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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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It's funny to imagine that Professor X and Magneto actually don't know how to play chess (like their actors didn't).

It's even funnier knowing that Beast canonically plays chess and it's exactly the kind of thing Cyclops would make everyone do for strategy lessons and none of them dare point out how wrong Charles and Erik always get it.

#x-men #professor x #charles xavier #magneto #erik lehnsherr #beast #cyclops #scott summers #hank mccoy

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What would sci-fi be like if Star Wars had done what Alien and Terminator did and have the third in the trilogy be hot garbage?

#for clarity i mean return of the Jedi #Star Wars #return of the Jedi #Star Wars original trilogy #alien 1979 #aliens #Alien 3 #the terminator #terminator judgement day

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Disney has no idea what I would pay to see Revenge of the Sith with Padmé's independent storyline added back in. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

#Star Wars #Disney #revenge of the Sith #padme amidala

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Regarding bigotry and discrimination here's something I just thought of:

Every woman, no matter her other privileges, even up to the Queen of England, has at some point in her life suffered a negative experience, or been denied a positive experience, etc. solely because she is a woman. She may not have realised this, the person or people causing it may not have knowingly been sexist towards her, but it was and they were.

You can replace woman with POC, gay, trans, disabled, etc. it still works. I only used woman in my example because that's how it came to me.

I'm including long-term effects of colonialism and imperialism here.

#discrimination #sexism #racism #ableism #homophobia #transphobia

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Considering everyone in a culture usually knows the gist of them, using fairytales and nursery rhymes as codes, clues, etc. is a good idea actually, especially if you want them to last.

#folklore #fairy tales #nursery rhymes #nursery songs

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How did I just realise the 'wise old owl' trope comes from the Goddess Athena?

#about me #athena #greek myth #greek mythology #tropes

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Anyone want to hear how Galadriel, Thor's wife from Norse myth and Rapunzel are the same person actually?

#Rapunzel #fairy tales #norse mythology #sif #tolkien #galadriel #literature

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I love reading classic literature and ending up not hating the villain that much, I know Clytemnestra, Shylock, etc. are terrible people who do awful things, but their grudges are very legitimate.

I mean, Shylock suffers incredible anti-semitic abuse from basically everyone, for no reason but he's Jewish. His daughter steals from him and abandons him.

Clytemnestra has her husband murder their eldest daughter, go to war for ten years, and in some versions he also killed her first husband and baby. Not to mention in the oldest version in The Odyssey all she did was have an affair and not stop all the stabbing.

To me it's all less irredeemable awful villain than got pushed to the limit and responded dramatically.

#the merchant of venice #shylock #shakespeare #clytmenestra #greek mythology #villains #anti-semitism #literature #this is like my post about Goneril and Regan in King Lear

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So the original Universal Monster movies Dracula, Frankenstein and The Invisible Man diverge dramatically from the source novels. The other iconic monsters, The Wolf Man, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Mummy, don't originate from novels, but think what the 1800-1910 novels The Wolf Man, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Mummy would have been like.

#I wish they had existed #it would be amazing #universal monsters #dracula #frankenstein #the wolf man #the mummy #the creature from the black lagoon #the invisible man #universal horror #classic horror

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Having read about the Shakespearean authorship question for my own amusement I have discovered a potential discrepancy in theories:

For some reason, no one mentions a lack of documentation could have been caused by the Globe burning down late in Shakespeare's career during a production of Henry VIII.

#shakespeare #shakespearean authorship #william shakespeare

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Looking at the fan reaction to Milo the goat in Shadow and Bone having read the whole trilogy I can't wait to see what everyone thinks of Oncat if they adapt Ruin and Rising.

#Shadow and bone #Milo #the Grisha Trilogy #ruin and Rising #seriously read the books there's so much that's awesome

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I've been reading Star Wars Legends comics and the fact that the man who trained Quinlan Vos and the woman who trained Mace Windu are dating has exceptional comedy potential.

#Star Wars #clone wars #Star Wars Legends #mace windu #quinlan vos

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Just read and watched King Lear and I know I shouldn't sympathise with Goneril and Regan but half their point was 'dad you can live with us but don't bring a mob' it doesn't seem that terrible

#Shakespeare #theatre #king Lear

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If anyone non-British wants to know how our colonial history is treated here, I read loads of history books growing up and the only one to really mention native peoples was the Horrible Histories The Barmy British Empire, which really deals quite well with it in my opinion. But without reading that, I would never have known for example that there were ever native Tasmanians, the British killed them all.

#British history #British empire #history #colonialism #Tasmania #aborigines

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In regards to the death of Prince Philip, I just don't care, some random old man died. It's a loss to his family and friends, nothing to me. It hit me harder when my great aunt died recently even though I only met her once because like, I existed to her, to some rich old guy in a castle, I'm nothing.

And I'm still annoyed that all Friday the radio played weird music I never heard before as a result of the news.

#British politics #royal family #prince philip

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Now feminist Greek mythology retellings seem to be in vogue someone really needs to do one about Medea.

Another for the 'list of things I'd write if I was better at it.'

#Medea #Greek myth #writing #Jason #retellings #classics #mythology