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Imagine you’re some little evil woman sitting in Hades’ throne room when Orpheus walks in to make a deal to get Eurydice back, and Hades is like “yeah ok, just don’t look back otherwise she has to stay here” then walks out of the room. Almost immediately after hearing the conditions, Orpheus breaks his own neck so that is is physically impossible for him to turn it, and then demands that you gouge out his eyes for good measure.  Eurydice then gets really upset because she’s convinced this is a sign that Orpheus hates her and never wants to see her again, and Orpheus is completely convinced that this was a normal and logical thing to do.

You are literally the only person in the universe who recognizes this as an act of love. They both then insult you to your face for thinking this is anything other than very normal (Orpheus), or petty hatred (Eurydice).

You are Ianthe Tridentarius.

#holy godfucked shit #tlt #tlt spoilers #htn #htn spoilers #ianthe naberius #fucking HELL

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mutuals and followers at large I'm glad you're alive and I hope it gets easier

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happy St. Mark's eve, to those who celebrate

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God I smoked so much weed I turned into a rat and my partner is now a wooden figurine unable to speak to me I miss them so much

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whoops

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The Canberra Times, April 23 1989

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much ado about nothing is about a gay man and a lesbian realising they’re actually bisexual

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Benedick: I love you

Beatrice: Okay, will you kill your friend for me?

Benedick: Um.... but he's like, my friend... can we talk about this?

Beatrice: Then your love is worth literally nothing. Move along.

Benedick: FINE

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Summing up Shakespeare Plays in six words or less Part 1

Romeo & Juliet: It’s a comedy! SIKE.

Macbeth: Badassery, but evil. (Ambition is bad…)

Hamlet: Hamlet do something! NOT LIKE THAT.

Midsummer Night’s Dream: PUCK, NO. You forgot the play-with-a-play.

King Lear: Fucked up so badly, France is heroic.

The Tempest: Ariel deserves better. Prospero’s a dick.

Twelfth Night: Everyone’s gay and winning! Except Malvolio.

Much Ado About Nothing: Haha, funny romance – MEN ARE TRASH.

Antony and Cleopatra: She’s actually a really complex character.

Julius Caesar: Who’s the hero? Up to you.

Love’s Labour’s Lost: Five men can’t control their dicks.

As You Like It: This is Shakespeare’s fluff piece.

Henry V: You know the speech. That’s it.

Henry IV: Henry V: how did we get here?

The Merchant of Venice: Antisemitism! The play! (Even if unintentional)

Othello: Don’t believe what you hear. Also, racist.

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David can’t even finish this anecdote about how he cut his finger during the Romeo and Juliet he did 25 years ago without turning to Michael and being like “what’s the line at that point of the play” 😭

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Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

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Roasted chicken, ginger, daikon, shiitake mushroom soup with lime, cilantro, broccoli sprouts, and rice noodles

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Keep thinking that Falstaff...

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Unintentionally humorous moment in this Yiddish translation of King Lear: for "unburden'd, crawl towards death," the translator has "באַפֿרײַט פֿון לאַסט/מיר װעלן שלעפּ זיך דעם טאָיט אַנקעגן". For "crawl", the translator chose "drag myself", which is fine, except that the word in Yiddish is one you'll already know: "schlep".* "I will schlep myself toward death," said King Lear.

*granted, the word probably doesn't have the same connotation in Yiddish--it just means "to drag" and is appropriate, but to a modern reader? That's incredible.

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me watching one of shakespeare's plays: wow this is like.......really good. do people know about this. do they know that this shakespeare guy is good

#maybe i should tell them how good he is! #they might not know otherwise

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As a transgender man who is going to be having a baby, I am so glad that by technicality my child will be able to fulfil the prophecy and defeat Macbeth.

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the most insane double casting i’ve heard of is ophelia and horatio being played by the same actress. the implications of that drive me crazy