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6'1" Amazon Princess, cat clowder caretaker, and lemonade enthusiast. Dabbler in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, weightlifting, highland games, and quad skates. Bookish and grannycore. M.Arts in Silly Goosery. She/her.

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a group of people dancing on a stage with the words gonna make this a night to remember below them
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January 11, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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According to Seuss The Cat in the Hat was just subversive, not about specific political figures. Other Seuss books are truly depicting political figures or concepts, e.g. Yertle had a Hitler mustache in the original art.
Playground satire Even The Cat in the Hat had a political edge. In Jonathan Cott’s 1983 collection of interviews, Pipers at the Gates of Dawn, Seuss said in response to the suggestion that some of his books are subversive: “I’m subversive as hell! I’ve always had a mistrust of adults… Hilaire Belloc, whose writings I liked a lot, was a radical. Gulliver’s Travels was subversive, and both Swift and Voltaire influenced me. The Cat in the Hat is a revolt against authority, but it’s ameliorated by the fact that the cat cleans up everything in the end.” Spiegelman finds a precursor to the cat’s red-and-white striped hat in the headgear on the bird Seuss drew to depict the US in his political cartoons.
January 3, 2026 at 5:55 AM
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The youth don't even know how to use an abacus anymore, we used to be a proper dynasty 😪
January 2, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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That’s next on my Naomi Novik list!!
December 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
abgushte.bsky.social
Her short story anthology was my first exposure to her, and I am going to talk about some of those stories for the rest of my life not even exaggerating…
December 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
abgushte.bsky.social
“We are all descendants of immigrants here in the USA” is what you said. Are indigenous people not in the USA? Are they not American?? Who is “we” in your statements?
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM