#on this damn episode

[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)

[mayra-quijotescx]

So the deep lore apparently suggests that Marcille is Italian, but the basis is her surname (Donato) and spaghetti and meatballs being an exemplar of the local cuisine... but in our world spaghetti and meatballs is more of a fusion cuisine that got its start in Italoamerican enclaves, so I'm going to go ahead and claim her for Elf South Philly.

#dungeon meshi #just finished episode 1! ....and damn i'm hungry.

[venfaaniik]

l only recently got into this damn podcast

#my art #artists on tumblr #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #🫵🏼 the one who caused me to “oh I'll just try one episode and see if I like it” I SEE YOU. 🫵🏼🫵🏼 #trying my damn hardest to shut up about it around normal people

[roz-ani]

You guys are really lucky it's so easy to believe that

#yes I am being salty #THIS SHOW DESERVED MORE DAMN IT #GIVE THEM MORE EPISODES NEXT SEASON YOU COWARDS #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel spoilers #alastor #mine

[ryllen]

d a m n , i t ' s ' i ' ... not 'we' i guess everybody can perish now

#NOT THE MASQUERADE UPDATE attacking me on the first few SECONDS #twisted wonderland #twst #malleus draconia #azul ashengrotto #idia shroud #twst yuu #twst mc #glorious masquerade #fanart #'damn it's so hard not to fall in love in this school' the saga #malleus really tries to increase his affection points with me when i didn't really care for him before #he cares so much of his friend #FSDH the next episode after this one is so funny tho H E L P idia being narrator throughout the story is too funny #he needs to be in part of the groups more

[lazorbeanz]

THE BROTHERS!!!!

❤️💙💛

TAILS FINALLY GOT SOME POPCORN!!! (Well for a minute there anyways lol) 🙌🍿

#I’ve managed to watch 2 episodes and won’t be able to watch any others until the end of tmr BUT I WANNA WATCH EM ALL NOW WHYYY 😭😭 #also I highly recommended if you don’t wanna see spoilers pls mute the knuckles spoiler tags bc I’m going all out on here once I’ve watched #the rest of the show #sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #tails the fox #knuckles the echidna #sth #sonic #unbreakable bond #sonic wachowski #tails wachowski #knuckles wachowski #wachowski brothers #sonic movie #movie sonic #movie tails #movie knuckles #THEYRE SO SILLY YALL #AND SO ADORABLE WAAAAA #TAILS IS SO DAMN FLUFFY HELP- #knuckles 2024 #knuckles #knuckles series #knuckles tv show #knuckles series spoilers

[the-bi-space-ace]

Never forget that Echo is an ARC trooper. Never forget that Echo is a badass. Never forget that Echo is a capable and experienced soldier and strategist. Never forget that Echo is impressive as fuck and an incredibly skilled man who can hold his own and never backs down from a fight.

#the bad batch #tbb echo #arc trooper echo #HE LOOKED SO DAMN GOOD IN THIS EPISODE #he is so impressive I am constantly in awe of him #look at him go #hell yeah Echo #you go baby #fuck em up

[biceratops7]

*bracing myself on my knees and trying to breath, nursing a cramp*

I got here as fast as I can. I just wanted to point out that THIS…

Is one of the gayest fucking lines of television I’ve heard in my life.

Even if the presence of the song itself somehow wasn’t a flashing spotlight enough, the literal voice of God directly draws attention to it. Telling us that in universe, a nightingale really is in fact singing in Barkley square, and to know its music is sweet regardless of if we can hear it. Just like there are really in fact angels (one fallen but we’ll let it slide) dining at the ritz, and they’ve been falling in love regardless of if they’ve been allowed to openly pursue that feeling.

And hell, maybe it’s BECAUSE of the traffic that the nightingale finally sings. Perhaps it wasn’t ready until it was sure no one else could listen.

#couldn't get this across but God's tone of voice on but it was there... is SO telling #there's such a cheekiness to it #part of leaving the garden means leaving that surveillance #being able to make free choices and do so PRIVATELY #WITHOUT fear of consequence #something beautiful and rare is happening at that table #and it's now NONE of heaven or hell's damn business #good omens #ineffable husbands #Crowley #aziraphale #season 1 #a nightingale sang in Barkley square #episode 6 #1x06 #biceratops #meta #analysis

[thebrainrotsreal]

When I tell you I am still so speechless over this episode.

When I tell you I am thinking about Mark who we know really ingrained Nolan's speech back in s1, only see that Nolan looks like he meant every word. That Mark was replaceable, his mother was just a pet. When I tell you I'm constantly thinking about Mark, who only saw his father cry over a planet he's only known for months, and not the family he's had for years. When I tell you I'm thinking about Mark finally calling Nolan 'dad' again only to be immediately choked and yelled at. When I think about the parallels of s1's fight and this one.

#invincible season 2 #invincible spoilers #invincible show #invincible s2 #invincible series #nolan grayson #mark grayson #invincible fanart #my art! #staring into the abyss about this episode #head full of TV static waiting for a signal #invincible #invincible rotating in my mind #procreate art #procreate #digital artist #digital art #fanart #and listen: I know Nolan had cried over both but Mark never saw him cry over earth or him or anything #Nolan is complex and damn he is so god damn interesting to me but MAN is Mark being pulled through the emotional shredder #and a physical one #BEHOLD! an art tag for my art :] #the brainrotsreal's art tag ✧˖°:*♡

[wizardingace]

it’s so bonkers to me that generation loss’s commentary is regarding the toxicity surrounding streaming and the “show must go on” mentality and doing anything for viewers when you have the meta-context that during the first episode ranboo was getting actively injured by a malfunctioning wire, but continued on anyway

#genloss #generation loss #it kinda makes the depiction of security funnier but also. damn way to run face first into one of the shows themes in the FIRST EPISODE #wizarding.posts

[mobius-m-mobius]

#ep 2 but upgrade every parallel 😳

#mobius #loki #lokius #mcuedit #lokiedit #owen wilson #tom hiddleston #marveledit #loki spoilers #once again we're only on episode TWO?? #and since that was a peak of the first season and now they're infinitely more married and equals in every way!! #as someone extremely unwell about parallels this ep has me losing my whole damn mind lmaooooooooo #bc theres's honestly like a dozen more to add except they're multi scene #and i'm running on fumes being unable to stop giffing them as is so these are just the first obvious ones i remembered 😅 #loki s2 spoilers #marvel #owenwilsonedit #dianagifs

[florbe-triz]

Holding on to the last memory...

#Trigun Stampede #vash the stampede #Vash #yes last episode destroyed me in so many ways #my boy is being corrupted against his will and all I can do is watch? damn #someone save him! #Meryl!! #Wolfwood! #please!! #my art

[hailperseusjackson]

i’ve really enjoyed how they opened the first two episodes not focused on our main characters at all, and showing us just how terrifying the cordyceps infection is.

the scientists at the beginning of the pilot on the talk show, and at first there’s that good-natured talk show feel, but the longer the scientist goes on explaining the cordyceps and how it would be possible for it to survive in humans and imagine thousands upon thousands being controlled, and the whole auditorium goes still and silent, and it ends with just two words, “we lose.”

and then in this episode, with the mycologist and her complete fear after examining the body. the shaking of her hands and the quiet terror in the way she says that there is no cure, no medicine. that the only solution is to bomb the city with everyone in it. and can someone take her home so she can be with her family, because she understands what the scientist said from the first episode. we lose.

#both of these scenes have done such a good job with amping up the tension right at the start of the episode #it’s so so so good #and with this one in particular—the knowledge the audience has that ellie is immune #but for so many people there is so cure there is nothing they can do to stop it. and they lose #it’s just so damn good wow #tlou spoilers #tlou hbo spoilers #tlou hbo #the last of us

[logicalbookthief]

That fact that Rei called Kazuki a “couch-crasher” in the first episode is hilarious when we know now that Kazuki bought the damn couch.

#buddy daddies #kazuki kurusu #rei suwa #kazuki to miri in the 2nd episode: I’m just crashing #my dude you’ve been crashing for 3 years AND you furnished the damn place

[ace-lemonade]

senshi said 'I'm getting my dragon meat barbecue come hell or high water'

also I love that Falin looks like some mystical wizard with the glowing aura and all that, meanwhile chilchuck looks like this

#revived falin and damn near lost senshi this episode #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #senshi #chilchuck #falin touden #laios touden #marcille

[ryllen]

and some extra unused stuff while they are in affectionate mood

#the headlap kiss is just a scene on let's talk chu episode 2 that i really like; yuu was offering a massage & massaging his temples with her #thumbs; saying you really should release pressure from this area #i may be lazy to render it fully but i also feel that my sketches deliver the sense of movement better #(and avoiding to make any sense of the anatomy i am confused about) #(like which is going where) #and so because of all the cluster of lines; ur mind will make its own mind which line would make it look right #FUK I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE I POST THIS ALREADY FHSDH I WAS STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO WRITE ON TAGS #twisted wonderland #twst #sebek zigvolt #twst yuu #twst mc #fanart #damn they are finally kissing and they meant it #this makes my chest all hot and bothered #suggestive