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Whispers from an Abandoned Art Symposium: A Critical Theory Performance Polycule by xcvimmiv
Fandoms: Critical Theory - Fandom
07 Sep 2025
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In an abandoned symposium, five icons of art and theory form a ritual performance polycule that careens between bloodletting, cyborg kinship, pop spectacle, spectral hauntology, and gender subversion. Marina Abramović bleeds for intimacy, Donna Haraway weaves multispecies kinships, Andy Warhol commodifies it all, Jacques Derrida summons ghosts of différance, and Judith Butler disrupts normativity with every breath. Together they clash, seduce, and entangle in a techno-yuri ritual of desire, satire, and insurrection.
A tongue-in-the-other-cheek séance of art theory, queer longing, and avant-garde melodrama.
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- English
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- 961
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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Blood (and) Lust: “Dracula” as Love Interest by sambojam
Fandoms: Dracula & Related Fandoms, Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897), Dracula (1979), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Dracula (1931)
05 Sep 2025
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An undergrad thesis on the cultural/literary shift of Count Dracula's characterization from strictly erotic threat to desired, romantic figure over the course of his adaptational lifespan.
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- Part 2 of Creative Writing Exercises/Assignments
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The Literary Imagery in Japanese Enka by SankaHakuren
Fandoms: 演歌の女王 | The Queen of Enka (TV)
04 Sep 2025
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Abstract：This thesis analyzes the images found in Japanese Enka from a literary perspective, and further compares them with the typical seasonal scenes and seasonal words used in Chinese poetry, Haiku or Waka, and studies the literary images of Enka through examples. Based on this, the goal of this research is to uncover the literary value of Enka, deepen the understanding of Japanese culture and society, and contribute to the revival of Enka and the conmmunication of culture between China and Japan.
Keywords: Japanese Enka; Lyrics; Literary Imagery; National Traits; Literary Value
Just write for Okouchi Himawari,the queen of Enka.
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Pour Me a Glass of that Haterade, I Guess. by cyber_flower
Fandoms: Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Warhammer 40.000
21 Aug 2025
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A certain segment of fandom (reddit) hates Mephiston.
Your humble author discovers why.let's do reader response theory
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De Grandes Amores y Otras Tragedias Modernas by Katnaery
Fandoms: 전지적 독자 시점 - 싱숑 | Omniscient Reader - Sing-Shong
18 Aug 2025
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Kyrgios Rodgraim es un profesor de literatura con un sarcasmo afilado y una profunda aversión hacia todo lo que no sea absolutamente académico. Su vida transcurre entre correcciones de ensayos, abuso académico y luchas internas filosóficas, hasta que un día aparece Yoo Joonghyuk, un estúpido, guapo y completamente inepto intelectualmente para la literatura… que, para colmo, empieza a salir con su alumno favorito, Kim Dokja.
Así que, como cualquier académico que se respeta, Kyrgios decide hacer lo que mejor sabe: sabotear, criticar y lanzar comentarios filosóficos que nadie entiende, todo mientras observa como su alumno estrella —que ni siquiera sabe cómo usar la coma correctamente— se enamora de un ingeniero de sistemas que juega videojuegos como deporte.
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- Part 1 of Kyrgios Rodgraim, padre y maestro
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Arc 9 & Beyond ● Theories, Speculations & Small Talk About the Latest Chapters by Cultur_d
Fandoms: Re:ゼロから始める異世界生活 | Re:Zero Starting Life in Another World (Anime)
16 Aug 2025
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Theories? Speculations? Analysis? Small talk about Re:Zero current state? Small talk about the latest chapter of the WN? You can come here and talk about it.
I’ll post here my own theories and more. Anime-only refrain from reading this, the amount of spoilers might be lethal.
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✞ bible ya ya! ✞ (𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Christian Bible, Christian Bible (Old Testament), Christian Bible (New Testament), Original Work
14 Aug 2025
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I’m a Christian, born and raised (and I will be until stated otherwise). But I’m also someone who’s always had questions and been very curious. I’m tired of solely relying on the word-of-mouth from pastors, aunts and uncles, or my parents (especially when they sometimes don’t align). So I’ve been trying to read the Bible for myself and take notes to help the material stick more. I’m not gonna lie, I’m what some folks would consider “lukewarm.” I’d like this journey to help me commit in either direction, whichever brings me the most peace and certainty in my choice.
So this is a deconstruction/investigation/deep-dive into the Bible, featuring notes from my actual, physical journal, transferred into AO3 text. I’m super funny, so we’re gonna laugh while asking serious questions too! And I can’t and won’t promise that there will be a lack of profanity, so if that offends or bothers you, disengage.
Shout out to those going through a similar “era” as me (early-20s crisis?) and shout out to the others who enjoy the Bible as a collection of myths with and equal amount of lessons and flaws.
Let’s get in here, hopefully discuss… and giggle. 🎀
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Frogs all the way down by Rattle
Fandoms: Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms, Original Work, Community (TV)
12 Aug 2025
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An anthology of comedic retellings with a romantic frame story.
click to unroll the index👉
1 🇩🇪 The Frog Prince
2 🇦🇲 The Talking Fish
3 🇳🇴 East of the Sun and West of the Moon
4 🇩🇰 The Shadow
5 🇮🇳 Wali Dâd the Simple-hearted
7 🇩🇪 The Twelve Dancing Princesses
8 🇺🇦 Kolobok
10 🏴The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
11-12 🇫🇷 Little Red Riding Hood
6, 9, 13 🚭 the Absolute Goddamn Legend
14 🇻🇳 Sơn Tinh vs Thủy TinhSeries
- Part 1 of In the Valley they just call’em stories
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Contrary to popular belief by EnemiesOfTheHeirBewareTheTags
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Aug 2025
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It is said that it’s unreasonable for characters to know what genre they’re in.
Is this a silly romcom?
A pretentious character study?
An exercise in pure, unbridled smut constantly interrupted by angsty inner monologues?
Honestly, who the hell even knows anymore.
This author certainly doesn’t.In their final year at Hogwarts, post-war and loaded with baggage, brooding Draco Malfoy, daddy issues and all, discovers that Hermione Granger has officially adopted a zero fucks given attitude.
Chaos, hilarity, and an unexpected collision of two worlds ensue.
Also, Crookshanks.Brace yourselves and beware the tags!
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The Author's Not Even Vaguely Disguised Fetish by cyber_flower
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors
07 Aug 2025
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So. I read Ian Watson's Space Marine
Many scatological references. So many. None of them mine.Wanna watch me speedrun losing my mind?
Wanna learn why learning literary theory only leads to misery and horror? READ ON! -
Rosé is WHAT?!? by hellboyspawn13
Fandoms: BLACKPINK (Band), Epic Rap Battles of History (Web Series)
01 Aug 2025
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,618
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
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Where the Devil is Worshipped by Muses by the_philologist for elleflies
Fandoms: Lucifer (TV)
28 Jul 2025
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Lucifer Morningstar is hot, immortal, and full of stories.
The night Linda casually asked about Oscar Wilde, she wasn’t expecting him to name-drop his way through 3,000 years of sex, literature, and questionable decisions.
From Homer to Dante and from Jane Austen to Hemingway, Lucifer has inspired, provoked, and seduced the greatest writers in history. Some of them called him a muse, and others almost called the cops. But now, he’s more than happy to share these stories with his therapist, all unfiltered and well-lubricated with scotch.
Featuring: Sappho’s lesbian court, Lord Byron’s pet bear, and at least one orgy that changed literature forever.
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What does it mean to know another person?
Hermione begins drafting a book-length study on intimacy in the context of power, mentorship, and emotional vulnerability—part academic, part personal, part confessional.
As she writes, her own relationship with Severus becomes both a subject and a crucible. When her early manuscript is accidentally shared with a visiting scholar, the fallout forces her and Severus to confront what parts of their story are truly theirs—and which belong to the world.
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- Part 2 of Between Prose and Passion
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The bookend structure and the rule of three prime the audience to expect Niya on the Yavin tarmac as Cassian leaves for Kafrene. Why isn't she there?
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Crash Out Theory TPOT 19 by NIGHTINGALE_STARS
Fandoms: Battle For Dream Island (Web Series), X Finds Out His Value (Short Film 2008)
14 Jul 2025
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WOOAAHAHAHAJAHHAHA
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When graduate student Hermione Granger begins her thesis under the infamous Dr. Severus Snape - a brilliant but emotionally unavailable literary critic - she’s warned to keep things strictly professional. But beneath his harsh feedback and withering stares lies a subtle fascination neither of them can ignore. Between whispered conversations in the stacks and quiet glances across seminar tables, something begins to smolder. He’s her advisor. She’s off-limits. But office hours are becoming far too personal.
Please do not copy, repost, or translate this work.
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- Part 1 of Between Prose and Passion
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Analysis of Batman’s Justice Paradox by sorenbrandr
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Batman (Comics)
11 Jul 2025
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“Batman’s refusal to kill, even when it means allowing known murderers to kill again, is not heroic—it’s selfish. Take the Joker. How many times has Batman caught him, only for him to escape and massacre innocent people? Batman knows Joker will never change, never be contained. Yet still, he insists on letting him live. And every time, more people die. There’s nothing moral about that—just arrogance."
A character analysis on Batman’s moral absolutism vs. real-world consequences. (+ Red Hood’s form of justice as a ideological opposite)
Jason Todd definitely didn’t write this.
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Self-professed detective Dirke Menander and his hired gun Phineas comb the guts of a collapsing building for supplies, only to find a soul unfortunate enough to have wandered their way into its bowels.
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- Words:
- 911
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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Inheritance of Giants by ThunderDunce
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga), ウルトラマン | Ultraman (TV 1966), Godzilla - All Media Types, Ultraman (Manga 2019), ウルトラシリーズ | Ultra Series, 風の谷のナウシカ | Kaze no Tani no Naushika | Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
06 Jul 2025
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Izuku Midoriya learned early that the world was stranger than most people admitted. The skies were too loud. The shadows moved wrong. And sometimes cities vanished off the news, only to reappear in whispers and scars.
Kaiju exist — not as legends, but as headline-making, skyline-swallowing facts. A global task force exists to protect the world from them, the SSSP. Their agents are always watching, but rarely seen. Their work is public, but their methods are not. Most civilians are told: if a monster comes and no hero can stop it, pray someone from the Science Patrol is listening.
But the real danger, Izuku realizes, isn’t always found in the things that tower above buildings. It’s in the people who tower over others. In the way society rewards strength, quirks, and control — and forgets to look back at what was sacrificed to get there. The world is full of ambition dressed as heroism, history turned to smoke, and power built on silence.
And so Izuku holds onto what matters. His mother. His home. Because in a world that forgets too much, the only way to live is to remember the ones you can’t afford to lose — even if the world says they were never there.
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Alternatywne odczytania "Ferdydurke" by aikoaiko
Fandoms: Ferdydurke - Witold Gombrowicz
27 Jun 2025
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Zbiór moich spostrzeżeń, które nie są aż tak rozbudowane, by pisać o każdym osobny esej.
Powstałe z przekonania, że powieść oferuje dużo szersze warstwy interpretacyjne niż typowe odczytania szkolne.
Zgadlibyście, że "Ferdydurke" to moja ulubiona książka? lol- Language:
- Polski
- Words:
- 1,131
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 2
- Hits:
- 14