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queermaxxing at the shakespeare convention

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my dashboard simulator

1: [fanart of video game i don't know]

2: here's today's post about the complexities of an asian country's geopolitics through the lens of a 19th century novel adaptation

3: is anybody else not afraid to keep on living and to walk this world alone or is it just me and that guy from new jersey

4: need to jerk off and get hit by a car and $1000000 in my bank accountttttttttt #fuckyes

5: [cool art]

6: here's a line by line dissection of act 6 scene 9 of william shakespeare's fuckall that ends bad which only seven living people on earth have read and two pieces of scholarship have ever been written about #this play makes me go insane

7: [gifset that won't load]

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We do the "villain I have done thy mother" line a disservice by citing it out of its context of Aaron pronouncing it 1) in an extremely High stakes life and death situation where everyone Is both pissed as fuck at him and relying on him for the solution 2) mere lines before launching in the tenderest spiel about fatherhood anyone has ever written

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my other titus thought is not to sound like i’m saying “you know what the goriest shakespeare play of all time could use? an element of violent homophobia“ but i think……. production where lavinia and bassianus are both women. no wonder bassianus can’t object to the saturnius/lavinia marriage in public. no wonder lavinia runs away with bassianus rather than talking to her father. no wonder all of lavinia’s brothers seem to know and side with her but titus doesn’t. also it just makes me sad

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anyway. does anyone ever think about lavinia (titus andronicus, 1.1 // 5.3)

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An exploration of the one left behind. There is a way out - more than one, in fact - you just might have to wander a while before you find them. Do tell me in the tags which you stumble on first.

Content warning for Hamlet-typical explorations of murder, suicide, and death in general, alongside a similarly Shakespeare-typical understanding of "insanity". Also, spoilers for a centuries-old play (bet you can't guess which one).

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this shakespeare guy he was onto something

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this came to me in a dream

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My life is so normal & Dope besides from the occasional falls from Grace

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the gender bent taming of the shrew already exists and it's called all's well that ends well

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harold bloom's shakespeare book is such a roller coaster because he'll do things like rave about beatrice's intelligence and spirit and refusal to be tamed after having previously said katherine and petruchio will have the happiest marriage in shakespeare. he'll hit you with a line like "Hamlet's greatness, his transcending of the hero-villain's role, has much to do with his reflection of the will, including the will to avenge, a project he evades by negation, in him a revisionary mode that reduces every context to theater" literally two pages after saying shakespeare's "resenters" "can be described (without malice) as gender-and-power freaks"

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"romeo and juliet is a great play but it's not a romance!" WRONG! it doesn't stop being a romance just because it's fucked up and sad.

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henry iv is a really underrated shakespeare character i think. by which i mean he's rated about as highly as he deserves but i for one love a guy who just absolutely sucks. and not even in a fun sexy way he's just miserable and guilt-ridden and terminally ill and homophobic and i think that's beautiful.

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im going to be real rn i completely understand where hamlet is coming from because if my dad died and then my mom married his brother a MONTH AFTER HIS FUNERAL and THEN everyone told me to just get over it already because everybody dies and THEN i talked to my dad's ghost and tried to get some semblance of closure after his death and he told me "cut the bullshit im burning my sins off in hell rn but its not a big deal listen up your uncle murdered me you gotta get revenge for me" i would also do an acrobatic fucking pirouette backwards off the handle

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being online and looking at content is eternally walking the line between 'i can enjoy this meme because I understand it's radical oversimplification of characterization is for humourous effect whilst maintaining an affectionate irreverence for the source material' and 'this meme's radical oversimplification clearly stems from a disinterest in or outright disgust for the source material and should be avoided at all costs'

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*covered in blood* I'm literally fine guys. im still funny. Would you like to hear a joke Im going to tell you a joke