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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 10 months

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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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demaparbat-hp · 8 months

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Fire Half-Child

#atla #zuko #avatar the last airbender #atla zuko #zutara #halfblood au #zutara au #atla art #atla fanart #zuko fanart #prince zuko #zuko art #zuko alone #Halfblood AU art #katara #Here comes the Blue Eye Samurai art style influence rearing its pretty head #Gotta love that show's use of lighting #I know this looks like another good ol' Zuko Alone fanart... And it kinda is... But I swear it's also from the HalfBlood AU #I'm still figuring out Zuko's backstory in this AU but I know he was raised in the EK after escaping the Fire Nation as a child #It was probably Ursa who took her freshly burned son and left with help from the White Lotus #I'm... not entirely sure if Zuko remembers everything from his previous life. Flashes of memories and faces but that's it #He believes himself to be a War Child. Ursa loved him but she was also distant in illness and grief.#She taught him to hide his real name and his firebending at all costs. Agni only knew what would happen to him if he was found out.#The last thing Ursa said to him before pushing him out of the burning cottage was to search for his Uncle in Ba Sing Se #He would help him. Keep him safe. And he had answers.#He could tell Zuko of his past and his memories and shed some light over his strange dreams and his mother's sorrow #He just had to reach Ba Sing Se and find him. Uncle would tell him everything about the monster who had burned her mother's back and spirit #Then Zuko would find him #And no demon other than himself would ever roam the earth again #Change of subject. Am I going to keep dropping the full backstory and plot in the tags? Yes. Yes I will. Sorry guys

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luzho · 1 year

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the zukka puns... continue!!

originally a bad joke by jeff, with the scenery of the first panel based on the Jianbi pavilion in the Old Summer Palace in Beijing and the pose of the second panel based on this photo. i am very happy with how the perspective and the colors turned out :) i should make more architectural drawings for fun

#my art #zukka #almost a year after the original zukka pun comic... 12k notes! wow!!! i like thinking i am one of the Silly Guys in zukka nation:•)#i DID wanted to do something different with the colors in this one! not sure if its particularly... well... different BUT HEY THIS IS FUN!!#i showed some friends this comic before dialogues were written and they thought the punchline was about the fish-like face sokka is making #ANYWAY!!! here's an idea: pun proposal!! gotta research how to make it silly first tho...#zukka nation #puns #zukka fanart #okay wait MAYBE i should attempt spiderverse style portraits of them... okay that was the actual last one byeee:D #zukka puns

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myfandomprompts · 3 months

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EWAN MITCHELL at House of the Dragon - London Premiere Wearing Alexander McQueen and being an absolute cutie.

#ewan mitchell #usermyfandomprompts #aemond targaryen #ewan nation #house of the dragon #hotd #style #london premiere

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asiriyep · 5 months

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Maiko Week 2024.

Day 1: Wedding.

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sbrinapacks · 8 months

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fav or reblog if u use 💌!

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honeyhobbs · 6 months

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We need more gaz calling cards and in this essay I will

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scorpiomoondoll · 2 months

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earfgoddesss · 2 months

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I'm so obsessed with the current ATLA comics artsyle. Everyone looks SO GOOD. I love how handsome and perfect Aang, esp that he's 16 in the comics. I love how cute and badass Toph is. I love the rigid shapes on Sokka that show his masculine personality, but still combined with his smug expressions. I love the texture of Katara's hair. I LOVE how BEAUTIFUL Azula, Zuko, and Ursa are and how they all kind of have the same face. I love how Azula looks in her comic so much, I can't describe why, but she just looks so good. Iroh looks the same tbh, he's just chilling. AND SUKI LOOKS SO MASC HERE!!

Artist is Peter Wartman and the Colors are done by Ryan Hill btw

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rottenfishhh · 16 days

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employee of the month

#fnaf #five nights at freddys #into the pit #fnaf into the pit #jeff fnaf #jeff into the pit #jeffs pizza #fnaf fanart #art #fanart #fnaf art #jeff nation #artist on tumblr #my art #art style #artwork #digital art

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livesunique · 3 months

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Tyntesfield, Wraxall, Bristol, North Somerset, United Kingdom,

Bob Fowler Photography

#art #design #architecture #history #luxury lifestyle #style #luxury house #luxury home #country house #gardens #landscaping #united kingdom #somerset #bristol #wraxall #tyntesfield #bob fowler #national trust

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mcxcuseme13 · 27 days

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Has anyone confirmed Style isn't Taylor's cry for help after being sold to One Direction and Fresh Out The Slammer isn't about them finally letting her go

#taylor swift #taylorswift #the eras tour #taylor nation #swiftie #ts ttpd #ttpd #the tortured poets department #one direction #harry styles #louis tomlinson #niall horan #zayn malik #liam payne

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makemydaymisstay · 11 months

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Back in 2014, I bought all the albums and got all the polaroids (luckily no repeated one)

I made a tumblr post about it and @taylorswift liked it and followed me ! So I couldn’t break that lucky chain ! I had to have all these now , 9 years later 🩵

Share for good luck 🫶🏻

#taylor swift #taylorswift #taylurking #1989 #taylor nation #taylor swift style #taylor swift art #taylor swift drawing #taylor swift portugal #portuguese swiftie #1989 tv #1989 taylor’s version #1989 album polaroids #1989 vault tracks #1989 polaroids

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peacefulandcozy · 1 year

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