#Metaphors

The Christocentric Heretic 🍷

JOnabowu

"It is certainly curious also that so many Christians are able to recognise that the language of scripture is full of metaphor, on just about every page, and yet fail

𝖆𝖗𝖔𝖔𝖇𝖎𝖆𝖓 🔮 and 71 others

aroobiandreams

Analyzing the bars, metaphors, wordplays, punchlines and multiple entendres in the lyrics of "Invasion of Privacy": a thread end of thread

Mind Your Stories

mindyourstories

You may not have a disabled sensitivity reader for your book because your book isn’t about disability. The problem is, ableist terms are so engrained in our vocabulary that even

Rabbit Cohen

BathysphereHat

People make fun of ICP for not understanding how magnets work, but magnets are actually extremely complicated and difficult to understand. Not understanding magnets was the most valid thing about

Mustapha

gagasootargstan

CATEGORY IS: ROBBED For those dragging Chromatica in the quotes: The music, lyrics, and production on Chromatica was so incredibly smart. The record is filled with stories between each interlude

🌇vole, mighty digger🌆

anti_minotaur

Fisher's (im)famous Vampire Castle essay was a brave but ultimately futile revolt against the left culture that was coalescing at that time, against an insular and frankly cruel form of

Moya Lothian-Mclean

mlothianmclean

We've not even started seeing the economic impact Covid-19 is going to have. If you want to lean into the war metaphors, right now is like the Phoney War. But

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nomiddlesliders

I love when people accidentally stumble across the whole point of a book and then frame it as a 'controversial literary opinion' "EVERYONE IN THE GREAT GATSBY IS BAD" these

Yair Wallach

YairWallach

There's a narrative that sometimes people get so excited about their Palestine activism and their principled objection to Zionism that they get "carried away" and drift into antisemitism. I think

Jonathan Fisher

fishplums

think the idea is that people will use it to buy food actually the article is full of clunky metaphors, but the last bit of this par is revealing -

Dan Lockton & the Imaginaries Lab

imaginari_es

I'm fascinated by object-labelling memes https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/object-labeling as a kind of hybrid metaphor / mental model illustration—a rapid, relatable way for people to create "diagrams" of how they imagine concepts relatin

Brett Goldstein 🚀🏠🌴

thatguyBG

Metaphor is one of the most powerful tools for writers, but also technologists.It goes far beyond comparison. @gerogelakoff's "Conceptual Metaphor Theory" is the basis for understanding how every new technology

Claire Connelly

_ClaireConnelly

Just wrapped up season 2 of Hannibal. Yup. Just have three agents rock up separately to a suspected serial killer's house and don't send any back up. They'll be totally

Linsey is writing another dark fantasy about aces

LinseyMiller

There's so much in here, all of it frustrating.1. The conflation of asexuality & no romance.2. The misunderstanding of lit fic, genre, & category.3. The attached image. Just...all of it.4.

✨🏔 JGY corpsefcker agenda

shinyrock_fan

“Dead Dove: Do Not Eat” becoming standard and widespread fandom terminology is extremely funny to me, a scientific illustrator who’s the child of an environmental educator specimens in the freezer

Jash Jain

jashjain98

Sat through some of @kunalb11 and @Memewala’s Biology of money and made notes. So its time to signal and gain engagement:- Kunal and Anand chose to drop out of formal