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hey hold on gang. i have a parallel to draw between two pieces of media

There are multiple chapters that are set in hospitals where the characters are attempting to recover from injuries that never fully heal. I must once again stress that my experience in WWI was perfectly normal.

There is a giant horrible mudplain full of unrecoverable and perfectly preserved dead bodies that the characters have to walk through in a land where the air is poisoned gas, and on a compLETELY UNRELATED NOTE: WWI WAS TOTALLY FINE AND NORMAL!!

everyone talks about how strong and great Aragorn was for refusing the ring when Frodo offered it to him as if this man has not spent his entire life dodging leadership and responsibilities like bullets in the matrix 🙄

rosencrantz is dead, guildenstern is dead, and me I feel also not so good

love it when shakespeare's mysterious and dodgy. something is rotten in the state of denmark. something wicked this way comes. do you think he just didn't wanna conjure up a word for it

Shakespeare character: the vibes are rancid

I don't know who needed to hear this today but this is your reminder that Polonius 👏 From 👏 Hamlet 👏 Is 👏 Not 👏 An 👏 Idiot. Is he a genius? No. Does he think he's way smarter than he actually is? Yes. Does he love to run on at the mouth? Yes. But if you actually listen to what he's saying, listen to his speech to Laertes, especially, especially listen to his speech to Reynaldo, he's dumb like the fox. He's getting older now, but I think he was very good at gathering information for most of his life. And his actions reflect this. His telling Ophelia to dump Hamlet... It's patriarchy, obviously, and he's coming at it from a place of selfishness, his reputation, but the observation itself never seemed ridiculous to me. Like if I were Ophelia's friend I would also be telling her "you know he can't marry you right? You know he's gonna have to marry a princess? You know if he gets you pregnant you're totally fucking screwed right? Are you being careful? Do you promise you're being careful?" He's also... on Hamlet's trail you know? "Though this be madness; there's method in it." I think it's a better story if Polonius isn't a bumbling idiot but instead is a competent but aging advisor. It adds a layer of threat to story if Hamlet isn't running laps around a total idiot, but deftly staying ahead of a smart man who is sniffing him out.

the scene contains two people who are BOTH feigning some degree of madness/senility to make the other suspect them less and honestly it’s brilliant. Hamlet is turning Polonius’ own game against him, but he’s also very much risking Polonius seeing right through him because he knows the game so well

having anxiety is like being given permanent unwanted custody of a halter arabian. like okay buddy is it panic time again. cool you probably need more exercise and an apple and then maybe you'll calm down.

thoroughly enjoying the notes on this post because it's equal parts people with anxiety going "yeah that's what it's like" and people with arabians going "yeah that's what they're like"

This is your reminder that Queer Liberation Library is ONLINE, FREE and DOESN'T require a preexisting library card and needs only MINIMAL INFORMATION to sign up for. And they have titles in both EBOOK and AUDIOBOOK and in both ENGLISH and SPANISH.

I once saw an article put it this way: often "this is problematic" is used to shut down discussion of a thing, by casting a sweeping but vague judgement. But really if used at all it should start a discussion about what the problem is.