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hai!!

☆ my name is elle! i use any pronouns and im lesbian ^_^

☆ i love bibi x colette and griff !!!

☆ my main interests are frankenstein, the saw franchise, and brawl stars, but i have more interests ill probably post about !

gasa4, royale high, pressure/doors, and roblox in general

sofia the first

cult of the lamb

various webtoon/manga/manwha (too many to be specific)

sherlock holmes (acd canon), dracula, jekyll and hyde, crime and punishment, huckfinn, lord of the flies, and other classic lit

various anime (mob psycho 100, saiki k, death note, dungeon meshi, etc)

rpg maker horror games (ib, dreaming mary, mad father, blackout hospital, 8:11, mermaid swamp, cemetery mary, etc!)

various musicals

and many more!!

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photo up！2024.08.25（SUN）『拾伍人ノ百姓 -FIFTEEN HYAKU SHOW 2024-』@Live House HUCKFINN（Aichi/nagoya）

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[thegreek00700]

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[theeversocelebratedmarktwain]

‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell’

Hello again all!

The latest readings we have conquered as a class has been Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huck Finn is a best seller for Twain and is known as one of the all time favorite for being a ‘boy-book’. So, let’s dive in.

The book opens on the boy named Huckleberry Finn that readers have more than likely already met in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huck within himself represents the struggle of unlearning the doctrination that America was facing at the time. There was a lot of kickback, a lot of unsettled churches, and a lot of unhappy families to hear of a book holding a conversation about where America may had went wrong when it comes to the treatment of Black Americans. 

Now please, do not get me wrong. The book and Twain himself still holds on to harmful racist ideologies and stereotypes that are in this modern day painful to read, hear, and visualize. This is where my brain has led me to a crossway of confusion, understanding, mercy, and growth. I am just unsure in which direction I am coming from, and where I am going.

Last spring, I was in a survey course covering British and American literature. The specific week I am recalling, we were learning about the Tudors, King Henry VIII, his six wives, and so much more. [I assure you there is a point to this random storytelling-just stay. with me]. Within my lessons, I learned how one of King Henry’s wives aided his slaughter of a wife, when in turn she received power. The feminist within myself felt rage. Because in this day and time, progress forward is not progress is one had to step on the backs of women to achieve it. My teacher at the university blatantly reminded me of my privilege as a (white) woman in a country where freedom is given a lot more, with rights these women could never fathom of having. How my every day life may have struggles, but none of them struggles include fighting for my life and right to breath in a country rooted in tyranny. In this class she taught me the term as ‘protofeminism’. The googled definition of this word is “a concept that anticipates modern feminism in eras when the feminist concept as such was still unknown.” In this modern time, where I pass my judgement and my snarls at Mark Twain for his book that by the ends condemns racism, while still contributing to it- my brain is only understanding the picture from inside the frame.

My connection to Mark Twain this week is asking the questions: Is there a term called Protoantiracist? If there is, is this considered it? Is this America’s first work that asks the conversation to the table or not just slavery, but the oppression that we as a nation placed on entire ethnicity that we stole, raped, killed, and massacred from another land? Is Mark Twain the beginning of Protoantiracism?

By the end of the story, Huck Finn decides that the bond he has built with his friend Jim was worthwhile, and he did care about his livelihood. These feelings came from a genuine place within Huck’s heart because- as the naivety of child will have, he believed that caring for Jim meant condemning himself to Hell. Yet, he still made the decision to. Hence the infamous line titled this week’s title “All right, then, I’ll go to Hell”. 

Granted this world has developed into a completely different reality in this modern era, but it raises the question of what does Huck’s change of heart equal to in today’s world? I don’t believe it equals the work that should be done by white antiracists who use their privelege to guard the bodies of black Americans when a cop points a gun at them for having a black back pack and is on his knees. But what does it equal to? Or maybe I am looking at this text the wrong way. Did Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn make the way for other literature to know the path of going against the grain, of questioning their nation, or of testing the boundaries of our democracy. What was the impact of Huck Finn? Was this Twain’s intentions?

I am sorry to the readers who feel I should have answers to these questions. I, myself, still am trying to figure these out. In the meantime, more Twain content to be consumed.

Until next time,

Toni

[mycozyclassics]

12/14: I once used chicken wire, duct tape and quick-set concrete to build a scale-model cave. #cozyclassics #tomsawyer #huckfinn https://www.instagram.com/p/B4BSZN9BXBc/?igshid=1scpsxbpr7jiz

[responsibleadult]

@pinkyknowsnaples Couldn’t help but think of you & your affinity for Mark Twain, this weekend- we stayed at “Tom Sawyer’s Mississippi River RV Park,” while we were in Memphis for the Bob Seger concert. The river was gorgeous, but roiling- I can’t imagine a couple of kids on a homemade raft! #gorving #everydayexplorer #camping #greatoutdoors #mississippiriver #marktwain #tomsawyer #huckfinn #riverboat #history https://www.instagram.com/p/B3kUUhzAhAE/?igshid=1xn7pvkydhgao

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1957 Frontierland. #vintagedisneyland #disneyland #disney #frontierland #riversofamerica #huckfinn #tomsawyerisland #happiestplaceonearth (at Disneyland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Brf1FntBDk7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1d7eozqu24bn2

[blackberrycreekblog]

Saturday sweetness brought to you by Finnegan McSchmooshles and Huckleberry Lemon Drop. #huckfinn #cutiemuffins #friendsnotfood #lambiepies (at Blackberry Creek Farm Animal Sanctuary) https://www.instagram.com/p/Coi4dAxJ2qg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[anxiousanemone]

Dude Tom Sawyer would definitely have “just for fun” in his Instagram bio…like they’re trying to free Jim and stuff and he just goes “damn yk what I really wish this was about 1,000x harder than it is. Maybe we’ll dig a moat around the cabin or saw off Jim’s leg.” And Huck is like “bro why” and Tom is really like “because bro just for fun man c’mon.”

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2019-02-06 ONIONRING@今池HUCK FINN

[theeversocelebratedmarktwain]

Famous For The Dialects, Just For It To Go Out of Style

Hello All!

We are at another week discussing Mark Twain, his works, and his techniques in a very in-depth approach. I have been informed that my professor is not the only one reading my blog. In that case- Hello Near!! Thank you for reading, and I hope you can engage in this conversation since tonight’s topic is built around the concept we discussed in a different class from today actually.

This week’s focus will be what Mark Twain was special for creating: the in depth dialect and voices of his characters. We will specifically be talking about the characters in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for this portion of the blog.

True, Mark Twain did not ‘create’ the technique of accents or dialect. However, he did master it in a lot of his works. Evidence years after Samuel Clemens passing proves that this was not just a repeat of ear for Twain, but a direct science in building the vocabulary used in his Huck Finn novel. Papers pulled from his study showing the break down of how each word would be created specifically for specific person. 

Showing these techniques, we will exhibit examples from chapter 32 from Huck Finn. For the character of Jim, Twain designs his vocabulary to reflect the mixture of his sweet, kind soul with the vocabulary of other men of color in this time and area. Jim is consistently affection towards little Huck throughout the novel. Readers see this as Jim calls him names like ‘Honey’ and ‘sweetie’ all the time. Huck even takes notice of it within the story, and this helps solidify their bond. The vocabulary Twain decides for Jim to own is exhibited in this next quote “Yes, dey will, I reck’n, Mars Tom, but what kine er time is Jim havin? Blest if I kin see de pint. But I’ll do it ef I got to. I reck’n I better keep de animals satisfied, en not have no trouble in de house” (Twain 406). The vocabulary shows what is considered ‘improper grammar’ while the dialect reflects poverty and the southern region. 

In Huck’s language, the reader can notice a bit of difference. A couple pages later, the readers see a similar voice and dialect, but coming from Huck. He says “But I ain’t going to make no complaint. Anyway what suits you suits me. What you going to do about the servant-girl?” (413). Here the readers see the similariities in the dialect from the regional aspect of both him and Tom, but vocabulary choice is a bit more proper. 

Now, why are we taking notice of this? What’s the point? In a different class I had today focused on Creative Writing for Fiction, the teachers and students engaged in a discussion about how modern fiction does not require such thick dialects, different voices, no ‘crazy punctuation’, no over the top dialogue to express the emotions or mood of the story. They originally were talking about that when it came to the aspect of other world languages when I asked does their beliefs still stand against southern dialects within fiction? Because, most of all the ‘classics’ in southern fiction (To Kill a Mockingbird, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, Beloved, Big Fish, Cane, etc.) always had the element of strong dialects as a key part in the technique of building these stories. Just for now, what? For readers to say we get annoyed with language that shows excitement is on the page? Why do our brains register this hard craft of mastering voices as annoying and disinteresting if we have loved it in celebrated books previously? 

Twain mastered the art of dialects and built a footpath in literature now that is now designed, paved, and smoothed for other writers to follow their footsteps. But now, it is being edited out of modern fiction? Does this craft have an expiration date? If it was so great for crediting Mark Twain for coining it, is it not still useful in modern time?

Personally, I feel warm and at home when I see the excitement in the language. I do not mean that i was 400 pages of comic book writing styles interjected on to the pages. However, I have always pulled from previous authors to guide me, especially as a southern fiction writer. But is this a trend? Is Mark Twain’s technique the new Nickleback where everyone is going to shit on it for ten years until someone changes their mind and makes the decision for a wave of people for the next ten years? 

I do not know. I find it warm, useful, and nice. Granted all Southern Literature does not need heavy accents. Just like not everyone from the south has heavy accents. I say that firmly as a woman raised half in Alabama and half in West Virginia. Therefore, my accent lands me somewhere in the middle. 

As always, thank you for attending. I hope I brought up a new conversation to the topic of Mark Twain. Until next time...

Warmly,  Toni

[bbrarebooks]

Happy #greenpublishersbindingthursday! This just came in— an excellent copy of Huckleberry Finn with all the first issue points, in the green publisher’s cloth— other bindings for this title include blue cloth, library (sheep), and deluxe (half morocco), but none are as recognizable or memorable as the green cloth. An iconic binding for an iconic book— Ernest Hemingway proclaimed that Huck Finn was the beginning of American literature: “There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.” #huckfinn #huckleberryfinn #marktwain #firstedition #rarebooks #twain #americanliterature #firstissue #publishersbindingthursday #publishersbindings (at Madison Avenue/33rd Street, Downtown Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca7wxJ7usVL/?utm_medium=tumblr