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The Plato's Cave Dwellers Discord server is starting a Kaiba watch next weekend! It will take us three weeks to finish the show, with two watches a week of the same episodes for people in different timezones. The first watch will be on Friday, June 27th at 10pm EST with another on Saturday, June 28th at 2pm EST. Click here to join!
#kaiba#kaiba 2008#masaaki yuasa#yuasa masaaki#we will be doing Devilman Crybaby next and a lot of ppl in the server are Inu-Oh fans (one of my fav movies of all time)
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This piece has been in the making a long time. I'd be interested to see whether or not people agree with my assessment, since "didactic" is a word with negative connotations.
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some of my best work if I do say so myself
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I just finished my piece on Chi no Wadachi! I put a lot of effort into this one because I love the story so much. I definitely don't discuss all possible angles in this post, but I hope I've provided a basis for further analysis. Enjoy!
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Hey there! In this piece, I describe three different ways of looking at Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis series, which I hope will provide new directors for analysis. Enjoy!
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Hey guys, I wrote a long post which provides an introduction to all of Ursula K. Le Guin's fiction! It should be helpful for anyone who would like to get into her work, complete newbies and casual fans alike. I avoided spoilers as much as possible while going into enough detail to give an idea of the premise and appeal of each book, including all of her published novels and short story collections. Enjoy!
#ursula k le guin#ursula le guin#the left hand of darkness#the dispossessed#earthsea#and many many more
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Here's a piece I wrote comparing The Wire and We Own This City and how they reveal the evolution of race relations in Amerca
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In this piece, I provide a series of vignettes from my life, all of which relate to the logic of institutional abuse. For years, I've tried to write about my experience in a mental hospital, but I kept getting bogged down in details. This approach helped me to describe the factors which led me to end up in the hospital, as well as capture the pervasive oppression that the powerless face when under the sway of institutions.
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I don't even know how to describe this one.
#christianity#susan sontag#andrei rublev#andrei tarkovsky#i say some not-very-nice things about an Ingmar Bergman film in this
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An essay on Urasawa's Billy Bat with a focus on its themes of creative expression and human history
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Piece I wrote on Atom Egoyan's Exotica
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A piece I wrote examining how Banana Fish's politics and central relationship make it unique among shoujo manga.
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I revamped an old, short essay of mine on Angel's Egg, focused on how the film allegorizes the loss of faith.
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I wrote a piece of criticism which attempts to use Susan Sontag's "On Style" to describe the political implications of The Lord of the Rings.
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I have a Substack now! Check out this essay on the phenomenon of franchise media.
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Several months of work have paid off in this video. In it, I discuss Penguindrum's relationship to real-world events and social trends. Since I made it for YouTube, I go over information that I'm sure most Penguindrum-heads are already familiar with. I did, however, do a lot of research for the video, so there may be suprises even for hardcore fans. You can use the chapters to navigate to the parts that interest you most.
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I spent the last few weeks going through the DVD commentaries for The Wire to pull out the most interesting moments. enjoy!
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