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actually i just realized why interpretations of [atla] characters that are like “aang doesn’t lie” (blatantly textually false) or “katara would be offended by swearing” (sensically false) are so common. aang and katara are the most overtly ethical characters in the show, and people [subconsciously] associate morality with honesty and “clean language.” but none of aang’s principles preclude him from lying (he lies. a lot), just as nothing in katara’s moral code dictates that she must be a square (she is, in fact, the furthest thing from a square, and if you argue otherwise you are simply misremembering her character). i can understand why people think that an ethically principled person would consider honesty a virtue, even if aang clearly doesn’t, but the association between morality and language feels like a very christian (to broadly generalize) conception of “sin” and moral transgression that doesn’t map onto the atla characters whatsoever, and is entirely a projection of the largely american (and otherwise western) viewership. inversely, fanart that depicts “modern au” azula as some kind of goth abg with dyed hair and leather pants also attempts to map our internalized notions of how aesthetics are illustrative of morality onto a character who would clearly never present herself in any way countercultural. if azula were suddenly transported to montclair, new jersey, she would be a conservative and present herself accordingly (most likely scenario she would dress like shiv roy). i’m not saying all this to condemn the activity of projecting onto characters, as i clearly participate and engage in these fandom-cultural practices, but rather that i think it’s important we be mindful of what connotations are carried in certain interpretations and depictions, because even our subconscious associations can stem from a legacy of cultural contexts, often embedded within harmful institutions we may not consciously wish to associate with, or that are simply not useful or relevant associations when thinking through whatever thing we are in the process of fandomitizing.
#is fandomitizing a term. if not i just coined it#analysis#katara#aang#azula#cite the primary source read the text format your citations in mla or chicago#etc etc
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MLA Format Citation Guide
The Modern Language Association (MLA) is the organization in-charge of creating the MLA format. It was created as a way for scholars, students, and researchers in the language and literature fields to uniformly format their assignments and papers. This consistent or uniform method of developing an assignment or paper enables easy reading. Besides language and literature subjects, MLA is not used in other subject areas.
When thinking of how to cite your sources, consult the list of primary elements. These are the universal pieces of information suggested by MLA including in the Works Cited entry. List the elements in the following order in the citation:
Author
Source title
Container title
Other contributors
Version
Number
Publisher
Publication date
Location
A punctuation mark should follow each element. The current MLA version has simpler punctuation where commas and periods isolate the elements and information on the sources kept to the essentials.
Author
Start the citation with the author’s last name, then a comma and the other names, as indicated in the work. Conclude with a period.
Mahatma, Homi N. The Position of Culture. Routledge, 1992.
Source Title
The title of the information source follows the author’s name. Depending on the source, it should be in quotation marks or italics. A book should be written in italics.
Clinton, Olivia. The Hummingbird Tree. MacMurray, 1997.
A single webpage is set in quotation marks. The parent website name, which MLA regards as a “container” should follow italicized:
Johnson, Andrea. “How to Prepare Vegetarian Pie.” eHow, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-pie.html
A periodical (newspaper, magazine, and journal) article is set in quotation marks:
Khan, Alqahtani“Conflicting Nationalisms: The Voice of the Subaltern in Mahasweta Devi’s Bashai Tudu.” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 15, no. 1, 1996, pp. 41-50.
A piece of music or song on an album is set in quotation marks and then followed by the album name in italics:
Rihanna. “Love on the Brain.” Anti, Roc Nation, 2016,
www.rihanna/album/anti-visual-album/.
The MLA handbook suggests including URLs when citing online sources.
Container Title
The MLA handbook, eight edition introduced “containers”, which are basically larger wholes where the source is found. For example, when citing a poem listed in a poem collection, the single poem is the source and the collection is the container. Usually, the container title is italicized followed by a comma as the subsequent information describes the container.
Kincaid, Jamaica. “Girl.” The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, edited by Tobias Wolff, Vintage, 1994, pp. 306-07.
The container could also include a television series, made up of episodes.
“62 Meetings.” Recreation and Parks, created by Michael Schur and Greg Daniels, performance by Amy Richards, season 1, episode 18, Deedle-Dee productions and Universal Media Studios, 2009.
The container can also be a website containing postings, articles, and other publications.
Stevens, Mark. “Caring For An Elderly Relative At Home: Getting Started.” ART OF HEALTHY LIVING, 31 Decemeber 2019, www.artofhealthyliving.com/caring-for-an-elderly-relative-at-home-getting-started/. Accessed 5 April 2020
Sometimes, a container may be within a larger container. For example, a book of short stories on Google Books, or a movie on Netflix. Or you may find the electronic version of a journal on JSTOR. It is essential to cite the containers within larger containers to allow your readers to find the actual source you used.
“62 Meetings.” Recreation and Parks, season 1, episode 18, NBC, 29 Apr. 2010. Netflix, www.netflix.com/watch/70152031?trackId=200256157&tctx=0%2C20%2C0974d361-27cd-44de-9c2a-2d9d868b9f64-12120962.
Other Contributors
Besides the author, there might be other contributors of the source who require credit, such as translators. Illustrators, editors, etc. if their contribution is useful to the research, or needed to identify the source, list their names in the text.
Walton, Michel. Civilization and Madness: A History of Absurdity in the Age of Logic. Translated by Richard Howard, Vintage-Random House, 1988.
Wolf, Veronica. Esau’s Room. Annotated and with an introduction by Cara Nerow, Harcourt, Inc., 2008.
Version
If a source is listed as a version or edition of a work, put it in the citation.
The Bible. Authorized King James Version, Oxford UP, 1998.
Martin, Shaw, and Debra Jenkins. Ancient Rhetoric for Modern Students. 3rd ed., Pearson, 2004.
Number
If a source forms part of a numbered sequence, such as a journal or multi-volume book with both issue and volume number, the numbers should be included in the citation.
“62 Meetings.” Recreation and Parks, created by Michael Schur and Greg Daniels, performance by Amy Richards, season 1, episode 18, Deedle-Dee productions and Universal Media Studios, 2009.
Publisher
The publisher distributes or produces the source to the public. If there are several publishers who are all relevant to the research, include them in the citation and separate them with a forward slash (/).
Daniels, Greg and Michael Schur, creators. Parks and Recreation. Deedle-Dee Productions and Universal Media Studios, 2015.
Please note that the publisher’s name should not appear in the following sources:
Works published by their editor or author
Periodicals
Website carrying a name similar to the publisher’s
Works that avail work but do not really publish (such as JSTOR, WordPress, or YouTube).
Publication Date
A source may have been published on various dates, like the online version of an original source. For instance, a television series airing on a broadcast network on a particular date, but aired on Netflix on another date. Where a source has several dates, it is enough to use the most relevant date. If you don’t know the date to use, use the one of the source’s original publication.
In the example below, the primary production company is Mutant Enemny with “Hush” being released in 1999. Generally, the TV episode would be cited as follows:
“Hush.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, performance by Sarah Michelle Gellar, season 4, Mutant Enemy, 1999.
But, if you are discussing the historical context where the episode aired originally, then cite the entire date. As you are stating the date of airing, use WB Television instead of Mutant Enemy. This is because it is the network and not the production company that aired the episode on your cited date.
“Hush.” Buffy the Vampire Slayer, created by Joss Whedon, performance by Sarah Michelle Gellar, season 4, episode 10, WB Television Network, 14 Dec. 1999.
Location
Be as specific as you can while identifying a work’s location. An essay in an article in a journal or a book should have page numbers.
Adiche, Chimamanda Ngozi. “On Monday of Last Week.” The Thing around Your Neck, Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, pp. 74-94.
Online work citation should have URL, but remove any “http://” tag from the start of the URL.
Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 6, no. 6, 2000, pp. 595-600, wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/6/6/00-0607_article. Accessed 8 Feb. 2009.
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A quick PSA as this has happened multiple times now:
Like my work and feel inspired to make something similar? Great! Have fun with it! Want to reference my work’s composition/colors/pose/concept/style? Go right on ahead! I hope it’s inspiring and helps you in your process! But please, do not trace my work and call it your own.
#not art#I feel like that bolded bit should go without saying but well here we are for like… the third time in a year#Comedy option: you can only trace my work if you turn in a 5k essay#Explaining the new themes and motifs you will be utilizing in your traced work#There better be at 10 different citations with at-least of them being 3 primary sources all in MLA format#And the you can’t just repurpose the themes I already put there you have to make it unique#that would earn my respect#and maybe in that time you can realize that you don’t need to trace my work to come up with original ideas
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you know recently a bunch of my professors have been excitedly mentioning how in their classes, students have been citing their sources way more extensively and properly than past semesters. did he do this (looks to the sky where a giant transparent image of harris bombered guy is floating)
#my highschool beat mla format into our heads and at the time the auto citation websites kinda sucked ass#so i just learned how to do it all myself. although nowadays im a chicago girlie its easier and more versatile i find#but i know i was in the minority i know i had to help like a bunch of my classmates with citations and formatting#which is fine i dont mind theyre doing their bests as people who didnt really do much practice in highschool#so its a bit of a surprise to see that now people are citing everything. im a footnote freak i always put like ten million footnotes#for sources and also asides for further reading if my professor is so inclined LOL#but like. while this is fun for me i KNOW its not fun for everyone HKJDHJRKFDS#its interesting! one professor even said for the first time in years not a single student forgot to cite their sources! did he do this.....
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DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO CITE AO3 FICS IN MLA FORMAT
#please help a struggling student#i'm citing a fic for an english project and the citation must be in MLA format#i've already googled it but there was no comprehensive answer#please help me tumblr#ao3#fanfiction#writing#blog blogs
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revising 😔
#going to the botanical gardens with a friend later so I need to get this mostly done this morning but I do not want to#I have to format every single citation from MLA into Chicago bc I like Chicago more#and I have to clean up my last chapter description
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*holds ur hand gently* it’s okay to simply Not Like a character… u don’t need to have a five page essay backing up ur feelings.. it’s okay…
#this also goes out to my pookies who feel like they must defend their fave characters online with mla format citations and a gun#you are god’s bravest soldiers but not everything must be a battle <33#pjo#fandom culture#fandom
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please stop posting web weaving without citing the quotes and pictures you're including!!
If you originally came across the quote or picture unattributed, it's typically very easy to find the source. For quotes, if you type in the text into Google bracketed by a quotation mark on both sides (for example, if you were trying to find the infamous Richard Siken quote you would type in: "Someone has to leave first this is a very old story") you can typically find the source!
Finding the source is great, because you should also read the quote in context! Not only is this an awesome way to discover new poetry/music/etc, but it's also a way to filter out quotes that aren't appropriate for your theme.
Maybe the quote you found seems PERFECT for your favorite ship. But when you read it in context of the rest of the source material, it's actually about the author's relationship with race in America or his relationship with his abusive parents. You want to be working in conversation with the quote when you include it with a collection of other quotes/pictures/etc, but to do that you need to know what the quote is actually saying and respect the author's intended meaning. And do to that, you need to read it in context.
Now as far as pictures - photos, illustrations, shots from film, you name it - you also need to find the source. You shouldn't be reposting art from independent artists unless the artist has explicitly said that it is okay to do so. But even pictures that have wide distribution should still be credited.
I think web weaving posts can be a fun way to explore themes and topics while incorporating different types of media you find interesting and enjoy. In the same vein, it's also a great way to find new suggestions for songs, poems, books, and other pieces of art that are relevant to themes you're drawn towards. But to truly engage with these pieces of art in conversation with each other, you need to give them the bare minimum amount of respect by giving citations.
#web weaving#I'm not asking for chicago or mla here people. the standard citation format on this website is ''title'' by [author name]#ridiculously easy to the point#that sometimes it is hard to find things
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inspired by the whole plagiarism problem and discourse on YouTube I think I'll try adding more sources to my regular postings (Hbomberguy).
Works cited:
Hbomberguy. Plagerism and You(Tube). YouTube. link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ. Published 3 December 2023. Accessed 8 December 2023.
#btw I so agree with whoever said we should have a Tumblr source format#I vaguely used MLA (8th edition) rn (but I usually do it with citation tools so I might've mixed up some details)#I intentionally added the text “link:” for clarity even though it's not a part of the MLA format#ink.post#txt
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This is urgent how do you do an in text citation for an article from a fandom wiki pls help
#citations#homework#fandom#please help me#urgent#fandom wiki#wikipedia#mla format#writing#school#grammar
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in lieu of recent art, have these drawings i did for my english ii class for our julius caesar final project
#the duality of my art style sometimes is appalling even to me#the prompt was to draw your favorite character so i did my take on cassius🥲#and the second was illustrate a scene#so like i obviously chose the one where cassius was like ''brutus dearest wouldest thou like to murder caesar perchance''#the teacher thought it was so good she printed it out and framed it but i got a 98 bc i forgot to put my citations in alphabetical order#also she said bro literally none of the romans were blonde#like the only inhabitants of the republic at that time that were blonde were the slaves from gaul which is present day france#also like everyone in julius caesar is like 40+ so she asked me why he looked like a college freshman about to commit murder🤡🤡#i did not have an answer#the only art i've done recently is for school hgsajhdkfjfvfk i need to get a life#I'M LITERALLY STILL SO MAD I GOT A 98 ON THIS BC I DIDN'T PUT MY STUPID CITATIONS IN ORDER#MLA FORMAT CAN GET STABBED 23 TIMES IDC#julius caesar#lotus draws
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if you try to undermine sokka, in this house. under my roof. well. that won't go well. for you. is all i'm saying.
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Just as an FYI I am obscenely grateful to everyone who supports/interacts with my artwork, but I find it a challenge to properly express it most of the time.
To quote F.R. David, "Words don't come easy to me" (0:08).
#i'm happy to be in a place with my art where i'm not hating every single thing I make#and the start of this year was honestly a nightmare#so i'm ecstatic to have a good end to my year#works cited: David F.R. “Words” /Words/. Carrere 1982. Youtube Video. Transcript of Lyrics#yes i looked up the mla citation format for songs just for one silly little thing#I feel the need to at least attempt to use my degree a little bit xd
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bro I literally forgot to write a conclusion for my essay??? 😃😃
#okay listen for CONTEXTTTT#I had my entire essay written out except for the conclusion#but I was like “lemme just format all this in mla and list all the citations and write out the ones I don't have citations for”#“and do the title and glossary and all and THEN do my conclusion”#since all the formatting and such is pretty exact and needs to be precise#whereas the conclusion eh I can rush through a bit more when I'm close to the deadline#oh also this is all happening half an hour before the deadline 😃#so I finish the formatting but it is like 11:55 and I am so stressed and the formatting took sm time#that I both forgot about the conclusion and didn't have enough time for it anyways#so I finish immediately submitted it#and yup that baby was submitted raw no proofreading 😃#and I only realizing twenty minutes later I didn't actually write the stupid conclusion GAHHHHH#salmaspeaks
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God you're all so lucky I'm not in academics atm cause I would be so annoying about turning my interests into full studies for it
#I'VE BEEN WANTING TO DO A STUDY ON THE DISNEY FICTIONAL UNIVERSE AND WHETHER OR NOT IT COUNTS AS A MYTHOLOGY AND ANALYZE WHAT IT MEANS TO BE#A MYTHOLOGY AND THE POLOTICS BOTH IN UNIVERSE AND OUT AND HOW IT FEEDS INTO A MYTHOS BUT I DIDNT DO IT#I HAVE NO INCENTIVE I MEAN LIKE WHERE WOULD I POST THAT??? WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THAT OTHER THAN ME?? FNJDJSJS#How would Tumblr react to a genuine heartfelt study of the Disney universe completed in proper MLA format with citations
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Hey if anyone is an English teacher or just Knows the answer to this: how do you do an in-text citation in MLA format if you’re using an ellipsis at the end of the sentence? For example:
“This is the sentence that I am citing…” (Author 5).
Is that correct? Or does the ellipsis go after the citation?
#mla format#citation#mla#writing#english#language arts#research#in-text citation#tagging for exposure#bc i need an answer ASAP#zoe posts
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