1800-I-FUCK-PRIESTS

jojo, scum villain, hannibal || minors get the fuck off my blog challenge

[herzspalter]

Risotto Nero’s suffering

[jinxproof]

Dolce & Gabbana F/W 2006 ph. Steven Meisel

[rem-ir]

Some literary words tumblr needs to start using when talking about works-that-draw-from-other-works, a category which fanfic falls under but is not synonymous with, are “adaptation” and “reception.”

An adaptation of something tells the same or similar story with the same or similar characters, but in a new way, or from a new perspective. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and Goethe’s Faust are both straightforward adaptations of the Faust legend, though Goethe does more of his own thing. Jean Rhys’ Wide Saragasso Sea is a subversive adaptation of Jane Eyre that tells the story of Mr. Rochester’s first wife, bringing her from the margin to the center.

A work that shows reception of another work is clearly influenced by it and could even outright allude to it, but may not necessarily be a straight adaptation. Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita shows strong reception of the Faust legend, especially as filtered through Goethe. Dante’s Divine Comedy shows reception of Greek and Roman myth and of Christianity, but is not specifically based on a previous story. (Though there are a lot of stories about people going to the underworld in Greek and Roman myth.)

Somebody else smarter than me can talk about intertextuality, parody, and pastiche. I have to go brush my teeth and wash dishes. There are a lot more words to describe works-that-draw-on-other-works than the term fanfiction, which is a very specific subgenre of the category both in style and form.

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

from the bottom of my heart: read real books

[my-writer-jus-hates-the-clock]

Define "real books"

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

not fanfiction

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

[akatsukiapologist-deactivated20]

dante’s inferno and paradise lost are fanfics homie

[marcchagallthebride-deactivated]

no they are not. read real books.

[akatsukiapologist-deactivated20]

dante’s inferno is a self insert theres nothing you can do about it

[marcchagallthebride-deactivated]

idk how to explain to you that an epic poem that pretty much created the entire concept of hell as we now understand it is not the same as larry stylinson mpreg on ao3 just bc it happens to include a self-insert character

[gnetophyte]

OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

CALLOUT POST FOR FUCKING EURIPIDES

[deadpanwalking]

[notallmensheviks]

did classical athens do something problematic

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

I so desperately wish I could physically stop you fucking people from using the internet.

[dagny-hashtaggart-deactivated20]

That said, has the answer to the question “did classical Athens do something problematic” ever, in all its history and all subsequent discussion, been “no?”

[slopaganda]

when are we gonna stop using the word “abusive” as a synonym for “just being an asshole”

[slopaganda]

hate 2 break this 2 yall but the world isnt split up into nice people and abusers. being cruel or manipulative in the absence of an observable pattern of behavior and an established power dynamic isnt abuse. sometimes people are just shitty

[valtsv]

i can’t talk shit about the pirates of the caribbean films as if elizabeth swann becoming pirate king didn’t hand my entire ass to me and make me the gay i am today

[valtsv]

these 2 looks basically defined my sexuality and i’m not afraid to admit it

[valtsv]

things pirates of the caribbean got right:

1. will and elizabeth’s love story

2. elizabeth becoming pirate king

3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that aren’t tailored to be revealing and impractical for ‘sex appeal’ just because they’re women

4. hans zimmer’s entire score but especially the iconic ‘he’s a pirate’ main theme

[prismatic-bell]

5. When the movie came out, morally-gray characters like Jack were actually not really a thing yet in pop culture, and it’s not Pirates’ fault that there are a ton of stupid shitty copycats out there.

6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabeth’s lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldn’t be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldn’t tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). It’s one of the most accurate corseting scenes I’ve ever seen.

7. Will’s hat.

8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, that’s fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.

9. There’s this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. It’s a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Will’s storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.

10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.

11. And let’s not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.

12. The governor’s death scene. Holy shit.

13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didn’t. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and that’s that.

14. You’ve got to admit that wedding was unique.

[math-is-magic]

15. The introduction of fantasy elements to historical fiction outside of Tolkein-esque fantasy, and how it contributed to and expanded the Fantasy Media boom we’re still enjoying today.

[paddysnuffles]

1. They had a woman of colour play a goddess.

2. They had a woman pirate right in the first film, when the tradition is to only show male ones (hell, the PotC ride at Disney had a wench auction scene until recently). And it was a female pirate of colour at that!

3. Elizabeth may not have known how to fight in the first film, but she wasn’t helpless either. Her first instinct was to fight, but she also had the brains to recognize when it was best to hide instead. Plus when given the chance she stabbed Barbosa that one time.

4. Elizabeth’s lack of fighting ability was not simply because she was a woman, it was clear it was due to her societal circumstances, since we saw other women of different socioeconomic backgrounds being able to fight (and when given the opportunity to learn Elizabeth took to fighting like a duck on water).

5. The Hoist the Colours scene where we see pirates of multiple ethnicities and their varying flags, reminding us that pirates came in all shapes and sizes and weren’t just white men.

6. One of the Pirate Lords being yet ANOTHER woman of colour. She may not have had much of a speaking role if memory serves, but even her presence is already a big deal.

7. The pirates accepting their King is a woman without much fuss.

[chubbyooo]

Pirates is amazing I will not here a bad word

Davy Jones CGI is legendary and a ton better than some of the stuff done today 😄

[the-unnecessary-commentary]

I’m pretty sure that female Chinese pirate was a nod to a real, documented female pirate king who was Chinese and had a whole fleet of ships at her disposal but I can’t remember her name rn

[kintatsujo]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih

[real-jaune-isms]

My favorite part about the Bretheren Court voting wasn’t that they were against Elizabeth for becoming King as a woman and newcomer. They were pissed at Jack for being a chaotic neutral who broke the decades long tradition of an egotistical stalemate by voting for someone besides himself.

Also, the deleted scenes from Black Pearl and At World’s End that divulge more of Jack’s troubled past, like how he was branded as a pirate by the East Indian Trading Company because he stole a ship full of slaves and freed them.

[mistermaf]

[musicalhell]

In addition to all of the above, the movies are just so damn FUN, especially the first. You have Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush basically in a competition to see who can be the Hammiest Pirate Ever, you have top-notch character actor Kevin McNally doing the salty old tar bit, you have the two pirates who don’t really do much but somehow have all the best lines and a mute pirate who TRAINED HIS PARROT TO TALK FOR HIM AND NOBODY KNOWS HOW BUT THEY ALL JUST ACCEPT IT.  And the fight scenes are some of the best since Princess Bride (Jack vs. Will in the smithy? *chef’s kiss*). Like, Disney may have oversaturated the market too fast on the franchise but it became popular for a reason.

[villainii]

Dishonored  || Knife of Dunwall

[littlestpersimmon]

Do you ever wonder how one such as Mairon, who loved order and coordination above all else, could have fallen into one such as Melkor, who was chaos himself; and follow him into oblivion

[noodlerface]

in other news i finished assassin’s fate :’)

[ithelpstodream]

[cheappussyweaves]

WELP.

[criticalthinkingmaybe]

tbh that person just ended the entire discourse

[for-southendgirls]

lol @ all the mogai kweers reblogging this who think this is not at all about them when it absolutely is

[jamesbichanan-deactivated202004]

#and yes i’m absolutely taking about cishet aces#and crusty kinksters#and y’alls ‘kin’ bullshit

[fumbledeegrumble]

oh man do i have some bad news for you guys

[criticallyalexandrite]

Friendly reminder that anti queer and anti ace peope are more guilty of twisting LGBTQ+ history/posts out of context to fit their narrative. Than inclusionists ever will be.

[thyrell]

bitches will see a post from someone called “AmericanQueer”, agree with it, and then say “kweer” like it disgusts them

[iron-sunrise]

“Queer is a slur!!! Never say it! Censor it! Unless you want to shit on [flavor of the month sexual alignment or gender that’s outside of the binary] then all you have to do is switch the spelling around and then you can, literally, weaponize it as a slur for your own entertainment!”

[lokh1]

cant stop thinking abt when they used ygo for tarot i MUST know how he did it

[apathyfairy]

me being raised on 90s internet rules where telling someone online your favorite color was giving out too much personal information watching gen z youtubers give out their real first and last names and telling everyone the exact city and apartment complex where they live

[thestalkerbunny]

Are you telling me these kids are running around and not hiding behind 4-5 different fake aliases, 6 false addresses, 3 disposable emails and plethora of other lies to protect their identities?

[maglor-still-lives]

Rereading LotR after only thinking about the Silmarillion for maybe five years is wild. This book includes actual conversations! I forgot Tolkien knew how to do that!

[maglor-still-lives]

Strider: *makes one (1) quip*

Me: *is so overwhelmed by the power of the character building that I have to shut the book and go for a walk to calm down*

[porunareff]

the friendship between Joseph and Avdol deserves way more love - those two were friends for over 3 years and their personalities are so different it could make for so many great scenarios - we got a taste of that thanks to Mariah (bless u Mariah xoxo). Give me fics of them travelling together and getting into funny situations but also bonding because they’re both intelligent men; give me Joseph being a goof and Avdol having to deal with his shenanigans; give me Joseph discovering his stand for the first time and Avdol helping him deal with it! Just give me more of these two because their friendship is so important.

[booksbybingo]

villains are hard to design. making them ugly is dangerous, depending on what traits you choose to frame as monstrous or undesirable, you could very well end up saying something fatphobic, racist, anti-semitic, etc

but if you make a hot villain then people will get thirsty and demand redemptions and refuse to acknowledge their evil actions, no matter how despicable

[pastel-petticoats]

Solution: Full body armor and masks. You don’t see people shipping themselves with Sauron!

[safitheartist]

…………..you think?

[macko-99]

…………..don’t look up Sauron on AO3

[arofili]

Nothing fails to crack me up like this post - the vain hope that somewhere out there is some awful nasty thing that there is not also a person whose kink that is, the idea that covering something up won’t make people obsessed with finding out what it looks like underneath, the surface level understanding of Sauron and complete lack of knowledge of the Silmarillion and it’s fandom, the fact that Sauron was canonically hot as fuck, the amount of Sauron erotica I have seen, God this post never gets old

[snakeassassins]

the 5ds dub is good actually