Sir Walter Scott is my least flattering angle.
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Deepest apologies if you were hoodwinked into coming here by my rabid enthusiasm for minutiae. I posses no particular credibility to speak of; trifling details are in fact my only real area of expertise.
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i guess memes aren't ALWAYS a sign of ragnarok but maybe it's just cos i never cared much for Self-Deprecating Depression Three-Panel ft. Random One-Liner Dog Wandering Through*
*srz Schultz but you got 90% of the human race as an audience you don't need me lol
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I don't want to be divisive here and nobody's a bigger Tolkien fangirl than ya girl, but I feel like we should agree that it's time to retire "Not all those that wander are lost" cos it's lost all meaning outside of LEAVE ME ALONE I GOT THIS GUYS
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See I think the only *real* change modernity has made here is we began expecting experts in, say, Ancient Roman horticulture, to be useful generally. Like... no, they told you EXACTLY what their expertise is in my dudes and it ain't practical decisionmaking nor public policy, &c.
something people don't understand about academia is modern professors are so hyper specialized that they're more like technicians than scholars
they're no better at reflecting on life and society than your car mechanic
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Hmm "you too can make this world a slightly more batshit place" upon consideration is one of those things that can only be said to those who don't need to hear it
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Gotta love a good personal artistic crisis with nobody listening at arse o'clock in the morning; despairing over my inability to extricate myself from the weirdass and only middling useful roots to which I am attached... Probably a totally normal eccentric writer thing, probably.
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Man, 5 years later and here I am still with my Sir Walter Scott complex... best I can say for personal growth as a writer isn't away but rather I dug down and found underneath a foundation of Pa Gur AKA monks stuffing Latin in a Welsh suit and making dumb jokes w/ Arthurian canon
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Y'know I'd feel a bit silly acting like a Sir Walter Scott problem isn't Parliament's problem but dude had such a lack of chill (the Age of Chivalry fucked w/ architecture; good ol' gothic churches eh) history was rewritten retroactively - my man was a misplaced American no doubt
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On another note, Sir Walter Scott being so terminally uncool as to have headlines in not only this century but his own referring to him as the "least stylish writer" of the modern/past great writers is underappreciated on a DEFCON 4 level that the US gov has done NOTHING about
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Surely I can't be the only 30-something millenial who grew up reading Ivanhoe and thinking it was the zenith of cool? haha-ha-ha, guys?
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Shoutout to my Dad responding to bitching about The Internetz w/ a derisive "you know most young people are using instagram these days"
may age also grant me this ability to be hopelessly off-base and yet also dead on the mark... or at least better at verbal assassination lol
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Sometimes I miss social media... and then I scroll for like 3 more minutes and am reminded of my low threshold for non-aristotelian logic systems
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Dying butterflies cos imma strategically inclined sorta gal and we gotta make that net efficient somehow
2 years late but hey, tepid witticisms? those are evergreen, baby
You are a gladiator on the blood-soaked sands of the Roman Coliseum. You are commanded by Caesar to face a battle to the death against 5000 pounds of land animals, armed only with a trident and net, but the 5000 pound mixture of animals is up to you. Name your opponents
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tl;dr schoolyard fights are not in any way cool and even the moral objective victories will not be proud memories more ones that haunt you with cringe less lol... that said; they do exist and therefore reality vs narrative is worth exploring (a bit, lol)
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vis-a-vis recent tweets about fisticuffs at dawn i am a girl person and yes of course it's all a bit different for gendered whatsit; anwyay aturns out most every dude will in fact fight you if you hit him just hard enough it hurts while mockingly pulling your punches
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off topic really but whenever this sorta notion comes up i always have to assume these people weren't unladylike enough to ever come to actual fisticuffs cos real fights, you get one hit if you're lucky (fyi my most defensible scuffle i won); then it's all pavement from there
There are basically two conceptions of a fist fight. In one model, you conceive of it as a way to check antisocial behavior, a kind of social ritual with rules and limits and an understanding that there’s a point at which the fight ends. The people participating in the fight share must share this conception, but even more important is that everyone observing the fight agrees and will intervene to prevent escalation.
And then there’s a second model in which you have to assume that your opponent wants to kill you, so you have no choice but to kill him first. Again, maybe more consequentially, the people watching feel similarly and instead of stopping fights, regard weakness as an opportunity to safely participate themselves.
It brings me absolutely no pleasure to acknowledge that our country has within my lifetime moved increasingly from the first to the second model.
Important that our sons understand which model applies in which situations.
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