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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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merletka · 1 month ago
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Did a painting study of Arcane style with Jason
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silverlombaxwitch · 4 days ago
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Odd one out at the gallery, wake up
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tomatoart · 6 months ago
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another miku design I’ve worked on🫐🍊
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flowerakatsuka · 7 months ago
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LET'S HEAR IT FOR OUR NEETS!!
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verflares · 6 months ago
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new link design goes crazy
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astrangeavenue · 27 days ago
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drew some of alan beckers stick figures in keith harings style cause i thought it would be fun. and i was right
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cowardlykrow · 10 months ago
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“Not my circus, not my monkeys”… Except those are his monkeys and they are the circus
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itseghost · 9 months ago
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some essek portrait doodles :] still figuring him out but i do love 2 draw him
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partentts · 6 months ago
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detective conan really has it all:
- bad writing
- somewhat cheap plot twists for shock factor
- girls with so so many issues that will never be addressed
- unintentional gay people
- extremely interesting plot threads that aren't nearly expanded on enough
- kudou shinichi (and his one million clones)
- same face syndrome
- one thousand million ways of killing your loved ones
- police force that honestly kind of suck (just like in real life!)
- some guy who isn't even from this series
- three thousand million ways of killing your boss
- unintentional gay people again (lesbians this time)
- three 6 year olds running around murder cases (plus two teenagers)
- unintentional neglectful and/or abusive parents
- an unexplained drug that serves as the driving force for the entire premise of the story
- curry
- one million secret identies
- a thousand secret agents
- incest
- will-they-won't-they romance in favor of actual relationship development
- incest again (now plot relevant)
- Beika murder town
- walking death magnet (call that a shini-chi-kami)
- accidental trans allegory
- some morals that you really shouldn't take to heart
- autistic guys who tries to emulate sherlock holmes due to their special interests
- yuri
- my favouritest girl ever (shiho)
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canisalbus · 7 months ago
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Happy non chocolate cake day.
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pinetreevillain · 1 year ago
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Stray Part 1
I’ve been calling this one “the big one” because THIS BAD BOY 👉👉 is a five parter. It’s also the one that I got into unarmed combat with the most in terms of the color palette, and after a long and bloody battle, it’s made itself out to be my favorite colors so far since the Friends Like These palette. Now i’ve rambled enough about the colors already! Please enjoy :)
<- Confrontation, next
Masterpost
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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 2 months ago
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LUO BINGHE CASUAL SENSHI COSPLAYER
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OH, ABSOLUTELY.
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lizaisdrawing · 6 months ago
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Mr. Wally
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tullecake · 4 months ago
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mini sonic movie doodle dump because i've never drawn their movie versions before and that is long overdue ^^
and it wouldn't be one of my posts without an alternative version of a drawing --
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ladeldee · 1 year ago
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I just like the idea that once Missa hears Phil has another "kid" he'd try and do whatever he can to help and Phil feels emotions about it
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