#90% is great!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

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)

[thepeacefulgarden]

#great teachers #life lessons #kindness #you matter #self and others #millennialcore #nostalgia #90's kid #80's kid

[53v3nfrn5]

An Assortment of PS1 Games

#spyro #great peak #thunder force #tokyo insect zoo #ps1 #90s #00s #2000s #playstation #aesthetic #y2k aesthetic #y2k #nostalgia #childhood #video games #discs #cyber #cybercore #cyber y2k #kidcore #digimon

[herman-draws]

well, this thing was bound to happen sometime: here's my fanart and some doodles for @queruloustea's fic "that makes two of us, then"

I'M ENJOYING IT SO MUCH THIS IS LIKE THE FIC OF MY DREAMS SERIOUSLY

I LIVE FOR SEEING THESE TWO IDIOTS INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER /aff

#i can't convey how glad i am that there's FINALLY a great fic focused on their interactions #im normal about them i promise (lie) #hollow knight #the hollow knight #hk hollow #quirrel #hk quirrel #im like 90% sure i got the pose wrong on the first pic tbh #i hope it's not too bad at least #quirrelhollow #(btw im not using it as a ship tag necessarily #just for their dynamic overall)

[slutforlustblog]

#christian dior #dior #couture #90s fashion #fashionweek #the great gatsby #vougefashion #runway #catwalk #glam aesthetic #glamour #old money #coquette #nymph aesthetic #devine feminine #dollete aesthetic #soft aesthetic #girlblogging #it girl #softcore #dark femininity #hyper feminine

[midddoriya]

90s anime

#90s anime #i might be missing some #sailor moon #hunter x hunter #city hunter #detective conan #serial experiments lain #pokemon #dragon ball z #neon evangelion #great teacher onizuka #rurouni kenshin #one piece #slam dunk #cowboy bebop #princess mononoke #ghost in the shell #outlaw star #jojo's bizarre adventure #perfect blue #mobile suit gundam wing #battle angel alita #yu-gi-oh #ranma 1/2 #the slayers #cardcaptor sakura #digimon #macross plus #jin-roh #ninja scroll

[smallsafespace]

Funky night at the mall! ⭐️🎱🎲🌙

#agere #sfw agere #age regression #kidcore #mine #agere game #age regression game #80s #90s #hope yall have a great night its 11:48 pm for me #we can do this!! #keep going! #and take this with you if it brings you joy! #also yall ive been so happy to read the tags and comments on my art 🥹 #im a lil shy so i havent made a post about it #ill just hide in the tags for now :X

[caterpie]

Great Teacher Onizuka (1998)

#great teacher onizuka #retro anime #anime aesthetic #monochrome #90s anime #90s #i make gifs sometimes

[animenostalgia]

Art for the Darkstalkers (aka Vampire Hunter) OVA, 1997

#Darkstalkers #Vampire Hunter #Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge #90s anime #Morrigan Aensland #video game anime #anime great for Halloween

[daily-odile]

Odile wearing Bonnie's hat (likely under duress)

lost a bet. works surprisingly well as a sun hat though

#don't think she'd be under duress tbh. she'd wear it like a champ #isat #in stars and time #isat odile #day 90 #day... 90!? #Oh no. thats a lot #I should probably post that celebratory thing I had ready 20 days ago but... didnt post......... #anyways I still don't know how bonnie's hat works #but I imagine it could probably. block out some sun. great for outdoor reading maybe

[beetlemp3]

equinox cafe 🌕☕🍂

A whimsical autumn little coffee shop in mid-nowhere built over wiccan grounds... must be why their coffee tastes like magick!

✿Gallery ID: beetlemp3   ✿Cafe ✿  30x20 ✿  No CC

#I KNOW its been 100 years ive been working the worst hours and get home at like 5am #these halloween shifts dont play ANYWAY I FORCED MYSELF TO CALL OFF and i had an extra day to actually open up sims T _ T #ts4 #sims 4 #ts4lot #ts4nocc #freerealestate #ts4 vanilla #the only thought decorating the inside was #“this would be a great disney channel 90s halloween movie teen hangout”

[getvalentined]

Okay, maybe you people do understand the lights above the Arby's.

Goodnight, tumblr. Goodnight.

#cecil gershwin palmer #wtnv #welcome to night vale #cecilsweep #art tag #*dusts off this character design* #man it's been a while huh #great work everyone #don't look at this too closely #i went from sketch to this state in literally like 90 minutes #it's a MESS #but I had to do SOMETHING

[flowercrowngods]

everyone assuming eddie's physical shape is the worst because he never works out and skips gym class all the time, nopes out of basketball games to sit on the sidelines with robin to talk shit, and flames jocks and sports every chance he gets etc etc. but the thing is, eddie is in amazing shape. he goes to join steve on a run one day and has no trouble keeping up until he inevitably gets bored and just stops, but still steve is surprised to see how in shape eddie is.

that is, until he goes to see corroded coffin playing at the hideout and he sees eddie jumping and running and absolutely performing on that stage for almost two hours. that's two hours of singing background vocals, jumping in time, hyping up the audience, doing his little stagey posey jumps right on time for the drops, etc.

eddie playing with corroded coffin is essentially him doing a whole 90 minute cardio workout and steve never questions his physical fitness again

#eddie munson #steddie #stranger things #eddie is in great shape because he's a dramatic ass lead guitarist #i had this thought while watching jack from all time low fuckig perform on that stage for 90 minutes #the man has so much energy it's admirable

[weenie-moon]

#queue #my gifs #great teacher onizuka #gto #train #90s anime #lofi #retro anime

[genericaces]

and you delivered me from danger then / tore my cradle from the reedy glen / swore to save me from the world of men / still the wanting comes in waves, in waves, and waves (x)

stills below:

#fun fact in 90% of his scenes angel is wearing some kind of black coat that looks identical from the back #which is great when you're trying to show him at different stages of his life. from the back. #in the other 10% he's shirtless #angel #darla #dangel #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs #angel the series #ats #art

[peteneems]

#beavis and butthead #90s #1999 #cartoon #cartoons #mtv #halloween #the great cornholio