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Nüshu (literally “women’s writing” in Chinese) is a syllabic script created and used exclusively by women in the Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. Up until the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) women were forbidden access to formal education, and so Nüshu was developed in secrecy as a means to communicate. Since its discovery in 1982, Nüshu remains to be the only gender-specific writing system in the world. Read more here.

et tu, wanting to read and write and learn yet choosing to mindlessly scroll through tumblr for hours on end?

The Conference of the Birds, Persian Manuscript, circa 1600; Safavid Iran (Isfahan)

Bookish Asks

1. What are you currently reading/what is the last book you read?

2. Second hand or brand new?

3. What is your current recommendation for anyone looking for something to read?

4. Go to genre on a rainy night?

5. The book you can finish and then immediately start again without hesitation?

6. Approximately how long does it take you to finish a book?

7. Favorite series when you were a kid.

8. What’s your favorite “elusive” series? (i.e., the series that most people haven’t heard of)

9. If you had to be shoved into a book only armed with what you know about the universe and nothing else, which book would you choose?

10. Your favorite book that you read for school and ended up loving?

11. What’s your least favorite book that you’ve ever read?

12. A book you want to see made into a TV show/movie (or, if its already been adapted but you didn’t like it, what you’d do differently)

13. What character would you play in a movie adaption of your current favorite book?

14. What kind of character are you? (The protag, the quirky sidekick, the tech geek, etc)

15. Have you ever started reading a book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving? What was it?

16. Old book smell or new book feel?

17. What is the oldest book you own?

18. Last book you purchased and why?

19. What kind of book genre are you living in right now?

20. What’s your favorite position/place to read in?

21. Beverage of choice when reading?

22. Music or no music while reading? Classical, ambient noise, or pop?

23. Have you ever read anything by an independent/self published author? If so, would you recommend it?

24. Bookmarks, creased edges, memorization, or random scraps of things?

25. Audio book or physical book?

Cow Daydream Print // dizzyodonnell

artworks by Yasunari Ikenaga

Jing Zhiyong’s paintings

I was reading a book containing a collection of secular Polish poems from before 1500 for my thesis and most of them were all pretty serious - either love poems, odes or satires - but at the very end I found my favorite one:

“This is my rhyme: Warm bread with butter in it.”

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not a big fan of those gimmick posts tbh [¹][²][ᵃʳᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ˢᵘʳᵉ?]

References [ edit ]

^ Britomart, V. (2023) "not a big fan of those gimmick posts". Internet: Tumblr.[ᵃ]

^ Britomart, V. (2023) "Drafts". Internet: Tumblr.

Notes [ edit ] a. ^ Have you heard of Inception?

See also [ edit ]

Gimmicks

Jokes

Punch lines

Further Reading [ edit ]

Reading Comprehension Questions (2023). Reading Comprehension Questions. ⇗ Text Post Tropes (2023). Text Post Tropes. ⇗

External links [ edit ]

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This post was last edited on 11 January 2023, at 13:14 (UTC).

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:

Define irony and discuss its usage here.

What do you think the purpose behind this post was?

Is the self-awareness within the comprehension question an additional gimmick or simply part of the main gimmick?

What does this post say about how much time the author spends on the internet?

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES:

a) Try making your own post!

Ignacio Cobot’s tarot