When I think, I must speak

Yes, thank God I got Cordelia! I love weird personality quizzes!

I’ve just realized that Macbeth and Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder are very similar stories told in very different ways, and it honestly just really makes me really want a Macbeth in which Jefferson Mays plays Duncan, Banquo, Fleance, and all the other characters that are killed. 

This would be genius, someone please organize it. Also, I bought the version of a Christmas Carol with Jefferson Mays playing all of the parts, and it was so amazing that I bought it again and watched it on January 3, which might technically be too late to watch Christmas things, but seriously it was one of the best things I’ve ever seen in my life, oh wow.

Yay! More freakishly accurate newspaper coverage from the past!

why do i have to format emails like i’m writing a letter to my fucking husband on the frontlines of the long war. my dearest gregory. it has been too long since i’ve held in my embrace. o, that these travails shall lead us to one another again. my sincerest, fondest thoughts go with you in this, your hour of need. i have attached the requested documents in .pdf format. thanks!

online university is just *hasn’t been outside in three days* *absolute lack of spatial and temporal awareness* *tiktok break* *opens an email and forgets to respond* *pyjamas all day every day* *paces around room* *hopes your prof just thinks you’re in a different timezone when you submit an assignment at 4am* *unlimited tea* *bathroom breaks every hour* *no clear divide between free time and school* *looks out window longingly*

I didn’t even go to University online and there were times when it was like this



A few days late, but here’s some more freakishly applicable newspaper coverage from 1918!

I love this!

Oh wow, this is still completely applicable!

YES I am here for this! It’s like if Billie Eilish sang this song, but better! 

#aromantic couple that learns about the practice of getting married again to ‘reaffirm your commitment’#and proceeds to get married every year#and every year the dessert table is bigger and more extravagent#and they start experimenting with variations on the ceremony (x)

#we got married because we only needed to buy one copy of each book #we got married because then no one goes to the movies alone #we got married because then we got to design WEDDING CLOTHES #we got married because pillow fights #we got married because this makes emergency contact info much easier #we got married because weirding out conservatives (x)

 We got married because broadway duets while doing chores, we got married because HALF AS MANY CHORES, we got married because surprise cookies on bad days, we got married because surprise cookies on GOOD days, we got married so we’d never have to ask the other if we could come over today again, we got married so our parents would stop asking (x)

#we got married because two people can walk more dogs than one person which means more dogs PERFECT

I want y'all to pause for a moment and consider this: all of the things that people have cited above? Those are the things, in my experience, that make marriage ACTUALLY work in the long run. Splitting the work, taking care of each other, walking the dogs, sharing tasks because I am okay with folding laundry while my spouse hates it but he’ll carry the heavy baskets for me, because singing duets in the car is fun, because sometimes I worked all day and he’s on leave right now so he made dinner and made my favorite pasta dish with fresh tomatoes… those are the REAL reasons a marriage works. So think about this for a moment because romance is, frankly, very secondary to what makes a marriage work in the long term. Partnership, task-sharing, friendship, all of those things are the true thing that will tell you whether a marriage will stand the test of time. So it’s not that I’m saying that aromantic relationships are like taking a “normal” relationship and taking out the romance, I’m saying that IF YOUR RELATIONSHIP WOULD NOT STAND UP WITHOUT THE ROMANCE IN IT, DON’T GET MARRIED. We should in fact consider the aromantic “platonic lifemate” as the ideal BASIS for a marriage in the long term. We should be looking at platonic lifemates and saying, “do we measure up to that standard? Is our love for each other aromantic TOO? Are we at that bedrock?” Because you will go through periods in your life, and your marriage, where even if you love one another romantically and deeply, there won’t be much romance. Maybe, you know, your spouse just got part of her spine removed, or you are really stressed out by work, or a move, or your dog/cat/kid/mouse/pet tarantula is sick, or your neighbor is crazy and intruding on your space, and you will NEED EACH OTHER but there won’t be much romance in it. If you can’t be platonic partners, if you don’t stand up to that ideal, seriously consider this. Consider BUILDING this as part of building your relationship – and use it as a good test for whether or not sex/romance is covering up serious communication issues, or abuse. I submit that we should refer to this as the New Platonic Ideal. Thank you.

I Love this so much. So many valid reasons to get married, and the romance is only one of them!

I’m covered with “Librarians from Everywhere” but as a former museums professional “Tourists who think we’re the British Museum” really speaks to me on a personal level.

I’m “all ten people who think they’ve got the most niche interest in the whole building”

“All 10 people who think they’ve got the most niche interest in the whole building”

I love Mina!

Good morning to amateur explorers who built a house at the crest of the Brodview Avenue hill in New Rochelle, New York, whose considerable income was derived from the manufacture and sale of fireworks and other accoutrements of patriotism; to matriarchs who take pleasure in making the house comfortable for the men of her family and often tell themselves how fortunate they are to be protected and provided for by their husbands; to younger brothers who work at firework factories and are genius at explosives; to professors of Greek and Latin who are now retired and thoroughly irritated by everything; to ladies with parasols; to fellows with tennis balls; to men and women of color who forget their troubles and dance and revel to the music of Coalhouse Walker Jr.; to young women who think Coalhouse plays just for them; to men from Latvia who dream of a new life for their little girls; to immigrants who make an art of mistake and headline in the top vaudeville circuits;  to the most beautiful women in America who became the biggest attraction in vaudeville since Tom Thumb; to eminent architects and designers of Pennsylvania Station on 33 Street; to eccentric millionaires; to Emma Goldman, and to absolutely no one else.

This is the first one of these things that I’ve actually been able to understand what it was a reference to. 

I’m not an actor and I’ve never been to a conservatory but I think a lot of this is just generally good advice for being in college anyway… If I had known it when I was there I would have saved myself a lot of trouble.