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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their bones;

So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus

Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.

Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–

For Brutus is an honourable man;

So are they all, all honourable men–

Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:

But Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

He hath brought many captives home to Rome

Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:

Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

You all did see that on the Lupercal

I thrice presented him a kingly crown,

Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And, sure, he is an honourable man.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,

But here I am to speak what I do know.

You all did love him once, not without cause:

What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?

O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,

And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,

And I must pause till it come back to me.

~thus spake Marc Antony

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Ides of March 2025 is going to be a fucking blast because it will have been 2069 years since Caesar's death day

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remember, green's your color. you are spring.

Roses, Vincent Van Gogh | Picking Flowers, Pierre Auguste Renoir | Green Wheat Field, Vincent Van Gogh | Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge, Claude Monet | Avenue of Schloss Kammer Park, Gustav Klimt | Entrance to the Public Gardens in Arles, Vincent Van Gogh | Sorrow Is Not My Name, Ross Gay

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nights lately

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Bumblebee on Lenten rose flower, Helleborus

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The Seine at Vetheuil (1879) by Claude Monet

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MUCHA, Alphonse Gismonda 1894 Colour lithography, 213 x 75 cm Gallica, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

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What books have you done this to?

Instagram / Shop

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u know what makes me cry..... that one van gogh quote about life changing for the better..... “many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. and it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘what do i care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ yes, evil often seems to surpass good. but then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. one morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. and so i must still have hope.” yeah..... Crying....

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hermes in hadestown is the exact opposite of an unreliable narrator. a tortured narrator. a little *too* reliable. incredibly aware of exactly what is happening at any given moment, vaguely spoiling it for you in the beginning, despairing every second of it. but ultimately motivated to continue to tell the story over and over and over with a smiling face for the sake of the audience, and for the sake of the characters themselves, singing it again to keep them alive. knowing how it will end, but singing it again so that the cycle may restart and eurydice may come back to life. enduring the misery of it all, over and over, holding the knowledge of what will come to pass but continuing anyway to see orpheus happy just one more time before it all goes down in flames again.

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Scenography by Luis de Longhi for “King Lear” at Teatro Municipal de Lima, 1999.

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it really is all of us or bust btw. we cannot accept conditional acceptance of queer people, we cannot accept the exclusion of some in exchange for inclusion of others, it's all of us or nothing and we have to be so fucking clear about that. don't let conservatives or terfs or twitter discourse convince you that there's any other option. don't let them get away with it. we're all going to fucking make it and we're not leaving anybody behind

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Hey Tamora Pierce fans,

How often do you remember that a major premise of the Beka Cooper books was that their society was slowly falling back into patriarchal and traditional roles of womanhood? And that it took like 200 years after that for them to get back to women in leadership positions?

Because like. It’s about once every two days for me.