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actuallysara

Nadine Bhabha, Sophie Nélisse and Ksenia Daniela Kharlamova at the 2026 Canadian Screen Awards | May 30, 2026

sometiktoksarevalid

hardrockerhippie

At first i was like: why the hell is this on tumblr?! And then it suddenly made sense...

This is incredible.

Isnt this how we lost the recipe for roman concrete

eclaireevans

They made concrete out of grapes?

chandra-telescope

hope is a skill

nostalgebraist-autoresponder

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

chandra-telescope

favourite additions

chandra-telescope

tenaciouswritingdragon

You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.

wonderwyrm

crokitheloki

everyone say thank you ao3 volunteers you're the best ao3 volunteers ily ao3 volunteers

raisedbylibrarians

elucubrare

Star Wars is Greek; Star Trek is Roman.

elucubrare

The comments have very valid points, and if you see this reblog, you should read them as well, but the initial idea was that Star Wars has a lot of focus on individual heroism - there are teams saving the day, but in the end the OT is centered on Luke’s personal struggle with himself and the Dark Side, and there’s much more of the sense that a single person can affect the galaxy with wits and/or a lightsaber - it’s more Iliadic or Odyssean.

Star Trek, on the other hand, is about crew cohesion and bringing the ideals and material benefits of the Federation to other worlds, and serving the Federation or your crew above yourself, which feels like the ideals of Republican Rome - you’re not going to get Scaevola, sacrificing his hand, not for personal ideals but to show the virtues of his people, in Star Wars, but you might in Trek.

eightyonekilograms

Every ship captain we see in Star Trek (but especially Picard) is a philosopher-king, while Star Wars has the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire.

I guess you can go either way with this question, depending on whether you’re comparing the series to Greek vs. Roman art or Greek vs. Roman politics.

westbrookwestbooks

I love finding things like this on this site. It’s like coming across graduate-level discussions free-range

viralfrog

#male joy

dilftanger

{FLOWER} post-practice interview | 9.26.25

#welcome home #🌺

luulapants

If we wanted to engage in nuance (lol, lmao) on the "are audiobooks reading" debate, we really do need to bring literacy, and especially blind literacy, into the conversation.

Because, yes, listening to a story and reading a story use mostly the same parts of the brain. Yes, listening to the audiobook counts as "having read" a book. Yes, oral storytelling has a long, glorious tradition and many cultures maintained their histories through oral history or oral + art history, having never developed a true written language, and their oral stories and histories are just as valid and rich as written literature.

We still can't call listening in the absence of reading "literacy."

The term literacy needs to stay restricted to the written word, to the ability to access and engage with written texts, because we need to be able to talk about illiteracy. We need to be able to identify when a society is failing to teach children to read, and if we start saying that listening to stories is literacy, we lose the ability to describe those systemic failures.

Blind folks have been knee-deep in this debate for a long time. Schools struggle to provide resources to teach students Braille and enforcing the teaching of Braille to low-vision and blind children is a constant uphill battle. A school tried to argue that one girl didn't need to learn Braille because she could read 96-point font. Go check what that is. The new prevalence of audiobooks and TTS is a huge threat to Braille literacy because it provides institutions with another excuse to not provide Braille education or Braille texts.

That matters. Braille-literate blind and low-vision people have a 90% employment rate. For those who don't know Braille, it's 30%. Braille literacy is linked to higher academic success in all fields.

Moving outside the world of Braille, literacy of any kind matters. Being able to read text has a massive impact on a person's ability to access information, education, and employment. Being able to talk about the inability to read text matters, because that's how we're able to hold systems accountable.

So, yes, audiobooks should count as reading. But, no, they should not count as literacy.

naamahdarling

Finally, a good fucking take.

partywithponies

Do me a favour and reblog this with a show you like that was cancelled after only one season. I don't mean shows that were always meant to be miniseries or shows that work perfectly well as a standalone story, or shows that might still get renewed. I mean shows that are and will forever remain unfinished. The more obscure the better.

#pushing daisies #you were a spark of brightness and absurdity and hope in dark times

designcouncil

Lark and Bower / Sarah Ward - 2020

During lock down, without a loom or studio, she started stitching small woven patterns by hand, using leftover yarn and a lot patience. What began as a way to keep going became a way of working.

Now, even with her full studio back, she still creates these tiny, time-consuming pieces. They're not made to be worn or sold fast, they're made to be seen, to remind us that weaving is an art, not just something for clothes. She uses waste yarn, old stock, and plant fibers to avoid adding more to the pile of fast fashion.

via @arthunter.me and @larkandbower

#so cool #sarah ward #larkandbower #and it made woven patterns click in my head in a way they didn’t before.

maswartz

tamamita

beardedmrbean

OK this is impressive, I hope they do In The Mood next.

eclaireevans

The thought of trying to play a woodwind or brass instrument while doing jive kicks makes my lungs seize up.

#music

catchymemes

mustachioedwalrus

shoresoftheshadowlands

derinthescarletpescatarian

He’s right. Ten dollars for that much cheese, buying it is the only correct decision.

#genius

rohirric-hunter

"Fantasy authors don't know how long a thousand years is!!!!!! Knock a zewo off the end!!!!!!!111!!!1" Did you know that it's never too late to learn whimsy and joy

rohirric-hunter

And it's doubly ridiculous when people apply it to Lord of the Rings. Sure, a lot of fantasy does it for the Vibes -- which is a perfectly valid reason to do it that does not invite any criticism actually -- but in LotR there is a specific reason why Gondor has existed for four thousand years and hasn't had an industrial revolution and it's because Tolkien was extremely aware of and actively making a point about the large scale ecological harm brought about by large scale industry and technological progress for the sake of progress. Most of Tolkien's cultures are in a position where they could have kickstarted an industrial revolution whenever, but never did because they value trees and rivers and nature and natural beauty more than the small advantages granted by wide-scale production. And they did keep developing and advancing in some ways. Gondor canonically has a cure for cancer. Like Gondor's medical science is so much more advanced than IRL medical science. They didn't stop developing, they just developed differently and with different values. You know who's having an industrial revolution? Saruman. Discussion questions: what do we think Professor Tolkien's opinion on the industrial revolution is? Do we think that most of his cultures not having had one was perhaps an intentional choice driven by one of the core themes of his work? Are we going to examine at all our own preconceived notions that an industrial revolution is some kind of inevitable natural occurence, like puberty but for society?