Intro] GAY GANG!

[Chorus] Niggas fuckin' on my booty till the nut drop out Cum shot to the face, everybody watch out All my niggas booty killing, suck that penis in and out Dick out, squirt squirt, we gon' cum all in they mouth All my niggas really gay gang, getting gangbanged Put that penis in our rear and let your nuts bang He gon' pull out with a shitty dick or a sticky dick He gon' stop till the cum drip or I take a shit On the block, blowing 50 men, fuck 100 men Put that semen on my tongue again, fuckin' on his friend He gon' fuck me in a handstand, I'ma take your man Need that dick in my hole back, put the cock in

[Verse 1] I suck that dick out till the semen shootin' my booty loosin' Brought a dildo to the orgy stupid, my fingers do this Then he fuck me till my booty stupid, I almost pooded Throw it back on a cock fast, [?] Penis stiffy, uh, cum start sticking, uh Big penis, uh, fuck him till I'm shitting, uh Swallow semen, uh, did it on my knees, uh Bust in my booty hole, then he said he leave it, uh Dick fat, dick fat, lick on his sack, uh Nut fast, cum blast, I grab his ass, uh Gay porn, jerk off, then I lay back, uh Gay gang finesse, cum in that ass, uh

[Chorus] Niggas fuckin' on my booty till the nut drop out Cum shot to the face, everybody watch out All my niggas booty killing, suck that penis in and out Dick out, squirt squirt, we gon' cum all in they mouth All my niggas really gay gang, get in, gangbang Put that penis in our rear and let your nuts bang He gon' pull out with a shitty dick or a sticky dick He gon' stop till the cum drip or I take a shit

[Verse 2] Sending booty pics on the internet boy That's that fruity shit, yeah we into that boy Stick it up my ass, and I don't play with no toys I want your cock in my back and I fuck you so good Booty so thick, yeah you into that boy Fat cock cum, let me see your ass boy I'ma suck his dick till it's all over nigga I don't really give a fuck 'cause I wanted that boy

[Chorus] Niggas fuckin' on my booty till the nut drop out Cum shot to the face, everybody watch out All my niggas booty killing, suck that penis in and out Dick out, squirt squirt, we gon' cum all in they mouth

Full outline here.

It'd probably be more useful than some of the analyses of texts we see around reddit.

"The Apocalypse is here everyone---oppressed upper middle class women with MFA's in fiction from boutique universities who live in gentrified lofts in Brooklyn are living in a dystopia worse than The Handmaid's Tale."

Here's the link. It's just as bad as you'd expect.

(((books)))

https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/michael-orthofer-complete-review-fiction-literary-saloon-b028a1ca2620

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=283918578806899&id=251013955430695

Link for the morbidly curious. It's as bad as it sounds.

Thread here.

https://imgur.com/LZ8OYQk

About a year and a half ago, I posed a question in a Facebook group asking what people thought of Death of the Author. I started by saying that literary analysis probably should work like this, but cited the example of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who being touted as a pro-life book, which Seuss did not agree with (potentially leading to his name being used for that cause). There was one commenter who sided against it, offering an argument that I'd never heard before about how it correlated with when minorities started writing. It's probably coincidence, but I'd like to hear everyone's opinions.

But it's okay. Someone's going to stand up for poor, maligned Billy Shakes.

I stumbled upon this hilariously pretentious and witless review of children's literature. A couple sentences worthy of contemplation:

"One would be eager to extend his sympathies to a more reasonable child, but Alexander, with his infantile outlook, is unworthy of contemplation."

"We adults, after all, are blinded by sentiment against the narrative demerits and moral dementia of so very many of the classics we were indoctrinated with back." [sic]

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/7gojgh/fahrenheit_451_this_passage_in_which_captain/

Reddit's favorite literary bullshit is back at it again folks, let's watch how shit goes down this time!!

https://www.reddit.com/r/literature/comments/7f4h3u/historically_men_translated_the_odyssey_heres/

Goddamnit

Greetings,

As acting liaison between the /r/badliterarystudies and /r/badliterature communities, I have been given the great honor of formally inviting /r/badliterarystudies to join the official Discord server hosted by /r/badliterature in hopes of ending the ongoing war between the subs in a peaceful arrangement. The following is a message from the badlit moderators who run the server:

It is our hope to build a bridge between our sub and yours so that we can put aside our petty squabbles and come together to laugh at bad writing and bad criticism. More than that, though, we would like to help each other further our understandings of good literature and bad literature, of good literary studies and bad literary studies, or at the very least we would like to procrastinate doing so together. So please come. Talk about books with us. Talk about not-books with us. Or don't talk to us and just lurk instead. We'll be happy to have you. We hope to see you soon.

Here is the link again for if you are interested. I have attempted to reach out to the mods of /r/badliterarystudies regarding this, but it seems as though they are presently in a prolonged period of absence from reddit. Thank you for your time.

-- sandman91

Not sure this qualifies as Bad Lit Studies but, first of all, why would I read young adult if I am not a, er, young adult? But second, the justifications in these comments for not reading more challenging literature is, IMO, frustrating:

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/72bm57/harry_potter_is_a_solid_childrens_series_but_i/

'Oh but Ayn Rand doesn't count for [reasons]'

Link

So my understanding of the Blue Curtain argument (and the way its mocked on this sub) is basically that the act of attempting to read symbolism into the most mundane parts of the text isn't invalid, and that everything in a text ought to mean something. This is an important part of literary studies, and something a student using the Blue Curtain argument is missing.

Second year English major here. Please explain to me why this is right? Is it not likely that the author has put something inside a text "just because", and it didn't meant nothing to her? Or are we approaching this from a reader's perspective, and saying that authorial intention is invalid, and if something in a text means something to a reader, then it must be true, because the author is dead and it is the reader's interpretation that matters?

x-post r/literarystudies

https://youtu.be/hkh6j44pHSY?t=90

Fine Bros making me glad I don't teach anymore.

You saw it on the front page, now you see it here.

“The conclusion I came to was that nobody had asked them. New Criticism was about the scholars and the text; writers were cut out of the equation. Scholars would talk about symbolism in writing, but no one had asked the writers.”

However no matter the flowery language it's couched in, it's theme is base, shared with some of the crassest pieces of popular culture. Think Carpe Diem crossed with Shaggy or Black Eyed Peas my humps.

Sorry if this isn't the right sub. There's no /r/badfilmstudies but I figured it might fit here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/comments/6m9j63/sanity_sunday_tumblr_user_tries_to_insist_that/

Summary: someone on Tumblr said that "Spirited Away" was a metaphor for the sex industry in Japan. Someone else goes on a long rant about how Miyazaki is "man of values" who makes movies for small children and so the theory must be wrong.

TiA is having a good old "nothing has deeper meaning" circlejerk, since the author (Hayao Miyazaki) clearly didn't mean to make anything more than a fun children's movie!

It isn't true though. Bath houses have long been used as a front for prostitution, and as someone in the thread linked, Miyazaki himself has said the one in the film is meant to be a brothel.

I'll borrow translations from the /r/translator thread here since Google Translate is pretty bad on this (and I don't want to re-translate it all myself either).

Miyazaki (Sep 2001 issue of PREMIERE):

Japan has always been a country that looked upon sexuality with indifference, and so Europeans were disgusted that we lacked a certain sense of virtue, to the point that they tried to force sexual morality onto us. I'm not saying we should be trying to revive that kind of thing at all, but nowadays I think the most appropriate image when picturing the modern world is the sex industry. Hasn't Japan become a sex-industry society? I think this is a country where the number of women who look like they'd fit right in at a brothel is increasing enormously. And the men... I was the one who oversaw Tokuma's funeral service, and the big-wigs and other people who passed me by, they were all wearing these unseemly suits, when I saw them I thought they looked like frogs. There wasn't even one who looked like a proper man. We're already a country of frog-men and slug-women. Although in the end I drew that in its own way in the film (laughing).

And,

Also, regarding the absence of a large public bath in the bath-house, Miyazaki stated, "That's probably because they're doing a lot of questionable/indecent things (laugh)" hinting that the establishment is a brothel.

Then from a book by producer and long-time colleague Toshio Suzuki:

So, to Miyazaki, Yuya was intended as a brothel. That's what he feels a soapland is like. Because he can't go to a place like this, it would be too embarrassing [that's how he imagines it]. "Serving the Gods" may be a nice way of putting it, if you were wondering what they are doing, that (referring to Soapland) is what they're doing.

So while "it's all about prostitution" is a complete overreach, the symbolism is undeniably there, and entirely intentional. This is not an "edgy fan theory".

This is just fantastic. The denizens of /r/books really don't know how to read books

What a convenient mistake

http://www.reddit.com/r/OopsDidntMeanTo/comments/6lszsk/totally_unintentional/djwfvse

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