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stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

bonivers

ntrider

noncon friendship

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Coworkers

ryukisgod

Your friend’s boyfriend

dollcoil

can you do this thing for me pleeeaassse i cant do it (sees you doing it slower and less effectively than me) i can do it actually could you maybe move out of the way

treecitysessions

“They let it happen to me. I just lay there.” is like one of the funniest things I’ve seen a celebrity say in recent years like this phrase is gonna be stuck in my head for a couple years at least

treecitysessions

They let it happen to me…

animentality

poppyseed-art

paradise-sys

stop signs were invented by octagons in order to have something to do

kiefbowl

okay. in english read clearly has two sort of meanings. read as in absorb a story. and then read as in literally reading words with your eyes. this is why ppl talk past each other. but the distinction is important because what is happening in your brain when you literally read words absolutely cannot be replicated with any other activity. this is why ppl get frustrated at "audio books are reading!!!" people. like yes, I like audio books too. I think they're great. and yes you absorbed a story. but it just literally cannot replace the mental practice of reading. you just need to make sure you are READING. you have to do it or you will lose all sort of skills, to the point where maybe you aren't actually absorbing stories from audio books as well as you think. you need to read. you just gotta!!! there's no way around it!!! and when ppl are trying to talk about declining literacy rates and why that is detrimental to all sort of rhetorical skills and retention skills and persuasion skills and comprehension skills and decoding skills and you come in with a "don't worry! audio books count :)" it just kinda proves the point!!!! like pick up a 60 page novella and read it pls. at least once a quarter. bare minimum you just have to do it!!!!