#Shakespeare No Fear

[paxcallow]

deserved. he's been through a lot

[vanityangel]

Acknowledge me. Love me.

[morrigans-umbrella]

putting my english major to work

AKA

unit 919 favourite (semi popular so you’re not forced to google them all) classics headcanons

starting off strong with morrigan. for reasons i hope are evident i think she is absolutely a gothic girlie, she’s probably got an affinity for poe. i’d say her favourite is the raven, though unlike most poe fan girls i don’t see her as someone who is able to yap endlessly about why she likes him. she’s quite reserved with her interests after all. i imagine she’s capable of giving solid but simple reasons to justify herself when asked (pressed) by her friends but otherwise keeps her thoughts internal.

cadence, this might be a hear me out, has an adoration for oscar wilde. my first thought was dracula actually but as someone who is perpetually cursed to be forgotten i think she’d enjoy the way wilde writes. she finds society frivolous and rather stupid, and wilde is prompt to agree with her on this. i’d say her favourite text is the importance of being earnest, as it’s possibly the most ridiculous piece of nonsense ever, entirely on purpose.

hawthorne was a hard one, as i don’t think he willingly reads anything that he could preemptively deem “boring”. i had to shake my brain like a maraca to try think of something easy and entertaining enough to keep his white boy adhd brain locked in long enough for him to intake it. the conclusion drawn was that i think he could survive through three men in a boat (sincerest apologies she’s a little niche). i found it funny enough, i think hawthorne is capable of switching off his brain and blindly enjoying it.

anah. well. i adore her greatly and i was a little in between. i think she’d ADORE little women. i think she has incredibly strong opinions on all the film remakes and could give you an extensive breakdown of the pros and cons. however. i also think the only CORRECT choice with her is pride and prejudice. she seems like she enjoys a good love story that has her giggling and kicking her legs it just befits her.

now, archan. if you ask he will lie to your face, he will very confidently say the most pretentious book he can think of. this is because his favourite classic dodie smith’s i capture the castle. which isn’t embarrassing by any means, but it is a very silly romance novel (i am strongly passionate about it). i think he likes to read casually more than obsessively and it’s a relatively easy read, and if you get the right copy the cover makes you look very distinguished in public.

mahir was harder as i had to test my knowledge of various translations across the world. he’s definitely a poetry type, i think he likes collections of poems as opposed to large brick novels. poems are more entertaining to translate and test your skill far more. i think he’d like mahmoud darwish (who is unfortunately NOT a classical author but i wanted to bring him up anyway), so i’m marking his as leaves of grass by walt whitman. which i strongly recommend to all poetry enjoyers out there. he definitely would get into translation purism beef online if he could. i know it in my heart.

so francis was kind of hard. i was actually tempted to be sneaky and pick an old recipe book as his favourite without specifying BUT i concluded through my non biased perfectly objective opinions he’s an agatha christie enjoyer. poisoning and cooking are sort of born of the same mother. to me at least. his favourite is dumb witness, as it features a brilliant dog. full disclaimer that’s the one i am presently reading, so i don’t know everything that occurs in it, but i know in my heart he would enjoy this.

thaddea was hard, man. i expended my one easy ish to read comedy on hawthorne and i refuse to repeat. then i remembered treasure island. which i also have not finished (someone stole my copy when i was 50 pages in). i don’t actually think she banks too hard on humour to get through books, she more so is interested in action and adventure. i actually think thaddea enjoys to read, she just has a hard time keeping herself focussed and finding the time to sit down and enjoy it, so she probably leans toward audiobooks.

lambeth. well. i opted against the one i initially was thinking of not because it wouldn’t fit just because i considered the discussion that surrounds it and concluded i didn’t feel compelled to dig into that here. she’s definitely a prose enjoyer, she has probably the most “refined” taste save for maybe mahir (i like to believe they talk books together frequently). after much consideration i concluded on black beauty. on account of the fact that it’s my (second) favourite and i think she would appreciate how gorgeous the craftsmanship is.

[plutosheaven]

i wonder if Charles ever chanced upon a book at boarding school with initials scribbled in the corner of a page and wondered, just for a moment, about the story behind them.

[hertas-funger-blog]

The feminine urge to write a funger fic as a stage play

[useful-boy]

Okayyyyyy here we go Fear and Hunger Bosses, most smashable loser, round... Semifinals

Winner faces Griffith

[hubristicassholefight]

Hubristic assholes Tourney Round 1 part 2b

Hamlet (Hamlet) vs the 10th Doctor (Doctor Who)

Propaganda below cut (spoiler warning!)

Hamlet

He's hamlet.

10th Doctor

The 10th Doctor starts on a downward spiral after erasing his best friend’s memories of their adventures together to save her life. The only surviving member of his species, the Doctor begins breaking the laws of time and space which he has held onto his whole life and tries to interfere with a fixed point in time, which are critical moments in history that must be preserved for the good of the timeline. The Doctor, tired of watching people die, decides to save the crew of Bowie Base One who were supposed to die on Mars. He declares that “The laws of time are mine and they will obey me!” And saves the crew, which he knows he shouldn’t have done. He takes them back to Earth, and the captain of the group, Adelaide Brook, realizes that her entire family’s future history has been changed. The Doctor declares himself the “Time Lord Victorious”. Adelaide commits suicide to preserve the timeline where she dies before rejoining humanity on Earth.

(Warning for fictional suicide) In “The Empty Child” the (Ninth) Doctor says “Just this once, everybody lives!” and saves the day with no deaths. The Tenth Doctor in “Waters of Mars” repeats this, thinking he can once again save everybody from the base members who are infected by Mars’ waters and prevent a fixed point, which is the Base Commander’s death. He brings the Commander back to earth and believes himself successful since he reads a newspaper that says the Commander saved the base. He then hears a gunshot and finds that the Commander fulfilled the fixed point by committing suicide; Several times in Ten’s run the idea of saving everybody comes up and he is almost never successful. He is very desperate for a win at this point to prove he can defy the rules of time and space.

[shittywriterbrain]

how the fuck are two of the funniest shakespeare lines "what, you egg [stabs him]" and "villain, i have done thy mother" from two of his most gruesome tragedies. can someone tell me

[batterychugger]

Fear and Hunger fanart

[authenticity2025]

Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it. Unknown

[queerhamlet]

its crazy how my library doesn't have a physical copy of the original play version of hamlet but at least 20 different rewrites/books about it.

[antique-ro-man]

hi sorry we translated your boyfriend into modern english for the convenience of high schoolers and a lot of nuance got lost. yeah, yeah sorry we put him behind a paywall. he should still be free at your local library though! 

[hnbka]

mike probably thinks will is straight. just. sit on that for a second.

[poetrythreesixfive]

To Write

Is this a keyboard which I see before me,

the screen toward my hand? Come, let me type,

but I have not touched thee yet, thy glow about me.

Art thou not, electronic portal, as tangible as visual?

Or art thou but a trick, a keyboard of the mind?

A hallucination courtesy of this hangover.

Yet you hover before me, as touchable and

type-able as the fingers I am now using.

Thou tempt me unto writing, as I was about

to unsheathe my laptop before you came into view.

Mine eyes are mocked by my hands and my ears,

or perhaps they see things clearly, for you remain,

and on the screen I see lines spilling into stanzas

which were not there before; it is quite unreal;

it is the feverish dreams of creativity which

prompt you to appear; perhaps you are a dream

that crosses over the veil into daytime, a wicked

curse that celebrates its power over me like witchcraft

that conjures my guilt at having avoided you so long,

haunting me like a ghost; solid earth, stop listening

to my pacing the floors in lieu of engaging in creation,

and seize this horrible sensation; I know my purpose,

the idea lives, and all I do is speak of instead of do;

I must go and do it; the page invites me;

Listen to it not, for it is a clarion voice

that summons me to destiny or choice.

-GeorgeFilip

[written-in-my-blood]

Something I wrote a while ago the first time I wrote CaB. This was before I decided to make it as bad as it is.

"I try to write 'I hate you' but all I can bleed out is lyrics to a love song."

From Logan's perspective 😼 I don't think I'm going to use it because. Well it's obvious why but I still want to share it 🫵 because I love my writing and it's fucking awesome that's why.

[philosophybitmaps]