El Anderson

A+ standing up for morality & equity and such…
F for taxonomy, but that’s okay, we all know the US education system is absolute garbage.

Article title: People Are Re-Reading Wuthering Heights. It Isn't Going Well Online, people are sharing tips for getting through the classic.

Well YEAH, that book is a painful read. Most of the stuff we drag high schoolers through were.

Next read War and Peace unabridged. I dare you. You won’t, cowards.

(Don’t actually do that. You will either be miserable or become a Dostoyevsky fan, aka miserable, but forever this time.)

For that matter, it kinda feels like Brontë goes with Lolita in the “better to study this in undergrad” bucket either way; there is a variety of Toxic Highschool Foolishness that one generally can’t see while still in high school, even when it is pointed out in English Lit.

So the takeaway I’m getting from the Wuthering Heights reviews is that we shouldn’t assign Brontë as required reading in high school if we aren’t going to teach kids how to figure out what it is trying to say.

Question 1 obviously being “is the marketing department illiterate, or the director”

Followed immediately by “you do know that turning Heathcliff white and into a sexy romantic lead at the same time is A Choice, yeah?”

(See also blonde, blue-eyed Margot over there, but that’s more subtly icky.)

Okay, so…in the year of nobody’s lord 2026, I can see why it would very superficially seem like a bad idea to cast a Romani Heathcliff. Sure.

Y’know. Until you rebrand Wuthering Heights as “The Greatest Love Story Ever Told” and Jacob Elordi is over here looking like a sexualized lite-brite.

Am I saying some randos captured Santa, frogmarched him into the wilderness, stole his stuff and left him there?

I mean….in this economy…

So I’m driving through the state park to the off-leash area, and in the distance there is Santa Claus, with his sack, and a handful of adults following him into the hills.

An hour later I’m leaving, and there are some people coming back down that path, one of whom has a Santa hat on.

Okay, I’ll circle back to you this evening. 😀

Yeah, Pleasant company put real effort into the details of the accessories back then. The secret diary completely filled out in Spanish blew my mind as a kid.
That’s an idea, yeah.

Assorted belts, ribbons and socks

Random tea table of unknown providence

Doll clothes

Doll clothes

Doll clothes

Doll clothes. (No idea why I have this outfit twice.)

Doll clothes

Doll clothes

Josephina

Samantha

Doll clothes

Doll clothes

Josephine’s secret desk drawer and diary

Josephine’s desk

Random violin stand

Samantha’s desk

Cool! I have the original Samantha and Josephina and a bunch of their stuff, and I’d like to have less of it, preferably without dealing with weirdos on eBay. I can lay stuff out and send pictures of what I have, and you can let me know if any of it interests you.

(These are the original Pleasant Company dolls, if that matters.)

Yeah, my mom is starting to get bitter about all the bins in her house.

She’s a heck of a big chaos mech if so

Or Samantha herself. Or Josephina. Seriously, I have so much of this stuff and zero idea what to do with it.

Does anyone know anyone who cares about American Girl doll stuff? I know people care about the stuff and I have a lot, but heck if I know how to find someone who wants Samantha’s desk and wardrobe. 🙄

The mental image of this meat fridge of a man staring blankly into space, thinking “huh, I guess I probably shattered her self-worth and identity with that, oh well, the icky magic aura made me do it” is the most profoundly human thing I’ve ever read, and I cannot stop laughing.

That was Chapter 5. IDK if it is possible for it to get funnier, but the audiobook has 8 more hours and there are like 12 of these books, so I can’t wait to find out. 😂😂😂😂😂

Literally 2 weeks pass

Girl2 : so,, do I have, like…work to do?

Main Guy: Oh yeah, Good news, Girl2, you have magic powers that make you disgusting to be around for basically everyone! No wonder you have no friends & failed as a hooker!

Girl2 *sobs*

Main Guy: …I probably put that badly.

Girl2 eventually arrested. Is a hooker.

Guy2: she’s hot!

Main Guy: didn’t girl1 just die?

Guy2 genuinely upset

Main Guy: sorry about your whole life there Girl2, come work for me, you can live in a closet

Girl2 *activates hooker mode*

Main Guy: EW. Not like that, go sit in the closet!

Main Guy is happy because Guy2 blew stuff up real good.

Later, Girl2 found in evil lair naked

Main Guy: ew, get dressed

Girl2 saved his life

Main Guy: …I didn’t ask you to help, bye!

Girl 1 dies

Book opens

Main guy: Bummer, I think Guy2 might have been with her or something

Main Guy gets on radio: Guy2, go bomb this thing. Also Girl1 is dead.

Guy2 on radio: WHAT

MG: yep, super dead.

So I’m reading Xenos, and it is the funniest possible book for me to start reading Warhammer from.

I will now tell the void the plot of Xenos, but just the bits with women in, because LOL.

So…in fairness it turns out Abnett’s Warhammer 40K books are compelling as hell, so this is apparently a thing I read now, serves me right for snarking about it.

On an ENERGY DRINK, too. Motherfuckers basically put sparkly sugar glaze on a Red Bull smoothie

it is Dutch Bros, they are the coffee available around here when Starbucks has strikes