#jonathan swift

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)

[missagonyy]

Gulliver’s Travels 1996 Mini Series - Starring Ted Danson.

There are barely any posts about this amazing, underrated film, so I made these gifs to share my favorite moments.

If you are a g/t fan, you will love this! I can’t praise it enough!

I hope you enjoy my all time favorite adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels! 🌈✨

[your-disobedient-servant]

where are my swifties

[marlinspirkhall]

Wow, how ironic. It's almost as if a misquote changes its pyjamas in a private jet while the truth naps on the bus.

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

On this last Wood Engraving Wednesday of 2023, it seems appropriate to end the year with some engravings by one of the principal revivers of the wood engraving in the early 20th century, Robert Gibbings (1889-1958). Gibbings acquired the Golden Cockerel Press in 1924, and in 1928 the press published this book, Miscellaneous Poems by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) with twelve original wood engravings by Gibbings, printed in Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire in an edition of 375 copies (of which, 150 were distributed in the U. S. by Random House, which had been founded a year earlier).

It also seems appropriate that Gibbings would print and publish a work by Swift as both shared parallels in their biographies: both were writers; both had deep connections to the Anglican Church of Ireland; and both were born in Ireland (Swift to an English family, spending the rest of his life in Ireland; Gibbings to an Irish family, and spending the rest of his life in England). And judging by these engravings, both shared an interest in the whimsical.

Our copy of Miscellaneous Poems is another gift from our friend Jerry Buff.

View more posts with engravings by Robert Gibbings.

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[doublebilldave]

Triple Bill Number Two: Castle of Cagliostro (1979) + Castle in the Sky (1986) + Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

Man, Hayao Miyazaki sure loves to make movies about castles, huh?

[crumblinggothicarchitecture]

thoughts on "i'm just a girl" thing being trendy as to girls can't do math, drive and can't be smart?

It's repackaged pro-patriarchy propaganda. Same with the "bimbo-ism" trend from a little while ago- women think they are satirizing this phenomenon, or that they are reclaiming it, however satire falls short when there is no inversion of social characteristics happening within the narrative.

For example, the classic " A Modest Proposal" takes the moral standard of not eating your own children- and turns it into the obvious correct choice of action. That inversion of moral status-quo is the punchline of the satire. It's the hinge that reveals the hypocrisy of the those enforcing harmful ideological stances on the public. This trend of "I'm just a girl" is not inverting any social phenomenon, nor is it making a statement of moral integrity by flipping something heinous into something normal to point out the dominant ideological social standards as harmful. Instead, it's only further perpetuating the dominant ideological social standards- without challenge by replicating things women have fought so hard to prove false in stupid Tik Toks.

Others, who are also participating in the trend are simply re-enforcing patriarchal stereotypes because they are actually sexist.

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Thank you for asking me a non- Taylor Swift related question <3 apologies for taking so long to get to it- hope you are well and thriving even in such a difficult world.

The only Swift I vibe with is Jonathan Swift.

[burningvelvet]

I read A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and I don't know what I originally thought it was going to be about but whatever it was IT WAS NOT THAT

[cannibalistic-vampirefag]

dug up an old work i made for English class i few years back... 16y.o. me already knew what i was going to become

[wronghands1]

[chaotic-history]

18thC equivalent of me using strikethrough text on Discord

[aussie-bookworm]

I could be completely wrong but I’m just makin guesses while the official lyrics aren’t out. Eat Your Young does seem to be partially inspired by A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift.

In case you haven’t read A Modest Proposal (which I do recommend reading as it’s a short yet interesting read), it’s a satirical essay suggesting that the poor in Ireland sell their children as food to the rich

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)

[dabiconcordia]

On Snow A Riddle

From Heaven I fall, though from earth I begin, No lady alive can show such a skin. I'm bright as an angel, and light as a feather, But heavy and dark, when you squeeze me together. Though candour and truth in my aspect I bear, Yet many poor creatures I help to ensnare. Though so much of Heaven appears in my make, The foulest impressions I easily take. My parent and I produce one another, The mother the daughter, the daughter the mother. By Jonathan Swift

[gwleddgymreig]

Hozier's "Eat Your Young" 🤝Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"

Irishmen satirically proposing the cannibalism of children as an alternative to them (and us) living in a modern hell

[rafaelmartinez67]

"¡Ojalá vivas todos los días de tu vida!"

Jonathan Swift