#like death of the author exists but

[rudolphsboyfriend]

I keep seeing white book reviewers complain about how Babel is so very in your face and obvious about its rage at colonialism as if they would not twist the meaning of the book to fit into their convenient little worldview and find a way to say 'ok.. BUT' if it were NOT so clearly and explicitly laid out I'm sorry but it's true.

[jerreeeeeee]

i don’t know if i’m ever gonna write the fic but i’ve been thinking abt like. the eternal stockade. the implications. lup, a lich who was trapped in a dark featureless cell for a decade completely isolated with nothing to keep her sanity but her own mind. she has to put people in the eternal stockade. how many liches does she see herself in. how many liches started out just like her. how many liches are truly too far gone. and the only liches we ever see other than her and barry are edward and lydia. they’re certainly evil, but mad? they seem pretty sane. they’re not, like, tattered echoes of souls, they’re definitely still people. even as much of a grudge as lup surely has against them, wouldn’t they remind her incredibly strongly of herself? do they deserve to be trapped just like she was? for eternity? isn’t eternity what turned john to existential despair in the first place?

[sweettsubaki]

Ngl Reddit is so funny right now. People in the MHA Fandom are discovering that the really toxic people were the dudebros all along and not the gay shippers

[ironunderstands]

About my Dr. Ratio + Aven content…

Steal it, I’m so serious right now steal it. I’ve made several posts people have received really well and I want to post them to other sites really badly but TikTok has made it so difficult for me and I straight up do not have the motivation to try out other sites. So if you have liked what I have written and want to share it elsewhere, do it, honestly you don’t even have to credit me, I think the ideas themselves matter more than my ego. Besides it’s not like I own hsr, other people can easily come to the conclusions I do. So if you have ever been like “hey I wanna share this elsewhere but it’s not mine”, go ahead, if even only one of you exists go ahead, you have my full permission. Ideas are meant to be shared anyways and I don’t want people to think that if they have reached the same conclusions I have on their own they suddenly can’t talk about it either.

Thief, steal and take what’s not yours because it’s yours now and I would be delighted if my sh1t was on other platforms, I’m just gonna have to suppress my brains desire for praise while doing so 😭

[stainsofgold]

Pet Peeve of mine is when people treat the novel Dracula as a timeloop because of Dracula Daily.

While it's, well, a valid interpretation to have (as much as any interpretation is), I believe it's not an interesting, unique, or necessary one, and it doesn't add anything to the text.

If we do treat Dracula as a time loop, why not go up a notch?— Every artform that can be watched, read, or interacted with more than once is a timeloop. And while to some cases this may add to it (foreshadowing, in some cases. Or the art itself asks you to interact with it viewing it as a timeloop, or having previous instances in mind), I feel like in the case of Dracula it's just pretentious and it's just slamming two of tumblr's du-jour favorites together.

[metanarrates]

watched a majora's mask analysis earlier today with my fiancee. my verdict is that I actually really enjoyed the op's interpretations, but that I wished that they talked more about mm's literal level and what one can get from it, rather than talking about those events as if they are strictly metaphor. yes, of course the metaphorical layer of the game is rich to dig into, but it's also such an open-ended and surreal game that it's difficult to nail down every single distinct metaphor that can be derived from its events. which is why I consider it necessary to discuss the way the literal layer presents itself and what sort of motifs and ideas exist there as a baseline before you begin looking at it as metaphor

[hananono]

i think a lot of the reason why death of the author is so misunderstood online is that people who have never studied literary criticism are stuck on the idea that theres a "right" way to read a text and dont really get that stories are multifaceted and can have layers of different meanings. stories are frequently about more than one thing at once and can be analyzed in more than one way

[trans-cuchulainn]

it's weird how "things i care about" and "things i blog about" are overlapping but very distinct circles. like yeah i care obsessively about the ulster cycle and also blog about it constantly but there are so many things in my life that i care about that i just..... don't post about. so many books i enjoy that i have nothing to say other than maybe sometimes reblogging a post about them when it comes my way. so many things that i'm secretly feral about but do it all inside my own head

[goingbuggy]

I think you have best theories in the fandom about shanks. It’s like you see more than most of us. So that’s why to just have simple yes or no answer would be enough. I have this level of trust in you.

Do you believe makinos child is shanks or someone’s else?

I just can’t stop thinking about this, because for me I don’t see it, but it’s so popular I feel stupid or blinded by my other ships.

thank you for your kind words!! you probably shouldn't place this must trust in me though, LOL. i'm just reading and overthinking everything in the source material, like everyone else is.

is it possible that shanks has a child with makino? well.. yeah. to put it bluntly, the simplest answer is usually the right answer with oda. he's already established that makino and shanks are friendly from chapter one, and shanks is even seen dressed up for a wedding on one cover page, which oda sometimes uses to tell canon events that don't fit the flow of the current arc. (think of enel's journey to the moon, for example).

me personally, though? i've got beef with this idea, and not for the reasons you might think. makino and shanks as a couple is fine to me; i don't find their relationship all that compelling, truthfully, but they fit the mold for most of oda's canon pairings.

when it comes to shanks' characterization, though, the idea of him having a child at this point in the story strikes me as both offputting and irrelevant. shanks is an emperor, and given his actions, his current responsibilities are clearly the priority. so the thought of shanks leaving makino alone to take care of their child is... strange? his status has the potential to endanger them. he is surely too preoccupied to be sailing back and forth to see them.

you could argue that this parallels roger and rouge, but i also think that's the worst possible way oda could have shanks mirror his old captain. at least in roger's case, oda had ace become a relevant part of luffy's story. what narrative purpose does this serve? is it to humanize shanks? i'm not quite sure what oda's angle is, here.

we also have to consider shanks' past. shanks left uta behind, so i don't think he is "above" leaving his newborn child, so to speak, but his reasoning in that situation was far more complex. here, though? this would be shanks ACTIVELY choosing to bring a child into this world, knowing full well he cannot take care of it until he sees his goals through. (SHANKS? patient, protective shanks, unable to wait to start a family? the boy who was an abandoned child himself? does he not believe that he will live long enough to wait? if so, why would he leave makino with that responsibility at all? characters can make selfish decisions, but i can't see any reasoning from shanks' perspective. this is a problem to me.)

so, in short, no, i'm not exactly a fan of this theory. i just don't see the merit of adding it to the story, when the implications seem to contradict what we know about his character. and again, what is the narrative benefit that outweighs the faulty logic? what do we gain as readers? what does this do for the story? to me, it feels like nothing at all.

[anonauthorsworkshop]

If Mc were ever to meet Small Death in my opinion he would be the most skeptical of the three of Mc. He's the youngest but he's also one of the less...rational and wise I mean he is wise to a certain degree but not as much as his older brothers also reading about him you'll notice that he isn't also the nicest. Imagine that one day Small Death notices something wrong but rather than something someone and looking more carefully he notices something strange in them, this person has neither a past nor a future it was like they did not belong to this world they are an anomaly ,an irregularity which he and his brothers must get rid of after all their task was to keep order in the multiverse and this person could be a danger to the balance of the universe.

I do like the Small death x Mc ship tho

a person with no past or future, not to mention the fact that brothers death are basically omniscient and somehow they had no knowledge of MC until encountering them

[nvexe]

I guess it's because she appeared recently in the anime but there's a sudden uptick in people telling me izu is 17 mostly on twitter but here too? girl I know because I read the manga... if you read it too you'll stop saying this

[aroacettorney]

when will aup sidestories return from war and stop leaving me bitter about how the main story ended

[fideidefenswhore]

the way ppl talk about henry as king vs arthur as prospective king or even just like comparison of their characters...you'd think henry had like. actually killed him.

[afaramir]

playing with fire (this scene contains denethor and faramir and a fruit and cheese plate. the conversation was going to happen anyway but the plate entered the scene because i was feeling bitchy and it is deliberately portrayed to be contrary to the common interpretation. its actually a lovely conversation. sometimes you can dislike your parent and have a perfectly normal cordial conversation with them. an emotional one, even, if most of your dislike actually stems from understanding them to a degree that makes both of you very very uncomfortable. however if someone subscribes to the common interpretation it may create the wrong vibe for the scene. thats not my problem though.)

[gothamcityneedsme]

read the death in the family robin lives and. man. only a few pages changed but the difference is just staggering, knowing the history. my heart breaks a little.

[theganymedes]

so @bellswlw is my wife.