Author: Arch Copy
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Always
It’s a complicated thing, mourning someone you didn’t know. But I mourned Severus Snape, a man I did know. I now mourn the man who embodied him, whose face I see when I listen to the stories. Every night for nearly 20 years, those stories. I stood by the river in the snow, and it…
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Warning: You Will Buy Books
People think Reddit is for lonely, fat trolls. It is. But it’s also home to some of the funniest, cleverest and most melancholy people I’ve ever come across. Yesterday I stumbled upon a thread about book pairings. It had never occurred to me to turn to Reddit for literary criticism, but these guys had me buying…
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Minutiae
It occurred to me yesterday, in a little thrill of dismay, that an outside person can make me do whatever they want. They have the power of imagination, the utility of visual memory – I am a puppet with as much free will as a Sim left alone with a bored little brother. But then…
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Things I’ve Learned From #DrummondPuddleWatch
1. Humans are essentially good and full of joy. 2. We all love slapstick but don’t really want anyone to get hurt. 3. At least 20,000 (it got stuck at 19,932) need more stimulus in their jobs. 4. Community spirit and British irony are brilliant. 5. People in Newcastle can source lilos and surfboards surprisingly…
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Heart Attack
One of the hardest parts of my experience with anxiety is the pounding heart. Stupidly, I’ve only just made the connection between my inability to convince myself I’m not dying, and the fact that two of my ex-boyfriends had heart attacks very young, 18 and 20. Seems kind of obvious, doesn’t it? I have proof…
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