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a former US president gets shot at and rather than trend himself he causes supernatural to trend instead because everyone is sharing the news via the destiel meme. unparalleled
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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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moonsart · 2 months
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In this moment, he loves you!
In this moment, she loves you!
In this moment, they love you!
In this moment, she loves you!
They all love you!!!
Isn’t it wonderful?
You could do this forever!!!
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starleska · 5 months
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Nordic Bunny in his first scene of the Shred Force pilot 🎸🤘
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azuneekun · 1 year
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i misunderstood a convo with my friend @harvestdew
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slightly related, pearl and gem discussing gem’s morals
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perfectday1972 · 1 year
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excessive-moisture · 3 months
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unseen lands kazoo cover
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zu-is-here · 2 months
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violaobanion · 1 month
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AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT 1x04 Four and Twenty Balckbirds
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katabay · 6 months
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desmond & friends modern day assassin sequences…..I miss you……..
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intotheelliwoods · 1 year
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Just some sleepy fellas...
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awakefor48hours · 1 year
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How Adventure Time started: Shmowzow! We literally kicked that monster in the butt and it was so mathematical
How Adventure Time ended: Look, life doesn’t make sense. There’s too many people and places in existence for anyone to begin to figure it out. It’s alright to feel small within the cosmos but it’s always important to remember that as long as you stay with the people you love, it doesn’t have to make sense. Your singular life has more value than any one thing (even the universe itself)
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sosoribro · 1 year
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meep meep (from young justice: lost in the multiverse part 1)
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LINED SHORE CRAB #1: you're crabsolutely clawesome, my frond! 🦀✨
LINED SHORE CRAB #2: ohmycod stoppp! You're making me molt! 😊
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(comment with your snappiest affirm-ocean for a fellow crustacean sensation below!)
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hyperrealisticblood · 7 months
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guys i figured out what happened to eddie
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