And that becomes a problem if your party leader doesn't know his own mind (Miliband), is an empty vessel (Starmer), or is a sparksnotes ideologue (Badenoch)
You don't, imv, need to communicate your intellectual pathways, but you do need to have some rhyme, reason and mental road-test to what you do
You don't, imv, need to communicate your intellectual pathways, but you do need to have some rhyme, reason and mental road-test to what you do
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
And that becomes a problem if your party leader doesn't know his own mind (Miliband), is an empty vessel (Starmer), or is a sparksnotes ideologue (Badenoch)
You don't, imv, need to communicate your intellectual pathways, but you do need to have some rhyme, reason and mental road-test to what you do
You don't, imv, need to communicate your intellectual pathways, but you do need to have some rhyme, reason and mental road-test to what you do
i also dont think reading the sparksnotes is reading the book btw. i think this because it isnt
we can all agree that this isnt reading right? like we can set aside the endless audiobooks discourse and agree on something here? because this isnt reading
I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books.
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August 11, 2026 at 3:49 PM
i also dont think reading the sparksnotes is reading the book btw. i think this because it isnt
I suspect they read the sparksnotes for those ones
October 20, 2024 at 3:47 PM
I suspect they read the sparksnotes for those ones
Aside from the fact that this guy has never read so much as a sparksnotes on any of these, much less experienced a loving touch, the list is so unsurprisingly uniform.
going to go out on a limb and imagine this guy's not actually very good at conversations
August 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Aside from the fact that this guy has never read so much as a sparksnotes on any of these, much less experienced a loving touch, the list is so unsurprisingly uniform.
SALTBURN's emptiness is not an expression of the character's hollow Machiavellian and material obsessions, but more of Fennell's wishy washiness about locating and articulating power and (homoerotic) tension. Very SparksNotes vibes.
February 13, 2026 at 8:33 PM
SALTBURN's emptiness is not an expression of the character's hollow Machiavellian and material obsessions, but more of Fennell's wishy washiness about locating and articulating power and (homoerotic) tension. Very SparksNotes vibes.
I think creating accessible ways to enjoy books and narratives is good. I think this particular take is informed by anti-intellectualism more than anti-ableism specifically.
Like -- abridged, "young reader" versions, SparksNotes, those are all incredibly useful and important tools. We've also-
Like -- abridged, "young reader" versions, SparksNotes, those are all incredibly useful and important tools. We've also-
James Joyce is gonna read this and come back from the dead so he can publish Finnegan's Wake 2 out of sheer spite.
June 10, 2026 at 11:48 PM
I think creating accessible ways to enjoy books and narratives is good. I think this particular take is informed by anti-intellectualism more than anti-ableism specifically.
Like -- abridged, "young reader" versions, SparksNotes, those are all incredibly useful and important tools. We've also-
Like -- abridged, "young reader" versions, SparksNotes, those are all incredibly useful and important tools. We've also-
"read one book" sure is generous when half of them only read the sparksnotes, that half is at least the less disingenuous half, the other half asked ChatGPT to summarize it for them.
July 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"read one book" sure is generous when half of them only read the sparksnotes, that half is at least the less disingenuous half, the other half asked ChatGPT to summarize it for them.
i often find difficulty sharing about my ocs / providing a summary of their stories because to me, they're so tangible that it's hard to boil them down to the sparksnotes version... i'm better at expressing themes artistically (via art or writing) because that's where the emotion lies. #honeyocmb +
November 28, 2024 at 4:47 AM
i often find difficulty sharing about my ocs / providing a summary of their stories because to me, they're so tangible that it's hard to boil them down to the sparksnotes version... i'm better at expressing themes artistically (via art or writing) because that's where the emotion lies. #honeyocmb +
ive had soooo many people tell me they're making arthurian projects, someone had mordred as their main character and yet they "only knew the sparksnotes version" of the guy because they never engaged with arthurian literature
July 12, 2026 at 8:53 AM
ive had soooo many people tell me they're making arthurian projects, someone had mordred as their main character and yet they "only knew the sparksnotes version" of the guy because they never engaged with arthurian literature
Like yeah the one thing I didn’t finish reading was Moby Dick but like I was 14 and it was too slow for me then. But like??? The plays??? You didn’t read ANY of the plays??? The power of sparksnotes
June 17, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Like yeah the one thing I didn’t finish reading was Moby Dick but like I was 14 and it was too slow for me then. But like??? The plays??? You didn’t read ANY of the plays??? The power of sparksnotes
Context: I gave him the SparksNotes version re: the worst people I've ever met in nerdspaces.
January 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Context: I gave him the SparksNotes version re: the worst people I've ever met in nerdspaces.
thank you to my brother for being my game lore sparksnotes
November 11, 2023 at 1:54 AM
thank you to my brother for being my game lore sparksnotes
eh maybe later. sparksnotes?
September 20, 2024 at 10:09 PM
eh maybe later. sparksnotes?
I could be relaxing in an art party but here I am on Monday Night, doing sparksnotes on the final mechanic of M12S P2 <SOB> 💀💀💀
I wanna clear.
I wanna clear.
April 14, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I could be relaxing in an art party but here I am on Monday Night, doing sparksnotes on the final mechanic of M12S P2 <SOB> 💀💀💀
I wanna clear.
I wanna clear.
Will say, after playing Rule of Rose, I am so much less impressed by Silent Hill f’s writing and narrative chops.
Masterful layered storytelling that entrusts the audience to parse the text for themselves vs bluntly bloviating at the audience the SparksNotes of its own themes. Hm.
Masterful layered storytelling that entrusts the audience to parse the text for themselves vs bluntly bloviating at the audience the SparksNotes of its own themes. Hm.
August 18, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Will say, after playing Rule of Rose, I am so much less impressed by Silent Hill f’s writing and narrative chops.
Masterful layered storytelling that entrusts the audience to parse the text for themselves vs bluntly bloviating at the audience the SparksNotes of its own themes. Hm.
Masterful layered storytelling that entrusts the audience to parse the text for themselves vs bluntly bloviating at the audience the SparksNotes of its own themes. Hm.
Can someone give me the sparksnotes version of whatever happened? I am so confused.
December 29, 2024 at 6:05 AM
Can someone give me the sparksnotes version of whatever happened? I am so confused.
this should be obvious, but people insist on basing their work off of nothing but wikipedia and sparksnotes 🙃
July 12, 2026 at 8:46 AM
this should be obvious, but people insist on basing their work off of nothing but wikipedia and sparksnotes 🙃
I'm partially surprised at the number of people who managed to, evidently, not read it and somehow pass English without it in an age before SparksNotes.
July 21, 2026 at 11:45 PM
I'm partially surprised at the number of people who managed to, evidently, not read it and somehow pass English without it in an age before SparksNotes.
"Sparksnotes ideologue" mid-thread is the modern equivalent of one of those devastating 19th century literary drive-bys that used to appear 100 pages into a thesis on economic theory.
And that becomes a problem if your party leader doesn't know his own mind (Miliband), is an empty vessel (Starmer), or is a sparksnotes ideologue (Badenoch)
You don't, imv, need to communicate your intellectual pathways, but you do need to have some rhyme, reason and mental road-test to what you do
You don't, imv, need to communicate your intellectual pathways, but you do need to have some rhyme, reason and mental road-test to what you do
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"Sparksnotes ideologue" mid-thread is the modern equivalent of one of those devastating 19th century literary drive-bys that used to appear 100 pages into a thesis on economic theory.
Not commenting on the politics. Dude that isn't even familiar with Romeo & Juliet advocating a book ban. Wonder if this legislator took a #BobJones version of #SparksNotes for his reading requirements. #ThatShakespeareSmut 😆
📚TEXAS: “We’re not removing filth… Books like Romeo & Juliet, Lonesome Dove, Catcher in the Rye will be removed from school libraries because these definitions are overly broad.”
@jamestalarico dismantles a Republican bill like the one already doing damage in Tennessee.
@jamestalarico dismantles a Republican bill like the one already doing damage in Tennessee.
June 2, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Not commenting on the politics. Dude that isn't even familiar with Romeo & Juliet advocating a book ban. Wonder if this legislator took a #BobJones version of #SparksNotes for his reading requirements. #ThatShakespeareSmut 😆
thinking ab the time i went so long without updating i gave a sparksnotes summary in the beginning of the chapter so readers didn't have to reread to know what was going on LMFAO
January 25, 2026 at 9:24 PM
thinking ab the time i went so long without updating i gave a sparksnotes summary in the beginning of the chapter so readers didn't have to reread to know what was going on LMFAO
The Old Man and the Sea. I had to Sparksnotes that shit for school. How the hell was my Jewish kid ass supposed to care about the Christian symbolism with him carrying the fish like a cross?
Name a Book you couldn't finish due to boredom.
July 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The Old Man and the Sea. I had to Sparksnotes that shit for school. How the hell was my Jewish kid ass supposed to care about the Christian symbolism with him carrying the fish like a cross?
I had to look up all the characters on sparksnotes because I couldn't tell who was a child😭😭 I really want to enjoy it because I swear I liked the other woolf I've read but I fear I'm not in the right mood
September 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I had to look up all the characters on sparksnotes because I couldn't tell who was a child😭😭 I really want to enjoy it because I swear I liked the other woolf I've read but I fear I'm not in the right mood
no one tell this dork about sparksnotes, audiobooks, serial novels, children's and abridged editions or the entire felid of literary criticism. might make reading too easy or whatever the fuck
jesus christ
jesus christ
December 1, 2023 at 11:55 PM
no one tell this dork about sparksnotes, audiobooks, serial novels, children's and abridged editions or the entire felid of literary criticism. might make reading too easy or whatever the fuck
jesus christ
jesus christ