My favorite I did was my first project. A Plague’s tale is just a well designed game, with puzzles, story telling, and awesome mechanics and having an excuse to talk about it was a lot of fun. I loved learning how much of that story was based in reality, and then I used it as… Read more My Favorite Project
Category: Posts Fall 2022
Simililizing The Brain to a Garden
Okay this is an abstract question. I wonder why Cupid and Apollo were the only two Gods mentioned in this story. Apollo for the sun, sure, Cupid because Cupid sure, but I feel like there are far better metaphors with Persephone and any of her past iterations (her origins a little unknown if she is… Read more Simililizing The Brain to a Garden
A Blazing World Questions
I’m not sure if I talked about this in a post before, but the origins of how magic works in this world just brings so many questions. In Celtic and Nordic culture, nature IS magic, and it seems to draw a lot of themes from things like that. However most Pagan roots carry this theme.… Read more A Blazing World Questions
The Faerie Queene Question
Okay as someone DEEPLY ENCHIRED IN FAE CULTURE, I wonder a lot of this story, actually, all Fae stories. Fairies as we know today are NOTHING like what they used to think of Fae. I looked it up and this whole story is like an allegory to Queen Elizbeth, and to me it’s like, why… Read more The Faerie Queene Question
Habits of Mind Post
I think I learned most about “the recognition that individual beliefs, ideas, and values are influenced by personal experience as well as multiple contextual factors—cultural, historical political, etc” from learning about the different authors from the stories we read. Like in The Blazing World, Cavendish’s story was influenced by her personal, cultural, and political experiences.… Read more Habits of Mind Post
Integrated Perspective
Obviously one of the things I hyper focused on this semester was how Christianity effects almost any story we read. Not only the religion, but the culture too. I had a second class after our class called “Twice Told Tales”. In this class we focused on old and new stories about mad scientist throughout history.… Read more Integrated Perspective
11/29 Daily Question: The Dull senses of Man
For many things our senses dull may scape,For they’re too gross to know each form and shape. It Is Hard to Believe that there Are Other Worlds in this World. by Margaret Cavendish Lines 7-8 This line is something i find interesting given the colonilization tilt of this poem sinse it makes the astute observation… Read more 11/29 Daily Question: The Dull senses of Man
Film and Theatre Majors Truly Are the True Weirdos – Extra Credit Post for Midnite
I didn’t really know what to expect when coming to watch this play. I had no frame of reference for the play itself, but I’m also hardly familiar with Midsummer Night’s Dream. I heard it was a comedy/horror/teen drama/donkey-based fever dream, and that was it. What I saw was pretty accurate to that description, plus… Read more Film and Theatre Majors Truly Are the True Weirdos – Extra Credit Post for Midnite
Final Discussion #2
After looking at everybody’s projects that they completed this semester, I saw many that I really enjoyed. There were some amazing traditional essays and some amazing creative non-essays. One of my favorite projects was Mike Gill’s sonnet because it was his first attempt at a sonnet and I liked that he found the courage to… Read more Final Discussion #2
Favorite project someone else created
My favorite project someone else did this semester tmach’s (sorry I don’t know your name!) Minecraft recreation of Pandemonium. First, I just think it’s a really clever project idea that I wouldn’t have thought of, and the best thing I’ve ever made in Minecraft is like a one story shack, so it’s always really cool… Read more Favorite project someone else created