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loveisalwaystheanswer · 1 year

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Peaky Blinders | S01E05

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 7 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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turtleblogatlast · 2 months

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Imo the most impressive thing Leo’s done is hold this pose for as long as he did while covered head to toe in gold paint:

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rise leo #if you’ve ever had to wear body paint that stuff can be UNCOMFORTABLE #AND to hold that pose for so long - not moving a muscle even when they first started falling?#as humorous as this is it is no joke highly impressive #I also love the implication that they disguised Leo SO FAST that Big Mama JUST finished with item 1 #this is why Leo grows to become the worlds greatest ninja #bro’s dedication to subterfuge is godly #also #Leo 🤝 Mario: being painted gold and tricking the villainess into thinking you’re a statue #side note but in this same episode leo makes a comment about being betrayed by his brothers all the time in a happy tone #and I wonder if that’s part of where his love for epic betrayals comes from #or if his bros partially did those betrayals because they know he likes them #also also #nearly all of Leo’s absolute best moments are contained within episodes that feature either Hueso or especially Big Mama #and I find that interesting #ALSO also also #Karai and Big Mama both embody different aspects of Leo’s key character traits and in this essay I will-#side note but as I mentioned in the notes LEO WOULD BE SUCH A GOOD CHEERLEADER AND SPECIFICALLY A FLYER #bc here’s the thing he has literally all the marks of a good one - the main one being what he shows HERE #the ability to LOCK HIS POSITION #plus his affinity for showmanship like #AND his literal JOB AS A MASCOT???#let my guy be a cheerleader plz #he and Mikey both would be so good at it

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funeralcity · 2 months

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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam Opening 2: Hiroko Moriguchi - Mizu no Hoshi e Ai wo Komete

#gundam #zeta gundam #mobile suit zeta gundam #hiroko moriguchi #mizu no hoshi e ai wo komete #one of da greatest openings of all time...#we got to the episode when this first plays while rewatching last night and i was like popping off severely i was so hyped for it

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vaggieslefteye · 2 months

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Hazbin Hotel (2024): Season 1 ⤷ Alastor being FAKE vs Lucifer being REAL

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wejustvibing · 2 days

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i think it's easier to hunt. if you're chasing and you make mistakes, you can get away, you know, you fall two steps back and you can regain or work your way back but if you're leading, and you have a car failure, it's just so much more nerve wracking i'd say. so i much, much prefer... chasing.

but it got to a point where i learned how to kind of maintain the chase. so what i used to do was i just used to picture me further up ahead and so i was just chasing myself. - Lewis 🥵

#that last bit so hot?? 🔥#spoken like the greatest of all time #the hottest thing he did the entire episode #lewis x hot ones #lewis x first we feast #lewis hamilton #f1

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whaliiwatching · 1 year

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in love till the end of time!

#doctor who #twelfth doctor #rose tyler #doctorrose #twelverose #timepetals #my other drawings of twelve SUCK so have some better ones #ive seen like two episodes of his and i Love Him #hes my favorite doctor after nine :)#but ofc the greatest dr who character is ROSE (MY BELOVED) TYLER #she is top 3 characters of ALL TIME #the doctor’s nails are painted the enbylw flag colors!!#at least i hope they are i did one (1) google search #its a personal fav hc of mine alongside pan #grumpy doctor loves his time goddess wife <33

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stagefoureddiediaz · 2 days

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Ahhh the reason the pacing was so off in that episode was because it was written by Kristen - it all makes sense now!!

#I don’t have an issue with KR for the most part but she does not know how to pace an episode properly at all #it’s why this season finale was giving me the same weird vibes as the s5 season finale #she had always had pacing issues with her scripts - not even the greatest director and actors of all time could make her pacing work #Tim can you not give her the finale episode ever again please!#911 spoilers

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hazel-callahan · 2 years

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@USERGIF BACK TO COOL EVENT ⚡︎ challenge #3 - layout ↳ Don't Blink (2007) — 3x10

#THEE greatest standalone episode of all time #i love this episode so much #backtocool22 #doctor who #tenth doctor #weeping angels #david tennant #doctorwhoedit #dwedit #dw:3x10 #blink #gif #gif edit #*mine #yes im proud of this

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frogayyyy · 1 year

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#ideally a combination of all of these skdjsk #i had a thought because there’s going to be a snw/lwds crossover episode right?#i have no idea what’s going to happen in that #but lwds is set after tng #so is there going to be time travel shenanigans involved?#but i think the funniest way for spirk to become canon is if boimler spoils it or smth #he says something like omg it’s kirk and spock the greatest love story ever told and it just cuts to them like …. huh?#tos star trek #spirk #spock #jim kirk #strange new worlds #k/s

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theoriginalsapphic · 2 years

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mike and will kissing in the upside down was foreshadowed all the way back in season 1 actually

#byler #mike wheeler #will byers #can you imagine the two of them going to the upside down together #and will is nervous and wary of going to the place where he suffered through a whole week all by himself #so mike tries his best to alleviate his fear #they listen to their favorite music because mike brought mixtapes #they terrorize random citizens (like troy) by playing with the lights #just mike and will having the time of their lives in an upside down bottle episode #and then love confession + kiss #i will stop bringing up heroes when heroes stop being one of the greatest songs of all time #so probably never

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5hehzada · 9 months

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warm up doodle...guess who just watched the first two eps of inago

#inazuma eleven go #tsurugi kyousuke #ok so ive only watched inago until the gassan kunimitsu ep but i actually never finished that either #i am extremely bad at watching things because either i put weeks and months and years in between watching episodes or i just binge watch #im planning to make it through all of inago this time i think its always just been hard to keep up with things that are airing? hm #also no i never learned how to draw either anime hair or soccer balls its my greatest failure as someone who was super into ina11

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billfarrah · 1 year

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For me it’s the way Varian cannot and will not verbally express his feelings for Thomas but never makes Thomas feel wrong or ashamed for expressing his own. Varian does not believe their relationship could ever work in the real world but he never puts Thomas down for believing it could and responds to Thomas’ words and feelings with physical affection, kissing Thomas in front of the fire when Thomas says he’s proud of him and kissing him at the Chagalls’ farm when Thomas tells him happiness doesn’t feel complicated when they’re together. Varian sees Thomas’ love as his strength; his rebuff of Thomas’ advances in episode 2 was not to put Thomas down but rather his, at the time, inability to allow himself to maintain personal connections while remaining committed to his work. He just doesn’t believe he can have it all, or that he deserves it.

It’s also the way the way Thomas never forces Varian to say what he’s feeling and allows him to deal with and process his thoughts and emotions at his own pace, in his own way, and is always there to support him but call him out when he needs to.

It’s about the respect, the trust, the understanding, the love.

#transatlantic #lovefry #varian fry #thomas lovegrove #these writers rly went out and said we’re gonna create the greatest love story of all time and give you 6 episodes

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biomic · 1 month

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