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audreycritter · 3 months

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thank u sparknotes

#ides of march #julius caesar #sparknotes #tumblr holidays

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antisocial-cheesepuff · 6 months

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i relate to the sparknotes twitter on a personal level

#and i say this as i repost this for the second time after deleting my first blog which i had for four years #phantom of the opera #poto #sparknotes #twitter #but i don't even like opera #regular nonsense

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checkoutmybookshelf · 1 month

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These combinations rarely seem to be good ideas in practice, no matter how much THRIFT we're aiming for, Horatio...

#shakespeare meme #hamlet memes #literary memes #sparknotes #hamlet #shakespeare

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mrsbillycranston · 13 days

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#Taskmaster #ed gamble #greg davies #sparknotes #frankenstein

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painedpen · 6 months

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Everybody shut up Denki Kaminari’s lowest voltage can be used as a muscle relaxer for people with arthritis or other joint pain so after particularly intense missions Denki will massage Izuku’s hands with that voltage to relieve pain and stress

#my hero acedamia #boku no hero acedamia #denki kaminari #izuku midoriya #kaminari denki #midoriya izuku #kamideku #sparknotes #spark notes #fluff #headcanons #cute #i am so normal about them

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kristxrt · 8 months

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kamideku lifeguard au that lives in my head rent free

#I've got more traditional art of anything rn #Digital is meh sometimes #Easier to stick with what ur used to sometimes #Might make more for this comic #Wanted to make it a fic but I can't write #So art #izuku mydoria #denki kaminari #kamideku #mha #bnha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #sparknotes

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seven-dragons · 2 years

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#sparknotes #pride and prejudice #jane austen #period lit

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dumbbitchawards · 2 years

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#sparknotes back wirh another BANGER #pride and prejudice #pride & prejudice #sparknotes #spark notes #literature #classic lit #twitter #jane austen #mine #dumbbitchawards

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chaosqueery · 19 days

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okay, so I still don’t like the cheating aspect at all. Really wish they would have just had Eddie break up with Marisol when he kicked her out. But how they are going about Eddie processing his stuff with Shannon, well, I’m intrigued. And I didn’t think I would feel that way bringing her up again. And all because Tim’s bringing up Vertigo now.

That movie is straight up bonkers.

The entire plot of Vertigo under the cut so don’t read if you don’t want to be spoiled. Also, content warnings for themes involving suicide and murder.

To those who don’t know about Vertigo: It’s one of Hitchcock’s more famous films about a man, Scottie, a retired detective who is convinced into doing one last job for an old college friend, Gavin. He has to follow Gavin’s wife who claims she’s been possessed (by her great-grandmother who was the mistress of a wealthy man and has his child, only for him to take the child away from her, after which she killed herself) and trying to harm herself. After following her around for a while, Scottie winds up saving the Gavin’s wife, Madeline, from trying to drown herself in San Francisco Bay. She goes to thank him the next day and the more time he winds up spending with her, the more obsessed with her he gets, thinking he’s in love.

After she has nightmares that suggest she might actually be possessed my her great-grandmother, Scottie takes Madeline to Mission San Juan Bautista, the ghosts childhood home. Despite just declaring their love for each other, Madeline runs up to the top of the bell tower and falls to her death. Scottie tried to run up the stairs to stop her but blacked out due to his vertigo and extreme fear of heights (the reason he retired in the first place).

After being ruled a suicide, the coroner lays the guilt on Scottie for not doing more to stop her from jumping. He’s so depressed he’s near catatonic and starts imagining seeing Madeline all the places she typically went when he was originally following her. Until one day he actually does see someone who looks almost exactly like her, just different clothes, hair, and her name was Judy.

it’s then that it’s revealed to the audience that Judy was an actress hired to stage the suicide of Gavin’s wife. Scottie was never following the real Madeline, but Judy making it look like she was “possessed”, and when she ran up the bell tower, Gavin pushed his dead wife out the window instead. Gavin knew that Scottie would black out and not make it to the top of the stairs to see the switch.

Having already been in love with him, Judy doesn’t reveal her involvement with the murder. She keeps seeing him and he just becomes more obsessed with turning her into Madeline. He makes her wear her clothes, get her to dye her hair the same color, and she does it all because she wants him to love her, even if it isn’t really her. The Madeline he knew never even existed, she was just a romantic idealization of what he thought he wanted.

Eventually, Scottie pieces together who Judy was and takes her to the mission to get her to confess and confront his madness. He was trying to recreate the scene to shock himself out of it. He takes her up the stairs, conquering his fear heights, and acting like he’s gonna kill her. Once they make it to the top, she admits to everything and begs for forgiveness. They embrace, but then a nun comes in suddenly and startles Judy, causing her to fall to her death. But hey, Scottie’s cured of his fear of heights.

so yeah, that’s the general plot of Vertigo. Ummmmm…

I know they aren’t bringing some murder plot into this. And I don’t think this Kim lady is an actress made up to look like Shannon. Aside from being drawn to someone he imagines as a lost love, I don’t really expect them to follow much of the plot at all. Mostly it will be a reflection of the themes in the story and the goal of shocking Eddie out of his habit of trying to make every person he dates into Shannon and his need to mentally relive what happened to her.

There is also a part for Buck in all this. In Vertigo, Scottie has a long-time friend and ex-fiancé named, Midge. He spends a lot of time with her and she’s always trying to help him get to the root of his acrophobia and vertigo. It’s comfortable and they act like they’re married. She represents who he should be looking at, a love based in reality rather than a fantasy created for him. Something he is too lost in his obsession to see.

Spark notes did a lot better of discussing the themes than I would have, so I am just copying and pasting some shit, then adding my own notes to how they relate to Eddie’s storyline. This is the page I’m taking these notes from (x)

We all know that Eddie has worn a mask the entire time he’s been on the show, only allowing a few peaks underneath here and there. He tries to act like he has it all together while simultaneously harboring all kinds of inner turmoil. We’ve seen the more he pushes it down, the bigger his explosion winds up being. Despite the emotional work he’s done, he still hasn’t broken the habit of trying to replace Shannon or come close to moving on from her death.

Buck, like Midge is to Scottie, is Eddie’s constant. While Midge is aware that she still has feelings for Scottie, Buck remains oblivious. His mask is that of a platonic friend and companion, much more comfortable being there for his friend than really looking at who they are to each other. Instead he’ll be more intent on getting Eddie to see the truth about the Shannon/Kim fantasy, all the while loving him unconditionally because he’s the only one who can really see under Eddie’s mask.

Shanon had her own mask when she was alive, trying to be the wife and mother everyone wanted her to be. Even her memory was painted over with this idealized version of her, and it put so much pressure on her she lost focus of the person she wanted to be. She eventually realized she had to let go of this “perfect wife” so she could work on what was more important to her. To be a good mom to Chris. But Eddie never got the chance to let go of the “perfect wife” because she died before he could.

Kim’s mask is pretty obvious.

I’ll say it again that I think there is something else going on in Eddie’s head to make him suddenly start seeing Kim as Shannon. In Vertigo, they used the same actress for Judy and “Madeline” because she was the same person. Shannon is dead. I do not believe they are throwing a fake death trope at us. But why didn’t they just cast someone who looked a lot like her? It would have been more believable. But i think he is actually seeing her like that, but she might look totally different. Maybe there is something in his brain making him confused, thinking he’s back to when him and Shannon were last together, but it only happens when he actually sees Kim (like maybe he actually thought he was going out with Marisol too, until Kim showed up). Of course this is probably just me desperately trying to figure out how carelessly Eddie’s cheating on Marisol. Seriously, no guilt? Eddie?

No matter why these visions of Shannon are happening, it’s pretty clear that it’s about shocking Eddie’s system out of this endless cycle he’s found himself in. Reliving her death over and over again, keeping him in the fantasy of who she was instead of confronting what was wrong between them, and not allowing himself to look at what’s actually good for him. Or who.

Buck is the love that’s actually real. When all of this is over and Eddie has gotten the chance to really say goodbye to Shannon, he’ll finally be able to see this relationship he’s been building for years. The person he loves inside and out, to the core, without needing to project any idealistic persona on him.

Marisol’s purpose? To startle Kim out of a bell tower (in the finale “All Fall Down”)? Seriously, though, I think she mainly just there to highlight how lost Eddie is in this. To do something like cheat would take A LOT and it keeps the seriousness of the situation in perspective.

#I’ll probably wind up editing this more #But I’m tired and I want it posted #911 spoilers #911 speculation #vertigo #eddie diaz #buck buckley #Shannon diaz #buddie #sparknotes #cw sui mention

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adobongsiopao · 7 months

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Time traveller: [Moves a chair]

#jane eyre #charlotte bronte #sparknotes #anyone who dislikes the ending of jane eyre might like this #will the story work better with that kind of ending?#reminds me of an another novel written by charlotte bronte

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fearsomeandwretchedandwrong · 2 years

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#jane eyre #sparknotes #literary humor

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marlynnofmany · 2 years

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Felt like Tumblr might appreciate this one.

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A tweet by SparkNotes that says “ "oh you buried your friend yesterday? that must've been hard" not really. once I led him into the catacombs and got him chained to the wall things went pretty smoothly”

#the cask of amontillado #SparkNotes #like Cliff's Notes #but tweet-length #and usually pretty funny #Twitter

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spark-is-alive · 13 days

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Hey there

Howdy

Is this seat taken?

It’s 20 minutes till class, none of them are taken

Yeah but i like this one

Is it a particularly special seat?

You could say that. I’m Kai by the way

Emily

So, Emily. why’d you choose that seat?

Front of the class but not front row. Central i guess, why’d you choose yours?

To introduce myself to you

I’m very flattered

You should be, this is otherwise a terrible seat

Oh, you’re a back of the class type person?

Yep, just blending in

You should have thought about that before you dyed your hair bright red

Yeah but now i can pretend to be an apple

That is an upside

Yeah except its been really hard to see a doctor

And i bet hiding from William Tell is really stressful

It does make life difficult

I’m sure it does.

Sooooooo, they’re showing the new Evil Guy at the theatre downtown this afternoon if you want to judge those seats

I have a sneaking suspicion you’re gonna be partial to the back row

And right there is another thing i like about seat choice, it’s a window into someones mind

Ok then, whats going on in my mind?

Well you’re a diligent student who’s a little quiet, doesn’t want to lead the discussion in class but has a great many thoughts on everything discussed. Though hopefully whats going on up there right now is along the lines of “Wow i can’t wait to go see a movie with Kai”

Thats pretty accurate, i’ll see you there at 4, Kai With Strong Opinions On Seats.

See you there, Emily With Bad Opinions On Seats

#sparknotes #marble bluff #is this seat taken?#flashback time #will finish backwards later #in a weird mental time rn and wanted to post something and had this written

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checkoutmybookshelf · 4 months

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