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They tried to stop me from drawing ghost knight but they CANT

Mamoru Oshii’s “攻殻機動隊” (Ghost In The Shell) November 18, 1995.

“Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid — the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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Jane B. par Agnès V. (1988) dir. Agnès Varda

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philosophybits

“What distinguishes the tyrant from the man of good will is that the first rests in the certainty of his aims, whereas the second keeps asking himself, “Am I really working for the liberation of men? Isn’t this end contested by the sacrifices through which I aim at it?” In setting up its ends, freedom must put them in parentheses, confront them at each moment with that absolute end which it itself constitutes, and contest, in its own name, the means it uses to win itself.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

Is there a possibility for a book to be completely owned by its author? This is precisely what Roland Barthes' The Death of the Author questions, one of the longest-held beliefs in literature, where he proposes that language and the reader create meaning,

#Authorship #Critical Theory #Literary Criticism #Literary Theory #Philosophy of Literature #Poststructuralism #Reader Response Theory #Roland Barthes #Textual Interpretation #The Death of the Author

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CONTROL

3D/No GenAI

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- What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets. - Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a 13-year-old girl.

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999) dir. Sofia Coppola

philosophybits

“A truce to philosophy! — Life is before me and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread.”

— Mary Shelley, The Last Man

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BACKROOMS (2026) dir. Kane Parsons

It's every place that ever was.

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✨ Fascinating ✨ ◦ Watercolor & ink on paper ◦ available

y-o-u-t-h-s

Each generation discovers its own Odysseus. Some encounter him through Homer's poetry, others through television, animation, graphic novels, or blockbuster films. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey belongs to this long tradition of reinvention, revealing how an ancient journey continues to evolve along with the medium that carries it. Seen through the eyes of McLuhan, Jenkins, and Manovich, the film is a reflection on the changing nature of storytelling itself.