I enjoyed sharing my Visual Rhetoric posts over the summer so I've decided to continue that idea by sharing my personal responses for this class each week. The posts won't be perfect, as they are my attempt to connect with and understand the readings, but I will do my best to convey my thoughts as clearly as I can.
On My Complicated Relationship with Law and Order: SVU
[CW: sexual violence on television] I recently started back into Law & Order: SVU after taking a 3 month break and I remembered that one of my first posts for my Visual Rhetoric course (Summer 2021) was about SVU, the nature of television, and the way that the show has changed over its decades-long run … Continue reading On My Complicated Relationship with Law and Order: SVU
#FairytaleTuesday: The Hand with the Knife
[CW: mutilation, child neglect] Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index type 576: The Magic Knife This is one of those lesser known tales that appeared in the Grimm’s first edition but was removed in later editions. I couldn't find this specific story in the ATU classification and there is no history available that I could find without doing some serious … Continue reading #FairytaleTuesday: The Hand with the Knife
#FairytaleTuesday: The Stolen Pennies
One day a father was sitting at the table with his wife and children and a good friend who was visiting him, and they were having their noonday meal. As they were sitting there, the clock struck twelve, and the visitor saw the door open, and a pale child dressed in snow-white clothes entered.
#FairytaleTuesday: The Nightingale and the Blindworm
Once upon a time there lived a nightingale and a blindworm, each with one eye. For a long time they lived together peacefully and harmoniously in a house. However, one day the nightingale was invited to a wedding, and she said to the blindworm, “I’ve been invited to a wedding and don’t particularly want to go with one eye. Would you be so kind as to lend me yours? I’ll bring it back to you tomorrow.”
#FairytaleTuesday: The Wolf and the Seven Kids
[CW: animal-on-animal violence] The wolf went away to a shopkeeper and bought a big piece of chalk, which he ate, and it made his voice soft. Then he returned to the house door of the seven kids and called out with a soft voice: “Dear children, let me in. I’m your mother, and I’ve brought something for each of you.”
Witches, Y’all…
W.I.T.C.H. has been around in various forms since the 1960s. Officially the acronym stands for Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell but they’ve been known to change it when the occasion demands.
#FairytaleTuesday: Good Bowling and Card Playing
[CW: animal cruelty] Now, there was a young man from a poor family who thought to himself, “Why not risk my life? I’ve got nothing to lose, and a lot to win. What’s there to think about?”
But Seriously, Look At Those Pants, Y’all
This is an ad for pants, y’all, literally. It’s advertising men’s pants. That’s it. And for some reason, someone in that ad meeting thought “What if we show a man from the waist down, wearing these pants, and have him standing on a tiger-skin rug with a woman’s head…” and someone else said “Brilliant!”
#FairytaleTuesday: The Virgin Mary’s Child
[CW: child abduction, violence against women] The woodcutter obeyed her. He fetched his child and gave her to the Virgin Mary, who took her up to heaven.
Bluestocking Writes... 