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grim & grounded

a grimdark writer writing about how I stay grounded and resist capitalist systems through joy and creation instead of fear and consumption.

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  1. Issue · Jul 16, 2026

    My 2008 high school experience as it pertains to the current reading and critical thinking crisis. (opens the original)

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    What prompted me to write a Substack on the literary crisis at 10:10 pm on a Monday when I would have been watching Love Island was actually because of Love Island is a sentence I never thought I would write. I promise this isn’t going to be a think-piece on Love Island or pandemic high-schoolers. It has been done and done again, and quite frankly I can’t handle another think-piece….But I do just have to say, kom-PROM-is instead of KOM-pruh-myz is crazy work, and I have thought about it every da

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