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"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).
Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.
#original post#text post#500#1k#2k#btw i know my definition of death of the author is loosey goosey here#it wasn't the main point so i went informal with it! as ppl in the tags have pointed out it isn't exact#and i do recommend reading the wikipedia article or similar (possibly even the essay itself if you're narsty) if you want to learn more!#wasn't expecting this to take off so my apologies to my barthes-heads out there#love you mwah#5k#10k#15k#20k
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i accidentally napped and had a dream (nightmare?) where a new update for stardew valley released where everything was the same except on a random day in year 3 Evelyn would just straight up die. There was a whole cutscene that started in her house where she collapsed, and then transitioned over to the hospital where Harvey gave George and Alex the worst news of their lives. However, they got to speak to her where she said something along the lines of "Yoba will protect me, and I am sure he will let me watch over you."
Alex and George would not talk to the player for more than a few words for a full season after this event. George would spend most of his time in the bedroom, so if you had less than 2 hearts with him, you could barely ever speak to him.
And Alex... oh my god, poor Alex. If you were married to him during this event, he just stayed in bed all day. Otherwise, if single, he would just stand on the beach most of the time, staring off into the ocean. If you tried to interact with him, it would just say "Alex is grieving... Better leave him be."
There was also other NPC dialogue like mayor Lewis saying "I haven't seen the community in this state of mourning since your grandfather passed..."
there was also a glitch where you could make Evelyn live forever and there were entire guides for the "immortal Evelyn glitch" that got patched out in the next update. If you tried to perform the glitch after the patch, mr. Qi would tell you that "hey, it happens to all of us. We can't prevent it, and neither can you, no matter how hard you try."
#stardew valley#sdv#death tw#grandparent death tw#family death tw#I DIDNT MEAN TO DOZE OFF AND YOBA PUNISHED ME IN THE WORST WAY POSSIBLE
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#our flag means death#ofmdedit#edward teach#stede bonnet#ofmd s2#ofmd s2 spoilers#did i just download the 2160p version of the episode just to zoom as much a possible on the kiss?? maybe who knows#gentlebeard#mine#ofmd
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dad villain au: did emilie just. not consider at all that adrien was literally dying at the time. wow
she's in the habit of deciding when Adrien's suffering is acceptable, and if it is, she'll just fix it later.
#my art#adrien agreste#emelie agreste#gabriel agreste#dad villain au#mayura#as emelie faces zero consequences using the peacock she's more likely to utilize it in a way she didn't in the last timeline#last timeline she faced real problems. had to come to terms with her own eventual death. got to see action and reaction in process#in this timeline there was no consequences. so why shouldn't she make this as 'perfect' as possible?#before gabriel got his memories of the last timeline back he was actually pretty against her being weird abt adrien but eventually just#let her do whatever lmao. he was like. alright fine if it makes you happy dear#sure you can rearrange his genome so he cant catch chicken pox again whatver#as a result when things dont fit her delusions she gets upset moody or aggressive
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tumblr.com mutuals i love you all so dearly
#new and old!!!!!#i know i've speedran fandoms the past year- all the post-near-death hullabaloo really got to me#so a lot of you are possibly clinging on for dear life#but i love u all!!!! thank u for being here!!#thoughts
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We have moved past Maya and Franziska wingmanning narumitsu as a society. They would not fucking do that. We need to realise the truth which is that Larry and Gumshoe would try to wingman them and only succeed through failure
#ace attorney#narumitsu#phoenix wright#miles edgeworth#maya fey#franziska von karma#dick gumshoe#larry butz#general my post tag#i do think maya would endlessly tease poor phoenix about it based on how she acted in 3-5 about iris#but she didn’t do anything to set them up she just made fun of phoenix#franziska would sooner choose death and run to another country herself than get anywhere near whatever’s going on between the two#larry however.#larry would be way too invested#once he actually realises his best friends are into each other he would never drop it#gumshoe wants to make edgeworth happy any way possible#and based on the “wright wright wright” scene#and that one moment in the anime where he cries bc the two were working together even countries apart during the train bomb case#i think he’d be very invested too#also a Larry and Gumshoe wingman duo would be absolutely disastrous. and hilarious#do you see my vision
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i dont know how else to put this but to approach books (or any media, really) solely for the sake of relatability is genuinely incredibly heartbreaking......to have such little (or such unwilling) imaginative scope that you cannot stretch yourself, even marginally, in a different direction to what you’ve known or are used to knowing when the very POINT of stories is to transport you somewhere else, into someone else, so you can do just that........when fran lebowiz said a book “is supposed to be a door!” and george saunders said good prose “is like empathy training wheels” they were right!!! they were so so so SO absolutely entirely right!!!!!
#thinking about that last post still and i'm having so many thoughts#that people have relatability as the sole criterion is astonishing to me#like how else are you going to develop variegated textures in your relationships w others?#not to be dramatic but it seems like a little death to me. truly.#everything i read as a child and teenager was expressly something as different from my world as possible. bc i wanted to relate as something#other than me#once again it is. heartbreaking#truly it is#p#book talks#idir lúibíní
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an incomplete list of death note things i thought were just jokes until i found out they were canon:
the potato chip scene. how is that real.
apples
the whole “this is something only kira would do, on the other hand, if i don’t do it, he’ll definitely think i’m kira, but . . .” and “kira would never do that, unless he is kira, in which case he would do the opposite of what i know he would do, so that actually increases his likelihood . . .” dynamic that light and L have is not an exaggeration. they really do overthink everything to that degree
the thing that looks like a monster is more mentally stable than the normal human boy
light isn’t attracted to misa
#heavy on the last one#bc like wdym you have a beautiful goth girl who is obsessed with you and you make her sleep in a separate bed#light yagami is not attracted to women. men? possibly. women? no fucking way#death note#i made this like a year ago oops
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TAIKA WAS NOT WEARING PANTS IN THIS SCENE! SEND HELP!!
Edit: it's called a lavalava. Taken from @merryfinches :
#ofmd#our flag means death#Ofmd bts#I mean#I get why he did it#I would wear those pants as little as possible
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I know I don’t have a large following. I know this post will get lost in the sea of other posts. I know I don’t come on here often, and when I do I try to keep my page free from death and other serious topics. Yet, I think this is imperative to say, especially since I myself am of indigenous descent. I ask all of you to join me in solidarity.
Cole Brings Plenty, actor, model, and most importantly activist was found dead. He was assaulted in a club in Lawrence, Kansas. He was killed and his braids; a symbol of his heritage, of his Lakota decent, and a sacred symbol across many an indigenous nation, were forcibly cut.
I beg of thee and I plead with thee, spread the word. Do your part, however big or little, to bring light to this situation. Whether it be by reblogging this post or others alike, or by going out and making a stand. Do it.
Shed light on the situation. This goes beyond the death of one man. It is about the abuse and the destruction of natives and their communities. Of the killing of many an innocent soul. Of the brutalization of many First Nations.
We have seen time and time again, many indigenous people die by similar means. We need to bring light on the deaths of any and all indigenous individuals dead, missing or at risk. It is an epidemic, an assault, and a silent cleansing of many a nation.
Whether it be the estimated 6,000 dead at the hands of Canadian residential schools, the murdered and missing indigenous women and children, or the killing of an actor and activist, you cannot deny the sheer abhorrence of this problem. The problem of many Native American people dying, going missing and being abused, at an alarming rate. At a level unprecedented and unparalleled, at a level of which should not be kept silent.
Cole Brings Plenty, actor, model, activist.
Look at him and spread awareness for him and for many others befallen by the same fate.
Remember him. Remember all of the others. Let nobody else befall the same fate again.
#cole brings plenty#first nations#indigenous#indigenous americans#native american#Canadian residential schools#residential schools#tw death#mmiw#mmiwg2s#please join me in solidarity and spread this word as much as possible#i beg of you#colored text#long post
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Our Flag Means Death 2x6 | A beautiful name (requested by anon)
#did he have to be so hot in this scene 🫠🫠🫠#david jenkins really said i'll make rhys as sexy as possible and then put my wife in his arms#oh to have a knife held to my throat by this stede bonnet#ofmd#ofmd s2#ofmd s2 spoilers#our flag means death#ofmdedit#ofmdsource#ofmd gifs#ida.stuff#ofmd 2x6#stede bonnet#hellkat maggie#gif request#UPDATED VERSION
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This is so fucking vile
#i want every Israeli soldier to die#the slowest most painful death possible#theyre pure evil#fuck israel
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ID: A screenshot from Secret Life session three of Joel failing his 100 block mlg. Edited on top of the screenshot is a dril tweet that reads "so long suckers! i rev up my motorcylce [sic] and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement" /end ID
#secret life#secret life spoilers#smallishbeans#joel smallishbeans#I have no idea why he's taking damage before he hit the ground lol#thank you to skizz getting a very clear view of joel's death and the wikiquote page 'dril tweets by year' for making this post possible#poisonheartposts#1k
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ECCC 2023 OFMD Panel Highlights:
vico showed up in izzy cosplay, they all were very excited at having a room of 3000 people cheering for them
on being asked about becoming sex symbols: "there's nothing sexier than kindness" -rhys
vico talking about how they had no clue on sailing and boat things, saying "starburst" instead of "starboard"
rhys started making sheep noises with a dad joke and then they all just started doing sheep impressions. samba's was basically just a scream
vico standing up and showing off their sword "wait that's a real sword" "how did you get that through weapons check??"
a question about who in the cast probably reads fanfic, they said nathan, paused, then said "i think con reads a lot of fanfiction"; samba gave a shoutout to rizzy
one word for what their character gets up to in s2:
vico: serious gooseness (as opposed to silly gooseness)
rhys: fantastical
samba: let's just say there's more screaming
alex sherman apparently said s1 stede was a puppet becoming a real boy and s2 is stede becoming a man
on what cryptid stede would like best, rhys said "stede would go for the mermaid...or the kraken"
musical episode question, what song their character would sing:
vico: tu pirata soy yo
samba: let's get it on ("as he's torturing somebody")
rhys: rainbow connection
samba: you know, karl dies-
rhys: WHAT
rhys: i wish i had stede's hair
samba: YOU DO
last question was what the toughest episode was to film
samba: spoilers for s2??
moderator: how strong is your NDA?
samba: very strong. there's a sniper in the room
then vico said ep 2 was the toughest and rhys said there's more physical stuff happening in s2, he had to workout, and samba got all the BTS
no release date or trailer, but it was a great panel with good questions and thoughtful answers
#our flag means death#ofmd#our flag means death spoilers#possibly spoilers? idk tagging just in case
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A short introduction comic to a Last Life AU i've been rotating in my mind where Scar is a ghost only Grian can see :)
Part 2
#grian#goodtimeswithscar#last life#llsmp#trafficblr#desert duo#scarian#life series#smallishbeans#this is part 1 of possibly more we shall see#thank u tumblr user bloop-im-a-frog-now for asking about the au in the tags of a previous post#i'm just bad at getting myself to make text posts so i haven't shared much about the au apart from the few drawings </3#ghost scar au#good enough tag for now#my art#blood#death
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I want to see jason and cass forced to work together in a long and messy run. Jason isn’t killing people but not because he believes it’s wrong, he’s bending his principles because the personal costs were too high. Cass will not, cannot bend, and damn the costs. Her reasons for it are laughably unconvincing to him. She has worked so so hard to have a life for herself. Jason is pretty clearly suicidal. The man who adopted each of them would be unrecognisable to the other. She’s held up as the golden standard, he’s the grim cautionary tale. She’s the superior combatant. He’s a jack of all trades. Neither one has any clue how to be normal.
They should despise each other and be forced to solve mysteries together.
#i want it to be an excrutiating character deep dive#full of detectiving and high stakes shenanigans#with ample oppprtunity for both to shine#and annoy the other as much as physically possible#death is too horrible to accept is not an argument jason can take seriously#but neither is ‘i can be the monster who accepts that price’ ever going to be acceptable to cass#jason todd#red hood#cassandra cain#black bat#orphan#dc#batman
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