#i love english class

[bitchinnnn]

a big part of jane austen novels is that it’s just a bunch of fucking white people

[lys5ophobia]

i have an english exam tomorrow and why for the love of god do i need to know when to use present perfect progressive and when to use future progressive?!

[thedealersfiance]

here’s a big ol DUMP on araceli’s lore for y’all

(i lowkey stole the layout from my pookie @loulowruschel’s toy house so i’m sorry but like…it needed to be done yall but GO CHECK OUT THEIR TOYHOUSE FOR THEIR BUCKSHOT ROULETTE CHARACTER…HES LITERALLY AWESOME SAUCE)

BASICS—————————————————————

NAME: Araceli Alicia Javier-Leándre

AGE: late 20s, though who’s counting?

BIRTHDAY: August 31st (twin)

GENDER: Demigirl

PRONOUNS: wherever the wind takes her (any)

HEIGHT: 5’1

PERSONALITY:—————————————————

-laid back

-oblivious unless she’s hella focused

-pretty creative but never applies herself

-makes sure there’s a different drink of the day, even if the dealer is the only one who orders it out of pity...

-adores music but sucks ass at singing

-doesn’t really get jealous easily

TRIVIA:—————————————————————

-always munching on something, usually gum

-helps bartend at general release, is a CERTIFIED mixologist by the GRACE of GOD (college) but she’s ass at customer service so she just stays back and makes the drinks

-can’t drive

-lactose intolerant but is a SLUT for mozzarella sticks

-doesn’t drink despite being a mixologist, used to do drugs but has been trying to quit for a long time and struggles a lot

LIKES:—————————————————————

♡ virgin drinks

♡ $1 sex toys off of aliexpress ALL music

♡ buy 1 get 1 free deals at jcpenney

♡ eating

♡ dressing up/buying clothes

DISLIKES:

♡ skirts/dresses

♡ shiny floors

♡ the weird smell of the club

♡ hot weather

♡ wasps

QUOTES/DIALOGUE: —————————————

“It’s, uh, ‘Tequila Mockingbird.’ Get it? S’ got tequila, some lime juice, blue curaçao…dude, it’s funny!…man, you suck.”

“..my name’s 7 letters. It doesn’t fit.”

“Okay, listen…Gin and Chronic.”

“What’s the difference between a blank and a live round? Sounds dangerous.”

BACKGROUND—————————————————

She's worked at the club for a good while, and she’s honestly enjoyed it (apart from the socializing with people other than her pookie bear), for what it’s worth.

“RELATIONSHIP” WITH THE DEALER:—————

Lowkey met him by accident…gently opened the door, unknowing of what was behind it, and attempted to play the game, but pussied out once she realized what the hell was really going on.

“Friends,” though she calls him ‘babe’ and he calls her ‘dear’ sometimes.

And they see each other quite often.

And they see each other Quite Often.

Just friends though.

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[stingrayextraordinaire]

Another year, another group of my delightful ninth graders trying to spell the word "tragedy" for their Romeo and Juliet assignment.

Last year's collection

[salvatorelizzie]

giggling and kicking my feet getting compliments on your writing skills from teachers is literally the best

[specialneedz]

mercutio and tybalt need to kill each other mid-fuck

[thatwolficorn]

In TADC, some lines got changed between the dubs

My favourite of which is when Caine asks Bubble "why are you like this?"

According to my friend, in the Ukrainian dub, it got changed to "evolution did not have pity on you" LMAO

THAT LINE IS INFINITELY FUNNIER THAN THE ENGLISH VERSION

[cup-noodle]

the cruelest thing about the world is that there's so many languages and a girl can't learn all of them

[kyonshi-8610]

ᜉᜓᜆᜁᜈ ᜀᜅ᜔ ᜎᜃᜐ᜔ ᜅ᜔ ᜂᜎᜈ᜔ ᜀᜇᜏ᜔ ᜀᜇᜏ᜔ ᜊᜓᜋᜊᜑ potaina ang lakas ng ulan araw araw bumabaha

[novuit]

I couldn't stop thinking about @kittspirals' highschool au for MONTHS.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

watched Grease the other night with my buddy and. well. obviously i Had To

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

throwback tuesday to that time when i took one of the few large lecture hall classes i ever took in college, a class on pre-1500s English literature, and the professor (a balding man with a British accent who banned computers because, according to him, he once caught someone watching Shrek 2 on a laptop during the lecture and he was upset it wasn't Shrek 1) stopped in the middle of talking about Beowulf to a hundred students to ask ME SPECIFICALLY (in the back half of the room but not all the way at the back) if I was using my smartphone under the table, so I had to lift up my hands and show him that no, I was knitting because the class had a bunch of printouts so I didn't need to take notes but the man wouldn't let me play spider solitaire or scroll tumblr and I had to do SOMETHING with my hands, and he was like, "ah, weaving peace I see. it seems we have the peaceweaver in our class" and then just carried on with things

[yael-things]

this cant be happening;......yael danganronpa fanart...in 2024.....

[stingrayextraordinaire]

My students’ adventures in trying to spell “tragedy” for their Romeo and Juliet quiz.

[cherries-in-wine]

I love ur posts on lolita the book- what are ur thoughts on the movies?

aw tysm anon mwah <3

(Made a few edits because my perspective changed a little)

I don't really like the movies- in fact comparing them to the masterpiece that Vladimir Nabokov wrote feels like an insult. Sometimes art can only exist in a certain medium and when you take it out of that medium it loses its integrity. Lolita is art that can only exist as literature. This is what I used to believe but to be honest even as literature it's being misunderstood a lot so it feels as if no matter what medium lolita exists in, it'll always be interpreted wrong.

It took Vladimir Nabokov 5 years to write lolita because writing from the perspective of a pedophile is tough- it's using the abuser to tell the victim's story but in this case the abuser is our unreliable narrator, he had to make Humbert Humbert charming or at least intriguing in a fucked up way enough that the reader would be compelled to read further (lolita will disturb you but you won't able to put it down) but any competent reader would will be able to figure out that Humbert Humbert is just spewing his delusional bullshit.

It feels as if Vladimir Nabokov predicted the romanticization of Lolita as soon as we started putting girls on the book covers- he intended on lolita being faceless

So much of what makes the book incredible lies in reading in between the lines to figure out what's actual going on. Think of it as Humbert Humbert is forcing his heart shaped rose coloured glasses onto you like "see it's a beautiful tragic love story" and it's your responsibility to take them off to see things as they are, a 12 year old child being abused constantly.

Unreliable narrators in general are hard to portray on screen (it's not impossible ofcourse, gone girl, 500 days of summer and black swan do it really well) but extra difficult in this case because lolita and Dolores are 2 different people entirely. Lolita is the persona, Dolores is the person. Lolita is the nymphet, the seductress that only exists in Humbert's twisted mind, Dolores is the 12 year old child. Humbert sees lolita, he wants you to see lolita, but you need to focus on Dolores.

Lolita 1962 was laughably inaccurate, they made Dolores look like an elegant woman when even Humbert Humbert describes her as a messy tomboy. Lolita 1997 is better I guess, it follows the book a little more accurately. The movie is definitely pretty to look at and I don't have a problem with Dolores being an icon or people taking fashion inspiration from her. In my opinion she is an icon, it isn't fair to reduce a victim's identity to their trauma and abuser. Also she's so funny and is constantly insulting Humbert so mwah love her so much plus I relate to her a lot as I went through similar things. I think some scenes of Humbert Humbert being an unreliable narrator were translated really well, for example this argument-

Humbert gave a short description while the movie is more of lo's point of view, it's all screaming and shouting and absolutely devastating, Dominique Swain did an amazing job.

Both of the actresses were 14 during filming and that's just so unsettling to me. Sure you're using a body double for explicit scenes but isn't that just content for actual pedophiles, the closest thing to CP that's legal?. There are many older actresses that look younger but honestly that scares me more, because now there are no restrictions to the scenes they can film, which usually ends up underage characters in extremely exploitative scenes (think euphoria).

My feelings are sort of all over the place on this, I simply can't reach a satisfying conclusion- I don't think it's impossible to adapt lolita into a good film, black swan is one of my favourite movies ever and nina sayers is as unrealiable as a narrator gets, so it's not impossible to portray Humbert Humbert on screen but it will be difficult. On the other hand I just know that people will find some way to romanticize the movie- no matter how well it's written like in the novel it's so obvious Humbert is a pedophile that he might as well get it tattoed on his head but people still think of it as "aw tragic beautiful love story". But part of me thinks that if they write it kind of like gone girl, you believe nick is the murderer in the first half then amy's scheming is revealed in the second, just like that if lolita is shown in the first half but after dolores runs away her perspective is shown to audience, how she's so miserable and gives an accurate depiction of Humbert Humbert's abuse, maybe showing that horrifying reality of the story will end it's romanticization once and for all.

[yogurtlid10000]