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wormmpile · 2 months

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Sometimes I see someone say something about a piece of media as if it is revelatory mind blowing hot off the press news, and not the most basic obvious point of the work or the most basic obvious allusion, and it makes me roll my eyes a little because I'm like yeah yeah the time knife we've all seen it, and then I have to like physically step in and shake myself and be like actually Susan we have Not all seen the time knife, and anyway someone else is enjoying the wonders of media analysis as a hobby for maybe like. The first time in their life if they're young enough. Don't be a bozo just because you think you're smart. Nerd. Fuckass. If you were a high school english teacher you'd be pissing yourself in joy rn because someone connected the dots. That's so cool that they did that. And I go about my day because I'm normal

#i also do this with history stuff but somehow less... even though it's my actual academic field which i am trained in #i think bc i always felt out of my depth in my history program and the only reason i was ever any good at it #is because im innately just good at understanding media #like all my history work was secretly just an excuse for me to do literary and rhetorical analyses of very niche real world paraphernalia #if i got my grad degree in something completely fucking useless it would be either rhetoric or comparative literature #but sometimes people do say base historical facts that are just fundamentally incorrect and sometimes conspiratorial garbage #and it does make me want to die #anyway this is about someone in a youtube video arguing that flowers in the attic by vc andrews is a gothic horror novel #babe that's.... that is in fact the genre of that novel #0 note post #im aware it is an insanely cocky ridiculous thing to say that im innately good at understanding media but the thing is #im right #i dont have to study it the media just tells me things it whispers them in my ears sensually and i nod and take notes #i see the patterns constantly it's pretty scary #i told my friend recently about my secret plan to one day write a novel length thesis on why house of leaves and moby dick are the same #type novel and they were like saturn your brain is so big and well it is because tell me im wrong. you cant #the whale is literally a house #i think i could make it a whole thing about Haunting as a physical presence within the narrative and expand it beyond those 2 books if i was #ambitious enough. because good ghost stories and stories of the dead are all warped at their foundations #they were broken before they ever came to you by the weight of all the death inside them #this is my poetic justification for why moby dick is unnecessarily long btw. the chapter where ishmael lists white things actually was #necessary because well it's about grief. can't forgive the bad whale facts though #i mean for the time maybe but there is no justification for them they're just extremely funny

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