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musical-chick-13 · 2 years ago

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Thinking too hard about the fact that the best example I’ve ever seen of “Mentally Ill Lady is loved unconditionally-not in spite of, but because of, how fucked up she is” comes from a play that a) is over 400 years old that was written in a time where the cultural environment surrounding it wasn’t even fully past the “having OCD means you are communing with the devil” stage, and b) 90% of the people I know are only aware of because we had to read it in high school English class. Anyway, does Shakespeare know what he did by writing Lady Macbeth, DOES HE KNOW

#not that people with mental illness are Inherently Fucked Up. mine just makes me feel like I am lmao.#and it's not like a...Romanticizing Mental Illness thing either. like he's literally just 'there's something in you that speaks to me we get #each other in a way we can't recreate with anyone else'. HE CALLS HER. 'MY DEAREST PARTNER OF GREATNESS'#'TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW' ONLY HAPPENS AS THE RESULT OF HER DEATH #EVEN TOWARD THE END SHE IS REFERRED TO AS HIS QUEEN #OHHHH ONE TIME I SAW A PRODUCTION OF MACBETH WHERE THE END HAD HER WAITING FOR HIM OUTSIDE THE GATES OF HELL AND THEN THEY WALKED INTOGETHER #*in together I canNOT retype that #I THINK ABOUT IT JUST. SO MUCH. ALL THE TIME.#anyway back in college just before I joined this website I made this character my entire personality and I think that might be about to #happen again.#blorbo from my shakespeare play <3 #oh she's so incredibly deeply sad and also a disaster and also tragic and cunning and eloquent and I loVE HER SO MUCH #sometimes I have to have a Media Breakdown™ about this play I'd apologize to everyone but I'm not actually sorry #SHIP: my dearest partner of greatness

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