Jo ~ Thought Couture
@thoughtcouture.bsky.social
Renaissance woman in the making 💜 Essayist. YouTuber. Lifelong learner. Yarn enthusiast. Virginia Woolf devotee.
Booktube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThoughtCouture
Booktube: https://www.youtube.com/@ThoughtCouture
Today’s anti-brain rot accomplishments:
🎹 90 minutes piano practice, focusing on Grieg’s “Notturno” and relearning Joplin’s “Swipesy Cakewalk”
🏺 30 minutes Latin study, mostly grammar drills
📚 15 pages of Mary Beard’s SPQR
How have you reclaimed your brain today?
#classics #booksky
🎹 90 minutes piano practice, focusing on Grieg’s “Notturno” and relearning Joplin’s “Swipesy Cakewalk”
🏺 30 minutes Latin study, mostly grammar drills
📚 15 pages of Mary Beard’s SPQR
How have you reclaimed your brain today?
#classics #booksky
July 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I desperately want this to be good, in the hope that it inspires even one moviegoer to read the epic who might not have otherwise. My concern is that Hollywood will Marvel-ify Odysseus and do away with the subtleties of character…but I remain open minded 🏺
#booksky #filmsky #classics
#booksky #filmsky #classics
July 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
PSA: You can give yourself tendinitis from knitting 2 fast 2 furious. Ask me how I know 😂
June 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
PSA: You can give yourself tendinitis from knitting 2 fast 2 furious. Ask me how I know 😂
Reviewing Every Book I Read #1: Classics: A Very Short Introduction by Mary Beard and John Henderson
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nonfiction, 145 pages, published 2000 🏺
#booksky #bookreview #classiclit #classics
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nonfiction, 145 pages, published 2000 🏺
#booksky #bookreview #classiclit #classics
April 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Reviewing Every Book I Read #1: Classics: A Very Short Introduction by Mary Beard and John Henderson
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nonfiction, 145 pages, published 2000 🏺
#booksky #bookreview #classiclit #classics
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nonfiction, 145 pages, published 2000 🏺
#booksky #bookreview #classiclit #classics
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T.S Eliot, “The Wasteland”—the poem that opened my third eye and made me a modernist (though I can’t say I agree about April) 💜
#poetrysky #poetry #classiclit
#poetrysky #poetry #classiclit
April 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
T.S Eliot, “The Wasteland”—the poem that opened my third eye and made me a modernist (though I can’t say I agree about April) 💜
#poetrysky #poetry #classiclit
#poetrysky #poetry #classiclit
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Penelope in the Odyssey
March 20, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Penelope in the Odyssey
Reposting so I remember to look into this—I read Wilson’s Iliad translation last year and fell in love with it! Had no idea there were videos of her performing 🏺
i have been watching clips of the classicist Emily Wilson perform excerpts from her translations of the Odyssey and the Illiad and she is one of the most captivating speakers i have ever seen?
March 20, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Reposting so I remember to look into this—I read Wilson’s Iliad translation last year and fell in love with it! Had no idea there were videos of her performing 🏺
Behold, my latest finished object: the Trailing Daisy socks by Tiina Kuu! 🌼
One of my knitting goals this year is to improve my stranded colorwork, and I think I’ve finally found my ideal tension.
I highly recommend this pattern btw! It’s free on Ravelry 🧶 #knitsky
One of my knitting goals this year is to improve my stranded colorwork, and I think I’ve finally found my ideal tension.
I highly recommend this pattern btw! It’s free on Ravelry 🧶 #knitsky
March 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Behold, my latest finished object: the Trailing Daisy socks by Tiina Kuu! 🌼
One of my knitting goals this year is to improve my stranded colorwork, and I think I’ve finally found my ideal tension.
I highly recommend this pattern btw! It’s free on Ravelry 🧶 #knitsky
One of my knitting goals this year is to improve my stranded colorwork, and I think I’ve finally found my ideal tension.
I highly recommend this pattern btw! It’s free on Ravelry 🧶 #knitsky
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"My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do."
-Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653)
Italian artist
#InternationalWomensDay
-Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653)
Italian artist
#InternationalWomensDay
March 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
"My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do."
-Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653)
Italian artist
#InternationalWomensDay
-Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653)
Italian artist
#InternationalWomensDay
#currentlyreading Homer’s Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles
Despite being familiar with the most iconic scenes of the epic (sirens, cyclops, Scylla, oh my), it’s much different from what I was expecting!
To my surprise, I think I prefer the Iliad 🏺 #classicsbluesky #booksky
Despite being familiar with the most iconic scenes of the epic (sirens, cyclops, Scylla, oh my), it’s much different from what I was expecting!
To my surprise, I think I prefer the Iliad 🏺 #classicsbluesky #booksky
March 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
#currentlyreading Homer’s Odyssey, translated by Robert Fagles
Despite being familiar with the most iconic scenes of the epic (sirens, cyclops, Scylla, oh my), it’s much different from what I was expecting!
To my surprise, I think I prefer the Iliad 🏺 #classicsbluesky #booksky
Despite being familiar with the most iconic scenes of the epic (sirens, cyclops, Scylla, oh my), it’s much different from what I was expecting!
To my surprise, I think I prefer the Iliad 🏺 #classicsbluesky #booksky
I’ve finally figured out what this app feels like to me:
A college seminar, in which all of my classmates are so smart and cool that I’m too intimidated to say anything because I believe I’m neither smart nor cool.
App-induced imposter syndrome 🥲
A college seminar, in which all of my classmates are so smart and cool that I’m too intimidated to say anything because I believe I’m neither smart nor cool.
App-induced imposter syndrome 🥲
March 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I’ve finally figured out what this app feels like to me:
A college seminar, in which all of my classmates are so smart and cool that I’m too intimidated to say anything because I believe I’m neither smart nor cool.
App-induced imposter syndrome 🥲
A college seminar, in which all of my classmates are so smart and cool that I’m too intimidated to say anything because I believe I’m neither smart nor cool.
App-induced imposter syndrome 🥲
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Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614–20) by Artemisia Gentileschi, considered one of the most accomplished of all Italian Baroque painters #WomensArt
February 18, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Judith Slaying Holofernes (1614–20) by Artemisia Gentileschi, considered one of the most accomplished of all Italian Baroque painters #WomensArt
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"Only art penetrates... the seeming realities of this world. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive."
This is such a wonderful read:
This is such a wonderful read:
Saul Bellow’s Spectacular Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on How Art and Literature Ennoble the Human Spirit
“It may be more difficult to reach the whirling mind of a modern reader but it is possible to cut through the noise and reach the quiet zone. In the quiet zone we may find that he is devoutly…
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February 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"Only art penetrates... the seeming realities of this world. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive."
This is such a wonderful read:
This is such a wonderful read:
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery. 🪻
February 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
If you see this, quote with flowers from your gallery. 🪻
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January 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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need a name for that feeling that strikes in the early evening when you're just oh fuck. oh christ why aren't i trying to become a successful streamer. why haven't i made a movie. why haven't i had a novel published. i dont think its anxiety or comparison stress its a new thing i made up
January 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
need a name for that feeling that strikes in the early evening when you're just oh fuck. oh christ why aren't i trying to become a successful streamer. why haven't i made a movie. why haven't i had a novel published. i dont think its anxiety or comparison stress its a new thing i made up
After years of prioritizing Romantic and modern music, I’ve finally hit my Bach phase—I suddenly need to play all the Bach. Starting by revisiting the lovely Invention no.4 in d minor! 🎹 #classicalmusic
January 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
After years of prioritizing Romantic and modern music, I’ve finally hit my Bach phase—I suddenly need to play all the Bach. Starting by revisiting the lovely Invention no.4 in d minor! 🎹 #classicalmusic
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Virginia Woolf in TYR’s archive w/reflection by Claire Messud! “Just as citizenship is comprised of both privilege & responsibility, Woolf’s vision of the compact between writer & reader involves the opposing qualities of indulgence & effort” @yalereview.bsky.social yalereview.org/article/clai...
Claire Messud: Revisiting Virginia Woolf's Essays in The Yale Review
Join a conversation 200 years in the making. We believe in the power of connecting great minds across disciplines, backgrounds, and generations.
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January 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Virginia Woolf in TYR’s archive w/reflection by Claire Messud! “Just as citizenship is comprised of both privilege & responsibility, Woolf’s vision of the compact between writer & reader involves the opposing qualities of indulgence & effort” @yalereview.bsky.social yalereview.org/article/clai...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you 💙📚
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookChallenge #Books #BookSky #literaturesky
Day 2: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookChallenge #Books #BookSky #literaturesky
Day 2: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
January 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you 💙📚
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookChallenge #Books #BookSky #literaturesky
Day 2: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookChallenge #Books #BookSky #literaturesky
Day 2: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
I’ve reached the point in the New Year where I feel an overwhelming urge to throw away everything I own, buy a whole new wardrobe, learn Dutch for some reason, move abroad, change my name, and maybe dye my hair blue.
January 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I’ve reached the point in the New Year where I feel an overwhelming urge to throw away everything I own, buy a whole new wardrobe, learn Dutch for some reason, move abroad, change my name, and maybe dye my hair blue.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you 💙📚
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookChallenge #Books #BookSky
Day 1: The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookChallenge #Books #BookSky
Day 1: The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
January 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you 💙📚
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookChallenge #Books #BookSky
Day 1: The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookChallenge #Books #BookSky
Day 1: The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
Hello Bluesky 👋. I’m totally confused by this app, but I have the spirit and like the vibes thus far.
January 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Hello Bluesky 👋. I’m totally confused by this app, but I have the spirit and like the vibes thus far.