#because you keep turning in sam/frodo fanfic instead of whatever the hw was

[gattmammon]

Ok adding a cut to hide my rant sorry in advance

I voted "something else" specifically to mention this. When he said how academia apparently hated how gay Tolkien was but loved "a book about a man taking a walk while his wife cheats on him"; most people didnt even notice probably but that was a jab at Joyce's Ulysses.

And IT REALLY FUCKING GOT TO ME. I had to stop the vid and walk it off for a few minutes like physically I had to get off the computer. None of the other lies in the "pop culture and literature" section got to me like that not even the Dracula ones because those are extremely common misconceptions I'm semi-used to hearing. But this one is SO SPECIFIC. Anybody who knows enough to know that the Ulysses is a thing also knows enough to know that this is BULLSHIT. Ulysses's publication was a goddamn labour. There was a famous obscenity trial involved. Joyce got a lot of shit for it. This is an integral part of the history of the book.

This is not him misreading or misquoting something, this is him deliberately shitting on a seminal work of art because it doesnt have enough gay hobbits, which is a legit way to feel if you are like, talking about your preferences and shit. But he isn't. He is presenting it as an objective fact, that Tolkien is better than Joyce and academics dont recognize it because they are evil homophobes - but he is SUCH A FUCKING COWARD that he knows that if he said this explicitly he could be fact-checked. So he hides it into a broadstroke claim and an indirect reference because he thinks his public is too ignorant to catch a reference to the plot of Ulysses.

Just like. The little self-satisfied way he smiles, so sure that he's got one up those boring dumb idiots who make it their life's work to create the analysis he steals. Fuck.

okay piggybacking off of that previous poll someone else did: