#a level work

[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)

[fiddlepickdouglas]

Saw another poll that asked what your natural hair color was with half the choices being shades of blonde and that just won't do. Let's go about this the professional way (this does not describe tone but tones are based off this level system). Some natural levels fall in between these, as human variation will do, but go with what you believe is closest.

Feel free to describe your tone in the tags!

*some level systems include levels 11 and 12 but these are strictly to describe shades lightened above a level 10 and are not considered on the naturally occurring spectrum for hair aside from going lighter with age

#signed: someone who went to fucking hair school #do not consult me on coloring though i only working with my own hair now #hair colors #hair levels #polls #bald people im kissing your beautiful heads

[beelittle]

It’s christmas and i needed to get something out

So here’s the forger family, in all their slightly disastrous holiday spirit.

#fanart #spy x family #sxf fanart #anya forger #loid forger #yor forger #bond forger #forger family #loid works tirelessly everyday as a top level spy #to save his 6 (secretly 4/5) year old daughter from her own unfortunate decision-making #yor is there for the vibes #and i love her #merry chrysler

[napping-sapphic]

You’re sitting there unkissed and I’m sitting here also unkissed maybe….there’s a solution to our problems…..no……surely it can’t be that simple…..

#wlw #wlw mood #sapphic #sapphism #lesbian #how the wlw brain works tbh #😔😔😔 #overthinking level 400 #im gay and i like sleeping

[theeretblr]

I am holding so much gender in my hand right now

I'm not starting them just yet, there are some tests and fertility preservation things I've got to do first, but I now have Estrogen! I've been debating getting this for like 4-5 years, I may decide it's not for me after I start. I am still genderqueer/genderfluid and I still use any pronouns. I'm not taking T blockers yet either. We'll see how it goes! :)

If you are wanting to start HRT, I highly recommend Folx. I signed up with them, booked an appointment with a Doctor, and had a prescription for Estrogen within a week! Check them out: https://www.folxhealth.com/

#eret #gender #genderqueer #genderfluid #lgbtq+ #any pronouns #AMAB #Folx helped me so much #they got me hormone level tests #they got me a 30% discount on a fertility preservation service #I think they can also work with insurance (which I don't have) #We'll see what happens #I'm nervous and excited

[transmascissues]

it’s so funny to me that people used to try to warn me “if you go on t it won’t make you androgynous it’ll just make you look like a man” because 1) i do want to look like a man, that is famously a major part of being a trans man but also 2) t literally has made me androgynous?? like they were wrong on both counts. i got most of the looking-like-a-man changes that i wanted (deep voice, broader body, hair all over my body including my face) and i also give every single cis person in a five mile radius a stroke every time they try to figure out my gender. the assumption that trans men wouldn’t actually want to look like men and the assumption that cis people are good at correctly gendering us once we’re on t are both weird as hell.

#people said this to me all the fucking time pre t #to the point that it did almost make me too afraid to go on t bc ‘what if they’re right and i don’t really want to look like a man?’ #but it turns out that was bullshit on so many levels #i look ‘like a man’ now and love it and also am the most androgynous person most cis people i meet have ever seen #y’all just don’t know how t works at fucking all #transandrophobia #transandromisia #transmisandry #virilmisia #virilphobia #anti transmasculinity #transmascphobia #trans men #transmascs

[orangemoustache]

if they'd met earlier in their careers. (inspired by that one edit of will in a patrol officer's uniform)

#hannibal #nbc hannibal #art #hannibal art #hannigram #if you think i beautified him you are WRONG. pls google. #hannibal's lust level: paintings of st sebastian #literally googled one (1) picture of the uniform and looked at it once so like. veeeery accurate work

[bet-on-me-13]

Tucker's mom invites him to Take Your Son to Work Day

So! Tucker hasn't talked to his mom in a little while, he usually stays with his Dad and Step-Mom in Amity, but every once in a while he'll go over to Washington DC to visit his Bio Mom.

And she recently just called him to ask if he wanted to visit the White House on Bring your Child to Work Day. She works there as the Secretary of Defense, and he is actually really interested in what she does for work.

So, he get picked up and taken to Washington, where he meets up with his Mom.

Amanda Waller.

...

For the record, Amanda Waller knows she's not a good person, and Definitely not a Good Mom. But she thinks she is at least semi-decent, look, she even invited her son to Bring Your Child To Work Day!

And look how much fun he is having running around the Argus Labs! She knew he was a Tech Geek, but he is really getting into it.

Right now he's looking at their Confiscated Alien Tech, and the smile on his face is actually making Amanda feel a little happy. Oh, what's he doing now? What's he doing with the Coffee Maker? Why is he taking that Screwdriver from that Toolbo-

What is he doing with the Alien Tech?!

She rushes over to stop him, but stops dead in her tracks when she sees what he did. Somehow, he had just taken a Busted Alien Cooling Unit, took some parts from the Coffee Maker, and turned it into a Freeze Ray.

"Oh, sorry Mom. Do you want me to put it back the way it was?"

"...do you want a Job?"

"...I'm 14."

#Dpxdc #Dp x dc #Dcxdp #Dc x dp #Danny Phantom #Dc #Dcu #Amanda Waller #Tucker Foley #Amanda Waller is Tucker Foley's Biological Mom #Take your Child to Work Day #Waller did it so she could at least pretend to be a good mom #She didn't know her son was a 12th Level Intellect #But now she can rub it in her co-workers faces at least

[stil-lindigo]

the machine.

a comic about being a 'creator' online.

creative notes:

#in light of recent online 'success' i feel like this may come off as ungrateful #just wanna say that all the comics i make in this series are written about experiences i felt in 2022 #which was a rough year personally and creatively #and i very luckily don't feel this way anymore #and this also isnt to shame anyone who DOES feel this way #its easy to start to feel like all you are is a vending machine of art #and like thats all you are to people #theres nothing human to you #it can be a bit of a pit #and on some level this damage is self inflicted but social media really doesnt help that feeling #this wont work for everyone but having friends around you who you can talk to about stuff that ISNT art #going outside for dinner #maybe walking around #its good for when you need that feeling to go away even a bit temporarily #youre a human being #not a mindless content creation machine #and i hope anyone who feels like this now can get to a place where they have a healthier relationship with their own work #good luck to all of you #and thank you for reading #comic art #its 10pm #stillindigo art

[shaonicwhite]

moonrise (2015) by phyllis shafer vs. landscape from saint-rémy (1889) by vincent van gogh. kind of obsessed with how they bleed into each other side by side

#various photos of the painting have different brightness / saturation levels — this one’s a little darker than some of them #i thought it worked well with the shafer painting #shaoniposting #art #painting #oil painting #van gogh #phyllis shafer #vincent van gogh #art history

[sixofclovers]

local teen happy for first time in life, universe adjusts accordingly 

#the owl house #toh #toh spoilers #the owl house spoilers #spoilers #spoiler #ok thats tagged to hell and back #hunter #flapjack #thanks to them #golden guard #i cant believe they did it girlies i rly didnt think they were gonna do it #it was a good ep #kind of a sketch? like the step up from one but not commission level work #Illustration #soc art

[nerdpoe]

AU where after Jason died, Tim decided to become one of Batman's villains to keep him in line.

His logic is; Batman, no matter how far gone, would never want to see a child resort to crime and villainy. He's right.

A little too right.

Batman is now obsessed with the child villain, determined to rescue the kid from himself. Tim, however, is committing to the bit.

#batman au #third robin au #bruce is now hyperfixating on little villain tim #tim is having a hell of a time dodging him #eventually his luck will run out #but currently it's working overdrive #*disclaimer the luck is the base level thugs. they think it's adorable and don't want batman to break his bones

[schmoel]

sooooo fun watching joel and zedaph interact. a hermit whose only experience with breaking minecraft is getting obsessed with the chisels and bits mod for a while VS a hermit who could figure out how to play minecraft with all his limbs restricted ingame and irl. hermit who spends 1/3 of his year doing megabuilds alone and hermit who only goes out of his hole bases to run redstone experiments. awesome

#smallishbeans #zedaphplays #hermitcraft #joel's used to dealing with weird british people (oli) but zed is on another level. his joelisms have no effect #remembering the 2nd ep where joel made his entrance by doing a water bucket clutch. god. #and then him trying to make it seem like his side of the jump game was working better than zed's. SUCH A LOSER #i

[splash-o-matica]

“Side order was short” babe youre not done until you unlock all of THESE

#GET BACK TO WORK BITCH #this is what roguelikes are. replayable #to unlock. More #splatoon #side order #side order spoilers #if youre wondering why mine is so low its because i ALMOST finished level 30 last night and then died. hehe #also i like playing sniper on this mode. so fucking fun #esp if you get enough weapon buffs

[wiltkingart]

skintight

#raiden #mgs2 #mgs #metal gear #digital #fanart #video games #original art #wanted to have these finished much sooner but long story short i caught the flu and fused with my bed on all levels including physical #still recovering actually but ive been dying to work on these!! hopefully leon won't be another long wait :')

[nixoon-again]

me 🤝 tails

#sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #doodles #i feel the lil guy on a spiritual level #so much work so little time