Cinzia DuBois
@cinzia-dubois
🏛️ Lady of the Library - YouTube & Podcast (300k subs) 📜 Literary Fiction. Classical Reception. Philosophy. 🏺 Classics PhD student specialising in contemporary literature. 🥀 Begrudgingly neurodivergent (Autistic, Dyslexic, ADHD)
She has doubled in side since December when this photo was taken, but I can't help but share how darn adorable baby Sappho is
If you know anyone who uses ChatGPT, especially for academia (I'm looking at you, fellow students), ask them to ask it how many 'r's are in the word strawberry. Prepare to be majorly gaslit.
Last week, I was the recipient of the cutest proposal ever at a bookshop 📚 ♥️
The new Wuthering Heights film continues to baffle and confuse me every day…
I've never had a reason to say this until today, but now I finally can. woof.
This is our tiny girl, Sappho. She likes to chew books and play with her brother, Atticus. Her older sister, Ithaka, doesn't care for her existence. We have officially evolved from socially accepted to crazy dog owners.
As if I didn’t feel more pathetic in life having fallen seriously behind my PhD and unsure I can complete it in just two years, this insanely incredible woman pops up on my newsfeed to really rub in how badly I’m doing in life (she got all A*s and As at A-level and had 34 GCSEs)
When poor little Potato Bean thought he was being helpful by holding my page for me. Then he read what it was about and became traumatised.
The world is a disgrace and every day comes with tens of reasons to despise the evil actions of humanity, all of which is motivated by power and money. … so I hung my fairy lights up.
Take the frictional characters text and post the first 4 you know Violet Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events): 86% Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons): 85% Belle (Beauty and the Beast): 85% Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre): 85% I’m apparently Emma Morley (One Day): 91% but no idea what that means.
A rare moment when my girly fluff let my little man sit near her. She growled immediately after this photo was taken and he ran away.
House decoration is officially complete! Apparently, my dogs love a gallery wall as much as I do.
Good morning from Scotland — I’m grateful to wake up to this every morning #tinyjoys
As a British person, I solemnly swear that I will always welcome and refer to trans women as women, and for the rest of life, I will never use female pronouns when referring to this garbage human being. Their pronouns are Fleabitten/Potlicker
Daily reminder that Joanne is a sexual deviant committed to displaying her fetish of being a bigot who is obsessed with others' genitalia & sex lives (or lack) & John Boyne proving himself disappointingly moronic. No, John. No one is "throwing gay men into the same category as a sexual people".
The Intellectual Burnout of Constant Outrage open.substack.com/pub/cinziadu...
Thank you so much, @workingclassicists.bsky.social for the wonderful new book! I very luckily won their giveaway and I'm so excited for a new book on a no-buy year haha. Excited to read my first @contubernales.bsky.social book 📖🏺
I can appreciate that, even during a mental health crisis in which many phone calls to services were made, I still took the time to appreciate how pretty my dog Ithaka looked and snapped a photo whilst crying on the phone.
”I’m going to do some academic reading on Hamlet this afternoon.” Turns straight to p. 164
The trouble with scripting as a coping mechanism for social anxiety is that when you arrive at your destination & deliver your script, the other person thinks you sound suspicious & sketchy & then you feel like you look suspicious & sketchy, resulting in suspicious & sketchy blushing & sweating.
I've now made it a tradition to make my bf something Lord of the Rings related for Christmas. First Christmas was a hand-bound, personalised design of the Fellowship of the Ring with painted edges (Never bound a book before so it was ROUGH) This year (as I have less time), a Hobbit door-wreath