#dissertation meaning

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[seadeepspaceontheside]

How do you talk about "proship" stuff without immediately getting bombarded with hate and dismissed as a terrible person?

I'm on your side, but it seems most people are not, and not willing to listen at all.

I wanna make some small things clear lol I am not the spokesperson for this topic. There are far more people who are more articulate and have done more research and I would rather just be drawing lol

I usually state that if you're not a great speaker or can't articulate yourself very well, link to the experts that understand how this stuff works. Like I've said before, a lot of the therapists and articles I have linked have done a better job than I on the topic. Because you might be actually hurting your case when you're trying to explain to someone these things and you are either hung up on the trees over the forest or can't explain something because they catch you on a minute detail.

That being said, the main advice I would give is to not to use these loaded terms themselves, just the dynamic itself. In all honesty, if you use that kind of terminology (proship/anti), it usually turns people's brains off and makes them think you're weird automatically.

I would just point out that there's a wide range of different types of stories (from tv shows to myths of yore) that have spanned centuries--even some of which featuring taboos. And the ills of society do not have these stories to blame.

I am tired, because when I think we've moved on from these rehashed arguments and stupid discourse about media , I come to find arguments that were settled ten years ago are rearing their heads again. And this time they're coming with threats!

They did this with D&D and rock music. (You would be lured into satanic rituals and be deviants) They did this was violent movies and video games (You would want to commit murders or want murderers to go free) They did with this with rap and music videos (You would be hypnotized into violence by the artist and you would want to be a harlot) They did this with anime (Foreign media that is super weird and turn people into super freaks) They did this was queer media (Gonna turn you gay) They did this with superheroes (Children will think they can fly, they think punching will solve their problems)

Now this type of persecution comes for people that are doing taboo fanworks. I am tired of seeing this shit. Hindsight is free--those who were young for these old campaigns can see this stuff clearly for what it is: veiled right-wing rhetoric that is easily adopted by useful idiots who believe they are "helping". This time, the main push has been from young people in fandom spaces.

This is how it works.

All art communicates worldviews to some extent, but that doesn't make everything propaganda. Artists aren't working to eliminate other worldviews or stifle the existence of other artists--that is actually what propaganda is. It often comes from a perspective that embraces the imperialist or patriarchal status quo.

To someone on the fence who might be reading this: art is subjective. Your need to moralize what you consume is fraught. Consuming "good" media made with "good morals" and not "taboo" doesn't make you live a good life or become a good person. You're going to hit a wall one of these days where something you enjoy will be seen as something gross/repulsive/troubling and when you have been cut off from all those who would have defended you, you will have no one around you. If you feel like you are constantly put under a magnifying glass by said friends over what you ship, what art you enjoy.... Its not healthy! When you can't unfollow or say how you truly feel in a group of people and feel "unsafe" if you were to leave…. THAT'S A CULT. I find that it's always the same people who start shit that will be repeating this behaviour wherever they go. They literally act like HOAs but instead of your halloween ornaments staying up for too long, they are saying you can't enjoy your Greek God incest fics.

One last thing to remember: if you're having this conversation, and a person takes the worst possible light from what you say…they are not trying to have a conversation with you, they are acting against you.

[breadandlottery]

[sentientheat]

dennis takes a mental health day x capitalist realism

iasip 16.08 - dennis takes a mental health day, mark fisher - capitalist realism

[boarloved-art]

some human sonics from call earlier :) !!! my reward for doing uni work 😌😌

[dionysus-complex]

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[ineffable-writer]

Okay so I've been a LITTLE spoiled about Jews being in KCD 2 but was ANYONE GOING TO WARN ME THEY HAVE ACTUAL FUCKING YIDDISH IN THIS GAAAAAME

[motions1ckn3ss]

just over two weeks until my dissertation is due and i'm feeling very emo. when i'm finally able to upload it for you all to read i'll probably just cut it down to the essay itself for anonymity reasons, but i thought you'd all like to see this specific part of my acknowledgments page :)

[flightlesspedestrian]

Hyperfixation me has see Dinner in America close to 40 times, so here’s some observations and notes that I’ve made:

🎤Patty and Simon both have the attached earlobe recessive gene

💊I had to look up what Sanka was- it’s instant decaf coffee. No wonder it tastes like shit

💌 No one mentions Chomby when the pair comes home from the arcade, nor acknowledges its existence in any way, which makes that scene so much funnier in context. They’re so high that after a day of job hunting, you just come home with a giant bear!?

🚔I also love that you see the pan of brownies on the coffee table when Connie and Norm are on the couch and they’ve very clearly put a dent in them (that entire scene, I could write a novel but I won’t!!!!) *deep breath cuz I’m being weird again*

🏀 You’ll notice as the movie progresses that when Patty asks Simon a question, he repeats her question in a “yes, ____” way. For example, when Patty says, “are we going on our date now?” Simon says, “yeah, we’re going on our date now.” I find this to be a really endearing and complex detail, considering when everyone else in the movie asks him a question, he usually says, “don’t worry about it”

🧸There is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it part where Kyle looks right at the camera when Simon walks out of the drug trial to light his broken cigarette

[lovesodeepandwideandwell]

AM I going through the important things in my dissertation way too fast? Or am I saying them so simply and clearly that your snob brain is ignoring them? Advisor?????

[iwillbestronger]

Something that I find so unique about the way that Our Flag Means Death depicts queer love and queer identity is that alongside all of its beautiful explicit queerness, the kisses in the moonlight, the unambiguous sexual references, a whole proposal to top it all off - the show still draws on and acknowledges a queer tradition that can't be that open. It reaffirms a queer reading of the show not only through making its characters canonically queer but through all of these little nods to the ways in which queerness has always been expressed in secret, in subtle undertones.

What I am thinking of is Ed wearing Stede's cravat, a private way of carrying your loved one with you that is not recognisable to anyone else in a society hostile to queer love. I am thinking of the ring Izzy wears around his cravat, which everyone seems to agree likely has a similar significance. I am thinking of the deeply complex relationship between Ed and Izzy, where even now that they have both said the word "love" out loud, their dynamic is fundamentally built on the all too familiar undertones of unrequited, repressed queer love. "Above all is loyalty to your love captain." You give them the power to destroy you - with words, with a gun.

I am thinking of Lucius, the artist, drawing Pete and Fang, queer subjects of desire. (I could say so much more about Lucius, how he is essentially a physical manifestation of the queer gaze in the OFMD universe.) I am thinking of that absolutely wild scene between Izzy and Lucius, Izzy plucking the cigarette from Lucius's fingers, taking a drag while not taking his eyes off him for a second, trying to place it back between his lips. A scene like a ritual, so deeply charged that while it just falls short of being explicit, its significance is absolutely recognisable to every queer viewer. I am even thinking of Jim, how they present as part of Blackbeard's crew, the drawn-on beard that could be passed off as simple adornment if needed but that resonates so deeply with trans viewers of the show.

Despite the fact that some view the OFMD universe as a queer utopia, it feels so good to see this recognition, this acknowledgment of queer love, queer desire that has always been there and has always needed to stay in secret. The characters may not need to hide it. But sometimes, queerness in Our Flag Means Death is most significant, most expressive, where it is most hidden.

[appleelevengreen]

Alex Horne having his italicized oh moment on national television

[sentientsky]

(oh newspaper archives my beloved)

[trenchgardens-ooc-ooc-ooc-ooc]

your mommas lyin'... what's she tryin' to do...

[mumms-the-word]

The Shadow Curse Events

If you haven’t already, please enjoy my unnecessarily long totally not me avoiding writing an actual dissertation irl thorough deep dives into Ketheric Thorm and the Shadow Curse!

They are…well, very long, but I wanted to incorporate in-game texts and conversations to give an overall “lore-finding” feel to each post as I was working my way through theories and ideas about how these events unfolded in more or less chronological order.

Each post is written with an attempt to combine elements of in-game books, letters, and conversations with my reasonable(?) conjectures about how things might have happened and an occasional foray into stylistic nonfiction-style writing (which, you know, is interesting when you’re writing about things that didn't actually happen in real life). Basically this started as something I thought was cool and ended with me having, perhaps, a bit too much fun in the nerdiest possible way.

Maybe you’re into that and maybe not. But if you are, then welcome! Please enjoy these deep dives, all of which are linked below c:

Shadow Curse Events Part 1

Ketheric, Selûne, Shar, and Aylin

This first part covers Ketheric's descent from Selûnite devotee to Sharran general following the death of his daughter Isobel. Not only does it touch on him building and training a Sharran army, it also goes over the Selûnite resistance building against him, including one desperate mason named Morfred who makes a deal with a certain devil.

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Shadow Curse Events Part 2

Harpers, druids, and the battle against Ketheric

The second post is all about the Harper/Druid war waged against Ketheric and the days involved in the battle itself. I present this idea that the Harpers and druids sieged Reithwin for several days without attacking and then launched a three-day battle against Ketheric. But a lot of this is conjecture since I'm trying to piece together a bunch of differing accounts about the actual days devoted to fighting and surviving the brief war between the two armies.

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Shadow Curse Events Part 3

The first 40 days

The final post is a kind of walkthrough of the first 40 days of the shadow curse from the moment Ketheric dies to about 40 days later. I chose 40 only because it's vaguely symbolic in various cultures, but also because one diary I used to construct the timeline here ends on day 35, and that felt like a weird number to end on too, so...I added a few days. Anyway, this might be the most experimental of the posts, but it was fun(?) to try and place myself in these past events to imagine how the landscape changed into what we see 100+ years later walking into this area with our Tavs and companions.

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In the end, these posts were just for fun and are not meant to try and convince anybody that my theories are absolutely 100% the way things happened. What I find interesting about this little deep dive journey is that it mimics trying to piece together actual history too. Everyone will have a different account or perspective on historical events, so trying to stitch together a narrative 100+ years later becomes an exercise in drawing sensible conclusions and admitting you can't fill all the gaps.

I could very well be wrong in my theories, and someone else could come up with a way better logical conclusion than I did. That's awesome! Maybe these posts will help others come up with cool theories too.

But anyway. Enjoy my long-winded ramblings about fictional events in a video game that I have put way too many hours into :)

[lazy-toad]

Does doing homework make anyone else feel like an animal stuck in a trap or is that something I should speak to someone about mayhaps