#erin-the-epic

[off-the-heezys]

Tabrin Day 7: Free Day!

(tabrin week is ran by @b00pyb00p !!)

i decided to do a screencap redraw but with a little tabrin flare to it!! for some reason i had a lot of trouble with this? i think tabii came out super cute tho! decided to be a little silly and actually design little badges for them

#campcamp #camp camp #ccart #cc tabii #cc erin #tabrin #tabrin week 2023 #yeah idk #i got a new tablet in the middle of drawing this which was super epic

[xxbatmanb3y0ndxx]

hashtag saw iii angle trap and final destination 2 clear rivers . ok the end

#final destination #i love them fr fr 🙏 #saw #final destination fanart #final destination 2 #saw iii #saw 3 #kerry saw #saw kerry #clear rivers #fd2 #final destination 2 fanart #final destination 2003 #im such a cool pilled awesomecel #ok done #fd3 #final destination 3 #ian mckinley is epic #ian mckinley #erin ulmer #final destination 3 fansrt #final destination 3 fanart #final destination is epic

[booasaur]

The Boys (2019) - 3x08 - “I really thought that deep down you were a hero.”

#theboysedit #the boys #queen maeve #annie january #soldier boy #dominique mcelligott #erin moriarty #jensen ackles #flashing images tw #the boys spoilers #the boys 3x08 #it is true she got this epic moment #went head to head with homelander and then sacrificing herself to save everyone #there just isn't much scope in a show like this for someone very powerful and actually good #also yay at ashley deleting the footage #and kimiko being the one to save her #all the women standing together at the end

[yuridovewing]

kills me that people compare clear sky and breezepelt. get breezy-p away from that beast

#the only thing they have in common are ‘’the erins dont know how to write redemption arcs’’ #and even then id argue that at least breeze actually faces social and political consequences for what he does #breeze is accused of murdering his own mother and his dad is like wow what a dipshit maybe i was right to abuse him #and clear sky gets his own baby killed and its blamed on the nearest woman while hes handed a new baby as a pity gift #and his family and future cats are like ‘’wow hes so tragic and amazing and epic for killing babies. i hope everyone who hates him dies’’

[jadeclaymoresworld]

I don't trust Disney.

I would not put it past them to have just killed off Kit.

Especially one week after Kit and Jade just admitted to feelings for each other and an almost kiss.

That being said, I am patiently waiting for next week already.

Because Kit can't be dead. She just can't be. I refuse.

#willow #kit tanthalos #jade claymore #tanthamore #ruby cruz #erin kellyman #i am so fucking scared for next week #i dont want her to be dead #but its disney #and while it would be epic to see J #jade fight everyone and thing #because if the grief of losing kit so close to finally being able to have her #i am not about this life anymore #ive seen this story before and i didnt like the ending #ive fought this battle so many times in the past and im tired of it #i just need kit to be fine and to get back to jade asap

[angels-and-demons]

Proxy of Hades au animatic.

This is rotting my brain sm rn.

Saw the sound on tiktok, and... you know I had to do it to em.

#creepypasta #ticci toby #toby rogers #nico di angelo #pjo #crack ship #nicoby #pjo nico #nico x toby #ticci toby x nico #toby x nico #toby erin rogers #proxy of hades au #animation #animatic #incorrect creepypasta quotes #creepypasta au #pjo au #hoo au #source: epic #nico pjo #nico di angelo pjo

[imwritesometimes]

I'm so good at rationalizing every item in my cart

#looking at the sanrıo checkout page rn like FUCK IT treat yo self you DESERVE IT no one else gonna treat you #and you've already weathered several shit storms of epic proportion this year and this year is only 2 months in #and ACTUAL LITERAL SHIT STORMS with the weather. girl. get the chøcocat plush to replace the one you had in childhood. dew it. #I have just gotten paid.... #I am my own worst enemy #erin explains it all

[xtruss]

Why Parents Still Try to Ban ‘The Color Purple’ in Schools

Four decades after it was released, Alice Walker’s enduring classic remains at the forefront of the battle over what is available on library shelves.

— By Erin Blakemore | August 22, 2023

Alice Walker reads from her Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning novel, The Color Purple. Since it was first published in 1982, the critically acclaimed book has been targeted by movements pushing to censor the book's subject matter. Photograph By Johnny Crawford, Atlanta Journal-Constitution/AP

When Alice Walker’s The Color Purple hit bookshelves in 1982, it blew away critics, became a nationwide bestseller, and endeared itself to readers who found pain and inspiration in its pages.

But in the years since its publication, the acclaimed novel has become famous for another reason: It’s one of the most challenged books in the nation, withstanding criticisms aimed at its depictions of race and sex, its portrayal of abuse and agony, and even its spelling and style.

Here’s how The Color Purple became one of the nation’s most banned books—and why it continues igniting controversy to this day.

“A Spiritual Experience”

Walker, who grew up in Jim Crow-era Georgia, described writing the book as a “spiritual experience” inspired by the strength and grit of the Black Southern women she made her heroines. The epistolary epic follows 40 years in the lives of its main characters Celie, Shug, and Nettie, who survive incest, domestic abuse, and racism in the early twentieth century—all while carving out joy, independence, and dignity along the way.

When it was released in 1982, the book immediately caught the attention of both the critics and the reading public, who praised the book for its portrayals of both the brutality and sorrow of racism and sexual violence and its celebration of Black women.

It was critically acclaimed, winning both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for 1983, and inspired a popular 1985 film directed by Stephen Spielberg and starring Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey.

Banning ‘Purple’

But something else accompanied the novel as its renown grew: controversy. Though educators recognized the book’s potential as a teaching tool, some parents and community members objected to its presence in school curriculums and libraries.

The first major attempt to ban the book occurred in 1984, when a parent petitioned against its use in an Oakland, California classroom. In a 1985 essay, Walker recalled reading frequent updates on “how the banning was coming along” and watching the book’s sales skyrocket.

“I felt I had written the book as a gift to the people. All of them,” Walker wrote. “If they wanted it, let them fight to keep it, as I had to fight to deliver it.”

Fight they did. Though the Oakland schools ultimately decided not to remove the book from classrooms, the book has consistently been challenged nationwide since its publication, repeatedly making it on the American Library Association’s list of most frequently challenged books.

Why Parents Challenge the Book

Attempts to ban The Color Purple usually contest Walker’s use of slang and profanity, the book’s portrayal of brutal Black men, a same-sex encounter between the two main characters, and its depiction of sexual violence in its first pages.

“One can eat from a cafeteria or a dumpster…but one would hope those placed in charge of our children would have exercised better oversight,” wrote one parent in a characteristic 2013 challenge in Brunswick County, North Carolina. (The book has survived multiple attempted bans in the Brunswick County school district.)

But the same pages that provoke ire in some have inspired others.

Oprah Winfrey, who endured sexual abuse as a child, later recalled reading the first page of The Color Purple “and thinking ‘Oh God, I’m not alone.’” After Winfrey co-starred in the first movie adaptation of the film, she began talking about her own experiences on her talk show.

TV historians now credit the self-disclosures inspired by Walker’s book with helping Winfrey develop her winning confessional interview format.

Modern Attempts to Ban the Novel

Efforts to ban The Color Purple have continued during a recent wave of attempted book bans.

In 2022, the American Library Association documented over 1,200 attempts to ban or restrict library materials—double the number of challenges from the previous year—and most of which attempted to remove multiple titles from shelves.

Among them was The Color Purple, which was removed from library shelves in Florida’s Indian County School District at the request of a parent group that objected to 156 of the books on school shelves, claiming the books contain everything from pornography to critical race theory. Though the district’s school board declined to ban The Color Purple, it did remove five of the other books on the list and approve a permission slip allowing parents to restrict their child’s use of school library books.

With news of an upcoming movie adaptation of the acclaimed musical based on the book, The Color Purple is poised to regain the national spotlight. Only time will tell if the movie will spark more challenges—but for now, the legacy of a book one 1982 reviewer called “indelibly affecting” is secure.

To date, the book has sold over 5 million copies—a number sure to rise as a new generation meets its heroines.

#Alice Walker #The Color Purple #Schools #Erin Blakemore #Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Novel #Published | 1982 #Nationwide Bestseller #Pain | Inspiration #Criticisms | Race | Sex | Abuse | Agony | Spelling | Style #Jim Crow-Era | Georgia #Spiritual Experience #Black Southern Women | Heroines #epistolary | Epic #Characters: Celie | Shug | Nettie #Stephen Spielberg | Whoopi Goldberg | Oprah Winfrey. #Parents | Community Members | Objections #School Curriculums | Libraries. #Oakland Schools #American Library Association #Brunswick County | North Carolina #Florida’s Indian County School District #The Color Purple | 5 Million Copies Sold

[thschei]

Translation adapted from both this and this (pages 1-3)

Thanatos [Θάνατος]— He loves the living [you], just as much as he loves the dead [us] He reaps the old and the young; Poets and heroes, all equally. "Welcome to Hades!" [Καλώς ορίσατε στην ᾍδης!] You've died; you've simply died [Πήγες μόνο πήγες] Not knowing why you came here, Toyed with by the hands of fate You've died; you've simply died [Πήγες μόνο πήγες] He, with eyes that convey death, is I. The night he murders his mother, I shall go and offer my welcome And two will become one One day, You will learn that this world has no fairness— Except for him [Θ] Ruled by the ruthless goddess of destiny, This world has no fairness— Except for him [Θ] Mother [μοῖρα]… if you continue to bring forth life, And inflict pain upon those frightened children, Then… Thanatos [Θ] will— Bring salvation to the living, by bringing them death!

#erin talks #video #SH #erin's music rec tag #why I can't be passed the aux #sorry this is so long this song rewrote my brain's chemistry it is everything to me #it's an 8 minute long song summarizing an album that's a greek epic that had to be trimmed bc all of it wouldn't fit on 1 CD <3 #In 7th grade I downloaded this album before a school trip & spent like 6+ hours listening to just this track on repeat <3 hashtag autism #what if u just wanted to reunite with your sister but (the) god (of death) said no ❤️ we're soulmates in murdering our mothers ❤️ #someone in the discord said they want tsukihito to cover this if we get another tte/asshora type concert 😭 #yeah that would fuck

[demiaseranmage]

Epic the Musical X Aurora animatic idea: Storm with Erin as Odysseus and Falst?(maybe) As Eryolocus (spelling?)

#epic the musical #the ocean saga #auroracomic #comic aurora #erin ruunaser #animatic

[clg-artisa-art]

I drew this for Erin's 20th birthday last year! ^U^

@erin-the-epic @erin-the-epic-art

#my art #erin the pretty kitty #birthday gift art #gift art #gift art for a friend #gift artwork #persona #erin the epic #erin the epic art

[xxbatmanb3y0ndxx]

I LOVE FINAL DESTINATION AND ONE WEEK UNTIL SAW X!!!!!!!!!!! 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇

#final destination #fd3 #final destination 3 #i love them fr fr 🙏 #final destination fanart #final destination 2 #ian mckinley #erin ulmer #fd1 #fd2 #saw2004 #saw ii #saw 2004 #saw 2005 #kevin fischer #wendy christensen #ian mckinley is epic

[starrymochas]

Two things from two different fandoms. The first is an Epic! Earth Wubbox and a familiar face for the other.. keep an eye out. She’s coming back.

#epic wubbox #human wubbox #earth wubbox #msm fanart #my oc #my artwork #Character: Erin (earth) #character: Skye #alton towers oc #Roach’s artwork

[catd2014]

Man, that ending to Derry Girls 😭

I really want to write something eloquent about it but not sure I have the words. Or could express it any better than Erin’s speech. All the hope for better days, a better future. And the timing of it now could hardly be more relevant. What a great show, and an absolutely banging soundtrack

#I’m going to sound like an old lady but it really does take me back #I was 13 when the good Friday agreement was signed #I definitely didn’t understand at the time #but I do remember the violence and bombings in the 90s #and how the agreement offered hope for a better future #and the timing of this show now #when things could be on the edge of a precipice again with the brexit fallout #I was properly crying with the last act with the voting and Erin’s speech #full of hope #also the cameo at the end - wow #and Jesus Christ the soundtrack is fucking epic #my childhood #(I’m old) #derry girls

[oktobearfest]

tumblr probably isnt going anywhere but just in case you guys want to find me outside of this hellsite you can add me on steam. just let me know who you are before adding as i keep my friends list to people i know

also for mutuals im on discord if you want to add me

#nobody gives a shit erin #im here until the end but this is if you want to see me epic fail at overwatch 2

[imwritesometimes]

I've seen like maybe 20 mins of Centurion (2010) and it's so obviously just a cheap, less eloquent, less beautiful, more cheesy gorey version of The Eagle which is wild considering The Egale came out a year later........

#this is what happens when my brother is in charge of the remote lmao #idk man like it's just...... like a super super MALE CENTRIC view is the only way I'd describe it #Gladiator will always be the Top Tier Undefeated roman Centurion film obv #but even it has an epic story and sweeping visuals and characters you connect with and it's just great #and the Eagle (let's be real) it's not a masterpiece but it also IS good #esp when considering it gives the flip side of the story a bit whch often isn't considered in the 'gladiator' genre #idk The Eagle is the better film.... #like tbh I think Troy (2004) wasn't like AWFUL idk this isn't either but it's just. not as good as the eagle....... #erin explains it all #like bro I cannot stress how overly cheesy violent it is like. Gladiator didn't feel this gratuitous