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black panther costume appreciation 1/? ↳ NAKIA
Netflix’s Annarasumanara - The Sound of Magic (2022) HWANG IN YEOP as Na Il Deung┃Ep.2 🦋 Don’t let me dream any longer Dir. Kim Seong Yoon
The Sound of Magic (2022) | first vs. last episode ♡
Ji Chang Wook as Ri Eul in The Sound of Magic (2022)
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@magnumpicactus the sand is on top of really hot coal and is pretty much boiling. The dude is dragging the pot of coffee on it to boil it. Its a traditional turkish way to make turkish coffee and its really good.
i love seeing the amazingly unique, traditional ways different cultures have of achieving the same thing.
so what if i overuse “🥺” emoji??? dont little things in life make u go “🥺”???
WHISPER OF THE HEART ‘耳をすませば’ 1995 | dir. Yoshifumi Kondō
finding songs from your favorite artist that you haven’t heard before
STUDIO GHIBLI + CITYSCAPES
Whisper of the Heart (1995) Tales from Earthsea (2006) Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Only Yesterday (1991) Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Castle in the Sky (1986) Spirited Away (2001) Porco Rosso (1992) From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
reblog and put in the tags what was the first movie you watched after theaters were reopened
STUDIO GHIBLI + YUMMY !
spirited away (2001), kiki’s delivery service (1989), from up on poppyhill (2011), howl’s moving castle (2004), when marnie was there (2014), castle in the sky (1986), ponyo (2008)
sambucky + letterboxd reviews (insp. x x) bonus:
CHOCOLATE MAN BACK AT IT AGAIN
i see any large amount of chocolate and my mind just screams “it’s the fucking chocolate man again”
this bitch knows carpentry, pottery, sculpture, architecture, AND all the chocolate/confectionary skills. what the fuck doesn’t he know?????
ppl who limit their reading experience to Fanfics and YA novels don’t wanna read literature they wanna consume tropes but let me mind my business
Op look me dead in the eyes and tell me romeo and juliet isnt just forbidden love enemies to lovers angst
Actually it’s a tragic drama with themes about the conflict of the individual will and social customs, and reducing it to a flat two-dimensional analysis of tropes you read on ao3 is boring and would get you kicked out of a 9th grade English class, but I can see where the confusion would lie
In what world is “forbidden enemies to lovers angst” not a tragic drama about the conflict of the individual will and social customs? “Forbidden” implies the conflict of the individual will against social customs. “Angst” implies, but doesn’t guarantee, the tragic ending. There’s a way people do dialogue about fanfic tropes that does act as though it’s the same every time, and as though everything that could fall under one category is the same thing—but there are people who do that with things like “the hero’s journey” too.
Idk if I fall totally on either “side” here but I don’t really like the implication that fanfiction itself never explores deep themes. I’ve read fanfiction that made me sit down with myself and ask questions about how exactly I was defining myself relative to my experiences. Fanfiction writers are writers, writing about human experiences and societal themes whether they mean to or not, and not every instance is successful, but not every book is successful.
People knowing there are certain emotions that tend to pull them into stories isn’t new. I’ve had books recommended to me because someone knows how I feel about characters who were doomed before a story starts, or stories with unconventional ways of wrangling with death.
I think it’s okay if people recommend their friend a book because “you’ll like this character because they really want to prove themself,” the way casual book recs tend to go, latching onto something you know is an emotional hook your friend likes exploring. I see literally no problem, then, with the equally brief and snappy selling point being “you’ll like this because you like enemies to lovers angst.”
I get frustrated by posts that reduce the concept of a recurring theme or trope to something that just goes the same way every time, sure. And yet: recommending each other books via AO3 tags is “I think you will like this book because it contains something you like.” People are seeking the emotions they want from literature, and some are using familiar language to draw themself into a different set of media that they want to get to know better. (Others are probably already reading a lot of published books!)
I see no conflict with wanting to read a certain kind of story because you like that kind of story. We’ve acknowledged, in fact, that anything describable as “enemies to lovers angst” won’t, in fact, be that simple. So reading a lot of books that qualify as that will explore different themes and angles every time, right? This is as ~doomsday~ as me wanting to read a lot of books about characters navigating whether or not they’re their world’s definition of human and whether or not that matters.
We all have stories we like to seek out. We all already use labels that do not fully represent the complexity of the stories within them: I want to read a tragic romance, a comedy of errors, a bildungsroman. Chill out.
Edit, I figured out what bugged me: Recommendations are not analysis.
So I study literature at a university level. I’m working on a master’s. I plan to pursue a Ph.D.
Translating works between mediums *always* comes with interpretation and adaptation. There’s a whole field of literary discourse around that. Hell, a professor at my university accepted a shitpost as an assignment because it distilled a play into a single image.
And frankly, ao3 tags give so much information about themes and deliver them in an accessible way. The goal, after all, is to *promote* reading, not gatekeeping so hard you push people out of reading for fun.
Art is, at its core, derivative. And that’s not an insult. It has to latch onto themes that exist or else nobody can experience it. Works made by humans will always be built on a foundation of humanity. And guess what? ALL literature has tropes.
“Romeo and Juliet isn’t forbidden enemies to lovers angst! It’s [forbidden enemies to lovers angst, but phrased more pretentiously]”
Ah, literature snobs
Not to mention the fact that ‘giving people some idea as to what the book is about before they read it’ has been common practice for years. That’s literally the whole purpose of the blurb.
Sure, it might not say “forbidden enemies to lovers angst”, but it might well say:
The Montagues and the Capulets have been at war for generations, so when a Capulet girl falls for a Montague boy, the two teenagers know that they must keep their love a dead secret. But after Romeo gets caught up in the rising tensions between their two families, the couple are torn apart. As the story spins towards its tragic conclusion, Juliet must decide how much she is willing to give up.
… Or something of the sort, which basically gives you the same information— that they are lovers, that their love is forbidden and that a lot of sad stuff is going to happen.
I’ve always assumed this whole “books should use AO3 tags” thing to be at least partly a backlash to the current trend where more and more books seem to be scrapping the blurb altogether and replacing it with just a series of quotes:
“A dark gem of a book"— some famous writer.
“You’ll read it again and again"— a journalist.
WINNER OF AN AWARD YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF
“Wtf is it about tho"— an increasingly desperate reader who just wants to know it it’s worth buying a copy.
Like there’s nothing wrong with wanting to know what a book is about before you sink your time into it.
And if you’re going to be a jackass about fanfiction and YA fiction, just admit you’re a pretentious jackass and don’t say ‘but let me mind my business’ as if you didn’t just throw your opinion out like somehow it becomes more important than anyone else’s opinion.
It’s like saying ‘with all due respect but’ - usually that just means kiss my ass you’re an idiot and here’s why your wrong.
So… with all due respect- Go fuck yourself.
No I have no patience for stupidity this morning.
Omg, I can distinctly remember when books went from having an actual plot description in the back/flaps to the previous example.
I distinctly remember picking up multiple books and looking for the plot and not finding it. Where the fuck is the plot. I was so confused. Still is. I don’t fucking care about prizes I want to know what the story is about. The Ao3 tag system? PERFECTION
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i hate when people say “tell me about yourself” like bitch my personality changes with whatever book i’m reading because i absorb the personality of the protagonist idk what to tell you