#shakepeare relatable

[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!

[electronickingdomfox]

TOS season 3: subtext becomes text (part 2)

Continuation from this other post: https://www.tumblr.com/electronickingdomfox/705554052352770048/tos-season-3-subtext-becomes-text-part-1

Plato’s Stepchildren

This episode is kinky, in general, though I don’t think there’s much K/S in it. It contains, however, the first appearance of Shakepeare’s homoerotic sonnets in relation to Kirk. He’s forced to recite Sonnet LVII while crawling on the floor towards the Platonian lord: Parmen.

The sonnet in question deals with the poet’s “slavery” under the love demands of a younger man. This is the full text (Kirk only recites up to fourth line, before being interrupted by McCoy):

Being your slave, what should I do but tend Upon the hours and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend, Nor services to do, till you require. Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you. Nor think the bitterness of absence sour When you have bid your servant once adieu; Nor dare I question with my jealous thought Where you may be, or your affairs suppose, But like a sad slave, stay and think of nought, Save, where you are how happy you make those. So true a fool is love that in your will Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.

The sonnet was probably chosen because of its relation to slavery. But it’s an interesting choice nonetheless...

Wink of an Eye

Yet another episode in which Kirk is forced into a relationship with a woman, or isn’t really able to consent. I read somewhere that Fred Freiberger, producer of season 3 in place of Roddenberry, wanted more romance in the series. Though I can’t locate the exact source, so take it with a grain of salt. But anyway, there’s indeed quite a lot of love stories here, for several characters: Chekov (Spectre of the Gun), McCoy ( For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky), Scotty (The Lights of Zetar) and even a brief scene for Spock in The Cloud Minders (I’m not counting episodes in which Spock was just acting, or not being truly himself). For some of these characters, it’d be the first time they have a genuine romance in the series.

Did this mean more female love interests for Kirk as well? You know, since he’s supposed to be “space Casanova” according to some fans? Well, not really. There’s Rayna, of course. But season 1 alone had both Ruth and Edith. What happened instead was a dramatic increase of episodes in which Kirk is forced, or otherwise manipulated, into a relationship with a woman. So far, we’ve seen a marriage while under amnesia in The Paradise Syndrome, a forced kiss in Plato’s Stepchildren, and now a kidnapping in this episode. And we’re not even done yet: there’s still the love potion of Elaan of Troyius, Marta’s assault in Whom Gods Destroy, and a semi-forced situation in The Mark of Gideon.  To compare, there were only two episodes in the previous seasons, all together, in which I’d classify the “romance” as forced: Dagger of the Mind and A Private Little War.

What it’s interesting in this episode, in terms of Kirk/Spock, is the following scene:

Queen Deela links Kirk’s interest in Spock with “affection”. Affection, of course, can be just friendly affection... But this is not what she’s thinking about. For starters, she wants a demonstration of such affection, and it’s not friendship what she’s looking for. Deela’s interest in Kirk is explicitly sexual in nature (she needs him to beget children). And then there’s, of course, her lover Rael’s jealous reaction.

Moreover, this isn’t the last time a telepathic being reads into Kirk or Spock’s minds, and finds love in there. Because after this episode comes...

The Empath

A really lovely, heartwarming scene, in an otherwise dark episode filled with torture. Spock is looking at Kirk, while he rests after being tormented by their alien captors.

This attracts immediately the attention of Gem, the empathic woman who can sense other people’s feelings, and she turns towards Spock. 

Finding himself under surveillance, Spock quickly averts his eyes, but Gem approaches him and touches his shoulder, to better feel his emotions. And whatever she feels, it must be something really beautiful, since she makes this expression (coupled with sweet music in the background):

Gem can’t talk, but her face says it all. There’s also no dialogue in this scene, and yet it’s everything in the script. Could be friendship or loyalty what she’s sensing there? Could be... But Gem has been around Kirk, Spock and McCoy for a while at this point. Those kind of feelings shouldn’t surprise her anymore. Moreover, McCoy is right there, and he’s about to sacrifice himself for his friends. Yet she doesn’t turn towards McCoy. She must have sensed something new in Spock, a feeling she probably didn’t know till now. And I think it’s love.

Whom Gods Destroy

The second appearance of Shakepeare’s homoerotic sonnets, though this time, its relation with Kirk is weaker.

It’s actually Marta who starts reciting sonnet XVIII, till the fourth line. This is the full text:

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

She’s interrupted, but then turns to Kirk and asks him how he liked it:

Yeah, she knows you’re into this stuff, Kirk. Deela knew, Gem knew, and now Marta knows too. These guys are so obvious... They’re not fooling the ladies.

Requiem for Methuselah

And speaking of obvious, this episode is as subtle as a brick through a window (“como un elefante en una cacharrería”, as I’d say in my own language).

First there’s Kirk falling in love at first sight with an android woman, who talks about sciency stuff just like Spock, and also has problems dealing with her emotions (for another example of parallels between Spock and an android struggling with emotions, see Star Trek: The Motion Picture).

And of course, there’s the final scene:

MCCOY: Well, I guess that's all. I can tell Jim later or you can. Considering his opponent's longevity, truly an eternal triangle. You wouldn't understand that, would you, Spock? You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word love isn't written into your book. Goodnight, Spock. SPOCK: Goodnight, Doctor. MCCOY: I do wish he could forget her.

McCoy accuses Spock of being unable to feel love (specifically romantic love, since that’s what Kirk felt for Rayna). What does Spock do once McCoy leaves? 

Exactly. He mind-melds with a sleeping Kirk and makes him forget Rayna (coupled with romantic music in the background). Now, if it wasn’t for McCoy’s speech, we could assume that Spock was just trying to help his Captain, even if using some unorthodox methods. But McCoy’s speech changes everything. He just told the viewer that Spock is unable to feel something like romantic love. Those were harsh words. And now Spock proves to the viewer that McCoy is wrong, that he can, indeed, feel love.

Again, it’s all in the script. It’s so obvious, that even people you wouldn’t usually link with K/S shipping seem to have got it. For example, this is what Marcy Lafferty (married to Shatner from 1973 to 1996) said about it in an interview (Shatner: where no man..., 1979) :

Turnabout Intruder

The final episode of TOS, and written by Roddenberry himself. Since it was the final episode (and probably everyone knew it at the time), it should have some grand plot, right? Something really glorious, and heroic, and epic. Maybe the Enterprise finally defeats the Klingons and Romulans, and achieves inter-planetary peace or something. Actually, the production team called this episode......... Captain Kirk: Space Queen.

Fuck yeah. Of course, the plot revolves around Kirk switching bodies with a crazed ex-girlfriend, who then proceeds to take hold of the Enterprise. But I wonder if, at some level, it was really about Shatner playing a woman inside a man’s body, or instead, playing a flamboyantly gay Kirk right under our noses. Specially since, while filming this episode, he changed a line out of nowhere to say “Spock, it’s always been you. Please say you love me too”. Was this finale a way for Roddenberry to give the middle-finger to the network that killed his show? Hard to know, and pure speculation on my part. But fun speculation nonetheless.

At the story level, there’s the scene where Kirk, inside Janice’s body, says that Spock is closer to the Captain than ANYBODY ELSE IN THE ENTIRE FREAKING UNIVERSE. And then Spock mind-melds with him. He didn’t make any mind-link with Kirk in previous seasons, but this is the fourth episode in which he melds with him in season 3. He got kind of an addiction to it. There’s also the moment where Spock leads Kirk, taking him by the wrist.

The effect of all this is kind of mitigated by the fact that Kirk occupies a female body at the moment. So even if, for story purposes, is a rather gay scene, the 60′s viewer is still seeing an actor having a tender moment with an actress (which would be nothing new).

But there’s the other side, as well:

Yeah, it’s actually Janice but, from the audience point of view, what we’re seeing here is the Captain Kirk that we got used to for 79 episodes. Getting all lovey-dovey with a man (unfortunately not Spock), and seducing him to kill for his sake. Also, the guy doesn’t seem to mind much that Janice has turned into this hunk of a man. He’s only concerned because of the murderous plan. Now think, was it really necessary to make Janice’s accomplice her lover as well? She already had a love interest in Kirk, and in the episode’s beginning, she was complaining about how lonely she felt.

Well, that’s all I have to say about this subject for TOS season 3 (which was a lot). If you’ve made it through all this text, thank you very much. And I’d be glad to hear your opinions.

[vidavalor]

Yes, totally @moonyinpisces just also want to make it clear that I'm not saying that Aziraphale is going full Hamlet or that Good Omens is. It'll have a happy ending. I'm just interested in the VERY meta Globe Theatre scene in S1 and how it set up a contrasting parallel between Aziraphale and Hamlet but also how that scene establishes that what keeps Aziraphale from fully going there is Crowley. Grapes (wine/Crowley) over oranges (death). The Give Me Liberty/Coffee or Give Me Death of S1. Aziraphale's positivity being rooted, in part, in Crowley's optimism despite everything he's been through and has to survive. Aziraphale, the angelic soft one, relating to Shakepeare's gloomy ones; Crowley, the not-really-that-demonic hard one, only liking the funny ones-- the comedies, the ones with a good ending. It makes me wonder if there might be some allusion a bit to Hamlet that has Aziraphale attempting to act out of character-- to fake madness a bit-- and going along with The Metatron at the start because he wants to find out who is truly responsible. Hamlet pretended and set a trap to find out if Claudius had murdered his father. Aziraphale would need to find out if the end of the world is truly God's Ineffable Plan or if the Claudius-- The Metatron-- is the one responsible.

But also honestly I will take "Aziraphale was sad and bored" as a reason for a beard like we don't need to go full deconstructing Shakespeare parallels to just be like 'it would be hot' so sorry OP I got a little carried away lol.

aziraphale needing to have a beard at the start of good omens s3 necessitates a national conversation actually

[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

[exeunt-pursued-by-a-bear]

Helena is the most relatable Shakepeare character because when her crush professes his love to her she immediately decides it must be a prank

[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)

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Tom Hiddleston & Shakespeare [masterpost] was originally published on TomHiddlestonNews.com

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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!

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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

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