#American Dream Reflections

[pebblegalaxy]

Exploring the Depths of Connection: My Profound Relatability to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby' #writeapageaday @Blogchatter

Exploring the Depths of Connection: My Profound Relatability to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby' #writeapageaday @Blogchatter #LiteraryConnection #JayGatsby #TheGreatGatsby #CharacterAnalysis #FictionalResonance #BookReflections #HumanExperience #Literary

In the vast realm of literature, there exists a myriad of fictional characters that have captured the hearts and minds of readers, each resonating with unique qualities and narratives. One such character, to whom I find an uncanny connection and deep resonance, is the enigmatic and introspective Jay Gatsby from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless classic, “The Great Gatsby.” Jay Gatsby, the…

[coldlaugh]

𝚆𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚠 𝙲𝚊𝚝𝚜

[cametotheshowinsd]

Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince (1989) dir. Taylor Swift ✘ They whisper in the hallway, "she's a bad, bad girl."

[caesarsaladinn]

reblog if you are a lesser son of greater sires

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Alien Throne, Valley of Dreams, New Mexico

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“Something of our relationship to the earth is determined by the particular place we stand at a given time. If you stand still long enough to observe carefully the things around you, you will find beauty, and you will know wonder. If you see a leaf carried along on the flow of a river, you might ponder its journey. Where did it begin, and where will it end? What will be the story of its passage? You will discover a thousand ways in which the leaf is connected to the water, the banks, the near and farther distances, the sky and the sun. Your mind, your spirit will be nourished and grow. You will become one with what you see. Consider what is to be seen.” ― N. Scott Momaday, Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

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“When we dance the earth trembles. When our steps fall on the earth we feel the shudder of life beneath us, and the earth feels the beating of our hearts, and we become one with the earth. We shall not sever ourselves from the earth. We must chant our being, and we must dance in time with the rhythms of the earth. We must keep the earth.” ― N. Scott Momaday, Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

[theaskew]

Ernest Haas (Austrian-American 1921-1986), California, 1977. C-type print.

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Just called to schedule an appointment and an automated voice told me that phones are off for staff lunch every day from 12-1 and to please call back during NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS and I would just like to say, begging, desperately pleading, on my knees, sobbing, can we please universalize this concept that meal times≠normal business hours? that it is NORMAL to not only allow but require that your workers take adequate breaks for self-care? Can this be the new standard everywhere please

[mrbingley]

this post has me reeling. i am waiting with baited breath for brennan to break the fourth wall as himself. him having a literal self insert via scheherazade would be such a clever and sneaky way of doing so. it would lead to a better reveal rather than “suddenly the characters are talking to brennan himself” it’s “i’ve been here the whole time, as the author of this story yes, but also i have injected myself into the story itself as scheherazade to literally commune with you fictonal characters”. i want a character to roll a natural twenty perception or investigation check or make a nat twenty wisdom save and suddenly notice that every voice here, aside from their party of friends, has a familiarity to it, a certain timbre and cadence, as though every voice is coming from the same throat. how the voice of the stepmother and the wolf and ylfa’s grandmother are all somehow the same and how confusing and conflicting that realization would be. i want pinnochio, the puppet boy who thinks he finally cut himself free, to see strings attached to him still except these ones stretch to a place he cannot see far beyond his world.

[cheesey-rice]

I've been getting a lot of vids from international YouTube channels bc of my foreign language interests and I see a lot of international poc complaining about American poc being in historical shows and calling it the same ahistoricality as someone casting a white person to play a poc, and I've felt that I disagreed.

Just trying to articulate this from my perspective as a 2nd gen kid... I think that folks saying poc being in like British historical type shows in positions poc definitely wouldn't have been in at that period have a point when they say studios should just produce movies/shows that tell the history of actual poc instead of misrepresenting history of predominant white countries have a point in that yes, American culture and media definitely has this huge Blindspot to history outside of a certain sphere of white American culture influences... But I still feel like there is a definite difference between a white person being cast as a historical poc vs a poc being cast as a historically white person.

Bc when it comes down to it I feel like the perspective some non-americans might not have is that when you grow up in America you are raised as an American. Poc are not exempt from the American cultural concept of what our history is. Like regardless of how u feel about the musical itself Hamilton is a good example of how something that exists in our culture as American history is something that a poc creator was able to retell as their own history as an immigrant. Regardless of the quality of the piece, one wouldn't say that the people of color in Hamilton's production are talking about or reenacting American history in an unfaithful or inaccurate way because American history is their history and an immigrant writing a view on that history from an immigrant's perspective adds a level of nuance to the piece rather than taking it away.

But in the case of a white person playing an important historical figure of color, it's completely different. Like in the instance of that famous harriet Tubman case, a white person could not play the black woman who fought the white institution of American slavery her entire life. Because victimization at the hands of the institution of slavery on the basis of race in America is a history that cannot be said to be the history of all Americans. Non-black Americans and (also most black non-americans) are not going to grow up being continually affected by the social, financial, and legal ramifications of the institution that remain in this country. A person who has never experienced a life that continues to be affected by racism is not going to be able to accurately tell a story about race. And because America has relied on racial dogma to excuse free labor and human rights abuses used to build the agricultural basis of our society from the very inception of the nation, there is never going to be a story about a black American in our history that was not in some way affected or influenced by the experience of racism.

I understand that from an outside perspective seeing an American poc just say a casting choice is "racist" can sound like oh they're saying a white person isn't allowed to play this role what about creative freedom etc etc. But like, ignoring the knee jerk reaction to call everything 'cancelling' these days maybe realize that they're saying a white actor is going to do a worse job representing a character who experienced racism than a person of color and that's just a fact. It's not restricting art to criticize that the choices behind it make the actual piece worse in the long term for very obvious reasons.

[josephkravis]

Echoes of Valor: Fading Stars and Stripes

Under the colors of freedom, I stand—a sentinel molded by the soil of the USA. At 68, my years are a tapestry of service and citizenship, woven through with the crimson, white, and indigo of our flag.

A silhouette of an angelic figure, possibly a representation of a guardian, stands solemnly amidst a chaotic blend of the American flag’s colors. Under the colors of freedom, I stand—a sentinel molded by the soil of the USA. At 68, my years are a tapestry of service and citizenship, woven through with the crimson, white, and indigo of our flag. You know, the Red, White and Blue! My youth was…

[theperplexedpoet]

calling all children (we sold you a lie)

calling all children we sold you a lie knew it was killed when these margins got wide some helped to build them swept others inside calling all children we sold you a lie we sold you tomorrow promised it'd be bright but too much was borrowed 'gainst dawn's early light this garden of sorrow it bloomed overnight and now on each morrow we harvest its blight we sold you a dream state endless means and trails but there is no clean slate this far off the rails the repressed and irate too long tipped the scales it's here that we all wake and watch the dream fail calling all children we sold you a lie knew it was killed when these margins got wide some helped to build them swept others inside calling all children we sold you a lie we sold you tomorrow we sold you a lot the words were all hollow we still took a shot the future is harrowed but what could we do our lies were all borrowed we were sold them too (11/26/23)

[coldlaugh]

𝚄𝚗𝚜𝚞𝚛𝚎.

𝙳𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟾, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟺

[goryhorroor]

“1950s horror movies contrast radically with their 1940s predecessors. understandably – they were reflecting a whole new world. audiences wanted stories that connected directly to their lives, to the ever-expanding technology in their homes and workplaces. they also wanted horror movies that played to their fears – stoked by politicians – of the shadows that lay beyond their immediate, personal experience of the shiny american dream (applies to some of these movies).”

[herecomesoberon]

Denver’s secrets were sweet. Accompanied by wild veronica until she discovered cologne.

Toni Morrison, Beloved

[otaku-hotgirl]

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society which has moved towards democracy and then stopped half way is the ideal society for generating such an emotion. The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right. Yet the existing social conditions make the individual feel powerless. He lives in the contradiction between what he is and what he would like to be. Either he then becomes fully conscious of the contradiction and its causes, and so joins the political struggle for a full democracy which entails, amongst other thing, the overthrow of capitalism; or else he lives, continually subject to an envy which, compounded with his sense of powerlessness, dissolves into recurrent day-dreams.

[jojotier]

Dont forget that considering the fact that SBAHJ appeared to have somewhat of a fanbase in universe and also alpha daves entire Deal, we can extrapolate that Dave was not only taught the basics of math and economics, but also likely some Marketing, SEO, how to maintain a brand and how to build an audience. And if you want to go with the website changing during the SBAHJ comic sections as Dave having done something with the code, probably at minimum basic html and css

Given that bro was expressly preparing dave for the game its also likely that he was trying to prepare dave for What Comes After. Unfortunately bro strider has zero emotional maturity or sincerity and is an irony poisoned megalomaniac living a permanent bachelor lifestyle away from society or all other connections with his fellow man, so there was only one way he could prepare Dave for life after a fight: having so much fucking moolah that no one gives a single damn what freak shit youre doing.

Yeah, it's hard to imagine Bro either teaching stuff to Dave or sending him to school but it's fair to assume he did at least one of those, Dave's not an alphabet, he's like too alphabet actually (there's a kid that could kill it at scrabble)

Plus he did teach him data structures and rap so there's precedent