Fragments

If that wasn't bad enough, every "translation" into modern English I have ever found has, rather than trimming, completely removed all the nectar from it, and handed me a pile of soil that is so utterly boring I can't get through it.

Shakespeare was meant to be watched. And a large part of his original audience was workers. They paid like, a dime to come and stand and watch, and the alternative most popular entertainment was bearbaiting (animal cruelty). These are people with maybe a 5th grade education, at most.

They didn’t understand everything being said either!! some of it was for the upper classes, who also attended in large numbers some of it was just Shakespeare showing off, some of it was to show that the characters are educated or insane. Sometimes you’re not supposed to be able to understand the characters!

I was going to recommend the version of the plays that got me into Shakespeare when I was 12. And I can, if you like! It was a good enough translation to set me on a 25 year love affair with Shakespeare!

LONG POST BUT IMPORTANT, SO FORGIVE ME I've been meaning to make this post for awhile, but I've been so demoralized just thinking about it so I kept putting it off. This Saturday, August 1st, Greg. Fucking. Bovino. of overseeing Minneapolis immigration murders and shitty nazi cosplay fame, is coming to Fishers, IN- MY CITY. He's going to be a keynote speaker at Save Heritage Indiana's "Mass Deportation Rally" (Along with Micah Beckwith, our Lt Gov and pedophile-befriending pastor.) "The event begins at 7 p.m. on Aug. 1. Poynter said for security reasons, attendees will not learn the exact location until shortly beforehand," and I have heard (unverified) that they've actually been struggling to find a venue to host them. These sensitive manbaby fucks KNOW what they're doing is unpopular. (*Additional note- apparently seats are invite-only and $50 a head, OR you can pay $500 to have dinner with Bovino. 🙃)

THAT BEING SAID- several local groups, including local Indivisible groups, Food Not Bombs, Indy Resistance, Somos Latinos, and several more are hosting a HOOSIER HOSPITALITY MARCH.

The point is to bring people together in support of our immigrant neighbors and show strength in numbers. It's from 3-6pm on the same day (this Saturday.) The route takes the march by the Al Huda Mosque where people are encouraged to bring non-perishables for their food pantry, and ends in a vigil for those taken and murdered by ICE and DHS.

I REALLY want people to attend.

I plan on showing up with my D&D group and some wagons filled with whistle kits, gatorade, and snacks to make sure people stay hydrated.

If you live within, like, a 2 hour drive of central Indiana, PLEASE consider bringing some friends and attending. I so badly want the march to overwhelm my city.

If you can't attend but want to help or contribute in some way, feel free to donate via my ko-fi. I will be using donations to fund snacks, waterbottles, first aid kits, etc. to bring to the march. Anything in addition will be donated to the mosque!

The image above is PWYW, so you can donate through there and get a high res of this image to do with as you please in exchange!

The Hoosier Hospitality March was amazing. People CAME. OUT. WELL over 1,000 marchers! Folks were organizing carpools from over an hour away. We were prepared for inclement weather, but the rain held off until after the march, which was awesome. Amazing vibes all around!

2. Okay, so what about the Mass Deportation Rally? You know, the whole reason the march was organized?

Well, they sure as hell didn't end up holding their hate-rally in Fishers, that's for damn sure. ALLEGEDLY they couldn't find a venue here that would take them.

Near the end of the march, there was a "leaked" email that the rally was going to be held in Greenfield. Less than 30 minutes afterward, there were already rumors going around that this was a deliberate leak to throw people off. Turns out that it was, in fact, a fake leak and the actual anti-immigration rally was in Clinton County (northwest of Fishers.)

But SPEAKING OF LEAKS

3. Whether in Greenfield or Clinton County, there are plenty of wide open fields on private property throughout rural Indiana. And honestly, it doesn't really matter where it was held, because massive thunderstorms and a tornado warning rolled through central IN anyway. So while the location itself was initially undetermined, photos of the event went out almost immediately.

And these, my friends, are very real.

These pics were EVERYWHERE the day of and day after the event and now I'm struggling to find them. I had to dig up screenshots from text chains with friends and fam. Some photos have DEFINITELY been scrubbed and lots of videos posted by 'proud patriots' have since been removed (including the livestream of the event meant to show off the meeting.)

I cannot stress this enough- folks paid $50 per head for a rented pole tent, folding chairs, and dressing in church clothes to walk through sopping wet mud-fields while a fart-sniffing lawn gnome screamed slurs at them.

My spouse said "hmm...it's giving Dashcon." So we have dubbed Bovino's Splash-Time Hatestravaganza as...

Fashcon 2026

Anyway, a quick and dirty update for you. There's articles floating around on the events so definitely check those out!

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Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.

More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.

Ain't got no class

No drip

Hey remember when Trump stood next to a pile of federal safety regulations on American businesses and cut a big red ribbon to show that he had just cleared away all the "red tape"?

Today it’s mostly famous for what it looks like on the inside.

It has an equestrian staircase though it’s so smooth it’s really just a gentle slope more than a staircase. It was build like that so our lazy bum king could ride his horse all the way to the top (king not in photo)

And naturally people have also driven cars up the tower

And held a bike race

For a while it was just sort of abandoned by the authorities and became a sloping marketplace

But today it has been restored and become a tourist spot as well as a popular destination for school trips. And yes, you can still watch the cosmos at the top.

Look at this tumblr post which screenshot several of this account's extremely racist, cruel, right wing, and anti-immigrant posts that are 100% aimed at American and British white people. TW derogatory dismissal of rape and trafficking, intense racism, anti-trans insults, pro-guns, and lots of cloying sucking up to right wing ideology. Sure you get the occasional funny "westerners are so great, they have chips and trucks!" story told with big adoring eyes like this one. But they are tucked in among turds like "Elon Musk actually gets things done" and "why doesn't Japan have more guns like americans, they are so much smarter and safer than us" ("us," hah, the guy prompting this AI slop has so clearly never been to Japan. But then, neither has chatgpt, so).