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grantaire and courf bumping into each other in enjolras and combeferre’s kitchen first thing in the morning and being like ‘eyyyyy’

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This makes me feel so much better because I’m glad Dave Malloy thought the word choice through

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Incorrect "Pride and Prejudice" quote

Mr. Collins: Hey Miss Elizabeth, what’s your number?

Elizabeth Bennet: [visibly texting] I don’t have a phone.

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oh! I have to tell you guys a great story one of my professors told me. So he has a friend who is involved in these Shakespeare outreach programs where they try to bring Shakespeare and live theatre to poor and underprivileged groups and teach them about English literature and performing arts and such. On one of their tours they stopped at a young offenders institute for women and they put on a performance of Romeo and Juliet for a group of 16-17 year old girls. It was all going really well and the girls were enjoying and laughing through the first half - because really, the first half is pretty much a comedy - but as the play went on, things started to get quiet. Real quiet. Then it got up to the suicide scene and mutterings broke out and all the girls were nudging each other and looking distressed, and as this teacher observed them, he realised - they didn’t know how the play ended. These girls had never been exposed to the story of Romeo and Juliet before, something which he thought was impossible given how ubiquitous it is in our culture. I mean, the prologue even gives the ending away, but of course it doesn’t specify exactly how the whole “take their life” thing goes down, so these poor girls had no idea what to expect and were sitting there clinging to hope that Romeo would maybe sit down for a damn minute instead of murdering Paris and chugging poison - but BAM he died and they all cried out - and then Juliet WOKE UP and they SCREAMED and by the end of the play they were so upset that a brawl nearly broke out, and that’s the story of how Shakespeare nearly started a riot at a juvenile detention centre

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les mis + les miserables fucked me up

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Henry Winter

Henry Winter orders a venti black coffee, no cream, no sugar. He walks to the end of the counter and pushes his friend’s frappuccino off the edge.

“Are you happy with your drink?” the barista asks as he hands it over.

Henry considers this for a moment. “Not particularly,” he says. “But you’re not very happy with yours, either.”

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stranger things + the onion

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au where the government incarcerate bucky in a high security secret facility and the avengers just conspire and break him out and when a government official comes to stark tower and is like ‘hey give barnes back’ tony is just like ‘he’s not here’ and the dude is all ‘he is sat right there’ and tony just goes ‘nah thats my cousin sergei’ and the government can’t do anything bc technically bucky barnes has been dead for 70 years and every year the facility gets a christmas card from the tower signed steve, tony, clint, natasha, bruce, thor and ‘cousin sergei’ and the card is just a picture of bucky with reindeer antlers on

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who is some ass man and why does hanschen rilow want me to kiss him

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So apparently Jefferson was obsessed with making mac and cheese and would serve it all the time and everyone thought it was gross, so this is what I think about every time I hear The Room Where it Happens.

“Well, I arranged the meeting. I arranged the menu, the venue, the seating…”

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My favorite monologue from Spring Awakening.

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*i do not claim ownership of each individual song, all rights reserved to their respected owners*

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“Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” Act III, scene 2