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weirdly-specific-but-ok · 4 months

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let's talk about "shitty" fanfics

Im not saying like the ones that romanticise toxic behaviour I'm talking about the writing and how it might not be what people call great writing or a work of art

If people adore a fic and it brings them joy and creates an escape for them, does judging it by the standards of typical "literature" hold true or?

Besides what even is literature? I'm reading a book called the introduction to the study of literature written in the mid 1900s and it says literature is any writing that while it may or may not convey information, it is meant to bring about some kind of emotional/imaginative effect. It doesn't say shit about the typical archetypes and following them or defying them or having some moral meaning.

On the flipside though is the worth of literature to be judged based on how popular it is/how much people like it

TLDR: methinks we are being influenced by other people's ideas of what is or isn't great literature but have you thought about what your own idea of it is? Because I haven't found an answer yet

#fanfic writing #ao3 fanfic #fanfiction #literature #literary criticism #art #what is art #What is literature #Are our standards really our own or someone else's #elitism #Elitism in art #bad writing #shitty fanfic prompts #Shitty fanfiction #Fanfic #fandom

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reading-by-the-sea · 6 months

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#sartre #what is literature #lit

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tamsoj · 3 months

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Charles Bukowski, "assault," from What Matters Most is How Well You Walk through the Fire

#charles bukowski #bukowski #what matters most is how well you walk through the fire #poetry #lit #literature

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something-sweet-n-spicy · 1 month

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#bookblr #literature #poem #poetry #books #love #quotes #this is what makes us girls #book quotes #fantasy #spilled truth #spilled poem #life quotes #life #dark acamedia #dark aesthetic #light academia #god bless you #nature core

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toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account · 6 months

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pride and prejudice enjoyers when the main characters make choices based on both their pride and their prejudice

#me when mr. darcy (a very prideful character) complicates the story by acting on his prejudice: HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS IS WHAT I CAME FOR #mine #pride and prejudice #jane austen #classic literature #literature #books #reading

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starabxlla · 5 months

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Bambi girls 𝜗𝜚

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panthermouthh · 4 months

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Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

#frankenstein #mary shelley #gothic literature #monster #gothic lit #gothic art #illustration #my art #Alternative caption: he asked for no pickles >:(#I wanted to get a more clear lightning theme in here but eh I think it turned out well enough #victors face says: yes I made this abomination against nature. and what?#ok enough of them getting along time to return to the insanity and violence

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poetryofmuses · 11 months

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"what do you do for a living?" Oh I am a professional hopeless romantic and I read books and cry in my free time.

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hamletthedane · 9 months

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Love that Oppenheimer is a deeply disturbing horror movie about a man forced to accept that he is, in a person, the representative manifestation of mankind’s evil in committing one of the greatest horrors of human history - LITERALLY acting as the modern Prometheus, tormented by his sins for the remainder of time. Knowing that he will never be pitied and his actions will forever be utterly unforgivable because the blood of genocide and the potential of total human annihilation will eternally drip from his hands.

But also the simultaneous indictment by the film that to blame a single person for the Manhattan Project is to refuse to accept your own capacity for great evil if the ends ever seem to justify the means, and the culpability of every member of a species that lets itself create something so unspeakably terrible.

Hate that twitter’s take on such a nuanced and brilliantly handled examination of those issues is “movie bad because protagonist not evil enough.”

#what’s that quote about the problem with othering the enemy in media is that we can no longer see our own reflection in their eyes #oppenheimer’s motivations WERE sympathetic that’s the POINT #we SHOULD feel uncomfortable with our sympathy for him - the film goes out of its way to make us feel uncomfortable about it #we should be uncomfortable with the fact that we might have made the same decisions as him in his place #yes he’s evil but his evilness represents the evil that we might all accept in ourselves #twitter simply cannot handle nuanced takes on things ig (tumblr does though - the posts on here have been surprisingly excellent)#oppenheimer #(tldr - look if you walk out of Oppenheimer thinking it somehow celebrates the man then you may need to retake 9th grade Literature srry)#films

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meloncholygal · 1 month

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I was not meant to hoe around. I was meant for soul crushing life long devotion

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lucidloving · 3 months

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@redpi11 // Anaïs Nin // @kfkx // Jennifer Willoughby, "The Sun is Still a Part of Me" // Jorge Luis Borges, "A New Refutation of Time" // Euripides, Medea (trans. Oliver Taplin) // Jenny Slate, Little Weirds // Keaton St. James, "September Affirmation (Don't Be Afraid)" // @kfkx // Czeslaw Milosz, "Late Ripeness" (trans. Robert Haas)

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krikzilla · 2 months

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Calm day on Going Merry ☀️☀️☀️

#if you know what i used as reference for this art im literature in love with you #one piece #vinsmoke sanji #roronoa zoro #sanji #zoro #zoro x sanji #zosan #sanzo #my art

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metamorphesque · 8 months

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though i am heavy, there is flight around me

wendell berry, the fall of icarus, f. scott fitzgerald, christophe vacher, hozier, galileo chini, mahmoud darwish (tr. catherine cobham), rubens, akwaeke emezi, alfred schwarzschild

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tamsoj · 3 months

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Charles Bukowski, "lifedance," from What Matters Most is How Well You Walk through the Fire

#charles bukowski #bukowski #what matters most is how well you walk through the fire #poetry #lit #literature

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rosepompadour · 2 months

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She wanted flowers and music and enchantment and love,—

Willa Cather, Lucy Gayheart (1935)

#imagine my shock when i went looking for my willa cather tag and discovered there's nothing in it?!#what kind of blog am i running?#too many interests; i contain multitudes; etc etc #willa cather #lucy gayheart #literature

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hello-is-anyone-there · 9 months

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Me and the boys on Dunsinane Hill

#macbeth #you know exactly what im talking about #shakespeare #dark academia #academic #light academia #literature #dark academic #dark academia aesthetic #darkest academia #transmasc #the secret history #romantic academia #shakespeare memes

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