#a billion times yes

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

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)

[yoggybloggy]

#christ lord ive had enough. yes i shouldve said outside america #but like 5 amending comments and edit to the original post thousands of notes ago #yet only like 2 of you seem to think 'hmmmmm maybe op has already heard about canada's shipping rates a billion times in the tags!'

[izzymalec]

That's right.

#wwdits #wwditsedit #wwdits edit #what we do in the shadows #wwdits spoilers #nandor the relentless #laszlo cravensworth #guillermo de la cruz #mine #not sh* #have i mentioned i love laszlo? because i love laszlo #like this joke has been made a billion times probably but it's SO funny the way it was delivered here #the fact that he thinks he has to tell him to say no because the answer is clearly yes askdmskd #2k

[mossflower]

david tennant back in doctor who. first homestuck update in years. bbc merlin’s twitter reviving. dan and phil games is back. girl at this point i am sat at bbc sherlock’s grave with a gun

#i <3 when internet things happen around the same time it’s so fun #YES i know this post has been made a billion times before #but have you considered that i will take any opportunity i get to hate on that godforsaken show

[whatsfourteenupto]

In the Star Beast novelization it says that when the Doctor sees Donna again he just desperately wants to give her a giant hug and that it burns him that he can’t. If you even care.

#doctor who #fourteenth doctor #donna noble #the star beast #doctor who 60th anniversary #yes I KNOW most of you already know this #this keeps me up at night #imagine seeing your best friend in the universe #for the first time in 15? 1000? 4 billion? an unknowable number of years #the person you missed so much you built your entire current identity around that missing #and you can’t give them a hug #I can’t even GET to the rest I can’t even GET to the fact he has to act like he’s got no idea who she is #I can’t even GET to him having to hear her not know him #the fact that he can’t give her a hug does too much psychic damage

[kithj]

compiled a list of some of my favorite text-based games & VNs that are specifically wlw:

another round - You play as Maddie, a woman in love with a woman named Agnes. Actually, she hates her. Actually, it's complicated. You definitely broke things off with her. And you don't regret it. At least once. Yes. At least once per day, you don't regret ending it with Agnes. Except tonight. You definitely regret it tonight.

such, such were the joys - It is the year 19xx in England. You are returning to the town of Grayling after your first year at university to meet your old school friends: Cicily Thomas, Fatima Khan, and Susheela Rajaram. As the only Indian girls at Grayling Towers, the four of you quickly became close friends, but you haven't seen each other in a year. You're not sure what has changed since then, but this is your chance to find out.

florence - Florence lies in bed, cold and still. You watch over her and wait.

perseids, or, all this will go on forever - Four trans girlfriends go on a road trip to a dark sky park, to see the perseid meteor shower. 

winter - an interactive fiction about sex, trans insecurity, and a girl with a skull for a face.

butterfly soup 1 & 2 (VN) - A visual novel about gay Asian girls playing baseball and falling in love.

birdland - At night 14-year-old Bridget Leaside dreams of fantastic lands full of strange bird people. By day she's a miserable anxious summer camper, trying very hard not to think about her feelings for the mysterious girl detective in Cabin 22. And when her dream life starts bleeding into reality, things are going to get weird for her in a whole bunch of ways...

a summer's end: hong kong 1986 (VN) - Follow the story of Michelle and Sam, and how their chance meeting evolves into a deeper romantic relationship. Set in vibrant Hong Kong in the year 1986, it is an original story about love, family, and culture.

one day hike - You go on a hike in a familiar wood.

a year of springs (VN) - experience the stories of haru, erika, and manami in A YEAR OF SPRINGS, a visual novel trilogy about a trio of friends navigating their feelings of love, connection, and just wanting to belong.

pageant - Your name is Qiuyi (Karen?) Zhao, and you’ve just been signed up by your parents for a beauty pageant. You’re not ready, not even close, but you don’t have a choice. But perhaps you can make the best of it.

new year's eve, 2019 (sequel to pageant) - You are Karen Zhao, a senior in college who is home for winter break, and seeing your old high school friends for the first time in years. You are not ready, not even close, but perhaps you could make the best of it.

the revenant's lament - Way out west, in the most lonesome of reaches, strange things are afoot. Cowboys around campfires tell ghost stories and tall tales, speak of impossible, supernatural things. They say the devil walks amongst men. They say he'll grant you impossible wishes at the cost of your eternal soul. They say he can bring dead men back to life.

venus meets venus - Two women meet in a bar. This is not a love story.

#yes i put my own game on this list. sue me #anyways i know there are like a billion yuri games on itchio so this is a highly curated list #excluding dating sims and yuri VNs cus they're incredibly easy to find like just go in the yuri tag lmfao #interactive fiction #games #also most of the creators on this list have more games too that i recommend #draw everything here that's me and you (?) something like that by kaleidofish #anamika has quite a few games besides florence and such such were the joys #there's another sequel to pageant and new years 2019 & the archivist by autumn chen #npckc has a shit ton of games lmfao #there are some sequels to birdland too but ive never played any of those #communistsister has a massive catalogue of games and collabs with domino club #anyways. these are just some of my favorite creators #and some of their games that i really liked #i might add on to this but im having a hard time focusing to read games lately i only just finally read revenant's lament last night #so i could put it here. brigid your game will haunt me forever (affectionate)

[shigaeru]

Coattails art for @pain-in-the-butler

#Bard and Sebastian my BELOVED #they’re dads #coattails #yes this is kuro art in 2023 on this shizaya main blog #sometimes you gotta go back to your ROOTS #funny how I can draw sebastian with my eyes closed #that's what drawing him a billion times in 2012 does to a mfs brain chemistry i guess #dadbastian

[missmousebean]

you cannot tell me donnie wouldnt be the biggest vocaloid enjoyer

#am i posting art for the first time in a billion years just to make a tmnt shitpost #yes. yes i am #mouse art #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt #rottmnt leo #tmnt #rise of the tmnt #tmnt 2018 #mimi’s best ✌️

[cthulhum]

and dean winchester thought he was unlovable and didnt deserve happiness he hated himself and thought eveyone would eventually leave him and then a literal fucking angel fell in love with him. like loved him more than anything else in the world.

#and yes people have pointed out that cas has always been fascinated with the world and humans and all of gods creation #but he started Caring about the world and everyone BECAUSE OF DEAN #dont u love it when two people only fall in love with each other in One universe they get no other chances #these r the only version of themselves that said No im gonna do my own thing and they didnt play by the rules they Rebelled #THEY REBELLED FOR EACH OTHERRRRRR ONLY ONCE JUST ONCE #cas literally put everything hed ever believed in on the line for dean #he questioned everything for the first time. he began to doubt #a warrior angel and a son raised as a weapon going against everything theyve ever known for each other #they r so similar theyre both weapons for the man in charge theyve always only followed orders until they mer each other #im aware all of this has been said a billion times by literally everyone i just love them and cant stop thinking or talking about them ever #ok bye <3 #supernatural #dean winchester #destiel #spn #castiel #deancas

[narnour-momo-007]

*drops this and disappear*

#sam and max #my art #help I shouldn't have spent all that time on this #and yes between all the seven billion living person on this planet I! decided to be the one to go ahead and draw a meme about goddamn HANDS

[moonsnqil]

i'm imagining andreil during sophomore year with neil peeking over the side of andrew's bunk bed and asking "yes or no?" because he wants permission to sleep there for the night and kevin across the room ten seconds away from losing it bc he's been hearing that damn question almost every night since the semester started and he loves his roommates, he does, but he wants to scream at them to stfu and just go to sleep already

#i think kevin likes that andrew and neil have each other despite him worrying about how it could ruin the couple's professional career #BUT #he lives with them and lets be honest theyre probably his closest friend so therefore hes had to witness neil staring at andrew /like that/ #and them asking each other yes or no a billion times #and andrew threatening to stab him with a knife if he tries to push neil too hard in exy or brings up their past #and kevin is tired of having the dietary conversation with andrew who eats more ice cream than a 2 year old #and neil keeps skipping watching old games with him bc andrew wants to stay in bed and neil never says no to cuddling or whatever they do #basically. kevin is fed up with them #does this make sense to yall? like do you see the vision? #aftg #andreil #the foxhole court #all for the game #nora sakavic #tfc

[rawliverandgoronspice]

still a hardcore believer in the "totk was absolute development hell" theory btw, even if I know it will never be confirmed or denied, but all the signs are there honestly

#thoughts #totk #totk critical #when will my brain return from the imprisoning war... #the fact that it does not take 6 years to make a game like this #that they used the covid excuse (the game industry took like a month to adapt tops) #that the game was postponed eight billion times #that there are very clear signs that there was a pretty brutal rewrite at some point #that no writers/quest designers are credited??? as far I can tell???? #and also and that's... kind of impossible to prove or to pinpoint or rationally explain #but this game feels like burnout to me #it tastes like hollowed gamedev soul who switched off their enthusiasm and went “content mode” just to push through the finish line #OH YES also the lack of dlc #I have a hard time believing they have nothing they could potentially add if they wanted to --and maybe they just don't want to #it just... feels like exhaustion packaged around a genuinely brilliant feature #hoping its brightness would camouflage the thinness of everything else #again perhaps I'm projecting but the game *feels* deeply familiar to me in that way

[chadepitanga]

It just occurred me that when Enabran Tain says he never had to ask Garak to get the implant, "never had to ask him to do anything, that's what made him special", it sounds like he's implying Garak did it without him having to ask, but. Once we learn that he's Garak's father and that he thinks locking a child up in a closet is commendable parenting, I'm not sure Garak was even informed the implant was there till it was time to put it to use. Which makes The Wire 10 times worse, emotionally speaking.

#every time I think oh hes like that because he had that guy for a father figure. it all falls into place. #like yes growing up with an insane fucking parent who gives you cult mentality from day one will fuck you up #from finding the universe to be a billion times bigger when you're no longer in touch #to the psychotic disorder and substance use problems and doctor kink #and if I sound like I know a little too much about this I'll just say I was raised by a psychoanalyst evangelical baptist #ds9 #star trek meta #elim garak

[dashiellqvverty]

okay i'm curious, what do you consider to be THEE stucky song(s)? for me its probably miss missing you but i'm really curious abt other people's answers whether you take that as meaning the most quintessentially About Them or something that was super prominent in fandom or whatever else makes something THEE song to you

#stucky #catws #stevebucky #catws10 #yes this is reblog bait but i ACTUALLY WANT TO KNOW #i got into fall out boy after getting into stucky and i just remember one time listening to it and being like oh my god...... its about the #and the of course everyone in the fandom already had made a billion edits about that #a strong runner up for me is 18 by one direction #i think 1d have a lot of stucky songs personally #r.txt #i will be sad if this flops i am genuinely really curious what the most impactful stucky songs for other ppl are

[nailgunstigmata]

im returning to my roots. by which i mean dennis in lingerie

#yes i know ive drawn this exact pose a billion times before but #its cunt. to me #sunny art #suggestive