Going Into Second Hand Bookstores And Seeing The Worn Out Paperback You’ve Been Trying To Find For

Vintage/Retro Bowling Alley Carpet Patterns

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

“‘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)

On Love and Passion

“BUTCHER OF THE WORLD” by Lingua Ignota / The Judas Kiss by Nikodem Silivanovich / “On Judas” by Kontakia of Romanos (Carpenter translation) / Bacio di Giuda by Ignazio Jacometti / El Prendimiento by Francisco Salzillo y Alcaraz / from The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis / from Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally / Tim Minchin in Jesus Christ Superstar 2012 UK Live Arena Tour / “Judas’ Death” from Jesus Christ Superstar / Ola Salo as Jesus and Peter Johansson as Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar 2014 Swedish Arena Tour / “Wishbone” by Richard Siken

Time to play a game called is what I’m upset about legitimate or am I just being fucking stupid

Posters for National Theater of Korea's production of Macbeth, designed by Yuni Yoshida and photographed by Noh Juhan. [1][2]

I never saw a better gif than this and I doubt I ever will

17 year old: I'm depressed. I'm overwhelmed by choice. I feel like the stakes are so high that if I fail I could ruin everything forever. I feel a sense of obligation to my parents, but I don't think they understand me. Maybe none of this is worth it

Every 12th grade english teacher, without fail: *hands you the tragedy of hamlet prince of denmark* that's rough buddy

sorry, i mythologized your boyfriend. yeah i took him and a few other boyfriends and merged them together with local folklore and mystic elements into one legendary figure. he's going to be really hard to pin down historically. sorry about that. I can make you his consort in some stories if that helps.

status plays a part in this with the sebastian-antonio and hamlet-horatio dynamic but corollary to that other post another devastating pronoun thing at work here is when the character who privately uses thou and publicly you for the other character (beatrice, horatio, antonio) is then thoued by the other one (benedick, hamlet, sebastian) but they still refuse to drop the you :(