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Stoked and honored to present my paper "The Virginal and the Voluptuous: Lunar Imagery in Till We Have Faces" at the Undiscovered C.S. Lewis Conference in September!
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Olivia Hofer
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Olivia Hofer
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I tell stories, drink tea, read ancient literature, and celebrate the Oxford comma. 'A beastly American.' — C.S. Lewis, probably. Married to a 🇨🇦.
Katılım Mayıs 2016
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Olivia Hofer retweetledi
@mshurtleffwrite OK, get right on it, we need that musical!
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Apparently I can write a musical in my sleep.
What an absolutely wild dream though.
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Frankly, everyone who read books—or even magazine articles or news stories or op-eds—before 2022 ought to know this. 🫠
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This meme has been in use since at least 2018. Real human writers are notorious for loving em-dashes!
megan@writemeganwrite
*sigh* Em dashes in writing do not mean it’s AI. Some people just write with them. Some people love them. Some people have evidence they’ve written with them since at least 4th grade. Use of the em dash doesn’t belong to AI— & we can’t give it up, because then it might.
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One time I gave my husband gratuitous information about a plant we were passing by or something, and then I said, "Follow me for more plant facts."
He set a reminder in his phone and now he makes me tell him a new plant fact every week.
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@oghofer Does ‘salvia’ have an etymological link to health and/or salvation, do you know?
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@anti_padre I gotchu
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Olivia Hofer@oghofer
Sage, rosemary, chia, and the ornamental salvia we plant for flowers are all in the same genus (Salvia), which itself is in the mint family along with a bunch of other herbs like basil, lavender, thyme, oregano, etc. (I only knew a few of these and found the rest when I was looking it up to confirm, haha)
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@MaeOfFable He also says he notices birds a lot more because of me, so I've thoroughly corrupted him. 😁😂
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Sage, rosemary, chia, and the ornamental salvia we plant for flowers are all in the same genus (Salvia), which itself is in the mint family along with a bunch of other herbs like basil, lavender, thyme, oregano, etc.
(I only knew a few of these and found the rest when I was looking it up to confirm, haha)
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Olivia Hofer retweetledi
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
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Suicide at that age is one thing, but of course human children have complex emotions, yes. Have you never met a child?
I would ask, "Do you remember nothing of childhood?" but this person says he doesn't. :/
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Most ten-year-olds have greater emotional intelligence than is displayed in this tweet.
Mr Melancholy@chakravartiiin
Pardon me but how does a ten year old get depressed much less take such an extreme step like this? Do kids even have such emotional capacity at that age? This does not make sense to me at all.
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I need to very clearly state what Megha Lillywhite is doing right now with her "The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Eric Carle are degenerate" viral posts. She is promoting Nazi talking points. She is taking it as far as posting images from "Kunst und Rasse" by Paul Schultze Naumburg where he would place images of disabled people or people with diseases next to modernist art to prove his aesthetic points and explain his philosophy that only "racially pure" people could create "timeless art". As one of the first architects for Nazi propaganda and art he was a tastemaker who set the stage for the future atrocities of the party. She is doing this to validate her opinion about THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR. Friends. What are we doing here? No. Absolutely not.
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For people that don't know the Megha Lilly lore and think that the Eric Carle freak out is just attention bait - it's not. This is how she really feels. She is this intense about hating wholesome children's lit. We've been here before. I got this one a few months ago lol.
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Every time I open my front door (which has been a lot in this weather) I find myself saying
"Sorry, ma'am," and "Oh, forgot you were there!" to the poor silly sparrow who built her nest on the porch and flaps away in a panic every time.
Olivia Hofer@oghofer
"exCUSE me" "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" "I BEG your PARDON" — things I say when I am startled by a mouse, apparently
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@oghofer They really don't. Tell your bird he has to do his part to deter them.
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"exCUSE me"
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
"I BEG your PARDON"
— things I say when I am startled by a mouse, apparently
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