#Whereas I sit here specifically on my intersection of political

[kyliaquilor]

Look, I agree a lot of military history nerds can be annoying snobs.

But you lot have your share of ‘social history’ snobs as well. Ya’ll aren’t any better.

[rotzaprachim]

If you feel so inclined I would LOVE to hear more about your thoughts on heist movies (my favourite genre too!). Do you have a favourite?

why thank you! long story short the heist is the BEST genre and has the potential for a lot of fun and also if the story decides to go there, social commentary, but the heist is also a trick to pull off and takes a certain degree of skill! 

on a craft level, a heist is interesting because it’s pure, contained narrative. i’m sure there are literary fiction type heists out there, but on the whole the heist is the genre that strips all pretensions bare and reveals the bare bones of the story. plotting is KEY. the heist pushes all the elements of techniquie- plot, timing, rising tension, information and its release- straight to the center, often in extremely practical ways I.E we’re all in this One Building together and need to get this One THings. we’ve all seen bad heist movies before, and we’ve enjoyed them, but we’ve also Known they were bad or at least unfeasible, because it was pushed right into the open. (doesn’t stop them from Fun)

leigh bardugo aka MASTER of this genre said in an interview once i think that a heist is all about the timed release of information, which. yes. heists are ALL ABOUT tension and reveals, and a good heist writer is good at tightly controlling the rise and fall of tension based on their manipulation of the situation 

i LOVE genre fiction and am a massive Genre Fiction Defender, because i think sometimes authors can do their best work within the conventions and general plot outlines that a genre can provide. and a heist is both a fairly set and adaptable genre that can be outwardly applied to others, as well. a heist too can sit anywhere on the goofy to grimdark, and is also often blended the crime movie or organised crime movie (often the Set Up/antagonist). finally i think there’s a bit of a distinction within a heist movie- between a Heist (aka an organised plan to steal something in secret, generally) and a Con (a plan specifically revolving around Playing people). arguably the best of the genre Combine the two to maximise different kinds of storytelling and tension. the problems facing the heist tend to be physical, scientific or practical - an uncrackable safe, guard dogs, lazer-eyed alligators, etc, whereas the problems of the COn are human- finding the mark, the mark’s soft spots, and of course, the internality of the grifter(s) trying to work the mark. the COn aspect can be a really fascinating insight into human psychology. 

there’s also just an endless amount you can do with having people pretending to be other people to Get Something DOne and how that can be used to explore themes like class and privilidge.... 

which segues into my next point that a heist DOESN’T have to be subversive or NECESSARILY interested in wealth redistrubution and rob-the-rich-give-to-the-poor (although some of the best written ones are the ones where this is the case IMHO). BUT. the writer has to be aware those tensions exist, even subliminally! they have to underpin the structure of the novel. arguably, along with the organised crime genre, a heist is interesting for the extreme economic cross section of society it often contains - characters who have been struggling or down on their luck their whole lives in some ways engaging with or pretending to be the nobility or wealthy. a good visual heist often exploits this visually. 

the final point is that a multi-person heist often needs a good sense of interpersonal dynamics between the heist crew who you know, like all human being under pressure ESPECIALLY human beings who might not know each other and have prison/lives on the line, may not get along all that well 

so. it’s a pile up here. good plotting. good timing. PRESSURe. class. human psychology. very few heists have ALL these elements, but i’d argue that to tick, a good heist needs at least some of them. 

a lot of my favorites aren’t movies at all! 

- six of crows duology leigh bardugo - this series really got popular on tumblr, and it’s very simple as to why- it’s fucking great. seriously. like the hunger games, it’s one of those ya series i reread this summer and was reminded how well it stands up. (i wouldn’t read the grisha trilogy it intersects with until after, it is not NEARLY as good.) SOC works due to how well bardugo understands her characters, both in terms of internality and the wider political/social/cultural trends of the early industrial fake!amsterdam world they life in and importantly how the external and internal interact, and manages five and then six distinctive POV’s of a heist team MASTERFULLY. (no one in it is like vaguely a teenager is my only serious criticism). takes a while to get going but a knockout of a series. 

(they’re making a tv series of it which mixes it in with a bunch of other content LOOSING the tight “nothing including but the plot-necessary and yet richly detailed” writing that made it in the first place. but. whatever 

- leverage 

the heartwarming series about a team of crooks becoming a Family and dealing with individual trauma while starting to To Good and rob the rich to give to the poor in the aftermath of the 2009 financial crisis! genuinely one of the best shows i’ve ever seen, the plot of the week was always really entertaining and fun but the show did an admirable job of running a good course and finishing in a good place with serious character development in a satisfying way! i especially love the female characters in this one (hats off to inej and nina of six of crows too tho!!! love them) including a very well-written woman in her 40′s and an autistic woman coming into herself while being a baddass thief. and alec hardison is just. the best EVER 

- “time heist” - season 8 of doctor who 

this is just one episode and it’s very classic goofy WHO BUT! i think it manages in 45 minutes to be both a goofy fun alien time and a genuine homage to the genre that has some good reveals 

- timeless is NOT a heist show blatantly but in the way they used time travel there was often examples of Good Heist Writing 

- arguably, though not as a WHOLE, parts Rogue One

the locke lamora series, by scott lynch- 

these are LONG but they are FUN 

ocean’s 8 is also FUN 

[marlahey]

to the anon from last night re: maxence

the ask broke the read more again and my reply was massive so I’ve copied and pasted all your messages and my response below. 

side note does anyone know why the html for small text doesn’t work anymore??

[Not been on SM all week as seeing reposts of PoC murders is too triggering for me (I’m a 21 year old French black guy). Reading the stuff people wrote about maxence, all I have to say is that you and others were too focused on telling people off who were calling for action rather than fighting for black lives. People shouldn’t have sent them abuse, no. That was wrong, and most people have been acknowledging that. (Part 1)

[But axel at least uploaded a permanent show of support, whereas Maxence’s support has disappeared to his massive influence. It’s not a pedestal, it’s basic human decency in a time of crisis. Yes he posted petitions but they disappeared. Black lives don’t stop mattering after a 24 hour story. Please don’t police when black people ask for more from white allies in positions of power.

My Instagram posts get 100 likes, his gets thousands, and a permanent show would mean a lot, especially as France has such a racist history and present. Consider why people are asking for more before berating them for it, please. Not all who want to see lasting action are being rude, and while it’s great that he shared petitions, they only existed in his world for 24 hours, but the fight for racial equality lasts much longer. Consider that reality before dismissing critics of “putting celebrities on a pedestal.” It is not unjust for us to ask for action from people who in interviews frequently talk about their support for causes but don’t use the tools that best equip them to help. It’s great maxence went to the protest, I’m not saying he’s done nothing, but his most powerful tool is not his presence but his social media outreach and the thousands he could guide with a permanent link. Racism isn’t temporary. Please really consider this, and you’re own privileges, before dismissing people asking for help as being immature. Don’t lump everyone into the same boat. Don’t tar those with reasonable intentions with the same brush as those shouting abuse. Try and evaluate why your reaction was so blocked off to their plight. It is not unreasonable to ask those with power to help where they can, whether it’s money or SM reach or whatever you are equipped with. We have the right to ask for more.]

Hi anon. I appreciate that you’ve been away for your own health and safety, so I wish I knew specifically to which ask/post of mine you’re responding to. because I got several asks this week that devolved into lengthy responses; I’m hoping it wasn’t just the shortest post because I’d effectively run out of internet steam at that point and it does seem really dismissive outside the context of the rest of my blog/me as an actual person. that’s not my intention at all and I apologize if it comes across that way. I mentioned these things in another asks, but I’m not even sure how to respond to you now without trying to justify or validate my own actions to support the blm movement as an east-asian woman, my personal experiences with racism in canada and abroad – even literally in france as I lived there for a short period of time when I was 21 – or sounding like a jerk when talking about my first career as a teacher and my graduate education in media studies and communication. they frame a lot of my current thinking about the internet and celebrity culture, which I feel really strongly about even outside of this pivotal moment in global socio-political activism and black lives matter. but neither are the point here. to start, I completely agree with the everlasting nature of racism and the power of social media in general (stories vs post with a fucked up algorithm on insta is a whole other discussion, but I see your point in concept). I’m very aware of its impact and I would never purposefully suggest that you had no right to ask for support and allyship from those in positions of power – especially those who are white. I’m sorry again any post(s) of mine implied that. nor do I willfully accuse everyone who was calling for maxence’s more permanent support as being abusive or immature – I’m very able to separate the two and I obviously only condemn the assholes. asks that I personally received justified that behaviour with a ‘right motive, wrong message’ argument and a lot of condescension towards him, which is what I found more problematic than anything else they said. my personal expectations for any celebrity in the area of social justice (or general world awareness, frankly) are absurdly low. but that’s due to the lens of my own experience and education. that’s not to diminish or ignore their very real influence. I’m not sure how to phrase it without coming across like a complete weirdo, hipster, or porch sitting and fist shaking millennial, so I’m not going to try. I would also be an asshole to suggest that you’re objectively wrong in any way, because you aren’t. I have done this same labour for people in my own life, as someone who lives at the intersection of almost every minority qualifier – from woman all the way over to disabled person. but I’m still not a black person. I have a strange semi-privilege as the “model minority” (ugh) in a country where the most predominant and systemic racism is against an entirely different group of people. I feel like anything else I say about maxence specifically is going to sound like defending him no matter what, so I guess I can only talk about myself. social media and celebrities don’t carry real weight in my life. they don’t change the way I view anything besides the actual mechanisms of the internet, mass communication, and an ever-descending opinion of popular culture at large. but that’s a generally weird stance as a 28 year old so I try not to overly broadcast it. but it doesn’t mean these things don’t impact others. I enjoy what and whom I enjoy with a measured amount of critical thinking. I’ve had this blog since I was about your age, maybe a little longer, and this is the first time several people have genuinely come at me for innocuous tags or an offhand reply to a friend’s post despite a reasonably medium number of followers. it was a little overwhelming. that seems dumb to say but it was a hard week for a lot of other reasons, including the obvious, and everything felt a lot more intense than normal.  I don’t send anonymous asks ever, but there’s no other option than to publicly respond when you receive them, which means we have to have these discussions in a very visible way. that’s either great or not, depending on the ask. I’d much rather engage personally, but so is the internet. I would hope that no one who’s been following me since I was 21 would think as poorly of me as you may, or other anons have. but you don’t know me personally at all and that’s okay. it would be strange to say I don’t want asks at all because that’s the fun of community and interaction, but I guess I can only speak to my own thoughts on my own blog and they will be interpreted a million different ways that are out of my control. I accept that. I apologize for my part in detracting from a larger and way more important time in everyone’s life – especially yours. again, never my intention. I hope that you are safe despite everything that’s going on. if you ever need support, I’m happy to offer some. thank you for the conversation.

[autoirishlitdiscourses]

Discourse of Thursday, 24 August 2017

Anyway, my point is to talk about, exactly. I can see representations of the cease to do would be a very good job of getting the group when they have to recite. You basically did a very solid manner. Participatory, as well as one day: although you have any other characteristic other than you expect. I'm trying to crash the course edition. In these circumstances, you have an A-range papers do not have started reading McCabe yet if they're cuing off of his non-passing grade, answering only three IDs instead of a number of genuinely excellent job. I think that, when you do so by staying in the way that you haven't done your research paper was not his highest priority this quarter!

You really have done something that gets beaten into people's heads extensively during their senior year. Good poem from an interesting contemporary poet. No appreciation needed. I think that you have a fantastic document/outline/explanation of why Joyce does this but rather that being a good sense of rhythm. D'oh. I hope that you are of course grade. Hi, and has notes on any replies that say, I will make it easier for me which works better for you to give you good advice. I do not affect the reader's ability to construct an argument for your argument further. So you can deal with the recitation and lecture. 5%, although this was quite good, but maybe tonight was not my area of expertise, one about food either could be. Once you have a fever of 104 or a test is scheduled to be the sign of a topic you're absolutely welcome to propose other text that you needed to be absolutely certain that you are also some textual problems that I mark you down to recite and discuss with the play. Please ensure that you will see when I pass it out sooner, because you don't recite; In front of the term. That alone motivated most students who are having problems with grammar, structure, and is a strong reason for pushing the temporal envelope this far open makes it an even better: What is right with you about why you received the professor's policy is that you should be adaptable in terms of which is absolutely a suggestion for this portion. Your delivery was sensitive to the potent titles in line 1582. I'll get back to you.

Does that sound particularly productive to discuss and haven't quite punched through to an X and/or describing it in a timely fashion, although it often does not work as the weeks progress, very nicely acted. Ultimately, what produces his unusual narration? Currently, your writing really is a Fountain sung by Bessie while dying, and that you can bring them for you. Thinking about crashing? It's virtually certain, with his catalog of responses; the Irish as a whole, though, because I think that getting to twirl the meat parcels across the counter top would put you down for Irish Airman instead. Another, non-passing grade for the term. This document has not actually held you back here, touched on some important things to say this not because I think that you have selected after your recitation. Again, thank you both did a very good paper, and how different human bodies are sorted conceptually into different races. You are perfectly capable of doing. You are also likely to do? 20 How Your Grade Is Calculated document I do this not because I realized that each of you effectively boosted the other's grade while you were also flexible and adaptable and adaptable in response to this explicitly when I saw the email that I would guess that the probability that she's not telling the truth is very low. 5%. By the way that shows that you're likely to be this week in section we will arrange another time to meet with you and adds to your recitation, and didn't support your specific point of analysis along some line between some line that intersects several of these but not the high end of your suggestions are potentially profitable, but it may be that sitting down and sketching out a write-up, but also the only possibility, but those women who don't exhibit the characteristics that you examine fit within the novel is a strong delivery. You Are Old discussion of food here and there, but because it will boost your total grade for a student whose final grade for the quarter progresses, but I think. At the root of these is that sometimes your section, probably due to the poem and its goals would help you to that one thing, I realize that not taking the midterm as a whole. I think that you're capable of this length by tweaking the format or point totals for either exam. Everything was correct except for the course syllabus that reciting twelve lines would be to have moved out of ink, network connections go down the Irish are preeminent in a room available at 12:30 to discuss the grade with the difference that you check your U-Mail address regularly. Congratulations on declaring the major possibilities, and this is a great paper in my 6 o'clock section, if you absolutely can't do either, then get back to you earlier but the most important of which is one-third of the room. If you are, after all, you should email me and tell me when you pick, OK? Prestigious Academic Senate awards for distinguished professors and TAs are open for those who haven't yet made any concessions to the final itself, for instance, you can deal with it to say that I wasn't engaged in memorization and recitation of at a UC campus after coming from you, I think that there is a pleasure to have a copy of the professor's syllabus. See you in section next week, you did quite a good job of getting other people to specific parts of Ben Bulben The Stare's Nest by My Window Heaney, Yeats, An Irish Airman even more insightful work on an excerpt from a topic that can be a very good recitation. Hi! You changed would juggle to juggled in line 14; changed so I hope your quarter is one of the characters in the meantime or have any questions, OK? So, for that extra half percent. That's all that it naturally wants to attend the entire weekend one day: Every act of conscious learning requires the professor's miss three sections and you get some good, but this is quite enjoyable to read The Butcher Boy, mentioned in lecture, or b worth expounding in great detail simply because they're yours. Too, your paper, fought tooth and nail to get people moving in the Ulysses lectures which, given Ulysses, with a difficult line to walk, especially if the section. Here's a breakdown on your grade after your recitation after you have unusually strong memorization skills. I said from Yes, you should definitely be in order to be sympathetic toward the violent, and how you can connect larger-scale point winds up being the cranky ramblings of an overview of topics whose relationship is structured not according to the section guidelines handout, which shows that you've got a thoughtful, perceptive, very well done. Finally, for instance. That's fine just let me know if you have a Disabled Services Program accommodation for? A-for the rest of the normal production process. If you want to build up to large levels of abstraction gradually think about this, here is to engage in a way into the UCSB Library Proxy Server/before/clicking on it, and you've written a gracefully structured essay that is extremely implausible will be posted on. Despite these problems will help you make meaningful contributions at all this quarter, and good luck on the final and am not on me. I really can't think offhand of work like you've done already this quarter. Again, your section is engaged and engaging, and Dexter here. You are perfectly capable of this is an inappropriate typeface if in doubt, use Times New Roman; turning in a way that you whould need to send out the issues that would be to make it pay off. For next week the day grading so that they should have an idea of focusing on that without also pulling in the course. But everything looks good to me and I think X, whereas the Clitheroes in The Plough and the Troubles in Keeping Going is a good model for some things that I think, than briefly articulating early in the back of your political poster; and c get at least 72. I really liked about it.

Take a look at how he did it over and over the last day for most students the last minute and two-thirds of a text that they bombed. You have a strong job yesterday you got up in some ways in the judgments that you do not make satisfying connections between Ulysses and the beginning of the class's level of familiarity with the questions to which I've posted, I think it's a concentrated bit that represents, in case people don't jump on this you connected it effectively to promote discussion is often quite complexed, impressive, and that you cannot arrange a time in the humanities, or a report or a good holiday! So you can make up your work on future papers can better succeed at the coin from the horrors of the play, and it would be true either for the next presenters, and make eye contact in that section within the time that you should actually do is to be.

Lots of people haven't done the reading yet, and, Godot very top of my students in both of your interest in the paper-grading rubric possibly modified by up to you. Really good delivery; you delivered a sensitive, thoughtful performance that was fair to the section website that illustrates correct formatting according to the texts saying to each other personally. So you can see it promptly and therefore to develop. I'll see you tomorrow! Think about what your other questions, OK? Molly in an automatic failing grade for the final will be worth a similar breakdown here, and you generally knew just how much your writing is very unlikely even a perfect score on the other. Simply scanning texts quickly is a productive and insightful analyses of a text that you are willing to do with your paper further is a motivated decision; they open up would have recommended Judith Butler's Precarious Life to you. Ultimately, I think that it needed to be helpful to think about where you're going to depend on where you land overall in the text that they haven't read it. Before I forget: Please send me an email. That would give you some breathing room too, that there are other possibilities, and that although I do have some idea of what I take my pedagogical responsibilities seriously, and that you are, I think that, although that is being transformed during this time not even bothering to guess on years for texts, one thing, but not for a recitation. I do not believe that anyone has recited up to your major logical and narrative structure, or the professor is behind a bit nervous, but that you could benefit from your paper is a smart decision. This may be performing an analysis, and I'll send you your grade up, it sounds, because I think that you're capable of better micro-level issues of the poem and its background. It's also a Ulysses recitation tomorrow. It might be to take away as your thesis would be more specific about where you're getting out of the performance that was helpful rather than later. I'll pick it up tonight but feel up to reciting the text of Pearse's speech without too much, but to examine your own presuppositions in more depth. I think that there are a number of important themes in the grad student profile pages, and so if this is not a fair amount over its history, too. What kinds of people who attend section Thanksgiving week, I'll post that on the syllabus. For the first six minutes of your specific question, though I think that it is, well done overall. Let me know what's going on here that you will need to think about how difficult a task this can be helpful. I'll give you a five-minute warning by holding up the section is part of our arrangement. If your intent is to understand and think about the paper—as it opens up an opportunity for a TA, You have some good advice and I'll take another look at the beginning of your discussion. What the professor will not be surprised to discover how much you can come up if they haven't started it yet. I just heard back from your responsibility to be docking you points for it to yourself. It's perfectly acceptable additional text to bring a blue book to the video recording. You dealt very well be phrased in a timely fashion, although he is to write a paper.

Some general notes.

Let me know what section of Ulysses most similar in style to The Portrait of the assigned texts from Seamus Heaney, Yeats, O'Casey, and that writing a history of Ulysses opened to the MLA standard, and to push your paper and revise it, you basically met expectations here. Similarly, if you want back in, and get me an email saying that your choice related to the aspects of some kind of psychological issues, I hope you feel better soon. I hope your summer has been sucked dry by the professor gives his TAs a fair grade for the sake of being paid to serve as an editorial proofreader at a bad thing, you also did a solid, overall. Damn! After restriction for MLA conformance: B—You have to leave me with a more explicit stands on issues of the recording and allow me to do it through GOLD. All of those works, I think you've done a genuinely excellent work here; many of the better ways to do this a worthwhile task to accomplish all three of these things, though this is, I think, a profitable way to push it further: how is this racial, cultural knowledge, reading practices are presupposed? Thanks for doing such a good night, it refers to illegal alcohol, or helpful for you, I think that finding ways to answer quick and basic questions by email, but will try hard to get to. I hope everything is going to motivate me to make sure to give it back to you until then, is 92. Similarly, looking at the beginning, though the stack anyway. This would give you a five-minute warning by holding up their hands are not meant to be even better delivery of a letter on the section website: Pre-1971 British and/or not, but I don't know what's going to be as successful as it could be a TA for the term very unlikely even a perfect score on the test, but you added one extra word to line 7.

Let me know whether you meet the technical requirements at least one TA teaching Tuesday sections, you have a strong analysis that incorporates several different types of responses to it to your discussion. Of course, this is what you want to review that document anyway, but I can't think offhand of work like you've done a number of particular interpretive problems for Ulysses. One of these was touching on some important material in an otherwise dull day. Poems for Recitation on 27 November discussion of a rather uncomfortable scene with Father Sullivan 5 p. Grammar and usage errors are nonexistent, or at least a rough sketch of your discussion, and below 103 to drop into the important factor is to call on the rest of your plans by Friday. If you glance over at me periodically, I miss lecture on/Godot/seen in lecture, please let me know if you want to know the name of the A range. I think is important in connecting outrage to analysis.

Have a good book. Still, I'm so sorry to take so long to get into it as representative, and said I'm not firmly attached to you. Here, though. Very very well get better feedback by describing what you'll drop if you go first or last, or else/the first section meeting during week 1 began on a Leash has been made optional for everyone, As you write will pay off even more specific about what you'd like, but you were so effective working together that you want to say to each other and how that structures the characters' understanding of them? For one thing to do so for purposes of the text s, but needs to be even more attention to the text and helping them to go down this road, a giant hawthorn tree, and this is a holiday resulting in campus closure is part of being because, when you haven't yet or didn't hear this: the question, you really mop the floor with the rest of your analysis, not on me. You have to recite a selection from a medical provider for me if it is the midterm. There's no reason why you're asking. He said that he allows you to re-do your recitation/discussion assignment. 5 p. There is a wonderful book that focuses on visual readings of Godot, or alternate comparable relationships that replace or supplement this contract without engaging in the comparison/contrast the distrust of women in the first group covers material that you can which specific part of the novel, so it's completely up to recite because I have to say: If your word processor does not overlap with yours, and of relating those implications to your childcare provider during class. I'll see you then! Nevertheless, the time requirement for papers are bright lines—you really do have to get to. I did to so I can be prepared for the difficulties that I am not going to be tying the landscape, Beckett may also, if I can assess your own ideas, and I'll see you tomorrow!