# ![@saintsoftness Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::97874285.png) @saintsoftness A.V. Marraccini

A.V. Marraccini posts on X about this is, if you, in the, art the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  11.4% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  5.26% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  3.51% [countries](/list/countries)  3.51% [finance](/list/finance)  1.75% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  0.88% [musicians](/list/musicians)  0.88% [stocks](/list/stocks)  0.88%

**Social topic influence**
[this is](/topic/this-is) 10.53%, [if you](/topic/if-you) 7.02%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 6.14%, [art](/topic/art) 5.26%, [book](/topic/book) 4.39%, [history](/topic/history) 4.39%, [new york](/topic/new-york) 3.51%, [status](/topic/status) 2.63%, [politics](/topic/politics) 2.63%, [education](/topic/education) 2.63%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"She is discovering the joy of books and textiles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2022831541143941501)  2026-02-15T00:33Z 17.5K followers, 270.3K engagements


"@roseopossum This is an incredibly manipulative ugly way to use mental health status as a threat. I'm not having it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1918894378308829623)  2025-05-04T05:04Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Death Kit Revenge Fantasies epigrams on misogyny imperial exams nonstick pans CRB- Difficult Epigrams espaliered trees Uraniborg volcanoes obstinate love for complexity Toe Rag Decadence Obsd Huysmans scarf dancing Nijinsky Ovid Vergil perfume"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2014809603045806115)  2026-01-23T21:16Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"I have nothing to do with the downtown scene on purpose. I am an avowed anti-fascist who writes essays and not novels by choice. This is nonetheless heinous behavior and if I see you encouraging it Im done with you. Every woman writing here deserves better. Step up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2018103041807782065)  2026-02-01T23:23Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"I like the Fagles Iliad for personal reasons I explain in my book. I would assign Lattimore to humanists who want to read closest to the Greek. But honestly for my non humanities undergrads Wilson is their favorite gateway translation and does a damn good job at that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2018790748607635823)  2026-02-03T20:56Z 17.3K followers, 23.6K engagements


"More late night Yourcenar (apt before taking my undergrads to the Met classical galleries tomorrow):"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019263773639311574)  2026-02-05T04:16Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"You know its bad out there when the shift from late Roman Republican to Imperial portrait busts make you audibly sigh with recognition in the galleries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019505956758122500)  2026-02-05T20:18Z 17.3K followers, 222.5K engagements


"Hi Im so glad so many of you love geometric Greek vase painting and the unique use of (or lack of) perspective in depicting these horses. Heres the object details at the Met if you want to learn more about this amazing object (a krater): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248904 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248904"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019563244957106246)  2026-02-06T00:06Z 17.3K followers, 204K engagements


"PS Im an art historian and working writer and literary critic who was initially trained in Early Modern antiquarianism but I teach a general undergrad intro course in the spring where I take my students to the classical galleries at the Metwhere this krater lives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019564313342799918)  2026-02-06T00:10Z 17.3K followers, 198.1K engagements


"PPS I would love it as a person and a scholar if you all learned more about the Geometric Period in Greek art from this reliable source with many more cool weird shaped horses: https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/geometric-art-in-ancient-greece https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/geometric-art-in-ancient-greece"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019568561996591282)  2026-02-06T00:27Z 17.3K followers, 186.5K engagements


"@WetDirt2000 So the British Museum has please touch days which is how I almost dropped a piece of black figure pottery FYI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019572657683935668)  2026-02-06T00:43Z 17.3K followers, [--] engagements


"If you love counting Greek horse legs the Met is pay what you can/suggested donation and a great destination on a cold day in NYC. Please come visit the leggy horse krater and the whole classical gallery while youre at it It belongs to us the public Its yours too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019602720588722473)  2026-02-06T02:43Z 17.3K followers, 134.3K engagements


"I love Olympics Twitter because in a week well all have a crush on some devastatingly competent person and at least four random people will suddenly talk like world experts about idk skeleton or biathlon rifles. And we will all like it more than fighting about cooking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019879671945744521)  2026-02-06T21:03Z 17.4K followers, 27.6K engagements


"If you were forced to suddenly pick and train for a winter Olympic sport what would it be Obviously for me ice dance or skating since I do ballet and they take our classes for cross-training (ankle strength for pointe helps too). Also I love a sparkly leotard. You"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019881603888255088)  2026-02-06T21:11Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@waawawiiwa Twitter Winter Olympics should happen where they make us actually try"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019883744778219714)  2026-02-06T21:19Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Making myself get to ballet class in feels like [---] here in New York City tomorrow by saying well Lindsey Vonn doesnt even have an ACL you wimp a lot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019979911273030107)  2026-02-07T03:41Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"(I dance in a knee brace when not performing because I have one extremely hypermobile knee I need to protect and now I want to find out who makes Lindsey Vonns knee braces)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019980244955127817)  2026-02-07T03:43Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@infinite_jaz Proving Big ACL wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2020021639694401862)  2026-02-07T06:27Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@no_earthquake You're famous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2020199243978305829)  2026-02-07T18:13Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@UpsideDownHegel Okay I uh got lazy and crawled back under my duvet because Im not Lindsey Vonn. I gotta own that 🥴"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2020211465102426597)  2026-02-07T19:02Z 17.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@CHRISF0GLE Also: if you are autistic you can go through your ADA accommodations office for that wrt exams"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2022008706813370755)  2026-02-12T18:03Z 17.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@roughghosts (she's still named Pliny the Elder :) )"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2022833857670631871)  2026-02-15T00:42Z 17.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Reviving my burnt out soul before the eternal cycle of Sending Yet More Emails by watching men's figure skating. I don't care about the quads I just want them to show me the skaters' cats. Multiple skaters appear to have brought their cats to Milan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2022362347558322564)  2026-02-13T17:28Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Meet my valentine Gaius Plinius Secundus Marraccini aka Pliny the Elder aka Pliny the Kitten. I am overjoyed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2022768995208663510)  2026-02-14T20:24Z 17.5K followers, 32.7K engagements


"Favorite toy so far is the enticing neon mouse which she fetches and carries back to me Naturally Pliny is interested in odd specimens such as this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2023054329867862036)  2026-02-15T15:18Z 17.5K followers, 15.4K engagements


"Nah Im a snob and I hate bad prose. YA features a lot of phone it in industry-category prose. Because ultimately its a marketing ticket for fiction that wouldnt hack it as lit fiction most of the time and we alllll know it. Plus its usually censored/censorious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1710832144946229445)  2023-10-08T01:39Z 17.5K followers, 146.4K engagements


"An announcement: my next book THESE NEW FRAGILITIES coming from @7StoriesPress in 2028"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1810367278162059671)  2024-07-08T17:36Z 17.5K followers, 251.6K engagements


"@truhtnac We were confused thought it was maybe a male with van markings. Ironically I was convinced I wanted a male cat because my late cat was a guy but now of course Im totally in love"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2022816183066431747)  2026-02-14T23:32Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"I need your help. These are a series of DM's I have received from Rose Lyddon (@providenceluvr) after critiquing her politics. I have telephoned police in Guernsey and they will contact the Met and the European police/border agencies. This is an attempt at blackmail"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1918873198122217932)  2025-05-04T03:39Z 17.5K followers, 97.8K engagements


"There are women rulers in Homer and Dante and John Stuart Mill wrote On The Subjugation Of Women. This is definitely not the take home point of Milton or Shakespeare. Only one person in this conversation is a humanist who had a great books education and a PhD. Its me. Time and again the great books vehemently warn *against* the rule of women over men So much and so obviously do they warn against such rule as *unnatural* that you could say its thematic in the great books If your teacher doesnt emphasize that then your teacher is illiterate Time and again the great books vehemently warn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2012506171437887894)  2026-01-17T12:43Z 17.5K followers, 13.3K engagements


"Making undergrads count geometric period horse legs on vases until I hear an ohhhh sound is one of my fave gallery practices here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019490842805776771)  2026-02-05T19:18Z 17.5K followers, 1.4M engagements


"Notebooks fix everything. Pens too. Turns out the solution to writers block was a nice new moleskin. I just wrote [--] pages by hand in one sitting Turns out the solution to writers block was a nice new moleskin. I just wrote [--] pages by hand in one sitting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2020389154534875442)  2026-02-08T06:48Z 17.5K followers, 80.7K engagements


"This Olympics has really drawn my attention to the existence of stoats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2022432106933096850)  2026-02-13T22:06Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@ayars_d Except for the little one marked on his nose"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2022776448109498527)  2026-02-14T20:54Z 17.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Well I got a call from the shelter and it turns out there was a collar switch error and this Pliny is a GIRL Her name is still very much Pliny the Elder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2022814836623573320)  2026-02-14T23:26Z 17.5K followers, 27.7K engagements


"@roughghosts It turns out. she's a girl"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2022833801311703107)  2026-02-15T00:42Z 17.5K followers, [---] engagements


"First night of crazy time [---] lbs of pure constant energy particle and wave"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2022842194944491721)  2026-02-15T01:15Z 17.5K followers, 32.6K engagements


"A very small new viewer of the Pitt:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2022863426607800734)  2026-02-15T02:39Z 17.5K followers, 10.6K engagements


"@booksandleather Its a Design Within Reach stainless steel thing designed to hold a lot of weight and anchored to the wall. I was planning on adopting when I bought it so basically I did crazy cat lady prep"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2022883548827443407)  2026-02-15T03:59Z 17.5K followers, [---] engagements


"@abe_is_here Oh what a beauty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2022886084309586346)  2026-02-15T04:10Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"There will be a point when my life outside of Pliny the Kitten is in posts again but tonight is not that night. She won a fight with some boots and then slept it off on the sofa this evening"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2023174524053962779)  2026-02-15T23:16Z 17.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@moonguy888 @redford @DefectorMedia Okay but tbf marine biologists will tell you she only did that because she swallowed a fish bladder or was sick/dying. Honestly a healthy anglerfish follows the currents in the abyssal darkness which is also fun as a writer to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1935577383500669221)  2025-06-19T05:56Z 17.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Mahmoud Khalil walked free today. Zohran Mamdani walked all of Manhattan tonight the longest night of the year. Hope is still possible in New York City; re-enchantment can also be a politics. Im voting early Sunday and I cant wait"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1936258793521717665)  2025-06-21T03:04Z 17.5K followers, 55.2K engagements


"I got busted for taking this photo of my old buddys cloud studies that Ive loved since undergrad so you all better enjoy it Weve been on a cloud study binge on the TL I know"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1947013368289648915)  2025-07-20T19:18Z 17.5K followers, 122.2K engagements


"@shreyabasu003 omg really"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1948941133028999367)  2025-07-26T02:59Z 17.4K followers, 69.9K engagements


"This is the closest equivalent to biblical temptation for me the stationery store:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1949907167982788649)  2025-07-28T18:57Z 17.5K followers, 42.6K engagements


"Everybody loves the Drer pillow studies because they get at something essential about pillow-ness. The hatching that sometimes extends beyond each visible pillow gives the sensation that youre reaching out and crushing them making the carefully-drawn crevices and folds"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1955120999717802119)  2025-08-12T04:15Z 17.4K followers, 64.8K engagements


"If you want the literature in translation you love to have a future you have to fight for graduate language and culture programs at American universities right now. You all like Jenny Erpenbeck Kenzaburo Oe Han Kang Go to the mat for German Japanese Korean and more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1955831142076309574)  2025-08-14T03:17Z 17.5K followers, 34.2K engagements


"You know Sally Rooneys novels arent really my style but damn Sally Rooney is. The next one Ill preorder in hardback. Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a supporter of terror under UK law so be it https://t.co/23F9Lc6UF0 Sally Rooney: I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a supporter of terror under UK law so be it https://t.co/23F9Lc6UF0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1956911783882440938)  2025-08-17T02:51Z 17.5K followers, 51.6K engagements


"It was twelve years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Jim Crow was deeply entrenched in the American south. It only just became legal for women to wear pants. Child labor was common. Just say you like the toaster design and dont be a world historical idiot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1958073945237713252)  2025-08-20T07:49Z 17.5K followers, 25.6K engagements


"Apparently it's both vast in scale and intimately and personally devastating. Which means it is possibly cinema-wise perfect"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1960593086351810751)  2025-08-27T06:39Z 17.4K followers, 50K engagements


"You don't understand how much I truly love documentaries the humanization of structural-economic change and industrial landscapes. Or you didn't. But now you do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1960593441244512327)  2025-08-27T06:41Z 17.4K followers, 48.2K engagements


"I have two jobs but while my grandma worked her way through the Great Depression sometimes at Gristedes she would commute all the way from Bay Ridge to the Met to watch three hour long operas in the standing seats before the Q existed Art even long art is for everyone. Extremely unemployed activities 🥰 Extremely unemployed activities 🥰"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1960907569087545547)  2025-08-28T03:29Z 17.5K followers, 60.5K engagements


"@BrandyLJensen Okay I am so team surrogate here I realise this is a bipolar incident for the VC lady but oh my god she is absolutely destroying that poor womans life simply because she has the money to do so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1963357757647852032)  2025-09-03T21:45Z 17.5K followers, 79.8K engagements


"This is an important essay by a former fact checker at the New Yorker who quit as a matter of conscience:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1968020344301818234)  2025-09-16T18:33Z 17.5K followers, 110.8K engagements


"I know this is a joke but as a feminist who spends a lot of time standing up for womens independent literary agency and taste this whole women reading is performative for male attraction thing kind of makes me want to die. If youre interested in Pynchon read him. Thats it. to all the girls posting themselves reading vineland on their stories this week i hope he sees it and im rooting for you to all the girls posting themselves reading vineland on their stories this week i hope he sees it and im rooting for you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1973072359444615382)  2025-09-30T17:08Z 17.5K followers, 73.7K engagements


"I swear to god if you people make me write a [---] page maximalist novel with modernist stylistic tics out of spite just to get you to stop gendering all this literature as inherently male to write or to read. Spite is a powerful literary force"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1976343514171801775)  2025-10-09T17:46Z 17.5K followers, 41.1K engagements


"J- term is an elective credit short course term in January for just a few weeks with light experimental courses. This faculty member is just trying to get students to enroll in a Roman Elegy class using pop stuff as a bait and switch oldest professorial trick in the book. Imagine paying $40000 for a semester at NYU enrolling in a Roman literature course and ending up having to study Taylor Swift songs. This kind of childish whims of professors experimenting at the expense of their students' education should cost them their teaching https://t.co/UMiQoTqZ5H Imagine paying $40000 for a semester"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1980095365102842132)  2025-10-20T02:14Z 17.5K followers, 56.5K engagements


"The note about the German department losing all seats finally completely broke me. I knew I was living through the decline of the American university I just didn't know it was this fast. Half my adult salary ended up funded because I took German graduate classes FWIW. 🚨Breaking: @Harvard just announced massive cuts to dozens of its PhD programs citing financial pressure. - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 5070% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German https://t.co/iqXAASX7WT 🚨Breaking: @Harvard just announced"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1980703804409667753)  2025-10-21T18:32Z 17.5K followers, 89.2K engagements


"Fine I admit Ive been waiting all day to get home and do this like the rest of you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1988076550151913644)  2025-11-11T02:49Z 17.5K followers, 61.4K engagements


"Taking the side of loneliness in the male loneliness epidemic. These losers deserve it sorry. POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success https://t.co/x8aZJvl4ZG POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success https://t.co/x8aZJvl4ZG"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1990540819439497326)  2025-11-17T22:01Z 17.4K followers, 61.5K engagements


"I know posting face on this website is basically a men-with-self-confidence-problems magnet but the cool thrifted swan sweater I wore that got me through a tired night of teaching after PT is so cool I just want to share it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1990905998073004136)  2025-11-18T22:12Z 17.5K followers, 28.2K engagements


"I honestly stopped going to a lot of events and readings when other people were wearing clothes literally photographed for Vogue and I was just there with my essay in a shirt with a hole in it I lectured in that afternoon. I love beautiful clothes but I also have to live"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2002454743034253661)  2025-12-20T19:03Z 16.9K followers, 34.3K engagements


"I thought maybe just maybe if I was lucky I would get ONE PIECE of Issey Miyake Pleats Please to wear to my own book launch in two years. And it's like. this is what you wear to sit on a plane What did I do wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2002455069418291687)  2025-12-20T19:04Z 16.9K followers, 21.5K engagements


"@elischoop Yeah so when your migraine medication that you have to fight your insurance company for costs $2500 a month your mindset about other people flaunting disposable income as superiority changes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2002801107677134879)  2025-12-21T17:59Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"@elischoop I would wear a pair of $750 Issey Miyake Pleats Please pants as a DREAM to a book debut and then carefully keep them in a garment bag for special occasions. Its wild to me to wear beautiful expensive delicate things like theyre nothing disposable airplane clothes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2002803735370826217)  2025-12-21T18:09Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"@NCC_1755 Cool Mamdani jackets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2016615047124955169)  2026-01-28T20:51Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@dillatext @sculpturecenter Ooh thank you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2016676097551646830)  2026-01-29T00:53Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Architecturally I love it. Tick-population-density-wise it gives me pause. The latter being my first thought after the former is probably a sign of something. Forest House by Peter Bohlin Connecticut https://t.co/JqzDElpxUT Forest House by Peter Bohlin Connecticut https://t.co/JqzDElpxUT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2016714980574241135)  2026-01-29T03:28Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@NCC_1755 In all seriousness I usually show them the words for the bonds and shackles on Perseus and look at the other uses in Greek to talk about how slavery and the concept of xenos shaped Platos Athens. I try to historicize"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2016771917596839962)  2026-01-29T07:14Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@rielleisack As someone who loved Schattenfroh because my soul is frankly probably too academic and too German this was really a thought-provoking interesting critique of where we are more broadly in our relationship to Modernism's legacy and lit in translation. Brava"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2016900900455911780)  2026-01-29T15:47Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements


"As someone who loved Schattenfroh and loves writing difficulty this was a thought-provoking interesting critique of where we are more broadly in our relationship to Modernism's legacy and lit in translation. I think we should be thinking about this stuff in public more At one thousand pages Michael Lentzs Schattenfroh is almost by definition a slogand can be considered in a lineage of similarly demanding tomes that push playful modernist experiment into a region that might be called impossible. https://t.co/cxFWen1FGB At one thousand pages Michael Lentzs Schattenfroh is almost by definition a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2016901209668391415)  2026-01-29T15:48Z 17K followers, 21.4K engagements


"@rielleisack I didnt tag him and dont know hes part of the dregs of us still on here but if you see this Paul: rocked it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2016902608884019375)  2026-01-29T15:53Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements


"I don't know what I did to spur this but Instagram is suddenly showing me videos in Turkish of men getting strange goop/wax applied that rips off hair but also skin gunk The thing is I keep watching them. Infinite Jest was right about The Future"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2017076496091787527)  2026-01-30T03:24Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"@vcunningham Is this dude tweeting from jail"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2017096454297260341)  2026-01-30T04:44Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements


"If I get a red light face mask will I turn into Agamemnon or Heinrich Schliemann It tempts me for this reason. It has a certain proto-Homeric haphazard archaeological hijinks quality to it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2017103575793512534)  2026-01-30T05:12Z 17K followers, 16.4K engagements


"I feel that Tang Dynasty poetry has adequately prepared me for the Century of American Humiliation. Never say a humanistic education isn't useful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2017311593604771860)  2026-01-30T18:58Z 17.3K followers, 24.7K engagements


"@YasmineJrz Is there a particular translation you would recommend Sadly I cant read the original something Id eventually like to rectify in life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2017450130908065944)  2026-01-31T04:09Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Considering writing the next book section around Boucher to make Diderot posthumously mad because mad Diderot is frankly kind of adorable. I love his bitchy little asides about the Salons. I love that he implies Boucher is a soft little makeup puff. I love makeup puffs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2017634521626136851)  2026-01-31T16:22Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"They freak me out on some level (the putti); I need to figure out why they freak me out. And also what frivolity means and seriousness but nbd. Just makeup puffs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2017636673207623962)  2026-01-31T16:30Z 17K followers, [---] engagements


"I keep translating Rilke because he is an ideal winter poet to me in German. Trakl to me is firmly autumnal. Sometime Ill go back to Mittelhochdeutsch and steal @mcmansionhells valor for a little Nibelungenlied but I need short form right now. Who are your German winter poets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2018057202146099278)  2026-02-01T20:21Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"It doesnt matter what you think of Madeline Cashs novel. No woman deserves death threats for writing. Mark De Silva has a habit of doing this to women hes jealous of. Why are any of you legitimizing it by promoting and engaging with him For our safety stop doing this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2018102588600631548)  2026-02-01T23:22Z 17.3K followers, 25K engagements


"@SpiesVespers Now imagine having to worry about that nutter showing up to your reading with a gun and you can see what its like for the women writers in NYC Mark de Silva harasses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2018125126806421652)  2026-02-02T00:51Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"Leaving again for a few days since this website has once again broken my faith in humanity and that hobbled twig has to grow back again Reach me: Substack: avmarraccini Instagram: Saintsoftness Bluesky (ugh) : Saintsoftness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2018126560251838510)  2026-02-02T00:57Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"@ali_sivi I would say yes but at the same time the Iliad is worth it What translations are you considering What do you like most in a translation or want from this reading experience"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2018412675919745343)  2026-02-02T19:54Z 17K followers, [----] engagements


"@DionysiusPsuedo I dont know these translations but any Iliad you can read in these circumstances is a good Iliad. Annas Archive and other PDF repositories might have Fagles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2018902020137370099)  2026-02-04T04:18Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@jamesamarcus You HAVE to revisit your own Bezos history in an essay at this point"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019265889212703222)  2026-02-05T04:24Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"This is bullshit. Your may remember Alex because of his coverage as a journalist who was on the Sumid Flotilla. Hire him if there is anyone left hiring please Speaking of amid all the other layoffs in the industry Ive just been let go from @DropSiteNews because of a strategic disagreement about my political vision and views without specifying what those are or why they disagree with them. Speaking of amid all the other layoffs in the industry Ive just been let go from @DropSiteNews because of a strategic disagreement about my political vision and views without specifying what those are or why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019270424714977640)  2026-02-05T04:42Z 17.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@Blarg08125613 Omg no ofc not its the classical galleries at the Met where I took my students today The real world is just infinitely weird and cool"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019568942595899615)  2026-02-06T00:28Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@PlaidBarbarian Caveat; I am an early modernist by training BUT I also think people on the whole should care more about engraved seals and gems which often get lost due to monumentality as focus in galleries. The Met actually has some great new displays of Minoan seals"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019571315490058693)  2026-02-06T00:38Z 17.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@yourluvcamilaaa There is no joke perspective just wasnt used the same way in Greek geometric art so you think you see a twelve legged horse for a second but its three horses hitched to a chariot with four legs each. And its just awesome On a giant vase in the Met"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019576245315305475)  2026-02-06T00:57Z 17.3K followers, 36.6K engagements


"@plasticbagger (they're a wonderful place to draw/write and I often see people working in charcoal)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/2019634662310629532)  2026-02-06T04:50Z 17.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Honestly its so fucking blue is an astute critique. I support. Yves Klein Blue Monochrome. Heres a high school class on a field trip staring in complete awe at it. They made fun of every other painting on the floor but when they got to this one they just kept repeating its so blue how is it so blue its so fucking blue etc https://t.co/Cl0ZHpyEdF Yves Klein Blue Monochrome. Heres a high school class on a field trip staring in complete awe at it. They made fun of every other painting on the floor but when they got to this one they just kept repeating its so blue how is it so blue its so fucking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1857847488671068168)  2024-11-16T18:05Z 17.5K followers, 2.4M engagements


"So in case youre wondering about lesbian dating in New York Im doomed. I was pestered by friends into trying Lex put up a post last night woke up to this:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1874551821131534569)  2025-01-01T20:22Z 17.5K followers, 211.2K engagements


"If you're following Columbia turn on WKCR right now-- it seems like the cops are cordoning off even public streets and there are no legal observers allowed in but NYPD counterterrorism units are massing. Listening to the police state prepare to pounce in real time ghastly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1785451994783596935)  2024-04-30T23:31Z 17.5K followers, 466K engagements


"Hey @moleskine Im a writer and critic who has used your products for [--] years. I got a mail advertising Harry Potter Moleskines. JK Rowling profits from this. She is also openly transphobic. As a queer person will you halt this collab or do I have to switch to Leuchtturm Hey @moleskine Im a writer and critic who has used your products for [--] years. I got a mail advertising Harry Potter Moleskines. JK Rowling profits from this. She is also openly transphobic. As a queer person will you halt this collab or do I have to switch to Leuchtturm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1798351711628857766)  2024-06-05T13:50Z 17.5K followers, 82.6K engagements


"Antidote: tell me about the work of theory or philosophy that gave you something essential that made living possible in a dark hour or illuminated the scaffolding of the world tell me about a book that isnt a social accessory for status but is a love became part of you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1825090394436051422)  2024-08-18T08:40Z 17.5K followers, 867.1K engagements


"@MrDumbBitch Its not weird. On some level the metadata in these photos proves she was at his house at that time its evidence. It also is a coping mechanism for a lot of women overwhelmed with their emotions and trying to process after an assault. A selfie is like looking in the mirrors"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1879103153850945802)  2025-01-14T09:47Z 17.5K followers, 109K engagements


"You're not apolitical; you choose to live a life wherein the suffering of other human beings is beneath your concern. You choose not to do something or say anything in order to privilege your individual comfort at all costs. To be "apolitical" is really a politics of selfishness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1896068597333835907)  2025-03-02T05:22Z 17.5K followers, 166.5K engagements


"I'm sorry but reflecting back on Internet History I don't think anything can top the Lockheed Martin nepo hire YA slop person trying to dogpile me by saying expecting authors to read is ableist. When that info dropped three weeks or so later it did not drop as far as my jaw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1896071216685101467)  2025-03-02T05:33Z 17.5K followers, 458.5K engagements


"This guy is Susan Sontag's son. He blocked me for being a "feminazi" on here once for saying the history of affect was gendered. There are so many layers of irony here. Anyway if you're wondering why I never get to write a Sontag intro he controls her estate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1903502585530626507)  2025-03-22T17:42Z 17.5K followers, 226K engagements


"Tarkovsky could have chosen to put his camera on a dolly or use zoom or rotate and DIDN'T. What I'm seeing is the use of resources to power several hundred homes to erase Tarkovsky's agency make slop and make me motion sick in the process. Why Always ask why it's worth it This is unreal. Someone just reimagined Tarkovsky using AI-driven camera motion. What if the camera moved but still felt like it belonged Let me show you what that looks like: https://t.co/xiQmjdhIqs This is unreal. Someone just reimagined Tarkovsky using AI-driven camera motion. What if the camera moved but still felt like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1907626918439968934)  2025-04-03T02:51Z 17.5K followers, 24.8K engagements


"I have a genetic disorder with my connective tissue. Its degenerative and ultimately non-life threatening. It gives me chronic pain and serious issues. But it also makes me incredibly flexible and gave me dance later in life. This is GATTACA territory; do you screen me out When I was in elementary school my mom started going blind. Retinitis pigmentosa. No family history. No treatments. No cure. I got lucky. She didnt. It led me to build @OrchidInc so my baby and everyone else'sgets to win the genetic lotteryavoid blindness and hundreds of https://t.co/QPYC2FxmS7 When I was in elementary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1907666538951262439)  2025-04-03T05:28Z 17.5K followers, 141K engagements


"I'm [--]. A nice thing about not having my worth based on a trad girl schtick is I don't have to pretend I don't age I wrote a book lived in four countries fell in love danced taught made art There's no shame in aging-- it's anti-feminist culture that fetishizes youth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1917731386863280292)  2025-05-01T00:02Z 17.5K followers, 95.6K engagements


"I really enjoyed the risks this book took its grossness the way it figured womanhood in relation to biological decay and unexpected lyricism of the fungal edge. It's imperfect but important to me. One sitting read today couldnt stop. @VersoBooks https://t.co/0WzHIPTAKA One sitting read today couldnt stop. @VersoBooks https://t.co/0WzHIPTAKA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1945534472302014756)  2025-07-16T17:22Z 17.5K followers, 210K engagements


"Look part of the principle of bread and roses socialism is we fight for the bread of everyday living wages but also for the roses of art and beauty. Some days in my life those are ballet and scones. This is what I believe everyone deserves as humans a life with room for art"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1951753170067296411)  2025-08-02T21:13Z 17.5K followers, 20.5K engagements


"Her name is Annie Ernaux and she won a Nobel Prize in [----] but by all means continue doing the stereotypical misogyny about life writing that weve all seen a million times before. there's a type of woman writer who divulges way too much about her inner life in a way that would provoke a male reader to form a fantasy based parasocial bond with her. Has anyone noticed this Manic pixie dream girl but for writers there's a type of woman writer who divulges way too much about her inner life in a way that would provoke a male reader to form a fantasy based parasocial bond with her. Has anyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1952835484738027657)  2025-08-05T20:53Z 17.5K followers, 255.2K engagements


"I actually struggle to think of a pre-20th century writer that is a more instantly accessible easy read than Flaubert. Flaubert is masterful because he makes the novel so immediate. Theres a reason we use him as a gateway drug right Not Henry James or David Foster Wallace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1953516755441143913)  2025-08-07T18:01Z 17.5K followers, 45.3K engagements


"This film is on YouTube for free. I am so so in for a [--] hour documentary about a decline of an industrial district in China. If this is a trap I absolutely took the bait. Film bros when you say you like a [--] hour documentary about the decline of an industrial district in China instead of whatever else https://t.co/MPAXsJWdaI Film bros when you say you like a [--] hour documentary about the decline of an industrial district in China instead of whatever else https://t.co/MPAXsJWdaI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1960592755383787629)  2025-08-27T06:38Z 17.5K followers, 1.4M engagements


"I fell asleep right after I posted this at about 2:30 AM. Woke up and it had 3.5k likes for a nine hour Wang Bing documentary This film is titled Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks which I would have absolutely included if I had known this would happen. This is awesome This film is on YouTube for free. I am so so in for a [--] hour documentary about a decline of an industrial district in China. If this is a trap I absolutely took the bait. This film is on YouTube for free. I am so so in for a [--] hour documentary about a decline of an industrial district in China. If this is a trap I absolutely took"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1960745316166017418)  2025-08-27T16:44Z 17.5K followers, 94.2K engagements


"When I feel burnt out I always go back to Borges short fiction somehow Every woman in New York is reading Bolano rn Every woman in New York is reading Bolano rn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1962704454475510244)  2025-09-02T02:29Z 17.5K followers, 76.8K engagements


"Since I know young writers here: you dont have to perform yourself. You dont have to be an it girl/boy online or at parties. You can have a life in letters by staying home and reading Rousseau like a freak at [--] AM alone in your duvet and just writing well. Its the writing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1964056656175648841)  2025-09-05T20:02Z 17.5K followers, 82.3K engagements


"Remember when people were really into posting closets then bathroom shelves This is my nightstand status. I want to see your nightstands"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1971082700154077364)  2025-09-25T05:21Z 17.5K followers, 51.1K engagements


"Spending tonight my little own Etiquettes Embarrassments and awes. Late Dickinson is more beautiful for its fragmentary interiority"  
[X Link](https://x.com/saintsoftness/status/1975773007185645594)  2025-10-08T03:59Z 17.5K followers, 39.3K engagements

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