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ok but wait. is the Hamlet thing real

Yeah! It's a super interesting paper on ethnocentrism and an argument against the idea of "universal values".

Essentially what happened is an anthropologist went to spend time writing an ethnography on a rural tribe in the Indian Bush called the Tiv. During her stay she told them the story of Hamlet, and in doing so it made clear the very glaring differences in the culture of the tribe vs the culture of Europe through their interpretations of events.

I'm sure you've heard of Translators vs. Localizers right? A translator tells you what is said, and a localizer takes the information and changes it to fit a different culture.

We can see that kind of early on in the article when a member of the Tiv begins changing nouns to fit how they understand the world.

Later on it greatly affects not only the tangible aspects of the story, but also the thematic meaning behind the actions each character takes.

And it culminates in the thesis statement: most people around the world, no matter where they're from, are predisposed to seeing their perspective as universal.

It's a super cool essay.

If you'd like to read it, it's called "Shakespeare in the Bush: Diversity or Universality?"

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HIIIIII if anyone has ever wanted to read a fic where dazai and chuuya get thrown into an alternate universe where they meet genderbent dazai if she had become the boss of the port mafia and chuuya as her right hand executive then wow do i have a fic rec for you. i always wanted to see dazai encounter a version of himself where things had turned out differently and read about a world where he hadn’t defected but instead usurped mori to become the pm boss after oda’s death but since i couldn’t find a fic like that i had to crack open the google docs and start writing. also i think the dynamic between dazai and yosano as two halves of mori as the doctor and the strategist are not nearly explored as much as they should be SOOOO i took it upon myself to do so. also i love lesbians and fem skk are such a good flavour ANYWAY PLEASE CLICK ON THIS FIC IF U WANT TO READ IT WOAHHH U WANT TO SOOO BAD 😮😮😮😮😮😮

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i'm going to be honest with you all if i was a fictional character and i started coughing up blood or otherwise exhibiting the telltale signs of an untimely tragic inevitable death not only would i tell no one but my main priority would become having gay sex as soon as possible so that i can alter the trajectory of someone's life forever by suddenly dying just as our situationship begins to show hints of becoming something more

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I just love when a fanfic is so very soft that I have to stop reading every three rows and walk around my room for a bit with a hand on my heart while whispering "oh my god they glanced at eachother", because I get too overwhelmed with love and sweetness.

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Oh wait one last thing before I go… I was born w a hopeful heart which is I think why I never really lost my childlike wonder… so even when the world is a hard and harrowing place that leaves me wallowing at its feet I’ve still got this hearty, inspirited lust for life that encourages me to pull myself from the hole I will inevitably fall into and fall into and fall into but every time crawl back out of soon as I see all those stars in what I forgot isn’t an endless black sky

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i like to pretend i already died and asked god to send me back to earth so i can swim in lakes again and see mountains and get my heart broken and love my friends and cry so hard in the bathroom and go grocery shopping 1,000 more times. and that i promised i would never forget the miracle of being here

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Sutematsu Oyama (1860-1919): Japan’s First College-Educated Woman

Full entry (with footnotes) here. Patreon here. Art notes behind the cut.

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The absence of women in history is man made.

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SOMETHING. IS ON THE ROOF.

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know the difference

It has come to my attention that many people mistake wyverns for dragons, so here’s a post to help you remember

Dragon: 4 legs, 2 wings

Wyvern: 2 legs, 2 wings

Drake: 4 legs, flightless

Wyrms: long snake like body with no appendages, can also appear as a traditional Chinese dragon with 4. Legs and no wings yet can fly

Amphithere: 0 legs 2 wings, can be feathered

Lindwurms: 2 legs, 0 wings, long body

Luck dragon: 4 legs, no wings, can fly, long body, furry with dog like face

Komodo dragon: 4 legs, no wings, real

Bearded dragon: 4 legs, 0 wings, often kept as pets

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Ok def was not expecting this level of relatability

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do you ever read fanfiction so good you wish it was a book that you could buy and put on some shelf in your bedroom and gaze at sometimes and remember how amazing that motherfucker was instead of having to squint at it on your too bright phone screen at 3 am

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I love it when dogs try to help but the task at hand requires zero dogs so they just kinda stand in front of you and look serious.

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"EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL TO THE POINT OF STERILE UNFUCKABILITY. " 1 . // 2. // 3. // 4.

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Can't believe Peter Griffin really tried it.