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soup you have one of my most favourite writing styles that I've ever come across on the internet and now I have to SIT HERE and READ "get up and wok away" WITH MY OWN TWO EYES
they want you to make fried rice
This is a tragedy! Betrayed by one of my favorite authors!
Which of the ros like pineapple on pizza?
And what r ur thoughts on it
None of them
It’s evil 👿
i agree! it’s so frustrating that we constantly review the same old texts over and over again—for instance, we read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote this year, and yeah, it was fun to analyze, and it was wonderfully written, but it’s cultural significance feels really dated. And there was a lot of focus on formatting. the "classics" that we read are almost always realistic fiction, wholly english/american literature that doesn’t carry much relevance anymore. Not that they’re bad! but i would also like to read Tolkien’s books or Wells’ books or even something simpler like Roald Dahl or Dr. Seuss; more recent and modern writers that we are familiar with that became very popular for reasons that are relatable today.
I wish that English teachers would actually teach us from newer texts too. Like yes, the old ones are good to look at, Shakespeare's a cool writer but also current texts would be good too, like some times, please
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Supposedly in regarding the Killing Joke, Alan Moore himself actually expressed regret working on that one, in particular for what it did to Barbara. Thoughts on this?
I agree that everyone should be uncomfortable with how Barbara Gordon was used. She was objectified, pure and simple. After being Batgirl for a lot of years, she was stripped of any sense of strength and used solely as a victim.
There was almost nothing of Barbara Gordon here, just a female body being used as a tool.
It gets worse from there as Barbara is posed nude. Why? Because Jim Gordon needed to further traumatized? No, not really. Showing pictures of a bleeding, shot but clothed Barbara would have worked just as well.
Part of it was the time period in which the book was done (1988). This kind of semi-erotic pandering was still considered more or less acceptable then, particularly in an age when DC was trying to establish itself in the adult (as in grown ups with money to spend in their hobby) graphic novel market. That said, the sexual subtext was completely unnecessary to the storyline then and the passage of time has made it more inappropriate when looked at today.
It's ironic that this twisted rape fantasy gave rise to one of DC's strongest female characters - Oracle.
To be honest, I will always prefer Oracle to Batgirl but that doesn't make what happened right.
So yes, Alan Moore should feel bad about what he did to Barbara Gordon in The Killing Joke. DC took a capable female superhero and objectified her. It was wrong then and it's still wrong now.
I can’t believe my boyfriend made a tumblr account just to reblog my posts and make fun of me in the notes
CARY GRANT as Mortimer Brewster in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944) dir. Frank Capra
