RIPNARUTO

Just your run of the mill internet trash

[jellolegos]

10 years of korrasami

[vita-divata]

Getting ready for bed~

[strawberrymilkshakeearrings]

there a baby fox living under our deck and he literally looks like that "full of milk" drawing except somehow rounder

[strawberrymilkshakeearrings]

ROTUND

[toonfinch-deactivated20231219]

artistic rendition

[strawberrymilkshakeearrings]

im actually crying rn thank you so much 

[musicalhell]

El zorro es pequeño y gordo

[emoji-shitposts]

el zorrito!

[kushblazer666]

[mn12platform]

[ottermatopoeia]

[coolxatu]

[tanuki-kimono]

GREAT novelty knot for this obi shaped like a cute bat. The soft fabric must flutter a bit when you walk, making the bat wings move (LOVE!).

To shape this knot, OP used rubber bands and a sanjûihimo (3 straps elastic belt, Billy Matsunaga has a tutorial on sewing the 4 straps-variation + see how it’s used here).

[ekingston]

your wife is your muse…

truly my better half. today i got to wake up to this

Bonus:

[yuumei-art]

Void cat but space, with moon for eyes~

[caliphoria17]

insp.

[bakapandy]

『War Paint』

A Kankuro Fancomic

[luxatoid-deactivated20200723]

chipped

[lildevyl]

Yeah, I’m there.

[auroraborealis1890]

[auroraborealis1890]

Good morning to only the person that tagged this as adhdammit

[lifeinpoetry]

& because you aren’t here (won’t ever, again, be here) to cover my mouth, I’ll confess, out loud, my love, so maybe perhaps, you will hear me & join me, here where the sun is sweet against the water & because I love you, I will gut this distance with nostalgia, because grief can taste of sugar if you run your tongue along the right edge,

— Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Still, Somehow,” published in The Margins

[papurrcat]

Katie McGrath as Queen Sabran Berethnet from The Priory of the Orange Tree by @sshannonauthor

A quick paint commission for @magicpotionclass

[magicpotionclass]

[ngvj8327dying-deactivated202111]

Sits you down. it’s simple. “it’s” is a contraction of “it” and “is” and “its” is the possessive form of “it” meaning “belonging to (whatever the word “it” is referencing)”. understand? Goood, good…. *stares at your lips* **leans in**

[fandomsandfeminism]

One thing about fandom culture is that it sort of trains you to interact with and analyze media in a very specific way. Not a BAD way, just a SPECIFIC way.

And the kind of media that attracts fandoms lends itself well (normally) to those kinds of analysis. Mainly, you're supposed to LIKE and AGREE with the main characters. Themes are built around agreeing with the protagonists and condemning the antagonists, and taking the protagonists at their word.

Which is fine if you're looking at, like, 99% of popular anime and YA fiction and Marvel movies.

But it can completely fall apart with certain kinds of media. If someone who has only ever analyzed media this way is all of a sudden handed Lolita or 1984 or Gatsby, which deal in shitty unreliable narrators; or even books like Beloved or Catcher in the Rye (VERY different books) that have narrators dealing with and reacting to challenging situations- well... that's how you get some hilariously bad literary analysis.

I dont know what my point here is, really, except...like...I find it very funny when people are like "ugh. I hate Gatsby and Catcher because all the characters are shitty" which like....isnt....the point. Lololol you arent supposed to kin Gatsby.

[afronerdism]

I would definitely argue that it’s specifically a bad way….a very bad way.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Depending on the piece of media, it could be the intended way to interpret it and thus very effective. When I watch Sailor Moon, I know at the end of the day that Usagi is a hero. She is right, and her choices are good. She and the Sailor Scouts may make mistakes, and those mistakes can have consequences, but by presuming the goodness of the protagonists, I can accurately describe what actions and values the story is presenting as good. (Fighting evil by moonlight. Winning love by daylight. Never running from a real fight. Etc etc)

If I sit around and hem and haw about whether or not Usagi is actually the villain because she is destined to reinstate a magical absolute monarchy on Earth in the future, then I'm not interpreting it correctly. I can write a cool fanfic about it, but it wont be a successful analysis of the original work.

But like I said, that doesnt work for all pieces of media, and being able to assess how a piece of media should be analyzed is a skill in itself.

[ollieofthebeholder]

I was an English major. One of our required classes was Theory & Criticism, and I ended up hating it specifically because of the teacher and the way she taught it, but the actual T&C part of it was interesting. And one of the things we learned about was all the different ways of reading/interpreting/criticizing media - not just books, ANY form of media.

Specifically, I remember when we read The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James. We had special editions of the book where the first half of it was the novel itself, and the last half was like five or six different critical analyses of the book from different schools of theory. The two I remember specifically were a Marxist interpretation and a feminist interpretation. I remember reading both of those and thinking “wow, these people are really reaching for some of this”, but the more I read into the analysis and the history of those schools of thought, the more I got it. So for my final paper for that class, I wrote an essay that basically had the thesis of “when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”. If you have trained yourself to view every piece of media through a single specific critical lens - well, you’re going to be only viewing it through that lens, and that means you’re going to read or watch it in such a way that you’re looking for the themes you’ve trained yourself to look for.

My teacher didn’t like that, by the way; she’d wanted each of us to pick one of these schools of thought we’d been learning about and make it “our” school of thought. She wanted us to grab the a hammer, or a screwdriver, or a spanner, and carry that with us for the rest of our lives. She somehow didn’t expect me to pack a toolbox.

My point is: Like OP said, sometimes the tool you need is a hammer. Sometimes you need a screwdriver. Sometimes you can make a hammer work where what you need is a screwdriver, but you’re going to end up stripping the screw; sometimes you can use a screwdriver in place of a hammer, but it’s going to take a lot more effort and brute force and you risk breaking the screwdriver. Sometimes you need a wrench and trying to use a hammer or screwdriver is going to make you declare that the bolt is problematic and should never be used by anyone. Sometimes what you really need is a hand saw, and trying to use any of the others...well, you can, but it’s going to make a mess and you might not be able to salvage the pieces left over.

[butterflyinthewell]

These skills aren’t being taught in school anymore and you can see it in the way high school aged kids act about media and stuff.

They wouldn’t survive something like Lolita because I swear they’re being taught to turn their brains OFF and be spoon fed all their thoughts by someone else.

It’s really creepy.

[fandomsandfeminism]

I promise these skills are taught in school. I'm an English teacher. In a school. Who teaches them.

Now, Lolita is generally reserved for college classes. But a lot of the rationale behind continuing to teach the "classics" in high school (beyond the belief that a shared literary foundation promotes a better understanding of allusions and references) is that a lot of the classics are built on these kinds of complex readings and unreliable narrators and using historical and cultural context helps in their analysis. (I do think that we should be incorporating more diverse and modern lit into these classes, please understand)

Do all schools or individual teachers do this *well*? No, of course not. Do all students always really apply themselves to the development of deep critical thinking skills when their teacher pulls out A Tale of Two Cities? Also no.

But this isnt a "public school is failing / evil " problem. Being able to engage in multiple forms and styles of analysis is a really high level skill, and my post was just about how a very common one doesnt always work well with different kinds of stories.

[fierceawakening]

This is probably why my finding fandom and my hugely villain stanning happened at the same time. Because fandom is transformative and I want to transform the things!

And a very easy place to begin with transforming the things is "what if it's all upside down? What if the people presented as the bad guys are the ones we're supposed to like, and the good guys are the ones we're supposed to hope lose?

What if canon is Good Guy propaganda?"

Which is why I run so afoul of antis (or at least why I used to before I grew a thick layer of I'm Too Old For Your Shit, Now Run Along and Fuck Off), I think.

Because I'm asking "what if the good guys were propagandists and it's all really complicated, and some of the things the good guys do are terrible and some of the things the bad guys do are not so great either but a cultural norm?"

And antis are hearing, as they so often do, "what if the way the bad guys do things was Moral and Just?"

[mutualintelligibility-archive]

"It’s often unhealthy to hyper-analyze your sexuality to the point where how you experience it changes where you belong. This is why the idea that broader terms are somehow more restrictive is baffling. Continuously breaking labels down and creating terminology for each facet of one’s identity shrinks communities until it’s just one person convinced that they’re the only one who relates to their experiences. It isolates people and ignores the importance of individuality within a collective identity."

On Hyperpersonalized Sexual Identity

[barefeetinsoil]

The author also dropped some gems in the last paragraph of the short article:

[bananonbinary]

jokes that will literally never not be funny to me:

saying “speedrun strats” every time you fuck up

saying “first try” when you’ve tried the thing like 15 times, minimum