Tag: critique

• [fanfic rec] Do Or Do Not, There Is No Try

  

  Title: Do Or Do Not, There Is No TryAuthor: andquitefrankly, Tumblr: gruvvulousgloveStatus: COMPLETE [38 Chapters]Rating: R/MaturePairing: FrostironSummary: Avengers High School AU. Loki’s a nerd. Not just any kind of nerd. But a huge nerd. With a heart of lead. Why Tony Stark has taken an interest in him is beyond anyone’s imagination. Maybe he wants…

  dappled-things

  December 7, 2018

  book review, fanfiction, literary critique

  critique, fanfic, fanfiction, fanfiction writing, literary critique, loki, loki fandom, loki fanfiction, review

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  Interesting considerations in this article. As I have stated before, forgiveness will cease to exist in this regime. Link

  dappled-things

  July 22, 2018

  culture, interesting stuff, quote

  callout culture, censorship, critique, cultural customs, culture, forgiveness, hollywood, informers, james gunn, marvel, matriarchy, mistakes

• [posting][review] Top Five Intellectual Anime Shows

  

  One of the common misconceptions about anime is that it is a strange and goofy genre designed for middle school students, but while that is true about quite a few that have had massive impact in Western culture (I’m looking at you, One Piece and Naruto), quite a few anime have been created specifically for…

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  May 26, 2018

  literary critique, literature, nonfiction, review, thought piece

  AI, animation, anime, art, critique, culture, ergo proxy, ethics, history, ideologies, intellectual, japanese culture, japanese history, narratives, philosophy, psycho-pass, psychology, robotics, samurai champloo, sayonara zetsubo sensei, sci-fi, scifi, social issues, society, steins;gate, technology, time travel

• [posting][school piece] The Role of Film in Art and Culture

  

  Every other month or so, I sit down to re-watch one of my favourite artsy docufilm Oceans (Disneynature). Why do I watch it so often? What is it about this film that draws me back again and again? Why do people watch films? What role does film play within art and culture? Cultural theorists have…

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  May 23, 2018

  literary critique, literature, nonfiction, original fiction, thought piece

  adorno, critique, film, film critique, horkheimer, literary critique, literature, mirzoeff

• [posting] As Kingfishers Catch Fire: A Close Reading

  Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry is stunningly difficult to parse, but when exploring the spaces of and between his words, one cannot help but come to a deep appreciation of the ideals that Hopkins imagined within his poetry. In “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”, Hopkins looks at a concept he considered deeply: ‘selving’. Using a combination of…

  dappled-things

  May 11, 2018

  literary critique, nonfiction

  as kingfishers catch fire, critique, gerard manley hopkins, inspirational, literature, poetry, spirituality