#Walter Plathe

[imapeachscone]

It’s not about havin’ someone to love me anymore..

[goingtoladyworld]

some of my spotify playlists which are pretty neat:

walter white’s ipod

crying on ur bday

50-year-old man who likes to barbecue

shitty notes app poetry

‘the orange’ by wendy cope

smooth jazz, babey

the musical equivalent of therapy

thai food, feminist prose and angry girl music

watching better call saul in the common room

male manipulator music

music to go absolutely buckwild feral to

spooky time

sylvia plath reading playlist

music to slow dance to

songs to be a blonde boy to

you’ve broken into ikea at 2am and have hijacked the sound system to play abba

love songs!

calming music to help me forget about my ongoing existential crisis

[mann-walter]

I started Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar around two weeks ago and had to take a break after a couple of days.

I can't yet say for sure that I don't like it, but as far as I've been reading, it hasn't exited me much. Maybe I stopped too early in the book (I believe so)?

[shakespearesdaughters]

What kind of books by Dark Academia do you suggest to me? At the moment I’m on Tolstoj but I wanna to know much

The Secret History by Donna Tartt anything by Donna Tartt (praying we get another book in the next 5 years)

Maurice by E. M. Forester

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Patrick Melrose series by Edward St Aubyn

Confessions by Kanae Minato

In the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Piranesi and Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Dead Poets Society by N H Kleinbaum

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

An Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Idiot by Elif Bautman

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Babel by R F Kuang

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Stoner by John Williams

The Queens Gambit by Walter Tevis

The odyssey by Homer

Carmilla by J Sheridan le Fanu

We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

The October Country by Ray Bradbury

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Just to name a few!

[straightplayshowdown]

Angels in America: In the first part, we meet Louis and Prior and Harper and Joe, two couples whose relationships are on the rocks: the former because of Prior’s AIDS diagnosis and Louis’s inability to cope with illness, the latter because of Joe’s closeted homosexuality and Harper’s incessant fears and hallucinations, as well as her addiction to pain-killers. The second part focuses on the story of Prior Walter, a gay man living with AIDS who has recently been left by his partner, Louis, after he could not cope with the physical and personal impact of the disease.

The Importance of Being Earnest: Two bachelors, John ‘Jack’ Worthing and Algernon ‘Algy’ Moncrieff, create alter egos named Ernest to escape their tiresome lives. They attempt to win the hearts of two women who, conveniently, claim to only love men called Ernest. The pair struggle to keep up with their own stories and become tangled in a tale of deception, disguise and misadventure.

Propaganda under the cut!

Angels in America:

painful funny surreal and down to earth all at the same time somehow, even without being a landmark piece for me personally w/ regard to queer literature

The Great American Play. The definitive exploration of how AIDS affected an entire generation of queer Americans in the '80s, and what it left behind in its wake. Those more eloquent than I am will be better at doing this play justice, but my sincerest hope is that the sheer significance of this work is clear enough to carry it all the way through to the highest end of this showdown.

honestly the peak of modern theater 2 me. everything i write and create is in the hopes that i might someday make something that lives up to the bar that angels set. it treats every one of its characters with such depth and compassion and the world it creates is so vivid and fantastic. and the context in which it was created will always be beyond important to me like i don't know how to describe how important it is that a play widely considered an american classic is about the aids crisis. she's the blueprint she's perfect she's everything

genuinely changed my life when i first read it. andrew garfield played prior walter in the 2018 national theatre version and he fucking kills it. it's 6 whole hours of joy and heartbreak and, most of all, hope. stan harper pitt!!!

This epic stageplay has become more accessible since its HBO miniseries adaptation in 2003. It is epic, intersectional, commemorative of a collective trauma that had been silenced for too long at the time of writing. (also Harper deserves to be as much a Tumblr Sad Girl icon as Lana del Rey or Sylvia Plath.) 

The Importance of Being Earnest: 

Queercoded love interest and Victorian dandies, what’s not to love? 

Quite possibly the funniest thing I have ever read.

It's very funny.

there is a HANDBAG and it is a MAJOR PLOT POINT. jack pretends to be ernest because he's been doing it for ages and why not am i right? algernon pretends to be ernest to get a girl and also so screw stuff up. as one does. gwendolen and cecily have a REALLY passive aggressive tea party. this play slaps. it is so good. go read it and/or see it

“Nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know Bunbury. A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.” 

Lady Bracknell: “I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”

Lady Bracknell: “My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of triviality.”

Jack: “On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I’ve now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”

[waltj]

walter white (breaking bad, 2008-2013) + contusion, plath (1963)

[peroxideprinces]

the doctor and fitz, love and spring .

history 101; mags l. halliday // the blind assassin; margaret atwood // as consciousness is harnessed to flesh: journals and notebooks; susan sontag // near to the wild heart; clarice lispector // speaking tree; joy harjo // success that is partly the results of chance: or, an uncertain course of events; alysse kathleen mccanna // mccall's magazine illustration // “spring”, lessons on expulsion; erika l. sánchez // dominion; nick walters // couplets: a love story; maggie millner // the moon and the yew tree; sylvia plath // red bird; mary oliver

[cuteteacakes]

I have a list of dark academia reads in my drafts and I've read 6/22 of them. I feel the need to increase that number...

(in case anyone is wondering what they are... here's the list I found under the cut) and if anyone has any more dark academia suggestions I'm all ears! I like classical novels personally uwu

The Secret History by Donna Tartt anything by Donna Tartt (praying we get another book in the next 5 years)

Maurice by E. M. Forester

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Patrick Melrose series by Edward St Aubyn

Confessions by Kanae Minato

In the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Piranesi and Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell (I watched the show but I want to read the book) by Susanna Clarke

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ✔️

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley✔️

Dead Poets Society by N H Kleinbaum

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

An Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Idiot by Elif Bautman

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Babel by R F Kuang

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte✔️

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte✔️

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Stoner by John Williams

The Queens Gambit by Walter Tevis

The odyssey by Homer✔️ (three times actually!)

Carmilla by J Sheridan le Fanu

We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

The October Country by Ray Bradbury

Inferno by Dante Alighieri ✔️ (I've read the whole Divine Comedy in high school hhhh)

An Education in Malice by S. T. Gibson (suggested by @s1lxcs)

A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid (suggested by @s1lxcs)

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

[ripped-up-newspaper]

a continuously updating list of books I would like to read, the crossed out titles are those I’ve finished;

Crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyeysky

Where they burn books they also burn people, marcos antonio hernandez

The mind of god, dr. jay lombard

The evolution or mortality, richard joyce

The fear of the feminine, erich neumann

The yiddish policemen's union, michael chabon

Memoirs of lady trent, marie brennan

All's well, mona awad

If we were villains, M.L. Rio

The outsider, albert camus

The metamorphosis, Kafka

Sleepless nights, elizabeth hardwick

Heaven, Mieko Kawakami

The Kites, Romain Gary

House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski

How to Justify Torture, Alex Adams

Paradise Rot, Jenny Hval

The Man Who Watched The Trains Go By, Georges Simenon

The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard

Lust For Life, Irving Stone

Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sartre, Walter Kaufmann

A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers

The Collector, John Fowles

Frankenstein, Mary Shelly

The Resurrectionist, E.B. Hadspeth

Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, Brianna Wiest

Newsflash, Mira Grant

Seven Against Thebes, Aeschylus

Lysistrata, Aristophanes

The Wasps, Aristophranes

Smoke, Dan Vyleta

The Count of Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

Froth On The Daydream, Boris Vian

Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant

Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

Native Tongue, Suzette Haden Elgin

The Judas Rose, Suzette Haden Elgin

Earthsong, Suzette Haden Elgin

The Deeper The Water The Uglier The Fish, Katya Apekina

If The Body Allows It, Megan Cummings

Am I Disturbing You?, Anne Hebert

Things We Lost In The Fire, Mariana Enriquez

Nightbitch, Rachel Yoder

Parasite Eve, Hideaki Sena

The Red Market, Scott Carney

Women In The Picture, Catherine McCormack

[flocker789]

- ANTRPOFAGIA RITUAL AMERICANA (Blanco Villalta)

- CONCILIÁBULO SOBRENATURAL (AA. VV.)

- MAGIA Y SECRETOS DE LA MUJER MAPUCHE (Ziley Mora)

- BRUJAS Y CURANDERAS DE LA COLONIA (María Luisa Laviana Cuetos)

- EL CULTO AL AGUA EN EL ANTIGUO PERÚ (Rebeca Carrión Cachot)

- EL NAHUALISMO (Roberto Martínez González)

- COSMOLOGÍA Y MÚSICA EN LOS ANDES (Max Peter Baumann)

- VIDA DE MARÍA SABINA LA SABIA DE LOS HONGOS (Álvaro Estrada)

- SUEÑO Y ÉXTASIS (Mercedes de la Garza)

- DIOSES DEL NORTE, DIOSES DEL SUR (Alfredo López Austin, Luis Millones)

- EL CONEJO EN LA CARA DE LA LUNA (Alfredo López Austin)

- TEXTOS DE MEDICINA NÁHUATL (Alfredo López Austin)

-EL TEXTIL TRIDIMENSIONAL (Denise Y. Arnold, Elvira Espejo)

- LOS SELKNAM DE TIERRA DEL FUEGO (Anne Chapman)

- DICCIONARIO DE RELIGIONES DE AMÉRICA LATINA (Roberto Blancarte)

- EL INFRAMUNDO DE LOS ANTIGUOS MAYAS (Roberto Romero Sandoval)

- EL MONTE (Lydia Cabrera)

- EL DIOS CREADOR ANDINO (Franklin Pease G. Y.)

- POPOL VUH (Anónimo)

- MITOS Y LEYENDAS DE LOS AZTECAS, INCAS, MAYAS Y MUISCAS (Walter Krickeberg)

- EL HOMBRE QUE VOLVIÓ A NACER

(Policarpio Flores Apaza)

- DRAGONES Y DIOSES (Miguel Rivera Dorado)

- NUEVA CORONICA Y BUEN GOBIERNO (I, II) (Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala)

- LAS IDEAS COSMOLÓGICAS MAYAS EN EL SIGLO XVI (Laura Elena Sotelo Santos)

- IMAGINARIO MÍTICO EN LAS LITERATURAS ANDINAS PERUANAS (Carlos Huamán)

- DIABLOS, BRUJOS Y ESPÍRITUS MALÉFICOS (Holdenis Casanova Guarda)

- MANUAL DEL ADIVINO / TEXTO EXPLICATIVO DEL CÓDICE VATICANO B

(Anónimo, Ferdinand Anders, Maarten Jansen)

- TEZCATLIPOCA (Guilhem Olivier)

- HEREJÍAS Y SUPERSTICIONES EN LA NUEVA ESPAÑA (Julio Jimenez Rueda)

- TEÓNANÁCATL HONGOS ENTEOGÉNICOS DE NORTEAMÉRICA (Jonathan Ott, Jeremy Bigwood)

- GEOGRAFÍA DEL MITO Y LA LEYENDA CHILENOS (Oreste Plath)

- EL LIBRO DE LOS HOPIS (Fank Waters)

- LAS LANZAS DEL CREPÚSCULO

RELATOS JÍBAROS ALTA AMAZONÍA

(Phillipe Descola)

- MÉXICO Y VIAJE AL PAÍS DE LOS TARAHUMARAS (Antonin Artaud)

- BORRACHERA Y MEMORIA (AA. VV., Thierry Saignes)

- EL LIBRO DE LOS LIBROS DE CHILAM BALAM (Anónimo)

- RELACIÓN DE LAS FÁBULAS Y RITOS DE LOS INCAS (Cristobal de Molina)

- BREVE HISTORIA DE LA TRADICIÓN RELIGIOSA MESOAMERICANA (Alfredo López Austin)

- LOS OLMECAS (Jacques Sosutelle)

- AMÉRICA MÁGICA (Jorge Magasich, Jean-Marc de Breer)

- TAJÍN LA CIUDAD DEL DIOS HURACÁN

(Román Piña Chan, Patricia Castillo Peña)

- CIUDADES DE LOS ANDES. VISIÓN HISTÓRICA Y CONTEMPORÁNEA

(Eduardo Kingman Garcés)

- LOS MITOS DEL TLACUACHE (Alfredo López Austin)

- EL PEZ DE ORO (Gamaliel Churata)

- YATIRIS Y CH'AMAKANIS DEL ALTIPLANO AYMARA (Gerardo Fernández Suárez)

- EL HONGO SAGRADO DEL POPOCATÉPETL (Ramsés Hernández Lucas, Margarita Loera Chávez y Peniche)

- ANIMALES Y PLANTAS EN LA COSMOVISIÓN MESOAMERICANA (Yolotl González Torres)

- MÚSICA Y SONIDOS EN EL MUNDO ANDINO (Carlos Sánchez Huaringa)

- DESANA. SIMBOLISMO DE LOS INDIOS TUKANO DEL VAUPÉS (Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff)

- ZOTZ. EL MURCIÉLAGO EN LA CULTURA MAYA (Roberto Romero Sandoval)

[emilysworldoffandoms]

Books I Read in 2022

1. Beast Boy Loves Raven By Kami Garcia & Gabriel Picolo 2. Dear Girl By Aija Mayrock 3. A Fire Like You By Upile Chisala 4. Nectar By Upile Chisala 5. Soft Magic By Upile Chisala 6. As If On Cue By Marisa Kanter 7. Heartstopper Volume 4 By Alice Oseman 8. Address Unknown By Katherine Kressmann Taylor 9. Ariel By Sylvia Plath 10. Heart Talk By Cleo Wade 11. At Somerton: Cinders & Sapphires By Leila Rasheed 12. At Somerton: Diamonds & Deceit By Leila Rasheed 13. Unlock Your Storybook Heart By Amanda Lovelace 14. Instructions for Dancing By Nicola Yoon 15. Martita, I Remember You By Sandra Cisneros 16. Brown Girls By Daphne Palasi Andreades 17. Here's to Us By Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera 18. Counting by 7s By Holly Goldberg Sloan 19. The Summer I Turned Pretty By Jenny Han 20. It's Not Summer Without You By Jenny Han 21. We'll Always Have Summer By Jenny Han 22. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood By Melissa Wagner & Fred Rogers 23. Gained a Daughter But Nearly Lost My Mind: How I Planned a Backyard Wedding During a Pandemic By Marlene Kern Fischer 24. At Somerton: Emeralds & Ashes By Leila Rasheed 25. Café Con Lychee By Emery Lee 26. The Book Tour By Andi Watson 27. God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian By Kurt Vonnegut 28. Yoga Pant Nation By Laurie Gelman 29. Mr. Malcolm's List By Suzanne Allain 30. Miss Lattimore's Letter By Suzanne Allain 31. The Road Between By Courtney Peppernell 32. Enough Rope By Dorothy Parker 33. My Favorite Half-Night Stand By Christina Lauren 34. Smells Like Tween Spirit By Laurie Gelman 35. How to Be a Wallflower By Eloisa James 36. Be Like the Moon By Levi Welton 37. Morality for Muggles: Ethics in the Bible and the World of Harry Potter By Moshe Rosenberg 38. 84, Charing Cross Road By Helene Hanff 39. Josh & Hazel's Guide to Not Dating By Christina Lauren 40. The Matchmaker By Thornton Wilder 41. The Cheat Sheet By Sarah Adams 42. All-of-a-Kind Family By Sydney Taylor (Re-read) 43. Shadow Angel Book One By Leia Stone & Julie Hall 44. Spooky America: The Ghostly Tales of Sleepy Hollow By Jessa Dean 45. Needle & Thread By David Pinckney, Ennun Ana Iurov, Micah Myers 46. Good Game, Well Played By Rachael Smith, Katherine Lobo, Justin Birch 47. Home Sick Pilots By Dan Walters & Caspar Wijngaard 48. Beyond the Wand: The Magic & Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard By Tom Felton 49. Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley By Jonathan Kruk 50. Heartless Prince By Leigh Dragoon 51. A Contract with God By Will Eisner 52. Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American By Laura Gao 53. Blackwater By Jeannette Arroyo and Ren Graham 54. Woman World By Aminder Dhaliwal 55. In Real Life By Cory Doctorow & Jen Wang 56. Lore Olympus Volume 1 By Rachel Smythe 57. Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword By Barry Deutsch 58. Persuasion By Jane Austen 59. Devil in Disguise By Lisa Kleypas 60. Shadow Angel Book Two By Leia Stone & Julie Hall 61. Lore Olympus Volume 2 By Rachel Smythe 62. Talk to My Back By Yamada Murasaki 63. How I Saved Hanukkah By Amy Goldman Koss 64. Haven Jacobs Saves the Planet By Barbara Dee 65. Shadow Angel Book Three By Leia Stone & Julie Hall 66. The Matzah Ball By Jean Meltzer 67. Canción By Eduardo Halfon 68. Leopoldstadt By Tom Stoppard 69. Say Yes to the Duke By Eloisa James 70. Winter Roses after Fall By Robert M. Drake & r.h. Sin 71. Roomies By Christina Lauren 72. Falling Toward the Moon By Robert M. Darake & r.h. Sin 73. Empty Bottles Full of Stories By Robert M. Drake & r.h. Sin

[imthefailedartist]

My 2023 Reading Stats

My goal was to read 12 books. I read 45 total!

I read mostly authors I'd never read before. I made a significant dent in my purchased TBR. I read 5 classics. I read 7 genres.

I checked out 3 books from my local library.

I did not finish 3 books. Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.

Reasons: LLD the two main characters were getting on my fucking nerves so bad. Valmont leave that woman ALONE! Also, the epistolary style does not make for active reading.

Lolita. I mean, take a wild guess.

AK. To many characters with the same name, I also signed up for one thing, but it's about a whole bunch of things.

I read the longest book I've ever read, Gone with the Wind. I thought it would take a year. Surprisingly, it took a month. December 22nd to January 22nd. I took four days off because the racism was getting on my nerves. I also sometimes just missed a day or two.

January

Loved: To Catch a Raven by Beverly Jenkins, The Wedding by Dorothy West, The Revenant by Michael Punke.

I refuse to say I loved this book, but I did enjoy reading it, a lot: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

February

Loved: Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor, If There be Thorns by VC Andrews, Barbarian Alien by Ruby Dixon.

Read: My Best Friend's Exorcism by Gravy Hendrix

March

Loved: Priest by Sierra Simone, Roses are Red by James Patterson

Read depressingly: The Stranger by Albert Camus

April

Loved: A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich by Alice Childress, Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson

Read: In the Woods by Tana French

May

Loved: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

Liked: Animal Farm by George Orwell, Candice by Voltaire

Read: The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory, The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Hated: GOTH by Otsuichi. It was like reading an edgelords Wattpad writing.

This month was so Meh. Baby Jane came in at the end and saved it.

June

Loved: The Invisible Man by HG Wells, Seeds of Yesterday by VC Andrews

Liked: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley, Violets are Blue by James Patterson

Read: The Body by Stephen King.

I have one Flowers in the Attic book left in looking into the other VC Andrews books, but none of them are calling me like Flowers. Maybe I'll read the one with the twins.

July

Loved: The War of the World's by H.G. Wells, An Offer from a Gentleman by Julia Quinn, London Bridges by James Patterson

August

Read: The Hallowe'en Party or A Haunting in Venice by Agatha Christie

Hated: The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

September

Loved: I am Legend by Richard Matheson

Liked: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

October

Loved: Hannibal by Thomas Harris, Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

Read: The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

I have one Hannibal book left. What am I supposed to do for Halloween 2025?

November

Loved: An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon and The Song of Achilles by McAllen l Madeline Miller

Liked: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

December

Loved: Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

Liked: Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Read: Marnie by Winston Graham.

The book I was looking forward to the most. It's one of my favorite movies. It was the book I just wanted to end. Also, I keep calling this author every name but his own. Winston Granton, William Granston, Graham Wilson.

[vintagepresley]

*he shakes his head* the side of the road can't write mama.

Walter

*she starts laughing.* Her name is Sylvia Plath not Path, honey.

[stiles1978]

“It’s in my nature” -Scorpion (to Frog) No truer words have been spoken my dear #Scorpio Ruled by #Pluto ( #Hades ) or in some cases #Mars ( #Ares ), this bold water sign is known for its tenacity, and misunderstood passion. So happy birthday to all you amazing arachnids, and check out who you hold in your ranks! Björk AND Drake 🎶🦢 @bjork @drakerelated President Joe Biden & Theodore Roosevelt 🇺🇸 @potus Sylvia Plath AND Neil Gaiman ✍🏻 @neilhimself Walter Cronkite AND Dan Rather AND David Muir 📰 @thedanrather @davidmuirabc Jane Pauley AND Anna Wintour AND Emily Post 🗞 Bill Gates 💾 @thisisbillgates Bob Ross AND Pablo Picasso AND Georgia O’Keefe 👨🏽‍🎨 Gordon Ramsey 👩🏻‍🍳 @gordongram Whoopi Goldberg🎭 @whoopigoldberg Sean “Diddy” Combs🎧 Winona Ryder 🎬 Hilary Clinton AND Elizabeth Cady Stanton 🧑🏼‍💼 Bram Stoker AND Vlad the Impaler🧛🏼‍♂️ Marie Curie 👩🏻‍🔬 Charles Manson 😱 Peter Jackson 🎥 RuPaul 💅🏾 @rupaulofficial Plus so many more I did not even recognize…which means they are probably famous for doing something that I take completely for granted!!! So kudos to you Scorpio!!! 🎉🎉🥳🎊🎊 The sordid tale of Scorpio is less woeful than most, but nevertheless… There are multiple stories but in most a Goddess, either #Gaia or #Hera , summon forth a giant scorpion (as requested by #Apollo out of jealousy, or #Artemis in some versions), to kill an out of control #Phaeton using #Helios sun-chariot, or punish the boastful hunter #Orion (son of #Poseidon ). Scorpio died having completed its mission, now resides in the heavens, with the red star #Antares at its heart. #zodiac #astrology #horoscope #vectorart #adobeillustrator #adobephotoshop #artist #art #illustration #illustrator #illustratorsoninstagram #digitalart #digitalartist #digitalillustration #digitalpainting @adobe @photoshop @adobe___illustrator https://www.instagram.com/p/CkGlJN-rXX6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[straightplayshowdown]

Angels in America: In the first part, we meet Louis and Prior and Harper and Joe, two couples whose relationships are on the rocks: the former because of Prior’s AIDS diagnosis and Louis’s inability to cope with illness, the latter because of Joe’s closeted homosexuality and Harper’s incessant fears and hallucinations, as well as her addiction to pain-killers. The second part focuses on the story of Prior Walter, a gay man living with AIDS who has recently been left by his partner, Louis, after he could not cope with the physical and personal impact of the disease.

The Baltimore Waltz: In a series of comic vignettes underlined by tragedy, the farce traces the European odyssey of sister and brother Anna and Carl. They are in search of hedonistic pleasure and a cure for her terminal illness, the fictitious ATD (Acquired Toilet Disease) she contracted by using the bathrooms at the elementary school where she teaches. Knowing her life is nearing its end, Anna is driven by a lust that compels her to have casual sex with as many men as possible during their travels, a passion shared by her gay brother. Assisting the pair is the mysterious Third Man. The play actually takes place in a hospital room in Baltimore, Maryland, where Carl has a terminal illness, and Anna is imagining the trip that the two never took.

Propaganda under the cut!

Angels in America:

painful funny surreal and down to earth all at the same time somehow, even without being a landmark piece for me personally w/ regard to queer literature

The Great American Play. The definitive exploration of how AIDS affected an entire generation of queer Americans in the '80s, and what it left behind in its wake. Those more eloquent than I am will be better at doing this play justice, but my sincerest hope is that the sheer significance of this work is clear enough to carry it all the way through to the highest end of this showdown.

honestly the peak of modern theater 2 me. everything i write and create is in the hopes that i might someday make something that lives up to the bar that angels set. it treats every one of its characters with such depth and compassion and the world it creates is so vivid and fantastic. and the context in which it was created will always be beyond important to me like i don't know how to describe how important it is that a play widely considered an american classic is about the aids crisis. she's the blueprint she's perfect she's everything

genuinely changed my life when i first read it. andrew garfield played prior walter in the 2018 national theatre version and he fucking kills it. it's 6 whole hours of joy and heartbreak and, most of all, hope. stan harper pitt!!!

This epic stageplay has become more accessible since its HBO miniseries adaptation in 2003. It is epic, intersectional, commemorative of a collective trauma that had been silenced for too long at the time of writing. (also Harper deserves to be as much a Tumblr Sad Girl icon as Lana del Rey or Sylvia Plath.) 

The Baltimore Waltz:

Paula Vogel's brother died of AIDs. A few years before being diagnosed, he tried to get her to go on a trip to Europe with him, but she was busy. This play explores that imagined trip, but it also a lot more complicated.

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Forget the poet hes a real Trevor Blue

Readings from the book, published by Allen & Unwin, will be broadcast on ABC National Radio next month. Dr Clark blames British academics, possibly with the help of MI5 and the CIA, for “this organized program against Australia”. What he revealed, he said, was the literary equivalent of getting the ashes back on English soil. Currency, The Complete Book of Australian Verseincluding works by hitherto unknown poets such as Rabbi Burns, Arnold Wordsworth, Warren Keats, Amy Lou Dickinson, Walter Burley Yeats, Kahliji Bran, TS (Tabi Sirius) Eliot, Sir Don Bettjeman, DH Oding, Louis “The Lip” MacNeice, Dylan Thompson and Sylvia Plath. Dr. Clarke said that some of the authors are related to well-known international poets with similar names. Ewen Coleridge, a plumber from Annandale who lived with Arnold Wordsworth, is not represented because his works, often written while undergoing one of the early methadone treatments, have been lost. However, Dr. Clark said, it was possible that some of Ewen’s work appeared under the name of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who smoked opium and wrote Crusted with an old navigator. Arnold Wordsworth, now believed to have written Narcissus It represents most of the works attributed to William Wordsworth Lines formed midway across the Pyrmont Bridge: Earth has nothing to show more fairness, It will be soft, imperfectly resistant, Who would willingly give up such an opinion, For, behold, the bird breaks its wind. And this whole joint doesn’t look so unpleasant, Stand back, because when she goes, she goes bloody. Dr. Clark noted that the works of writers such as Chaucer and Shakespeare were not under challenge because white writers had only been in Australia for 200 years and blacks had no written culture. However, fragments were found around Stratford, near Horsham, Victoria, for Trevor Shakespeare’s work, beginning with: “Will there be any point in my formal some sort of comparison between you and the author of the absolute?” Why Australians emerged as the world’s greatest writers? “The depth and splendor of Australian culture, the wit and imagination of Australian writing – and perhaps the brew.” Why should the Australian revolution end in poetry? What about novels and dramas? loading “Of course. The history of Australian theater is littered with cobbled bits by less important people like Chekhov and Ibsen and other crooks from places like Scandinavia, where nothing can be verified, and Russia. Who knows what’s going on there?” “We found this guy named Gavin Tolstoy in Darwin somewhere. He wrote 87 tons in just one book. Four container trucks she brings from Darwin. Puts war and peace in the shade.” *John Clark says he completed his Ph.D. in Leipzig, and recently worked in the Department of Negative Reinforcement at Bond University, and on his own agrarian reform project. He is also known as Fred Dag, a comedian. Source link Originally published at Melbourne News Vine