it gets generated so much. I am aware. This is in fact the crux of my point.
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This is such a Western take, though. There are plenty of places worldwide with multiple regional languages that people grow up speaking simultaneously. Plenty of people I know have 3 or 4 'native' languages that they're entirely fluent in, e.g. Hindi, English, Marathi & Konkani.
People who speak more than 2-3 languages to native fluency literally do not exist. 99% of so called hyper polyglots are lying to you (and themselves)
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We are NOT doing the 'real writers write every day!' discourse again. We're simply not. There are approximately 17,000 valid reasons not to write every day, and it doesn't make anyone less of a writer or less 'committed' for not being able to do it. The end, goodbye, finis.
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@bittrfridgetrol
I love the idea of AI pools just gradually becoming more and more full of eldritch nightmares
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Obviously lots of bullshit to unpack here but my absolute favourite part is the faux-etymology of 'hiraeth', which this person has decided is a compound of 'here' and 'gone', presumably on the sole basis that 'hir' in Welsh is pronounced the same as 'here' in English
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Way too many people on booktwt are like 'I can tolerate a violent harassment campaign of threats and misinformation against a woman of colour, but I draw the line at a novel which has a nuanced depiction of colonial trauma'
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If anyone wonders why I Am The Way I Am today, it's because an American telling me repeatedly that my name is originally from LOTR and then, when I pointed out that it's not actually the same name, telling me that it 'probably comes from Tolkien anyway' is my origin story
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14th December 2018: I think my grandad was Sámi because of his eye shape, but I'm not sure. I'd love to explore the idea :)
28th January 2019: I speak fluent Sámi interchangeably with English, actually
Would love to know which intensive language course
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No-one should be paying Frances Weetman any attention. She's the freak who lied about having 10 different degrees, and moved from 'my grandad had almond shaped eyes so I think he might have had Sami heritage' to 'I'm a proud Sami woman, fluent in the language' in like a week
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@benedict_rs
Are you... are you telling queer people what to read, because I don't remember asking you to be our official librarian
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@AuthorLMDavis
I heard that your story was using the first person pronoun? I've sent you a DM. This is copyright infringement.
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"I'm not going to comment on the harassment that a Black colleague has been receiving after her book review was cancelled for being too critical of anti-Blackness, because I've been on holiday and Audre Lorde said that self care is important" is certainly A Take.
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Rewatching The Mummy (1999) for the 948537948th time and I'm really quite upset to say that I've found a flaw in it. It turns out that it's only 124 minutes long, when quite clearly it should be 17.5 hours long AT MINIMUM. A real disappointment.
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My favourite thing about this thread is all the Americans being like YEAH I PICKED THE RARE WELSH NAME [common Welsh name] BECAUSE IT'S PRONOUNCED [incredibly wrong] AND MEANS [absolutely not] I LOVE GAELIC [also no!] NAMES
honestly white nonbinaries need to get into gaelic names instead of east asian ones, look how many vowels there are that's so nonbinary
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It should be Illegal Actually* for Classics articles to include untranslated sections of Greek and Latin, because it's pretentious and inaccessible, and that's my spicy take du jour.
*the legal ramifications would be me staring coldly at the author for five hours, unblinking
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All I'm saying is that if any fantasy book series deserves a decades long, multi-series, completely faithful adaptation, it's LITERALLY ANYTHING BY TERRY PRATCHETT
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I just feel like maybe there's a bit too much 'authors should stay out of reviewer spaces!' (very true, good point, I agree entirely) and not quite enough 'giving 1 star reviews to books you haven't actually read, based on Twitter misinformation, is shitty behaviour'
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@DonovanKayyy
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It's not even my name and I get "OMG LIKE FROM LOTR?????" every few weeks, so she must have been sick to the absolute molars
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Please. I'm begging you. We've already had 'it's ableist to call out autistic people for being racist'. We can't have 'talking about fast fashion and climate change is homophobic' too. Please, oh God, please. It's only January.
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@mormo_music
Because it illustrates the potential problems and because it demonstrates how copyrighted photos are being used. Should I use single syllable words next time?
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My uncoolest but most correct take is that smoking is Bad Actually and that pointing this out is not shaming anyone, just stating an actual observable fact
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My hot take about the Odyssey retelling drama is that frankly I think it's time for the sapphic retelling where Penelope takes Odysseus' place and goes to war for him and then realises that he's a chump and ends up getting absolutely railed by Circe. This is my only opinion.
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@InVitroFuture
Yes, exactly this - it's just a particularly good example of how all the relevant images are copied and compiled.
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@roseybeeme
Apologising now is all well and good but honestly you waited until you'd milked as much positive attention out of it as you could, ignoring all valid attempts to point out the ways in which your behaviour was harmful to the woman in the video.
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To this day I get people telling me that they now call it Slur Island for a bit of a lol and I am reminded of the ridiculous discourse that catalysed it
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@medusas_heid
And then the person who replied to them like 'an Australian person told me it was pronounced 'rice''
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I also made myself this mug because I am a master of graphic design
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A film about the Greek gods where every single character is played by Jack Black, except for Zeus, who's played by Danny DeVito
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@john_boyne
Dickens literally rewrote Fagin's character in Oliver Twist after the antisemitism was pointed out to him by Jewish readers, so I don't think you're making quite the point you think you're making here.
Also, not entirely relevant, but still hilarious
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Obligatory follow-up to a tweet which is gaining a small amount of traction: all proceeds from this dumb mug I designed will go to charities helping marginalised and vulnerable people during the pandemic
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@roseybeeme
I really don't believe in crucifying people after trial by Internet, and I hope that everyone is able to move on from what happened, including you, but this apology is incredibly disingenuous at best.
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It's a good day to remember that Medusa deserved better.
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@john_boyne
John Boyne: "No serious writer would ever allow their work to be so sanitised."
Also John Boyne: *gets into arguments on Twitter with the Holocaust Museum because they don't like his Holocaust book, and then plagiarises recipes from Zelda in a 'serious' historical fiction novel*
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@JillyBellys
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Oh GOD there used to be someone I vaguely knew on Tumblr who literally moved to London from America because she was obsessed with Sherlock, and I really think she thought that Britain was like... high tea at 3pm and God Save the Queen and jolly hockeysticks
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@fyeahmfabello
Important addendum: OP is not 'sociopathic' or 'psychotic'; those are pretty ableist terms to throw around. It's just a bad message template, that's all. People saying she's clearly a bad friend also don't actually know her, so the vitriolic tweets are p out of order.
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@stealcase
Comments on the Reddit thread suggested that the word is unbanned now! I don't use Midjourney so can't test that, although the post in my first tweet was only made last week. It's evidently been a problem for some time, and the AI is still being trained on it.
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People are way too confident in using 'authors should stay out of reviewer spaces' to mean 'authors shouldn't call out or be emotionally affected by hostile disinformation and review bombing campaigns targeting their books'.
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It's good that the teenagers who murdered Brianna Ghey have been found guilty. Now, where's the accountability for the government, who fomented our climate of rampant, violent transphobia? The press, whose decades of transphobic sensationalism whipped it up into a further frenzy?
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@SBLitAgent
Respectfully, if every single response you're getting to this is some flavour of 'no', perhaps you should consider that you did, in fact, say something wrong. The way you're framing this (agent = profession, writing = passion project) is unbelievably patronising.
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@frigasdohtar
This is someone's art project and not an actual map of projected climate change, did you know this
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No-one should be paying Frances Weetman any attention. She's the freak who lied about having 10 different degrees, and moved from 'my grandad had almond shaped eyes so I think he might have had Sami heritage' to 'I'm a proud Sami woman, fluent in the language' in like a week
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Did I miss the memo... when did 'somewhat oversaturated trend in publishing' become a grift? Why is this a 'grift' but the 7000 bestselling ghostwritten celebrity novels per month aren't? In what world is it a 'grift' to write an entire fucking novel?
just a sample of the Feminist Greek Mythology Retellings coming out in 2023. first three are all debuts. the grift is real and it's out there.
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@JillyBellys
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Wish I could have been there for the first time she saw someone hanging around in a tracksuit outside Tesco Metro, smoking weed and gesticulating wildly with a 34p tin of lager
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My hot take on the Madeline Miller Persephone book is that none of us has read it, so shut up
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