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bythebigcoolingtower

When your old post unexpectedly gets popular again.

bythebigcoolingtower

When your old post continues to be your most popular.

bythebigcoolingtower

When your new post does surprisingly well.

bythebigcoolingtower

When you reach 1500 posts but Tumblr doesn’t throw you a party.

bythebigcoolingtower

When you reach four years on Tumblr…

…but then you realise other people have been here longer…

#the simpsons

gwynterdimensional

if your once true love shows up crying well met and for you to leave your house carpenter husband and your babe behind for long distant shores and riches? thats a demon speaking to u baby

kokkuri3

Once I saw King of the Hill on someone’s list of irredeemable problematic interests and like… I’m not saying there’s not bad stuff in King of the Hill but the idea of someone getting called out for liking King of the Hill is going to kill me

kokkuri3

antigoneprogone

Hank, the only reason you got cancelled was because of the cabal of Soviet militiamen who have infiltrated our nation’s McDonald’s and other fine dining establishments. They know what you eat and when, and they know if you are quote-unquote woke or quote-unquote unwoke, and you have been deemed unwoke! It’s only a matter of time before they cancel you like they cancelled the real George Bush in ‘87.

Ooh! Hank? If we have to stop stanning you and you have to get divorced, can I have Peggy?

Ay yo man, talkin’ ‘bout, “Yo man, dibs on Peg”, dang ol’, that’s the dang ol’ real unwoke stuff man, talkin’ ‘bout dang ol’ “#BillDautrieveIsOverParty”, man.

#koth

gwynterdimensional

@bi-polar-vortex has the most awesome hot take about REM's losing my religion - its not about unrequited love - its about a total vanilla being dragged to an orgy by their partner - thats me in the corner losing my religion

bi-polar-vortex

Prove me wrong

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does anyone have that video of the two girls on the newshow talking about their kidnapped friend but it’s definitely satirical / from a fake news outlet?

tiptopcape

https://youtu.be/XUT8ec24anM

cringepics

thank you king

sexhaver

if i had to watch this bottle of water get cuckolded then so do you

neo-soulless

😧😧😧😧

shrump-scampi

thottled water

adulthoodisokay

it’s been fun, but i think it’s time to delete the internet forever

buttpoems

sailorbrazil

please for the love of god watch this clip from nathan for you

thebootydiaries

demon, after possessing me: now that i have control over y-

me: y'know.. this is actually kind of hot, if you think about it.. romantic, even. in a way

demon: *immediately exorcizes itself*

doctorstarlock

Me whenever I see a corporate ad trying to say “we’re all in this together”:

fatehbaz

also, Marc Auge’s writing, when he popularized the term non-places (the eerie “placelessness” of standardized environments, increasingly ubiqituous since mid-20th-century post-war supermodernity; the way transit centers, supermarkets, hotels, highways seem oddly placeless and disturbing; how uncanny soulless corporate landscapes are standardized, appearing similar in locations on every continent …). that writing wasn’t just like an idle observation, like “oh neat, these spaces are really weird, like a void, a sort of regional Gothic strangely replicated across the world, the way that signs and ATMs and the cashier-customer relationship are all mediated transactions, corporate places are interesting, hmm.” because he was also straight-up explicitly saying that the soullessness and mediated-by-transaction aspects were deliberately created and enforced by modernity/supermodernity, on purpose, and more specifically created by Euro-American imperialism/hegemony. partially as a way to eliminate difference/variation (a fast-food place looks the same and serves the same food in both the subtropical savanna of Miami and the temperate rainforest of the Seattle area, on opposite corners of a continent). those environments work to displace you from the local landscape, to sever your connection to a regional identity, and instead incorporate people into a wider Financial/Carceral World. and these standardized transit and “customer” environments were designed partially as a way to control people by enforcing relatively new-ish concepts like citizenship, credit scores, licensing, in a way that prevents you from moving without participating in the system (must have driver’s license and pay the toll to use highway; must have passport to use airport; must have cash and/or credit card to use supermarket, etc.), and so then geographic space, all geographic space on the planet, will become inaccessible to you if you break the law, are too poor, are too “deviant.”

drakontomalloi

Käthe Kollwitz - Inspiration. 1905

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

idk who needs to hear this but when your english teacher asks you to explain why an author chose to use a specific metaphor or literary device, it’s not because you won’t be able to function in real-world society without the essential knowledge of gatsby’s green light or whatever, it’s because that process develops your abilities to parse a text for meaning and fill in gaps in information by yourself, and if you’re wondering what happens when you DON’T develop an adult level of reading comprehension, look no further than the dizzying array of examples right here on tumblr dot com

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

this post went from 600 to 2400 notes in the time it took me to write 3 emails. i’m already terrified for what’s going to happen in there

kendallroy-deactivated20210425

k but also, as an addendum, the reason we study literary analysis is because everything an author writes has meaning, whether it was intentional or not, and their biases and agendas are often reflected in their choice of language and literary devices and so forth! and that ties directly into being able to identify, for example, the racist and antisemitic dogwhistles often employed by the right wing, or the subconscious word choices that can unintentionally illustrate someone’s bias or blind spot. LANGUAGE HAS WEIGHT AND MEANING! the way we communicate is a reflection of our inner selves, and that’s true regardless of whether it’s a short story or a novel or a blog post or a tweet. instead of taking a piece of writing at face value and stopping there, assuming that there is no deeper meaning or thought behind the words on the page, ask yourself these two questions instead:

1. what is the author trying to say? 2. what does the author maybe not realize they’re saying?

because the most interesting reading of any piece of literature, imho, usually occupies the space in between those questions.

#yep #lit