Malawian girl who loves writing, reading, anime and acting. order my new short story anthology at https://teapawt.net/t.co/u9kbRZYVWV. Co-founder of @GoldenGarnishMW.
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It’s easy to take Jane Austen for granted because we live in the world that she created. We struggle to see how groundbreaking and innovative her novels are because they set the template for all modern fiction. Pride & Prejudice, to cite the most obvious example, did more than invent a genre. Anyone who now writes a story in which two people fall in love is either inspired by her or reacting against her. She’s like Tolkien in that sense.
But she did much more than that. She perfected a method of narration known as “free indirect discourse” that’s now used by virtually every writer. You have only to read the novels of pre-Austen writers to see what a tremendous difference she made through her use of this technique. Literary scholar John Mullan argues that Emma launched a revolution in form & technique that’s comparable to the innovations of Joyce and Proust. It is the favorite novel of Susanna Clarke and of Katherine Rundell, who calls it “a book that shows as much of the sweep of the human heart, of fear, love, morality, untruth, foolery and triumph as a Shakespearean drama.” It is also, arguably, the novel that invented the mystery genre, having what J. K. Rowling has called the biggest twist in literature. You don’t notice the greatness of Austen for the same reason a fish doesn’t know that it lives in water.
I've read Pride and Prejudice and to this day I have no idea what the hell people see in it. It's not a bad book but I don't see it as being much beyond a glorified romcom. Pointing out foibles? Yeah, every half-decent writer does that. So what is Austen so good at?
Liz Bennet hates her mother and thinks her father, while well meaning, is an idiot (Austen doesn't seem to consider there to be anything wrong with any of that). Then there's Mr. Collins the clergyman whom the girls dislike despite his status in life. Okay, no one's entitled to someone else's romantic love but what great insights does the book contain on that?
What about any of this is supposed to be so impressive? Dickens would handle a failed courtship more efficiently and entertainingly. Just compare with Mr. Stryver's attempt at marrying Lucie Manette in A Tale of Two Cities.
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the attribution or misattribution of writing considered good enough to be worthy of prizes or multi-million dollar book deals by African & Black writers is only the latest straw in a long history that dates back to the beginning of modernity.
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i don’t think christians speak enough about how, whenever they read the bible, they read it from the perspective of the victor. when you read the conquest of canaan, you are the israelites. you are never the canaanites watching a foreign people arrive to kill your family. why?
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Recess exists because two writers lost a fight over how mean Angelica Pickles should be.
Paul Germain co-created Rugrats. His son inspired Tommy. Angelica came from a real bully in his childhood, and he wanted to write her that way. His team started penning darker episodes exploring why a three-year-old torments the babies.
Co-creator Arlene Klasky hated it. She thought Angelica was too cruel and the storylines too mature. Critics praised those exact episodes. The rift over one cartoon character split the creative team behind the biggest kids' show on TV.
So Germain walked. He took Joe Ansolabehere, story editor of the first 65 Rugrats episodes, straight to Disney.
Their new show kept the same core trick, kids running a hidden society adults never see, and aged it up to fourth grade. Germain named the school after Third Street, the real elementary school his own kids attended. The playground ran like a prison yard out of The Great Escape, complete with a king and a warden.
It premiered on ABC 29 years ago this week and became the network's biggest Saturday morning hit of the late 90s. The 2001 movie pulled $44.5M.
Two of the defining cartoons of the 90s, and the wall between them is an argument about a cartoon toddler.
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When new people are graduating and you decide to bring your graduation pictures from 4 or 10 years ago.
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Malawi's WAFCON debut:
▪️Qualified for their first-ever World Cup 🌍
▪️Reached their first-ever WAFCON final 🏆
A tournament to be incredibly proud of 🇲🇼🥹
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Thank you for showing us what it means to believe 🩵🇲🇼
The most incredible story in sports and it continues next year at the World Cup. We are beyond proud of you, Temwa & Malawi 🫶
ALT "Thank you" graphic for Temwa and Malawi
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My mom went to three different doctors over eight months for crushing fatigue and brain fog after menopause. Each one told her it was “just stress” or “normal aging” and offered antidepressants. On the fourth visit she brought a printed list of her symptoms and said, “If I were a man with these exact symptoms after major hormone loss, what would you test?” They finally ordered the full hormone panel. Her estrogen was nearly undetectable. She started treatment the same week. Eight months of being told she was imagining it, fixed by one sentence that forced them to treat her like a patient instead of a stereotype.
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Nope. Throughout history boys could not only sit still and learn, they claimed they were vastly superior at doing so and barred women from education.
The current claim of “schools not being built for boys” only started once girls started running circles around them.
The system was literally built just for them.
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not buying this cuz having a terrible relationship w your dad never stopped yall from fucking men.
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One thing nobody tells you about adulthood is how fun it is to become your own person. One day you randomly start liking jazz, olive green, expensive dark chocolate, documentaries about volcanoes, weird lamps, sparkling water, books about loneliness in Tokyo, silver jewelry and quiet cafés. Your personality keeps unfolding forever if you let it.
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It is quite satisfying to watch the antelope loudly proclaim its friendship with the leopard. But the entire savanna knows, that this friendship has never existed anywhere but in the mind of the predator searching for a more comfortable way to feed, and that of a prey so foolish it has mistaken the beauty of those spots for something other than the last thing it will ever see..
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As a Nigerian woman from an average background, your backup plan cannot be marriage. It's like building a house in a water-logged land. It will sink. Fight tooth and nail to make something of yourself. Leave an imaginary man out of it.
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Genuine question because I don’t actually know the answer: when it was boys who wanted to make more money, did researchers call it “materialism,” or did they use a different term?
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When Aliko Dangote moves to expand refining in Africa, it’s suddenly monopoly.
The World Bank even warned he could dominate the oil market across regions, then deleted the statement few days after backlash.
But for decades, Shell and Chevron controlled African oil, and nobody called it monopoly.
Africa exporting crude and importing fuel at a high cost was fine. Local refining is where the panic starts?
Dangote isn’t the threat, it’s all a fight for control.
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My abortion is the kind people love to judge the most. I wasn’t underage, I wasn’t assaulted, and there was no medical emergency. I got pregnant because I knowingly had unprotected sex, no accident, no rare failure, just my own choices.
By their standards, it was “irresponsible.” I knew abortion was an option, and I took it. Not because I couldn’t survive it or raise a child, I simply didn’t want one. I wanted sex without becoming a parent, and I chose not to carry the pregnancy.
There’s no redemption arc here. I don’t regret it. Nothing terrible happened to me afterward, no punishment, no downfall. My life is still good. And that reality alone challenges everything people like to assume about women who make this choice.
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Let's run down the list:
If Korra gave up learning the Avatar State for Mako, everyone would've dragged her for life.
If Korra was the one to find Mako and Bolin family and selfishly keep that information from them? They would've roasted her on a spit.
If Korra ran away and got herself frozen for 100 years, allowing the Earth Kingdom to take over...they would've blamed everything following on her.
We already know how people treat Korra for trusting someone even when their team says don't, while other Avatars can trust people against the protest of their team and get a pass. 😐
