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Fae; literature grad student; reformed christian; too many fandoms; I write occasionally...
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Star Wars literally took inspiration from real life political events and wars and politicians YET…I still have to endure people going like “bUt iT iS fOr kIdS” every day on this god awful website in response to a well written thoughtfull analyses and essays about characters. My eight year old cousin has a better take on these movies than all of you while you people shield your anti intellectualism under statements that insult his intelligence and act like you’re morally superior for that
Indeed. And even the more mythic ‘fairytale’ aspects of Lucas’ Star Wars still invite interesting analysis. The combination of space fantasy with real world political analogues set against the backdrop of a spiritual/emotional/psychological exploration of the fall and redemption of the human soul is what, in my opinion, makes the Skywalker saga so compelling. But I often get the feeling that this is all somehow too much for contemporary fandom to handle, so they just dismiss it entirely.
It's unfortunate because nearly two decades after the PT x OT saga was completed, it still doesn't recieve nearly as much academic level analysis as it should. Some of that is no doubt because the Disney crap has gotten in the way of audiences' interest in and undertanding of the original six Lucas films. But just because some people these days want to dismiss 'Star Wars' as a whole as meaningless doesn't make it actually true. And since when did something being 'geared towards children' mean it wasn't possible to analyse it on a deeper level? On tumblr of all places where some fans make children's cartoons their entire personality, you'd think people would be a little more open minded to this possibility...
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the two moods, and there is no in between!
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so much of being an ok person is just 1) not panicking, 2) not taking things personally, and 3) not letting the vindictive gargoyle that lives in your head tell you what to do. this sucks because brains love doing those things
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it should be illegal to take a nap and still have a headache when you wake up. like no i shut it off and back on again why are you still here
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charlottan
my favorite song is "Intro" and my favorite album is "Greatest Hits" and my favorite tv episode is "Pilot" and every midnight a deliicate raven flies in through the window and puts me to bed so I can have my scarydream
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I want you to write for pleasure—to play. Just listen to the sounds and rhythms of the sentences you write and play with them, like a kid with a kazoo. This isn’t “free writing,” but it’s similar in that you’re relaxing control: you’re encouraging the words themselves—the sounds of them, the beats and echoes—to lead you on. For the moment, forget all the good advice that says good style is invisible, good art conceals art. Show off! Use the whole orchestra our wonderful language offers us! Write it for children, if that’s the way you can give yourself permission to do it. Write it for your ancestors. Use any narrating voice you like. If you’re familiar with a dialect or accent, use it instead of vanilla English. Be very noisy, or be hushed. Try to reproduce the action in the jerky or flowing movement of the words. Make what happens happen in the sounds of the words, the rhythms of the sentences. Have fun, cut loose, play around, repeat, invent, feel free.
Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering The Craft
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we need to take classic literature away from hollywood film directors.. u can have this back when u have learned how to use it responsibly
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Bro stop making me think abt percabeth i’ll cry
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Monkey bread 🤢
Reported
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But there was a period of friction, when “hello” was spreading beyond its summoning origins to become a general-purpose greeting, and not everyone was a fan. I was reminded of this when watching a scene in the BBC television series Call the Midwife, set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, where a younger midwife greets an older one with a cheerful “Hello!” “When I was in training,” sniffs the older character, “we were always taught to say ‘good morning,’ ‘good afternoon,’ or ‘good evening.’ ‘Hello’ would not have been permitted.” To the younger character, “hello” has firmly crossed the line into a phatic greeting. But to the older character, or perhaps more accurately to her instructors as a young nurse, “hello” still retains an impertinent whiff of summoning. Etiquette books as late as the 1940s were still advising against “hello,” but in the mouth of a character from the 1960s, being anti-hello is intended to make her look like a fussbudget, especially playing for an audience of the future who’s forgotten that anyone ever objected to “hello.”
Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch
Posts that remind me to nerd out about the intricacies of historical fiction writing
This isn't historical fiction, but period fiction, but I remember having a jarring OH reaction when discovering something that's just a standard part of English now was less than a hundred years old by reading a book. the book was Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers, published in 1930, and in the first chapter a judge is speaking:
‘It is not necessary for him, or her, to prove innocence; it is, in the modern slang phrase, “up to” the Crown to prove guilt...’
There are several particularly good examples of this in books by Frances Hodgson Burnett, who lived in both the UK and the US and several times depicts characters from those two places encountering each other. For example, The Shuttle was published in 1907 and has this delightful passage of two British characters encountering an American:
“Upon my word,” Mr. Penzance commented, and his amiable fervour quite glowed, “I like that queer young fellow—I like him. He does not wish to 'butt in too much.' Now, there is rudimentary delicacy in that. And what a humorous, forceful figure of speech! Some butting animal—a goat, I seem to see, preferably—forcing its way into a group or closed circle of persons.” His gleeful analysis of the phrase had such evident charm for him that Mount Dunstan broke into a shout of laughter, even as G. Selden had done at the adroit mention of Weber & Fields. “Shall we ride over together to see him this morning? An hour with G. Selden, surrounded by the atmosphere of Reuben S. Vanderpoel, would be a cheering thing,” he said. “It would,” Mr. Penzance answered. “Let us go by all means. We should not, I suppose,” with keen delight, “be 'butting in' upon Lady Anstruthers too early?” He was quite enraptured with his own aptness. “Like G. Selden, I should not like to 'butt in,'” he added.
And the more I see historical examples of people encountering novel expressions that are utterly unremarkable to us now, the more I think, you know what, I might as well approach language change with gleeful delight rather than a fussbudgety sniff.
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i love you alive girl. don’t you ever forget it
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i cannot emphasize how necessary it is to have a buddy to participate in fandom with. completely elevated experience. don't have a buddy? find someone you like and message them and be their friend. gush over every sketch and drabble and insane headcanon they have. live life to the fullest.
beginning of another 16wks … pray for me
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i think im getting better! :) [another event occurs]
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Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953