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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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prokopetz · 1 year ago
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My favourite stupid world-ending SCP object is the one that's literally just a hallway where time is stopped, except time isn't really stopped, it's just slowed way, way down, and the Foundation's Science Math™ indicates that when the effect collapses, everything that's in the hallway will return to normal spacetime preserving relative velocity – meaning this random guy who happened to be walking down the hallway when time stopped is going to come shooting out of it at half the speed of light and promptly explode.
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hersweetrevenge · 2 years ago
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garadinervi · 1 month ago
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Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled, (solvent transfer, fabric, watercolor, and graphite on paper), 1983 [Pace Gallery, New York, NY. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation / ARS, New York]
Exhibition: Robert Rauschenberg: Against the Grid: Drawings, 1983, Pace Gallery, Seoul, September 19 – November 9, 2019
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spoilthevines · 8 months ago
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wait a sec i think i never ended up posting it here? it's been almost a year now but anyway, have the thing. still love it tbh.
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see-arcane · 22 days ago
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Guys PLEASE consider throwing @theholmwoodfoundation some pocket change
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They have barely more than a week left of their Kickstarter and only have a third of the funds raised. If you can't donate, please spread the word to fellow Dracula enthusiasts and folks out here looking for good inventive horror podcasts!
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cryerrscar1et · 4 months ago
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random arts
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I forgot I have a tumblr
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borgialucrezia · 6 months ago
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what i find so interesting is that after juan's death, it wasn't just cesare's physical features that began to echo his brother's appearance more strikingly than they ever had during juan's lifetime, but certain aspects of juan's personality also began to manifest in cesare as well! after rodrigo shared his long-planned dream of creating a papal bloodline to be passed down to cesare, cesare's perspective shifted, and he became increasingly preoccupied with the perceptions of others, leading him to adopt a more classist mindset. he even felt ashamed of his own mother when she offered him counsel and the opportunity to join him in battle, rejecting her due to her former occupation as a 'whore.' this is just one of the chilling examples of how juan's aftermath continued to impact cesare long after his death throughout the show.
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crowtoed · 1 year ago
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One of the things I'm liking about Scavenger's Reign and that it does pretty well is the 'in media res' start. A lot of shows (LOOKING AT YOU, FOUNDATION) try to make the audience care for the characters without taking time to establish them and throw them into the Big Situation. Scavenger's Reign starts slow and lets the audience experience the planet (and its weirdness) and how the characters interact with it: Ursula is inquisitive, Sam is pragmatic, Azi is wary, Kamen is fearful, Levi is accepting. This is established through Little Situations/ side quests before joining the main. They aren't being thrown into the Big Adventure without showing us little bits of who they are and how they've survived this long.
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gaal-dornick · 6 months ago
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bless and be seen, o sleeper | on synnax, your people's god was the sleeper. once a year, the sleeper will emerge, assess the state of the galaxy, address her flock, giving them just enough inspiration to carry them through the next cycle. | becoming a goddess
gaal dornick mixed media (colored pencils, collage, gouache) on my sketchbook, finally finished 💫🌌
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mattastr0phic · 2 months ago
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Such a pain to have to reiterate that if anyone tags my shit with Br*ght (this includes ship names, etc.) you just get blocked. My wife Dr. Myriad is so much better than that carrot cuck and nothing anyone does will ever change my mind!
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Please learn to check tags or even read pinned before you reblog!
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peace0ut-004 · 7 months ago
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Mal0 doodles
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prokopetz · 2 years ago
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Girls in your area
Girls in proximity to your location
Girls approaching your coordinates
Girls have breached the perimeter
Girls inside the containment zone, repeat, girls inside the
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saintmeghanmarkle · 3 months ago
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Another BTS leaked image shows exactly what we already knew. Nobody cares about these two. This is why theyve obsessively tried to control the images that are released during this sad little trip. by u/Upper_Charge_4449
Another BTS leaked image shows exactly what we already knew…. Nobody cares about these two. This is why they’ve obsessively tried to control the images that are released during this sad little trip. https://ift.tt/h4rxstM post link: https://ift.tt/vxzYyMc author: Upper_Charge_4449 submitted: August 17, 2024 at 09:18PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.
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garadinervi · 1 month ago
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Robert Rauschenberg, Poster for Peace, (printed reproductions, newsprint, watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper), 1970 [Private collection. © Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY]
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nabaat-owl · 4 months ago
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SITE IS EXPERIENCING MULTIPLE KETER AND EUCLID LEVEL CONTAINMENT BREACHES
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