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burden2 · 1 year

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#things are on the horizon #out of captors

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 7 months

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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aphel1on · 7 months

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i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

#getou suguru #kaneki ken #abyss twin #i know there are others who im not thinking of rn #feel free to reblog with more examples #aphelion.txt #tropes #WAIT I REMEMBERED MORE #jaina proudmoore #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #phosphophyllite #i just spent like half an hour trying to find this on tv tropes but it must be. Too specific of a thing i have in mind bc #I just kept finding similar and related but too broad categories #despair event horizon. fallen hero. well intentioned extremist. etc etc etc #like specifically i'm talking about when the character's EMPATHY is the CRUX of the problem. sosooo crunchyjuicytasty #edit:#also just know that i am reading every tag on this post #and enthusiastically scribbling down the names i dont recognizr #so i can check out their series later #edit 2 wow this post blew up 🫡 godspeed fellow villain likers #the amount of people tagging this as 'me lmao' is concerning to me #wwx #how did i fucking forget this was also yllz era wwx

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kroovv · 1 month

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Cairn and Rosemary reference sheets ✨

#idk if people like seeing things like this but i think theyre cool #art #illustration #comic #horizon walkers #horizon walkers comic #webtoon #webcomic #fantasy

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adobe-outdesign · 6 months

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in the newest episodes of the current Pokemon anime there's a Lapras that is

A) covered in scars

B) huge

C) a pirate

and I need everyone to take a moment to appreciate them

#pokemon #pkmn #pokemon anime #pokemon horizons #lapras #outdesign posts things #I love how they changed the shell design slightly #greatest hits

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thewitchstones · 1 year

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realizing the pattern is only part of the journey.

#its something im coming to terms with #a necessary struggle #witchcraft rambles #also pagan rambles #oh boy oh boy #things are on the horizon

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jay-birds-fly · 8 months

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A candid image of me cleverly tricking my unsuspecting friends into sharing an interest with me so I have someone to infodump to

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motherlegba · 3 months

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‘Serenading the cattle with my trombone (Lorde - Royals)'

#my favorite thing about this video is that there are 0 cows at the beginning and you watch them all coming over the horizon to be serenaded #a classic #op #cows

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jollymalt · 1 month

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the animal crossing drawings are continuing!

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egophiliac · 9 months

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I love the idea of teenage Malleus hating his new baby brother Silver but slowly falling for him

words cannot express how much I adore that Mal's reaction to seeing a human baby for the first time was "the fuck is this. why does it look like that. gross." (then he immediately got stuck on babysitting duty and the rest is history)

I am SUCH a sucker for that trope of "non-humans being fascinated by normal human behavior", so between that and all the delicious angst going on I was eating VERY well. >:) Malleus being so impressed that two-year-old Silver can walk, because it took him twenty years to stand on two legs! Lilia barging in on the Zigvolts at 2 AM being like "he won't stop crying what do I do"! Lilia trying to feed Silver rats and Malleus being like "...please just stick with what the books say to feed it"! it is all so. chef's kiss.

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #(this is based on a very dumb in-joke and i apologize)#i promise i will (eventually) stop spamposting i am just still floating in a river of sheer delight from this update #god. the spoon scene is going to live in my brain forever #malleus having to be the one to teach sebek and silver basic magic because lilia was SO bad at explaining it 😭#also like...i had assumed mal didn't know who silver really is so it wasn't a surprise when lilia straight-up lied to his face about it #but now i can just SEE it hovering there on the horizon as a thing they're probably going to have to deal with at some point #like 'malleus doesn't know' is no longer a sort of general observation/theory and is instead now a very relevant Problem #ohohoho. splendid. things are going to get SO bad and i am going to be here clapping my stupid little hands at it all

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classichorrorblog · 8 months

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10 Sci-Fi Horror Movies To Consider For October/Halloween

#Horror #Filmedit #Horroredit #Alien #Event Horizon #The Fly #Halloween 3 Season Of The Witch #Invasion Of The Body Snatchers #The Invisible Man #Nope #Them #They Live #The Thing #CHB #10 Movies To Consider #I am not saying that these are the best or that they are my favorites.#Just 10 movies that I think are worth watching for the season.#Flashing Gif

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emilyomily · 9 months

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I created a site to make it easy to see which critters are currently available to catch in ACNH

I hated having to manually look up which critters were available in the current month, and memorising what time I had to look out for them in-game, or going back and forth checking if I had already caught some of them. So I built this site!

Essentially, when you first open the site, it will display which critters are currently available to be caught based on the selected hemisphere (the default is northern). And there are sliders you can use to change the time and month to see critters that are available at any time you choose!

I also added filters for critters that appear all day and all year, and you can also just view all critters available in the current month if you want to!

You can also easily mark the critters you've already caught. (They are saved using local storage).

When you click on any of the critters icons, you will see information about it's rarity, location, shadow sizes, prices, and speed levels. These are all displayed with custom icons to make it easy to see where you need to go and what you need to look for at first glance!

I hope you all find it useful! :))

#acnh #animal crossing new horizons #new horizons #acnh community #omnom-things #dunno if anyone is still playing this nowadays lmao #I AM THO

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leenfiend · 4 months

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