#essay paraphraser

[cosmicquilt]

"Is black the absence of light - or the presence of color?"

the darkness in his eyes is from the absence of any light that would usually find the color underneath...

[perplexingly]

just wanted to drop by and say I am very much enjoying you liveblogging your experience reading narcissus and goldmund. it's one of my favourite books of all time and I re-read it earlier this year, and to see someone experience it for the first time like this is great. I hope you enjoy the absolute rollercoaster the rest of this book is! (btw, the book is even better on subsequent re-reads. if you enjoy it enough to come back to it, I 100% recommend)

haha I'm glad you're enjoying it :D I'm also enjoying the book a lot, I'm halfway through and I can say I did NOT expect some of the places it started going to, at all, in fact the way the first chapters were written in an almost essay-like fashion, I thought the entire book will be something similar to Plato's Dialogues, where the issue of the duality of man will be discussed and presented from different points of view but not that narratively much will change.

I was very wrong hahaha, at this point I cannot comprehend where the story will take me

[poptartcat]

The Outsiders except people actually bring up the fact that Pony must have insane memory

[kaythefloppa]

Look, at the end of the day y'all are allowed to have negative opinions on Mufasa: The Lion King. You're allowed to think it's bad, or that it sucks, or whatever.

But please, for the love of all that is good and holy can we please stop saying it "disrespects James Earl Jones'" legacy.

For one, HE LITERALLY GAVE HIS BLESSING FOR THE FILM.

And another, THEY DO A FUCKING TRIBUTE FOR HIM AT THE START OF THE FILM.

And thirdly, a movie being bad does not disrespect an actor's "legacy." No, I don't give a shit about what you think the movie "retcons" about the character or how much you hate prequels, you can express that well enough without spreading lies or making unfunny mean spirited "jokes" about his death.

We had this discussion with Stephen Hillenburg, we had this discussion with Cameron Boyce, we had this Janice Burgess, and it really should've gone without saying here, but apparently it doesn't, so we apparently need to have this discussion with James Earl Jones too.

Stop putting words into the mouths of dead people just to shit on media that they are affiliated with.

[james-stark-the-writer]

feel like pure shit, just want her back

[flashhwing]

okay but if my dnd campaign was a fandom i could just make a post that just says "Juice fleeing from real emotional intimacy with Amora just to try (and fail) to have meaningless sex with Gal" and it would get 100 notes and like 3 tag essays

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

finally finished hamlet! i think my favourite part was between the king and hamlet when it essentially just went "where's the fucking corpse" "why don't you go to hell". very funny book. i love hamlet and his comebacks. the only part i can't forgive him for is killing rosencrantz and guildenstern

[lakesbian]

touching glass mournfully i have to go to bed instead of writing a gigantic post about all of the undersiders relationships to their cape identities. world a fuck

[atlantic-riona]

hot take but I think a lot of current fantasy has lost the "what the heck" nonsensical vibes and that's why a lot of it is so bad

[castleofravens]

been explaining & introducing kotlc to one of my headmates (we’ve been rereading… the brainrot is destroying us… never gonna be able to let go of this series)

but yeah my favorite of his takes include

“Why is everyone okay with this borderline fascist society?”

“Alden and Quinlin should kiss”

[insert complete horror at the concept of matchmaking]

“I want a pet dinosaur”

“Are they ((the elves)) racist? Speciesist?”

“Does Sophie ever get to say ‘fuck’?”

[lowpawly]

What makes Makima a good villain

have not read chainsaw man

HMMM hard question to answer but I'll try. I would say something I like about Makima is her development from a seemingly kind figure into something that becomes more undeniably hostile. although I would say that as the audience it's much easier to pick up on her real nature as there are plenty of hints (one of her first scenes is her telling denji that he has no choice but to be her metaphorical dog or she will have him killed) but if anything that adds to the tension because you can see something in her that the protagonists are oblivious to. but there's also a weird...comfort to her that's hard to deny even if you can tell something is very wrong? in the anime especially her voice is very hypnotic and collected and the way she composes herself is very captivating, I think there's a reason viewers get so unbelievably drawn into her because there is just something about her that makes the idea of her caring for you and providing for you addictive no matter what kind of hell and isolation that it comes with. Denji as a character is very very much a shonen protagonist for the modern age as at the beginning of the series he is shown living in severe levels of poverty that...are hard not to relate to in some way given how dire straits are for everyone who isn't born well off these days. So to see this starved and abused kid be taken into the arms and fed and housed and shown kindness by this perfect and ethereal woman...it's hard to deny the comfort in imagining yourself in that situation and having all of your worries and stresses taken care of regardless of what exactly she's putting you through in exchange.

There is a huge amount of tension that builds through the whole series as what Makima is capable of is revealed and the question of what Makima is becomes ever present in your brain, and watching any scenes of her with Denji gives the sensation of watching a snake slowly wrap around unassuming prey. The entire time you're waiting for her to finally strike, and when the other shoe finally drops the payoff is heart wrenching. I think Denji being a teenage boy is actually really important to the effectiveness of Chainsaw Man's story because Makima knows exactly how to play to his heart and desires so to string him along and get him to do exactly as she says. Denji is probably one of the most teenage boy characters I've ever seen LOL and she knows exactly how to play him in a way that is easy for adults to identify but hard for a teenager to see through. I've seen people call her a "groomer" and while I don't think that is a label that fits her since it carries very specific intentions and connotations that don't line up with her character I think elements of Chainsaw Man work really well as metaphors for certain kinds of abusive relationships/dynamics. I saw a comment once where someone said that Chainsaw Man helped them realize that their relationship was abusive and that makes complete sense to me.

ANYWAYS she's fascinating to me I really like her and I enjoy her complexities a lot. She's definitely one of my favorite villains in anything I've read/watched and I think she's awesome I think getting into Chainsaw Man is worth it just to see her in action alone. I am biased though because I really like scary manipulative women and I think she's kind of sexy which as you might have noticed I am very far from alone in if you've been online for the last 4 years

[cogentranting]

The thing that I find most infuriating about AI is the way that it is actively undermining my students' education. How am I supposed to teach them to think critically and work through problems if every time they encounter a question they don't immediately have an answer for they go running to ChatGPT to do it for them?

[vroom-vrooms]

I am happy for Ferrari and for Carlos, I do like him but I am team Charles.

Carole’s had an excellent drive and nobody can take that away from him and Charles was the perfect team mate doing what he could to ensure the win. However when it’s Charles fighting Carlos doesn’t listen to orders and does what he likes he is selfish and not a team player. If Charles was leading yesterday instead of creating a gap he would’ve been trying to fight Charles but nothing seems to be said about this.

I feel for Charles I get all the drivers are selfish to a point they have to be but Charles never seems to have any luck or a team mate willing to help him out I mean Carlos even helped lando ffs 🤦🏼‍♀️

This is very true I agree 100%

It’s the eternal problem with Carlos, I like him, I really do, he’s charismatic and funny and fucking gorgeous and you tend to like him so seeing him win makes you happy, but then he does something stupid and you realize he was never a good guy to race with

Ferrari is always willing to sacrifice Charles, and when they try to sacrifice Carlos they behave like they’re gentle parenting, and it just doesn’t work because Carlos will sit on the ground and repeat “no” until he ends up doing what he wants

Not me repeating the things anon said I’m sorry babe you truly explained it perfectly I’m just idk

My problem will always be with Ferrari because we know that they are the main problem, but Carlos does play into the problem of Charles unlucky career

And idk what their relationship it like, wether they like each other or they pretend to like each other but Carlos is the type of guy who will let his opinion of people interfere in the way he approaches them while racing

[serenity-the-firefly]

my toxic trait is that i remember every tumblr post i’ve ever reblogged and i WILL stop a conversation in its tracks so i can dig up a relevant post and show it to you

[shuyume]

would you guys still love me if i told you the quote thats affected me the most is 'if media can make people feel emotions like happiness or sadness, why cant it make people feel love?' but its from a youtube video about waifuism

[mercuriallily]

The thing is I'd be a really good video essayist but I fear most people would click away as soon as they hear my weird Canadian accent