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my sexual fantasy Is to have someone notice my absence and wonder about me

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briannyssey

some people read an awful lot, but don't read very well. deep reading is itself a skill. being able to untangle the threads of theme, subtext, characterization, narrative style, and more are all things that it takes time and intentional engagement to learn.

if you've ever watched a movie with your film buff friend and chatted about it afterwards, that friend might have pulled hours more of conversation out of the same 90 minutes of screentime, and wondered how the fuck they did that - it's not raw intelligence, it's a skill that's been honed. And I learned a lot about film from talking to friends who knew about film, and reading critique by film scholars

literature works exactly the same. so if you want to get more out of your reading, there are things you can do to train that. Find a book or short story you think you've got a pretty good grasp on, preferably from a widely read & respected author like Ursula K Le Guin or Ray Bradbury (if you're new at this don't swing for the Toni Morrison or the Samuel Beckett yet unless you feel very comfortable with the complexity of the text - the point is to develop a complicated new skill on good foundations). Then go to JSTOR, create a free account, and look up criticism on the story you've chosen. Find something that looks readable to you and at least somewhat interesting. Read that article, and look at what that writer got out of the same story you've read that you didn't get. Do you see the critic's points? Did they teach you something about the text? Go reread that story and see if the criticism has changed how you read it. Are you seeing more? Are you thinking about the implications of a line that you hadn't noticed before? Does the story feel richer now?

there are other more involved ways of finding criticism. Learning to use academic databases, going to your local library to do interlibrary loans, finding critical voices you appreciate; these are all useful subskills. Literacy isn't just being able to read words, it's being able to read words in context and think about what they tell you about the text, the author, or the time and culture in which the text was produced. Literacy is the skill of being able to look at the world with open eyes and think clearly about how its parts are connected. It'll change your life

briannyssey

this keeps getting shared around and ive seen some different tags responding differently so i just want to make some important clarifications and distillations

you don't have to read more deeply if you don't want to (but i'd recommend it, i genuinely think it makes you a better person)

if you want to learn to read more deeply, the resources are out there. try to find critical literature (that is, academic writing that analyzes the text) on works your familiar with so you can get a sense for how to do that analysis too

learning to deep read literature can help you deep read many areas of your life

writers tend to put a lot of work into their stories. if you learn to read that work you'll (probably) appreciate the stories you love even more. And if not, then you'll have developed your taste. This too is worth doing

ashlgcostumes

I pull up my slide show. The first slide says “I do not want to financially support the Church of the Latter Day Saints in any way”. There are murmurs of agreement and approval from the room

Next slide. “Brandon Sanderson is a member of the LDS”. The muttering has changed tone

“It’s not a very big amount of money though.” Someone in the audience pipes up. “His cut is only a small fraction of the cost of the book, and then-“ my next slide shows an income breakdown, it is titled ‘a small fraction of $10,000,000 is still a big number’

I’m sweating. The following slides explain tithing rules. The vibe of the room has shifted. I start to doubt I’m getting out of here alive

fuckblast

elbiotipo

todo muy lindo la pasé bien* pero así no llegamos contra Inglaterra, menos contra Francia o España eh, no nos hagan pasar más papelones

*9 infartos

#[agarrando a los argentinos del cuello] DO NOT BLOW THIS FOR US

the island wants tom loftis carnally and i can prove it

made sure tom met lauren just at the right time when his dad was dying and nothing else would keep him on widow’s bay (and made sure lauren had a baby, to boot)

sent the most charming ghost in the breakwater inn that flattered him just right to unburden himself but also didn’t let that ghost kill him

straight up had the sea hag try to smother him in pussy

#can’t wait for s2 to prove me right #widow’s bay #tom loftis #fandom

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is the island a fungal colony or a cephalopod

fungal colony

cephalopod

some secret third thing

Remaining time: 6 days 15 hours

#widow's bay #fandom

itsplasma

In a world where Widow's Bay has wifi, Evan receives several texts to the tune of this while Tom is tripping on the evil mushrooms

#SCREAM #widow's bay #fandom

demilypyro

honestly I think I lost a lot of faith in humanity when hogwarts legacy happened. thousands of people heard "jkr is transphobic" and didn't think that was enough reason to not buy a mediocre videogame and it became a runaway success. it was such a basic show of decency and it was too much. return the shopping cart ass dilemma. I'm a misanthrope now

legov7

That was really disturbing, and also extremely confusing to me. I genuinly started to question if many people just don't know anything about the world and the context in which the media they consume is made.

"Rowlings transphobia is extremely well known" I always thought, because HOW THE FUCK COULD YOU MISS IT?? And yet I have met multiple people that mentioned playing the game. And they didn't even admit to transphobia, or tried to vaguely gesture towards some misunderstood death of the author concept, or defended JKR, they just mentioned the game like it was the most normal thing to do.

nate-the--not-so--great

the amount of people who also KNEW explicity that jkr is a transphobe and chose to just, like, not care, and play that game anyway, is astounding. i lost friends i thought were good friends because they were chill just ignoring her blatant transphobia, and i couldnt be around them anymore

inthetags

reblog and put in the tags the real reason you joined tumblr no matter how horrible or embarrassing it is

#a pretty girl forced me to make an account #i actually started using it bc one of my goodreads friends kept sharing tumblr links

alphacrone

patricia refreshing those RSVPs same energy as me refreshing my ao3 stats when i publish something new

#LITERALLY ME WITH MY LATEST FIC #widow's bay #fandom

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clementine-kesh

i can make any ship into a throuple

#talking about widow’s bay tom/lauren/the island in the dms…#<- it's me i'm the dms and also you're literally right #widow's bay #fandom

sonnetscrewdriver

you'd think I'd be excited about a new Robin Hood movie but it's fallen at the twin hurdles of marketing itself as 'The True Story Behind The Myth' (horseshit, stupid) and starring Hugh Jackman (piece of shit, in a cult).

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

For my money if anyone is going to talk about the True Story Behind the Myth they need to make that man North Walian

Fuck the rest of these I want to see Tudur Owen in the tights or we should ban Robin Hood

tlirsgender

Another dyke moment I had recently was when I was talking about how I quit dating men because I don't like them & die girlies were all like laughing along with me about it but one of them felt the need to be like "not that there's anything *wrong* with men-" and all I could think was like. Yes there is?

tlirsgender

This was in a group of queer women too but they're like pansexual and normal ykwim. I've kind of been adopted by Women like their weird dog (nonbinary butch lesbian) but I keep forgetting they don't think there's anything wrong with men

tlirsgender

I know they agree with me they're just afraid to admit it. They agree and then flinch. Come with me. There IS something wrong with men

tlirsgender

Women who date men talk about them like they signed an NDA

byjove

King Arthur had prophetic dreams about everything BUT the affair. OR! He was having dreams about Guinevere fucking Lancelot’s brains out the whole time but he kept assuming they were just wet dreams and not prophetic in the slightest.

byjove

King Arthur waking up from a vivid dream where Guinevere pegged Lancelot within an inch of his life: I need to get right with God.

#i mean isn't that a french addition #not that welsh arthur wasn't balls to the wall #but all i'm saying is this oughta say something about medieval french people

starjasmines

having a younger sibling is so embarrassing iwouldnt stoop this low for anyone but her im like quadruple texting "JUST TELL ME IF YOU WANT TO GO TO THE AQUARIUM ON DECEMBER 29TH SO I CAN GET TICKETS" and she leaves me on read 10000 times.

#that's me with my brother #good god damn daniel the things i do you for

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shaydh

"why did you write that"

my fetish

my friend's fetish

not my fetish but it fits in the story so i threw it in there as a treat. you're welcome.

ckret2

4. the character's fetish and i'm committed to portraying them with absolute accuracy

icecreamwithjackdaniels

Frank Paton (English, 1855–1909), "Witness my Act and Deed", 1882

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