#like the same committee

[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)

[introspectivememories]

every time the red-hair pirates get a new crew member, benn sits them down for a Talk. rules of the ship, what kind of behavior is expected, what kind of behavior is tolerated, and what kind of behavior will get you keelhauled. near the end of the talk, benn lays down the 3 most important rules:

there is nothing i can do about the homoerotic relationship capt has with the clown

trust in capt always. even if he doesn't look like it, capt has plan. believe always.

there is nothing you can do about the homoerotic relationship capt has with the clown

and as always, the newbie gets it into their head that they can fix capt and the clown and sets up some convoluted plan to get the two back together again. and as always it fails because capt and the clown will dead and rotting in the ground before they ever Talk to each other properly. benn needs a fucking pay raise.

#benn needs hazard pay #bc the amount of time shanks spends mooning over buggy is truly insane #the newbie always tries and it always fails. benn doesn't understand why they don't listen to him #over on the big top #mohji/cabaji are giving the same fucking talk #funniest possible outcome is the impel down prisoners trying to get shanks and buggy back together #they hold meetings and have a president for their 'make capt buggy happy!!!' committee #meanwhile back on the red force #the communications department is ???? on why notorious mass-murderers are calling asking about what kind of flowers capt likes??? #benn beckman #akagami no shanks #shanks one piece #op shanks #buggy the clown #buggy one piece #op buggy #shanks x buggy #shuggy

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

Scala’s beloved, age 25 😊 (he probably wears this til his late 30s, give or take)

[original concept/sketch]

#khux #ephemer #my art #finally got around to polishing this design bc I’m making a fit compilation post! 😁 #(with notes of course~) #I like to think he has his first kid at 25 (which is insane to me personally but hey lots of people have kids around this age) #he’s got a pocket dedicated to baby distraction items (totally not old stim toys being reused haha) #pls don’t ask me to draw the robe from the back lmaoo I made it so difficult for myself with those cutouts #anyway. I love him. have a good day <3 #my posts #timeless child #overmorrow #<- the fit’s the same in overmorrow verse; he’s still got the committee and sea glass pins on his bag

[utilitycaster]

As a frequent "ugh, fanon," person it's not that I don't like non-canonical character designs or interpretations as a concept. I love unique and creative ideas about fictional characters that are informed by canon but diverge from it in interesting ways that build upon the original vision! I almost never see this in fanon.

#this is about a bunch of things but rn i'm thinking about halfling tails...uninteresting repetitive pointless and in conflict with canon #more generally i get that fanworks are derivative by nature and that's the point but there's similar and there's The Same. #like. my beef with fanon is not ultimately one of HOW DARE YOU DEVIATE FROM THE HOLY WRIT #it's that it's often dull and poorly executed by people who are gathering around a single kind of stupid headcanon #there are many great individual headcanons out there but they almost never make it to fanon status #bc fanon is not a garden of many new interesting ideas. it's a single dirty pink flamingo haphazardly stabbed into the lawn. #99% of the time canon was better bc it wasn't passed through a committee that stripped it of anything interesting and made it reproducible #anyway follow for more musing on how i believe that while capitalism has DEFINITELY made art worse social media also has #most of my favorite creators end up being the ones who are either very offline or at least have very hard boundaries #and most of my favorite fan creators are involved in fandom but are also fanon (derogatory) people

[fishareglorious]

I think it still makes me laugh that Madam Z and Tennant share the same CN voice actor. i don't know what would be more funnier: a role swap or a personality swap between the two.

#reverse 1999 #madam z #tennant #actually madam z has the same eng and cn va too #while tennant has different cn and eng ones. which makes sense lmao imagine british woman having a audible chinese accent #i don't know tennant's cn voice though. someone check for it and tell me if it somehow sounds the same #like obviously they have different personas to play but can you pick out that they have the same va and all that #certified storm moments #in terms of role swap chapter 4 would just be damn funny. filibuster to pass the storm reformation draft? NO. just seduce the vice #president and some of the committee. somewhere in the world this random ass theoretical physicist has been wanted in several countries #for scamming rich people with diamonds. how does z do it? fuck if i know.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#ugh. im so tried. why is crying so exhausting? i havent done anything. this is bullshit #we went from a slow motion breakdown to full on freakout meltdown today #luckily no one was around in the lab this morning bc i couldnt stop crying #so i went to the counseling center and made myself their problem #canceled my committee meeting. which everyone tells me is fine. its all fine #think about going home for a while they say. maybe tell ur dad ur having a bad time thry say #but im so tired. and i dont kno what to do and its all falling apart #i just feel like im brushing up against the limits of what i can do intellectually and its like well where do i go from here? #what do i do with my old data? how do i move my project forward? whats the point of any of this? #why did i put myself in this position? would taking a leave even help? id still have to come back to the same mess #its just so frustrating bc theres no solution ill find satisfying. everything just sucks. #idk what my advisor even told my committee. bc we were supposed to meet tomorrow morning. ugh. it would have been so bad #it also sucks bc im so drained that i can just feel my own weight when im trying to talk to ppl #like u kno when ur being a wet blanket but u dont kno how to fix it. like srry my vibes r wretched. maybe im just stuck like this #i dunno. my dad invited us home for a week in july and also plans to come out to visit me in August. but that seems like a long time away #i dunno what im gonna do. what a disaster #unrelated

[chuuyrr]

ok so my crush who just so happens to be the head of the committee i am just dm'ed and asked if i could do something but he first asked if its ok twice and then reassured me for tomorrow because i was gonna take part in a chemistry-themed game for our faculty's week

#niki says ⊹ 𓂃 ｡ ‧ ₊ #the way i folded #PLS HE'S SUCH A GREEN FLAG #am i delulu but like of all the other officers why me? #why does he pm me #he doesn't pm my friend who is the same committee as me who's free too #PLS AM I?? #ok i will shut up because HSJWJDHSJW #“got love-struck went straight to my head” FRFR #of course i hella did the task #but the words of affirmation after?? when i told him i was nervous for tomorrow #HHHHHH DAMN

[leonardcohenofficial]

having a brief emotional breakdown over phil ochs and antonin artaud and the ways the pathologization of what we call madness and the failures of capitalism doomed these men yeah the writing process is clearly going well 

#most of this emotionality can be blamed on being on my period but van gogh the man suicided by society is a text that continues to haunt #me and like. as much as i am very proud of my research and am compelled to dedicate hundreds of hours of labor to exploring these #topics i just. sometimes the heaviness of my work really gets to me. which is hard to explain to my committee and hard to actually #acknowledge in my chapters themselves #thinking a lot about desiring production (in the D&G way) and foucault's madness and civilization and brecht and artaud being two sides of #the same coin and the fact that phil and artaud were both extremely haunted individuals but their attempts to explode their way out of what #haunted them failed and the fact that during his final performance of all time phil wore the hat that bob dylan wears on the cover of #desire and the artaud quote from van gogh that states 'no one has ever written or painted sculpted modeled built invented except to get out #of hell' #anyways! #*~more to talk about in therapy~*

[quirinah]

recent twitter nintamas…

#firm believer in letting monjirou have a good nights sleep for once #quirinahdraws #nintama rantarou #nintama #忍たま乱太郎 #rkrn #sketchdump #digital #tragically. i have become growth paropilled #kingo does the split a boulder in half thingy a la that scene from kny and he gets asked by an underclassmen how he did it #he gets flashbacks to that time he saw koheita do it and tried to figure out what tactic it was LOLOLOL #i am also. the 1nens taking on the weapons of their former chairmen pilled #i really like the hc that heita is still kind of timid as a 6th year but gets mean when he’s scared #like how shadou is sort of meek until he gets freaked out #the idea of takiyashamaru running the pe committee without the intenseness of koheita to balance him out sounds. interesting lol #miki is the same albeit a bit crankier. it’s funny that shioe does the whole sit in water with the abacus thingy #because it’s apparently training for holding firearms in water…feels like a skill miki would appreciate a lot later as a pronin LOL #GRGGGRGRGRGEGRGGRR KAIKEI IINKAI… GRRAGGRGRGRGHH… #minamoto kingo #yamamura kisanta #tamura mikiemon #hatsushima magojirou #shimosakabe heita #katou danzou #ningyou sakichi #kanzaki samon #shioe monjirou

[vesperas-mirrors]

got 13/15 on my spanish quiz :D

#non fandom content #life updates #though i did not become part of the class committee #i still achieved something #yes i made a few careless mistakes like conjugating 'despertar' to 'me diesperto' instead of 'me despierto' #i keep making the same mistake #but thats ok

[pepprs]

update i have to apply for my own job for the SECOND time in two years by wednesday and im taking my learners permit test on friday which means i have to finish absorbing the drivers manual by then. the way i am LONGING to walk into traffic.

#the driving thing is just extra stress but the applying for my own job AGAIN thing is making me absofuckingLUTELY insane. this process was #so psychically damaging for me to go through a year ago and the fact that exactly a year later i am doing it again and have to jump thru all #the same hoops and write a new cover letter and find new references and INTERVIEW with my colleagues and all that… like i appreciate this so #much bc basically what is happening is im getting a raise and will be converted to a regular employee (im contractual rn bc that’s all they #could do when i graduated). but like the fact that i am once again under the MORTIFYING psychic stress of my colleagues being the search #committee and me being u able to talk to them abt this or get reassurance and them having to treat me like they don’t know me and this not #being guaranteed and other people potentially applying and me having to compete with them… it is too much fucking stress for me to go #through. it’s just too fucking much. i am so mentally and emotionally exhausted and now i have to walk through fire AGAIN⁉️⁉️⁉️ i wanna KMS #like it’s fine. but also the existential dreaddddd the way i cannot bear to live through this one more time but i have to and im going to. 😍 #purrs #delete later #like i get it and i know it’s to make it fair and equitable. but whyyyyy do they have to put me through this again have i not proven myself #time and time again is this job not QUITE LITERALLY designed for me to be in it. and it’s not merely an annoyance it’s like… actively a #stressor that is taking years off my life just like it did last year and the timeline is even more accelerated bc last year i had two weeks #to apply and this time i have FIVE DAYS!!!!! and i have to reach out to references and i can’t do that until monday bc it’s the weekend 😭😭😭😭 #like LMFOAHDHSKDHSODHAJJB of course this is happening to meeeeee im going fucking insane. also i might have to do this a THIRD time someday #and i would have to get a masters degree for that too. so basically the only path forward is CEASELESS suffering and psychic agony. there is #no hope for women. fuck my stupid baka life. but also this is a good thing and also i have it sooooo good which is soooo unfair to everyone #else for example possibly wasting everyone else’s time who applies for this job. but also fuck my stupid baka life. #technically im applying for this job for the second time in 365 days. like it’s not even two years it’s that i did this a year ago and now a #year later im doing it again. LESS than a year later. it hasn’t even been a full year yet. help 😻👍 #if february 9 2022 me fucking knew what HORRORS awaited her 24 hours from then and 3 months from then and 5 months from then and 15 months f #from then. she would have imploded LMFAOOOOOOOO

[blackstarising]

i don't think i can fully express like. just how deeply irritated i am comparing all of the other female characters' designs with asha's. watching disney be HIGHLY capable of adding variation to character design but knowing they'll never make any of these women the lead And Knowing Full Well Why. like brennan lee mulligan voice SO WE DO MAKE FOOD HERE. SO WE DO MAKE FOOD.

#adwoa blahs #how does asha look so Made By Committee and yet everyone else looks so fun????? #like just change ONE thing about asha. make her hair loose. visible scars. messier freckles give me SOMETHING #i thought we were past Same Face (and body) syndrome i'm UPSET!!!! #idk how to tag this bc i don't wanna be rude in the main tag but oughhhhh

[ms-hells-bells]

coco and claireclaire are on another planet

#and i couldn't even give you 'you look like you're in the blue lives committee' because the song doesn't have lyrics on spotify #same song also has 'looking like mark zuckerberg smelling like kentucky'

[neverbesokind]

Last year I worked as a teaching assistant for a journalism camp and because they had fewer students last year they ended up expanding my duties because they had a group of students wanting to learn about opinion writing that was too small to justify hiring official faculty for it... I was willing to do it because I love opinion writing and it ended up being the case that all I had to do was take the opinion kids from a larger feature writing group occasionally. Plus, they called me ahead of time and worked it out with me and so I was prepared and it was fine!

I return this year and they say nothing to me, so I assumed my role is going back to normal bc they have way more kids this year and thus could hire more full time faculty but I learn like a week ago they expect me to do the same thing but with double the number of kids for the same shitty student pay 🫠

#I feel like an idiot lol I guess I shouldn't have helped them last year??? #the worst part is the director of the camp is on my thesis committee and I love her and I don't want to cross her #but this is shitty?? #I hope I'm wrong and it's going to be the same amount of work but I have a bad feeling about next week :( #shh gilly

[rincewindsapprentice]

Two minor things I wish were a bit clearer to people about the American political system:

Lawmakers will often propose bills that have no hope of passing in order to make a political statement, appeal to a specific electoral demographic, or appeal to their donors/lobbyists. Just because a super progressive or absurdly fascist bill is proposed does not automatically mean it will leave committee (i.e., will not face a full vote) or even have a hope of passing.

The FDIC is funded entirely by banks themselves. It is insurance, after all. Taxpayers only indirectly fund it by having their money in a bank. The recent "bailouts" of Silicon Valley Bank and the other failures were to cover the deposits of clients not to bail out the bank. Those deposits were more than covered by the large amount of money the FDIC has been able to accumulate over the years. While deposits above $250,000 aren't automatically guaranteed by the FDIC, they can still be covered if the FDIC has the money. It is, once again, insurance after all.

#the first I think a lot of trans people need to recognize #mostly so we don't completely burn ourselves out over every single anti-trans bills #because most won't pass committee! #the second is specifically about the FDIC and its role #I think most people (including me a few weeks ago) don't understand how it works #also the NCUA is the alternative insurance for credit unions that works the same way #also SVB and the other failed banks are actively seeking buyers of their banks #this is not like 2008

[hell-propaganda]

That “tepid take from a gay Satanist” person was unintentionally funnier than I will ever be. I will NEVER be tired of Christians admitting they agree with me and being pissed off about it

#not nearly only the same level but this is the shit that got my ‘judicial committee hearing’ shut down #the elders just refused to debate things further with me #straight up acknowledged I could probably a win a few of those arguments and so they just stopped instead #I was still there for like three hours but whatever #in a war of attrition I will win. #my posts #religion