#execution cw

[blackcur-rants]

Okay, so we all know Charles Dickens was a huge Shakespeare fan and a theatre guy in general. Like, he did so many theatrical productions alongside Wilkie Collins and loved himself some dramatic readings of his own prose.

What I’m saying is that I kind of feel that “A Tale of Two Cities” lifts quite a lot from Shakespeare. For example, in both ATOTC and “Romeo and Juliet”, we have a story about two factions (the two countries of England and France in Dickens’ novel and the two noble houses of Montague and Capulet in Shakespeare’s play) who have been at each other’s throats for so long they don’t even quite remember why they’re at each other’s throats in the first place and what happens when two members of these respective factions (Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay in “A Tale of Two Cities” and Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet in “Romeo and Juliet”) meet and become close to each other. And of course, both stories end with a desperate person sacrificing themselves for the one that they love with said sacrifice being less a noble and definitive ending to the story and more an act of desperation in the face of impending death (Carton takes Darnay’s place on the guillotine in a desperate attempt to buy Darnay, Lucie, and their daughter time to escape back to London while Juliet commits suicide in what is very likely a desperate attempt to escape from what she still sees as her impending arranged marriage to Count Paris). There’s also a strong parallel between the main character trio in “A Tale of Two Cities” and the main character trio in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, I.E…

•Both Viola and Charles Darnay are sweet, sensitive young nobles who find themselves living in a new land and assume new names in order to avoid suspicion and end up in a relationship they didn’t expect with the second character of the main trio.

•Both Olivia and Lucie Manette are smart, pious young women living in mourning for a dead or at least severely traumatised loved one and end up falling in love with the disguised protagonist while fending off the attentions of an annoying suitor (Malvolio for Olivia and Stryver for Lucie).

•Orsino and Sydney Carton are both the depressed young men uncertain of their purpose in life who become acquainted with Viola/Darnay while also being in love with Olivia/Lucie.

Where am I going with all this, by the way? Well basically, I’m kind of suggesting that there being queer subtext between Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay might actually have been intentional on Dickens’ part. However, because queerness was so verboten and punishable by prison or death in the 1850s, Dickens had to cloak all of this in ambiguity and subtext, using these allusions to classic Shakespeare plays as a way of coding/broadcasting his true intent to the audience who would know what he was doing.

@cynicalclassicist @eleftherian @secretmellowblog @dachi-chan25 @uncleasriel

[umitvar]

𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: PAÇO IMPERIAL, TWIN SOUL COURTYARD 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌: DANTE FABBRI 𝐓𝐎: LIEUTENANT COLONEL SYLVAIN DE LA TREMOILLE ( @bourgeoning )

the whirl of events in the past few days has been staggering. despite the tendril of relief that dante didn't have to offer his head to be put through the noose, the turmoil of what happened remains. the imprisonment, then the chaos that followed in the pre-tribunal. there is a lot to do, a lot to figure out, so much they were unprepared for that they did not even realize. he takes to strolling around the city grounds, to put some of these thoughts in order when he spots a familiar figure. they both shared cells mere days ago after all, and dante cannot help but joke. "i have to say, this is a nice change of scenery compared to the cells, wouldn't you agree? although it was much cozier back there."

[brntmilk]

Louis' fury

(close ups under the cut)

[ricky-mortis]

Curtwen Week Day 4: Haunted

[bananafire11]

Nother redraw of an early jax piece

[fintrafeatherfall]

HAPPY HALLOWS EVE EVERYONE!!!! ENJOY THIS NIGHT FULL OF FUN AND SCARES, AS IT ONLY COMES ONCE A YEAR!!!!!

no text version as well!,

white pumpkin drawing felt like destiny for Halloween heheh

i could fix her i think

[zorosdimples]

mdni. cw: hybrids. takes place a little before this drabble.

it’s not his fault you smell so good—that’s what your tiger hybrid tells himself, anyway.

yuuji does what he can while you’re at work: he cleans the apartment, exercises, and bathes (though he struggles to reach the base of his tail). he even makes food for you—what little he can, anyway, given the sad state of your kitchen. the rest of the day is his own, and is usually spent daydreaming about you.

that’s why he’s frantically rutting against the pillow on your bed. he knows it’s wrong, knows you would flip out if you caught him humping your pillow as if his life depended on it. but his cock aches for you; every time you cross his mind, every time he thinks about your soft skin and warm smile and shimmering eyes, he leaks a mess in his shorts.

usually, yuuji buries a nose in your sheets to soak in your scent while he jerks himself off. but your pillowcase is smooth and cool to the touch, the insert deliciously plush. it makes him think of you, how he wants to mount you—to put his full weight on your back and feel the friction of your dewy flesh against his. to fill you up yet leave you craving more.

but he can’t have you. so he fucks your pillow the way he yearns to fuck you. he can smell you everywhere; your scent embraces him, makes him feel like you’re there as he shuts his honey deep eyes and pants raggedly. and when he climaxes, he does it with the sweetest cry, one that would surely have you stroking his rosy ears.

yuuji whines as he floats back to reality, rolling onto his back. he’s still hard and thobbing, though he doesn’t want to deal with it, and your pillow is covered in his creamy spend. he makes a mental note to wash your bedding before you come home (he’ll frame it as a surprise). but for now, he curls up and drifts off to thoughts of you.

[shimmywhenyoucantbounce]

YES THE BELL JAR UP AGAINST MARY KATHERINE IT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT DESERVES! I WAS ALREADY EXCITED WHEN I SAW THE FORST OPTION WAS FROM THE BELL JAR BT THEN I READ “My name is Mary Katherine—“ AND I MADE A NOISE I DONT EVEN REMEMBER HOW TO DESCRIBE AND FULLY WRITHED INTO A STANDING POSITION FROM LYING DOWN. THESE ARE WELL-CRAFTED SENTENCES.

Round 1

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.’

-The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.

-We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson

How does one describe Artemis Fowl? Various psychiatrists have tried and failed.

-Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer

[macaroni-induced-panicattack]

The internet has watered down ADHD to the silly hyperfixation disorder and like I genuinely wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy, do you realize how awful it is to be laying in bed mentally kicking yourself over and over to just go do your work, you've done it before, it's easy, go DO IT, but the best you can do is doodle fictional characters all over it while you sit in your room and wait for someone to come in and scream at you to do your work, which just makes you not want to do it more. Like genuinely do you realize how awful that feels. You feel broken and worthless do you really think it's the quirky hyperactive fixation disorder because if so fuck you. Genuinely

[umitvar]

𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: PAÇO IMPERIAL, FLORENTIAN CHAMBERS 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌: DANTE FABBRI 𝐓𝐎: COUNT JULIAN WECHSLER ( @espionisms )

it feels like months have passed since that night in the back alley of the tavern. of julian's gaze mixed with emotions he could not understand, a bitter taste in dante's own mouth, from jealousy, from the argument he had with araminta. then, they were thrown into a cell, dante accepting that an outcome in which he would be taking the fall for them. at least, they would be safe, whole without him, then araminta's words about that not being true — the releasing from the cells, the pre-tribunal, the chaos that followed. dante feels like he has aged a few years, and the fear and adrenaline that remains in his veins makes it impossible to put up more guards as he finally spots julian after everything that has happened. hands, on his shoulders, turn him towards him, eyes bordering on frantic as he looks up and down. "julian, did you get checked by the medics? — did you?"

[the-one-with-spider-brainrot]

uh oh spaghettio looks like watching their brothers execution wasn’t enough

[bacchuschucklefuck]

new year new calne u know how it is!!!!

[lattescribble]

my live reaction to your curtain call

WHAT DID YOU GUYS DO

[carpetbug]

don’t worry y’all marinette was just showing her her new nails!! 💅

[loafbud]

DREAMWORLD DELUXE 3000 ✨

[danieyells]

Upcoming cards!!

Yuri and Jiro "Pestilence"(? It's just shortened to 'pest') for Episode 14!

EPISODE 14 IS TODAY I'M SO EXCITED. And man. . .I'm really digging Jiro's card. . .and the outfits for these cards aaaa they appeal to me so much. . .also I can now confirm that episode 15 will be Hotarubi!

Anyway! Cards!! Stats at the end!

I think this is the first character card to have characters besides the focal character in it lol. Also DAMN THAT WARDING CARD. . .ALL UP ON HIM. . . .

Character Card: Plague Doctor(「黒死降る街の救い手」  "The Savior Of The City Where Black Death Rains Down") Skill: Thesis Presentation(「論文の発表」  "Thesis Presentation") Fully Awakened Skill: Mask Of Knowledge(「博識の裏側」  "The Other Side Of Extensive Knowledge") Warding Card: Human Experimentation(「人体実験」  "Human Experimentation")

Jiro's character card has me BARKIN' HELLO? HE'S BEING DRAGGED INTO THE DEPTHS?? WHAT A BADASS CARD????

Character Card: Mors Atra ("Black Death") (「晦冥の底に沈む」  "Sink To The Depths Of Darkness") Skill: Accurate Autopsy(「的確な検死」  "Accurate Autopsy") Fully Awakened Skill: Effective Treatment(「効率的な治療」  "Efficient Treatment") Warding Card: Logical Feedback(「真っ当なご指摘」  "Honest Feedback")

Cosmic Bond (I don't know what units will be in it, but presumably both of these obviously.)

The House Visit From Mortkranken(「モルトクランケンの往診」 "Mortkranken's House Call")

Episode 15 will be Hotarubi! Like last time they didn't put the episode title somewhere I could actually see it so we won't know until Episode 14 comes out tonight. In any case we know the outfits for the mission are called "yume yashiki" which I believe means "dream mansion"! Sounds like a Barbie play set-- And we'll also be getting casual outfit sprites for them!

As usual:

Gacha is gambling! Banners rerun! If you choose to spend on the gachas, be mindful of how much you spend and don't spend anything that you can't afford to lose! Remember that the banners will come back if you miss your chance at the card you want this time around! If you feel like your gacha spending is getting out of hand, please seek help from a gambling help service! There's never any shame in getting help for your struggles!

My Japanese isn't very good, so take those translations with a grain of salt.

Make sure you see your doctor at least once a year! Take your medication as prescribed--if the sideeffects are unbearable or they aren't effective, talk to your doctor! Take care of your body as best as you can, and let others take care of you too. Humans are pack animals and we can't go at anything alone.

Here are our unit stats! Grass physical Yuri and fire special Jiro.

Good luck on your pulls if you choose to make any!!