#shakepeare relatable

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

I have to write a literary analysis essay for Romeo + Juliet 2016, and I'm lowkey suffering from watching this movie and thinking of a thesis statement, so I'm bothering you 😊

thoughts on the movie or pairing in general? In pop culture or just the actual story?

Thoughts on the Movie

... You mean the 1996 Romeo + Juliet directed by Baz Luhrmann.

With the following summary that says more than I ever could

Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.

But yes, if we're thinking of the same movie, god do I know what you mean. The 1960's Romeo and Juliet is also bad, it's very pretentious, but it has redeeming qualities and one of the most memorable scores put to film (no offense to Romeo + Juliet intended, its soundtrack is one of its redeeming features... it's just the rest of it).

As for my thoughts on the movie... Baz Luhrmann's one of those directors who has a style, and sometimes that style works better than others. Moulin Rouge, fantastic, it wouldn't work with a different director. Great Gatsby--decent, it's not great but it's not bad either, the Baz Luhrmann glitter brings about what it intends to and helps highlight the roaring 20's feeling in a way that feels a bit more familiar.

Romeo + Juliet... it's one of those movies that tries too hard to be cool with the kids.

We keep the original dialogue, but to distract you from it, we bombard you with glitter, long sword guns, bad teen heartthrob era Leonardo DiCaprio acting, and such symbolism as Tybalt being dressed as the devil because... he's bad I guess.

It's a movie that felt long while I was watching it, where even though Mercutio was a fantastic actor, I was just waiting for him to die and when I got there went "well, there went that part of the play, on to the rest I suppose."

And it's the fucking version they always show to high school kids in a desperate attempt to get children to like the movie/play. "SEE SHAKESPEARE CAN BE MODERN, TIMELESS, AND RELATABLE!"

"YOU LOVE THIS MOVIE!"

Thoughts on the Pair/the Legacy

Romeo and Juliet's one of those things that's now so pervasive to English speaking culture that it's hard to really look at it clearly. There's also what's made very clear in the play: it's not really about them.

They're a symbol of young tragic love in these troubled times, but it's about the fact that they died over nothing. The feud was about nothing, had been about nothing for years, was perpetuated over the fact that X had killed Y over the feud beforehand, and now it resulted in these young people dying far ahead of when they should have.

The love story is there to make that point and it... kind of shows in that we see things like Romeo move on from Rosaline in thirty seconds. Juliet is a young girl who's never had any experience whatsoever, and it shows, as she dives headfirst into what should have been just a stupid romance.

It's not meant to be the one love to conquer all.

But somehow the wires got crossed over the centuries and they become the symbol of the tragic lovers, and while they're certainly tragic and star crossed... that sort of thinking is what leads to annoying internet people (such as myself) pointing out there's not much going on there. Except, yeah, that was the point.

Though I'll also readily admit it's not my favorite Shakepeare tragedy.

TL;DR

I didn't like the movie.

[nuri148]

Hi, new mutual, I've recently been getting more into Rivamika, and I was wondering if you had any fic recommendations, preferably angst :) I actually recently started reading your fic, Clarity, so you'll probs be seeing a comment from me soon-ish on AO3, haha. I'm really loving it thus far!

Hi! And welcome to our lovely ship! Rivamika tends to get an unfair amount of hate so we are a very supportive community and take care of our own like Levi would.

Idk about angst (I enjoy it but It's not something I actively search) but either angsty, fluffy, smutty and/or funny, I'm proud to say we have a lot of wonderful writers around us! l can personally vouch for anything by our queen chaosisbeauty23; also onigiridorkk has lovely fics, esp. Microcosmos, The Perfect Brew and 104th's Top Cadet; MoraLeeWright is like the Shakepeare of Rivamika. My fave by her is Just until the Storm is Gone, and The Song Remains the Same is one of the most original rm fics I've read. Alienheartattack has a plethora of one-shots, my fave being To You, 20 Years From Now (and To All Of Us, From 2000 Years Ago, but that's not rivamika).

If I may interest you in some ongoing fics, hrarby's For You is definitely in the angsty side. She's got a beautiful prose, too. Also angsty is Byhimawari's Languishing. Agentwarbarbie's The Shadow of the Prince is a great royalty AU that'll have you holding your breath.

The Broken Doll is a masterpiece of platonic Levi/Mikasa; last but not least, if you really wanna bawl, Beloved Mother is a heart-gutting Levi centric, non-ship fic.

Last but not least, I'm absolutely chuffed you're enjoying Clarity! You can check the tag #clarity tea house for all the meta that I posted while I was still writing, as well as extras and related stuff.

Thank you SO much for this ask! You made my day! 🥰

PS- ETA: I totally forgot one of my favourites, Surviving Peace by die-forllex!

[theaveragenerd]

Beatrice: I don’t want to get married. Boys are stupid

Benedick: No one wants to marry you

Beatrice: Good

Leonato: Not with that attitude

Beatrice: I don’t care

Don Pedro:

Hero:

Leonato:

Claudio:

Hero: Benedick likes you

Beatrice: OMG DID HE SAY THAT OMG I THINK I LOVE HIM!!

[wanderingchaos]

talk to me

I’m recovering from a emotionally taxing day of having to go to a catholic funeral as a queer pagan, and am dicking around tumblr while watching shakepeare and writing.

i’m opening up simple tarot readings (nothing health related, no legal questions, love is fine but don’t be mad when i’m honest).

or ask me anything.  I’m bored and restless.

[leecoulter]

23/04/2017

Today’s subject matter: Measure 4 Measure

I’m currently in this Shakespeare play that’s being performed in about two months. Measure for Measure, a play about getting executed for having sex before marriage. Not even lying here.  We had rehearsals today, which resulted in me yelling a lot and getting dragged around by the neck using a DIY animal control pole. You know the ones with the loop on the end that tighten. They use them to catch dogs.  My character, Claudio, has been sentenced to death in three days all because he got his fiance “with child”. So before I die, I get paraded around the town as a warning to all other... Before marital.. Doers..... Here are some of my lines... Converted to un-Shakespeare:

I am imprisoned because of too much freedom. It is a thirsty evil and when we drink, we die. 

I had sex with my fiance. We tried to keep it a secret from our friends, because we’re not ‘technically’ married in the eyes of the law. But now she’s pregnant so we can’t hide it. 

The god damn deputy took over for the Duke while he was on holiday. He had this stupid law that he never actually enforced for like nineteen years about premarital relations. The deputy only locked me up so he could feel proud and get his name out there.

Please go get my sister, a nun, to ask the deputy to set me free (HINT: the deputy offers Claudio’s life to his sister, but in return she must sleep with him)

Shakespeare, dude, what are you doing

Thanks for tuning in

- Lee

[autopoietics]

The Presocratics were 6th and 5th century BCE Greek thinkers who introduced a new way of inquiring into the world and the place of human beings in it. They were recognized in antiquity as the first philosophers and scientists of the Western tradition. This article is a general introduction to the most important Presocratic philosophers and the main themes of Presocratic thought. More detailed discussions can be found by consulting the articles on these philosophers (and related topics) in the SEP (listed below).

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Interesting thing that is worth considering is this:

Modern thinking related to traditional knowledge with the creative flair. 

Let’s take Shakepeare for instance (btw yesterday there was the celebration of the birthday of this famous writer - see video related to his life & work here)

Something about politeness can be more than inspiring via HERE...

... and then let’s listen to one of the most popular Philosophers of Language, recently even more active, and think of language as a tool required for communicating also in writing:

[imaginebeatles]

Hi! 3, 29, 37 and 50- favourite calssic novels/authors and why? -from a fellow English lit undergraduate ;)

3. name three favourite writersAs you’re a fellow English lit undergrat, I’ll just answer with non-fanfiction authors. Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, George MacDonald (I read a few of his fairy tales last semester and I loved them) (there are many other authors I love).29. favorite story/poem of another authorLast semester I had to read the book O! Caledonia by Scottish author Elspeth Barker and I loved that book. It’s not long, but it’s kind of like a buildungsroman about this young girl who grows up in Scotland in the 40s and 50s. It starts of with a description of her death and the mystery of how she died keeps the novel going. I loved the writing (very Poe-like especially in her opening description of her death). I loved Janet as a character and could relate to her and loved her as a character. Despite the ghotic nature it felt very real. My favourite book of last semester for sure. As for poetry, I am usually not a fan of it, but I love Romantic poetry, especially Keats and Wordsworth. Darkness by Lord Byron is a great poem, though. Very apocalyptic with some jarring imagery. It actually managed to make me cry on first reading it. 37. canon or AU?I used to like canon more, but right now AU for sure. It’s interesting being able to take the characters you love and put them in a whole new context and see how they would react to it. It’s a lot of fun, and instead of coming up with new canon story ideas I find myself looking for AU story ideas first. 50. favourite classic novels/authors, and why?I’m just going to name a few that come into my head right now. Jane Ayre - Charlotte Brontë. Jane is such a wonderful character, and when I was reading it I was struck by just how explicitly feminist the work truly is. I love her romance with Mr Rochester as well as everything that happens once she leaves his house once she finds out about his wife. The struggles she goes through during that time, especially at first, and how she builds up a life for herself on her own terms, coming from nothing, is worthy of admiration. It doesn’t gloss over the struggles, the pain, and the darker parts of her life and she is allowed to be so much more than what women usually were in novels. The only thing that put me off with the telepathic connection between her and Rochester, but it’s doesn’t ruin it at all. 1984 - George Orwell. Greatly crafted world, very believeable and I love the ending. The scene in Room 101 made me physically ill when I read it. 

Little Dorrit and A Tale of Two Cities - Charles DickensI love Dickens’s work. Although his female character are “safe” to put it kindly for in the time it was written, they aren’t too horrible and I actually really like them. I love the intrigue in his plots and the mystery and questions. Also Little Dorrit contains my favourite comic scene by him, which is the chapter about the Circumlocution Office, which is a satirical scene of the beaucratic system. Just great. If I had to pick a favourite though, I’d say A Tale of Two Cities. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas HardyGreat female lead, especially seeing as it was written by a man. It really draws you into the drama (there is a lot of drama) and I screamed when she finally did something that I had guessed halfway through the book she would. Angel is such a conflicting character, which really works for the story. It really points out the difficulties for women in that time. Again her struggles are heartbreaking and not glossed over.  

Jane AustenNot going to pick a novel, though I love Pride and Prejudice because Mr Darcy is such a socially awkard and adorable man. She is so funny and the drama is wonderful. Also again, great women, especially considering the time it was written in. I’m reading Sense and Sensibility now for class and I’m enjoying it greatly. The Imporance of Being Earnest / The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar WildeBoth are just wonderful. The Importance of Being Earnest is still really funny even today and offers some nice social commentary. I personally also love more scary/supernatural stories and The Picture of Dorian Grey is wonderfully written. Also give his fairy tales a read. They’re a great read!  Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett I love the entire play. Even just reading it off the page it was hilariously funny with nice absurdic and exisitential humour. Anything by William Shakepeare I didn’t understand why before either, but I took a 16 week course on him and it was just great. So versitile. Great female characters. Gay characters! And it’s still so relevant for today. The language takes some getting used to, but you do get used to it. With every play it gets easier and easier. Personally, I love Richard III the most myself, I think. The sonnets are also great and even funny at times. My favourite one is Sonnet 128.There are many many more, but this is a good start, probably. Also if you want something more modern, The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson is a great post-modern rewriting of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. It’s full of “ghosts” of other previous works and just simply a great story that is really well written. Also the Devil wears white trainers and a black suit. What else do you need? Thanks for asking!! 

[torontotravelblog]

15 Fun Indoor Activities for Kids in Toronto

What to do with the kiddos when it's rainy or as well cold to venture outside, or in winter season when it's dark much prematurely? Below are 15 concepts for enjoyable indoor play in Toronto for youngsters: most of them complimentary!

1. Free Area Centre Programs

Consult City of Toronto Recreation Centres in your area completely free drop-in programs like family video games, clamber, as well as indoor play (youngsters ages 1 to 5, accompanied by a caretaker, go wild in a gym full of soft climbing up frameworks, slides, pedal automobiles, spheres, and also much more).

Ontario Early Years' Centres also have drop-in programs with arts and also crafts for kids, circle time, treat, and also free play with playthings.

Check for other household source centres near you for even more drop-in and also drop-off programs.

2. Museums

Believe galleries are a developed task? Think again. Several Toronto galleries have kid-specific programs to obtain youngsters's innovative juices flowing.

The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is a fantastic destination for households in chillier weather condition for the Hands-On Centre (year-round, Tue.-- Sunlight.) as well as Family Members Sundays (Nov.-- May) as well as artistic workshops and classes.

Design Exchange likewise has Family Sundays on choose weekends in loss and also winter months. And also family events are recurring at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).

The Ontario Scientific research Centre has hands-on displays for children of every ages, consisting of a build-your-own roller coaster terminal, a cavern spelunking experience, a pint-sized shopping market for youngsters, and a planetarium as well as Omnimax theater.

Living-history museum Black Creek Pioneer Village is shut December 24 with May, yet up until then, celebrate the run-up to the vacations 1800s-style with mincemeat pies, wagon flights, children' crafts, and check outs to Santa's Home.

3. Courses and Lessons

Whether for art or songs, basketball or computer system programming, courses are a great method for children to maintain mind and bodies energetic in cold-weather months as well as gain abilities, confidence, brand-new pals, and simply have a good time in a safe, favorable environment.

Some classes are expensive yet you can sign up for low-priced leisure programs through the City of Toronto, consisting of gymnastics, music, as well as swimming. Look into museums, regional crafts collectives, conservation centres, as well as other regional resources for more courses.

4. Clubs

Resources for youngsters' clubs include the City of Toronto registration-based clubs (girls-only clubs, after-school fun clubs, chess clubs, and also much more).

Popular across Canada for a factor, Girl Guides as well as Scouts Canada are inexpensive as well as offer lots of enjoyable tasks and also overseen trips for youngsters.

A free Toronto Town library program, TD Shakepeare for Children Collection Club, where children read and also carry out Shakepeare with expert stars and also teachers, is supplied at branches throughout the city.

Discover a lot more clubs for youngsters below.

5. Indoor Playgrounds as well as Play Centres

When it's too chilly to go to the playground, take it indoors! Interior play grounds vary from little playrooms with playthings as well as a solitary indoor slide for toddlers and preschoolers to substantial interior play centre complexes with multi-level play structures, indoor mini-golf, party bundles, gallery games, and also much more.

Trampoline parks like Skies Zone and also Simply Jump enable kids to actually blow off steam after being cooped indoors.

6. Indoor Swimming

Head to one of more than a loads City of Toronto indoor swimming pools in Toronto for free swim times, for the most part for free.

Some especially trendy pools for children: the Minister Park Aquatic Centre, with a gigantic slide for older kids and also superficial area with a mushroom waterfall feature; Agincourt Entertainment Centre (palm trees!); as well as River Grove Neighborhood Centre in Mississauga (twirly tube slide as well as bordered by home windows).

You can additionally spend for a day pass to use swimming pools at YMCAs, JCCs, and also college athletic centres.

Or take "swimming" to the next level at the Richmond Hillside Wave Swimming Pool.

7. Bowling and Mini Golf

There are several options for bowling as well as indoor mini-golf in the GTA. You can likewise play mini-golf at some interior playgrounds as well as play centres, like Rinx. You can even do glow-in-the-dark mini-golf and bowling!

8. Youngster Cafés

Cafés with backyard for youngsters are an excellent cold-weather reward for mama and kid. You delight in a coffee and pastry while your child plays on the indoor play equipment or does an art job-- or perhaps attends a workshop. You can drop in at most cafés, though some require subscription.

9. Storytime

All set for Reading tale times take place at Toronto Public Library branches across the city as well as are for particular age up to age 5.

Kid's book shops likewise have storytime for children.

10. Ripley's Fish tank

For fun under the sea, head to Ripley's Aquarium of Canada. It's merely remarkable to see sharks and sawfish swimming overhead. Small tykes go crazy for the indoor play area. Everybody likes the jellyfish wall and also the touch tanks where you can "pet" a sting ray or shark. In winter months, children can also "sleep with the sharks" at a fish tank pajama party.

11. Hockey Hall of Fame

For little fans, the Hockey Hall of Popularity is a prime location to learn about NHL history, play interactive video games (for young kids), as well as have a photo taken with the fabulous Stanley Cup.

12. Plays and also Performances

Here in Toronto, we are fortunate to have many kids's carrying out arts places and performers. Make the most of the many programs as well as performances on throughout the fall, wintertime, and early spring.

13. YMCAs, JCCs, and U of T Drop-In and also Registered Programs

These centres and also educational centres have tasks ranging from swimming, karate and dance to art, music, and education that are open to all (some programs call for registration and members get discounts). See the YMCA of Greater Toronto, Miles Nadal JCC, Schwartz/Reisman Centre (Vaughan), and University of Toronto.

14. Food preparation

Cooking schools as well as children cooking programs get on the rise. Also Loblaws has themed cooking courses for youngsters ages 3 to 16. Yet you can also just cook something with each other at home. It's an excellent skill for children to discover and all the measuring, stirring, as well as stealing of delicious chocolate chips is an enjoyable way to while away an afternoon-- with a huge payback at the end!

15. Round-Robin Play

Maintain it laid-back (and economical) and also host a playtime for your youngster and a few good friends, then relocate from home to residence on a weekly or every-other-week basis. Give it a theme (snow-related crafts, baking, parlor game) to keep youngsters active playing with each other. It's a justification to leave your house (when it's not your resort to host), socialize, as well as take a few of the "I'm bored" out of Saturdays!

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[twh-news]

As Tom is once again preparing to perform Shakespeare – Hamlet in the RADA/The Branagh Theatre co-production September 2017 – I decided to refresh an old list and create

A new TWH & Shakespeare Masterpost

of interviews, articles and videos where Tom talks about or is performing his beloved Shakespeare.

Below are links to the articles and videos found online.

If you see something is missing, please let me know by sending an ask on tumblr or emailing me – I’ll be happy to update the list!

I also created a playlist on YouTube of the videos found there. Feel free to subscribe or save the list for future reference, I will update it whenever something new comes along. There’s propably around 10 hours of Tom & Shakespeare on that playlist alone, not to mention Coriolanus and the Muse of Fire interviews that add another 5 at least!

Enjoy!

The Hollow Crown

Articles

Collider.com | Tom Hiddleston Talks THE HOLLOW CROWN, His Passion for Shakespeare, Parallels to Loki, Appearing in Character at Comic-Con, and More The Record | Tom Hiddleston had to ‘age backward’ for The Hollow Crown The Independent | We Happy Two; Jamie Parker and Tom Hiddleston tackle Shakespeare’s Henry V Radio Times | Tom Hiddleston on King Henry V – the adolescent miscreant who transformed into a hero Daily Mail | It’s Britain’s finest actors vs Shakespeare in the 2012 Cultural Olympiad (group interview with Tom Hiddleston, David Suchet, Ben Whishaw & Rory Kinnear Total Film | Tom Hiddleston talks Shakepeares Henry and Thor’s Loki Los Angeles Times | Tom Hiddleston returns to Shakespearean roots in ‘The Hollow Crown’

Videos

No Surrender – clip from Henry V Henry V monologue – St. Crispin’s day speech Shakespeare Unlocked: Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons on The Hollow Crown set Tom on Newsnight talking about Shakespeare Tom performs ‘Henry V’ monologue in Hoppus on Music Tom talks about the Hollow Crown and social media

Coriolanus

Articles

Harper’s Bazaar | Tom Hiddleston on Coriolanus Evening Standard | It’s a privilege to be back … Shakespeare makes me feel more alive, says Thor star Tom Hiddleston

Downloads

Coriolanus PT1 | PT2 Performance in audio PT1 | PT2 (All download links by iamjumpersrage on tumblr)

Full script

Full text of the play Coriolanus on Sparknotes

Audio Commentary

Full audio commentary to be listened along with the play on Soundcloud

Videos made for promoting the encore screenings and the audio commentary in 2015

Tom and Josie Rourke talk about why they chose Coriolanus About the relevancy of Coriolanus Tom on Coriolanus as a hero

Tom on other Shakespeare’s work

Articles

A.V.Club | Tom Hiddleston on why he loves Much Ado About Nothing London Shakespeare Workout (LSW) Prison Project | All That You Can’t Leave Behind; Diary Entry by Tom Hiddleston

Videos

Tom as John Hall in ‘A Waste of Shame’ Interview with the full cast of Othello Tom interviewed of Shakespeare on movies Tom’s favourite Shakespearian female character Stage the Guardian | Tom on how Shakespeare seeped into his bones

Sonnets and other Shakespeare’s work read by Tom

The Lovebook App | Sonnet number 18 ‘Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s day?’ The Lovebook App | Sonnet number 98 ‘From you I have been absent in the spring’ Sonnet 130 ‘My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun’ ‘Sigh no more’ from Much Ado About Nothing Hamlet, Act 1 (Ghost)

Muse of Fire

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[hamletdressedinblack-blog]

When did u get into Shakespeare / read hamlet?

Excellent question, nonny! I got into Shakespeare after I read Hamlet, the third play I had to read in my high school English classes.In the beginning, I HATED Shakespeare with a bloody passion. All I knew of Shakespeare growing up was Romeo and Juliet (the balcony and death scene), the phrase “To be or not to be” without any context whatsoever, and that he was a iconic dude who wrote plays and sonnets.When I read Romeo and Juliet in my freshman year of high school, my teacher did not do a great job trying to decode everything. While we did decode what was going on, I did not really grasp the early modern English well, so the language barrier threw me off from loving Shakespeare. Also, my teacher taught it very black and white, meaning that there was only the interpretation of “Teenagers make poor decisions” and other BS I decoded as a then teenager. I felt it lumped all teenagers into one category and I was not about that life.Then my sophomore year of high school, we read Julius Caesar. The only part of it I found ironic was that the Ides of March is my birthday. Other than that, my English teacher did not make reading it quite interesting. I found myself restless and bored.My junior year of high school was focused on American literature, with a Shakespeare sonnet thrown in. I didn’t like poetry then (we still are at odds today), so reading a sonnet in early modern English wanted me to flip my shit.My senior year of high school rolled around, and that is when I read Hamlet. By then, I was 1000% done with Shakespeare, but I was like “Well, third time’s the charm, so let’s give this bad boy a chance. If I really don’t like Shakepeare, then I really don’t like him.”My AP English teacher was enthusiastic, perhaps a little too enthusiastic to my then cynical mind about Shakespeare. I thought she was too obsessed. Back then, I thought it was just a mere Shakespeare play. Whoopie. Who wants to read about a Very Sad Guy who talks to skulls, cry a lot, and do shit like jump into some graves? However, she was quite enthusiastic and explained what was going on. We did have some great conversations as a class, and I nearly teared up at one point because I related to Hamlet quite a lot when reading the text in class.Then we watched the Branagh version of Hamlet, and then moved onto our next reading.Around this time, I was lowkey getting into literature, and looking at blogs here on Tumblr. I was genuinely surprised at how much people loved literature. I mean, I was a fan, but I never really heard of people around my age loving classic literature. Usually, I heard about YA novels most spoken with my peers, and classic lit with adults and teachers. I really found some small appreciation for classic literature.After I graduated high school, some of my AP English peers and I took an overnight field trip up to Stratford, Ontario to go to the Stratford Festival. Just our luck: they were putting on Hamlet that year (2015) and since I read it and gathered more of a appreciation for it after reading the play, I would enjoy the production. I remember buying everything Hamlet I liked there. I did like Hamlet, but not to this degree in which I do now.So I saw the production, and I was FLOORED. (Here’s a link about the production more in depth, because it will explain how I began to love Hamlet to the degree I do now: https://hamletdressedinblack.tumblr.com/post/147869854644/some-hamlet-questions-how-many-hamlets-have-you). Jonathan Goad (my favorite Hamlet, ever) is a treasure.Seeing the play on stage made me want to pursue English as a major in university, and it officially make me the Shakespeare fanatic I am today, especially a Hamlet fanatic.After seeing the play, I made this blog a few short days later. And I really do appreciate you all who follow me. I love the Shakespeare Tumblr community so much.Oh, and I got a tattoo of Hamlet on my left forearm recently. I adore it so much. (Link: https://hamletdressedinblack.tumblr.com/post/163195206469/words-cannot-describe-how-much-hamlet-means-to-me). Well, that’s pretty much how I got into Shakespeare and got into Hamlet, nonny! If you have any specific questions, hit me up on my ask box!

[sleeponrooftops]

Space nonfiction time with one of my faves! 🚀 . Mike Massimino is easily the funniest of the astronauts memoirs I’ve read. He has such an engaging voice that makes things like training to fix the Hubble telescope relatable to little old Shakepeare nerds like me. He is so human and honest about his struggle to get to astronaut candidacy, about his dreams of flying in space, and about staying human and honest throughout all of that. He is a true sun amid the stars, and we owe him our gratitude for outstanding service in space. Thank you for being one of a kind, Mike. . Also, yes, his face is familiar to you because he guest starred in the Big Bang Theory! He is THAT COOL! . #maryreads #amreading #reading #readersofinstagram #books #bookreview #bookish #booklover #bookstagram #space #astronaut #hubble #mikemassimino #spaceman https://www.instagram.com/p/B0CRNlqgEyz/?igshid=gxqwgt1mhu5g