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atheist quarterback throws a hail darwin

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from “ask polly: why should i keep going?”

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I think the most unintentionally pretentious part of me is I genuinely forget that most people do not have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of mythology and folklore. I literally just assume most people know at least the name of every Greek god. My mom and I were watching the Banshees of Inisherin and at the start, she asked "Do you know what a banshee is?" and I was so stunned because it would never occur to me to ask that question because I would never assume the average person doesn't know what a banshee is. The average person knows what a banshee is right. You know what a banshee is right. You know the names of the greek gods right. You know that norse myth where loki fucked the horse right. Right. RIGHT

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I don't know who needs to hear this and I don't know if this will help. But when I feel lost and hopeless, I choose a small, really small goal or something to look forward to. I kept myself alive in middleschool by saying I can't end it until I see the next marvel movie. And at the end of that movie there was always an end scene that made me have to wait for the next marvel movie. I kept myself alive for my cat. I kept myself alive because I really wanted to eat curry tomorrow. Its so small, and it seems like it isn't much, but choosing small things to keep me going helped me push forward even when I was going through some of the hardest moments. And it's going to help me get through this now. It'll pass, it will he hard yes, but it'll pass. It'll be okay. I promise 💚

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THE SUBSTANCE spoilers without context

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choose your fighter (ominous glowing fluid edition)

🧪 Re-Animator (1985)

🧪 Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

🧪 Death Becomes Her (1992)

🧪 The Substance (2024)

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fascinated by this reply

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im tired of online discourse. look at this family of quails

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when senpai asks to hold your hand

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What Fandoms Need To Know About Literary Theory

A lot of the controversy and toxicity in fandoms today comes from people who assert that their perspectives or interpretations are superior to all others, that there are certain inarguable facts about a character or story, and anything that contradicts that is “bad” or “wrong”. As an English teacher, this bothers the hell out of me. Here’s why:

In the world of literary criticism, we call the perspectives from which we approach a piece of art “lenses”: we might look at something through a queer lens, a feminist lens, a marxist lens, etc. The reason we have this term is because it is necessary to acknowledge that we are approaching the work with a specific focus, and anything we determine about the work will be affected by that focus.

A lens warps your perspective: it emphasizes some things and blurs out others, makes some things disappear but might make visible what was before unseen. The best, most interesting, most amazing parts of analysis come from working with these lenses, but we cannot forget that our perspective of the work is being affected by the lens we choose to use.

In short: When you are looking for something specific, you are more likely to find it. A feminist lens will reveal feminist themes; an LGBT+ lens will reveal LGBT+ themes; a psychoanalytical lens will reveal mental health themes; and so on. All of these could use the same evidence to support them. All of these are valid.

Fandom creators make fascinating, profound, valid assertions about their media that are thoughtful and possible, but too often, they don’t realize that their theory – indeed, any theory outside of the established canon – is not the absolute truth. They become more concerned with having the “correct” interpretation and don’t realize that in true analysis, all of these interpretations can be simultaneously valid, even if they contradict each other.

The text – in this case, the show / game / film / novel – always supports multiple different perspectives, readings, and interpretations. One interpretation of the evidence is not the only interpretation of the evidence, because there are so many diverse perspectives to come from.

And that is a good thing! If there was one absolute truth, fandoms would have nothing to draw and write and create! Multiple perspectives exist, and that is okay. If we start insisting that all interpretations come from one perspective, that is extremely limiting and even discriminatory.

Fandoms should stop looking for an absolute “truth” that does not exist, and start celebrating all of the possible interpretations and perspectives that analysis gives us.

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FELT IS THE WARMEST PLACE TO HIDE

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lets trot

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My friend is requesting fic/art prompts, and I encourage a loving bombardment of her inbox.

Hey Mourners, request a fic/doodle

Just read a nice post about how you should create something when you're feeling fucked up, and today is one of those days? So Send me a request like this: Series, theme, ship (or just one of the three and I'll figure it out.) I'll try to crank something out, either a fic or a doodle. Maybe we can kill two birds with one stone. I'll create something, and you can have something to look at Request for any series, cuz you know what if I don't know it i'mma make something up and it'll be hilarious.

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wheres seasons greasons