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it drives me crazy how humans are just meant to hold each other. how come when you hold someone’s hand, your fingers just perfectly lock with theirs? how is it that when you hug someone, your face fits just right in the crook of their neck? how can your hands cup someone’s face like that’s their only primary function? it cannot be coincidence that our bodies are fully capable of holding another… we were designed to love
Do u guys remember this fucking bullshit
FANTASIA: The Nutcracker Suite 1940 | Samuel Armstrong
DECISION TO LEAVE (2022) dir. Park Chan-Wook ↳ When did I say I loved you? When was it? [...] Hae-joon. The phone you took from the sea, throw it back. Throw it in a deeper sea.
헤어질 결심 - Decision to Leave 2022 — dir. Park Chan-wook
Watch: Carl Sagan schooled B.o.B. on his flat Earth theory more than 30 years ago
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bipch erastosthenes schooled b.o.b. 2,230 years ago
Ok so this is cool but I always wondered how they knew the shadows were different at the same instant. I mean it is not like they had phones. How did they sync up that instant. I feel like that would be interesting to know but no one ever says.
^^^Does anybody know this one? How, that far apart, the time at which the shadows were observed was synced up? I am genuinely curious, not a goddamn moron asking a gotcha question. High/Low tide? (I live in the middle of the country I do not know for the precise habits of tidal activity.) The appearance of a star (or planet) in the sky? Something as utterly mundane as sunrise?
Well, first of all, it wasn’t actually pillars! Eratosthenes was told about a well in Syene that, in the summer solstice every year (June 21st) would be illuminated at the bottom entirely and without any cast shadows. This indicated that the sun was directly overhead. Going off that well known curiosity and an intelligent hunch, our dude Eratosthenes waited until high noon of the summer solstice to measure the angle of a shadow cast by a stick in Alexandria. (Sidenote: Eratosthenes was a librarian of the infamous Library of Alexandria.)
His next course of action was to hire bematists, surveyors of the time whose professional specialty was to measure distance by walking with equal length steps. They measured a distance between Alexandria and Syene of about 5000 stadia. (Guess where the word stadium comes from.) Once he had that measurement, Eratosthenes did his math-y thing, and there you have it.
ANSWER EVEN COOLER THAN I HOPED!!
Eratosthenes’ work was thorough enough that by the time he finished revising his calculations, he ended up only 66 km off of the actual polar circumference of the Earth, or an error margin of 0.16%. [wiki]
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people really just read books like “no thoughts head empty 🤪”
between white women on tiktok saying they only read books for the romance and people on tumblr forcibly applying ao3 tropes to narratives i’m beginning to think maybe you all should’ve paid more attention in 10th grade english class
I was talking to this girl on hinge and we got onto the topic of books (i work in a bookshop), and she asked me if i had any favourite tropes to read? And for the life of me i couldn't figure out how to respond? Like Ms, i dont read fanfic, i dont understand what youre asking. I dont think 'tropes' can be used interchangeably with 'genre'. We dont have a section at work for shit like 'enemies to lovers' im sorry thats not how real literature works
I thought this post was gonna go somewhere relevant and interesting for a full second, but I guess not. Tropes are older than dirt. The idea of a trope has existed as long as humans have been making things, and it’s not empty-brained to ask what tropes someone might enjoy reading. For example, someone could answer: haunted houses. rivalries that span decades. tales of revenge. generational family dramas. coming of age stories. stuck in a snowstorm with a killer. The word trope is just a way people currently talk and think about concepts in literature that we’ve been thinking and talking about for ever. It just adds a layer of specificity. If you can’t comprehend someone asking you what tropes you like to read, you might not totally understand what a trope is, and that doesn’t make the other person dumb.
What I was hoping this post might touch on is how people cling to book reading as a hobby that will make them automatically smarter or more superior than those who aren’t, no matter how little mental engagement they actually put into reading. There are people who shit on novels like Things Fall Apart, The Jungle, and Invisible Man for not being “entertaining enough.” There are people who base their entire personality on being an avid reader who chose to never think critically or challenge themselves. There are people who think reading makes you more empathetic by default, when in reality anyone, even terrible people, can project themselves onto the hero if they can’t think critically about their own life and choices.
People can just be into romances, that isn’t inherently stupid. Nor are knowing what tropes they enjoy. That’s just how some people engage with books, and we shouldn’t be looking down at people for that. I have way more issue with the white goodreads users who rate Things Fall Apart as two stars and start their review “I guess I’m racist for not liking this.” I too am annoyed at the failure of public education, and I too was flabbergasted when someone on reddit asked “what’s the point of comparing two very different books to each other” when I pointed out that American Psycho kinda has Lovecraftian themes. But you’re falling off the mark here, to go on about how you hate tropes because they can also be applied to fanfiction tags. 🙄 This attitude is how people start calling themselves sapiosexual.
“That’s not how real literature works”
If you think “real literature” doesn’t “work” that way, you’re not thinking substantially about literature, neither in individual instances nor in the broader scheme.
What do you think a tragic hero is? What do you think a quest narrative is? How do you think we can conceive of Seven Basic Plots? What do you think Comedy and Tragedy are? Do you think the Aeneid popped out of nowhere without referencing any of the patterns of Greek epics that made it compelling to its audience? Do you think Shakespeare was popular because his plays were “original” ideas with storylines that would have been surprising to his audience? Do you think fairy tales sprung out of the air as discrete individual units? Do you think no one has ever written anything that follows the patterns of Greek epics, Shakespeare, or fairy tales intentionally? Do you think “literature” contains no works that intentionally evoke an existing pattern in their plots and characters?
“Genre” as bookshops use it is not somehow superior to “tropes.” Fantasy, Westerns, Paranormal Romances, those categories are like, less than one or two centuries old and also damn near useless for anything except marketing. Genre is a hot fucking mess and pretty artificial. Tropes on the other hand? Those have always existed. They are, quite literally, inherent and natural parts of stories.
What “genre” is the Epic of Gilgamesh? What “genre” is the Odyssey? Fantasy? Do you think it is in any way appropriate to “genre” these stories using categories that would have been nonsense to their ancient audiences? What the fuck is fantasy?
Over and over again, we have told stories about heroes destroyed by their hubris, about mortals struggling against the inevitability of death, about the antics of trickster deities, about clever young boys outwitting giants and other malicious characters, about young girls swept into royalty, about brothers in conflict with one another, and the ability to identify these patterns and explore why they have persisted is…basically what literary and folklore studies is.
Just because you consider fanfic or romance to be “lesser” doesn’t mean they can’t be analyzed, or that the mechanical components of those things don’t exist in Real Literature. 10th grade English class clearly didn’t do any good for the people that did pay attention, if people are growing up thinking tropes were invented on fanfiction websites.
And it’s just a depressing point of view to be so preoccupied with how people “should” tell stories that how people do tell stories is not even interesting.
All of the above is A+ but I'll add one more thing: do you know what I just finished filling out for my publisher? Of the book that will be in bookstores next year? Paperwork listing the genre and...the tropes. For marketing and sales purposes. This is standard procedure. It's how my book will be marketed online upon release. It's how my book will end up on suggested title lists. It's how Amazon's algorithm knows that such-and-such book is the bestseller in two niche categories and 20th in a broader category as well as 56th overall in YA titles. So aside from the fact that "tropes" have existed far longer than "genre" as folks have stated above, the people/companies who make "real literature" right now literally require authors to provide lists of tropes included in the novel at the front end of the publishing process.
So if you're working in a book store and don't think tropes exist outside of fic, that's a self-own so devastating I'm getting secondhand embarrassment right now.
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that Who Do You Love song but it's 'team baby' x 'to be yours' by @hopespiration on ao3/twitter
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the fic and the song i hold dearly to my heart this year ☆
★ i love the way Loveᵀᴹ is nutured in the universe of 'to be yours': from gentleness and patience, from hurt and comfort. i love namseok so much, their beautiful dynamics in this au brought me warmth and comfortable silence, especially those days when i needed something to sooth the races of my mind the most :'>
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
★ hopespiration always recommends one of the warmest songs ever for her writings. this art is inspired by a slow jam in the very last chapter of the 'to be yours'. please check them out and give them lots of love 💗
p/s: this is the first time i've ever drawn and colored something this seriously,,, so please! let this excuse trick away my sketchy lineart, lighting, and shading :>
Hey, let’s hang out with me
Don’t go without me
So we don’t miss each other
Let’s live with me for a long time
Let’s live together
Without me, who can you love with?
Without me, where can you tell?
Without me
// bonus the addictive lyrics, i know the song is gonna snatch the 1st place of my 2021spotifywrap, so yeh, i'm down so bad for this namseok shit :D
no more minimalist interior design ❌ the world has progressed past the need for minimalist interior design 🚫
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christopher citro, “our beautiful life when it’s filled with shrieks” / @inkskinned‘s poem about love between women
nina lacour, everything leads to you
frank ocean ft. tyler the creator, golden girl
Kendrick Lamar, Opposites Attract (Tomorrow W/O her)
jonathan d. spence, the death of woman wang
banana yoshimoto, kitchen
Today’s special: existential crisis Duolingo!
[Image transcription: “चाय क्या है? पानी क्या है? मैं कौन हूँ?” which translates to “What is tea? What is water? Who am I?”]
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it drives me crazy how humans are just meant to hold each other. how come when you hold someone's hand, your fingers just perfectly lock with theirs? how is it that when you hug someone, your face fits just right in the crook of their neck? how can your hands cup someone's face like that's their only primary function? it cannot be coincidence that our bodies are fully capable of holding another... we were designed to love