dr clementine v-a ✨

“eat your slop, piggies!”

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

entire essays relying on paraphrasing, why? Is it that they’re getting AI to summarise work, or do they think quoting others directly is too much of a crutch?

is anyone else noticing that students aren’t doing direct citation anymore, is this a me problem?

You never know when you might need a cassette last minute

I’m going to need you to share your haul when you get back

new this year is my playlist specifically for sad festive music, v much looking for suggestions for tracks to add: open.spotify.com/playlist/4KC...

a Christmas playlist for you

uhhhh… yeah, I guess you could say I’m feeling PRETTY merry ☝️🤓 open.spotify.com/playlist/6dB...

no one on this bus knows I’m listening to All I Want For Christmas Is You

The birth of the author

At the moment I feel like the way Karen is represented, as well as the women Johnny is probably lying about/hallucinating sleeping with, is an intentional part of the book’s themes, but whatever point it’s making hasn’t clicked for me yet

misogyny it’s is own labyrinth, and we women are nought but explorers with fishing line and neon arrows, trying to map its extent and look for an exit

Tried to see if anyone else had written about the (imo intentional) sexism in HoL. Most of the posts are people saying they don’t like how the women in the book are represented, and almost ALL the replies are men saying they’re wrong/it’s a “male-centred” book so misogyny makes sense HUH?

House of Leaves update: If I live a thousand years and never again read the description of a woman from Johnny Truant’s pov it’ll be too soon.

David absolutely obliterating the credibility of higher education with his votes, universities will be shut down over this #CelebrityTraitors

i’ve been saying AIs main utility to capitalists is to allow them to bring back all the racism sexism ableism transphobia and every other bigotry under the sun we’ve managed to mitigate in the last century and go “computer did it 🤷‍♀️” when called out for it

girlhood is when you let the algorithm dictate what you consume and how, boyhood is when you find a strange creature in the forest and befriend it. I learned everything I know about gender from TikTok.

“Reclaiming my girlhood” and it’s just buying shit and bio-essentialism

romanticising my trip to Lidl by listening to folk music on the bus like I’m in a shitty version of Inside Llewyn Davis

I think the first act takes place in an alternate present, and then Bob and Willa’s story is an imaginary 16 years from now

"X shouldn't be political." OK but it is. Now what?

okay as I prepare to pitch this article, what if I did a quick blog about Lily Allen and David Harbour’s interior design

it's an xcx world, we just live in it bumpin that bumpin that bumpin that bumpin that bumpin that

I’d love to! I’ve written about music and celebrity before here: open.substack.com/pub/scheming...

"ELEVATED HORROR" DIRECTOR SEEING ANY WOMAN OVER THE AGE OF 45: ahh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AIEEEE!!!! AAAuuUGHHHH!H! OUGHGHGHGGHHGHGHGGHHG

That would be great thank you! Only if you have the time

oooh what reading(s) are you setting for it?

she’s getting into the pitt

jasper from the simpsons "that's a paddlin'"

halines to yuks? that's for clampen

Martin from The Simpsons sweating and looking nervous

Today I’m engaging in my most vulnerable teaching moment yet: letting students read excerpts from my MA literature review as they work on their own