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[dobaara]

A PICTURE OF PRETTY LONGINGS AND COVERED TEETH BY S.R.

[a-study-in-dante]

June 6th, 2023 | Less than 10 days left in the UK! I tried to enjoy the sun as much as I could while it lasted in Cambridge, but mostly: today I went to the Shakespeare Globe Theatre to see A Midsummer Night's Dream and it blew my mind. For some context: most of my followers probably don't know this, but I first created this blog under the name a-study-in-shakespeare. At the time, I was obsessed I would most likely have chosen English as a my major if a valuable Shakespeare course was offered by my uni because I fell in love with Hamlet at 14 yo and I tried to read and see as many plays as possible over the years.

Seeing a Shakespeare play in English had never been possible before, and woaw going to see my first one at the Globe of all places (truly) felt like a dream. I'm not familiar with the Globe's productions but I figured it'd be kind of traditional, maybe a bit stuffy and I'm so glad I was wrong. The cast is inclusive and diverse and so talented, the production is magical, whimsical, tragic and incredibly fun, I wish I could find the right words. I will remember this day for a very long time ✨

[fairydrowning]

"You know, love doesn't mean "l never want you to change." But I don't think it means "I don't care if you change" either. So I suppose it might mean, "I believe that you'll always be the person I adore." A declaration of faith, perhaps."

– Sayaka Saeki, やがて君になる (Bloom into You), Via "freckled-lili" on Tumblr

[bluberry-parfait]

@i-wrotethisforme // Jorge Louis Berges // @smokeinsilence //@viridianmasquerade //Jorge Louis Berges // @honeytuesday // Kaveh Akbar // F. Scott Fitzgerald // AKR //Olivie Blake, from “Alone With You in the Ether” // Kaveh Akbar, Pilgrimage

[newvision]

— Bob Dylan from When the Deal Goes Down on Modern Times (2006)

[cssnder]

— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘In The Ruin’", published c. 2017.

[wedarkacademia]

(via violentwavesofemotion)

[t00thpasteface]

unstoppable force (i want to see this tragic character survive and heal) vs immovable object (their death was the most thematic and narratively satisfying resolution possible for their character arc and anything less than death just feels cheap)

[glorious-destruction]

the feminine urge to become fluent in every language on earth so I can read literature in poetry in their native tongues to get the full effect

[yvesdot]

If the interlibrary loan system has a million fans, then I'm one of them. If ILL has one fan, then I'm that one. If ILL has no fans then I am dead

[learnelle]

Heart imagery by Andrea Zantelli

[dobaara]

tangled bodies and homes of ribs by S.R.

napowrimo day 6 using @mercuriian 's prompts (x): ‘bodily’ (description in alt text)

[franzkavkas]

July 1st-5th, 1914

Franz Kafka, Diaries (1914-1923)

[hamoodmood]

[ahsteria]

the tragic hero; michael kinnucan, the gods show up / wikipedia / traci brimhall, vive vive / allen frame, the village voice (image) / william aggeler, the flowers of evil / beaft / pinterest (image) / heather havrilesky, ask polly

[cssnder]

— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘The Third Hour of the Night’", published c. 2017.