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gildedbearediting · 1 month

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National Literature Month: Top 5 Literary Fails

In honour of National Literature Month, I’d like to do something different and cover a few topics. Today’s topic will be literary failures. I’ve pulled together five ways to fail that should be talked about, and people who committed these failures. Obsession and Obscurity: Lamotte Fouquet Bibliophage: Ernst Bellmer Travel: Stanhope Barnes, Wilson Young Didn’t even start: Edward Nash, Marta…

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craqueluring · 7 months

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Claudia Durastanti, Strangers I Know / NBC’s Hannibal (2013-2015)

"Every crime of yours feels like one I am guilty of. Not just Abigail's murder, every murder stretching backward and forward in time. Freeing yourself from me and me freeing myself from you, they are the same. We're conjoined."

#pluto dont make every piece of media you consume about hannibal challenge failed #reading this book for my literary studies course #couldnt stop thinking abt these excerpts #pluto web weaves #nbc hannibal #hannibal lecter #hannibal #will graham #the wrath of the lamb #hannigram #hannibaledit #claudia durastanti #strangers i know

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mysterieuxclairdelune · 1 year

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{ Unknown/ Unknown/ Unknown/ Tumblr user: @aszmxm/ Adham Alsharkawi (via Tumblr user: @letsbelonelytogetherr)/ Ghani Khan/ Unknown/ Mahmoud Darwish/ Tumblr User: @msanonymous (via Instagram)/ Originally by E. E. Cummings (Arabic translation- Unknown) }

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halcyondaaze · 25 days

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Alice Munro, Collected Stories, “Tell me Yes or No,” // Mississippi Masala (1991) // Sylvia Plath, Poppies in July // Borghese gallery statues, Rome

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burningvelvet · 1 year

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Here are two of the most hilariously scalding letters from the 1800s that I have ever read. One is by the famous writer Lord Byron, and the other is by his daughter Ada Lovelace, the famous mathematician. Both are written to their respective business partners: Byron to his publisher John Murray, and Lovelace to her colleague Charles Babbage. It’s interesting to note how strikingly similar these letters are despite the fact that Ada and her father never knew each other, as her parents separated shortly after her birth and he died abroad when she was eight. Both were rebellious, fond of gambling, prone to tumultuous affairs, and both hated Lady Byron. These similarities may help to explain why her final wish was to be buried next to him instead of her family.

Lord Byron in a Letter to his publisher John Murray about the printing of his magnum opus, the poem Don Juan:

“Ra. August 31st. 1821.

Dear Sir

I have received the Juans – which are printed so carelessly especially the 5th. Canto – as to be disgraceful to me — & not creditable to you.

It really must be gone over again with the Manuscript – the errors are so gross – words added – changed – so as to make cacophony & nonsense. — You have been careless of this poem because some of your Synod don’t approve of it – but I tell you – it will be long before you see any thing half so good as poetry or writing. — Upon what principle have you omitted the note on Bacon & Voltaire? and one of the concluding stanzas sent as an addition? because it ended I suppose – with –

‘And do not link two virtuous souls for life Into that moral Centaur man & wife?’

Now I must say once for all – that I will not permit any human being to take such liberties with my writings – because I am absent. —

I desire the omissions to be replaced (except the stanza on Semiramis) particularly the stanza upon the Turkish marriages – and I request that the whole be carefully gone over with the M.S.S. –

I never saw such stuff as is printed – Gulleyaz – instead of Gulbeyaz &c. Are you aware that Gulbeyaz is a real name – and the other nonsense? – I copied the Cantos out carefully – so that there is no excuse – as the Printer reads or at least prints the M.S.S. of the plays without error. —

If you have no feeling for your own reputation pray have some little for mine. — I have read over the poem carefully – and I tell you it is poetry – Your little envious knot of parson-poets may say what they please — time will show that I am not in this instance mistaken. — Desire my friend Hobhouse to correct the press especially of the last Canto from the Manuscript – as it is – it is enough to drive one out of one’s senses – to see the infernal torture of words from the original. – For instance the line

‘And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves’

Is printed

‘and praise their rhymes &c. –

also ‘precarious’ for ‘precocious’ – and this line. stanza 133.

‘And this strong extreme effect – to tire no longer’

Now do turn to the Manuscript – & see – if I ever made such a line – it is not verse. —

No wonder the poem should fail – (which however it wont you will see) with such things allowed to creep about it. – – Replace what is omitted – – & correct what is so shamefully misprinted, – and let the poem have fair play – – and I fear nothing. — I see in the last two Numbers of the Quarterly – a strong itching to assail me (see the review of the “Etonian”) let it – and see if they shan’t have enough of it. – – I don’t allude to Gifford – who has always been my friend – & whom I do not consider as responsible for the articles written by others. – But if I do not give Mr. Milman – Mr. Southey – & others of the crew something that shall occupy their dream! I am not what I was – that is all

I have not begun with the Quarterers – but let them look to it. – As for Milman (you well know I have not been unfair to his poetry ever) but I have lately had some information of his critical proceedings in the Quarterly which may bring that on him which he will be sorry for. – I happen to know that of him – Which would annihilate him – when he pretends to preach morality – not that he is immoral – because he isn’t – having in early life been once too much so. – And dares he set up for a preacher? let him go and be priest to Cybele. – why let

You will publish the plays – when ready — I am in such a humour about this printing of D.J. so inaccurately – that I must close this.

yrs. [scrawl]

P.S. I presume that you have not lost the stanza to which I allude? it was sent afterwards look over my letters – & find it. The Notes you can’t have lost – you acknowledged them – they included eight or little corrections of Bacon’s mistakes in the apothegms. – And now I ask once more if such liberties taken in a man’s absence – are fair or praise-worthy? – As for you you have no opinions of your own – & never had – but are blown about by the last thing said to you no matter by whom.”

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“Dear Sir

The enclosed letter is written in bad humour – but not without provocation. -

However – let it (that is the bad humour) go for little – but I must request your serious attention to the abuses of the printer which ought never to have been permitted. – You forget that all the fools in London (the chief purchasers of your publications) will condemn in me the stupidity of your printer. — For instance in the Notes to Canto fifth – ‘the Adriatic shore of the Bosphorus – instead of the Asiatic!! – All this may seem little to you – so fine a gentleman with your ministerial connections – but it is serious to me – who am thousands of miles off & have no opportunity of not proving myself the fool yr. printer makes me – except your pleasure & leisure forsooth.

The Gods prosper you — & forgive you, for I wont.

B.”

Ada Lovelace in a letter to her work partner Charles Babbage, who she helped invent the computer with:

“Tuesday Afternoon [1 August 1843] Ockham

. . . Note B has plagued me to death; altho' I have made but little alteration in it. Such alterations as there are however, happen to have been very tiresome & to have demanded minute consideration & very nice adjustments.

It is a very excellent Note.

I wish you were as accurate, & as much to be relied on, as I am myself. You might often save me much trouble, if you were; whereas you in reality add to my trouble not infrequently; and there is at any rate always the anxiety of doubting if you will not get me into a scrape; even when you don't.

By the way, I hope you do not take upon yourself to alter any of my corrections.

I must beg you not. They all have some very sufficient reason. And you have made a pretty mess & confusion in one or two places (which I will show you sometime), where you have ventured in my M.S's, to insert or alter a phrase or word; & have utterly muddled the sense.

I could not conceive at first in one or two places what had happened to my sentences; tho' I soon saw they were patchwork & not my own; and found it so, on referring to the M.S. I fear you will think this a very cross letter. Never mind. I am a good little thing, after all. Yours ever

A. A. L.

Later. P. S. It is impossible to send you anything but Notes B and C; (& this partly owing to some wrong references & blunderations of your own). — Do not be afraid, for I will work like the Devil early tomorrow morning. —“

[Separate Page]

“Wednesday, 4 o'clock [2 August 1843] Ockham

After working almost incessantly, since 7 o'clock this morning, until I am forced to give in from sheer inability to apply longer, I find only the sheet I enclose is quite completed. I shall however send a servant up tomorrow morning by a ten o' clock train, to take you all the rest; so that you will have it almost as soon as this letter.

You cannot conceive the trouble I have had with the trigonometrical Note E. — In fact no one but me, I really believe, would have doggedly stuck to it, as I have been doing, in all wearing minutiae.

I am very uneasy at not hearing from you, as I have expected to do both yesterday & today; & fear some disaster or other. I hope all of Note G is forthcoming; & I also hope you have received all my communications safely.

I think you had better do the second revise of the translation for me. If you will compare it carefully with my first revise, it can hardly be necessary I think for me to go over it again.

I suppose I ought to take it for granted that no news is good news; but I am in a sad fidget. — Yours ever

A. L.”

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hamartia-grander · 1 year

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Please I’m begging you on my hands and knees please elaborate on Luis and Ada being foils

I am SO happy that someone finally asked me to talk about this I know I asked you to ask me I love you so much thank you because once I had this realisation it made me love both of their characters - and the re4 remake as a whole - so much more than I already did.

Explanation below the cut:

So first lemme define what a foil is when it comes to characters, not because I think you personally don't know Wilfred but in case anyone's reading this and wondering why I'm calling these characters aluminum wrap. I'm not, I promise it's a real narrative device. A literary foil is "a character whose purpose is to accentuate or draw attention to the qualities of another character". Essentially, a foil requires two characters to be identified, and they exist to contrast, reflect, or exist in an opposite way to their co-foil so as to highlight the other character's weaknesses, strengths, and personality. However, they are often also very similar in technical ways, and thus their behaviours and/or quirks that set them apart show the audience how some things just work for one character but not the other. Think of it like an inverted image, how some details look better in negative space but worse in positive space. This is true of narrative foils. In the remake of Resident Evil 4, Luis is written as a literary foil to Ada.

We first meet Ada in re2, and she's introduced as this mysterious woman who claims to be of the FBI but reveals no further details about herself. We as the audience/player behind Leon have to trust her to get to where we need to go, and she proves herself worthy of that trust. Leon doesn't question why she's helping him, because he believes that she really is FBI and that helping people is her job. He doesn't know her goal, but he's willing to help, and receive her help. However, at the end of re2, we find out that she's actually not FBI, that she was using that as a cover and she is actually a mercenary and spy, whose goal was to acquire a sample of the harmful G-virus and bring it to Wesker who was obviously going to use it for nefarious purposes, and she knew that. Leon (the audience) doesn't know this until the very end.

We first meet Luis in re4. Now in the original, he barely had any substance as a character, and his personality was simply an expression of cultural stereotypes and misogyny, masked under "charming flamboyance". In the remake, however, Luis does have substance as a character. We not only get more out of his personality, but we now know his goals, his flaws, and his interests. And just like Ada, he is a mysterious character with a dark past that led to him making bad decisions and aligning himself with bad people. However, the difference between them and the beginning of what sets them up as foils is that Leon (the audience) finds all of this out about Luis almost immediately. Unlike with Ada, where Leon took her word and went the entire game believing what she said, Leon was sceptical of Luis and had Hunnigan look him up - and sure enough, Hunnigan was able to find all sorts of information on Luis, despite Luis actively trying to make that information as well as himself untraceable. So rather than having the audience trust Luis outright like we did with Ada, and then having that trust threatened when we learn who she is later one, we learn who Luis is immediately, setting him up as someone who we should be sceptical of.

With Ada, by giving us a character to trust and see good in for an entire game only to end it with the reveal that she's actually working for the "bad guys", we are led to think that all of her actions up to that point were fake, that she was simply putting on a cover of kindness and care for Leon. And of course that's the wrong idea, as she clearly does care for him, which we see when he stupidly dares her to shoot him. And she refuses. IDK, even if I loved Leon, I would've shot him then just because he was being a cocky shit about it, but Ada is certainly stronger than me. Ada's actions prior to us finding out who she really is now are tainted, and we're led to see her actions as that of a facade. Adversely, with Luis, by giving us a character who's bad past we know outright and repeatedly meet up with throughout the game, we are led to see all of his actions from that point on as acts of redemption.

We first see Ada as a Good character and therefore all of her actions are that of someone just being herself, but with Luis we first see him as a Bad character, and therefore all of his actions are that of someone who must redeem himself. However, they are both very similar characters; but in the way the stories introduced them to us, and in the order they revealed information about these two characters to us, the narrative influences how we see these characters. Imagine if we had gone the entire game not knowing Luis used to work for Umbrella, thinking he was just Some Guy who happened to live in this village. Leon most definitely would have trusted him much quicker. But that 'Umbrella' background being the first real thing we learn about Luis means that his dark past will always be on our minds when we see him next. And it makes sense to us, given the events of re2, that Leon wouldn't trust Luis, even if the audience does. (Same with Ada; the audience could be distrusting of her, but narratively we see why Leon would've trusted her implicitly in re2.)

Both Luis and Ada are mysterious characters whose real moral alignment we are uncertain of for almost the entirety of their games. Both Luis and Ada tell lies to protect themselves or their cover. Both Luis and Ada withhold information they either feel too ashamed to admit or can't admit, again, to protect their cover. Both Luis and Ada - specifically in re4r - have a recurring theme of change. They both speak to Leon about people changing. They both show their own relationships with change. And yet, their endings are vastly different.

Where Ada withholds information and succeeds, Luis withholds information and is found out by Hunnigan. Where Ada can double cross Wesker and escape, Luis attempts to double cross Los Iluminados and gets found out and captured, which is how we meet him. Where Ada gains Leon's trust almost immediately and loses it at the end, Luis doesn't gain Leon's trust until the very end. Even when Leon shows situational trust in him - accepting Luis's help in the safe house, agreeing to partner with him to get the suppressant for the plaga for Ashley - he still doesn't trust Luis's motives, his goal, or even his character. Leon constantly questions Luis throughout their interactions, unwilling to believe this man would help them unless he had some ulterior motive.

That brings back up the theme of change. Luis asks Leon if he thinks people can change, and then Leon asks Ada if she has changed. Luis's death scene could very well be the first time - or at least, the first significant time - Leon has been forced to confront the idea that people change. His confusion regarding Luis's real motives the entire time as a result of learning that Luis used to work for Umbrella seems to be proof enough to Luis that Leon does not see him as someone who has changed, even though Luis desperately wants that to be seen. Adversely, Leon desperately wants to see some proof that Ada has changed, that she's not using him. He's learned from Luis, but he's stumped by his own personal lack of change. Leon doesn't understand how to identify that kind of change in someone; or at the very least, he doesn't know how to voice it. Ada replies "what do you think?", and this could be passed off as her usual way of avoiding the truth, but really she's asking him "Are you even able to know if I've changed? Did you ever pay attention to who I am, or did you lose sight of my character as soon as you learned something bad about me? Have I changed, or has your perception of me changed? Can I change to you if you never really knew me at all? What do you think about how people change?" (And I love this about her.) Luis is Ada's foil because the way Leon perceived Luis's change was so abrupt that now Leon is looking for change in everyone, even himself. And where Luis doubts himself and has to ask Leon - as he's dying - if Leon thinks people can change, Ada is sure of it.

And of course I have to add some serennedy in this. As @thebrokengate kindly mentioned, the dynamics between Leon and Ada, and Leon and Luis, are opposite. Leon trusts Ada and then that trust is broken; Leon doesn't trust Luis, and then that trust is earned, but too late. Luis isn't just a foil for Ada, but his relationship with Leon is also a foil for Ada's. We see where Luis fails in ways that Ada succeeded when it comes to their characters; but when it comes to their relationship with Leon, Luis succeeds where Ada failed. And it makes his death even more devastating as he had the potential to go further with Leon than Ada could, but he was killed, leaving Leon alone regardless. In both instances, Leon lost someone who affected him personally; but where one was lost with trust broken, the other was lost with their life taken.

Again, by giving us Ada's personality first and her background last, we soften up to her as a character before having to question everything we thought we knew about her, as who we find out she is contradicts what her actions have been. However, by giving us Luis's background first and his personality last, we start out sceptical of him, and when his actions contradict what we found out about who he is, we forgive him. I'll also take this opportunity to point out the misogyny in this fandom, as many fans still dislike Ada or believe her to be a bad person, when they love Luis. in many ways, they are the same character. We were just given details about them in a different order that influenced how we perceive their actions.

#this was. really disorganised and all out of my brain so I'm sorry if I failed to convey some things I just have so many feelings ab this #Ada Wong #Luis Serra #Luis Serra Navarro #serennedy #resident evil #resident evil 4 remake #re4 remake #resident evil 2 #resident evil 4 #re4 #re2 #leon kennedy #leon s. kennedy #literary analysis #asks #Thank you sm Wilfred I'm sorry for making you read so many words #resident evil analysis

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applesfrombanora · 9 months

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Convinced Genesis would latch onto Vincent in a heartbeat if they ever met because he’d quote Loveless and Vincent would actually respond to it because you know he was that goth kid who knew way too much about ancient poetry and literature

#Genesis would go “finally a fellow literary scholar who also has a penchant for wearing red”#Vincent weighing whether or not flying away is something he wants to do #I do think he’d actually enjoy engaging in scholarly discussion #vincent valentine #ffvii genesis #ffvii #“oh my god you’re a fellow failed experiment too?

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calypsolemon · 10 months

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One of my pet peeves surrounding the whole "actually the curtains being blue DID mean something, you just weren't paying attention in high school!" thing is that it assumes that media literacy is being taught to some sort of proper standard all across the board and that its just a matter of willful ignorance that people just... didn't absorb the lessons.

The reality that I think people don't want to address is unfortunately public school is often Very Bad at teaching media literacy skills. A lot of classes really did boil down the act of analysis to a set of multiple choice questions, a lot of curriculum expected students to come to identical conclusions that often weren't even fully reflective of the work. Many of them threw classics full of confusing and outdated language at children without giving them any context or references to aid the reading. Many of them failed to communicate why those works had historic significance at all. Even if you enjoyed the work, if you extracted a different meaning out of it than the expected answers around the wrong teacher, it could mean literally failing your semester-long reading assignment.

People found "what do the blue curtains mean?" frustrating because that question was often asked with the expectations that students would just be able to pull the "right" answer out of the aether, with no guidance as to how to analyze a work in the first place, and the threat of a bad grade hanging over their heads. Of fucking course some people walked away from that experience with the idea that media analysis was meaningless drivel.

This is not to say that it is ok that so many people struggle with media literacy, but I think it might be helpful to stop looking at it on such an individual level, and start looking at the structural issues with the way we teach people (or rather, fail to teach people) these skills in the first place.

#like iunno we acknowledge that public school often fails to teach things like history and science in a well-rounded fashion #i dont think the literary arts are an exception

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sharkieboi · 3 days

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I don’t have like deep thoughts about it yet but thinking about how in Scavenger’s Reign Sam is victimized by almost every hostile creature they come across

#shhh sharkie #scavengers reign #he’s First Victim energy to Ursula’s Final Girl energy #like idk what it means narratively there’s honestly so much literary and narrative and framing stuff in this show #i need to watch it ten more times to have coherent thoughts about the narrative #but there’s something there about like. Sam is the captain. and is trying to save his crew and get back to the ship.#he’s Odysseus if Odysseus never makes it home yknow? hits every single roadblock and while he doesn’t fail he also doesn’t succeed.#every hostile thing he and Ursula meet he gets victimized by. i think the only exception is the spores in episode 1 #idk it’s interesting to me

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drinkthemlock · 1 year

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barricade day every year does imply that the amis are trapped in a time loop in which they inevitably die horrible violent deaths in an insurrection that will never succeed. well!

#‘it’s because they’re literary characters loui! they are trapped in their own story forever!’ yes I am aware. let me be sad and silly pls #also the rebellion failing doesn’t mean it was unnecessary or worthless etc etc that is implied #les mis

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brookheimer · 1 year

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didn’t expect the anne carson post to get notes but now that it has i myself am the recipient of bad takes. horrible

#also 75% of the people reblogging it atp do not seem to understand my frustration w the comments #like i didn’t post this to be like look how ableist twt users are in denying the lived experience of depression for other ppl #i mean sure but that was not the point of the post #it’s about an inability to read poetry and a newfound insistence on everything including art having a Take i #it’s about a fundamental disconnect with literature and works in general that are not written for you specifically #relatability politics infiltrating literary discourse #like their criticism of the poem is the strangest i’ve ever seen bc it has nothing to do with the poem. people do not know how to read #anymore #they treat everything like it’s a tweet they either need to publicly agree with or publicly mock #but yeah like my point was not Look How Dismissive They Are Of Neurodivergent Experiences #it was Jesus Fucking Christ The Education System Is Failing Us And Critical Literacy Is At An All Time Low #i mean this isn’t supposed to be about depression. it’s about life and living it #and honestly people defending it from the depression/neurodivergenxe angle is just the flip side of the twitter hate — you like it because #you view it as representative of your specific lived experience and would likely not like it if it didn’t #it’s being wrapped up into identity politics #and that was sooooo not the point of the post like i am criticizing the relatability/identity politics mode of reading #it’s made us unable to look at things on their own terms let alone thru a legitimate critical lens!#i mean ofc you can like stuff bc it resonates w you i’m not criticizing That. but saying that that’s what gives a work of art value or #determines whether or not it’s ‘good’ is ridiculous and narcissistic and rooted in the tiktok brain fungus discouraging all nuance ever #sorry sorry i’ll shut up now

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tamayokny · 7 months

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Kokonoi Hajime is, truthfully, not a character I initially liked in Tokyo Revengers. While he grew onto me in the later manga, I actually find that the anime adaptation of his backstory makes me appreciate him more. Like it gave me a clear understanding of his values and how his grief has twisted everything in his. I won’t say anything else because I don’t want to spoil later plot points, but Kokonoi’s journey is important for him (and Inupi). I’m glad I can appreciate it now than I originally did back in 2021-22.

#Mads makes a text post #Tokyo Revengers #hajime kokonoi #tokrev spoilers #but also lol I love how his love/infatuation for Akane warped him #it’s a…fave trope of mine for any character #but also man that is SO sad #like he really held onto his promise to protect her but in the end he felt like he failed her #and that can mean SO many things in a proper literary analysis!

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catilinas · 2 years

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Martin Dinter, Anatomizing Civil War: Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique

#GUARANTEES HIS AFTERLIFE. THROUGH EXCERPTABILITY.#immortality BUT you have to get chopped up about it #ouurfjbddgjjfsgkkhdwdvjut. cringe literary immortality i am being cut into little pieces at my fail monument more lasting than bronze.#and ovid is there also.#lucan #pharsalia #beeps

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historicallyinaccuratejomarch · 1 year

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Katharine McGee needs to stop trying to redeem Daphne here. I'm a Daphne stan because she's morally repugnant not because she has a secret emotional side

#majesty #american royals #katharine mcgee #the void's a nerd #i dont read this book for complexity. i read it because it's the literary equivalent of popcorn #this girl drugged her best friend #causing her to fall down a flight of stairs #and spend multiple months in a coma.#she's horrible i love her #i dont feel bad for her when she fails to blackmail the LITERAL QUEEN OF AMERICA #i simply thing 'wow daphne try harder next time'#'girlboss a little harder'#she gets so sad when everyone is like 'wow daphne you literally do not care about anyone but yourself'#YEAH BESTIE! YOU DON'T! THATS WHAT MAKES THIS SO FUN

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weed-cat · 10 months

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kinda cringe to shit on self dxed people unprompted

how dare you say I piss on the poor

#looking at you soulfully in the eyes and telling you as a generalization #that usually white women on tiktok who say neurospicy and diagnosed themselves with ADHD at age 19 #regardless of whether or not they have adhd #AS A GENERALIZATION #were not weird and ostracized and utterly failed by the system enough that their parents or school counselor sent them to see someone #and thusly have an experience with disability that isnt even close to comparable #to a disabled person who's entire life has to be worked around their disability and the barriers it presents #like 20 year old skinny white woman influencer serial number 3825 who takes ritalin to clean her room #and gets 3.7m likes on a 15 second long tiktok about the lemon water she drinks on 'overstimulation days'#is NOT gonna say SHIT to my 8 inpatient hospitalizations and disability benefits about being ~neurospicy~#is her experience real? probably.#does it give her more than like 2% more credibility about accessibility issues than like. your neurotypical uncle?#no absolutely fucking not #imho #anyway i love seeing all the reading comprehension on this here site that is so famous for its genius in literary analysis 😍😍😍

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grimm-the-tiger · 11 months

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Fallen London attended the “Don’t bury your gays but make them SUFFER” school of writing and you can tell.

#fallen london #bury your gays #i realized this when i was writing a whole-ass literary analysis #on the irony of the fate of Gilgamesh in the original story and in Fallen London #and then realized technically the first mate and captain of aigul are queer?#idk we don't know the first mate's gender so maybe #by default if the pronouns of a Fallen London character aren't mentioned I just assume they're nonbinary #and if you fail the stupid hearts check it turns into bury your gays #but there's more good ways to end that storyline than bad so it counts #but yeah pick a random queer romance in FL and there's about a 50/50 chance it went badly for at least one of the parties involved #the same rule applies for the straights too though so I'm not too mad

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