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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 10 months

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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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binary-bird · 5 months

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to no one's surprise i ended up liking the character struggling with her own fictionality

#ddlc monika #ddlc #doki doki literature club #and now for something different #i havent settled on a coloring style i like yet so im experimenting again #so if this looks jank thats why lol #anyway i dont usually play horror but i do love the meta stuff and glitching #so unsettling. so good

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adoniism · 25 days

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Don't worry, Sixer! You are in good 𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓼.

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#Gravity Falls #gravity falls fanart #billford #Stanford Pines #Bill Cipher #I wanted to experiment more with a different take on my art style #and yes I used the 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 font #tw scopophobia #scopophobia

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bbq-potato-chip · 2 months

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really been enjoying rewatching as of late

#this is different from my usual style ...wanted to experiment a bit #my art #saiki k #tdlosk #saiki no psi nan #the disastrous life of saiki k #saiki kusou #i forgot how wholesome this show is.......augh. he loves his friends u guys!!!!!! he loves his friends!!! he cares!!!#pinning this cuz i like it

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chisutofu · 5 months

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#a little experiment with anime style art #wanted to try something new and different from my usual art style. i think this turned out pretty okay??#my art #chisutofuart #procreate #omniscient reader #orv #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #joongdok #how do tags even work around here zzzzzz #kdj #yjh #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv fanart

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nohtora · 2 years

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chúc mừng năm mới ! wishing you all good luck and good health for this lunar new year !!

in vietnamese culture, the zodiac animals are slightly different – instead of the rabbit, we celebrate the year of the cat ( aka my year hehe ) 😺 — art prints / stickers & posters !

#lunar new year #vietnamese new year #year of the cat #tet nguyen dan #tet quy mao #chuc mung nam moi #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital illustration #cats #nohtora art #this is my favourite zodiac illustration i've done to date i think !!#really happy with the overall composition #as always - love experimenting with a different visual style each year #LNY is jan 22nd but posting this a bit early bc i'm gonna forget gjhkdlfsg

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itseghost · 6 months

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