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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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When Senshi was young in the dungeon the majority of the adults he were with ostracized him. All except Gillin, who died to make sure Senshi had something to eat: unseasoned boiled meat that may or may not have been one of their comrades.
It really puts into perspective why he was so nurturing towards Chilchuck. When Chil reveals he’s 28 to the party, Senshi responds by telling him that he thought he was older. Senshi was in his 30s when he and his comrades got trapped in the dungeon, so it’s safe to assume that he thought Chil was at a similar age.
He met a young boy who was, from his perspective, forced to do dangerous work in the dungeon just like he was, and so, Senshi made an effort to look after Chilchuck in the same way Gillin looked after him.
Mind you, when Senshi was young in the dungeon he had to starve for weeks, eat the horse he loved, and finish it off spending the next i don’t know how many years wondering if he committed cannibalism.
Senshi understands first hand the value of nutrition and proper eating, so when he’s with the party he makes an effort to make sure they’re all eating a full and balanced diet. Not only that, but Senshi INVOLVES them in the process of getting food to eat, always preparing it in front of them and narrating every ingredient in the process so that there’s no doubt about what they’re eating.
#i woke up in the middle of the night to write this and haven’t proof read so i seriously hope it’s coherent lmaoooo#dungeon meshi spoilers#delicious in dungeon spoilers#senshi#dungeon meshi#everyone jokes about senshi giving chilchuck the talk but he’s literally just trying to take care of a young boy who needs help#i’m crying#and sobbing#and punching the air
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listen I don't like aemond but him letting larys think he was about to become hand and letting him start his little Oscar-thank-you-speech to immediately cutting him off like "ew not you. you set ur family on fire little ugly toad. fetch me grandpappy otto" was almost cartoonishly hilarious
#larys strong#aemond targaryen#hotd spoilers#prince aemond#aemond one eye#house of the dragon#hotd#house of the dragon spoilers#you KNOW he enjoyed sucking the hot air right back out of larys#that man needed to be humbled again#the toad comment was so unnecessarily mean it was hilarious lmaoo
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I'm just a girl trying to get through all the books she wants to read
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Interview With The Vampire – 2.05: Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape
#interview with the vampire#cinematv#filmtvcentral#smallscreensource#userstream#dailyflicks#tvarchive#filmtvtoday#usersource#chewieblog#tvedit#tvandfilm#userthing#userblorbo#i just needed these next to each other on my blog for posterity#in years to come history will ask 'where were you when s2e5 of iwtv aired?'#jacob and assad fucking ate this entire episode and scene#jacob's face is sending me lmaooo#2x05#4k
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Holiday Classics
Been thinking about Ford watching the 70s Animated Lord of the Rings Movies... (companion comic to this post!)
#the other two VHS tapes Fidd's is holding are Rankin-Bass' The Hobbit (1977) and Return of the King (1980)! The 70s animated pseudo-trilogy!#A lot of people pointed out on my other lotr 'crossover' post that Ford would have seen the 70s movies!#And i wont lie i entirely forgot they existed. But now i remember i have so many feelings on it okay. Ford my silly LOTR nerd#I dont think he would have seen Bashkis in theaters. far as I can tell it was a VERY limited (likely mostly CA) run in the middle of winter#but Rankin-Bass'? Aired on NBC & ABC. He absolutely woulda watched them or rented a VHS later. Which is why he's most excited by Bashki's#He's just such a nerd. I need him to nerd out. But also lowkey angst on how his single focus on bill/the portal lead#him to neglecting even the small things in life. Like knowing a VHS release of an adaptation of his favourite book series had come out#GF fanart#Gravity Falls#gravity falls comic#Fan art#fanart#fiddleford mcgucket#fiddleford hadron mcgucket#young fiddleford mcgucket#*holds two random VHS tapes in one hand to check Fidd's pose in the 2nd panel makes sense* Well thats mathamatically feasible!#young stanford pines#stanford pines#ford pines#Book of Bill#comic#artists on tumblr#my art#Grunkle ford#fiddauthor#cause Fidds is not talking about the movie there. Well okay he's talking about the portal but He COULD BE TALKING ABOUT- *I am dragged off*
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obsessed with the way that Lisa Frankenstein answers the question of “how will Lisa overcome her trauma” not with “by putting her morbid tendencies aside and rejoining society as a normal girl” but having her relive it as the perpetrator instead and being rewarded with a messy codependent husband
#text post#lisa frankenstein#lisa frankenstein spoilers#I LOVE IT#who needs personal growth when you can go insane#actually genuinely such a breath of fresh air and so feminist
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How do you want to do this?
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Goodbye, Faithful Caregiver.
#critical role#fcg critical role#cr fcg#bells hells#critical role fanart#critical role campaign 3#cr3#bells hells fanart#critical role art#cr fanart#otohan thull#fresh cut grass#floweroflaurelin art#ashton greymoore#fearne calloway#dorian storm#orym of the air ashari#cr frida#imogen temult#laudna#chetney pock o'pea#sam riegel#critical role spoilers#cr spoilers#rip fcg#AHHHHHHHH#SOBBING AND SCREAMING#this took SO LONG but I had to get these feelings out#four days on a single project I need you to understand how unprecedented this is for me#sam riegel WHY do you keep making me CRY
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Something Something Avatar The Last Airbender was fundamentally about showing the horrible long-lasting effects of both war and violence in a grand sense (the way people suffer under fire nation occupation including the air nomad genocide and the state of the southern water tribe) but also a personal sense (zukos entire arch) and the show goes to great lengths to avoid glorifying war, often specifically choosing only depict the aftermath of terrible violence while not graphically depicting the violence itself.
And I think it's a profound misunderstanding, maybe even an insult to the source text to continually depict gratuitous death and violence as a focal point of the live action.
#i can provide example of this if need be#the depiction of the air nomads being invaded by the fighting#kataras mothers body#zuko and ozais agni kai#theres probably more#but thats what ive gathered from cultral osmosis alone#atla#atla live action#atla netflix#avatar#avatar the last airbender#live action avatar#prince zuko#atla zuko#zuko#avatar aang#aang#atla aang#air nomads#katara#katara atla
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ehhdsseddrdvvhgvhfrddeddfdsefhujgftdtthgughhfygyv yeah.
#this is so self indulgent like what is thisswsswehwjhj2h2ejjwejejieeibwkdnekd#punching the air when i was drawing this#waugghhhghhhgggywhehwhehwhehdjwjdjwjwheje#jesus fuck i need like actual help#froodles#stardew valley
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all i can think about since i first saw new Dorian look is that every time Orym looks up to talk to him first thing he sees is just pair of naked blue tiddies with medium sized nipples
#critical role#sketch#dorym#cr3#bells hells#dorian storm#orym of the air ashari#this is my artistic rendition#i am so sorry#this just wont get out of my head#and i needed to share
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Metal Overlord in SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS
#sonic#sonicedit#gamingedit#sonic the hedgehog#metal sonic#metal overlord#shadow the hedgehog#sonic generations#sonic x shadow generations#classic sonic#modern sonic#gamescom#video games#thelvadams.gifs#i need this game like i need air
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My seedling
You are my instrument
#critical role#critters#critical role campaign 3#critical role fanart#bells hells#fanart#cr 3#cr3#critical role orym#orym savior blade of the tempest#cr orym#orym of the air ashari#orym fanart#orym needs a hug#and gets it!#the wildmother#wildmother cr#spoilers#critical role spoilers#cr spoilers#spoiler#melora#melora the wildmother
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Jason: am I tweaking or is that Dick, dabbing up Simone Biles, before getting ready to perform high beam?
Tim: I dunno, but is that Roy for team USA in the archery category?
Jason: fuck I should’ve competed for shooting
Tim: I should’ve competed for judo, boo 🍅
#all the bat kids n co. could feasibly be in the Olympics and we need to talk more abt it#dick would win GOLD for team USA and you can’t tell me Jason wouldn’t eat at air soft shooting#dc#jason todd#tim drake#dick grayson#roy harper#robin#red robin#red hood#batman#batfam#batbros#olympics#2024 olympics
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So... heat waves are fun (not)
(Bonus : Mama Jamil)
#i can handle the heat#but my skin is paler than a nun's butt#i can't go out under the sun without spontaneously combusting!#Jamil's rambling is made for laughs but he's actually right#don't go out at peak sunlight hours#if you really need to go out take an umbrella and cover your head!#especially if you have thin hair#always carry a water bottle with you#cooling pads are your friends if you can afford them#washing your hands; feet; and face helps lower your own temperature#dont hesitate to make a foot bath if you're at home#if you have fans you can put a bowl of ice in front of it to blow cold air#when I draw during a heat wave I have a foot bath and a humid towel on my shoulders#that's all for PSA!#mello's drawings#twisted wonderland#twst#azul ashengrotto#jade leech#floyd leech#jamil viper#kalim al asim#art#my art#heat wave
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