Ted Lasso
1x03 | 1x09
The best kind of people are the ones who come into your life and make you see the sun where you saw clouds before …
The delineation between paranoid and reparative readings originated in 1995, with influential critic Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. A paranoid reading focuses on what’s wrong or problematic about a work of art. A reparative reading seeks out what might be nourishing or healing in a work of art, even if the work is flawed. Importantly, a reparative reading also tends to consider what might be nourishing or healing in a work of art for someone who isn’t the reader.
This kind of nuance gets completely worn away on Twitter, home of paranoid readings.
“[You might tweet], ‘Well, they didn’t discuss X, Y, or Z, so that’s bad!’ Or, ‘They didn’t’ — in this case — ‘discuss transness in a way that felt like what I feel about transness, therefore it is bad.’ That flattens everything into this very individual, very hostile way of reading,” Mandelo says. “Part of reparative reading is trying to think about how a story cannot do everything. Nothing can do everything. If you’re reading every text, fiction, or criticism looking for it to tick a bunch of boxes — like if it represents X, Y, and Z appropriately to my definitions of appropriate, and if it’s missing any of those things, it’s not good — you’re not really seeing the close focus that it has on something else.”
Drusilla saying “i look at you and all I see is the slayer” okay okay so what you’re saying, vampire with second sight and ability to see through barriers and deception etc etc, is that spike is literally buffy? That he is her and she is him? They are destined to be reflections of each other? Wild! Insane! Like yes this scene is about his aura being clouded by subconscious desire but it’s ALSO about how they are literally the same person and it’s now becoming more and more apparent. Drusilla chose to enlighten Spike about his identity as the slayer and as buffy, kickstarting his hero arc, Like she saw it from the beginning!!
Anonymous asked:
“I’ll fuck your dad” bisexual women looooove weaponizing their sexuality against homosexuals instead of listening to genuine criticism.
firstgrave answered:
Weaponizing my sexuality to become your stepparent
Anonymous asked:
What if.... they made Drusilla prequel comics 👀 - 🏜
sunnyhellcalifornia answered:
what if I made drusilla prequel comics
men don’t like butches because butches make them realize that women pull off masculinity better than men do send tweet
literally stop using words like "bigot" "pedophile" and "abuser" when you actually mean "person i don't like" i'm serious. not only are you making it easier for actual legitimate accusations to be dismissed as "petty online drama", but wanting someone to have hurt and threatened people in order to justify your hatred of them is insanely selfish and cruel. grow up.
man i love fictional characters i really do. here's a fake little man you can project real big emotions onto.
i always see “tag fav fruit” posts but i’ve never seen a fav veg post so rb & tag your favourite vegetable
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