christ such a whole like, deal

21+ | dyke | lupe garcía get behind me

[suchacomet]

i’ve said this before but when the peaches return next season and carson advocates for lupe to become co-coach again and they have each others’ backs and take care of the team and become for real friends who truly trust and care for each other bc they know each other now and not only are they the best pitcher/catcher duo in the league they’re the best COACHES bc unlike the men who are coaching the other teams they get what it’s like for their fellow players bc they ARE their fellow players and they go to vi’s but instead of picking up women they end up talking strategy all night and together they kick ass. then i will finally fucking win.

[spindlewit]

loose studies of some creek photos found on unsplash.

[rherlotshadow]

Path at the edge of the bluebell woods

[classicalcanvas]

Portrait of Vincent van Gogh (1887) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

[bongjoonhoe]

Tampopo (1985) dir. Juzo Itami

[neptunianfairy]

[worldsandemanations]

Athena Nangala Granites. “Napalijarri-Warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming)

[matogrice]

ALFRED JOSEPH CASSON (1898-1992)

[wisdom-hunter]

Byzantine temple of the Archangel Michael in the Selino region of Chania, Crete, Greece.

[killrockstar]

can we talk about women fucking. for once could we make up stories about women fucking each other

[perriaeyjeve]

[qcharlie]

i wish we were able to talk about women's rights without someone mentioning how much they do or don't want to have sex with them. i don't care if you're a lesbian Stop finding worth in women purely from their perceived attractiveness

[qcharlie]

"I think women should not be expected to shave for societal respect / to avoid discrimination" "yeah🤤 i love bush" ok well that's not what we're talking about is it.

[qcharlie]

i hate how many posts about trans women deserving respect always devolve into "I love girldick" or "trans rights but I don't want to date a trans person" because that's entirely unrelated to the topic at hand. you should not respond to feminism with "YESSS I loveeee you because I see you as nothing but a sex object" you people sound like other men I get stuck talking with that end up saying "free the nipple so I can see boobies in public" and thinking they're feminists. why can't we just respect women regardless of your attraction to them or not. why does it need to be brought up in every conversation regarding their rights

[kosmogrl]

[dogpuppy]

[xanaxfarts]

Assortment of whimsy window grates

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[bemusedbibliophile]

I usually tell my students that “close reading” means looking at what is actually on the page, reading the text itself, rather than some idea “behind the text.” It means noticing things in the writing, things in the writing that stand out. To give you some idea of what this means, I’ve made up a list of five sorts of things that a close reading might typically notice: (1) unusual vocabulary, words that surprise either because they are unfamiliar or because they seem to belong to a different context; (2) words that seem unnecessarily repeated, as if the word keeps insisting on being written; (3) images or metaphors, especially ones that are used repeatedly and are somewhat surprising given the context; (4) what is in italics or parentheses; and (5) footnotes that seem too long. This list is far from complete—in fact, no complete list is possible—but the list is meant to begin to give you an idea of what sorts of things we notice when we’re doing close reading.

What all five of my examples have in common is that they are minor elements in the text; they are not main ideas. In fact, your usual practice of reading which focuses on main ideas would dismiss them all as marginal or trivial. Another thing they have in common is that, although they are minor, they are nonetheless conspicuous, eye-catching: they are either surprising or repeated, set off from the text or too long. Close reading pays attention to elements in the text which, although marginal, are nonetheless emphatic, prominent—elements in the text which ought to be quietly subordinate to the main idea, but which textually call attention to themselves.

Most of you have been educated to ignore such elements. You have been taught to seek out and identify the main ideas, dismissing the trivial as you go. This has had to be trained into you: read to a young child sometime, you will notice she has the annoying habit of interrupting the flow of the story to draw attention to some minor thing. Close reading resembles the interruptions of that child. It is a method of undoing the training that keeps us to the straight and narrow path of main ideas. It is a way of learning not to disregard those features of the text that attract our attention, but are not principal ideas.

Jane Gallop, “The Ethics of Close Reading: Close Encounters,” Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Vol.16, No.3 (Fall 2000), pg.7-8 (x)