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100% Disagree
It’s an underdog story about classism in which the folk hero (Johnny) is confronted by a powerful man (the Devil) who tries to exploit the hero’s perceived ignorance and inferiority by offering a great reward with impossible odds. Although Johnny warns him that looks can be deceiving, and that he’s going to regret the dare because Johnny is the “best there’s ever been”, the devil is blinded by his greed and arrogance.
The devil creates an awful cacophony of technically excellent fiddle playing that would be impossible for Johnny to replicate. It’s a trick.
But Johnny just grins at him and starts to play “simple” classic country fiddling songs - Fire On The Mountain, House Of The Rising Sun, and Daddy Cut Her Bill Off. He doesn’t rise to beat the Devil - he simply creates his own music from his home, in the style that he knows, and his love of it and the familiarity of the music make his “backwoods” fiddling more perfect than the Devil could ever achieve.
It is thus the devil’s pride, not Johnny’s, that allows Johnny to Bugs Bunny his way into a golden fiddle.
(In that sense, I do agree that it is the most American song: in a land of prejudice and inequities, great power lies - dormant but ever-present - in those we underestimate and attempt to exploit.)
Also people initially react to the devil’s part like “holy shit that’s badass” because he’s got electric guitar and bass and a whole backing band to make him sound good. Of course he sounds amazing. But if you drill down to the actual fiddling – and this is straight from Charlie Daniels – it’s not as technically difficult as what Johnny does. It’s fast? But it’s mostly just going up and down scales.
Here’s a good performance – the devil’s part starts around 2:00. Check out how long Daniels just stands there holding his fiddle while the guitar and piano carry the weight. I love that piano bassline but fiddling it ain’t.
It’s still an American narrative: if you can afford to hire a bunch of more talented people, you, too, can look like a genius. Doesn’t make you one.
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Once again, I am BEGGING people to realize that tumblr tags are a filing system and not a visibility metric.
One does not come to tumblr to tag-spam for notes and get popular. There is no algorithm here. There is no monetization here. There are no influencers here.
This is where every other social media system comes to die. And we cackle and roast marshmallows on the pyre like the gremlins we are.
If you tag-spam to get your post seen by as many people as possible you are actually getting blocked by a bunch of people pissed off that you shoved an unrelated post into a tag they were looking through for relevant content. You also are going to be reported by people for spam. Because you are spamming.
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look i know greek mythology is super interesting and stuff but i think we should all just, like, put a moratorium on any new takes about persephone and hades and how kidnapping is actually girl power. i feel like we’ve got enough of those floating around to last us at least another thousand years.
First off, here’s a link to a translation of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. That’s the earliest written record of the myth. I like this link because it provides commentary and the original Greek alongside it.
A huge problem I have with the #GirlBoss Persephone reimaginings is that it often portrays Demeter as some sort of mean old helicopter parent who just didn’t want cool Persephone to have fun. Because a huge part about the story of the kidnapping of Persephone is Demeter grieves the lack of agency she and her daughter have. Neither Persephone nor Demeter knew about the arranged marriage beforehand and that was a very real fear that ancient Greek women could relate to. The reality was that the father of a girl had complete control over her and if he decided to give her to a man much older than she was then there was nothing she could do about it. One day your husband could take your daughter and give her to a man who lived far away. They didn’t have any real means of control over that. Sure, this doesn’t mean that every father was a tyrant, and sure, I’m sure there were many cases where the future husband was discussed with the mother. But at the end of the day the reality was that the father trumped all and if he really wanted to send your daughter to the other side of the world he could, because she was, ultimately, viewed by the law as his property.
Demeter wasn’t some mean old hag who wouldn’t let Persephone spread her wings, she was a grieving mother who, as a goddess, actually had some power to fight against her daughter’s lack of autonomy. She was willing to use everything to rage against that and fight the other gods for love of her daughter. To make her the villain of the story just seems wrong.
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does anyone know if i can like block sites from appearing in my google images searches??? i keep getting those awful ai generated things with a hand coming out of a man’s neck and just straight up not what i was looking for, because this was in a search for “curly hair in medieval paintings”. it happens every time i search for anything vaguely art-reference-like and it’s so fucking annoying and it clutters my search results so much. i don’t wanna add specific commands to the query every time too, what i need is like a browser extension or something
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good bones by maggie smith saturday . give it up for good bones by maggie smith saturday
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Guzma the bin is literally right next to you
This is the kinda BULLSHIT my friends in high school would constantly pull on each other and I KNOW Guzma would NOT BE ABOVE THAT
It’s been a while since I made a lighthearted SHORT comic with these two, this was a nice break from the usual story updates :’D
Inspired by my recent rant in the tags on USUM-Guzma giving you that strange “gift” of a grip claw:
And someone going
And then I knew I had to draw it
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Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]
i felt like these tags really added to the experience, thanks @cynderxdustypaws for your knowledge
This is one of the most powerful images I have ever seen, and I will reblog it every single time because every single time it brings tears to my eyes.
