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[arkygifs]

Edward Bloom Big Fish (2003)

[autolabrum]

Watched Big Fish

Familiar themes, but the symbolism and allusion is impressively dense, multifaceted, and potent. Within the stories, the blown out lights and the warm, round dialog make it seem like every frame and every line is dripping with syrup. Burton constructs the ultimately comforting fantasy, in its interest in gesture over substance and its familiar American-idyllic aesthetic, but especially in its assurance of survival. Experience, in Burton's eye, is particular, fearful, and unassociated. Memory, however, is instantly and powerfully symbolic, as it shapes that which we imagine our life to represent. Tall tales about one's past are then not false, in that they properly (even more so than factual accounts) represent what a life has come to mean to the one who has lived it. This is complicated by Burton's obsession with death, which can be made symbolic in abstract but not in memory, at least not to the one who experiences it directly. The one story that Edward cannot tell, the one he so confidently claims to know, is that of his own death, and his son is able to convey it only by extrapolation from what he knows his fathers life to represent.

[big-fish-references-in-posts]

BIG FISH REFERENCE?!?!? (I'm reading the book)

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[gooseishreads]

April Library Haul!

Do you think I will finish all of these by the end of April? What do you think of these books?

Big Fish - Daniel Wallace

I selected this book because I will have the chance to see the author speak soon! I also saw the movie adaptation a long time ago and I remember enjoying it.

Acceptance - Jeff Vandermeer

I love this series, and just had to grab the third book of the Southern Reach trilogy before I even finished Authority. I am anxious (in more ways than one) to finish the trilogy, but I need a book break between Authority and Acceptance.

Heaven - Mieko Kawakami

I have heard good things about this author and decided to select one of her shorter books to start off. I am excited to see if I have discovered a new author to look out for!

Review/reaction to come!

[kjvfactcheck]

Codex Sinaiticus is a Fake?

Recent claims suggest that Codex Sinaiticus, an ancient Greek Bible, is a forgery by Constantine von Tischendorf. However, extensive academic analysis refutes this, showing evidence that it remains a legitimate historical artifact.

Some are claiming that Codex Sinaiticus, an ancient copy of the whole Bible in Greek, is a forgery by Constantine von Tischendorf.1 The claims go around that he never had a real manuscript, much less a whole codex, and just Joseph Smithed it. They believe that sometime after he visited St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, Egypt, he made the forged copies and sold them to the Russian government.…

[maerilune]

Rewatching The Seven and had to draw the girls

[clemtiness]

the energy of The Seven campaign is so slumber party/bathroom talk and it makes me so proud to be a teen girl disaster

[potato-lord-but-not]

Malevolent sillies 💪💪

[math-rocks-and-lizard-bats]

They had to have had the seven graduate bc they would have curb stomped the rat grinders.

[vilnmelling]

Jon Matteson family tree headcanon, anyone?

Emma found out about each of Paul's relatives separately.

First Emma scratched someone's car, and while they were discussing what to do about it, Paul said, "If it comes down to it, I can get in contact with Gary." "Gary Goldstein? You're on a first name basis with the only lawyer in town?" "Yeah. He's my older brother."

A couple of weeks later, Emma's talking about the rare instances when she actually remembers something about the Beanie's customers, and she mentions a guy with really weird and greasy, anime-like hair. "Huh. I didn't know Richie liked Beanie's." "Who?" "Richie. My nephew. With the anime hair."

An ad for Camp Idontwannabang comes up on TV, and Emma recalls her horrible summer at Camp Idontwannabang as a teenager. Then Paul pulls out the, "I'm glad I never had to go. My cousin's one of the counselors — well, one of the directors now — so my parents decided I shouldn't have to spend an entire summer with him." "Boy Jerry's your fucking cousin?"

While on their way somewhere, they run into Daniel outside the Roller-rama. Emma's like, "God, I feel like I've seen that kid outside the Roller-rama ten times." "Yeah, Daniel goes there a lot." "Why the fuck do you know his name?" "He's my other nephew."

Finally, Paul brings Emma to a family gathering, where she spots the identical Lipschitz twins, who she's always assumed to be the same person when she's seen them separately. "There's TWO of them?" "Yeah, that's Trevor. My third nephew."

Skip forward another few weeks and there's something on the news about politics and so forth. "That secretary of defense looks a bit like you, Paul. What's he; another secret brother?" "No." "Yeah, I know, I'm just messing—" "Wallace is my cousin."

[roseredfingers]

1.08: LESSONS "Come at the king, you best not miss."

[arkygifs]

↳ Big Fish (2003)

[gothmuppetenthusiast]

Nice to see a Daniel Howell cameo in the newest Wallace and Gromit film

[larsons-ahegao-face]

Old men yaoi.....

[honeyhauntart]

⚠️ looking for artists to contribute to 3 BLING 3 BING - the third edition of dimension 20’s the seven fashion zine! ⚠️

this zine is a part of the annual dimension 20 zine jam and 3 BLING 3 BING is about any fashion of your choosing, modeled by the seven maidens of spyre!

it’s my first year running this zine after the original creator dropped out, i’ve been a participant for the last two years and really wanted to see it kept alive <3 more info below!

✨ discord ✨ info ✨ sign-up

[agent-8449]

Really too many people get killed or hurt in front of him + more designs