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soupevil · 5 months

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Video of me trying to write the number 3 in professor layton game for 1 minute

#this is like half the recorded video + i was doing this unrecorded for 5 minutes #professor Layton #?

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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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xxplastic-cubexx · 13 days

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brain please wake up and draw

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#mcu #marvel cinematic universe #xmen #xmen movies #xmen dofp #cherik #charles xavier #erik lehnsherr #professor x #magneto #logan howlett #wolverine #snap sketches #usually i have a vague sense of a scenario or 'plot' behind my doodles but i do not have one !!!!#i just needed to draw something to get my brain going so i can focus on bigger things i wanted to draw #im like 50/50 on if i particularly like this BUT it did well for a warm up so im content with it #at least the logan doodle is making me chortle to myself velkvjeal #alright bye im gonna go think my friend cancelled our plans so i have a lot more time before i watch speak no evil #heres to hoping i get. literally anything done vjAEK

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archiewantsheetmetal · 25 days

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#layton #professor layton #hershel layton #luke triton #he w ou ldnt actually do this would he....#i love this guy #shit

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dimwitdecember · 18 days

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charles xavier is stronger than me bc if the love of my life left me bleeding out on a beach paralyzed then on top of that i find out he fucked my sister instead of me i would kill a man

#like #what are we DOING #charles xavier #magneto #professor x #erik lehnsherr #cherik #mystique #x men

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sacriou · 6 days

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HIT THAT SHIT HERSHEL

#probably the most fun I’ve had doing a request #drawing that literally saved me mentally today #you hit that shit crazy style Hershel #professor layton

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professorcalculusstanaccount · 22 days

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Castafiore delivers an earth-shattering performance! Update to my story, the House of Glass! Follows directly from this. Drawing this part was intense - crowd shots, buildings, cars, guns - all things I'm not fond of drawing, but hopefully this was worth it!

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