My Biggest Fear Is That Nobody Will Ever See Me As A Man And The People Around Me Misgendering And Deadnaming

Prince of Cats

Tybalt from William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996). Drawn on my iPad with Procreate.

these are all the same sort of animal. do you understand.

these are all small skittish creatures that love to bite and are found in drawers of garages and classrooms. they’re all related and in the same small biter family. weird little kids who play with them while they’re distracted and have empathy for them can tame them and become these beasts companions

gorgeous <3

the sound of her wings

i love shakespeare academics. i fucking love them. there’s this one guy who wrote an essay about how claudius is actually possibly innocent, or at least didn’t kill the king by putting poison in his ear, and the ghost was in part a hallucination (it’s a really interesting essay with many good points and i’m using it in my final synthesis for this class) but. BUT. some guy read it on a train. and he lost it.

this guy literally said this essay drove him to “insanity”. he went off the fucking rails about it so much so that he wrote a book over the course of EIGHTEEN YEARS about what ACTUALLY happened in hamlet and dedicated it to the guy who wrote the essay as a big “fuck you”. and that exchange between them is literally inescapable when reading about the play today. here’s an excerpt from the beginning:

this is like. the equivalent of someone making a well-thought out discourse post and then out of nowehere someone reblogging it with thousands of words of pure furious rambling about why op is wrong YEARS LATER. this bullshit started a hundred years ago, literally in the middle of the first world fucking war, and i STILL cannot escape it while reading a book on hamlet published in fucking 2000 because it’s so iconic. and i love it.

i love all of shakespeares gay little subplots. like yes bae give hamlet that line about kissing men. give him that close homoerotic relationship with horatio. give ophelia that bisexual girlboss energy. give mercutio that relationship with benvolio and then make him die tragically in his boyfriends arms. give macbeth that bi wife energy. give those three witches so much fucking gender

E. M. Forster said “fuck the bury your gays trope” in 1913 (x)

Every so often I venture into like Google Scholar for Frankenstein analysis and like, it’s so fucking bizarre trying to look up essays on “Frankenstein disability” and finding twenty articles about how the creature is an abandoned disabled child and nothing about how the guy who is constantly bedridden is disabled.

Is there any other way to look for these kinds of articles? Like anywhere I can find better matches? I do have a university account…

“The most disrespected person in America is the Black Woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black Woman. The most neglected person in America is the Black Woman.”

-Malcolm X (1962)

(Originally made on insta by @michaelabalogun)

[Multiple people have pointed out that the Sojourner Truth speech isn’t accurate. Interesting none of you bother recommending other resources to spread awareness of what it’s like to be a Black Woman while you are pulling attention away from the main point–Black Women need to be recognized. If you have such a problem with how accurate the speech is, just know I looked into it and apparently she approved the second version which also expresses how she’s feeling. Let’s move on or pm me and I can list some alternatives if it’s weighing on your mind.]

I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn’t exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It’s beautiful and doomed.

Viv Albertine (via qvotable)