#aka like most of the things on there

[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)

[clownsuu]

Man I wonder how Octavio felt when he saw that Cuttlefish is now a living strip of squid jerky

Ain’t gunna stop him from bein pissed smhhhhhh

#Would probably say same thing Craig said to him when he would be in the ol fuckin snow globe hdhdHHDGDGC #Aka “isn’t he cute” in the most condescending way possible dhudHHDGD #Splatoon #dj octavio #captain cuttlefish #splatoon spoilers #Also I love there is a bunch of people who sees Octavio as just a gay mans #Absolute legend he looks intimidating and spooky and has even committed some crimes #But it was all for the sake of his people smhhh #He even knows that he’s selfish in a way for that #Also m a n I do n o t remember Craig being such a shit head to octarians #Like he should know better tf they used to be allies 🧍‍♂️ #That’s the English version anyway idk about the direct dialog he has from japanese #smhhhhhhhhh

[jondrettegirls]

[ID: Two drawings of Enjolras and Grantaire from Les Miserables. They are both of the pair, asleep in bed, spooning. But the first has Enjolras as little spoon, and the second has Grantaire as little spoon. End ID.]

usually i can instinctively instantly tell which of my blorbos is which spoon…. but i cant decide w enjoltaire what is going onnn….

#maybe ill knwo by the time ive finished the brick #okay bcuz the thing is usually my go-to logic for spooning is #little spoon shld be whoever is most repressed and/or acts as protector and/or generally just needs to be shown that they can b #protected and can b treated gently #which obviously. wld lead to enj as little spoon. #but the thing abt it grantaire is me so he must be little spoon #also like. r certainly needs to feel loved and be shown he is worthy of love #also also. then when it comes to the question of big spoon #r wld love to feel like he can protect e. like. thats the dream thats ideal #but i think in the world e ends up loving grantaire back (aka the world where they spoon) he wld be eager to show r he does in fact #love him ardently . he commits to things a lot ykw #anyway. silly silly #on my own. #on my art. #les mis #exr #enjoltaire #les miserables #enjolras #grantaire #les mis fanart

[whoisspence]

Hi could you make a post about s1- s4 reid i really need pics of him but i am way too lazy to look for them anyway justice for fetus Reid he is so underappreciated

i sure can !

baby reid incoming !

#baby reid aka the most precious thing ever #the cutest little cinnamon bun #loved this request so much #we all need to see a few baby reid pics every once in a while #it's like therapy #spencer reid #criminal minds #askwhoisspence

[koetjingwarrd]

You're my baby, say it to me...

#gundam witch from mercury #gwitch #wfm #sulemio #suletta mercury #miorine rembran #i bet on losing dogs as per gwitch current story progression aka ep17 do you see my vision... #i have particular mixed feelings on ep 17 most of which i feel that the story is done a bit sloppy i think it started around ep 16 or 15 #i really need to get this out so i could study damn it !! #first of all with miorine with the one who's losing a lot by being complicit with prospera's quiet zero significantly trapping herself furt #er in the cycle of revenge and also losing the friends she has come to cherish and also... at the same time knowing hal truths of what real #ly happened prospera true plan. vanadis. aerial and suletta true nature. earth as a spacian battleground. and the whole lot #i feel like she's rushing thru her birthday to eject sul asap from prosperas plan and now whats done is done i feel like she underestimate #what conviction on how suletta values what family means to her. prospera lines where she wonders whether sul will give aerial up #easily is giving vibes that its possible for suletta to take drastic measures to get her family back. miorine grows up on a world that #is defined by strict rules but suletta does not... that is after she's starting to get over her heartbreak i think... #whats interesting about gwitch is that although it considered utena as one of its base material it mixes said materials with how gundam sto #ryline works while simultaneously keeping up with today's themes. so honestly... when this happened today im a bit pissed #another thing that even though on a surface level suletta plays the role of utena with miorine as anthy they are also anthy and utena #respectively. suletta and utena with their kind hearted and naive self with a sense of justice left behind the insidious plot of the school #anthy and miorine titled the bride who adored their respective partner up to the point of deception and betrayal for their own good #SULETTA AND ANTHY GOD THE WITCh. red motifs. i find it funny they both have siblings okay this is messed up. the character shrouded in myst #ery. SCREAMS AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS THE CHICK WHO IS YET TO HATCHH !!!! RAHHH #insert utena student council theme somewhere around here #and lastly utena and miorine. the “princess”that is ready to take on a world that is threatening her loved one. both are only child god no. #this is my personal feelings but i will find it heartbreaking that despite everthing suletta will runs to miorine no matter how much she #push her away... but i also want and find it interesting where despite loving and believing in her suletta will slowly will ALSO despise #her for letting them drift apart kind of like anthy and utena on the akio apocalypse arc....... do i want this to happen...? do i....? >yes #regardless augh what a heartwrenching lovely episode despite me knowing it will happen at some point during the show #im like the surprised pikachu meme with tears in my eyes

[snowberai]

Curiosity..

HELLOO!

crappy and lazy comic thingy that gets progressively even lazier was brought to you by me! And my rotting brain!

I have no idea how to make comics or scenarios, but like THREE of them has popped up in my brain and wont freaking leave my thinking property unless i drew at least ONE of those three scenarios. It’s like making a deal with the devil with how my brain works sometimes.

anyway,

GRUMPY SECLUDED ARCTIC Y/N SUPREMACY

i loved the idea of this little goober with tons of warm fluff living in the arctic/tundra with no social tolerance whatsoever, imagine their frustration if they ever interact with Endermoon. (Spoiler alert: He only knows how to speak/write Enderman, HAHAHA)

Idk if this counts as a WIP, but i guess it’ll just be a crappy thing in my blog now, hope y’all like-y and hope it tickles your brain at least a LITTLE bit. (/j)

#minecraft au #Endermoon #Enderman!Moon #Moon x y/n #my art #sorry for the messy lines #i had to rush drawing it and getting it out there in case i forgor about it until like 6 weeks later #aka i forget cool stuff a LOT #and i get sadge over it #I also had to rush it EVEN MORE so i can go SLEEP #ITS 2 AM #ugh #ooogh #im still working on my human anatomy #and i have no idea how to draw fingers and it angers me #that's like- the only thing im struggling most with rn #and ive been practicing this human thing for like 2 months #pain and suffering here i come :D #Arctic!Y/n #Grumpy!Y/n #if y'all start simping for grumpy y/n ill legitimately start a war #Only because y'all gonna make me simp for them too #also #props to you peeps for reading these long ass tags #love ya :)

[astrobei]

take a little moment (find the right words)

“Wow,” Will breathes out, just on this edge of teasing. “You sound very confident about this.” “Well,” Mike shrugs, swallowing hard in a desperate attempt to soothe his very, very dry mouth, “I don’t know why someone wouldn’t be interested in you.” “Oh?” Will says, and it’s definitely teasing now, enough for Mike to feel himself turning warm, all down his neck and to the tips of his own – sadly unpatterned – socks. “Someone?” “Yeah.” Mike nods. Oh, god. This is fine. “In a very arbitrary sense of the word. Just– people. Someone.”

Mike is approximately ninety-eight percent sure that his feelings are requited. That last two percent, however, has really been throwing him for a loop.

for @wiseatom <3

#it's here !! aka what i have lovingly dubbed the btr fic despite there being more one direction references in this than btr #whatever #thea this one's for u #sorry for being horrible and 4 months late but this was one of the most fun fics i've ever written so i hope you enjoy !! #also for the record i am projecting so so heavily onto mike wheeler here #like i always do that lbr #but so extra hard in this one #i know modern aus aren't everyone's cup of tea but i'm asking you to pretty please give this a shot bc modern hcs are some of my most #favorite things to think about #anyways #the second longest oneshot i've ever written #and for a second there i thought it would top the diner fic. oops #byler #byler fic #mike wheeler #will byers

[swordsandarms]

There's nothing more self-inserting in this fandom than the people who actually hate Rhaegar Targaryen (and sometimes by extension Lyanna and Daenerys and other Targaryens).

But with Rhaegar it's very peculiar. With either Rhaegar positive or neutral fans, you can discuss things like connections he has with characters in actual canon, by actually canon references, that give him some depth whatsoever in turn. Love RxL shippers with all the actually newer clues highlighted compared to your typical "Jon's parentage" checklists because it gives more character interiority. Love the Jon and Dany fans who've given more attention to the connections clearly drawn on purpose by the author that are also doing that.

But people who outright hate this tertiary character? The emotionally driven rants as if this man was their own boyfriend or father and wronged them specifically and that's all the focus of it? Only ever writing in "depth" about him in scenarios that are clearly made up and can only be explained as projection from some baggage none of us trying to read some book are interested in? Very odd behaviour.

#asoiaf #lyanna stark #rhaegar targaryen #jon snow #it's also how you know #people like me come and go onto the topic #write something when there's something to add to whatever actually useful discussion there is in that sense #but those people #they just keep re-popping up to screech a variation of the same enraged broken record statement #and just keep doing that over the years #never getting over it #like idk #you've clearly got something to unpack #but it's definitely not about this small fantasy character #and as I said also with Dany or Jon or Arya or Lyanna etc #there's usual the self inserting people in Sansa or Catelyn or such #with veeeeeery weird opinions about things in general (aka women or children) and an opinion about the character they self insert in #that have nothing to do with their canon depiction most of time #or only being interested in that side of it they self insert in if that makes sense #so like Sansa is somehow a representative of girl next door suddenly cause she's not relevant to magic in a magic book #or Catelyn is some ever suffering wife who needs to feel validated in taking out her frustrations as some stressed out #21st century local mother with a shitty husband and stressed by taking care of children on her own #like hm #I see you and what you're doing but also #I don't care #I'm here for a book not for your personal shit

[six-of-cringe]

"If I just exact perfect and absolute vengeance against Pekka Rollins, then the voice of Jordie will be satisfied and disappear forever" WRONG. Obsessive compulsive disorder.

#kaz isn't even in my top three main ocd projection targets but like. hmmm that sounds familiar #like yeah it's trauma but also 'the thoughts will stop if i do this right and good enough' is The Thing #one of the things he wants the most is 'jordie's voice' to be silenced forever but consider #that he's just putting jordie's name on his own obsessive compulsive thoughts #obsession: guilt and misplaced responsibility over jordie's death and fear that he is constantly being judged by dead jordie for this #compulsion: work feverishly toward taking down rollins in an Absolute and Total way that will satisfy 'jordie' aka the obsessive thoughts #'hey will destroying pekka rollins make the thoughts go away?' no <3 hope this helps #or we could just call it a trauma response and move on but 1 putting things in this lens is interesting and 2 funny post funny joke #kaz brekker #jordie rietveld #pekka rollins #six of crows #soc #tgt #soc shitpost #ocd mention

[chirpsythismorning]

Vecna’s plan requiring Mike to leave for California means nothing. The number 1 following Mike cryptically at the airport means nothing. Them barely giving us Mike’s perspective the last two seasons (despite him being the original protagonist) means nothing and it isn’t setting up his POV to be revealed in s5 bc the entire audience is completely comfortable with where Mike stands as a character in regards to his deeper feelings/motives. No confusion there so no need to address that. Mike saying How will I survive a whole week without you guys at the start of s4 wasn't foreshadowing his fate at the end of said week. Mike standing in front of exit signs 3+ times in s4 is probably just a coincidence. Mike being associated with gaping mouths in multiple moments spanning the entire series, even going back to his very first line on the show, means nothing at all. Nancy’s vision about her family (Mike) dying was mentioned at the end of s4, but it didn’t happen so probably won’t ever happen, even though there’s still another season left set directly after the events of s4. Will calling Mike the heart and how without heart they’d all fall apart, was not in any shape form foreshadowing something happening to Mike and them all falling apart, bc Mike is definitely just a prop and everything in relation to his story only holds meaning on the surface or for other characters arcs and couldn’t possibly be hinting at something deeper that’s being saved as one of the many surprises for the last season.

#byler #stranger things #im sorry but ppl getting mad over speculation about mike and vecna is weird… especially when there's series long evidence… #like we know for a fact Will and vecna are facing off in s5 it's a given with the most basic ga being ready for it #it’s probably going to really come to a head in that final battle in the last two episodes #so early s5 and everything leading up to Will being confronted by vecna cant just be Will and vecna confronting each other over and over… #that would make their final confrontation anticlimactic #there’s a reason we keep seeing a chess board/dnd in relation to the events to come #bc EVERYONE is a piece in vecna’s game #EVERYONE plays a role in him reaching his main goal #back in 2019 if ppl heard max was a target or Nancy was a target in s4 they would’ve been confused #bc there’s little to no ties between the mindflayer and those characters #for a fact Will has more ties to vecna than them #HOWEVER them having no connection to vecna is not entirely true #vecna is connected to Max and Nancy’s trauma related to the person they lost because of him.. #and he used that against them to be 10 steps ahead so that he can lead up to reaching his final goal AKA WILL #he could have just got will 10 times already but he doesn't do it that way #we could’ve not had any of the events in s3-4 happen with random ass characters #BUT THE REALITY IS VECNA WANTS/NEEDS CANNON FODDER #he needs ppl that are just players in his game to overcome to eventually follow through with his plan #Mike arguably has fucked over vecna more than anyone #he’s also someone that both Will and El care for dearly #there’s a reason vecna's plan required the great big love triangle mishap in s4 #his plan literally depended on that miscommunication so that they would have a false win #like y’all just seem to want the most anticlimactic season with Will and vecna facing off only… #yes that Will happen and it will be some of the biggest moments of the season #but there's other stuff that's gotta happen... #and tbh will is going to be swamped with venca/lab revelations next season #them pounding us on the head with will is gay in s5 is going to feel repetitive as we've seen that four seasons in a row... #mike on the other hand...

[gooboogy]

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#goobarts #commissions #kofi #commission me so i can get a music program and make music again! #if anyone listens to my music PLEASE let me know!! #i made them a while ago in 2018/2019 and i still really like them #i call this genre “that one good 15 sec of a song but repeated forever and ever” #elevator to the 1000th floor #music to zone tf out to #i put the bassa nova one bere bc that seems the most accessible lol #other person favs: gluck (aka the water level) minty. wrong turn. i forgot my keyboard. +. a bunch really #theyre all so good (to Me) #some of them are Bad but they still have very interesting things going on in there #they all have a very special place in my heart #if you listen let me know. where do they take you. where do you go #please feel free to send asks about them lol #i could talk about my music all day tbh #gooboogie #thats my music tag hehe #music #Spotify #im too excited im posting this now!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

#not a shitpost #serious post #ask to tag #tw trauma #cptsd #c-ptsd #and if so we should TALK about it #because it means there are a whole group of survivors out there whose mental health regularly worsens during holidays #like i know i am most certainly not the only person who feels an undefined Dread hanging over christmas/my birthday/july 4 etc #bc too many shitty things happened during those times and now my brain is hypervigilant bc traditionally these are the Danger Times #and this seems like it would be particularly common for survivors of abusive/dysfunctional households (aka most people with c-ptsd) #because holidays/vacations typically mean 1) the whole family is together/being forced to interact #2) and undergoing external stressors e.g. travel/relatives aka 'outsiders' visiting/routines & coping mechanisms being interrupted etc #3) there is social pressure for this to be a Fun Family Bonding Experience which only highlights the cracks in the foundation #and exposes the common Everything Is Fine/We Are A Happy Family lie #4) the cognitive dissonance of feeling tired/anxious/stressed/afraid during a time when you are 'supposed' to be Making Good Memories #and then everyone is angry/tired/anxious/triggered and things boil over and something or someone goes Very Wrong #weird that i'm posting this in october when halloween is...sort of the ONLY holiday i have only good and happy feelings towards #i got lucky there #also i have positive feelings towards Labor Day but that's for socialist reasons

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

tell me why i wrote 4k words of fantasy au the other night but overall Absolutely Nothing Happened in it

#like damn... the length of a Chonky Oneshot and like... 2 things occurred #i really need to cut back on conversations #once i start characters talking its impossible to make them shut up #like me!!!! #but geez. man. #its One Scene and its over 4k and its Not Done #it doesnt even start at the beginning! i started it like... partway through the mini plot i have in my head! #reminds me of that one 15k fic i wrote that was One Battle. it should've been 7k at most #i use to be good at keeping things at a nice length... not dragging it out... sighhhhhhhhh #absolutely unprompted #if anyone's curious the Scene is how the group learns about home #aka wally takes a hard hit. fuckign Dies. #and home is like 'well! time to go insane and slaughter everyone - then use their souls to revive him!' #while very much Ignoring wally's friends who are misjudging the entire situation #barnaby is an unreliable narrator when he doesnt know what the Fuck is going on & also his buddy got kia <3

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

I've been thinkin' too many thoughts about the clones recently...anyways...

If it had never been acknowledged in universe…I think I might’ve been able to ignore how unbelievably fucked up the whole clone army concept is

I might’ve been able to accept it as just a convenient plot point for the republic to have an army to use

That’s what most stories do…they use a faceless army of “disposable” soldiers so that viewers don’t get too upset when so many die in battles

It’s what keeps those stories from feeling too dark

Hell, the stormtroopers from the OT are one of the most famous examples of that

But the thing is…it is acknowledged in universe

Multiple characters on multiple occasions have pointed the fucked-up-ness of it all

Even Obi-Wan in the AOTC novel is kinda horrified at the concept when he sees the clones for the first time

And it’s soooo hard to look past that

Especially with the jedi…I find it so hard to accept that the jedi are able to just ignore and accept it once the army proves to be useful

And like, yeah, when I look at star wars as a whole I understand that a lot of inconsistencies like this are just an inevitability with massive franchises

But it gets super frustrating to hold onto my suspension of disbelief capabilities when these problems are literally mentioned to and acknowledged by the jedi

Especially because I mostly love the jedi

#I just have to remember that ‘just because’ is a perfectly okay reason for stuff in fiction #that not every thing that happens can be completely rational or else there wouldn’t be a story #If I don’t then I’ll constantly be getting in my own way #stopping myself from enjoying things that are supposed to be fun #Anyways I’m gonna go back to watching tcw now #and gaslight myself into believing that the clones have rights so I can keep supporting the jedi :) #but like seriously #millions of SENTIENT HUMAN BEINGS being engineered and grown in a lab #with the specific purpose of fighting in a war that they have absolutely ZERO say in #and the reason they’re seen as better than the NON SENTIENT droids is because they can think creatively #aka THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THEIR OWN MINDS AND THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS #and they literally have no choice but to fight in this war #not okay #at all #okay I'm gonna stop now or I'll lose my mind #btw I know the jedi weren't responsible for all that #but for the most part they were okay with and/or ignored that whole clones have no autonomy thing #:/ #star wars #sw the clone wars #the clone wars #sw clones #sw gar #kamino #aotc #attack of the clones #obi wan kenobi #stormtroopers #clone troopers #jedi

[folkbreeze]

me: i won't play the sims until after my exam next week so i can study

also me: starts reading a new book so instead of playing i read but i don't study

well done, brain, you've tricked me again

#i swear i read the most when i have important things to do aka study for exams #is like i think reading is a productive thing to do so it's ok if i use my time on that #but it isn't!!!! #bea.txt #nonsims

[a-lost-crow]

“Great snakes. Now everyone’s going to know I wrote fanfiction of me and Haddock.” (Interpretive quote)

#tintin #the adventures of tintin #snowy #milou #i think it would be funny if Tintin would write fanfiction of somerhing he would never have #like having risky adventures is the easiest thing to do for some reason #but to be close with someone… #why is that harder #so mans just represses it by doing the thing he loves most aka writing #its interpretive because well. its fanfiction #what would he write #Tintin fanart