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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 1 year ago

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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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curiousbothers · 2 months ago

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Pascal brain rot…

#the sims #sims 2 #sims 2 premades #ts2 #pascal curious #vidcund curious #lazlo curious #the curious brothers #ts2 premades #nervous subject #my art #strangetown #the sims 2 #☝️🤓#not happy with how they turned out they’re so janky but I’m sick of it already oh well #art style consistency whats that

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doe-prince · 3 months ago

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Mami

#Cosmotelluria's subjects #sphinx #this is an older style test #I really want to make something with manga style but it's sooo hard to design animal characters with that in mind #especially if you're just going for black + white + screentone #things will look either too dark or too busy

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autumnblooms · 5 months ago

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naiad 🌊

#it’s way too late at night to come up with a fancier title #might be the exhaustion but I’m really happy with how this turned out #I can see a new style forming #the band ghost #my art #rain ghoul #princess rainy is always a good subject to test with #nameless ghouls #ghost band #ghost band fanart

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akiacia · 6 months ago

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maggie scenes for fun 🤣

#akia art #olba #baxter ward #olba mc #these are my best attempts at a baxter pov so i'll tag him even tho i was too lazy to lasso his sprites in 🤣#i have non-ol art i've been trying to finish for months but i keep getting sidetracked LOL #i was wondering what maggie might look like ingame and then remembered that i have the ability to subject everyone else to my brainrot too #the ol style is hard to imitate tho 👴 i rly tried with the hair but idr how to shade like this #(went through these again while cleaning my files and had to fix the Verbosity LOL)#(it was hurting my soul too much not to 🤣 my eyes..)

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splickedylit · 3 months ago

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Anonymous asked: Hello!! For art requests, perhaps some zolu? (Zoro and Luffy)

b0yskylark asked: Splickedy!! Maybe you can draw your favorite One Piece ship?? Personally I think if Zoro and Sanji kissed a lil they'd calm tf down lol

I do find Zosan pretty delightful--LOVE a rivals-to-rival/lovers pairing--and for that matter, Franky/Robin is GREAT and whips ass and both pairings were on the candidate list. But lbr I'm a huge sucker for that captain/first mate intense loyalty "til death do us part and you're not allowed to die" shit. plus Luffy being all but canonically ace means I can bring my no-holds-barred-all-romance-no-sex moirail agenda to yet another pairing which is GREAT for me emotionally. eue

What I'm saying is yo ho yo ho a pirates little late afternoon nap holding hands like otters so I don't drift away for me yar har

#One Piece #Roronoa Zoro #Monkey D. Luffy #Zolu #Splickedydoodles #I just meant Luffy's hand to be hanging down but it DOES look like he's just napping with a handful of titty. and honestly. good for him.#first mate roronoa ''canonically biggest bust size on the crew'' zoro your chest looks heavy can i hold it for you U_U #Listen the way Oda draws bodies is not attractive especially as his art's evolved. sorry sensei art is subjective and so on. but!#I'm looking disrespectfully at the Zoro translated into my art style in my head lmao. Anyway I couldn't bring myself to put a shirt on him #Sorry or you're welcome. whichever applies here lololol

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themachine · 1 year ago

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#normally i wouldnt post commissions but i'm really proud of this one #it's a pretty big departure from my normal style and subject matter but i managed to make it work :)#my friend bought me the utkl health shirt in exchange for this. hashtag WORTH #koishi komeiji #koishi touhou #touhou #my art #finished #< first time i've used that tag in months lol

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takethelx3 · 4 days ago

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They're at a cafe on a rainy day bc.. I want to sit at a cafe w someone and just vibe tgt

#jon is just scrolling thru tiktoks while damian is talking about whatever #also the way they look in my art constantly fluctuates bc for some reason I do a lot of experimentation with them as the subjects #like what do you mean I drew a whole background HUH? I hate to work hard!#i consider going back to rework some previous pieces because my learning has been large over this last month #I'm really really loving how my art looks these days fr tho #i think it feels very pretty to look at :)#anyway no more art for fun and leisure I HAVE A BIG COMMISSION TO DO 😭😭😭 DON'T LET ME DRAW FOR FUN GUYS 😭😭#art #digital art #fanart #screentone #manga style #illustration #jondami #damijon #damian wayne #jon kent #jonathan kent #damian al ghul #damian al ghul wayne #also the sketch layers for this were so bad I didn't even put them in the digi sketchbook HAHAHAHAHA #maybe I'll fish them out tomorrow #might be kinder to myself then!#also.... the way I draw hair at the moment? freakin nice I love it #they're both having hot chocolates btw #me vs everyone should drink hot chocolates actually #also do Not Look at the shoes I know I need to do shoe studies I KNOW. OKAY. I know 😭#jon tilting back his chair and slouching hard bc uh yeah he absolutely is doing that #also as always I don't know how to draw children so they're young adult age 👍#yes I know I have to study how to draw children but please forgive me I am just so silly

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rainbowresurrection · 4 months ago

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Can't believe Leonard Nimoy was straight up like. I'm not saying I ever played Spock gay or straight because I was just playing each scene by Vibes. And if those Vibes are Spock wanting to fuck a man then so be it, I don't control the art the art controls me

#tos #sttos #star trek #leonard Nimoy #check reblogs for the interview I'm referencing! it's in Star Trek Lives #it took me a minute to find the part i was thinking of but i found it #he basically just discusses how the vagueness of Spock is due to his subjective acting style and makes for a variety of interpretations #including gay ones

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miss-conner3 · 6 months ago

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En Español: Aquí

The Immortality Necklace, better known in the cult as a gift only for siblings.

"...currently in the cult there are few people who have this type of necklace, and luckily for the lamb, they are not kind enough to reveal something so obvious to our clueless Ando. Well, at least for now."

Fragment of the answer I gave to a question I received on Tumblr.

And I couldn't stand it anymore (owo)

I had to draw it.

¡I hope you like it!

Extra: I realized something, so I made a gif for it (ouo)/