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@Aliteraryshadow

Be patient. I will get to your book eventually. Obelisk of Wokeness. Pure Scots apparently. Chan eil mi ceart gu leor. Alt @TheSpicyStuff64

Katılım Ekim 2011
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The Poetry Decider@Aliteraryshadow·
They think a great deal of their position; don't let one of them ever persuade you he doesn't, for if you were to proceed on that basis you'd be pulled up very short." a character in Henry James' The Portrait of A Lady, describing the "radicalism" of the upper classes.
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Rachael Eyre
Rachael Eyre@Alrightpunk·
We need to do away with this notion that reading is time wasting and people are "too busy" to do it.
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Jonofarcadia
Jonofarcadia@jonofarcadia·
I do not agree with Christopher Nolan’s woke casting in The Odyssey so I will be staying in tonight and watching the classic John Wayne film The Conqueror instead.
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Gabino Iglesias
Gabino Iglesias@Gabino_Iglesias·
Seeing some “Tate dresses like a gay man” comments and wanted to say two things: 1. Nothing wrong with being a gay man/fuck homophobia. 2. Y’all need some gay friends because I have many and not one of them would dress like that even for Halloween.
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⋆˚odette 🪿 𐙚*.
⋆˚odette 🪿 𐙚*.@swannfeather·
People can’t wait for ugly people to turn out morally reprehensible so they can attack them for being ugly
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Nikki
Nikki@NicoletteFuller·
Imagine your home burning down as you helplessly watch, and your neighbor blaming you for the smoke. That's exactly what this is.
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The Poetry Decider@Aliteraryshadow·
@stillmansays There's a tendency to treat older works as direct expressions of " the values of that time."
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The Poetry Decider@Aliteraryshadow·
@stillmansays Sure, but no matter how homogenous the writing population may be, every individual work of art is a conversation with the values of that time, often in ways that are no longer clear to us. This is clearer to us in works of our own time, but
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The Poetry Decider@Aliteraryshadow·
There's this strange attitude towards the arts in our society wherein we'll treat, say, a single eighteenth century work as illustrative of and embodying all the values of that particular time, while seeing the arts of our own time as resulting from multiple conflicting positions
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KT
KT@sloyoroll01973·
I love how Christopher Nolan's take on Homer's Odyssey is freaking out racists who can't read or grasp actual facts. The book is 2700 years old. You people have no idea what the world's racial makeup looked like back then. Read up on biological evolution, you whiny dingleberries.
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The Poetry Decider@Aliteraryshadow·
So block and mute do literally nothing now.
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The Poetry Decider@Aliteraryshadow·
In the arts, there is nothing so historically inaccurate as "historical accuracy." It certainly isn't a concept that those artists applied to their works in their own time. Seems to be a very recent one as far as I can tell.
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The Poetry Decider@Aliteraryshadow·
I still want to know exactly who is doing all this under- and overrating that you're always so mad about on here.
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Cannie Oakley: Local Cryptid
Cannie Oakley: Local Cryptid@Staceballs·
The Odyssey isn’t that woke… though I did find it a little bizarre when they called intermission halfway through and made us all sign up to join DSA, but being able to see the third act definitely justified the means to such an end.
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Millie71966
Millie71966@Michelle71966·
My dad is now living with me and it has been a real eye opener as to how hard the modern world has become for the elderly. He is a highly intelligent man, fully switched on and yet he's seemingly faced with tech roadblocks with everything he tries to do. How anyone living alone
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𝓑𝓵𝓾𝓮-𝓔𝔂𝓮𝓼 𝓦𝓱𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓓𝓲𝓬𝓴𝓰𝓲𝓻𝓵
𝓑𝓵𝓾𝓮-𝓔𝔂𝓮𝓼 𝓦𝓱𝓲𝓽𝓮 𝓓𝓲𝓬𝓴𝓰𝓲𝓻𝓵@CH4R10T_TV·
sometimes people do project modern sensibilities onto the medievals and the ancients, but people also often assume that they were somehow inexplicably okay with everything bad that happened to them because it was a different time and that's not exactly smarter
🦢@ZainabSana2622

I dislike it very much when writers make characters speak with the snark of a 21st century woman.

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paris🐞
paris🐞@parispang_low·
Everyone wants to talk about making reasonable adjustments for disability but no one wants to talk about CHRONIC PAIN. It’s always absent from the discussion. There is no way to work with debilitating chronic pain and that’s what I think people are missing (on purpose).
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Peter Lucier
Peter Lucier@PeterLucier·
The Odyssey begins “in media res” which is a real flaw in the movie, because that’s a Latin phrase, and Latin hasn’t been invented yet at the time the Odyssey is set in
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Dr. Mia Brett
Dr. Mia Brett@QueenMab87·
Y’all have got to stop confusing single payer healthcare with universal healthcare. There are huge issues with both single payer and mixed payer systems but the argument is over which system not support for UHC
A Left-Wing Account ™️@PushDemsLeft

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