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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 1 year ago

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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academic-vampire · 28 days ago

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𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔰𝔦𝔱 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔢𝔫𝔧𝔬𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔞𝔱𝔪𝔬𝔰𝔭𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 :)

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notthetraveler · 2 months ago

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#house md #hatecrimes md #hilson #well could be read as platonic cause this is is classic 'house is messing with wilson'

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peacefulandcozy · 4 months ago

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Instagram credit: not.so.well.read

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srfiv · 5 months ago

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did days always disappear so easily, chasing you down to the bottom?

#call of duty #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #ghoap #ghostsoap #soapghost #i love to tornment simon riley #below the house by planning for burial is a classic #if you like doomgaze i rec #the lyrics can also be transposed onto ghoap so WELL #peace and love #vif #tw blood #tw angst

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 8 months ago

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I've been asked multiple times, which Vincent Price films *I* personally recommend. Well... all of the above... Also, Theater of Blood...(Gif wouldn't load)

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atomic-raunch · 1 year ago

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Vincent Price and friend on the set of House on Haunted Hill

#vincent price #house on haunted hill #old hollywood #vintage horror #classic horror

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hinamie · 2 months ago

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wanted to practice some more intense angry expressions and what better excuse to further my agenda of giving megumi the emotional catharsis he deserves

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen fanart #fushiguro megumi #megumi fushiguro #yall know tht one juuzou panel gjkgdghjkdfhgjkgd #guess what was my ref fr bottom right #i think megumi deserves to scream real guttural at least once #i think it would be good for him and i certainly would not complain to see it #i love stoic emotionally constipated characters dont get me wrong but also like. come on. points at the 'whatever!' scene #he's so GOOD when he gets to be expressive like PLEASE #anyway i once again have to do everything myself in this house when it comes to this kid #so i am treating myself to 4 flavours of angry megu #here we've got a fine selection of enraged ; holding himself back from clocking a mf by a thread ; seething ; and tortured :D #the classic capricorn emotions #real talk tho anger is Hard to draw #also bad fr the state of my skin probably with the way i was subconsciously Making these expressions as i drew #gna give myself wrinkles at 24 i had my brow furrowed so deeply

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jerseygirljasontodd · 1 month ago

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this is so funny like im cracking tf up... the cocky son of color thinking that he can call his mother by her first name, and getting eyebrow raised into submission? many such cases

#its just such a classic child of color experience. no i am NOT calling my parents by their first names. don't be crazy. what am i? white?#damian killing me here like cmon man. i KNOW you have house training. act like it brother.#damian wayne #talia al ghul #now reading...#robin: son of batman

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emotinalsupportturtle · 2 months ago

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