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ok you could say the exact same thing about the characters in Homer's Iliad but go off i guess
it is 2018 no one is going to slow-motion explain to you how crossovers work or what the genre conventions are

read a book
"um so the god Apollo just...shows up? And then he shoots some arrows? And then he leaves? PRETTY LAX STORYTELLING IMO"
what's amazing about this is the film itself CITES ITS PREDECESSORS in the serialized genre with a short discussion of Flash Gordon.

Serialized fiction always says "Did you miss the last film? well, we'll try to catch you up!" but it takes as given you have a lunchbox knowledge.
There is a kinetic, delightful sequence in #InfinityWar where Spidey is webbing all his falling colleagues together and shouts "sorry, I forgot your names!"

that's what serialized superhero stories are: smashing action figures together. Critique must approach on those terms.
One of the most important skills of a critic is I think the one that capitalism has left most undeveloped: the willingness to admit "I don't know how to read this."
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does anyone want an essay about Paddington that is 18 months overdue from any kind of relevance
the pleasure of PADDINGTON films is its formal delight: its micro scenes of broad slapstick & fussy, detailed Rube Goldberg machines and pop-up books enact its macro message: that the world’s chaos and cruelties are governed by an engine chugging towards unseen kindness and grace
a bear falling thru space will be met with all sort of felicities and miracles bc the world only needs us to trust it is miraculous
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While we're sharing art, in 1620 Artemesia Gentileschi painted herself as the biblical Judith beheading Holofernes, except Gentileschi in her work is decapitating her own real-life rapist, Agostini Tassi.
Gentileschi also painted two other versions of the scene, in which the two women move to dispose of her assaulter's decapitated head.
Gentileschi's father, Orazio, also painted one.
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I guess I'll just point out puppets (in entertainment, in therapy, etc) are bits of felt onto which we project human qualities and characteristics and that it is v interesting to me which human qualities and characteristics ppl decide are allowable ones.
I also think re: Bert/Ernie, "Puppets don't have an orientation" is an EXTREMELY HILARIOUS way to describe puppets when you consider their function for most of western theatrical history has been to be extremely horny.

Also you will then have to explain Miss Piggy.
Like, what this discussion actually is about, when you push past its grasping and pointless claims upon canonicity, is whether queer people are allowed to see themselves in art - and, in this case, in art made and shaped in large part by queer creators.
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OK, going to unpack this more. The Torah portion in which Hagar is cast out starts with Abraham and Sarah going down to Egypt because of famine in Canaan--a foreshadowing/parallel to the later story of Joseph and his brothers.
There's a famine, Abraham asks Sarah to say she's his sister and not his wife because he's afraid they'll kill him otherwise--he'd rather pass her off to the guy in power so that he may have sex with her with unclear consent on her part than risk his own life.
Remember that ancient Near Eastern women were pretty much up a creek without patriarchal protection--she didn't have a lot of options re: saying no to this. It is, at best, some grey area consent space, and maybe not a best-case scenario.
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I feel as if it’s fair to spend a little time speaking candidly about race in education, don’t you? There are so many with questions, and others, anxious to use their voice. Educators, let’s come together in order to grow together. #EduColor
While there are a myriad of needs to address, I will primarily be speaking about the Black experience in education - both as a scholar, and an educator.

Others, feel free to chime in with any thoughts, experiences, perspectives, and questions.
Where to start?

Ahh... Racism is America’s oxygen. All of us breathe it in. No one is untouched by it. Our country was built on the principles & evil practices of it. Every American system and institution has been poisoned by racism, including the school system.
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So, it's about time I finally did it. Join me as I play Thief: The Dark Project; I've never got further than The Sword before. Thanks to the No Spiders mod from @adurdin I hope to actually finish it this time. #ThiefTDP
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I can't believe this app is still free
Part of me still thinks it's all an elaborate joke to sell records

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One advice writer's give that we consistently explain poorly is "make every character have a unique voice."

The way we refuse to go too in-depth with it often makes it sound like characters should either be Regular, Cowboy or Yoda.

So, here, a small guide on writing voices.
#1 rhythm.

Possibly the hardest to define, every person and every character has a rhythm to how they speak. Sentence length, patterns in how we structure our speech, etc.

As a reader, it's often hard to pick up on, but as a listener, it becomes a lot easier to understand.
This rhythm can also be mostly silence. Characters we often regard as stoic or mysterious speak only when they need to. How long a given person goes between talking is a big part of their speech pattern.
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