( yeah )

[purestlambs]

heres my roman empire

[hllywdwhre]

[quotemadness]

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can’t change.

Simon Van Booy

[niamhmccormack]

GILMORE GIRLS (2000-2007) 1.06 — Rory’s Birthday Parties

[patrick-stewart]

Twilight (2008) but it’s just the parts I quote all the time (1/?)

[sherrylipgloss]

austen couples + romance tropes

[milfsarahmccool]

jerin-antis, i see you, i get it i really do, but it’s not about shipping, it’s not about another straight couple on tv, it’s not even about the friends to lovers arc, or shoehorning romance into where it doesn’t belong. this couple was coming from the start, there has been foreshadowing as early as season 1. lisa mcgee is utilising centuries old conventions that are a a staple part of irish drama and literature. it’s about the fact that two young people from totally opposing backgrounds can come together and fall in love and be happy even when their countries have a vitriolic relationship, even when history isn’t on their side, even when peace is tenuous, and the future is an unknown entity. it’s about this show being more than a sitcom, more than a simple family comedy, it’s about acknowledging past representations of anglo-irish romance, it’s about picking at the tensions which still exist in cross-community relationships, it’s about using this couple as a conduit for hope!!!!

[livmoorez]

We’ve come a long, long way together.

Through the hard times and the good.

[offlinewomen-deactivated2024101]

derry girls i will miss you dearly but i also hope we will have many more tv shows like you in the future

[replicated-archive]

possibly controversial opinion but i think anyone who liked highschool and misses it as an adult is extremely deranged like i'm genuinely scared of them

[svogliata-mente]

I'm a simple person I receive the smallest confirmation that my friends enjoy my presence and I bask in it for months

[pawcakes]

weird stupid bitch core

[fearlessbandito]

💌

[kelleysroom-deactivated20180401]

[disco-cheese]

IM LAUGHING AT THIS HEADLINE

[godlessondheimite]

[fluffmugger]

#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

[pennie-dreadful]

“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

[mikkeneko]

I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance

please try this on for size:

there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present

[three--rings]

My mind just boggles at the “There’s Racism In That Book” argument.  Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM.  The message is that it is BAD. 

My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.

[las-lus]

…………the take on Great Gatsby is driving me INSANE. Gatsby… very much dies. Like. He gets punished by all of his actions and gets himself killed for them. That’s very much the point of the book? Its about how the 20′s was an era when people tried to pretend eveything was fine and great while hiding ghosts in their closets. Gatsby represents everything wrong with 1920′s america. How can you read The Great Gatsby and think its about how stalking is ok? Like, I’m sorry if you are a published author who lacks the reading comprehention to undestand of a book we all read in high school.

[solidsnake]