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mzannthropy · 10 hours

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Rachel is the MVP of this part of the story; she's such a faithful and loyal friend to Helen! Women in these situations are often alone, so it's good that Helen has Rachel, sticking by her and willing to go through all of that with her.

#wildfell weekly #the tenant of wildfell hall #anne bronte #mypost

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mzannthropy · 10 hours

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#sam claflin #samblogging #over a year since djats ended #nothing since #that short film he exec produced was cute but he was not in it #we KNOW he's filmed two films + tcomc #i don't expect tcomc before the second half of the year so that's fine #but bagman. fucking bagman had i known it would still not be out in april 2024 this time last year #well. i would not be very happy and it would've been worse #i held onto hope that they'd release it for halloween last yr. ha. fool #hard life of a fan #mypost

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mzannthropy · 12 hours

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One Day

One day you will write and finish writing. One day you will tell the world the story you have wanted to tell for so long. One day you will paint that picture. One day, you will sing that song. One day, you will produce that album. One day, you will design that art. One day you will complete that piece of work. And after all that is done, you will continue creating. One day, you will discover a…

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#lyrical #writing

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mzannthropy · 13 hours

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Motivating myself to write by imagining a romantic hero who reads my works and likes them.

#writing #writing motivation #sam claflin #guitar is a bonus #but think about it: a writer and a songwriter/musician together #samblogging #mypost

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mzannthropy · 14 hours

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All of the past versions of me made me the version I am today. Don’t regret who you were, or currently are. One day you will realize it was just a stepping stone in becoming the person you wanted to be.

#good life #a post i saved on ig:#if you went back and fixed your mistakes #you'd erase yourself

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mzannthropy · 14 hours

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@cerseiweek2024 cersei appreciation week 2024: day 6 - badass moment

@pscentral event 26: minimalism

#cersei lannister #game of thrones #minor detail: i remember how someone on reddit remarked that #even high sparrow dressed up for this moment #he put on a brand new potato sack

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mzannthropy · 20 hours

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Fuck Canon, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Favorite Media Even When The Creators Keep Fucking Up

We all know that stories don’t tell themselves. People tell stories, and they make choices when telling those stories. They emphasize some characters and downplay others. They bring some events to the foreground and put others in the background. They create, change or omit relationships all day long.

In the Doylist-Watsonian dichotomy, there are only two perspectives available: the perspective from within the world of the story, and the perspective from the real world. But what if there’s a third option?

Imagine a third space where the story we’re being presented doesn’t come purely from within the world of the story, nor is it merely the creation of real-world people, but the adaptations or interpretations of a narrator whose identity may or may not be known.

There’s a lot of leeway to define who this narrator could be, such as an anonymous scholar piecing together a history of important events or a storyteller adapting material from an unknown source. The events that play out on page and screen are not the objective reality of the universe they take place in. They’re stories shaped by narrators who have their own reasons for telling the story the way they do.

There is precedent for it.

Every Star Wars film begins with, “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…,” calling to mind myths, fairy tales and legends that have been told, retold and adapted for millennia. The story that unfolds is one storyteller’s version of it. The “real” story may be very different from the one we’re familiar with.

Tolkien’s legendarium rests on the idea that Tolkien himself was not its creator, but its interpreter, like a linguist trying to piece together a portrait of a culture long gone. The “truth” about what he writes may be more complex than Tolkien’s writings let on.

Xena: Warrior Princess had the Xena scrolls, the surviving record of Xena’s travels with Gabrielle. But “surviving record” does not mean Everything The Way It Actually Happened. “Surviving record” can also mean The Parts The People With Money Consider Appropriate for General Audiences.

The stories told about the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender are organized into books structured around an element or theme, suggesting that someone from somewhere wrote these stories down. The fact that Katara’s voice introduces each episode of AtLA hints that the show is her personal recollection of events. How much of what she says is “true,” and how much is colored by her biases and blind spots?

This shift in perspective accomplishes 2 things:

It adds complexity and richness to the stories themselves.

It allows audiences to challenge the narrative from within the narrative.

At its best, this leads to a sort of alchemy, where the base elements of the source material (some of which have Unfortunate Implications) are transmuted into something richer, freer and more meaningful beyond what the original creators ever dreamed.

#i rb this every now and then #interesting to think about this re djats #writing

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mzannthropy · 21 hours

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I'm far from a nostalgic person, I prefer the present over the past, but for once I have to say, Back In My Day we didn't need woke reasons to hate people and things, we just hated them. We didn't install new software to fish for problematic tweets from 2008. We didn't know what celebs were doing, much less if they had private jets. We hated, bc sometimes you hate and that's okay.

#sometimes you just hate things #i'm asking for it now aren't i?#bring on the ageism comments #when i say. freedom to like things #that also includes freedom to hate things #mypost

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mzannthropy · 21 hours

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