Always Learning

I just wanna talk to cool people about neat things. 24.  Interested in playing guitar (classical), storytelling, folktales, reading/writing, games, anime, comics, and more.

[vaporize-employers]

btw… important PSA: cutting off the mold on the surface of food does nothing. you can only see the spores on the surface, but mold itself has spread and grown roots into the food. by the time you can actually *see* the spores, that piece of food is completely full of it. youre still eating mold. 

many of which are poisonous and have been shown to cause cancer. youre not even supposed to sniff it, because that can get spores into your lungs. like if you look up the health and safety guidelines for mold they barely stop short of telling you to put on a hazmat suit. 

like produce is okay as long as you cut around it at least an inch, but cooked foods? you gonna die. stop eating mold people 

[khattikeri]

does that include bread

[vaporize-employers]

yes

[vaporize-employers]

[doomgeneration1995]

Here’s the USDA mold chart

[thehugwizard]

VERY IMPORTANT INFO FRIENDOS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[palominojacoby]

Gary Snyder, "this poem is for bear"

[daweyt]

“““You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.””

—

— Ocean Vuong, from “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”

[hitouka]

what if umbreons reflected the sky at night ✧

[fencehopping]

Electron microscope video of a needle on a vinyl record.

[afloydianslip-deactivated201705]

H O W 

like you can tell me all you want how the sound is stored in the grooves but fucking H O W 

HOW DOES THAT GET INTO THE NEEDLE

HOW ARE THE VIBRATIONS TURNED INTO MUSIC THAT YOU CAN HEAR???

H O W

[disparition]

The vibrations aren’t “turned into” music, they are music. When vibrations occur inside your inner ear, your brain processes this as sound.

The grooves in a record are an analogy for these vibrations, a method of remembering them so that they can be recreated later on. 

Put your hand on a speaker while loud music is playing and you’ll feel the vibrations. Those are exactly the same vibrations happening inside your ear when you hear the music. 

But how do you capture that? 

Take a surface that vibrates strongly when a sound is played, like the skin of a drumhead for example. Connect that surface to a little tool - when sound causes the surface to vibrate, the tool digs a little bit into some wax, leaving behind a pattern that matches - in proportion - the vibrations of the surface caused by the sound. This is your analogy (hence: analog music). 

Now, when there’s no sound playing, you run that little tool back over the pattern. This causes the skin to vibrate again, this time in response to the tool running over the pattern instead of because of an external sound. The vibrations should match, proportionally, the original vibrations of the music.. and thus these new vibrations, if you were to amplify them, would be a recreation or “recording” of the original music. 

That’s oversimplified of course and things have changed a lot since the days of wax, but that is very basically how the process of recording music worked at first, and the general idea of how sound gets from a groove in a record into your brain. 

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

Ironic that Bilbo is so annoyed with the Sackville-Bagginses for stealing from him and trying to evict him from his house, when his whole adventure involves stealing from someone and evicting them from their house.  

[avengerwho-deactivated20190925]

To be fair, he was essentially helping someone else get rid of their own Sackville-Bagginses

[brawltogethernow]

This is an absolutely world-rocking take on narrative parallels in The Hobbit. Like why yes those were equally petty property disputes, and your point?

[pulmonary-poultry]

Thorin: “The dragon Smaug is terrible beast who has invaded our home and taken the heirlooms of our people as his loot.”

Bilbo: *remembering the last time Lobelia Sackville-Baggins was in his house* “I know the type.”

[kyraneko]

“Smaug is basically an unusually large Sackville-Baggins” is not the take I expected from the Tolkien fandom today, but it absolutely fits.

(I am also sad that even if Bilbo had called Smaug a Sackville-Baggins to his face, Smaug would lack the background information to know just how he was being insulted.)

[trochaictrimeter-deactivated202]

crash course in literary theory twentieth century onwards

structuralist linguistics: saussure invents linguistics to study language as structures. for him, words don’t give names to preexisting things but create concepts that determine the way we understand the world

russian formalism: thought literature was only form, no content. the idea that art existed to make the familiar seem strange. jakobson founded the moscow linguistics circle when he was 19 wyd with your life

new criticism: so cleanth brooks and robert penn warren right? they write this book called understanding poetry. this book changes the way english classes work forevaaaa. because suddenly class isn’t just about what the poem says but you can use 50 minutes to talk about how it’s said and make your own connections. birth of close reading. and the phrases “the intentional fallacy” and “the affective fallacy”

structuralism: levi-strauss takes saussure’s ideas and applies them to a bunch of myths and finds that their underlying structures are all the same. then applies it to culture as a whole and says they all operate on constructed binaries. lots of things to do with the centre.

deconstruction: derrida starts off this speech at this conference to glorify levi-strauss and then makes a career out of dragging him. the centre does not hold. there is no centre. as barthes writes, there was this guy named guy de maupassant who always ate in the restaurant on the eiffel tower because that was the only place he didn’t have to see the damn thing. basically that, but in theory.

new historicism: born out of the guilt complex of isolating the text from its author. focuses on historical context. greenblatt writes entire books about historical contexts of plays (like hamlet in purgatory). foucault is a huge influence and intertextuality (coined by julia kristeva) is a thing

marxist theory: the superstructures like culture are determined by the economic base. all the bourgeoisie and proletariat things. zizek (use the correct accent things please) and terry eagleton. my professor thinks literary critics are in a privileged position and hence feel the need to contribute to the world hence use marxist criticism to make themselves feel better and * sigh * i gotta write that on the exam

feminist theory: started all the way back with wollstonecraft and woolf. intertwined with political feminism. revisionary reading that exposes biases. judith butler!!!!!

queer theory: began as liberation movement. undo the idea that heterosexuality is the norm. identify and reclaim non heterosexual authors. michel foucault wrote a lot of things. yes, shakespeare was bi.

postcolonial studies: deals with hegemony of texts and cultural imperialism. analysis of history and culture of formerly colonised countries. expand literary canon to include colonial and postcolonial authors. achebe and rushdie all the way!

freudian psychoanalysis: IT’S NOT FUCKING REAL! everything that came out of freud’s mouth along with some carl jung stuff about collective consciousness and archetypes and whatever it was that lacan said about mirrors. maybe mention harold bloom’s anxiety of influence thing. 

[langblrwhy]

[todoyamas]

savage nymph ⚡

[sunnystrawb]

oh to be part of a snail friends group and eat some mushrooms with ur snail knife and ur snail fork

[sleepiestpoet]

Stuck in a house with two snorers and very little couch space at 5 30 am

Can gradually feel my sense of reality diminishing. Just me and the big white fluffy dogs. I'd peace, but I don't wanna leave their door unlocked in the middle of the night when I go. PLEASE SAVE ME!!!

[vmvndv-666]

[pinsandweevils]

Relatable seafaring memes from the 18th century

[scotianostra]

[fangirlycupcake]

Is that how you think I fucking walk

[dungeonqueering]

Hey what happens if a warlock's patron dies?

[monstrous-ideas]

I imagine pact being a two-way soul link. Warlock dies, patron gets a soul that was well fed with magic. Patron dies? Their soul is split into pieces and absorbed by each of the warlocks... that would be interesting story. Group of warlocks wants to put the soul back together and revive their patron. Others want to absorb rest of soul pieces and usurp full patron's power for themselves

[knightsolaireofthesun]

Disaster casters meet and join forces to resurrect their magic dad. Found family trope included

[monstrous-ideas]

You know what, that's much better story

[catchymemes]

[daisydandy]

“Beauty Tahani wants to battle!”

“Trainer Chidi wants to battle! …Maybe? Actually, hold on, he isn’t totally sure yet. Trainer Chidi is debating the ethical implications of Pokémon battles with himself. It’s… taking a while. Maybe you should just go.

Trainer Chidi… has a stomach ache.”

“Holy shirtballs! Trainer Eleanor wants to battle!”

“Oh, dip! Trainer Jason wants to battle! “

“Trainer Janet wants to battle, and she can absolutely assure you that she does not have a Maractus!”

“Elite Four Michael wants to battle! (He’ll meet you in the dot of the “i”)”

[sleepiestpoet]

@danceswithpens