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vesperione · 2 years
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I love Save The World so much but Auf Wieder-Slain had me cackling over how stereotypical it was
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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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fascinatingmale · 2 months
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July 27 - purple
7, 17, 27 "born to the PURPLE"
Jack Laugher:
British springboard diver (Great Britain and England)
A double Commonwealth Games champion for England (2014 Games in Glasgow)/a triple champion in 2018/first British diver to win two medals at the same World Championships (2015)/was the overall title in the FINA Diving World Series for 3m springboard (2015).
In 2017 Jack, along with Chris Mears, was appointed MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) at the New Year Honours for services to diving.
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dadsinsuits · 5 months
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Peter Bottomley
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flamememeago · 1 month
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Contracted an incurable disease: finally getting into the stones
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grassoftunnel · 2 months
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foolilazuli · 8 months
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So charles is dying and trisha paytas is having her second baby? Wtf is up with that lady’s cooch??? 😂
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daddies-i-love · 4 months
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Michael Fallon
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maturemenoftvandfilms · 4 months
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Peter Bottomley Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Cute grandpa type. And the british accent puts him over the top.
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From tomorrow’s Telegraph front page🥺😢
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project-sekai-facts · 4 months
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Company that does the translation could potentially be DokiDoki Grooveworks Their website says they handle development and operations of EN SEKAI. If they don’t translate it they probably have control over who gets to translate it.
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But there’s also the possibility that the marketing team and developers don’t use the same translators. Or the marketing team has no translators and are provided with translations. Which might explain why the post had wiki names if the marketing team never got the official ones.
Whatever the case SEGA really needs better quality control
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Sorry for the incredibly late response to this ask, I've been doing some digging recently trying to work out exactly what is going so wrong behind the scenes of ensekai and remembered this ask. Anyway yes, I believe you're right. That company can be found in the credits in game as well. It's an interesting case actually, because they aren't listed anywhere else in game like on the title or website despite the fact they're seemingly the devs for ensekai like the actual devs instead of SoA as I'd assumed previously. Also weird that this company doesn't have an english branch and this is the only english game they have worked on. Ensekai's in-game credits are annoyingly subpar so I don't know if they did the translations or if they just handle dev stuff? Because sega handles the helpdesk and most other things about the game like the socials and exclusive contents.
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i rewatched the deadpool movies and then watched the new one over this past week, and while these movies are lot of fun in a lot of ways and i enjoy a lot about them, may i just say: DAMN, is the writing for vanessa ever thankless as all hell, especially in the sequels
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fascinatingmale · 4 months
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Jack Laugher
British springboard diver (Great Britain and England)
A double Commonwealth Games champion for England (2014 Games in Glasgow)/a triple champion in 2018/first British diver to win two medals at the same World Championships (2015)/was the overall title in the FINA Diving World  Series for 3m springboard (2015).
In 2017 Jack, along with Chris Mears, was appointed MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) at the New Year Honours for services to diving.
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dadsinsuits · 3 months
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Peter Bottomley
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handweavers · 8 months
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idk how to really articulate this fully but as someone of both irish and malaysian indian ancestry who lives in "canada" it's really annoying how westerners primary association with anti english imperialism is like. ireland and scotland and not the many (nonwhite) countries and peoples who have faced genocide at the hands of British imperialism which has included irish and scottish people working on behalf of the british empire as collaborators and agents of empire... this isn't to minimize the harm done to ireland and scotland but like. you do know that billions of people in india and china are descendants of those who've suffered at the hands of british colonialism too right. indigenous people of canada and the USA and Australia and NZ... like half the people living in the caribbean?? the people of kenya?? malaysians?? the list goes on. but on the topic of british colonial resistance white people really like to focus on ireland and remain ignorant of everywhere else to the point of minimizing some white irish people's participation in empire. whatever
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vimbry · 1 month
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just learnt they renamed the baby from fop from poof to periwinkle LMAO did something finally get back to them about, that name
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