#lit/comp

[mackachu1212]

We were talking about object compliments in my class but I thought this would be funny

[betweenlands]

i walk into the literature convention wearing a shirt that says ask me about the uniquely complex conditions of live improvisation, limitation of expression by narrative and physical constraints, meta-awareness of a specific audience, video editing/framing choices, and amateur enthusiast storytelling that contribute to virtual improv roleplay* being a fascinating nascent artform that is uniquely suited to telling stories that cannot be told in any other format and everyone cheers & claps & whoops & hollers and then they read the smaller text saying *especially within Minecraft builds, maps, servers, streams, and videos and then everyone boos & yells & shoots me with lasers and guns & blows me up with grenades & hits me with 2x4s

[utilitycaster]

I think my grand unifying theory of the vast majority of fandom, media literacy in fiction, and social media with strangers interactions really comes down to a lot of people either don't understand or don't accept that once you add humans emotions into the mix there's no such thing as a consistently reproducible result.

Some of this is that two characters' reactions to the same or similar events will not necessarily be the same (this is like 99% of Neve and Lucanis discourse). Some of it is that some characters fuck around and lethally find out and some merely experience unpleasant consequences (this is 100% of Liliana and Essek discourse). Some of it is that a particular type of character is popular within the fandom and a similar one is not, and while you should do a sanity check of whether this is due to prejudice, oftentimes it's the circumstances of the specific character's story, or they're actually quite different but have a surface-level similarity and are being treated as interchangeable when in fact they have wildly different appeals (Fjord and Laudna being a strong example here).

And outside of that, the most vicious anon hate and discourse I've received and that I've seen friends and mutuals receive is a response to one of the two below categories:

Why do you like what you like and not what I like (ie, an inability to accept that some people can see precisely the same show as you do and understand it and dislike things you love or vice versa)

How could I have known that my question would be something you didn't care for (ie, an inability to accept that other people have different feelings and preferences than you)

And really, it's not terribly hard to get past all of the above! But it does require that you accept you're not the center of the world and that other people have feelings that aren't yours and that there's no cosmic universal justice and that people can dislike something without it being bigoted and if you can't do those things it really is a sign you're not ready for, frankly, life as an adult.

[sscrambledmeggss]

my literature class is incredibly tiny (there’s only seven people. the professor spent like all of winter break thinking it would be canceled), so what i’m trying to insinuate is: i hope we don’t turn into a tiny pretentious cult and push one of our friends off a cliff during a accidentally snowy day

[motherlarkspur]

My deepest sympathy for my AP Lit class that has to hear me connect every topic we cover back to the Epic of Gilgamesh. In my defense, it's a beautiful representation of human nature through the ages.

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

de - [gunshot noises]

[almostvermin]

i cant take this shit anymore im actually gonna do it for real (continues what i was doing beforehand but slightly more pissed off)

[pasdetrois]

the woman in white, wilkie collins ⬧ deathless, catherynne m. valente

[scaredenglishmajor]

me, thinking: *I mean, i’m literally learning literature at oxford university, my professors must be super serious academics*

my professor: idk dudes, all i’m saying is that satan is a really fuckable figure. that’s just the truth.

[nazumichi]

ap exam scores you’re scaring me……

[howifeltabouthim]

Had anyone ever sought so zealously and found so little? When would he gain the wisdom to finally give up?

Lev Grossman, from The Bright Sword

[betweenlands]

i can't make a "we already have a Minecraft movie and it's called [series]" post because it would devolve into a whole-ass crash course on MCYT/MCRP as a genre including multiple named sections on different unique aspects of the medium and the watchlist would be several full weeks long

[akkivee]

i am once again getting excited over stuff that isn’t even confirmed lmao but what if hypdream has a similar story format to arb s1 where it’s split into six separate stories centred around the divisions where the final boss of each story is the evil version of the division so you have to strategise how to defeat the divisions with the characters you have unlocked like what if i have to beat bat with bat would evil kuukou have priority and his ability might go off before i can seal evil kuukou’s myself idk how jyushi’s ability works but can i negate the damage he supposedly can heal by reflecting his attack phase back at him with hitoya’s would the three of their attack stats combined be enough to beat them if evil kuukou’s ability can be used more than once—

[lyudmilarutilova]

i am once again wishing id gotten into hispanic lit instead of russian bc i was at one point actually fluent in spanish and now i have neither 👍

[patchdotexe]

i feel silly saying this considering the thing i mainly do on my sideblog is analyze and theorize about blorbo storytelling, but i sucked ass at reading comprehension in school.

the questions i was asked felt disconnected from what i read to the point where i was unable to draw any sort of conclusion using them. i wasn't thinking about the things i was apparently supposed to be thinking about, and to be honest i don't know if i was thinking at all asides from "i'm supposed to read this for homework". i loved the part of lit class where i got to write stuff and learn new words, and i dreaded having to do reading comprehension questions because even when i tried i just couldn't do it.

when it comes to symbolism especially, it flies over my head. this is true with basically any writing even to today-- i can write paragraphs about character motivation and the inner workings of a personality and what drives someone to do the things they do, but the idea that an item can be a representation of a background concept doesn't occur to me at all until someone else points it out. even then, i still don't really see it. there's something specific i'm thinking of with some unintentional symbolism that got pointed out a lot and the authors went "oh, we didn't mean that to be a symbolism thing but it makes sense", and i still don't Get It on the same level everyone else seems to.

it's certainly not something i consciously think about when i'm writing, either.

i feel like this makes my interpretation of things, and the things i write and make, fall flat. i'm good at very specific takes, but otherwise i'm stuck at surface level. good for posting on tumblr about why the blorbo of the week is doing what they do, not very good for getting the full experience out of something.

[itswhatyougive]

I remember back in 2011, I was taking a Comparative Literature class in college and the professor was talking about all the idiomatic expressions and metaphors used to describe sex and how they were all violent, warlike. Nailed, banged, screwed, smashed, destroyed, pounded, broken in, etc. Someone scores, someone loses their virginity. It's a battle to be won or lost. He challenged us to try to think of a metaphor for sex that was nonviolent and egalitarian.

I timidly raised my hand and offered, "A dance?" The professor shut me down pretty quickly, scoffing, "When was the last time you heard anyone use dancing in that context?"

Anyway, Steven Universe came out a couple years later