#and literary drama

[cult-of-the-eye]

right so who's gonna do the pretentious shakespeare tma fic?

[chthonic-empyrean]

أنت ذلك الـ "لا شيء" عندما يسألني الناس عما أفكر فيه

You're that "nothing" when people ask me what I'm thinking about."

[amicus-noctis]

"Dionysus is a god, a god of transformation. To be in his presence is to lose oneself, to become one with the primal forces of nature."  

― Euripides, The Bacchae

Painting: "The Bacchanal of the Andrians" by Tizian

[k-wame]

I should have nailed her to the floor. But I let her go. ↳ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 2018 · dir. Daniel Calparsoro

[realbeefman]

house is all id, impulse and reckless behavior and selfishness, and wilson is all superego, overthinking and moral judgement and selflessness, and together they act as the other's ego. house wants to biopsy a patient to stop his own pain, wilson tells him he's going to cross a line if he does. wilson wants to tell the world how he's justified the taboo of euthanasia, house steps in to tell him he'll ruin his life if he does. ultimately, this is why they fall apart when separated from each other, why wilson is miserable when he tries to cope with amber's death without house.

wilson will always try to be more selfish, to care less, wish that he was more like house, and house will always wish the inverse, that he is capable of caring as deeply as wilson does, that his own empathy ran as deep as wilson's. but in the end, they are both incapable of embodying those traits they admire in the other on their own. they can only truly function together.

this is the point in the show, for me, where it becomes clear that house and wilson have been set up as star-crossed lovers. it's only here, in 8 x 21, that they both accept fully who they are to each other. they have both accepted that they will only be able to be happy together, that only through acknowledging how they complete each other will either of them be able to be fulfilled in life. the tragedy is that they have only been able to find life at death. the price for their happiness together is the looming inevitability of wilson's death

anyways. rest in peace sigmund freud you would’ve loved analyzing house md yaoi

[shaunashipmn]

PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 🎞️

day 3 – favorite costume design

[entropy404]

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

[citrusai]

i don't wanna knock on bioware's crew or w/e but damn maybe you guys shouldn't have fired half your fucking production team and left the game partially unfinished just to beat an arbitrary deadline thinking you can compete with larian cause you got mad fans were showering bg3 with love. but whateveerrrrr

[gennsoup]

Oh why am I not sitting in the shade Of forests?

Jean Racine, Phèdre

[checkoutmybookshelf]

Anyone who has been personally victimized by Hamlet, please raise your hand...

[hot-on-my-watch]

Normally when watching House MD:

Me: Hahahaha that is so Sherlock.

House MD S7E2: Selfish

Cuddy: Their son is a human being. You know what they are, right? Intrinsic value. We don't get to decide-

House: Come on. We do it every day. The two of them needed the same lung-

Cuddy: He needs to keep the one he's got. You don't get to play God by ripping out-

House: That train left the station when we learned to do transplants. The rest is just paper-pushing.

Me: Hahahaha that is so Frankenstein.

[chthonic-empyrean]

إنها تعتقد أنه من الصعب أن أحبها وأنا أحبها كما لو انني أتنفس

She believes it's hard to love her and I love her like it's breathing.

[herigo]

[yourcozylibrary]

“I like you. It took me ten years to say that. So please don’t go.”

– Kim San Ha

[ouijabard]

WC Fandom Callout/Hot Take Time!

(I would like to preface this by saying that I am a member of the Warrior Cats community myself; I love it here and there are so many amazing and talented people. This post is by no means saying that everybody here is guilty of this, nor is it meant to be an attack or show of ill will on those who are. <:])

Okay, so I have a small grievance to air:

Never, in all my years on the internet, have I ever seen a community that matches the sheer amount of negativity and petty spite the WC fandom has, especially towards its own creators.

Exhibit A:

WC fandom:

The Erins: *actually give us the most pretty, fun, and unique canon design we’ve ever gotten, which CLEARLY IS A CHIMERA AS THEY INTENDED DUE TO HOW HER BLACK FUR IS LONGER THAN HER ORANGE FUR (LOOK AT HER CHEEK FLUFF)*

WC Fandom:

LIKE. Y’ALL.

(I would also like to mention that while yes, the inbreeding is gross and warrants criticism, when you have such isolated populations interbreeding, it was always bound to happen, especially with such complex and forgettable lineages (of feral cats, no less (y’know, animals that form family trees like that naturally?)). Honestly? It’s been an issue for so long that I really think we should just stop pointlessly whining about it, accept it (as long as they aren’t too closely related/it isn’t immediate family incest), and move on.)

I get constructive criticism and civil discourse is healthy in a fandom, but there’s no need to be so blatantly and endlessly petty and spiteful, especially towards the people who try so hard to give you the thing you enjoy in a consistent and timely manner and live up to its legacy. I agree that there are definitely things they’ve messed up on or could do much better with and that they should prioritize quality over quantity more, but c’mon. Honestly, y’all will just find anything to bitch about. 😭 Besides, enough with the pessimism and belittlement! Fandoms are supposed to be fun, and trust me, you will have much more fun if you just let yourself be excited and see what happens. Even if it does feel somewhat like toxic positivity to say so, there's no joy in just being a critic all the time. :]

Anyway, sorry for the exasperated ramble, and thank you for coming to my TEDtalk. 🙏

[420joee]

I love me enough for the both of us

-joe