#for class though; not personal reading

[aethersea]

devastating to go into the tag for an obscure vampire movie I've been quietly obsessed with for years to find mostly gifsets of minor characters (played by big-name actors) and review blogs saying they didn't like it :(

@ everyone who made a post saying "I liked it :)" I am blowing you a kiss. everyone who made a lovely gifset or photoset of the cinematography I am tipping my hat. that one poster that said "bro did y'all just miss the Entire Message about class and race or???" I am shaking your hand with enthusiasm there was SUCH a message about class and race

anyway everybody should watch Night Teeth and revel in glitzy flashy modern vampires in LA with me

#finx rambles #night teeth #vampires #apparently the marketing heavily overemphasized megan fox (she has a bit role. she's in like one scene) #so that one's not on the fans #but I am sad about all those people fuming bc it didn't have a poly ending #girl this is hollywood? what did you expect? #invent it yourself? that is what fandom is for?? queer reads have always been about discarding endings and living in the liminal?? #(side note I love queer readings of fairy tales. fairy tales class was so fun. god I need sleep or something my brain is on SUCH tangents.) #frustrated by that one post saying 'the vampire-slaying gang leader spends the day after a catastrophe befalls #trying to get his shift covered at work? unrealistic' #bro he's working class. he's poor. he's gotta put food on the table. do you think your job cares about your personal tragedy #this is in fact part of the Themes At Play wrt class. believe it or not. #sad also about those reviews that are like 'eh it was mid' but I've never needed critics to agree with me and I'm not about to start now #I did think the gifmakers would be on my side though #the lighting in this movie??? #that whole opening sequence in the credits with the storytelling done through reflections in cars at night? #the color choices??? the lighting??!?!?!?!

[lilyharvord]

To the illiterate people with 0 reading comprehension that I have seen on tik tok today claiming that Maven deserved Mare, that it was stupid and "unfair" that he didn't get her, and that clearly with his trauma and what his mother did to him he deserved her:

I would just like to issue a sincere Fuck You to you and any future illiterate children you produce.

#red queen #glass sword #kings cage #war storm #it took so so much will power not to ANNIHILATE them #I swear #books like SJM and rebecca Yarrow and others like them are PROMOTING THIS BULLSHIT THINKING #I am going to scream #I literally cannot be apart of the reading community anymore if these are the thoughts people are having #this is utterly ridiculous #tell me you didn't pay attention in middle school english class without telling me #tell me you lack reading comprehension without telling me #tell me you lack basic human brain power without telling me #i'm old and I am angry #this is just ridiculous now #must we cycle though the same stupid rhetoric over and over again? #dear lord #If I hear one more person say he “deserved” her #I'm going to push them in front of a bus

[deus-ex-mona]

real talk: lxl should continue to explore romance fantasy concepts in their songs. it’s clearly working for them~

#typical prince aesthetics in romeo/julieta and nonfan… and now historical rofan in meoto… #(and there’s also whatever’s going on in tsuki no hime but that has no mv :( sadge) #sorry guys i still have meoto on the brain pls suffer with me~~~~~~~~~ #but mannnnn. i was struck by sudden inspiration for a meoto au a n d #well. ig now i understand why they skipped over the falling in love phase. romance is hardddd #i want to subscribe to the meoto expansion pack p l s i need to know what their deal is~~~~ #bc man. how in the world did they go from complete indifference to promising to stay together forever hello #what happened???????? excuse??????????? #man. m a n. ok i think im done for the night. i hope #LXL MEOTO CRISIS 2K24 #(but if anyone here wants to get into the otome isekai genre in general… i recommend starting off with ✨s u r v i v i n g r o m a n c e✨ #(it’s a great story and it’s still modernised enough to ease into the genre. and after that…) #(you can just go for the series with the most interesting premise/prettiest art/both tbh) #(though i personally recommend ✨the perks of being an s class heroine✨ ✨the villainess’s stationery shop✨ for milder content) #(and there’s also some series with both isekai and regression.) #(like they isekai after their 1st life in 20xx-> live out their 2nd life in the fantasy world -> regress to a point in their 2nd life) #(for that type i kinda like ✨i shall master this family✨ though ngl i’m mostly reading it bc i think the aunt is very pretty) #(a nd there’s the occasional modern regression story but that’s pretty soap drama-esque and the one i read got ridiculous at times lmao) #(but ofc the ones with less romance focus are fun too~~~~ like stories with multiple isekai-ed people for one) #(b u t i digress i think i’ll stop here before i lose the plot any longer ahaha~~~~)

[gin-juice-tonic]

whooo wants more screenshots of stone butch blues

..

#the people have been hounding me for more #(nobody has asked for any) #(though one person said reading it in class helped them- you must be in a pretty cool class to be assigned this)

[iero]

Just randomly remembered a time in high school where we had to pretty much write a synopsis on the movie we watched as a whole class and I literally plagiarized the Wikipedia synopsis of the movie and got an A+ on that paper and a "Very informative" written at the top... And, I was known for being one of the smartest people in that class... If they only knew...

#personal #I'm like 80% sure that that teacher didn't actually read the papers though. Just skimmed 'em at least. #My memory was shit (and still is) and I procrastinated that paper until the night before LMAO #Pretty confident this was an Honors class too... I took way too many Honors and AP classes in my junior/senior year and for what?

[meownotgood]

what does my writing feel like? sometimes I think it feels like when you stuff your face into a giant bouquet of flowers. other times. it's like reading a ransom note, where every letter is cut out from a magazine and there's like weird dirty blood prints on the page too

#I'm often thinking about how the way I view my writing will always be in a different lens from everyone else #it's a fun thought though #when I'm reading someone else's writing #and I catch myself being like ohhh this person's style is so cool #I wonder if people feel the same about my writing #also side tangent but I feel like I can tell when people have professional experience with writing #or they took classes for it lol #I'm like gahhh they have such clean and professional writing #I want to write like that too #I feel like my writing style is very me but also very far from anything anyone could consider professional... haha #and I love it that way

[000yul]

saileach: i was scolded severely by my grandfather for being uncivilized enough to climb a tree

saria: i cling to reason and rationality so heavily my emotional side has never seen the light of day

bagpipe: i know all about growin’ potatoes ❤️

the vouivres we know sure do react differently to the reputation for madness their race has huh

#arknights #i thought it was a new thing in lonetrail but then i remembered saileach’s thing if you can call it that #thus far we haven’t really seen the madness itself #it’s more like just… perceived madness that hangs over the characters nonetheless #well… saria describes it as madness but if we ignore that #saileach’s thing can be read as simply a matter of class and/or immigrants fitting in #so the madness thing. not sure how i feel about it #wonder where they’re going with it? though personally i’d prefer if it stayed a perceived thing

[the-busy-ghost]

Alright uninformed rant time. It kind of bugs me that, when studying the Middle Ages, specifically in western Europe, it doesn’t seem to be a pre-requisite that you have to take some kind of “Basics of Mediaeval Catholic Doctrine in Everyday Practise” class. 

Obviously you can’t cover everything- we don’t necessarily need to understand the ins and outs of obscure theological arguments (just as your average mediaeval churchgoer probably didn’t need to), or the inner workings of the Great Schism(s), nor how apparently simple theological disputes could be influenced by political and social factors, and of course the Official Line From The Vatican has changed over the centuries (which is why I’ve seen even modern Catholics getting mixed up about something that happened eight centuries ago). And naturally there are going to be misconceptions no matter how much you try to clarify things for people, and regional/class/temporal variations on how people’s actual everyday beliefs were influenced by the church’s rules. 

But it would help if historians studying the Middle Ages, especially western Christendom, were all given a broadly similar training in a) what the official doctrine was at various points on certain important issues and b) how this might translate to what the average layman believed. Because it feels like you’re supposed to pick that up as you go along and even where there are books on the subject they’re not always entirely reliable either (for example, people citing books about how things worked specifically in England to apply to the whole of Europe) and you can’t ask a book a question if you’re confused about any particular point. 

I mean I don’t expect to be spoonfed but somehow I don’t think that I’m supposed to accumulate a half-assed religious education from, say, a 15th century nobleman who was probably more interested in translating chivalric romances and rebelling against the Crown than religion; an angry 16th century Protestant; a 12th century nun from some forgotten valley in the Alps; some footnotes spread out over half a dozen modern political histories of Scotland; and an episode of ‘In Our Time’ from 2009. 

But equally if you’re not a specialist in church history or theology, I’m not sure that it’s necessary to probe the murky depths of every minor theological point ever, and once you’ve started where does it end? 

Anyway this entirely uninformed rant brought to you by my encounter with a sixteenth century bishop who was supposedly writing a completely orthodox book to re-evangelise his flock and tempt them away from Protestantism, but who described the baptismal rite in a way that sounds decidedly sketchy, if not heretical. And rather than being able to engage with the text properly and get what I needed from it, I was instead left sitting there like:

And frankly I didn’t have the time to go down the rabbit hole that would inevitably open up if I tried to find out

#This is a problem which is magnified in Britain I think as we also have to deal with the Hangover from Protestantism #As seen even in some folk who were raised Catholic but still imbibed certain ideas about the Middle Ages from culturally Protestant schools #And it isn't helped when we're hit with all these popular history tv documentaries #If I have to see one more person whose speciality is writing sensational paperbacks about Henry VIII's court #Being asked to explain for the British public What The Pope Thought I shall scream #Which is not even getting into some of England's super special common law get out clauses #Though having recently listened to some stuff in French I'm beginning to think misconceptions are not limited to Great Britain #Anyway I did take some realy interesting classes at uni on things like marriage and religious orders and so on #But it was definitely patchy and I definitely do not have a good handle on how it all basically hung together #As evidenced by the fact that I've probably made a tonne of mistakes in this post #Books aren't entirely helpful though because you can't ask them questions and sometimes the author is just plain wrong #I mean I will take book recommendations but they are not entirely helpful; and we also haven't all read the same stuff #So one person's idea of what the basics of being baptised involved are going to radically differ from another's based on what they read #Which if you are primarily a political historian interested in the Hundred Years' War doesn't seem important eonugh to quibble over #But it would help if everyone was given some kind of similar introductory training and then they could probe further if needed/wanted #So that one historian's elementary mistake about baptism doesn't affect generations of specialists in the Hundred Years' War #Because they have enough basic knowledge to know that they can just discount that tiny irrelevant bit #This is why seminars are important folks you get to ASK QUESTIONS AND FIGURE OUT BITS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND #And as I say there is a bit of a habit in this country of producing books about say religion in mediaeval England #And then you're expected to work out for yourself which bits you can extrapolate and assume were true outwith England #Or France or Scotland or wherever it may be though the English and the French are particularly bad for assuming #that whatever was true for them was obviously true for everyone else so why should they specify that they're only talking about France #Alright rant over #Beginning to come to the conclusion that nobody knows how Christianity works but would like certain historians to stop pretending they do #Edit: I sort of made up the examples of the historical people who gave me my religious education above #But I'm now enamoured with the idea of who actually did give me my weird ideas about mediaeval Catholicism #Who were my historical godparents so to speak #Do I have an idea of mediaeval religion that was jointly shaped by some professor from the 1970s and a 6th century saint? #Does Cardinal Campeggio know he's responsible for some much later human being's catechism? #Fake examples again but I'm going to be thinking about that today

[damsxlette]

ranting in the tags ⬇️

#hiii #I’m not dead just busy as shit #going through it between class work and my fucking sinuses acting up #i wanna draw like personal shit but honestly my uni is fucking overloading me with work 😩 #I have no time for like anything 😭 #I’m literally like three weeks in and I already need a vacation #anyways I'm thinking of changing my name again #mostly because I follow junjunjunko and everytume they mention their oc cherub i get confused 😭 #thought about just doing “cherry” but i also like “petri” like petri dish #i like names rhat are like kinda odd or unconventional #also I clearly like names that end with that ee sound #if anyone has any name ideas though like let me know #anyways I’m gonna q this to post sometime when I’m sleeping because I get embarrassed about people reading my rambling #love y’all<3 #note: my blog name would still be the same btw! i would just be changing my tag names with my name in them #though of another name: i could also do cosette with the nickname cosy #or i could just do cosy honestly #so many choices...

[lololollywrites]

Ahhhhhh so I was teaching online last night, as I do every Wednesday night, and sharing my screen - again, as I always do - when I selected the URL to copy and paste a YouTube link into the chat for my students. I completely forgot that when you click on the address bar, previous sites come up. Among many that were decidedly expected, "Works: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson" was decidedly less so. I clicked away as quickly as possible, but. Um. Two questions:

Do ya'll think they saw it??

What would you do if you discovered your professor was on AO3? And into Johnlock? Keep in mind that all of you here may be a skewed representative sample of the general not-on-tumblr population.

#literally there needs to be a browser option called “FOR TEACHING” that recommends NO SITES AND DISPLAYS NO PERSONAL HISTORY OKAY #it's not as bad as that one picture of a teacher unaware that their screen was being projected reading AO3 fanfic in front of the class #so at least there's that #though whatever so they'll know i have other interests i guess it's not the end of the world lol

[fastasyoucan1999]

at the end of every day it’s like… well i could have been a little kinder. and then tomorrow i try to be a little kinder and by the end of the day it’s like. well i could have been a little kinder and it goes on and on forever

#anyway have been CROCHETING!!! liv and i the grandma mutuals … it is not at all surprising what a hobby can do to u. phone time down fifty #precent.. new music listened to. a collection of things i made with my hands!<3 how is everyone today.. i have only one class and then a #designated hang out with my friend where she brews me coffee and we watch lecture vids together and then spend sixty minutes cheating on a #quiz that wouldn’t be all that difficult if we just read the assigned readings but. why would we do that #also been thinking abt getting a king novel…. want cujo so bad but all the covers are nasty. why are all his cover nasty was talking to #katelyn abt this. the stand mass paperback cover makes me infuriated ok what was i saying i want cujo but i might just get a short story #collection!! though i’ve promised to read at least one more book off my shelf before i get any new ones :/ sorry i’m done!! personal boring #diary in the tags!! questions still stands though how is everyone!!

[aghastro]

i have found i have a somewhat subconscious personal symbology that appears in all of my artwork and i often wonder how much others have the same. A seemingly random reocurring symbol in my work can hold a long history of thoughts and feelings, that i never express in words, but it is there in my art. i tag things as "misc" as in "there is no named character here, not yet at least" but inside of these conceptual pictures is pieces of myself and my life, regardless

this is to say, i don't often draw things for no reason. sometimes the reason is silly! but i think everything has meaning :-)

#nonart #i recently spoke with someone about art who expressed joy in art that 'had no meaning' and was 'abstract for the sake of abstraction' #and the art in question they showed me was very much.. not that! #the interpretation of art is something i hold a lot of passion for and i respect their read of the work in question but i disagree #i do think pieces of art that exist to not mean anything are very interesting. moreso in that well That is a meaning in itself #i dont personally make art like this but i admire artists who make work in protest of high class hashtag Deep work etc i respect it #im getting off track here though #hello everybuddy #maybe i should make a talking blog #anyway: spikes coming out of the body in my artwork usually symbolizes bodily abnormalities that cause chronic pain #a visualizer of a disability in a way that is more emotional than literal for me

[sludgeguzzler]

man. i changed so much these past years

#im different from last years me who was different from 2021 me who was different from 2020 me and so on and so forth #it feels kinda weird thinking about it bc i went through *so much stuff* #all of it in just the past 4 years... insane #i found out i was trans. i went on lockdown. i started posting my art online. i made online friends. #i went through three different relationships. every single one of them changed me forever. #i started writing. i finished middle school. i read homestuck. i used discord everyday for 2 years. #i found my personal sense of style. i started going tk school again. i made friends irl. i lost all the online friends i had. #(thay wasnt bc of any scandal i just left the friendgroup and then started to slowly interact more with ppl irl #whi sorta made my online interactions dwindle especially one-on-one interactions #i think i feel better like this go be honest with you. the connections feel stronger and i feel closer to the friends ive made #not saying i dont like the people i know and befriended here just saying that not being chronically online anymore really changed how i #go through with internet interactions) #damn. really feeling the passage of time now. #also this is not a sad reminiscent post im *really* glad im in the place i am in life right now #i have a qpp i have an irl friendgrouo that i feel 100% comfortable with for the first time in my life im doing ok at school #i have a vision for my future my relationship with my parents is sooo much better #idk man. compare that with 14 year old me eating alone at school bc i was too scared to talk with the other people on my class and like. #yeah man. im doing a lot better #i DO have to update my art blog though. its been too long sincd i posted anything #talk

[rubberbandballqueen]

favorite part of work today was when i told the kids to get into two lines, n this one guy was like "i don't want to" n then started talking to his buddy in mandarin, n so then in chinese i was like, "hey, come here."

n he n his buddy looked at each other n then looked at me with like that faintly displeased expression that means they've realized they can't get away with not being that good at english (or feel terribly isolated from n indifferent to the adults bc they don't speak their language) anymore

and then when i told them to line up in mandarin they groaned abt it for sure but they did drag themselves into a line

#i walked in n this one kid handed me a book to read like a big hardcover graphic novel type thing n said i could look through it #so for kicks i started reading it out loud with all the silly voices n sound effects n blocking #and so then obviously the other children started to swarm me and god. kids have so much body heat #n you can feel it bc they have no personal space qwq #n anyway so i led them all to a different corner of the room and ended up reading 15 out of the 16 chapters of the book #out loud to a big chunk of the kids for like an hour w/a 5 min break halfway through for water #and when i came back the kids were organizing the chairs themselves into a semicircle to give me enough space to perform #i was sweating more than i have in Quite A While by the end bc again. children are So Warm n also being dramatic takes energy #the same kid who handed me the book today last year handed me some pokemon cards n i ended up spending all of spring camp #drawing pokemon from cards as references for kids to color n stuff bc i didn't want to go to the computer n print out coloring pages #so! i should probably stop spoiling/“yes and--”ing kids at work w/my nonsense but it gives them smth memorable at least #but also i am so fucking tired today lol i had to leave class as soon as it was done dash home to drop off my jacket n backpack #i didn't even have time to take off my shoes before entering the house so I Did An Unforgivable Sin (walked around w/shoes on) #n then put on my work jacket n dash out the door again to go to my 5.75 hr work shift o(--( #i don't regret it!! i did tell my boss i was free for afternoon camp shifts specifically bc i wanted these shifts even tho timing'd be tigh #successfully taught a kid to tie his shoelaces today though!!!!! what's w/kids n always using the very tips of their laces to mimic you tho #when you are very clearly handling the parts of the laces right next to your foot. it did click for him tho eventually #the worm speaks

[rotteneldritchhorror]

Telltaleix

[PT: Telltaleix]

An autigender related to the poem/story of The Tell-Tale Heart and one’s own autism

May also be related to organs (such as eyes or hearts), gore, the sound of a heartbeat, paranoia, secrecy, lies/lying, and/or horror (specifically gothic horror)

{ Photo ID help?: @liom-archive @radiomogai }

DNI: bigots, radinclus, radexclus, pro-endo, if you’re going to try and argue with me on any of these points, if you demonise mental illness, pro-transid (eg; transabled, transage, transrace, etc), proshippers/anti-anti, MAPS/NOMAPS/necro/zoo

#xenogender #xenogenders #xeno flag #xenogender coining #xenogender positivity #xenogender safe #xeno coining #term coining #coining post #flag coining #gender coining #identity coining #mogai coining #gender flag #new gender #mogai gender #🪐 gender #I fully made this because I have a weird autistic obsession with the Tell Tale Heart even though I’ve never personally read it all the way #I’m pretty sure I learnt about it in highschool? and maybe popcorn read it in class? #but literally never since read it #but yeah- this is my only way of understanding my total obsession and connection to this fucking story

[hanzajesthanza]

i miss worksheets :( i miss school where they give you a worksheet to fill out and you do it together as a class :( it makes me sad, lonely, and lazy to be working in unstructure, all by myself. someone pair-share-discuss the witcher with me 🥲

#im imagining witcher worksheets like reading a chapter 'as a class' and then doing a worksheet for comprehension #'what do you think the white rose of shaerrawedd symbolizes? turn to your partner and discuss. (2 minutes)' #please that actually sounds fun 😭 only if the other people would also be having fun though #i hate when you would do an exercise like this in class and then your partner is like '... i dunno i didn't do the questions.' #'can i see your answers' 'um it's really about your personal opinion though? like what do you think' 'idk what i think' #txt #but im making this post bc im making my own worksheets bc i need structure in planning this stuff out LOL