#text analysis

[bonnvivre]

HELLO AGAIN, SUKUNA ENJOYERS !! remember almost a month ago, i posted about part 1 of a friend’s sukuna lost in translation analysis ?

she just finished and posted a part 2 !! for those who have been waiting for it, it’s here now ! there’s no “lost in translation” in this one, mainly an analysis going deeper into sukuna’s character which i think many will enjoy .

again, user is @/societyhater_ !!

some images below so people have an idea of how it’s structured. link to the full version will be after the selected images so please read the whole thing if you are interested!

[jstor]

Frankenstein defeats Dracula

So, ITHAKA (JSTOR's parent nonprofit org) now has a new service called Constellate, and in it you can do data analysis, among other things. Not wanting to do what we're really supposed to be doing right now, we thought we'd check out how Dracula performed against Frankenstein, and to our surprise, the monster gets A LOT more mentions in scholarly literature than our Transylvanian Count. Y'all are a smart bunch, so feel free to do something less frivolous (or at least more interesting) at Constellate.org. All you need to get started is your free JSTOR login (or you can create one if you haven't yet).

[the-solitary-child]

anyways, might do a character/text analysis about fig or lucy next !! we will find out !!

[filmmakerdreamst]

[arwyd]

so much (for) stardust is literally the album of a generation. it perfectly encapsulates the widespread mindset among millennials & gen z post-Covid.

“the shell’s empty, there’s no point to any of this, it’s all just a, A random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes”

“I’d never go, I just want to be invited”

“we’re told we gotta get ahead, yeah, no matter what it takes / but there’s no way off the hamster wheel on this rat race”

but the album isn’t just nihilism, either. it’s perfectly summed up once more in The Pink Seashell, “so I take pleasure in the detail.”

“the view’s so pretty from the deck of a sinking ship.”

“feeling so good right now, til we crash and burn somehow”

“they don’t know how much they’ll miss, at least until you’re gone like this”

in this album fall out boy is saying “hey, it sucks. we know this, we hear you, we feel the same, but there are still things to enjoy, still love to make. the only purpose in your life is what you give it, and that’s okay.”

[geodebiome]

ok so i feel like im the only tma guy EVER who is always likening jon to laura palmer right. this is my one unique experience

but i NEED to make a web weaving post about it at some point and im gonna start by talking about the first thing that comes to mind:

the choice laura imposes on herself to either live on while "possessed" by BOB (possessed in brackets bc while this happens in the text of the show its like. its Such a metaphor its not even funny anymore) or let him kill her about it so she wont have to hurt more people the way BOB hurt her.

VS.

jon, after basically dying in the unknowing, being given the choice (by oliver from the end) to come back after his coma or not. but while jon Does make the decision to wake up (because its not the end of the podcast and because he hasnt lost Everything yet so hes gotta have hope, which is nice at least) i feel like his struggles with the decision are similar to laura's.

by virtue of being made an eye avatar in the way that he became, hes constantly hurting people by feeding off of their traumas right. its similar to how, less metaphorically paranormal, laura is a girl with issues (understatement🙄) who cant seem to live in a way that Doesnt project these struggles on others. i keep calling the two metaphors for the cycle of abuse but like, gonna be real, i think the cycle of abuse is an existing psychological term that doesnt mean what i thought it means. im talking about a metaphor for how being brought up in a shit situation will have u subconsciously act the same towards your own environment. shown in jon being manipulated into being an eye avatar etc and now making people re-experience their traumas. or laura suffering her fathers abuse and taking her pain out on others to feel a sense of control. it JUST makes sense!!!!!

[xlynchiex]

What is your essay about?🤓✨

im SO glad you asked!

its for my film genre class, how genre is emphatically tied to the culture and morals of the time the text was made

the two films im discussing are Akira (1988) and Perfect Blue (1997). for akira ill be going into japans economic boom and bubble economy in the eighties and the wealth disparity, poverty, and urban loneliness that came with it that was felt by japanese citizens long before the recession happened, and how it influenced akira as a foundational cyberpunk film and has since become a cyberpunk staple

for perfect blue ill be discussing the introduction of home internet access and peoples fears regarding distinguishing the virtual vs reality, and how it was an avenue exploited to destroy the barrier between mimas public and private life, and how that coincides with the shift in the idol image in the nineties from untouchable to accessible and how this was all mixed into one big soup via todorovs concept of the fantastic to make one hella scary movie

[dgtor-writes]

They Cloned Tyrone Review

They Cloned Tyrone is one of my favorite visual works of the past year, and I wish my favorite movie review/analyst channels covered it. There's still time but its unlikely.

The use of blaxploitation aesthetics alongside deceptively in-depth character writing was what really grabbed me and drew me in, alongside the soundtrack and audio mixing, which had just the perfect vibes I was looking for to influence Gore Gambit. Obviously, there is some concerning themes in it.

Anything that encourages hotep speculation automatically gives me bad vibes. While this could be a hyperbolic interpretation of how systemic racism functions, I'm uneasy with the "conspiracy" undertones of the text. To paint every systemic injustice and fallout of what African-Americans currently experience, alongside the social control and denigration of black bodies, as a singular government experiment rather than an intricate and centuries long system, felt misguided at best, and dangerous at worse.

The casual misogyny wasn't addressed or reprimanded by the text, rather placing its redress on the central female character as an "exceptional woman moment". There was no real commentary spared to how misogynoir (both a function of white supremacy and a community issue) feeds into black sex work and prostitution. The pimp was played as a silly but lovable character, with no thought spared to how dangerous, violent, and abusive these men are towards black women, not to mention how those men are often family members or boyfriends.

Overall, it was a strong movie, competently wirtten with ambitious themes that got away from it. I was originally going to post appreciation for its aesthetics onto my art blog, but after giving this a read-through, it's much more suited here.

[eldritchneuro]

I’ve been sick for awhile so my energy for writing book analyses has been kinda low, but I’m recovering now, which means I’m putting the first part of my HTTYD analysis out. This ones somewhat short - it just covers the intro of the first book. For readability, key themes and ideas will be written in bold.

- First of all, it’s been mentioned before by a few other metas, but this entire intro is one big heap of dramatic irony (I’m sure there’s a more specific term for this), in that it presents a conclusion before the story even starts. We can garner that A. This is a hero’s journey (”This is the story of becoming a hero the hard way”) and B. That the conclusion to this journey is not a complete victory (”for dragons are disappearing so fast they may soon become extinct”). Of course, the story itself regularly pretends that neither of these conclusions are true, which makes the second particularly bittersweet.

- We also get a glimpse at what dragons actually are. One thing to note is that whilst an example is given of smaller, less intimidating dragons (”Little, brown, scuttly dragons that hunted down the mice and rats in well-organised packs”), the overall vibe given is that dragons are very dangerous and scary creatures. This is also a somewhat misleading description - it presents dragons as animals to be trained, mentioning neither their intelligence or capacity for speech. On a first read through, a reader is probably going to think of these creatures (from this description) as more as an obstacle for Hiccup to overcome, getting them into the mindset of most of the Viking population.

[gwenllian-in-the-abbey]

I mean, I’ll take it 

[jstor]

Yes, there are truly important things people do with text analysis, but we like to use it as kind of a competition. For example, we compared the number of mentions of "cat" vs "dog" in newspapers from 1900 to the present, and we were shocked to find out that cats were briefly in the lead up until about 1920, when it all started going downhill. Look at what happens in 2020!

You can run your own little competitions (or, you know, do some genuine research if you want) for free at https://constellate.org/builder.

Us, we're going to keep trying dumb competitions until the workday is over.

Image: A dog chasing a cat through a window. Etching by W. R. Smith after J. Pitman. From the Open: Wellcome Collection on JSTOR. Creative Commons: Attribution

[all-software-updates]

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[cinderella-ish]

This was fun! I put in 15 samples of my fiction writing (including stuff that isn't on my AO3 account!) and the author I most write like is Lucy Maud Montgomery, followed by Willa Cather and Stephen Crane a short distance below. After them, there's a big drop down to John Muir, then a smaller drop to everyone else.

I'd like to try it again with my nonfiction writing. Let me know if you do this, and which authors you get!

[counting-stars-gayly]

It’s time we accept that Percy Jackson is an unreliable narrator. He’s not dumb. He’s just insecure. He’s not clueless about his and Annabeth’s feelings. He’s just in denial. He’s not clueless about Rachel’s feelings. He just doesn’t want to do anything about them. His mother isn’t perfect. He just loves and respects her more than anyone in the world. That boy contradicts his own inner monologue all the time. Do not trust him!!

EDIT: Please don’t interact just to disagree. You can make your own post.

[softlabsgroup05]

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[bonnvivre]

SUKUNA ENJOYERS !!! READ PART 1 OF THE SUKU LOST IN TRANSLATION ANALYSIS MY FRIEND MADE NOWWWWW

it’s insightful and goes into detail while remaining simple and concise ! an enjoyable and digestible read !

user is @/societyhater_ !!

some images of said analysis below so people have an idea of how it’s structured. please read the whole thing if you are interested!

here’s where the full thing is!