#could write a paper tbh

[formulaocean]

Webweaving Orpheus & Eurydice with Spirited Away- the liminal spaces of the underworld, memory, and the trial of not looking back.

Orpheus leading Eurydice from the Underworld (Jean Baptiste Camille Carot), Orpheus and Eurydice (Carl Goos), Spirited Away (dir. Hayao Miyazaki), Ovid’s The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice (trans. Rolfe Humphries), Chihiro (Billie Eilish, FINNEAS), Hadestown (Anais Mitchell)

[meat-wentz]

tbh i could go on but i probably should just write the formal paper i’ve been meaning to write

[popponn]

bllk sometimes genuinely reads like part shonen sports manga, part psychological manga, and part self-improvement book

[agnesandhilda]

there is truly something such a powerful latent homoeroticism in makeup tiktok. women talking for ages and ages about how beautiful other women are and going to great lengths to emulate them as closely as possible.... I know what you are 🍓👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

[justalittlebluetiefling]

From

“You can choose to see that tattoo as your greatest failure, but I see it as proof that you’re a survivor. It wasn’t your day of death, Officer Chen, it was the first day of the rest of your life and no one can take that away from you.”

to

“I’ve been trying to prove how strong I am, but I survived that. I don’t have anything to prove.”

[patchodraws]

paper girls playing d&d is a must-need for me tbh. mac as a rogue, kj as a paladin, tiff as a wizard, erin as a cleric. plus, they'd be playing 2nd edition so we wouldn't have to deal with the horrors of 1e or AD&D

[emmaspolaroid]

all eyes on you almost 400 kudos ?????

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Read With Pride

cute younger-YA about a girl who finds out her school library isn’t allowing LGBTQ books to be checked out without parent permission

she starts a group to protest and distribute queer books to kids who can’t get them

explores stress and burnout & juggling school / multiple friend groups

2nd in a trilogy following different characters in the friend group, but you can understand this without it. This MC is a side character and comes out/gets her girlfriend in the 1st book

demisexual wlw MC

[rivilu]

see i'm not even opposed to the concept of canon/trickster Ellu surviving but the thing is in order for it to happen there would need to be a second vulnerable conversation regarding his side of things. where he couldn't lie his way out of it either. So basically he's fucked

[trashcreatyre]

Currently somewhere with lots of posters on the walls that are all hung up with magnets and it’s just making me think of my one art teacher who would put our art up on the board during critique days and would put push pins through the paper drawings and paintings and it would piss m off every time to the point where i just stopped letting her put my stuff up and I’d just do it myself

[unfortunatelyevent]

people with adhd (or neurodivergent in general tbh) who ever wrote grad papers, how tf did yall do it

[huginsmemory]

Not to ramble but can we talk about the forced assimilation of POC, especially Indigenous peoples that occurs as a result of settler colonialism... The violence of a people group forcibly swallowing, consuming, literally cannibalizing another people group into their culture to add more workers into their society, to invalidate the Indigenous nations claim to their land, to make it easier to control them.

And oh the fascinating revulsion Europe has of assimilation while they desperately desire it; the hatred to see themselves reflected within a mirror of POC acting like Europeans because God forbid you see us as people and now you can't decry our culture if we walk and talk and act like you like you wanted so you could control us... but now all you can do is decry us as horrid because our skin colour or other physical attributes. How thin your rationalizing becomes when we become Christian, that which you hinged your claim over our lands (which, of course, is never enough).

And I think a particularly poignant view of this also intersects with Indigenous peoples stories on cannibalism such as the Kwakwaka'wakw Hamatsa dances, and Anishinaabe story of the W*ndigo (see Robin Kimmer's Braiding Sweetgrass chapter W*ndigo Footprints) which within their stories cannibalism is used as a metaphor for the ultimate way to put oneself first above any thing else, above the community that keeps you alive; an imperative of capitalism and neoliberalism, a disease of the mind brought by the Europeans and their so called precious, untouchable, holy whiteness.

Also, the way 'cannibal' is derived from an Indigenous Caribbean nation's name, who were accused of eating humans, and how that word didn't exist within English until it referred to POC. Even while it certainly occurred already in Europe with Europeans eating mummies as medicine, and the way one of the holiest things within Christianity is a metaphorically cannibalistic ritual, where there literally has caused schisms within over whether or not it's actually metaphorical.

A particularly fascinating case of this is in reference to the Kwakwaka'wakw and the Hamatsa dances, and the so called anti-potlatch laws, a set of laws made to destroy Indigenous cultures on the Pacific Northwest coast of 'Canada' by making it illegal to practice our culture and economies, to force assimilation of the Indigenous peoples into 'Canadian' society. And a part of these laws for the cannibalization of Indigenous peoples into settler-colonial Canada, literally included a law which forbade cannibalism, due to the Hamatsa dance. (Bracken's The Potlatch Papers, addresses this and the irony of these assimilative laws, and of language).

tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.

[comet-frog]

Writing an actual first draft feels weird gamers

[malediictum]

hulk hates banner so much, he'd rather watch banner die than save an innocent. still hulk will always be there before banner actually dies. they need each other more than they know.

[hakugreenfinch]

when they said a masters thesis is more difficult than a ba thesis i didnt think they meant "nobody cares about your masters thesis"

[nuuralshams]

I think while doing those exercises as a kid about what is your ambition or what do you wanna be when you grow up I always went for either teacher or a writer 🤣 as a grown up I don’t see much potential in either of those in my current life in the conventional sense anyway 😂 I don’t have anybody left to tag bc @iwillsurvivecollege tagged everyone I wanted to 🤣

if we lived in a world where u had to do the career u were first interested in as a child what would u be doing, id be a firefighter