#Allegory

Vidya Ganesh

VidyaG88

1/6Good morning everyone!! Here is a small thread on a beautiful #allegory based upon the Chinese Bamboo . An allegory that teaches us #patience,#persistence,#hope,#habits, #Growth & Life in general. 2/6

Vlad Stakeumms 🦇

Vlad_Stakeumms

Marvel doesn't realize it, but in trying to go woke with She-Hulk, the progressive writers they mollycoddle have actually taken of their best LGBQT characters and set things back several

T. Benjamin

1FreeInhabitant

It's late, but I think I might start another long (unfinished) thread. Why not? Coffee brewing...I listened to several Gene Decode interviews this week talking about the things nobody wants

MONKEY 🤝💜🦧

monkeyisbased

what started as a joke tweet about the skits on SB2H being allegories for managing depression turned into this thread, kinda reached an enlightened state one........... hopefully this somehow makes

matt’s idea shop

MattsIdeaShop

Die Hard isn’t just tangentially related to Christmas. It is a Christmas movie. John McClane and the Nakatomi Plaza is a blatant allegory for Santa and a chimney. It couldn’t

Amelia - lesbianics major sodometry minor

autogynamelia

Are. You. KIDDING ME with this shit?!Modern vampire fiction has queerness baked into its fucking foundations. For 200 years they've been about sex you're not supposed to be having at

Brokeback Mountain Defender

DoctorPissPants

Shrek 2 is the superior Shrek. It's an allegory for the disconnect between transness and the institution of the nuclear family. Also, it's funnier Also it's about how imperialism is

Jenova's Witness

dubsteppenwolf

I'm watching a screenwriting lecture by Robert Eggers and at one point he goes "my number one tip is don't write a goat into your movie, you can't train a

Rabih Alameddine

rabihalameddine

Corneliu Baba - The Mad King - 1984 Adrian Ghenie, Untitled, 2019 Goya - Madness (Locura) - ca.1803 Edward Coley Burne-Jones, (1833-1898), Fat Baby at TablePen and brown ink on

Fangirl Jeanne

fangirlJeanne

The thing about using Mutants as an allegory for race or queerness is it quickly reveals how little people understand how marginalization/oppression works.Mutants are not dangerous. The world around them

Hal Duncan

Hal_Duncan

Interesting thread. I've said before that I think reading the fantastic as allegory is often dead wrong, an outmoded litcrit approach for fictions that sever the vehicle of metaphor from

Liza Blake

medrenliza

This event is starting now! I will try to livetweet, at the hashtag #GettingStartedwithSpenser https://twitter.com/SpenserSociety/status/1331733009347784705 Prof. Ramachandran starting off: welcoming people, and thinking about how to move f

Terence "The Duke of Videogames" Wiggins

TheBlackNerd

Gonna become main character of twitter for the day by tweeting something like "Anyone who eats donuts is a pervert with a rectal fixation" just saying something completely stupid and

Nidhi Gurnani

NidhiGurnani

Today's of top 4 s:- Why didn't we lockdown earlier (UK) - Trans allegory of Matrix (super interesting) - Origin of wristbands & bracelets - Progressive PRDs Coronavirus &

Kingfisher & Wombat

UrsulaV

I did not think we could top “Tiktok Witches Hexed The Moon And Made It Sad” this week, but Worm Discourse Twitter is making a serious run for the top

Karl Steel

KarlSteel

Last night, @colindickey invited me to join him for @atlasobscura 's Monster of the Month talks. We chatted about the Green Children of Woolpit. Here's the story: sometime in the

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