Hamlet, Shakespeare // If We Were Villains, M.L Rio
I know that line’s from King Lear, but these both made me feel the exact same way I can’t explain it.
Death obsessed autistic faggots are our only hope for a cultural renaissance
legally there's nothing stopping you or i from changing our last names to pendragon
i am the shyest attention whore ever
i feel so silly reading classics and feeling surprised when something unexpected happens like the entire world already read this and i'm sitting here in shock like "wdym hamlet just killed polonius⁉️😧"
this book website gives you the first page of a random book without the title or author so that you can read it with no preconceptions!!! great for discovering new recs
euripides, from “orestes”, an oresteia (trans. anne carson) // dead poets society, dir. peter weir // kill your darlings // if we were villains
“‘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)
mostly dark academia shitposting - any pronouns
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