Maybe This Is Just A Symptom Of BPD But Does Anyone Else Ever Feel Emotions So Intensely They Almost

“‘How much do you know about Shakespeare,’ I once asked a friend who has committed much of her life to studying the Bard. She replied, ‘Not as much as he knows about me.’ Remember this the next time someone tells you literature is useless.”

— Don’t Turn Away From the Art of Life, by Arnold Weinstein (New York Times, Feb. 2016)

Hamlet: You came up to my desk and said ‘This may sound weird, and there's no reason for me to know this, but that mixed berry yogurt you’re about to eat has expired.’

Horatio: That was the moment you knew you liked me?

Hamlet: Yep.

Horatio: ...Can we make it a different moment?

sure, when my grandfather fought nazis and fascism he was “a hero” and “on the right side of history” but when i do it im “way too sensitive” and “no better than they are”

"I find conversation unbearable owing to the very fact that I am obliged to speak."

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

Me listening to a thunderstorm: this honestly goes off

*Lemony Snicket voice* The word ‘poison’ here can mean many things. ‘Poison’ may literally refer to the presence of an unwashed llama in a stream from which a nearby village likely collects its drinking water. Likewise, it may figuratively refer to the effect of greed and isolation on the priorities of a young ruler, or the machinations of a villainous royal advisor on the health and wellbeing of said young ruler. In this case, however, ‘poison’ most literally refers to the poison, the poison for Kuzco, the poison chosen especially to kill Kuzco, Kuzco’s poison… That poison.

baffled by the recent genre of "you shouldn't only consume shippable media" posts like that's actually a real problem. seeing people on tumblr talk about fandom stuff and concluding that therefore they must have literally nothing else going on in their lives is a really weird logical leap tbh. like, it's tumblr. i come on here to be gay and look at cat videos. that is this website's sole purpose for me. love and light to you all but i have zero interest in engaging in in-depth analysis of foundational literature with you

ed: no more booze, no more drugs, and most importantly, no more stede. 😤

stede: hello edward! 🤗

ed: 🙃😖😩😭🫠😵‍💫😵…hi. 😐

mary: wait, you two know each other? 👀

stede: shipmates! 🤗

ed: ☠️🖕🏻💔🗡️🚫 …former. 😤

stede: ☹️

Before the internet, librarians were the gatekeeper of knowledge. For your reading pleasure, the New York Public Library released a cache of queries and conundrums called in from the 1940s to the 1980s.

More... https://imgur.com/gallery/100MhvX

I’ve decided to be sexier in 2020. There will be with no actual effort on my part, l just intend to be perceived as such