media vita in morte sumus

Happy pride month to my dad. When I came out as bi to him, this man googled what it ment, look at me and said "ohh. Yeah. You get that from me. You'd have far more siblings of I only shaged women." And went right back to his work emails.

happy pride again

Star Wars has three types of guy: Fump Geezgo from the Womflee system, Stabba Badguyman, and Chris

Union watches out for its members.

Every time someone tells me they hate Shakespeare (which is frequently, bc people who hate Shakespeare r usually very proud of it and they need to tell me immediately when they learn that I'm a Shakespeare actor) I enact a sort of self contained stoic ritual where I remind myself that I do not need to be defending the most read and lauded and hegemonic English writer of all time even though I KNOW that they've only half-read Romeo and Juliet when they were 14 in a lame English class and formed a grudge and never changed their opinion. I have that knowledge and I allow it to wash over me and leave me undisturbed

This is like a Monty Python skit.

ok last hamlet post sorry. but tbh i kind of buy the theory that the ghost is actually an evil spirit

what kind of father apparently suffering in purgatory for the many wrongs he committed in his life that he now must atone for condemns his child to a miserably short and violent rest of his life by making him swear to enact vengeance for a crime that hasn’t even been proven? btw purgatory theologically is not like some inbetween place for people who weren’t all the way good but not all the way bad. it’s purification for heaven. meaning if someone is there, they are heaven bound!! it’s not a maybe! so what heaven bound soul would ever come back from the dead to sow discord among the living and to do it with the hands of his own son? anyway

i do think claudius is a much more interesting character than we give him credit for because he’s so close to being repentant. at the beginning of the play he’s talking about how sharply polonius’ comments lash his conscience. at the very beginning! this is an aside! to us! it is not for anyone but the audience to hear! then after hamlet’s play his reaction is anger, horror. because he’s almost caught. almost caught because somehow hamlet’s plot works, somehow claudius feels so guilty that even seeing the play makes him sick to his stomach. but what is crazy about this is that his line of thinking is, maybe I should get caught. he almost tells the truth. like think about claudius’ prayer!! he’s desperate! he doesn’t know if he can be forgiven! if there’s enough snow in the heavens to wash him clear! he’s tormented! but what can he do now? he’s the king and he’s married and he’s gone so far and how can he change now? is he too far gone? would he have to give up the very things for which he murdered his own brother? the question is too hard and too unpleasant and so he does the easy thing and gives up. and he goes and tries to kill hamlet twice and his wife drinks poison in front of him and he says nothing. he’s made his choice. but for a moment the play almost changes

thinking about when i got my little sister (who was like ten at the time) really into hamlet and she very thoughtfully a few weeks later sent me, through the U.S. postal service, an envelope with a small drawing of hamlet captioned “let’s go commit regicide”

reblog if baby don’t hurt me just played in your head in perfect tonality

And his friends used to be legit but they turned into such fucking posers

… I am unironically here for this

this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

okay i know i’m Back On My Bullshit but hear me out: found footage macbeth

The scene between Macbeth and Banquo at the beginning taking place via night-vision cameras affixed to their helmets. The witches would look just amazingly terrifying.