#covid shakespeare

[blossoms-and-petrichor]

shout out to lady macbeth for being the only person in western Europe washing their hands thoroughly during a plague

[tossacointoyourhotmess]

Babylon 5 - Eyes + As You Like It

[tenderflint]

just bought a ticket for live theatre for the first time in over four years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stupidcowboykid]

besties halloween costumes i NEED to see this fall

cloth mother & wire mother

phineas gage & little albert

girl math & girl dinner

schrodinger's cat & pavlovs dog (sexy)

sag aftra & wga (or unions of your choice)

spice girls?

[funeralgoer]

reading if we were villians is so bizarre because it feels like a mix of my highschool years of being a *backstage* drama kid and my university years of an *almost* shakespeare major

[merciless-macdonwald]

misc. galloway & ross sketches!

[spider-artdump]

[karl-von-moor-official]

Obsessed with the fact that Romeo & Juliet, the pretty much most well-known tragedy there is, is so fucking close to being a comedy!

Like, all of those dick jokes. The humorous prospects of a masked ball! Mercutio going out with a goddamn PUN as his last words!!! I can't even-

[thelonelypoetessfiles]

Ophelia

I feel like Ophelia

Drowning in the lake in madness

A cruel decision by gods

My father dropped dead and I'm attacked by the plague.

[freddieandersen]

immersion shattered by inaccurate details about my workplace! at the lesbian romance novel

[transmandrake]

I know its almost certainly american and therefore probably completely inaplicable to my experiences but i do not fathom those 'actually you were taught critical thinking in english class you just werent paying attention' posts.

Like one... which is more likely. That they did a bad job of teaching a thing. Or that 99% of people werent listening.

And two... it always makes me think of the time we started analysing Of Mice And Men in english class by. Being handed a piece of paper detailing the whole plot. (I hadnt read it before) and... hhh... and then reading the fucking book??? Or watching the movie Im not sure.

And then telling us all the themes and motifs and such. Actually no, I think they had that in the printout too a bit. Before Reading it.

It pisses!!! Me off!!! So much!!! I actually really liked it but I'll literally never get to read it from a fresh perspective or form my own independent opinion of it because they literally fucking printed off the entire plot BEFORE WE READ IT!!! I simply have to imagine what my reaction to Lenny getting (haha, im not saying, go and read it its public domain and super short) because I already knew it was going to happen.

I literally wasnt allowed to think for myself. And yknow I think thats part of the reason I wasnt good at english despite, yknow, fucking making a story in my head for an entire decade, was because I would always write about a different thing than they wanted us to talk about (Also in hindsight though oh my god. That was adhd too. But still) because i had a different view of what the story was about and it was literally impossible for my brain to just talk about the narrow list of themes and ways to write about those themes they wanted me to.

I dunno man. I dont think 'you were all just fucking dumb no attention span idiots' is the reason here. And if it is.... is that the fucking students fault.

I dont even think my teachers were bad, they were great! But they had to get us ready for the fucking test. And sometimes that meant printing off a summary because you might not have time to finish reading the book first i guess.

[malachite-iiarie]

Friends, Romans, country men, gamers

And all my coworkers who have to hear me get excited about the ides today because I was Calpurnia in my schools production of Caesar. Sorry not sorry

[olokosomolo]

A good name is my fame

Now it's genuine it's the new trend that Emerges from the deepest place in the center of an intensifying tremor that rises and passes throughout the voice box that serves as a filter For a rhyme as special as a wild animal trying to express a good rhyme to TOBI. And today I heard it everywhere I went. No, I'm not delusional. It's an English grammar as the perfect personification of the beautiful wild animals that allude to a flawless rhyme to those letters T O V I please let me give you all an example. Walking in front of me I see a nice couple about to pass me and suddenly I heard the lady's voice say Trobi. What was that I heard well perhaps odds than a full house group of people stood on my path and while I came to pass they gave this girl the respect to say... shhiitt !!! right at this moment rn someone passed and said: I want tombi ?!?! I'm trying to digest is this phenomenon and I can't because it's too big for my size. Even though I know that the vast majority are haters I'm to bend on my knee and thank all the haters to say it, it is they who spreading it way way faster than any pandemic. Covid nothing doesn't even allow to play in send box of a public old and abandoned park. I'm too small to receive such an honor, I'm hiding shy and humble, blushing. It's funny that if it were an election then I wouldn't sleep at night to have time to fulfill my wishes to those who put me up against my request but is it for good things I'm the first to volunteer to do good for everyone and leave a mark for generations to come, Love, Love is the desire to do more for the neighbor than I want for myself Take the money from me give it to the whole. And leaving me with my good name is enough because a good name is better than any cognac x al or whiskey royal salute or patron platinum your name always walks ahead, in front of you again thanks to all the haters to come with such a brilliant. And much applause 👏

[teejaystumbles]

Gonna see it on Saturday!!! FINALLY! Sorry to my followers (and Hob) if the Shakespeare content goes slightly up!

Christian Friedel in Macbeth!

[ellielatinagf]

Ellie Williams in Covid head cannons

Sooooo this is just a small idea I had because I’ve never seen anyone else do this soooooooo. Our poor girly in yet another epidemic. Love you all!

Warnings: a tiny bit nsfw content, cursing, for the girls only pleaseee, lmk if there’s anything else

Was absolutely thrilled when everyone was advised to stay inside because she’s such an antisocial loser untilllllll she saw how everyone was rapidly spreading the disease. She’s low key a germaphobe.

Totally had a YouTube channel which consisted of her recording herself doing nothing but laying on the couch with you watching tv. Her only subscribers were Jesse, Joel, and Dina and some rando from Tennessee.

She found a new obsession every week and now the garage is filled with boxes of old paintings, crochet chickens, and diy art stuff.

Had ranked every Ramen noodle flavor from best to worst

Absolutely freaked OUT when you got Covid from your job and she ended up sleeping over at Joel’s. She actually refused to come back untill you showed her how you deep cleaned the whole house.

Ellie on FaceTime

Ellie: wait babe lemme see right there on the dresser

You: Ellie I literally wiped it down twice

Ellie: well I didn’t see it

Tried to make cookies one time and thought they were perfect and crispy around the edges. They really tasted like chips and she got mad when you laughed and claimed you never take her seriously.

Okay I’m sorry but she was a horny monster like cmon she was in the house all day with you like how can she not.

Had an obsession with the Big Bang theory and made you watch it with her and explained all the science stuff which she knew for the most part. On the ones she didn’t know she’d yap about it till you looked it up and she’d gaslight you into thinking she was right.

You: “Umm babe google says……”

Ellie: “that’s literally what I was saying”

She was at Joel’s house one time helping him make more guitars. She accidentally cut herself and when you demanded she go to the hospital which she was terrified of because of all the Covid patients getting her sick she went like this

“Hold on babe i watched greys anatomy”

Fell victim to the meme pages all in her camera roll that were like this

Hated zoom meetings but she’d be the type to hold her phone on the screen and watch those Roblox Tik toks.

I know i already said she was a fortnite god but that girl watched every single fortnite concert at the time and made sure you were right there with her and she made sure to clip the whole thing even though when watching the clip back her and Jesse were yelling their asses off. She loved season three of fortnite.

Ellie: “ HURRY UP BABE TRAVIS SCOTT IS GONNA PREFORM OH MY GOD JESSE WHERE ARE YOU!!!”

Ellie hated when people overstocked at the grocery store meanwhile she did the exact same thing because she was paranoid and it came in hand since you guys wouldn’t need to go grocery shopping for at least a week and a half

Ellie also discovered games with an emotional storyline like Detroit becomes human, red dead redemption, resident evil, ect. And had a phase where she’d be all poetic and shit thinking she was Shakespeare, she got tired of talking like she was from the 1800s.

Ellie: “my love, your eyes, they remind me of a thousand sunsets…”

You: “did you take out the trash?”

She had all her favorite YouTubers and would watch them on the tv and she’d make you play among us with her because that was “the game of century” as she proclaimed.

She actually had a small mini breakdown because our poor girl found out Joel had Covid and remember that in the news it said older people were more at risk. The poor girl though Joel was gonna die and you laid in bed with Ellie who was sniffling and crying in your shirt while you rubbed her back. Those always calm her down. Then when Joel was better again she made you pinky promise not to tell anyone anything. But she did end up calling Joel more frequently.

You guys actually had spent a lot of time together and most couples who spent so much time together broke up and got bored and such and such but you two actually enjoyed you time together. You and Ellie would would go to an open park where no one was around and watch the sunset and talk about what your plans were after everything was back to normal. Ellie asked if you two could get a puppy and who can ever say no to those eyes and freckles cheeks?

Another thing you guys liked to do was spent all day in bed and cuddling. Now a lot of people will assume Ellie would be the big spoon and that can be true sometimes but the girl is a hugeeeeeee softie. She loved being the little spoon because she felt safe by feeling your soft breath ok her back or shoulder. And she’s hold a dinosaur plushie. Like always.

She cried when she watched videos of family’s finally being able to reunite or grandparents watching their families through a class. Who didn’t cry?

She loved playing just dance with you and she’d purposely pick a song where you both had to dance together because she never has the balls to ask you to dance to with her.

She had a little camcorder where she recorded almost everything in your lives at that point. You brushing your teeth, both of you eating cereal, having tickle fights, ect. What Ellie doesn’t know is that now you sometimes go to the camcorder and watch the old videos and she’d a tear here and there because you loved the memories.

Some how she was actually a beast at the toilet paper kick up challenge and got a good 14 kick ups.

You cannot tell me she didn’t buy those apple juices that actually founded like apples when you bit into them.

I lowkey just had an idea of what Ellie would be like at this time sooooo lmk what other hcs you guys might want! Also be sure to let me know if you’d like to be in the Taglists! Don’t forget to talk about Palestine guys! Free Palestine ����🇸 🇵🇸🇵🇸

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[peacephotography]

Four Lessons for the Long Haul - What Long Covid has taught me on resilience

When the paramedics came for me in the sweltering days of May 2020 it didn’t feel real. I had just passed out in the heat and collapsed headfirst into a radiator. I’d seen paramedics attend to friends and relatives, but in my feverish state, it didn’t sink in that they would come for me. My youthful sense of invincibility quickly faded. I found myself unable to lift my limbs or produce full sentences, and interminable headaches left me in despair. The after-effects are still with me today, in the form of Long Covid.

Now that I have regained some energy, I would like to share some of the lessons that illness has taught me about enduring difficulty in the climate and ecological crisis.

Lesson One: We need courage, not hope

Let the pain be your fuel. Let your total rejection of the status quo give you the courage to transform your life, to stand out from the crowd, and demand transformative action.

Margaret Klein Salamon, Facing the Climate Emergency

For the first few months of my illness, I woke up every morning hoping that I would suddenly recover and have “my life back”. Rather than letting go of what I could no longer do, I kept trying to live as before. But this detachment from the reality of my situation only brought me more pain.

Once I had the courage to face the uncertainty of illness, I let go of anxiously awaiting a miraculous recovery, and relaxed into my situation. In facing my pain and isolation I was able to accept them. They are a state of exile and vulnerability that can be a source of strength for navigating our bittersweet world.

The same is true for facing the climate emergency. If we hope that technology will save us or that criminally negligent governments will suddenly act responsibly, we are recklessly gambling our future on very poor odds. This can only bring pain.  Once we start to tell ourselves the truth about the situation, we can find pride in our honesty and compassion in our grief.  It’s from here that the resolve to take action will emerge.

Lesson Two: Follow your bliss

Joseph Campbell’s saying, “Follow your bliss,” is not an irresponsible phrase that ignores the pain of life but a reminder to receive pleasure and contentment, even in the depths of suffering.

Toko-pa Turner, Belonging

In illness, every day feels like a struggle. When it shows no sign of improving, or worsens, I lose my morale to keep going. It's an exhausting and depressing limbo. In the darkest and weakest hours, I saw my life flash before my eyes and began to dream of people and places I hadn’t seen for a decade. I saw the highs and lows that had shaped me into the man I am today. This gave me some space and perspective to see things from a different angle. From each challenge, there was a learning on how to face hardship. From each joy, an inspiration to live to the full.

Holding on to these feelings helps bring balance to life. In activism, we follow a true passion and through it find our fullest potential. But even this has its limits. Every step along the way we need to find that balance of difficulty and joy for our own wellbeing. Our struggle for climate and ecological action brings many challenges that can lead us to despairing inertia. In my sickness, a joy was as simple as the view from my bedroom window: a falling blossom, a scudding cloud, a wandering snail.

Such joys became my music, my dance, my poetry, my comedy and my sport: ways to relax into whatever challenge chronic pain brought.

Everyday joys can give us the resilience to keep facing what we must face. So as we rebel with all our might against the existential threat posed by the climate and ecological emergency, let’s also cherish what makes our existence so precious. From that reflective space we can find the courage to keep going.

Lesson Three: Words Matter

“The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.”

Virginia Woolfe, On Being Ill

As I slowly regained my speech, I struggled to find the words to describe what I was going through. It struck me that there is a serious lack of language on both chronic illness and climate chaos.  If you are unable to express a feeling, you are unlikely to find any solace for it.

For our society to be able to come to terms with the emergency we need a language to relate to in films, literature and TV.  Some of the best I think we have so far are Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, a piercing portrayal of the rise of sexism and racism in an uninhabitable America; The Road by Cormac McCarthy, for its portrayal of the gritty end-point of mass extinction; and early Studio Ghibli films such as Princess Monoke/Nausicaa, whose heroines champion coexistence with the natural world.

However, the vast majority of current work focuses too much on apocalypse scenarios, produced to scare the shit out of us, instead of relatable everyday stories. How about a  climate drama set in water scarce Somalia? Or a northern woman’s heroic adventure to save her hometown from flooding? We need more romances that argue over whether having kids is responsible and comedies that mock the insanity of our toxic system like The Yes Men or Simon Amstell’s Carnage.

Stories are key for an emotional connection to the challenges humanity faces. Our stories of rebellion can be cathartic for climate anxiety and stir a generation of heroes ready to speak out for their futures. Let’s start writing them.

Lesson Four: Belonging

“By reviving a community, built around the places in which we live, and by anchoring ourselves, our politics and parts of our economy in the life of this community, we can recover the best aspects of humanity. We can mobilise our remarkable nature for our own good and the good of our neighbours.”

George Monbiot, Out of the Wreckage

Being housebound and unable to hold conversations without paralysing headaches is extremely isolating. Yet even in the depths of my pain I was able to appreciate the love of our community. Rebels gave me cards, voice-notes, medical advice, paintings and - best of all – cakes, cookies  and biscuits fresh from the oven. The feeling of belonging to and being supported by a community of kindhearted and extraordinary people gave me strength every step of the way.

Together we are building a community that can hold us through the dark days with pride, friendship and joy. We are showing not only the best aspects of humanity but also the solid foundations of a successful social movement. The climate and ecological emergency will shape the rest of our lives. So take every opportunity you can to nourish and prepare yourself for the long journey ahead. You’ll not only be more resilient, but you’ll find more joy.

-- Thanks for reading. If you enjoyed this or can think of someone who could benefit from these words please do share it. If you'd like to read more, subscribe to my blog :) Peace, Robin

Photograph: Franck Fife