infomaniac

char - 30s - 🏳️‍⚧️ - any pronouns - librarian but not in a hot way

[clairenovvak]

“did the journal factory burn down” is funny but doesn’t reflect my true views which are i love to follow people who overshare every moment of their day

[3liza]

IDENTITY EMERGES ORGANICALLY FROM ACTION

[3liza]

IF YOU DONT DO ANYTHING YOU ARENT ANYONE. SORRY

[andpierres]

you should have seen me a couple of years ago!

[tamiscolaris]

over and over, by me

i was having thoughts so i made a poem about them

[thepoisonroom]

sorry but it's my MOM'S birthday why do EYE feel like crying about it

[despazito]

[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)

[cupidsncheerios]

actually the real risk with being companionless/covenless as a vampire isn't soul-crushing loneliness it's the fact that isolated vampires just start doing anything. four grown ass men got divorced last season and the second they live alone lestat starts a middling soundcloud career, louis starts stalking some poor waitress, daniel becomes a bowling fanatic, and armand is in fucking ohio

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

legend has it they are still asking this question

[thepoisonroom]

having this level of immediate bit-doing chemistry then producing your own rpf about if you'd met as kids is the type of greed they rail against in the bible

[hiveswap]

that one friend breakup. How do you feel about it

i still miss them a lot and would reconnect

I still miss them but i dont remember any specifics of us hanging out

i still miss them but no desire to reconnect

i got over it by now but i remember stuff

I don't care/remember specifics anymore at all lol

never had one of these/dont know what you mean

Remaining time: 1 day 1 hour

[animalengine]

this is what tumblr is to me

[laterkiss]

i want you (pathetic) (threat) (derogatory)

[improvisedliturgy]

Desire to have, desire to be, desire not to be: all these are ultimately desire to be a self, a particular being with an unconditional identity, and the power to determine its own nature. But the doctrine of dependent co-arising, the main pillar of early Buddhist theory, shows that this is precisely what is impossible. For this doctrine […] is not merely an assertion that all things are causally conditioned, but rather more specifically that no single cause gives rise to a single effect, nor does a single cause give to multiple effects, nor do multiple causes give rise to a single effect, but that in every occurrence, multiple causes give rise to multiple effects. […] Desire is the endeavor to create a single effect through a single cause: my self, acting alone, wants to produce precisely this experience and no other. […] All desire is…the desire to be unconditioned, to be master, owner, and enjoyer who can freely conjure up the desired thing into existence; but this desire itself is conditioned, is not owned by me or anyone else, cannot be freely conjured up or eliminated. As Schopenhauer says, interpreting Spinoza, people believe they are free because they can do what they wish, but ignore the fact that they cannot wish whatever they wish.

Brook Ziporyn, Being and Ambiguity: Philosophical Experiments in Tiantai Buddhism

[ryllen]

[ntbsideblog]

[thepoisonroom]

you can't let the stationery girlies get ahold of you or you'll begin spending more and more of your brainspace pondering the smallest size a pen can be

[thepoisonroom]

hate to say it but this little freak has already changed the game for me everyone was right about tiny pen