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i do understand shakespeare’s richard ii i do. i do. he was made king very young and he used to genuinely believe that the king was the hand of god and could do no wrong. and then he realized that just about all he could do was wrong, that he was not a good politician or king or person, that he was a shallow person who didn’t know how to run a country and was going to get himself fucked over sooner or later, and he said, “okay, let’s do it sooner and i want to pull the strings, because if i have to go down i’m going to make it my own tragic little stage play,” and then he goaded henry into doing it so he could make it his own tragic little stage play, and now we all feel bad for him which means he did SOMETHING fucking right and he won and all he had to do was be miserable and self-loathing and self-mocking and self-destructive the whole time. like i do understand him. read “richard ii: a modern perspective” by harry berger jr

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Got reminded again of my old coworker who was a massive misogynist but also trans inclusive. Told me he believed trans women are indeed women because "only women would be stupid enough to want to be women"

I wonder what he's doing now

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You are made to live as a kind of house-pet for one week. You are well taken care of and loved, but you are unable to communicate to the person taking care of you that you are a person. What is your reaction?

Spin the wheel to find out which pet you will spend a week as.

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hmm maybe it’s the lady macbeth in me but I feel like one thing Hamlet adaptations are missing out on is the chance to make Hamlet blood-covered as a result of Polonius’ murder. And I get that the actual act of the murder itself is generally a pretty clean cut but like. for a rash and bloody deed it could be bloodier.

like why not have Polonius’ blood pool on the floor as the scene progresses? and then as the ghost appears, and Hamlet falls to his knees, trembling, he sinks right into the mess, completely unaware. He bows and presses his palms to the floor, and doesn’t even seem to notice when he rises again that his hands are dripping wet. Gertrude jerks away from his attempts to touch her face or hands when he tries to reassure her, but she can’t fully escape the stains in her clothing, in her carpet as well. Hamlet runs a hand through his hair, to brush it out of his eyes, and again gives no reaction when it drips slowly down his face.

imagine the shock of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern finding their friend like this. Of Claudius, having committed a crime with no trace, no witnesses, and no ties to him, coming face-to-face with Hamlet, his crime visibly splattered across his skin and clothing, witnessed and inescapable, both aware of the other’s sin and both suddenly knowing the other will kill them for it. Claudius who wants to feel guilt but can’t quite manage, Hamlet who doesn’t want to feel anything of the sort and can’t quite manage that either.

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In a similar vein of like, blaming everything on Hitler alone for WW2 isn't accurate or helpful to everything that had happened, blaming everything on Trump alone also isn't accurate to what's happening in the U.S..the United States was heading deeper towards fascism at a worst state even without him, and was already fascist. If Trump didn't exist the United States would still be fascist. The U.S looking eerily similar & being under similar circumstances as to mazi Germany isn't because of Trump alone and nazis were inspired to do what they did based on what America had done to Native Americans, you can't be surprised a state is fascist and blame it on one man when the state was built on genocide, slavery, and colonialism

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i’ve also been thinking about the homeric narrative voice’s counterfactuals and how they give us glimpses of possible alternative narrative futures– like in book 21, “and even now telemachus would have strung the bow, if forcefully a fourth time, except odysseus shook his head and restrained him, though he wanted otherwise,” and how the narrative voice gives us this feint at a potential story where he does string the bow and proves worthy of his father and begins the slaughter of the suitors himself, only to pull back at the last minute and refuse to let the story fulfill that potential and do the things it’s strong enough to do but cannot act out because the bard will not let it– and then the way the narrative voice also gives these counterfactual statements about what would happen if it let odysseus take over the story? if the bard turned it over to him entirely he stay months among the phaeacians, a year with eumaeus, his storytelling would eat away at his story. this justification for seizing control back from the characters and silencing them– that’s why book 4 is twice the length of some of the other books, it’s because the bard turns it over to menelaus and helen and the two of them bat it back and forth between each other and prevent the bard from intercepting it again.

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Happy birthday Snooj, sorry I almost forgot and had to make something really fast.

Shout out to Hark! a Vagrant The real ones know

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in baltimore straight up "torturing it" and by "it" haha well. let's justr say. my son

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Everyone is fighting a tough battle so reblog to give previous a sword 🗡️

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Overheard in the office hallway between two older businessmen:

“Don’t you dare pull my shirt up, I have a meeting.”

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I have responsibilities like self torment and isolation

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Cassius: But, soft, I pray you: what, did Caesar swoon? Casca: He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at mouth, and was speechless.

rabies character of the day: JULIUS CAESAR from JULIUS CAESAR has rabies ‼️

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idk if this is anything but you can kind of view aeneas as a man that's unstuck from time. he sees the ghost of hector. he takes his eyes off his wife and she's now a ghost. he finds carthage, a city that won't be founded for hundreds of years. he carries the future of rome, he sees people not yet born when he's in the underworld. and so forth