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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 5 months

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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)

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nohtora · 1 year

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chúc mừng năm mới ! wishing you all good luck and good health for this lunar new year !!

in vietnamese culture, the zodiac animals are slightly different – instead of the rabbit, we celebrate the year of the cat ( aka my year hehe ) 😺 — art prints / stickers & posters !

#lunar new year #vietnamese new year #year of the cat #tet nguyen dan #tet quy mao #chuc mung nam moi #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital illustration #cats #nohtora art #this is my favourite zodiac illustration i've done to date i think !!#really happy with the overall composition #as always - love experimenting with a different visual style each year #LNY is jan 22nd but posting this a bit early bc i'm gonna forget gjhkdlfsg

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itseghost · 1 month

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some essek portrait doodles :] still figuring him out but i do love 2 draw him

#essek theyless #the mighty nein #critical role #critical role fanart #critrole #cr2 #m9 #i wanna experiment a little more w him still bc i cant settle on a face #or a skin tone? i feel like i always make him more purple than i want. i think more a dark greyish indigo would suit him #yknow. he might just be a character i draw different every time. im okay with that #i do like the idea of him with these very styled waves though #at least until he starts to unwind around the nein a bit #itseart

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chisutofu · 11 days

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#a little experiment with anime style art #wanted to try something new and different from my usual art style. i think this turned out pretty okay??#my art #chisutofuart #procreate #omniscient reader #orv #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #joongdok #how do tags even work around here zzzzzz #kdj #yjh #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv fanart

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wzardjellies · 7 months

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Fanart of @planetpanini ‘s gyaru designs ;P

#I loveddd searching for the backgrounds for these lol I must have saved like 50 different pngs of pink cheetah print #I was experimenting w perspective and a more angular style w/ the heather one #ok but also #gyaru lyler is especially cute bc Tyler gets embarrassed by anything fashion so u KNOW Lindsay had to hype him up for it and make him feel-#comfy lol #total drama #total drama island #td #gyaru #td lindsay #td tyler #td heather #lyler #td lyler #jelly art

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lemongogo · 5 months

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idk what im doing

#higuruma #higuruma hiromi #jjk #MAN.ive like . idk. anytime i draw smt recently im like SOMETHINGS MISSSINGGGG #this isnt tje full thing i have . judgeman in there but sigh.SIGH!!!#i think im at that point where i just need 2 experiment a bunch and tweak my style or do SMTHHH different .ykwim #lg doodles #anyaays i like drawing this sword a LAWTTT j hope i can come back to it and finish it at aome later point-__-

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lave-ium · 12 days

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some requests i took from instagram!!

#different doodle style!#i tend to experiment a little with doodles #these are new brushes i found !!#transformers #transformers art #transformers fanart #maccadam #lavesartstuff #soundwave #overlord #getaway #prowl

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gardenofafterthoughts · 11 months

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"A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in - what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars."

- Victor Hugo

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 6 months

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Wei Wuxian eats a watermelon. Yep!

#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #nothing out of the ordinary here. Just good fandom fun #Watermelon discourse has been going on and I want to let people know where I stand.#This came about because I wanted to experiment with translating the (traditional) PD-MDZS style to a digital format #and while sitting there thinking of what to draw...my inspiration came to me.#This is the equivalent of sneaking vegetables into the spaghetti sauce but its important to get your gotdamn veggies #I'm not very good at organizing my thoughts (evidence: the tags of every post on this blog).#but please do not look away from this moment in history. One person cannot solve it and no one expects you to.#Even if it is just spending time doing some research on the situation and history. Or boosting posts that are more articulate #Any action helps! ANY action! Everyone has a different level of capacity for this and that's okay. Anything is fine. Dont let it be nothing #Anyhow. did I like doing this digitally? Yes but its mixed. It was faster but also spark the same joy I usually get while drawing #I will have to get over it very quickly though. You will all see why in a few days

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amphibianaday · 3 months

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day 1539

#amphibian #frog #frogsona #another style experiment :)#*atulifies your frog artist*#me as a toad instead of frog perhaps #started as a doodle in photoshop during work meeting which is why the brushis different

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payasita · 11 months

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lambgame

#cotl #cult of the lamb #cotl spoilers #narilamb #doodles #testing Other Styles #remind me to draw Another Idea i had with the bunt thing because #a sheep headbutt. and a cat headbutt #are Different Experiences

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cheerioskid · 3 months

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the lonely little sun :,)

this is a little skyblings comic i made for the moonrise au by @germworms and i!! more details below vv

some general context if you're not familiar with the au: basically it's a life series/hermitcraft au about gods and humans and kingdoms and all that cool stuff :) pearl and grian are the current moon and sun gods respectively (their predecessors are joel and lizzie but there are other posts for their lore)

now onto the comic vv

a big concern of grians is becoming too overwhelmed with his position as sun god as that can cause a supernova and subsequently the destruction of the entire system soooo

all throughout childhood pearl has made it clear to him that she's always available to talk to and as a way of looking out for him she often (not maliciously) speaks on his behalf and allows him to be a recluse basically (she just really cares for him as they're both the only close family they really have; jimmys like a distant cousin in this au lmao)

when they were kids and coming to terms w the fact that they're literal gods w responsibilities pearl would try to tell grian the story of joel (prev sun god) and his fate in a very roundabout way as to not scare him but warn him about the pressures of his future position and encourage him to be open with her

(also ik stars are technically scott's thing in the au but the sun is also a star?? sooo it makes sense when in reference to grian/joel)

the dialogue is taken from shane koyczan's piece "for instance" i highly recommend checking it out!! all of his poetry is insane and heart wrenching

check out the moonrise au tag and Sea's profile for more posts and lore!!!

#mc moonrise au #it feels weird making something so grian centric considering my favs are pearl/jimmy/scar but i rlly love this au #also this was kinda a different style i was experimenting w??#dunno how i feel about it #pearlescentmoon #pearlecentmoon fanart #grian #grian fanart #skyblings #hermitcraft au #life series au #mcyt #mcyt fanart #digital art #my art

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skrrtscree · 8 months

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