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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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egophiliac · 2 months ago

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since Eng is getting 7.5 soon(?), I felt motivated to go back to my Meleanor rig and make her a couple of lesson animations! ...except for alchemy, because the cauldron bubbles proved too hard to photoshop around, whoops.

maybe she just got lost on her way to the classroom...?

(credit: backgrounds are from the game, I just put her on top of 'em)

(aside from the backgrounds, this is not an edit, I drew her from scratch! please do not tag or treat as an edit!)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 5 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 5 spoilers #gif warning #gifs that will inexplicably never get a perfect no matter how many cupcakes you use warning #let's just say she hasn't been added to the alchemy schedule yet #AS PER USUAL #(sam sneaks in at night and messes with the schedule so we have to buy candy from him instead)#(i promise i will stop spamposting eventually) (they gotta stop giving me characters to obsess over first)#anyway in my continuing efforts to manifest a meleanor card into existence #it's time to remember i made this a million years ago #just blow off some of the dust and cobwebs that have accumulated here...#'i'm only gonna add a couple of things i won't do too much'#(spends ten minutes trying to decide what color goggles she should have)#(flipping back and forth between green and purple) it's no use she looks good in everything #spineposting #(not me stealth editing because i didn't realize the wrong arm attachment had somehow popped in whoops)

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minister-of-silly-walks · 1 year ago

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OGGIE BEFRIENDED SOME GEISTERS????? When did this happen? How did this happen? Good lord I’m overdue for a reread

#girl genius #girl genius spoilers #gods ok no I normally check on Monday morning #but #the jaegers are back #specifically the Boyz tm are back #and they are my favorites #and Oggie the precious cinnamon snail roll that he is #has befriended a squad?#a cluster?#a tangle?#a cobweb?#what do you even call a group of spiders and their assosiated people?#I’m going with tangle #I like tangle #BUT OGGIE HAS BEFRIENDED A TANGLE OF GEISTERDAMEN #and and they’re friendly enough to be drinking buddies #which ok honestly the jaegers would probably and have probably drunk with many a foe afore so like idk how much trust is really here #but! they’re drinking together #which means lowered inhibitions!#and we can see this!!#and and and #just the heartbreak #as a member of the current scourge of Europa that which haunts the countryside #the very thing that people quite accurately warn their children not to do things because of lest they get taken #asks a member of the previous scourge of the one they follow and hope for is GOOD #and there’s a lot of parallels here #because both groups look to their leaders with a particular kind of devotion #because they’re both mortal and divine #and very fragile comparatively speaking

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 2 months ago

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Vincent Price interview on the set of The Masque of The Red Death (1964)

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rhera · 2 months ago

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"Why do flowers have to be for anything? Isn't it enough that they have colour and form, and that they make you feel good?"

— directed by Vincente Minnelli; THE COBWEB (1955) MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) FATHER'S LITTLE DIVIDEND (1951) LUST FOR LIFE (1956) CABIN IN THE SKY (1943) AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951) THE CLOCK (1945) ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (1970) ZIEGFELD FOLLIES (1945) TEA AND SYMPATHY (1956)

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sweetd3lights · 3 months ago

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#nature #landscape #pink #flowers #cobweb #spiderweb

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webdiggerxxx · 3 months ago

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#virgin mary #christianity #statue #cobwebs #spider web #box #art #art box #marion #found objects #spooky #creepy #deteriorating #flickr #oldweb #old web #2012

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mickules · 5 months ago

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No one wants an Impromptu Haircut

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I'll never not be enamoured by Taka's absolutely DERANGED concept of respectability. Being his friend would not grant immunity - if anything else; he'd be so an outright MENACE

One day Mondo is going to wake up with a buzzcut and he'll have to wrestle with the very real possibility that he'll be responsible for the death of another brother.

(inspired by Terror of the ScissorMan by Tsubamemaru Watarizora from Danganronpa Anthology Vol 2 - translation can be found here)

#Danganronpa #Kiyotaka Ishimaru #Mondo Owada #Thh #I didn't go anywhere I swear!#Life just got BUSY #I'll have a longer post soon #just tryna dust off the cobwebs #Leon Kuwata #Chihiro Fujisaki #Makoto Naegi #dangan-minicomic-ranpan #dangain/mainAU #mickules

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cobwebs-in-autumn · 9 months ago

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Hngggggg. Nikto being balls deep inside you, face buried into your shoulder, murmuring in Russian about how perfect you are, how tight and warm and loving. Made for him. Reparations from the universe for all his pain and suffering. He’ll never leave you, never. He is yours and you are his. He doesn’t care if he has to chain you to him and throw away the key.

#call of duty #cod #cobweb writes #cw: non-con #Nikto #nikto x reader

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explicette · 5 months ago

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