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Is that female character actually like a mom to another character or did she just acknowledge that character’s existence? This and many other questions fandom gets wrong about female characters

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Hydrangeas by さか

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it's okay, ulysses ogre. you can back up and try dubliners, it's a short story collection with much more straightforward prose, you can dive deep on one piece at a time, and once you've toyed around with that then I'm sure you'll have an easier time with ulysses. besides, I had an irish lit professor who'd been studying finnegans wake for twenty years and she said she still didn't really know what was going on in it. ulysses ogre, what really matters is if you are enjoying your time with literature and feel like you are gaining something, not whether you reach the "correct" conclusions. there's no need to try and force yourself through something if you feel like you aren't on an even enough plane with the text to reap any of its rewards.

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ichthyologists in 1938:

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The word you are looking for is an ensemble cast. You like the ensemble cast. Not found family.

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character development

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you may notice i use the phrase "my beloved" frequently. this is because i am in love with the world and everything in it. hope this clears things up <3

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if you ever find yourself thinking “wow I scraped the bottom of the barrel with my energy with that and came out okay!” that’s the devil talking. you did not come out okay. you borrowed energy from the future. you will repay it if you don’t rest and replenish the borrowed energy first.

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Princess finds a bedraggled knight wandering just outside the castle walls with no heraldry and a wilted plume (a common sign of emotional neglect in knights) and begs the queen to let her keep him. The queen warns about the dangers of adopting wild knight errants but the princess promises to take good care of him and make sure to keep him away from their domesticated knights until he’s properly adjusted. Queen finally relents once she sees his rusted kit, broken sword, and the saddest brown eyes known to man. Princess claps her hands excitedly and drags him off to the apothecary to make sure he doesn’t have worms.

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Utena turning into a car has to be the most danny_devito_getting_it.gif scene in history. It's so absurd. How can you not laugh? And the bit after, "Did you think you were the only one who could turn into a car?"

But in context, the show is taking it seriously, so you try to engage with it. Okay, the car. Akio's car was a metaphor for sex, and it was a weapon he wielded to control and objectify everyone. But Utena is the car. And her ring, the symbol of her constructed knighthood, becomes the key. And in Anthy's moment of hesitation the car rusts, but as soon as she turns the key, it bursts off revealing shining pink. Anthy, the most narratively objectified character. But Utena isn't trying to free Anthy, she's a tool for Anthy to free herself. Suddenly actor and object swap. Anthy is in control. She drives. Hard. Fast. 500 kilometers per hour. The car is run ragged. Down to a shell of a shell. But the sun rises. They kiss.

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Do you think he noticed