#like if shakespeare was a millenial

[rustbeltjessie]

To what purpose, April, do you return again? (or: finally, a pinned post for April)

Hi all. I'm Jessie Lynn McMains, aka Rust Belt Jessie. I'm an Xennial/Elder Millenial (please don't call me a Geriatric Millenial, thank you) writer/artist/zine-maker/etc. (I wear many hats.) I'm queer and nonbinary/genderfluid, and as far as pronouns go, I’m okay with any human pronoun (they and she are my most-used, but I like he, too, and I especially like it when people switch up the pronouns they use for me). I’m disabled and neurodivergent.

I live with my partner and our two kiddos, both of whom are also neurodivergent, and right now I’m supporting all of us on whatever money I earn. I do freelance copywriting and editing as my main thing, but I also make a decent chunk of my income from selling my zines and books and pins and whatever else I make, so the more I sell, the better able I am to pay bills and take care of my family.

Through my Ko-fi, you can buy my zines and books (I have both poetry and prose available) and pins, as well as commission me to make you a music-inspired mini-collage or hire me to edit your own writing. Or also just throw me a few bucks if you appreciate the content I make available for free.

If you live outside the US (I can only ship within the US via Ko-fi, because setting up shipping for multiple countries is a pain the butt), or just prefer to purchase something or donate via a different platform, I also have PayPal and Venmo (@ JessieLynnMcMains).

I also have a Substack newsletter. I try to send something out at least once a month. Sometimes it's a longer piece about music and nostalgia (I recently started a series called These Fucking Songs, for just that purpose), sometimes it's just updates on what I'm up to, sometimes it's something else. I'm currently working on one about poetry, and my writing process, and revision.

As if that weren't enough, this month I'm doing a 30/30 on the Tupelo Press site, which not only means I have to write a poem every day to be posted the next day, but I am also fundraising for Tupelo Press. My goal is to raise $350 by the end of the month. You can follow along with my daily poems here (the newest is always at the top; scroll down to read previous days), and the fundraising page is here. (I'm also offering some cool incentives for people who donate; more info about all that is available on the fundraising page.)

I'm pro-trans, pro-vaccine, pro-sex worker, pro-abortion, pro-Black Lives Matter. I'm for harm reduction for any drug user or addict, meaning I want them to be able to use drugs as safely as possible, rather than forcing them into rehab or incarcerating them. I'm anti-censorship and anti-fascist. I believe everyone, everyone, should have a safe place to sleep and enough to eat without having to earn it. I consider myself an anarcho-socialist, basically, but I do vote. I'm telling you all that because if you are vehemently against any of those things, we'll probably not get along.

I'm a forever-goth/punk who loves all kinds of music. (Things on heavy rotation for me as I write this are: The Replacements, Einstürzende Neubauten, and Oliver Nelson.) I'm femme but I'm a disaster femme; when I use nailpolish it's always sloppy and/or chipped, when I wear eyeliner it's always crooked and/or smeared, and I am incapable of not ripping a hole or two in every pair of tights and stockings I own. I love art and film and theater and literature and music. I'm a Shakespeare stan, I love growing my own vegetables, I collect souvenir pennies and stick and poke tattoos. I'm always a slut in theory, even when not always in practice. I'm perpetually nostalgic, melancholy, and restless. I spend all my free time posting pictures of myself on the internet and trying to prove I'm punk to anyone that'll listen.

Want more Jessie content? There's my website (still under construction, but it exists). Or you could try searching the my writing, my art, Jessie Lynn McMains, or Rust Belt Jessie tags on this blog. I also have a side blog, where I tend to post more frequently than I do on this blog. If you ask nice, I'll probably give you the URL.

On that note, my DMs and asks are open, and, as of right now, anon is on.

I think that's it! As always, whether you can send any $$ my way (or to my fundraiser) currently or not, keeping this post circulating helps. Thanks much. 🖤

#rust belt jessie #jessie lynn mcmains #about me #pinned post

[imaginepostingonsideblogs]

castiels relationship with media& vocab is so fucking funny to me btw. he calms himself down by reciting the whole of the raven by edgar allan poe that he just?? apparently has memorised? and then he turns around and calls people boomers unironically (millenials 🙄). he asks people for favours by saying 'i crave a boon' and then gets mad at them for being like 'what the fuck are you saying'. he refers to 'gonads' as a concept and then proceeds to call toilets 'shitters'. he's a shakespeare nerd. he literally never paid attention in school so idk where he's getting any of this.

#castielposting #sorry hes occupying my mind r #rn.

[yanderefairyangel]

Gotta love how according to detractors Engage is simultaneously an insignificant game no one cares about anymore but also holds an iron fist over the fandom to the point where they are supposedly oppressed for not liking it. Which is it? Does no one care about Engage anymore or do people care about Engage so much the fandom oppresses those who dislike it?

Oh really, it's neither.

We keep talking about it. I remember in one of his most recent videos Ghast said "discussion about Engage are at it's lowest" which got a chukkle out of me. Cause like, discussion about Engage are still super active. Like, I recently started on TwittX and today I woke up to 139 followers ! My Engage content got me a lot of new followers and the video I posted about it reached 232 view in less then 2 weeks. The original soundtrack just released and all day it was just Engage fan gushing about it ! We got a lot of Engage unit in Heroes and the manga is soon releasing. Discussion about the game are super active !

But also, the whole oppress makes me laugh cause if anything I saw people getting oppressed for liking it ! Say you like Engage on reddit, you'll get mass downvoted. Don't get me started on ytb. People will try to tell you you have as much IQ as a 3 year old for liking this game because "cringe, bad, chessey" or whatever lol. We are just tired of people who will say "game bad" and then proceeds to admit they skipped the cutscene. I mean...

I swear to God, that's going from "haha ha, ridiculous " to "ok now y'all are just pathetic". Like someone even tried to tell me that the game was trying to take responsability off Zephia because "it established that Sombron raised Zephia and taugh her many wrong things" (yes, really)

I am getting tired to see people who genuinely believe that Zephia is Veyle's mother, and don't get me started on that one person who managed to believe she was both Veyle AND Alear's mother. And there was that one person who called it a deus ex machina that the Emblem used the miracle to revive Alear because they though it was the same power as the one they bestowed every 1 000 year, never mind that Sigurd literaly explain in chapter 18 that this is a different power. People for some reason keep asking how Alear managed to summon the Emblem back when Sombron "closed the portal" even though both Sombron and Alear says at least 3 times in less the 3 second that Sombron didn't closed it completely !!

Heck, one of those "genius" tried to debunk the response I made to the 2hour long video art becomes obligation and he straight up said that "the story never established Sombron as arrogant"... I kid you not

Because he completely forgot that Sombron murdered the only person who can summon them and absorbed all their power... even though in chapter 25 Alfred explained that the Emblem lost their millenial power because of Sombron and can't perform the miracle any longer, so no one need them anymore.

They really believe we can take them seriously when they do that ? Of course not, they are just making a mockery of themselves. Nothing more, nothing less. We can accept not liking the game and discussing it, but do they really wanna act like the victim when we are telling them "if you skipped the story, you have no right to criticize the story" ?? Like, imagine if someone took one of Shakespeare book, quickly skirmed through the pages and then said "it's bad"... isn't that ridiculous ?

Their argument was already self contradictory enough, but when you KNOW that there is pretty much everything I said behind said argument and that they still lack the self awarness then you know you are dealing with a bunch of walls. Little sheeps that follow their Shepherds of FEtubers opinion. So now, they want us to believe they are "oppressed by the fandom in liking a game that the fandom decided to hate and that should you like it, you will end up burn at the stake ?" Yeah, sure. Makes total sense.

#fire emblem #fire emblem engage #fe engage #i am not over clowing them #they keep feeding the material I swear I don't even need to move a finger

[o-wild-west-wind]

i just saw one of your posts (the one abt how ppl saying izzy's death dosent make sense must not have seen the shakespeare post) on pinterest and i was like !!!! omg i know that person!! anyway have a good day

WHAT that’s so funny am I breaching containment?? This might be one of the instances where I lean more millenial than gen Z because I honestly didn’t know Pinterest was used for anything other than soup recipes and unaffordable decor inspo 😭 has this been a thing the whole time? what world lies beyond tumblr’s walls….

#it’s also so funny to me that that’s the post that made it out because it feels kind of random #but I don’t know enough about Pinterest fandom to question that LMAO #what a world you’ve enriched my day nonny thank you

[incorrectgenerations]

Gen Z: I'm not that dramatic.

Millennial: When I asked why you were wearing a bejeweled tiara, you quoted the entirety of Shakespeare's monologue and then broke down crying. And you know the scariest part? You were sober.

#incorrect quotes #incorrect #generations #generation z #gen z #millenials #millennial #millennials #gen z memes #gen z vs millenials #gen z life #shakespeare #royalty #living like larry #memes #monologue #acting

[too-cool-for-facebook]

I'm drowning in my anxiety, but in like an Ophelia kind of way

#millennial humor #millenials #millenial #millenial jokes #anxiety #generalized anxiety disorder #anxiety disorder #anxiety do be like that #anxiety jokes #shakespeare jokes

[serpents-den]

im sorry i cant get over ppl thinking you were a millennial, 💀 you just very clearly speak like all the teens i know that its bizarre to think that anyone genuinely thought you were 25+.

and the people who are like "most harry potter fans are older" ??? there was a whole harry potter renaissance among gen z on tiktok and twitter, its not uncommon for teenagers to be interested in hp

PLEASE THEY RLLY SAW MY BLOG AND SAID "YEAH,,, THATS A 24 Y/O RIGHT THERE" . i dont know about twt bc i was/am/will never be on hp twt, thats basically ben barnes in tpodg and that one guy that played someone in the beatles like ... 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️ and tiktok is basically the same i just quickly got away from the hp side of it. there was this hp boom a few months ago bc

1) jkr is physically unable of letting the damn thing die. miss "i dont like prequels or sequels whatever she said" proceeded to drop the cursed child and the entire fantastic beasts thing completely unprovoked.

2) ppl were quarantined and bored, netflix added the hp movies in some countries and that made everyone -17 y/o remember hp existed.

and ive always liked hp but came back to tumblr bc i... listen theres many reasons but mainly its bc in 2020 i got my 828282 twt accs deactivated and sometimes i need to post my bad takes somewhere.

but yeah i agree, just bc hp was first published 20+ years ago doesn't mean everyone that likes it is a millenial. nobody has ever told me i was a couple centuries old for reading shakespeare.

#serpents den's asks #answered asks

[weaver-z]

Gen Z teens and Millenials give much better positive feedback on my writing than any boomers because boomers will look at a 30 page heartfelt narrative essay and write “Adequate. At times I felt An Emotion” and Gen Z teens will read your terrible self indulgent fanfiction and say stuff like “Wow king does Shakespeare know you snatched his bald spot??”

#fiction #writing #boomers #joke

[smallfern]

actually someone write a thesis analyzing the impact of love story on how young millenials and gen z respond to shakespeare like psychoanalyze it because i am certain it Did Something that had not been done in 400 years. woke his ass up and sprinkled some flavor on his little tales. his cute little stories

#aw you wrote a play? that’s nice☺️ anyways here’s [love story] #taylor swift

[thought-i-to-myself]

Hey! I just started following you recently and I like your blog very much. I too am in love with Sophie Rundle's face. I hope this doesn't sound weird lol but i just couldn't help notice that you had your age listed as 32 and now it's 33 and I'm wondering if your birthday was yesterday (24th) as mine was yesterday and in which case means we were born on the exact same day! If not it's still cool to see someone on here the same age :))

lolololol. yeah so I think when I updated my profile a while back, I was 32 (or I was in that weird few-month period after my birthday where I forget I’m another year older) but I noticed yesterday that it was wrong and corrected it because I I’ve said a few times on the podcast how old I am. And since you’re a new follower, allow me to take this moment to shamelessly plug said podcast Shibden After Dark because @we-are-all-lady-women and I do PLENTY of gushing about SOPHIE RUNDLE’S EVERYTHING. So alas, I turned 33 in March and am a pisces (hence living in a dreamworld all the time), but HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you, Imaginerium!! 

And FWIW, there are plenty of thirtysomethings in this fann(e)dom because I think this show is especially resonating with our generation (older-ish millenials ?), aka those of us who grew up on a bevy of 90s romcoms like Sleepless in Seattle and Notting Hill, INCLUDING, not insignificantly, a bunch of period romance dramas/comedies e.g., Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Shakespeare in Love (which won best picture that year. . . . .), all of which depict - as I’m sure you know - straight people falling in love. So for those of us that are big homos or skew towards lesbian on the scale, this kind of representation has been missing from our lives for DECADES and is seriously mending a lot of damage that’s been done to my heart caused by a lack of representation for roughly my entire life and I don’t even think I realized quite how detrimental it was because if you don’t show queer people in all stages of their life like grown ass women falling in love with other grown ass women then you’re essentially telling queer kids that they don’t deserve to see it and if they think they don’t deserve to see it then over time they start to believe that they don’t deserve to HAVE IT and that is ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE and that’s why I'm gonna keep SHOUTING ABOUT THIS. Well, not shouting, but speaking clearly into a microphone once a week on the podcast. 

tl/dr: lots of 30+ folks here, give us more GJ, HBD!!, I HEART SOPHIE RUNDLE. 

#gentleman jack #queer representation #deep thoughts #ask #sophie rundles face #askTITM #lgbt representation

[whats-the-story-tc]

4th of February, 2020

"The One with Aphrodite and the Tempest"

[LONG POST WARNING]

You know it's cold outside when V wears a sweater. I swear this woman owns only 3 types of upper body clothing — flannel, striped or something with cats on it, with the occasional something grey.

First time I spotted her before Physics, she was crossing the "bridge" with the relentlessness of a warrior. Here's to another cheery day at school, I thought. I was already tired and half asleep by then and it wasn't even 10 AM yet. Pocketwatch Friend told me to hold on, as we only had 3 more classes left, "two of which you'll enjoy." I don't think I need to specify that one.

Rumours spiralled that, even though we were having double Literature today, V would have us write a previously promised Grammar test. We all started studying in a complete state of panic. What we didn't expect is that, indeed, she was going to quiz us—but in spoken word instead, by the usual rolling of her magic geek dice.

There's this competition between a girl and a boy. He jokingly claims he is better than her at everything, she challenges him. Whichever one of them has better grades at the end of the year wins. V is an absolute fan of this competition, and is pretty vocal about her support for the girl. She was V's first victim today, and when she failed to answer her questions, V, shoulder leaning against the wall, smiles and asks her "How are you gonna win this competition then, babydoll?" Haven't heard her use this pet name for any of us in a hot minute. We're usually fairies or kittens lately. (Pet naming children as a teacher is a thing here folks, don't get alarmed. Our homeroom teacher, for example, calls us her darlings all the time.) Now that I think about it, I don't think she ever called me personally any of these. The day she does is probably the day I die.

Next one up was Know-It-All, who, contrary to his pseudonym, knew fuck all about romanticism, and basically bullshitted his every answer very stupidly, having us all in a laughing fit during those ten minutes he was in the spotlight for. The faces V made were the best, I swear. She tried so hard to be polite and not to say what she thinks, and, in the process, looked at me every half a minute or so like a cry for help. Pocketwatch Friend, who also noticed it and thought it interesting, later explained it as "You're the one who's a bit higher up the intelligence scale out of all of us, of course she looks at you. And you're the one who talks to her." I don't think I was of much help, though. I was giggling the entire time. Especially when V admitted "I have no idea what's going on."

Her third and last victim was Bandana Friend's best friend, and the entire time she listened to her, V was sat in her chair, leaning back, legs crossed, absentmindedly chewing on her pen/holding it to her lips in concentration. When I tell you I could barely keep my calm, I mean it. I'm more attracted to her personality and wit than I am to her visually, but like... holy shit, you guys. The situation only worsened when she started writing on the blackboard, left hand in her back pocket... Thank God she wore a sweater. Were I exposed to that waist of hers, I don't think I'd still be alive to tell the story. "Take your hand out of your pocket," I muttered in agony, through gritted teeth as I watched her. Pocketwatch Friend had a lot of fun at my expense.

We read Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death today, featuring the character of Prince Prospero. V, sitting on top of her desk as she always does, asked us if that name was familiar, and left us a little time to think. Then she looks straight at me with her usual looking-at-me expression and just waits in silence. I'm panicking and probably going red in the face under that gaze that was simply too close, and, with a hand on my chest, nervously asked her "Me? Why are you looking at me?". You guys. Eyes are the first thing I usually notice in a person, the one thing I am a sucker for. And this woman has eyes to live and to die for, unparalleled by anything of this Earth and beyond. Under eyes like that, I think anyone would've struggled to form coherent thoughts. I think I know what Sappho felt when she wrote Fragment 31. As she went on to explain, she was looking at me because there is a character with the same name in Shakespeare's The Tempest. She still associates me with him, it seems. Oh, the nostalgia. Fun fact, Hamlet was the topic of our very first conversation out of class back in October 2018.

In the lunch break, I vented to my friends how I can never really impress her, no matter how hard I try. She and I both know what I know, it just frustrates me that no matter how precise and fancy I get, even then I fuck things up, or miss my chance and I can never surprise her. Turns out I was boo boo the fool. Again.

In The Masque of the Red Death, there's this ongoing motif with the clock striking, which symbolises the coming of Death. As V was talking about this, and how it frightened the guests of the masquerade, I said "I guess you could say their clock was ticking." And what do I know, she not only calls it good, but when I looked at the blackboard, she actually included it in the analysis notes! I said something useful. I was absolutely over the moon.

The Boys in the Back, in their usual mood yet again, were talking non-stop. As I looked at the annoyed V, I could read "for fuck's sake" off her lips before she told them off. Goodbye, V the professional, hello, V the civilian. I had a good laugh.

I don't know how partying came up in conversation, but Blonde Boy in the Back asked V: "Miss, do you go clubbing sometimes?", to which she answered "I'm too old for that". You are still a bloody millenial, dear, stop acting like you're sixty. But, on the topic of old ladies, when we spoke grotesque, scary and bizarre, she brought up having a room full of porcelain dolls or an old lady with a house full of cats, who looks cute on the outside but is quite creepy, I immediately went "Umbridge". At first, I didn't think she heard me, but a few seconds later, she tied what I said into what she was going to say. I feel valid.

Today, we had some rain and incredibly strong winds. "There were many individuals in the crowd who had found leisure to become aware of the presence of a masked figure which had arrested the attention of no single individual before." As a girl from my class was reading these lines, another strong gust of wind came with a whistling sound, making the windows tremble and everyone went silent. "I think it just arrived." I said immediately. Another strong blow. "[Name], I think you conjured it." I said, and looked at V, leaning over her book, trying not to react, but I think I might have seen the faintest smile run across her face.

Towards the end of the lesson, V told the gang in the back to pass notes instead of talking, to which I said "old school", and she did that thing again where she repeated what I said. Then cats came up once again, I think it was Debate Friend saying that a cat staring at a wall for an hour is creepy. "Cats will stare at a wall for an hour anyway cuz cats are crazy." V said, without missing a beat. I'll have you reminded that V owns a cat herself. And, apparently, a Netflix account, as she mentioned having seen Episode 1 of Moffat's Dracula with the boyfriend yesterday. May I just say... couple goals.

~ S ♡

[Every story I share here, no matter how specific I get with my wording, depicts actual events from my own life.]

#tc #tcc #teacher crush community #female tc #female teacher crush

[stranger-who-writes-fiction]

for the "three" sentence AU thing: Brainy, Alex, & James -- renaissance festival actors XD

Well folks, I tried.

...

This is not the first time that Alex has covered for Kara in a pinch--her sister owes her about a dozen favors, for all of the times Alex has hastily stepped in to take care of whatever weird...’volunteer thing’ Kara has agreed to.

This is, though, the first time she’s had to cover for Kara in tights.

“I’m going to kill her,” Alex grumbles, scowling down at the small guitar-like instrument that was apparently part of Kara’s whole ‘bit.’ “Or purposefully screw up her Starbucks order.”

“You’ll probably want to keep the ‘modern day’ stuff to a minimum,” James suggests helpfully. He’s scrubbing at a dull spot on his otherwise gleaming plate armor. “Guests don’t like it when you break the illusion.”

“The illusion’s already broken,” she says, gesturing to the lute. “They’re gonna know I’m not a ‘real bard,’ the minute I try to play this thing,” Alex finished bluntly. James isn’t bothered by her tone; he hasn’t known Alex as long as he’s known Kara, but Kara had warned him ahead of time, that Alex would be...less than happy, to discover just where her sister had been picking up a few extra bucks on the weekends.

“Why can’t she tend bar, like all of the other underemployed Millenials?” Alex gripes as she stands to follow James. He tosses his rag onto the bench, and gestures towards the entrance of the tent, ready to show her around the fairgrounds.

“You can blame Winn,” he says. “He’s the one who started it.”

“Yeah, and then he moved to the other side of the country,” Alex adds, tugging at the collar of her shirt. It’s hot outside, and the fairgrounds are basically dirt and asphalt. Though, she has to admit that the collection of medieval-themed structures and booths do a good job of hiding the fact that, five months out of the year, this place is little more than an empty, dusty parking lot. “So I can’t even punch him in the arm.”

“Guess you’re gonna have to go back to the Starbucks sabotage,” James smiles. Alex raises an eyebrow.

“I thought we weren’t supposed to mention stuff like that.”

“We aren’t,” James says. “Honestly...you might just want to avoid interacting with the guests. Kara’s shift is only a few hours...” his voice trails off, and he fumbles for a moment, trying to get at something under his armor. He finally manages to pull out his cell phone. “Speaking of...I gotta start my shift.”

“Great,” Alex mutters.

“Don’t worry, you’ll be fine,” James assures her, giving her a pat on the shoulder. He turns to go, and calls over his shoulder, “just have fun with it!”

Alex scowls.

“Right,” she says. “Fun.” She can think of nothing worse than wandering the sweltering fairgrounds, just waiting for some family to wander up and request a 16th century poem.

She eyes the nearby booths, and wonders if there’s a rule against bards drinking on the job.

Then, out of nowhere, “Ah, Good Mistress Kemp!” Alex whirls, startled by the appearance of a complete stranger, who seemingly has no concept of ‘personal space.’ “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day...” the stranger blinks at her, having finally seen her face. 

“...You’re not Kara,” he says.

“No, I’m not,” Alex replies.

The stranger clears his throat, and takes a step back. “My apologies,” he says. “An....acquaintance of mine works here. I mistook you for her.”

Alex nods, narrowing her eyes. He looks like he’s maybe closer to Kara’s age than her own, dressed in a period-appropriate white shirt and bright blue tunic, his dark pushed back from his face. “No problem,” she tells him. Then adds, “Kara’s my sister. She...had other plans this weekend. I’m helping out.”

“Oh! You are Alexandra then. Or. Alex, rather.” He says, looking at her expectantly. When she doesn’t answer, he clarifies. “You do prefer Alex, do you not?”

“I...yes. I do. Yes.” Alex nods quickly, but she’s still reeling. She has no clue who this guy is, and she doesn’t like that he seems to know her. “And...you are...?”

“Barney. Of Avon.” he says, bowing low. When he straightens, he adds, “it is a Shakespeare joke.”

“...Got it.”

“And the name of my 12th level Orc in Dungeons and Dragons. Kara seemed to enjoy it. It made her laugh.”

“Yeah it’s...it’s very punny.”

“You are not laughing.”

“You know...I think I’m needed over at the...the thing,” she gestures in a direction at random. 

“...The...turkey leg booth.”

“Uh-huh,” she says, already backing away. “I’ll tell Kara you said hi.”

“Please do!” he says, smiling for the first time since the conversation began. And, though Alex found their entire exchange entirely off-putting, she has to admit, he has a nice smile. “Oh! And these. Please, if you would, give her these.”

He hands her a small drawstring bag. She stares at it, confused.

“I realize that perhaps flowers would be more socially acceptable,” ‘Barney’ says, clasping his hands behind his back. “But. Kara mentioned once she planned to take up gardening. So I brought her seeds.” Alex just nods. “It is another joke. You may laugh, if you would like.”

“Ah...haa...” she manages.

“I bid thee farewell!” He shouts suddenly, spinning on his heel and walking away. Alex stares after him for a moment...and then hastily fumbles for her cell phone.

“Hey. Bards don’t use phones!” a random guests hassles her as he walks by.

“They do when they’re on break,” Alex replies, which gets him to shut up. 

She types out a quick message, smirking. There will be no need to sabotage her sister’s coffee now. Not when she has ample fuel with which to tease her.

So. You and Barney, huh? 

#stranger replies #stranger writes #supergirl fanfic #alex danvers #james olsen #brainiac 5 #karadox #mostly implied though #long post #renaissance festival AU #Anonymous

[jane-ways]

Twenty Questions

Thanks for the tag, @cataclysmofstars!

Rules: Answer 20 questions, then tag 20 bloggers that you want to get to know better.

Name: Eliza

Nicknames: Actually, Eliza is a nickname! It's short for my full name because I think it best encapsulates me (I am not a "Beth")

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Orientation: Tragically I am straight

Favorite colour: Blue

Book recommendations: I just finished Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil Macgregor and it was fabulous. Interesting, visually stunning, written with intelligence and personality

Movie recommendations: THOR RAGNAROK

TV recommendations: I'm currently watching this British Househunters thing called Escape to the Continent and it is an absolute trip. I love to judge the people on this show. These poor realtors

Music recommendations: Falling in love with Bleachers and Bastille all over again. Also currently obsessed with Mitski's new single, "Geyser"

Coffee, tea or hot chocolate? Coffee! Every morning, usually. Black, or sometimes with cinnamon. Tea as an afternoon drink, especially iced!

Cats or dogs? I am a crazy cat lady

Favorite meme? Oh how can I possibly choose? Probably the Thor "Is he though?" one

I want to live long enough to witness: Millenials fixing at least some of the problems our parents made

Weird obsessions: Do my research interests count as "obsessions?" I just sent in a proposal for an essay about biblical rhetoric

Tumblr birthday: September (I think) 2012

How many sideblogs: None, but I have some good URLs saved

Random fact about me: I can't stick out my tongue! Like, medically. My frenula is attached at the tip. Luckily it doesn't affect my speech, just my ability to do quirky poses in photos

Goals for 2018: Do more background research on my proposed dissertation topic so I'm not talking out my ass

Tagging @my-first-name-is-agent @legitopal @feanoriansappreciation @struckinarda @straightouttahimring @cerulean-shark @grundyscribbling @dawnfelagund (if you'd like!) and anyone else who wants to play

[booksthatshouldbecomeanimations]

If We Were Vilians

Genre

Dark Academia, Mystery

Synopsis

Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.¹

Why If We Were Villains

This is a quintessential dark academia: a group of tight-knit, pretentious students who study an archaic topic (in this case, Shakespeare) accidentally-on-purpose kill one of their friends and go mad with guilt as authorities investigate the death. The narrative switches from the past to the present until the past catches up with the present and climactic secrets are revealed. The past narrative--which makes up the crux of the book--details the collegiate lives of the “hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingenue, extra.” ¹ The 6 Shakespeare students play archetypal roles on stage, and these roles spill into real life. This makes for a unique dynamic in which the author comments on and subverts stereotypes whilst embodying them; her true feelings about such clichés is up to interpretation. It’s one of those stories that grips you because you just have to know: who’s lying? And what’s really happening? Everything is vague--it’s hard to tell if the narrator is reliable. The story knows it’s trying to emulate Shakespeare, and writes about students who may-or-may-not have been trying to emulate Shakespeare, so that the whole thing feels very meta. As in many dark academias, tragedy and pain is romanticized. “Beauty is Terror” and all that. And I’ll be totally honest: the ending doesn’t make any fucking sense. It’s great, but ambiguous. We don’t know if That character is alive or dead, and it feels like the author is leading up to a sequel, but a sequel never comes. So it’s kind of a cliff-hanger. Or maybe the ambiguity is the point? Depending on what you think happened--on what you decide happened-- the ending is either beautifully bittersweet or despairingly tragic. The cognitive dissonance this creates is upsetting and arguably brilliant. If you couldn’t tell, I’m still bitter. Any book-to-screen adapters would have to decide if they want to keep it that way, or if they’d like to try their hands at a sequel that confirms one of the paths. 

This book is more dark (hence the “Dark” in “Dark Academia). It wouldn’t be super suitable for young audiences. But the haunted, scholarly aesthetic, the plot twists, the characters, the romance, the non-stop tension, and the sheer intensity of this story makes it a binge-able plot with cult-classic potential. Things like “Dark Academia” and “Cottage Core” are very popular among aesthetic-loving genzs/millenials, as a quick search on tumblr or pinterest will show you. I could easily see this attaining a hive audience among tumblr teens if done right and marketed well. 

The sheer amount of Shakespeare references is also worth noting. That can be wonderful for some, but tiresome for others. 

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#ifwewerevillians

[esoeratodo]

Oh boy I'm talking to this guy that added me on ig and it's been so amazing so far like we talk for hours and it was just like so much chemistry in idk 2 days lmao true love exists and it's a Millenials Only Experience, don't be fooled by Shakespeare or whatever

#And it's amazing bc I had so much doubt when talking to benja #And it was so hard to keep. The conversation going at times #And he didn't show much interest to talk in person or im so I always felt like I was kinda annoying #Or the creepy gay guy lmao #And we have a lot in common with this guy like he has a lot of opinions and just much more experience overall #Benja is still v young and it shows so it's kind of hard to go into some topics so idk #Yeah he's beautiful and warm and whatever but he's also distant so it's awkward #The whole popper and touchy stuff was prob just how he is and not something special with me #And if it was and he's still not showing real interest to talk then bye not in the mood for smth like that #I'm glad I didn't smoke my blunt w him lmao I'm not sure it's even worth to try it so I can know if he's into me or not #Like I don't see a future there prob just a casual encounter kind of thing #Anyway.... I'll get to know this guy better and just go with it #The third guy I was getting to know is prob gone lmao won't deal with a catholic cola at this point in my life #Also I know this is very bpd!! But it's in control lmao im just exaggerating bc I'd rather take it as a joke

[greisekinderschar]

3/3 The oldest works still known about him today were written with prejudice of his whole culture (macedonian) and thus they portray a lot negatively. Also the different conventions when writing a popular book back then were very different. Sorry for this long ass rant. Im done now dont worry. Have a great day (:

yeah i totally get that! it’s like the portrayal of “barbarians”. its amazing how ancient roman propaganda still dictates our perception of other peoples. i mean even the nazis stuck 100% to the bullshit roman characterization of “the germans” and the nations that don’t have a roman account imagine their roots to be like the romans would have described a culture different from their own. like i get movies like alexander the great are entertainment and not education but theyre really carrying a roman point of view over millenials, which is also kinda amazing. but the worst thing is theyll be seeing roman accounts talking about “barbarians” and theyll immediately have their own image of these peoples, packed up in that word, when all the ancient author meant was that they did not speak latin. yeah i totally support your rant lol but regarding the jc movie: its really 100% the original play, so its like seeing a stage production in a traditional theater but with better sets lol. it reeks of 1950s hollywood pathos but that also goes well with that “traditional shakespeare performance” style imo. so i wouldnt really watch it as a historical drama but really just as a shakespeare play, where some drama queens put on costumes and pretend to be honourable bc people tend to forget shakespeare was a wild one. and about the witcher show: i must say i really didnt care about it at all and totally missed when it was released bc i didnt expect it to be any good, since i kinda expected them to serve the larger or rather most visible part of the gaming community, which sadly is, as we know, exhausting to say the least. that fear probably came from the same place as yours, that movies based on games just. suck. but then i saw the good reviews and gave it a try and i tell you i felt like i was reading the books again. now that i listen to the audiobooks again i realize how much they changed plotwise but they always did it in a way that just works well with the overall plot, and the most important thing really is the aesthetic. the way of the dialogues, the sense of humour and such really makes it an amazing book adaption, they changed so many things as i realize in retrospect but when i was watching the show i felt like it was 100% the books in show form, bc it was so well done. yeah its. really a good show lol i really dont think ive ever seen a book adaption that good.

yeah i totally get that! it’s like the portrayal of “barbarians”. its amazing how ancient roman propaganda still dictates our perception of other peoples. i mean even the nazis stuck 100% to the bullshit roman characterization of “the germans” and the nations that don’t have a roman account imagine their roots to be like the romans would have described a culture different from their own. like i get movies like alexander the great are entertainment and not education but theyre really carrying a roman point of view over millenials, which is also kinda amazing. but the worst thing is theyll be seeing roman accounts talking about “barbarians” and theyll immediately have their own image of these peoples, packed up in that word, when all the ancient author meant was that they did not speak latin. yeah i totally support your rant lol but regarding the jc movie: its really 100% the original play, so its like seeing a stage production in a traditional theater but with better sets lol. it reeks of 1950s hollywood pathos but that also goes well with that “traditional shakespeare performance” style imo. so i wouldnt really watch it as a historical drama but really just as a shakespeare play, where some drama queens put on costumes and pretend to be honourable bc people tend to forget shakespeare was a wild one. and about the witcher show: i must say i really didnt care about it at all and totally missed when it was released bc i didnt expect it to be any good, since i kinda expected them to serve the larger or rather most visible part of the gaming community, which sadly is, as we know, exhausting to say the least. that fear probably came from the same place as yours, that movies based on games just. suck. but then i saw the good reviews and gave it a try and i tell you i felt like i was reading the books again. now that i listen to the audiobooks again i realize how much they changed plotwise but they always did it in a way that just works well with the overall plot, and the most important thing really is the aesthetic. the way of the dialogues, the sense of humour and such really makes it an amazing book adaption, they changed so many things as i realize in retrospect but when i was watching the show i felt like it was 100% the books in show form, bc it was so well done. yeah its. really a good show lol i really dont think ive ever seen a book adaption that good.

edit: i wanted to add the other 2 messages to let everyone see your important rant but tumblr is a hellsite and the tumblr app is absolute garbage so ill add that later when im at my laptop

yeah i totally get that! it’s like the portrayal of “barbarians”. its amazing how ancient roman propaganda still dictates our perception of other peoples. i mean even the nazis stuck 100% to the bullshit roman characterization of “the germans” and the nations that don’t have a roman account imagine their roots to be like the romans would have described a culture different from their own. like i get movies like alexander the great are entertainment and not education but theyre really carrying a roman point of view over millenials, which is also kinda amazing. but the worst thing is theyll be seeing roman accounts talking about “barbarians” and theyll immediately have their own image of these peoples, packed up in that word, when all the ancient author meant was that they did not speak latin. yeah i totally support your rant lol

but regarding the jc movie: its really 100% the original play, so its like seeing a stage production in a traditional theater but with better sets lol. it reeks of 1950s hollywood pathos but that also goes well with that “traditional shakespeare performance” style imo. so i wouldnt really watch it as a historical drama but really just as a shakespeare play, where some drama queens put on costumes and pretend to be honourable bc people tend to forget shakespeare was a wild one.

and about the witcher show: i must say i really didnt care about it at all and totally missed when it was released bc i didnt expect it to be any good, since i kinda expected them to serve the larger or rather most visible part of the gaming community, which sadly is, as we know, exhausting to say the least. that fear probably came from the same place as yours, that movies based on games just. suck. but then i saw the good reviews and gave it a try and i tell you i felt like i was reading the books again. now that i listen to the audiobooks again i realize how much they changed plotwise but they always did it in a way that just works well with the overall plot, and the most important thing really is the aesthetic. the way of the dialogues, the sense of humour and such really makes it an amazing book adaption, they changed so many things as i realize in retrospect but when i was watching the show i felt like it was 100% the books in show form, bc it was so well done. yeah its. really a good show lol i really dont think ive ever seen a book adaption that good.

edit: i wanted to add the other 2 messages to let everyone see your important rant but tumblr is a hellsite and the tumblr app is absolute garbage so ill add that later when im at my laptop