johnaeryns

[johnaeryns]

what happened to the butch spike meta?

if you're talking about the lesbian spuffy post it's here, otherwise i'm not sure which post you mean

#answered #anonymous

[johnaeryns]

modern theon has frosted tips and watched porn on his ipod touch until he was 20 and worked at a movie theatre where he and jon would hate-smoke weed with each other on their breaks and he got sansa addicted to vaping when she was 12 and during the stark family disney trip he lost rickon in the gift shop and when he got robb high for the first time robb got so scared he called his mom and cat kicked theon out of the house but he was back a day later. if you even care.

#please i'm in tears #theon grey #game of thrones

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUFFY ANNE SUMMERS! {January 19th, 1981}

#awwww i missed it i was dying at school but ppl reblogged this my bestie #lov u miss u every day #also the ratio on this is fucking crazy what??? in this economy??

[johnaeryns]

paul and ginevra were the original spike and faith, the girls who get it get it and the girls who don’t have never read villette

#paul and lucy thee original straightgay ship you guys have no idea #spuffy was training wheels they're my white whale

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It does good to no woman to be flattered by her superior, who cannot possibly intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds, whence there is no extrication.

— Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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I’ve got a lot to blame you for, Crichton.

#so inexpressibly inconsolable #johnaeryn #farscape

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SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR James White ph. for Entertainment Weekly (October 2004)

#will literally never get tired of this photoshoot #smg

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I had mechanically turned in this latter direction, and was strolling along the lonely high-road – idly wondering, I remember, what the Cumberland young ladies would look like – when, in one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop by the touch of a hand laid lightly and suddenly on my shoulder from behind me. I turned on the instant, with my fingers tightening round the handle of my stick. There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road – there, as if it had that moment sprung out the earth or dropped from the heavens – stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments; her face bent in grave inquiry on mine, her hand pointing to the dark cloud over London, as I faced her.

— The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

#sorry but no one will see these if i don’t reblog them here 😭

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I had mechanically turned in this latter direction, and was strolling along the lonely high road – idly wondering, I remember, what the Cumberland young ladies would look like – when, in one moment, every drop of blood in my body was brought to a stop by the touch of a hand laid lightly and suddenly on my shoulder from behind me. I turned on the instant, with my fingers tightening round the handle of my stick. There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road – there, as if it had that moment sprung out the earth or dropped from the heaven – stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments; her face bent in grave inquiry on mine, her hand pointing to the dark cloud over London, as I faced her.

— The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

[johnaeryns]

Period drama + 🍂🍁

EMMA. (2020)

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1985)

MARIE ANTOINETTE (2006)

CRIMSON PEAK (2015)

BRIGHT STAR (2009)

MR. MALCOLM'S LIST (2022)

BECOMING JANE (2007)

THE SECRET GARDEN (1993)

#love <3

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BEN BRODWER as JOHN CRICHTON ⇢ CLAUDIA BLACK as AERYN SUN

2.16 The Locket

FARSCAPE

#this episode is SO crazy #because essentially its purpose within the series is to canonically establish #that there is no circumstance which would make john and aeryn stop loving each other #she could spend over 100 years separated from him and still love him #he would still love her even if she was significantly older than he was #and had lived a whole life without him #they would both still love each other and be best friends after living together for decades #in a life neither of them particularly wanted or would have chosen for themselves #they'd never get tired of each other #they'd never grow apart #or come to resent the other #and it makes a point of this so that you know for everything they deal with in the rest of the series the problem #is never them or their relationship #the question is never if they're right for each other you know they're right for each other #it's if there's enough hate and violence in the universe that it could rip apart THIS love like THIS #anyways god's work op #farscape #johnaeryn

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hi! I just scrolled a little on your acc and noticed in a tag you said you were a comp lit major! I’m a senior in high school and want to do comp lit in college and was wondering if you could tell me how you liked the major? I know it’ll be different depending on the school but I’ve never met anyone irl who’s done it so I’m looking for any info I can get :D.

omg no i'm so happy to talk about this any time! i absolutely love my major. at least at my school it's extremely flexible. you can either choose a language and another discipline, or two languages (which is the more traditional comp lit path), and your classes are split between those three departments. so for me it's about 25% english department, 25% french department, and 50% comparative literature department. however, there's also very few required classes which means you get a lot of electives that aren't confined to your major. that's one of my favorite parts because i can take any class under any subject code that i think looks interesting, and because comp lit is so interdisciplinary none of it feels disconnected to my actual work (i can also just take any english classes i want instead of having to fill requirements). i've taken classes in the philosophy, anthropology, art history, religious studies, and humanities departments and will probably add more in the future lmao.

that's all probably kind of specific to my school but i think that regardless of where you go, if you're someone who has a lot of interests, especially across the humanities or social sciences, you'll really like comparative literature. same with if you're someone who really likes languages. my experience with the comp lit department vs. the english department has been pretty similar, and there's generally quite a bit of overlap (including instructors, i met the professor who told me i should change my major in an english class lol), but there are a few differences. firstly, the comp lit department is typically quite a bit smaller. the negative sides of this are that there's far fewer classes offered, and the department tends to be a lot more spread out. the positive side is that it's a lot easier to form relationships with your professors and meet people with similar interests. i think you tend to get pretty good teachers in the humanities generally, but my experience has been that smaller departments tend to be people, both instructors and students, who really care about what they study. pretty much all of my good friends i've met here are comp lit majors or people i met in comp lit classes. this major in particular i think tends to attract people who really care about their work beyond just obligation and who take it very seriously, which isn't always easy to find in undergrad.

in terms of the actual classes, in english you are reading novels, plays, and/or poetry the vast majority of the time (unless it's a class specifically devoted to another genre). in comp lit you get those genres, but also a lot more film, tv, comics, etc., potentially in the same class. because it's such an all encompassing discipline, the classes are also a lot more specific. i've found a lot of them tend to focus on the professor's research interests, which makes sense considering that it's literally impossible to be an expert on all world languages and literatures. the biggest difference is that when you get to upper division and start reading more secondary sources and writing research essays, in english it's usually primarily criticism where in comp lit it's a lot of theory. theory, for me, is probably the most challenging part of literary studies. it's also one of the most exciting.

the difference is essentially the same as in any comparative field. for example: within religious studies you might be someone who specializes specifically in medieval christianity or in contemporary islam, etc., etc., the same way that you might specialize in medieval english literature, or 19th century russian literature, contemporary latin american literature, etc. however, if you study comparative religion, you're studying the phenomenon of religion as an entity. the same is true of comparative literature, you're studying literature as a concept. literary theory is essentially the philosophy of literature. the distinction carries over to courses, so in english you tend to more closely study the specific novels/eras/genres/authors/etc. (unless a comp lit prof is teaching the class and then you're still reading theory lol), where in comp lit you're usually trying to contextualize it both within its own literary tradition, and within the phenomenon of literature as a whole. theory is a big element of the english major, but it's the core of the comparative literature major.

hopefully that wasn't more than you were asking for, but i can't tell you how happy i am to talk about this ldkfjsk. what i study is really like, my love and my entire life so if you ever want to talk about it or have any questions please message me or send an ask. i honestly did not even know it was a thing until my professor told me about it, and i know they don't even offer it at a lot of schools at the undergraudate level, so i'm very happy you're considering it. i'm currently planning to continue studying literature postgrad and i'm seriously considering continuing with comparative literature. i really can't recommend it enough.

#answered #also potentially specific to my school: but more undergraduate research opportunities as well! #my school is a research university which probably influences this #i actually work at my school's undergraduate research journal and i'm essentially the only editor who specializes in humanities #but the comparative lit department at my school also has its own undergraduate research journal which the english department does not

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thinking about john and the mad scientist trope in the respect that he is both a scientist and ‘mad,’ as in psychologically unstable, but also the trope itself as an examination of the dehumanizing potential of science and the mentality of progress at any cost, disregarding ethics, and how he’s the antithesis of that. he’s the embodiment of humanity on multiple fronts. he’s the literal embodiment of humanity in the respect that he’s the only human present for all but a few episodes of the show, but he’s also the embodiment of humanity as an antonym of what is inhumane (benevolence, compassion, tolerance, tenderness, mercy). then you get his opposite in the more traditional mad scientist villains i.e., the scarrans and their hybrid breeding program, scorpius and his aurora chair and relentless pursuit of wormhole knowledge, the nebari and their mind cleansing, and the peacekeepers’ fascist adherence to reason and disgust over sentimentality for the supposed sake of the greater good. you also see it in the rest of humanity, first in a human reaction, dissecting the first aliens they come into contact with for study, then again in terra firma which displays in literal terms the same nuclear proliferation metaphor you get with the wormhole weapon in the rest of the show (the only way to create peace is by obtaining access to world-ending technology), and it comes up literally again in dna mad scientist where john equates the titular character to mengele, connecting the idea to humanity directly in its condemnation of the ends justify the means mentality. 

his role in the story is in trying to hold off this relentless march of progress which everyone else pursues despite the obvious reality that it can only end in total, senseless destruction. all of this connects into the fact that the show itself is a commentary on a genre that is dedicated to exploring the philosophy and possibilities of science, and how that genre has, at times, fallen into those same pitfalls of dehumanization and mindless progress, particularly in viewing science through a militaristic lens. at no point is a condemnation of science, ‘madness,’ or science fiction, which is why it’s important that john is both a scientist and fundamentally psychologically broken by the violence he endures at the hands of the actual ‘mad scientists’ (the portrayal of which is treated with particularly notable empathy and compassion as well). (i think it’s interesting too how the peacekeepers actually devalue science hierarchically, even as they promote rationality over anything remotely romantic or emotional, and then science only as far as it is practically advantageous to military pursuits). instead, it reenforces science as positive only insofar as it reflects the best qualities of humanity: compassion, empathy, inclination to help others, desire to reduce suffering, etc. seeing this from an existentialist perspective is also really interesting because existentialism debunks the myth of progress. progress in and of itself is totally meaningless. if existence, especially from an atheistic and rationalistic perspective, has no fundamental truth or inherent meaning, then there is nothing to progress toward. we are moving forward just for the sake of moving forward, so there is no ‘ends justify the means,’ because there is no end. there is only your life as it is and what you choose to do with it, which defines the overall message that science is good only as far as it positively impacts your life and the lives of others, but that sacrificing humanity in the name of progress is an empty justification in every conceivable sense. 

#so true me

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im taking media away from some of u guys until you can pass a 6th grade literary analysis test

#the last onelkdfjaklsdfjklasdjklfjs #op you're in my thoughts

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okay besties everyone put in their tags what theyre majoring or what they majored in im so curious

#comparative literature :) #specialization in french and english

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MITSKI Bug Like an Angel

#literally begging for mercy #mitski

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Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew - Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash, and Captain Dallas - are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.

ALIEN 1979 dir. Ridley Scott

#oh beautiful #this set's amazing #alien #horror