#i was an english major

[sncrlynwtms]

i am once again thinking of the implications behind the golden raven as a title. how it could potentially be representative of jean or jeremy. i'm thinking of double entendres and how they don't always serve as humorous literary devices. i'm thinking of metaphorical language and antithesis. i'm thinking of music is the space between the notes. i'm thinking of every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

“we delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty"

[leiafett]

I was editing, and I realized this little detail. We all know the famous line “I don’t like sand” but what does Anakin do at his mom’s grave?

PICK UP SAND

I bet you the real reason he don’t like sand is his mom. He’s just a baby who misses his mom.

Brb crying and throwing up.

[cranberrytea451]

Turns out I don’t know how to read.

[averysaurus]

I can't prove it but I think the heat wave's messing with the phone service. The satellites are Too Hot

[youngpettyqueen]

at some point im going to do a rewatch of Dreams and write an entire essay breaking down and analyzing everybody's dreams

[proserpine-in-phases]

I did pretty good

I got the Top 4.47% on this English Vocabulary test

[shouldbepersephone]

My brother (currently in college shooting for a PhD in maths) sent me this at 2 am and informed me that I should “put it on the tumbler”

Jobius Strip

[stardustsecret]

kinda want to write a jake meet cute but also i havent written anything for funsies in like ten years

[ekwallace]

Rewatching Good Omens!

I originally side-eyed a little at Aziraphale having to look up the relevant verse of Revelation, but then I thought he wouldn’t necessarily know what’s in the Bible, given that it was written by humans long after he arrived on Earth. Someone as widely read as he presumably is would probably still know the “number of the beast” reference without checking, but it’s a fairly elegant way to tell the audience, who might not, what the significance is.

I like that in the cold open to episode 3, they’ve put Arthur at approximately the right time (insofar as someone who possibly didn’t actually exist has a “right” time, heh) instead of in the medieval period where most people tend to imagine him.

[penna-nomen]

I've read 34

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

[bruciemilf]

It’d be so fucking funny if Jason fought so hard to intimidate Harvey after the Lazarus pit.

Look here, here’s 8 heads in this duffel bag, aren’t I such a scary and dangerous crime lord?!

Harvey laughs, actually so amused by Jason’s audacity.

“Oh. Oh that’s so cute,” hands on his hips, dad stance on. He’s this close.

“Hey, jackass, THOMAS WAYNE was my father in law. Also, I remember when you were 11, in your little Wonder Woman pajamas, knocking on my and your dad’s door like ‘ I tHrEW uP—“

“shut up SHUT UP SHUT UP—“

[dingledraw]

It’s them

Wait, Jane Austen wrote books?

[my-heart-of-heart]

Jon and Martin both really just said the only reason I still hold onto my humanity is because you make me want to be a better person and we all just let them huh

Like with Jon that arc is pretty obvious, but Martin went through the same thing didn’t he? The lonely tempted him to isolate himself from others and his own emotions, but the biggest thing that stopped him was that he wouldn’t have been able to love Jon.

I adore the trope of “you’ve become monstrous so I’ll join you because I love you” but god this twist of “we’re both becoming monstrous but we’ll help each other hold onto humanity” is equally if not more heart wrenching.

[trials-of-a-spirit-worker]

I was also an English major.

Read the porn.

It's fine!

That's why conservatives and their dumbass mouthpieces always putting their asses in everything piss me off.

"I have the right to tell you you have a porn addiction." You have a right to shut the fuck up. That's your right. Shut up.

And I know what some of you fuckers are gonna start with: "oh, they have a right to feel how they feel about this topic. They have a right to speak and express themselves." Shut up. SHUT UP. You've been falling for the same tired shit they've been doing for years.

It isn't an expression of free speech or freedom when THEY seek to take your freedom to enjoy the shit you want to enjoy away!

It isn't freedom when they're backed by the pieces of shit who strive to take your reproductive rights and freedom to love away! It's not freedom when they're trying to ban anything they deem unseemly and now your queer friend is something that should be locked away or even eliminated.

And yes, that's what they're doing! That's the whole goal. Always has been. Because everything regarding this non rigid, very rule driven baby making only rules about sex. Sex for pure enjoyment is seen as horrible in their eyes and they're making it everyone's problem! From the bullshit Christianity/white savior angle of "saving" people to the control of people's bodies. It's all a ploy for control. And everytime some "unorthodox" speaker comes with their little "hot take" they're just spreading the ideas of the far rights aim for control. People like that are just mouth pieces for a bigger more evil agenda.

It's the slippery slope angle with them. Always is. Because it allows them to cast a wide net of shit they don't like under the guise "protecting kids" or "keeping family values" or some innocent sounding shit like that. But then more and more things are seen as offensive or unsafe then all of a sudden, nothing is allowed and control is taken. That's how they are. Stop allowing them to cast wide nets.

Sex is not bad, romance is not bad, expression of desire is not bad. It's entirely human. But there will be so many folks out there ready to shame people because they're chained by a belief and a system that will shame the fuck out of you for having basic human attraction or needs. And they will either use the extreme and awful cases or they will make every instance they don't like extreme and wrong.

People who spout shit like that and the overreaching hands that back shit like that are the EPITOME of "give em an inch and they'll take a mile" stop letting them do that!

It's all fun and games and laughing at BookTok until you can't get on AO3 anymore, as someone who likes both romance and fanfic.

[doccywhomst]

the actual literal meaning of TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension[s] in Space) is so funny cause it’s just…. a very succinct description of what the vehicle travels through? “hello i’m a human and this is my CAR (Concrete and Roads)” uh yeah i sure hope it do

[dceasesd]

why juni ba’s the boy wonder has my favorite jason characterization of any contemporary comic run: a needlessly in-depth analysis (pt.1)

oh boy oh boy am i excited for this one buckle up boys it’s gonna be a long one. analysis under the cut (WITH PICTURES!!)

i, like many others, have many thoughts and opinions about juni ba's the boy wonder that i'd like to express. i was having trouble formatting my rant, though, so i decided that it was easiest to just address some of the common complaints i've seen about the comic and jason's characterization and insert my ramblings throughout it. so far i've seen three main complaints:

the typical boiling down of jason's character to "the angry one"

his lack of strategy going into the fight with the demon is out-of-character

the neighbor's kid interaction

to start with the first one-- when introducing jason's character, in both the second and first issue, ba uses the descriptors "coarse", "bitter", "hardened", "brash" and, of course, "rageful".

so, yes-- i understand where people are having issues with this characterization. however, even if it's overplayed, it's still important to remember that jason is angry, and is driven, in part, by his anger at bruce and the joker. and, as ba highlights, he deserved to be! completely erasing jason's anger is just as bad as defining him with it.

i also don't think it's wholly accurate to say that ba is boiling jason down to just his anger. it might seem like that when only considering the dialogue and narration, but jason's behavior in the comic doesn't perfectly align with how the narrator describes him. while the narration describes him as "rageful" and could be an instance of generalization, jason's actions throughout the comic are more aligned with two other emotions/motivators: fear and despair. we never see jason get actually, properly angry; the closest we get is when he's seemingly annoyed by damian (which i believe could be performative) and when he becomes violent, accidentally hurting damian.

even in this instance, though, he is not driven to this violence by rage, but rather fear. so, while ba states in the narration that jason is driven by his anger, he contradicts himself by highlighting how jason's sadness and terror motivates his character. this could be interpreted as lousy writing on ba's part, but i'm not going to attribute the paradox to that inference. to me, it actually represents a critque of the "jason is the angry robin" generalization, because it calls to attention the discrepancies between how one is described versus reality, an issue that jason both faces in the comics (bruce using him as a cautionary tale when dying WASN'T HIS FAULT) and outside of the comics, as mentioned previously.

furthermore, this highlights the difference between what jason believes about bruce's perspective and bruce's actual perspective (according to damian). jason believes himself to be a "failure", but damian refutes this by describing his conversation with bruce concerning jason, a conversation that does not align with jason's belief. if you couldn't tell by now, perception versus reality is a BIG theme in this comic (and for jason's character in general!)

i was really fascinated by ba's take on jason, because it veered pretty far from a lot of contemporary comics, most of which do, unfortunately, play with the angry robin jason generalization. they've been doing a bit with his fear, too, which has either been pretty fun or the most awful thing ever (i'm looking at you zdarsky. gotham war was fucked up), but what makes ba's jason stand out to me is how he grapples with his grief.

this boy is so sad. ba's jason might actually be the saddest rendition of him i've seen in canon content. we've seen jason grapple a little bit with the despair rooted in his death and resurrection, mainly in lost days, where he cries 3 (?) times, fresh out of the pit and very traumatized.

even in this comic, though, he reacts to his grief with anger more prominently than sadness. that obviously doesn't mean the despair isn't there, though-- anger is just an easier outlet for it (which i could really get into the masculinity aspects of that, but then this would be wayyyyyy too long).

ba's jason, though? that motherfucker is so. sad.

christ he's depressing. AND THAT'S SUCH A FRESH PERSPECTIVE!!!!!!! THANK YOU JUNI BA!!!!!!

now i'm pretty sure some people would argue that this rendition in out of character because he's so sad. to me, though, he's still the same jason; he covers up his sadness with anger and pettiness, redirecting his own insecurities onto those around him to mask his true feelings.

ba quite literally illustrates this in the comic. whenever he is being his snide, normal self, he has his red hood mask on; but when he actually opens up to damian and expresses himself truthfully, the mask is off. ba is highlighting how the classic jason anger and bitterness is, in part, a performance and coping mechanism.

this post is already too long, so i'll go over the two other critques in a different post, which i will link below (eventually). if you guys have any thoughts you'd like to share or discuss, my dms and asks are completely open! if you made it this far, i hope you enjoyed my ranting. look out for another post soon! :))

part 2 / part 3