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“Nincompoopiana”, George Louis du Maurier, 1880, Harvard Art Museums: Drawings

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Arthur Sachs Size: 25.3 x 35.5 cm (9 15/16 x 14 in.) Medium: Brown ink and graphite on cream wove paper

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/298491

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Model sheets and designs for the 1971 Disney feature, Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

These come from animator Andreas Deja’s blog, Deja View.

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they should have adapted daphne du maurier's rebecca with the muppets

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BRITTNEY JOHNSON as GLINDA

“ getting your dreams, it’s strange, but it seems, a little - well - complicated. ”

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literally cannot even begin to fathom why star wars, one of the largest media franchises in the fucking world, didnt feel the need to script out 3 of their movies before announcing and starting them. what the fuck.

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Do you think it's bad to portray supernatural/magical people superior than the normal people? I've seen that many people talk about this topic about HP world with witches&wizards and humans/muggles, PJO world with demigods&gods and normal people/mundanes, Cassandra Clare world with shadowhunters&other magical beings and humans/mundanes. I get that where the people are coming from, but I think fantasy world-wise, it's not that surprising to have this portrayal.

I think people are close to putting their finger on the problem with this line of thinking, but missing it —but yes, there are deeply rooted and profound problems with how most fantasy addresses differences in people and fantasy peoples. White fantasy writers and readers LOVE their allegorical racism, and yet never unpack what it suggests that the marginalized classes in these magical societies are not...... people. JK Rowling, for example, pretending to condemn racism by making Dumbledore the champion for “other races” and condemning pure blood supremacy and yet still making the giants dumb, calling other races “half human” or “cross breeds,” the goblins greedy and suspicious (even by good wizards who are on the right side, like bill), and the house elves stupid and simple and subhuman creatures who want to be enslaved so long as they are treated nicely. Or Cassandra Clare’s work when these class wars involve werewolves and conveniently all her shadowhunters are white and her two werewolves are black—white people with angel’s blood and black people who turn into dogs is not even like, tangentially racist lmao, it’s a white supremacist fantasy based in racial propaganda that was INVENTED to justify slavery, colonialism, and imperialism (see: “God, Gold, and Glory”). And then of course the absolutely viciously anti-Semitic story of her Jewish vampire: a plotline where a Jewish character feeds off blood, grapples with facing damnation because he has no soul, and solving this problem by CONVERTING back to human (plus, of course, the history of blood libel propaganda fueling the entire vampire genre). Nearly all fantasy worlds have overtly racist themes which they attempt to obscure bc none of it is “real.” We should just pretend not to notice tolkein’s elves with long flowing often golden hair and lignt eyes and glistening pale complexions whereas the orcs have dark skin and “swarthy” complexions. Or Wicked, with its racial allegory about how animals.... deserve human rights.

It’s especially insidious BECAUSE they all have some allegory about giving rights to thinking, reasoning beings, but none of them either have an understanding of racial science and history OR they are deliberately ignoring it in order to create racist propaganda. Oh, werewolves deserve rights too—of course, they actually DO go rabid and turn into dogs and assault their girlfriends, whereas shadowhunters are of course literally descended from angels. Wizards aren’t better than other races, except they just happen to have special gifts and abilities which make them more powerful, and of course they are human. Animals are people too! In these worlds, people of color are almost always, either explicitly or subliminally, the beast (Stephanie meyer’s wolves are EXPLICITLY wolves BECAUSE they are native Americans). They are not human, but still deserve rights and we should be nice to them! Racism, as we understand it today, is rooted the MYTH created and propogated by white supremacists, that certain people are subhuman or not human. Exterior differences are indicative of a fundamentally Othered, racialized, immoral, perverse, less evolved interior. You cannot make allegories for racism between races that ARE ACTUALLY BIOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT. It fundamentally misunderstands what racism even is!

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec painting “At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance”. Photographed by Maurice Gilbert, 1890s.

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I’d take health care and no children in cages if it meant, like, fewer kinds of apple juice to choose from, idk.

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Because this version of the post doesn’t have it: HE IS IN A RESTAURANT SUPPLY STORE. It’s not even SUPPOSED to have a fucktillion name brands!

Suddenly feeling ashamed that I am (nearly) in my third year as a literature student and I have not studied a single piece of Romanticism since I started and feel that I no longer deserve the name I gave myself in sixth form

#literature #romantic #romanticism #lord byron #poetry #academic #academia #uni #university #student #ashamed #exposed gays #queer #queer stuff #queer poetry

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Oroonoko is such a weird book though

Like it starts out okay and just talking about this love story and the king being an asshole and then they get to the plantation and go on all these crazy adventures and Oroonoko marries Imoinda and it seems like everyone’s just having a great time

And then Oroonoko decides to stage a rebellion and it’s like oh okay sure he’s totally got this

But next thing you know he’s getting the skin flayed off his body and they’re rubbing pepper in the wounds and suddenly it’s not so chill anymore

Basically by the time it gets to him killing his wife and then ripping his own bowels out you’re kind of at a loss as to what exactly went wrong

Once the English fix him up and then decide oh you know what would be a really good idea let’s dismember him guys how cool would that be hey and we can let him smoke a pipe while we do it you’re just like okay whatever you want guys at least I’m on the last page

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The more I study it, the better it gets

Such a contradictory novel that's an absolutely fascinating critique of mercantile capitalism

#oroonoko #aphra behn

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shoutout to aphra behn, championing female sexuality since 1670 (and probably before that tbh)

if you don’t know about aphra behn

- she was the first published female playwright EVER

- and she wrote for a living, earning her own money and supporting herself with the profits of her plays

- before she got into writing, she was a special agent for the british secret service (a spy)

- she dedicated a play (the feigned courtesans, in which several women pretend to be prostitutes in order to woo/trick their loves, and also, due to several amusing mix-ups, two men kiss on stage) with a love letter to nell gwyn, king charles ii’s mistress

- she argued for female equality in all areas, and objected strongly to the idea which would prevail for many years after her death, that women should be valued for feminine qualities

- she wrote female characters who were by no means goody-goodies, but were witty, had sexual agency, could read, write and swordfight, and could scheme and plot with the best of them

- and she ridiculed men just as much as women in her comedies, which are laugh out loud hilarious

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And so few know about her because men (I know this is a generalisation) decided to write her off and label her as a second rate writer for future generations and even rewrote her work which pushed her plays further into obscurity

#aphra behn #feminist icon #feminist #restoration comedy #literature

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An early Christmas gift arrived today.

The theatre programme of the NT production of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE by Tennessee Williams at the National at the Lyttelton Theatre, 2002

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Glenn Close as Blanche just seems glorious

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suddenly last summer - on the set ; Photo to dispel rumors about the bad atmosphere during filming.

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Here’s my 1911 English first edition copy of The Phantom of the Opera. It was evidently passed down in a family as a gift. I threw my own signature in there because I thought it’d be neat and who knows maybe I’ll gift it to someone who will appreciate it someday.