blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 18/09/2025the best tribute I can give to Redford is about his most romantic movie open.substack.com/pub/restorat... 040
Reposted by blithe spirit one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Two days until Eagles kickoff; go to the nearest WaWa and stick your hand directly into the cash register, whatever’s in there is yours. 2536
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 01/09/2025summer starts when I watch Jaws and ends when I read The Summer Book in one sitting open.substack.com/pub/restorat...open.substack.comnon-romance, romance, #21: The Summer Book by Tove Janssona sheath of memories and security 030
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 27/08/2025after six months of living in my apartment, I figured out which outlet connects to the light switch in my room. 040
Reposted by blithe spirit Reformed Rakes @reformedrakes.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Tom Severin! He sucks, we love him. In this week's episode, Beth and Emma try to figure out just how Lisa Kleypas pulls off making us love a book with a landlord hero. The answer involves extended set-pieces, deft pacing and a third act kidnapping, all Kleypas hallmarks. 051
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 23/08/2025I think I just picked Michelle and got very attached her! insult to injury was that my brother's similarly randomly chosen favorite olympians (the Czech Republic hockey team) won that year. 110
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 23/08/2025I'm liking for Nagano (the best Olympics). Michelle losing was one of the worst things that ever happened to me when I was six. 110
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 23/08/2025law school made me a bully and now it is this graduate english program's problem. 010
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 23/08/2025I went to my grad school orientation tonight and when prompted to share our names and "something about ourselves," I was the only person to say literally anything. 14/15 people passed! 120
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 22/08/2025in cowboy like me, Taylor Swift opens with "and the tennis court was covered up, with some tent-like thing" and I hate it because I contend that the moment something is "tent-like" it is a tent. 120
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 22/08/2025I continue push the bounds of what can be framed as a romance substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comone chat and he said ciaoemma goes sports mode 020
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 14/08/2025I miss you guys. I'm working on a sweater because the Eagles were up 40-6 at the end of the third quarter in the Super Bowl. 060
Reposted by blithe spirit one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Also the fact that Cherelle Parker is not out front and center doing everything in her power to protest the SEPTA cuts basically invalidates the entire point of having a mayor. I understand the direct impact she can have is limited but she should still be incessantly denouncing it. 416330
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Journal editor following up on at 8am for something they asked for at 4:30pm is turning me into my worst self! 020
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 06/05/2025I just think we should compliment Georgia on doing this thing in a normal way. even if it may be didn’t need to happen! 120
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 06/05/2025I understand frustration with the implementation, but Georgia made everyone get RealID starting in 2012 and the state is almost 100% compliant by now. 120
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Don Quixote is a romance is one way and becoming obsessed with Don Quixote is a romance in another. And beating your head against wall because you can't process foreign vowel sounds in also a romance.restorativeromance.substack.comnon-romance, romance, #17: "Pierre Menard, Author of Quixote" by Jorge Luis Borgesan impossible undertaking 010
Reposted by blithe spirit Bikemamadelphia @denadriscoll.bsky.social · 24/04/2025THE PEOPLE OF PHILADELPHIA RISE UP IT IS TIME FOR ANOTHER REVOLUTION. 45822
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 23/04/2025we’re approaching a year of Adult Language Learning classes. 000
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 23/04/2025how long do I have to live in Philly before I stop thinking “a friend. an ally against the scourge of the Atlanta Braves.” every time I see someone in a Phillies hat. 120
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025it’s a Borges short story about a translator who instead of translating Don Quixote lives his life in such a way, based on Cervantes so closely, that he tries to organically write Don Quixote 000
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025since I am childless, the main way I know I am turning into my mom is how often I explain the plot of Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote to people. 120
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 20/04/2025I don’t know if the second half of Cleopatra is good but it is better than the first half! 110
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Max Kepler is not that hot and I feel crazy for the reaction he has gotten. 000
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025it is also good to hear that it isn’t too inside romance baseball! 110
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025I'm updating this from an old project and it is taking forever because for each part I end up reading a bunch of new to me Victorian novels. but the next part is about Patricia Gaffney and Lisa Kleypas and maybe a new to me Laura Kinsale. 170
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025and part I is about the legal history of marital rape exemptions leading up to 1972 restorativeromance.substack.com/p/correlatio...restorativeromance.substack.comcorrelation present, causation unclearpart I: bodice retribution 010
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025part II is about examples of rape in literature before 1972, including examples where marital rape is acknowledged as a harm, even if it was not legally rape restorativeromance.substack.com/p/precedents...restorativeromance.substack.comprecedents and citing decisionspart II: bodice deterrence 110
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 19/04/2025I am still writing about the theory that marital rape exemptions are the reason that bodice rippers were popular in the 1970s (I think this relies on a deep misunderstanding of how rape was talked about pre-1972 and how the law works). restorativeromance.substack.com/p/the-origin...restorativeromance.substack.comthe origins of harmpart III: The Flame and the Flower 152
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 17/04/2025nerves are weird little things! do not recommend herniating a disc. 000
Reposted by blithe spirit Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 17/04/2025the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one 162425589
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I had back surgery in the fall and it fixed the problem (terrible pain 90% of the time) and exchanged it for another (blinding pain 1% of the time) 220
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I do not tell students this but the greatest gift law review gives you is every day of your life after you are done you get to say “at least I am not on law review rn” 030
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 01/04/2025law review was the most demoralizing experience of my life, but also, you gotta do something. it could be that! 130
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 01/04/2025advisees will come in and say "people say law review (or some other cocurricular) isn't worth it" and I just have a hard time not responding like...is any of this worth it 140
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 30/03/2025in many ways this apartment was very annoying, but I did love living somewhere long enough I could justify painting. 040
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social · 27/03/2025like guy on second, guy on first, guy on third. “Emma, what if we go to four extra innings?” put them between the bases. 000
