Poofy Shirt Tucked Into Tweed Pants, 'crime And Punishment' By Dostoevsky Hidden Inside Your Backpack

Hi guys, my commander died and we're trying to sort out his legacy, what should we do??

colin morgan as ariel, the globe theatre, 2013

all my gifted kids who haven’t burned out yet and are constantly stretching yourself too thin in an effort to finally make the people around you proud make some noise

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

I was so confused during today’s Drac Daily about this part in particular

Because that??? Bro, that ain’t Hamlet.

I went digging and found someone attempting to explain it:

If it is referencing this scene then it’s the part in the play where Hamlet says he’s going to throw everything off the table of his mind and focus only on revenge (this does…not work out for him).

BUT THEN

SO BASICALLY

B A S I C A L L Y

Stoker’s dumb acting friend MISQUOTED SHAKESPEARE loudly and often enough that it wound up in this novel????????

Inside a medieval sketchbook

john darnielle / black sails viii / pathologic 2: the marble nest / ghost quartet, dave malloy / black sails xvii / the ostereia / black sails xxxiv / the illiad, homer / no second troy, william butler yeats / black sails xxxviii / planet of love, richard siken / catherine deneuve discussing belle du jour / hannah kent, from ‘burial rites’ / the worm king’s lullaby, richard siken / true detective 01x08 / rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, tom stoppard / pathologic / dark (2017-2020) / julius caesar, shakespeare / twin peaks 07x07 / heroes: mortals and monsters, quests and adventures by stephen fry / sherlock 04x01 / the city, c.t. cavafy (trans. edmund keeley) / la clairvoyance, rené magritte (1936) / sir gawain and the green knight (trans. james j. wilhelm) / arrival (2016) / the castle, franz kafka / dark (2017-202) / hamlet, shakespeare / the green knight (2021) / the silmarillion, j.r.r. tolkien / hadestown, anaïs mitchell

full offense but cis people dont get to call us shemales and trannies and femboys and traps and “its”, and campaign to “drop the T” in LGBT and deprive trans people of resources and beat the shit out of us in bathrooms and make fun of us for having “baby faces” and strip us of our rights and murder us for being trans and joke about how we “identify as an apache attack helicopter”, only to turn around and call themselves “allies” when they police OUR identities, just because they call themselves “cis transmeds”! i cant!! im not fucking allowing it!!!

my love language is people cooking and feeding each other food, like it’s so intimate for no reason

Hamlet: Bad news: My uncle locked us out of the castle.

Good news: We didn’t have to wait along for a locksmith. 

Bad news: Laertes finds it very concerning that I know how to pick locks and has tried to unlock more of my Tragic Backstory ™. I was too embarrassed to admit that the reason I learned it was because, at thirteen, I figured it was the kind of skill that would impress cute people. 

Good news: A cute girl saw me do it. 

Bad news: It was Ophelia, and since she’s already seen me fall out of several trees, cry over a fawn that was just too damn small, and knows I can ride a unicycle, She’ll never think I’m cool no matter what I do. It’s too late. She knows.