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Madeleine L'Engle
MadeleineLEngle
Thread: Many people think that Camazotz in #wrinkleintime is an allegory for soviet-style communism. This is not the case. While Madeleine L'Engle was convinced that any *ism* leads to dehumanizing
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Samara Wagner 🐣🏳️🏳️🌈
TouristGally
Blood Quantum is a solid zombie movie... which is my issue with it.The hook of a majority First Nations cast is not incidental, there’s obvious ‘messaging’ going on, but there’s
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sonia
soniasaraiya
"find out where [transphobia] comes from and face the nature of its power"? what?HP as a model for battling evil?? WHAT?? it is a fantasy story where, in the end,
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Charlotte Jones Voiklis, PhD
charlottejv
THREADMany people think that Camazotz in #wrinkleintime is an allegory for soviet-style communism. This is not the case. While @MadeleineLEngle was convinced that any *ism* leads to dehumanizing generalities, she
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Jeet Heer
HeerJeet
1. The HBO series Plot Against America is exceptionally urgent and timely but maybe in a way that works against it winning the audience it deserves. 2. I mean a
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the needle-felted head of joyce carol oates
queenofbithynia
is there a secret st. john's rule says you must never say you went to st. john's, only to 'a great books college', same as Harvard people used to delicately
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The Fattest Leech
FattestLeech
Searching for something else, stumbled across this again. On one hand it’s nice to know the main (7?) books are “supreme canon” and the other (WOIAF, F&B, etc) are semi-canon,
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Zero HP Lovecraft 🦅🐍
0x49fa98
Using augmented reality, you will be able to make everyone in the world appear to be any race you want. Why is no one else talking about this? In the
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🌙 💙🍒 👻 going✈#PumpItUp
GodSungyoon
Theory for Allegory.Junho being the only member who had experienced being an idol has returned to the place where his brothers are yet to enter the world of being an
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Heather
STL_GeekGirl
I'm about to pop some uncomfortable theories about this book #MidnightSun SM understands that Twilight was problematic & is trying to fix parts in this book. Edward acknowledges he's acting
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We are living in the cop-regime.
fireh9lly
Re the strain of nerd anti-intellectualism where people say they just want consumable good versus evil plots - I actually think this is a case where people misunderstand what it
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ApocoDanny
BackFromThat
I don't know if it originated there, but I read in The Peacegiver about how the story of David and Nabal functions as an allegory teaches us this very principle.We
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Amelia
RomanceAndAils
In collating this exhibition of works i wanted to both draw on my journey & share stories others could identify with. First up is:BLOOMI felt huge during the last part
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★ Alice D. ★
AmyZenunim
eternally fucked up that an entire generation's conception of magic and witchcraft is a shitty nazi allegory written by a transphobic racist blairite it literally loses all of its childhood
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sententiae antiquae
sentantiq
Every so often we do a poll like thishttps://twitter.com/sentantiq/status/1385915983492272131?s=20 A few times I have asked who is likelier to "shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die"https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2019/06/28/a-
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Craig A. Carter
CraigACarter1
1) In Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition, I spoke about typology in ways that some found surprising - given my central thesis that we need to learn from the
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