The Entire Experience Of Watching A Shakespearean Comedy Is Hearing The Female Leads Say Most Beautifully

hi i am crying. i love you trans women ❤

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.

meanwhile in the dreamlands

" You can't wait to sacrifice yourself for this thing, but you know what, I'm going to be the one to bury you. "

spn 1.22 Devil's Trap / William-Adolphe Bouguereau's The Madonna of the Roses v The Madonna of Pietà (source)

The bury your gays trope has always disproportionately effected sapphic media and now the trope has evolved into entire TV series with sapphic leads getting canceled after 1 or 2 seasons for increasingly shady reasons but are still being pointed to as "representation"

Point blank being told sapphics are good for show but otherwise disposable

Motivational poster that says "Be your own body horror"

Actually did a proper background for once.

challenged myself to draw Herbert in a palette bc while I love them, I am rubbish at them (this one turned out okay though)

arthur and john are so funny, they literally go from "our relationship is built on trust and i value your friendship" to "FUCK YOU you suck so bad i have always hated you" in a span of minutes

podcast mutuals posting about john doe. musical theater mutuals posting about jane doe. all is right with the world.