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Around You, Around Saigon by kemmiethecat

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you'll notice yourself smiling with delight over things you once paid no attention to -

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calvin and hobbes

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Shrimp posture

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some people are so used to mostly consuming media where the women and people of color are static set dressing in stories about white men that they can't wrap their heads around the concept that female characters and characters of color can have arcs of their own. they'll see a character who's not a white man display a personality flaw that is clearly being set up to be overcome and they see it not as the setup of what promises to be an enticing character journey, but as an essential defining trait of their being, and proceed to demonize such characters for it. white men get to be dynamic and complex, women and people of color get essentialism and a pressure for likeability over good storytelling.

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I'm still here lol sorry

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so. um. the good news is we found your boyfriend. the bad news is that, well, we sort of…dug him up…in the middle of a car park. in leicester (buckley et al. 2013). leicester, yeah. sorry. they demolished the friary he was hastily interred in when henry viii dissolved all the monasteries. you know how it is. and as it turns out, well, shakespeare was…sort of right about him. scoliosis, yeah, sorry (appleby et al. 2014). if it makes you feel any better we analysed his bones and it turns out he had a pretty high-protein diet before he died (lamb et al. 2014). and he drank so much wine that it changed their chemical composition, which we didn't know could actually happen before we analysed him (lamb et al. 2014), so he was having a good time, at least. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Appleby, J., Mitchell, P.D., Robinson, C., Brough, A., Rutty, G., and Morgan, B. (2014). The scoliosis of Richard III, last Plantagenet King of England: diagnosis and clinical significance. Lancet 383, 1944. 

Buckley, R., Morris, M., Appleby, J., King, T., O’Sullivan, D., and Foxhall, L. (2013). ‘The king in the car park’: new light on the death and burial of Richard III in the Grey Friars church, Leicester, in 1485. Antiquity 87, pp. 519-538. 

Lamb, A.L., Evans, J.E., Buckley, R., and Appleby, J. (2014). Multi-isotope analysis demonstrates significant lifestyle changes in King Richard III. Journal of Archaeological Science 50, pp. 559-565.

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next.

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thinking about hamlet with a female laertes. thinking about ophelia having an older sister who warns her off of hamlet not to slut shame, but because she knows how men can be. thinking about laertes as a woman who lacks ophelia’s naivety and gertrude’s chosen apathy, who instead has as much potential for rage and violence as the men she’s surrounded by. thinking about hamlet’s relationship to women and his own masculinity being further complicated by his foil, the character who becomes the mirror to his own grief, the one who ultimately kills him, being a woman. just… thinking about a female laertes.

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pervert sukuna vs pervert toji, will you make it out of this alive

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remember beatrice calling benedick "the prince's jester" she really said "funnyman (derogatory)"

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Also, today I learned that Harriet Walter and Patrick Stewart’s Antony and Cleopatra at the RSC used a real snake for Cleopatra’s suicide. I saw the production (in 2006) but I didn’t remember the live snake (I mostly remembered the wigs and the acting).

Here are some facts about the snake:

It was a milk snake

Its name was BILLY SNAKESPEARE

The RSC auditioned several snake actors for the part (I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP)

There was an understudy snake actor for when Billy Snakespeare was sloughing

It was fed on dead skinned baby mice, which were kept in the same fridge as the other actors’ lunches

They had to be very careful about when they fed it to make sure it didn’t poo on Harriet Walter in the last scene.

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Shakespeare dramatists have zero chill:

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most neurodivergent malvolio moments:

- when olivia is like "but what KIND of man is at the door" and he's like... "....of?? mankind???"

- when maria says he's been "practicing behavior to his own shadow" which like. malvolio full of himself yes but also leave him alone he's PRACTICING SOCIAL CONVENTIONS

- when the letter specifies that he has to smile which implies he doesn't do it very often and when everyone's reaction indicates it's very unnatural and forced for him

- the implication that olivia fucking hated his yellow stockings but complimented them to be polite and he took her at face value and decided they were smokin hot

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The River at Wolf

by Jean Valentine

Coming east we left the animals pelican beaver osprey muskrat and snake    their hair and skin and feathers their eyes in the dark: red and green.    Your finger drawing my mouth.

Blessed are they who remember that what they now have they once longed for.

A day a year ago last summer God filled me with himself, like gold, inside,    deeper inside than marrow.

This close to God this close to you: walking into the river at Wolf with the animals. The snake’s green skin, lit from inside. Our second life.

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[2022] Saeran with the kitty what they gonna do

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COME BACK GOJO