#TBT Tunes – Sweater Songs

Time to start updating your closet for the changing season. #Fall #PumpkinSpice #Scarves

These songs are comforting and cozy and remind you of your youth. Just like that disgusting sweater you’ve had since high school. The one that you only wear at home. You know the one.

Of course this.

Of COURSE this.

OF COURSE THIS.

 

GABBLER RECOMMENDS: Uber Hetero Commedy YOU’RE THE WORST

You’re the Worst is THE BEST.

And kudos because the cat is a pretty active character in the show. I’m kind of into cats having major story facetime, I guess (ahem). I believe his name is Kerouac.

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Critique My Critique: Lev Grossman and being “Subversive”

“Perhaps if one knows Lev Grossman they will understand the clever joke behind it all, but your reader shouldn’t have to know you in order to understand your intent.”

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It has been pointed out that these critiques may suggest that I don’t understand what Lev Grossman was doing with The Magicians—that is, writing a “subversive” adult version of children’s high fantasy, in which the terrible realities of our world aren’t hidden, but rather that the “reality” of having magic and the world being magical, would actually not be so full of wonder and awe as it is in Narnia and Harry Potter.

Trust me, I understand. Grossman goes out of his way to hammer you over the head with how depressing and sad he thinks the world actually is. But let me be clear—simply because he was attempting to be subversive in fantasy, does not mean he succeeded. The main character being depressed and the reality of his dreams always being disappointing is not subversion—it’s a misunderstanding of the genre and it’s boring.

First, to be subversive in…

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I’m going to hell for this one, so enjoy

E.I. Wong's avatarA Narcissist Writes Letters, To Himself

I don’t believe in God.

Sure, I think he exists,

I just don’t think he has what it takes…

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From Edward Hallett Carr’s What is History?

what is history

[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]

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