tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse
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me every three seconds when i'm not in the mood for studying:
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gotham (2014) really did a deep dive into the very conception of batman in a way no other live action version has, or likely will ever. batman was born in an alleyway of gotham (a hellish and cursed city overrun by the mob, with a corrupt political and judicial system and not a single clean cop, where the craziest thing you’ve ever seen happens everyday) and protected/nourished by a cutthroat sarcastic butler with a dark past and a hated self sacrificing cop with an even darker future. at twelve years old bruce wayne was learning how to fight, how to build bombs, researching every inch of gotham’s crime and corruption, threatening the dirty board members at wayne industry. the show explored the complexity of relationship with alfred, and how alfred (while only wanting to protect bruce) is just as much to blame for batman as martha & thomas’ deaths. we watch bruce lose his innocence, and almost lose himself in his journey to become the dark knight. gotham said : u will watch the birth of the bat
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Gilmore Girls
5.01 | “Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller”
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this is going to be difficult -> i am capable of doing difficult things -> i have done everything prior to this moment -> this difficulty will soon be proof of capability
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it drives me bonkers the way people don't know how to read classic books in context anymore. i just read a review of the picture of dorian gray that said "it pains me that the homosexual subtext is just that, a subtext, rather than a fully explored part of the narrative." and now i fully want to put my head through a table. first of all, we are so lucky in the 21st century to have an entire category of books that are able to loudly and lovingly declare their queerness that we've become blind to the idea that queerness can exist in a different language than our contemporary mode of communication. second it IS a fully explored part of the narrative! dorian gray IS a textually queer story, even removed from the context of its writing. it's the story of toxic queer relationships and attraction and dangerous scandals and the intertwining of late 19th century "uranianism" and misogyny. second of all, i'm sorry that oscar wilde didn't include 15k words of graphic gay sex with ao3-style tags in his 1890 novel that was literally used to convict him of indecent behaviour. get well soon, i guess...
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