#was marginally different

[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)

[taxinealkaloids]

behold hitherto unposted htn doodles! harrow+her terrible mentor, harrow+her terrible roommate

#tlt #my art #these were unfinished which i thought was a shame so i sort slapped some colors nd background stuff on them and now here they are. #top one soooo old but i still liked it and didnt want to condemn it to a fate of sitting in my wip folder forever and ever #bottom ones are more recent; they were scattered throughout the margins of a bunch of different wips and i grouped them together #in this one canvas so i could post them cause i like em. im charmed by soup bowl harrow w/ her normal pajamas. she would probably #not wear that. #ive been thinking abt harrianthe a lot lately i want to post about them more but i can't finish anything lately #not cause im artblocked or anything i'm fine in that respect i just have no free time 💀

[rustedrocket]

shadow should really be #1 on the list of "people who shouldn't be startled"

#sonadow #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #yes i differ from adventure 2 in this opinion #and yes i know this is the equivalent of a doodle sloppily scribbled over with gel pens in the margins of a sketchbook #that is what my sketchbook art actually looks like and i'm too sleepy to put in any more effort this weekend #enjoy my slop <333

[batbabydamian]

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#damian wayne #margin doodles from different wips that i may never finish if i keep trying to clean these up LOL #first Damians of the year!! one of my goals this year is to finish a single animation with him and also TRY to loosen up on lineart 😭 #batbabyart

[isolatedcorner]

40+ post canon zosan au where they become this notorious pirate duo and get executed together. They bicker the entire walk from the dungeons to the execution stage and even silently engage in a “who takes the last breath” contest (zoro dies 1 second after sanji does)

P.S. what if eventually their bounty poster just becomes combined like the Dorry/Broggy one OR even better: you actually get extra reward for capturing them both bc the marines know just capturing one of them will result in the other bailing them out within a day

#I’ve always found their 1% difference super funny #like zoro is 1cm taller than sanji 1% stronger than sanji marginally older than sanji #zosan #one piece #stew watches op #black leg sanji #roronoa zoro

[roman-roy-apologist]

yeah ok i get it you don’t think transandrophobia exists but you do realize that it’s still bad to be shitty to transmascs right? you get that right?

#like you don’t get to be transphobic just bc you say ‘well they’re men so men can’t be oppressed’ #as if if there is never any intersection of identities that includes being a man #like first think of gay/bi men they experience a different kind of oppression than queer women do and it would be idiotic to argue that #them being men has NOTHING to do with the oppression they face #and then there’s black and brown men who are constantly painted as scary and violent in news and media and are disproportionately killed #by police officers #and you’re telling me that has NOTHING to do with how their identities intersect between being a POC and a man. ok #it makes no sense to me because look #obviously we live under the patriarchy which systematically oppressed women as well as anyone who deviates from #the cisheteronormative white masculine ideals and i’m by no means trying to say that ‘men have it harder’ #it just seems a bit ingenuine to argue that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES CAN A MAN FACE OPPRESSION DUE TO THE INTERSECTION OF ANOTHER #MARGINALIZED IDENTITY #transandrophobia #transgender #transmasc #trans masc #trans man #transphobia

[stil-lindigo]

i just wanted an excuse to draw him with piercings lol

prints

#our flag means death #our flag means gay #i was actually supposed to post sometign else today but this called to me #idk even man like honestly speaking this modern aus only differences are that he puts his hair up more #he has piercings #and he has marginally higher standards for personal hygiene #oh also the motorbike #i will never pass up on an opportunity to show his belly btw #hes a gift #thank you taika #stillindigo art #edward teach #blackbeard #blackbonnet #ofmd

[skitskatdacat63]

Different techniques

#i refuse to elaborate #you can reasonably guess what im thinking 🙏 #something something ******* #anyways this brings about more timeswap au ideas in my head #aaahhhhh could you imagine their rookie selves meeting each other??? #or their wdc era selves meeting esch other????? #<- actually that one I think abt soooo muvh and i will draw it at some point #i think a lot abt how much they parallel and mirror each other #but at different points yknow? their storylines are just marginally shifted from each other #so what would it be like if they met one another while both in the same 'plot point' #i.e. 2006 nando and 2011 seb. 2012 nando and 2017 seb. etc etc. #sorry this is getting too sappy and deep for a [redacted] joke poet #*post #f1 #formula 1 #sebastian vettel #fernando alonso #vettonso

[mnemonicmew]

* Slams Motley Oc on table *

I’m a smidge late but everyone look at my girl Bienenstich.

Wanna be fashion designer with big ambitions currently in the middle of trying to make that her full time job. She’s based on the german cake Bienenstich (literal translation being Beesting I like both versions so I flip flop between them a bit) She’s very sweet even if she’s pretty stubborn.

Anyways go check out @syrupyyyart ‘s motley, it has been living in my head rent free.

#fanart #motley crew #fan oc #my art #I'm indecisive so have an array of only marginally different outfits

[butterflyinthewell]

A reminder:

Proship in fandom doesn’t mean liking all pairings or only liking really gross morally badwrong pairings. It means you don’t harass people for what they ship no matter how much you hate it.

It means you say “Ew” to yourself and block to avoid things you don’t want to see.

Someone ships a ship you think is disgusting? Fine! Block them! Now it’s gone. Buh-bye!

Yes, this applies to any pairings, don’t give me any “except for” or “unless it’s” crap. No excuses!

Proship has never meant condoning criminal acts or abuse irl.

If a proshipper sees a real life person in an abusive situation that matches to something they read or wrote in a fanfic, they won’t sit and think it’s sexy, they will be appalled and try to help the person escape.

The key here is proship means fiction is fiction and observing what someone engages with is not the only way to judge their moral character.

Because if that were true, why are fantis who engage with wholesome fandoms some of the most cruel, hateful people on the internet?

How come all their rage is towards sex and never looks twice at violence? They’re fine with violence until there’s sex involved, then all of a sudden it’s wrong. Fantis don’t speak on violence because they know they condone it and attacking it will rip apart all their baseless accusations and arguments.

Btw fanti arguments look identical to transphobic conservative arguments. Think about that. And I see so many of them do it with trans pride flags in their bios. 🙄

If a site gives you options to filter out content you don’t want to see and you won’t use them, and choose instead to harass people because you’re mad that your NOTP is everywhere, you’re nothing but a pathetic bully who brings nothing of value to fandom anywhere.

Btw, just an aside, I hate most of the same ships fantis hate and I don’t make that creators’ problems. I block and move on. I defend content I abhor in fiction because I know censorship will trash works by queer and marginalized people first.

Censorship is a steamroller, not scalpel.

Just look at what queerphobic conservatives are doing to queer content in schools and libraries. We don’t need that in fandom too. Get outta here with that.

#proship #fandom discourse #abuse mention #btw mass media is a bit different #because there is stuff out there that harms disabled and marginalized people #movies like Music for example #or movies with bigoted depictions of marginalized people #that’s the crap you should get mad at #not someone’s weird niche fanfic #ffs

[giro-revuescope]

Ryuu Masaki as Hamlet and Itsumine Aki as Gertrude.

(Hamlet!! stage photo, 2010)

#takarazuka #ryuu masaki #itsumine aki #i don't know something came over me the second i saw this and then it was in my hands at the register #if anyone is wondering i did the math and this is an only marginally exaggerated age difference for these roles

[uncanny-tranny]

I think when people talk about things like desirability, they can miss the deeper point of why it can be important to analyze why people are seen as undesirable. It isn't just that a type of person is just... not hot... but often, it's the dehumanization of a person based on marginalized features.

For instance, I had a conversation with somebody about disability portrayal in media, and we had agreed that, historically, disability had been portrayed as a horrific ordeal. However, I think they missed the point as to why the "undesirable disabled" character was so appealing to a broader audience. The idea that disability is other, inhuman, and something that depersonalizes somebody from society is partly why those ideas were and are prevalent in mainstream media and culture. It is the idea that "nobody likes you. Nobody needs you. Nobody wants you" because of the person's marginalized body or experience or whatever it may be.

It isn't some superficial "oh why aren't I seen as pretty by everybody?" It is the knowledge that you are portrayed as undesirable in this way because it is a way to separate you from everybody else. It isn't about beauty, nor is it a selfish desire to be wanted by somebody. It is the desire to be seen as a person - an equal, regardless of who desires you or who does not.

#beauty culture #desirability politics #ableism #ableism tw #i brought up media but it doesn't solely apply to that and the same with disability #i just thought the conversation perfectly encapsulated my frustration with how people interact with desirability #because some people go at it with the assumption that it is shallow and vapid and vain to want to have people change their perspective... #...about how they view a marginalized status #like when trans people have criticism of desirability favouring cisnormativity fot instance - people assume it is vapid and vain... #..but it is us asking to be seen as PEOPLE even *if* we aren't fucking ~desirable~ by everybody. your desires shouldn't impact us like that #our lives shouldn't hinge on us fighting to be seen as human beings - we shouldn't need to fight tooth and fucking nail for it #i've been thinking about that conversation for a while now and it's kind of nice to somewhat flesh out my problems with it all #i have no ill-will to the person i was talking to and about. we just went at the premise in different ways and i have different ideas #i don't think the person is Bad and Horrible. i think that they AND i are impacted by this and we have different experiences

[briviting]

idk my bff rose

#''I'm gonna draw my ocs often!!'' (hasn't drawn one for 3 months and the other for 6) #I got a little carried away w/ the different electronics now it looks like a series of them annoying each other over multiple decades #it was supposed to be a bunch of loose drawings and their tech is just anachronistic and weird #gala's familiarity w/ internet dialects and tone tags is an outlier for how ''in-touch'' he is. they're only marginally more hip than kludg #he talks somehow like a mix of a contemporary teen and a polite formal email from a middle-aged relative #kludge? entirely dry letter writing/prose. all lowercase tho. #why would a totally sapient person who knows the purpose of stitches and not to mess w/ them need a recovery cone? well. gala is impulsive #hence needing stitches #ocs #kludge oc #gala oc #art attag #eye strain #maybeee #LMAO oops that was a placeholder caption I forgot I uploaded it like that. ah well I'm keeping it

[klavery]

i adore this post and wanted to make something cute in my scrapbook inspired by it

both handmade notepads only have 3 pages (as to not bulk up my scrapbook more than it already is). they are glued to the inside of scrapbook but the left side of the asexual notepad is not glued so the aromantic one can be flipped on top of it and opened. ill probably update when i actually write down some aro and ace things to do!

#scrapbooking #aromantic #asexual #aroace #if i had to change anything i would have cut the lined paper to where the margins were closer to the edge #and used a different hole punch if i had one. the one i have is diamond shaped for some reason and doesnt work very well #also i didnt have any purple washi tape or purple yarn so. aroace colors it was #hollyposts #mine

[itswhatyougive]

Those paying attention know that ST4 was the gayest season yet.

#all around the most explicitly gay season yet #i say this even with the campiness that was st3 #sure there was queerness in the prior seasons #but this season had SO. MUCH. #the duffers are starting to show their hand #it was always a show for the different and marginalized #byler #ronance #steddie #elmax #stranger things #queerer things #gayer things #st4 rewatch #straightbaiting #anti milkvan #anti stancy #st4 #st 4 #stranger things 4

[followingrose]

there are so many not hot takes when it comes to reactions about First Kill being cancelled, but saying something like it’s “okay” that it got cancelled because it “wasn’t very good” and we “need better rep anyways” is just…not it. So many people have pointed out that plenty of “not very good” shows get renewed all the time, and people clearly don’t bat an eye

you did not have to like First Kill. Of course you didn’t. But using that opinion as a basis for why we should “calm down” about it being cancelled just screams tone-deaf. Pls listen to the BIPOC community about why this show matters. Pls listen to the LESBIAN BIPOC community about why this show matters.

saying “I’m sorry you’re upset your show got cancelled but it wasn’t very good anyways” is just another way of saying “no offense, but” and then saying something offensive. And we need to be better than that.

#different stories matter to different people and that’s GREAT #but please don’t use your personal opinion about the show as some sort of conversation starter to get people to stop being mad or whatever #ya know??? like you can not like something and still appreciate and respect the effect it had for its community #ESPECIALLY a marginalized community #and again—dumb campy shows with bad effects get renewed all the time. why couldn’t the lesbians have this one???? #im so tired and sad #first kill #delete later