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When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on" 

When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” 

When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“

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A restaurant. A table. A friend. A good friend.

A human. An animal. A life. An honourable life.

A stem. A bond. A connection. A real connection.

The familiar comfort.

The breaking glass. The cheering crowd. The shrieking child. The ringing phone. The throbbing song.

Overwhelming chaos.

"What can I get you?" Snap. Open. Present. Hello Waiter.

A simple question, a complex answer.

Steak for them. Salad for me. Reality check for everyone.

Suddenly alone.

First, the awkwardness. The moment of silence. The broken eye contact. They know what I know.

Politeness draws us close.

Second, the small talk. The undeniable undercurrent. The unspoken disagreement. They know what I think.

Apprehension pushes us apart.

Third, the excuse.  Species. Hubris. History? Tradition. Intelligence... Entitlement.  DIVINITY! Authority. They know I'm not buying it. 

Anxiety for them. Anxiety for me. Anxiety for everyone.

Overwhelming chaos.

A moment of silence. A moment of noise. A moment of choice.

Choice for me. Choice for them. Choice for them.

The familiar trap.

Dissent or dismiss. Critique or condone. Engage or endorse.

Failure or failure.

Just disengage... it never works. Just let it go... and eat your plants. Just-

Just? Hardly. Enough is enough.

Frustration simmers. Indignation brews. Patience wears thin.

The defences grow.

The absurd philosophies. The baseless ideologies. The twisted hypotheticals. Ridiculous distractions.

The tangential topics. The unrelenting rationalisations. The blistering prejudice. All irrelevant.

Dissonance. Dissonance. Dissonance. Endless dissonance.

Enough to fill the room. Enough to drown the conscience. Enough to end a life.

A body. A mind. A soul. A person. A life.

The plates arrive.

A steak. A snack. A meal. A taste. A moment.

Enough!

Anger. Malice. Fury. Where did these come from? Rage. Indignation. Frustration. Where is this going? Bitterness. Disgust. Vitriol. Where do I put all this?

Overwhelming chaos.

Stop being polite. Speak the truth. State the obvious.

"THAT is a fucking PERSON!"

Underwhelming simplicity.

Shock, mouth agape. Discomfort, eyes wide. Silence... silence.

Regret. No, wait, it can't be...

A hint of horror, recognition? A sliver of disgust, acknowledgement? A gentle inwards turn! Acceptance!

Please... please... no... of course not.

A grimace of disgust, normal. A frown of contempt, always. A sneer of disapproval, understandable.

Failure. Again.

My words disperse. Their defences distract. Our bond decays.

Snap. Closed. Distant.

No more may be said. No more will be heard. No more can be done.

The vegan crossed the line, politeness must quell passion. The vegan broke the contract, tribe above the truth. The vegan disturbed the peace, harmony at all costs.

But most importantly...

The steak is getting cold.

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"The Pitt" the Musical

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also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

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Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch x epiphany by Taylor Swift -> for @maryoliveoil 's anon

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"I kind of tried to imagine what would happen in order to make you just never be able to speak about something. When I was thinking about that, I realized that there are people right now taking a twenty-minute break in between shifts at a hospital who are having this kind of trauma happen to them right now that they will probably never want to speak about, I kind of thought that this is the opportunity to maybe tell that story." TS on the inspiration behind epiphany

"[in 2020] I was getting all this mail from first responders saying, thank you for inspiring me to go into a career in emergency medicine …But it was also, they were very confessional. They were letting me know how hard it was…[Dr. Carter] was a touchstone character and they wanted to let me know what was going on out there. And it was really heavy to get all that mail…There's a show to be talked about here about what's happening in healthcare…My intentionality came from wanting to put a spotlight back on this community..." NW on the inspiration behind The Pitt

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Here's a remade masterpost of free and full shakespeare adaptations! Thanks @william-shakespeare-official for this excellent post. Unfortunately, a lot of the links in it are broken, so I thought I'd make an updated version (also I just wanted to organize things a bit more)

Antony and Cleopatra: ~ Josette Simon, Antony Byrne & Ben Allen - 2017

As You Like It: ~ At Wolfe Park - 2013 ~ Kenneth Brannagh's - 2006

Coriolanus: ~ NYET Alumni - 2016 ~ Tom Hiddleston - 2014 ~ Ralph Fiennes - 2011

Cymbelline: ~ Michael Almereyda's - 2014

Hamlet: ~ David Tennant - 2009 ~ Ethan Hawke & Diane Venora - 2000 ~ Kenneth Branagh's - 1989 ~ BCC's Part One & Two - 1990 ~ Broadway - 1964 ~ Christopher Plummer - 1964 ~ Laurence Olivier's - 1948

Henry IV: ~ BBC's Part One & Two - 1989 ~ The Brussel's Shakespeare Society's - 2017

Henry V: ~ The BBC's - 1990 ~ Laurence Olivier's - 1944

Julius Caesar: ~ Phyllida Lloyd's - 2019 ~ The BBC's - 1979 ~ John Gielgud - 1970

King Lear: ~ The RSC's - 2008 ~ Laurence Olivier - 1983 ~ The BBC's - 1975 ~ James Earl Jones - 1974 ~ Orson Wells - 1953

Love's Labour's Lost: ~ Calvin University - 2016

Macbeth: ~ Stockbridge Drama Society's - 2019 ~ The RSC's - 2019 ~ Antoni Cimolino & Shelagh O'Brien's - 2017 ~ Ian McKellen & Judi Dench - 1969 ~ Sean Connery - 1961

Measure for Measure: ~ Hugo Weaving - 2019 ~ The BBC's - 1990

The Merchant of Venice: ~ Al Pacino - 2004 ~ Trevor Nunn & Chris Hunt - 2001 ~ The BBC's - 1980 ~ Lawrence Olivier - 1973

The Merry Wives of Windsor: ~ The Royal Shakespeare Company's - 1982

A Midsummer Night's Dream: ~ Oliver Chris & Gwendoline Christie - 2019 ~ City of Columbus's - 2018 ~ Julie Taymor's - 2014 ~ The Globe's - 2013 ~ The BBC's - 1988 ~ Lindsay Duncan & Alex Jennings - 1986

Much Ado About Nothing: ~ Shakespeare in the Park - 2019 ~ David Tennant & Catherine Tate - 2011 ~ Kenneth Branagh - 1993 ~ The BBC's - 1984

Othello: ~ The BBC's Part One & Two - 1990

Richard II: ~ David Tennant - 2013 ~ Deborah Warner's - 1997 ~ The BBC's - 1978

Richard III: ~ Ian McKellen - 1995 ~ Laurence Olivier - 1955

Romeo and Juliet: ~ Simon Godwin's - 2021 ~ The BBC's - 1988 ~ Laurence Harvey & Susan Shentall - 1954

The Taming of the Shrew: ~ Ontario production? ~ American Conservatory Theater - 1976 ~ Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor - 1967 ~ Mary Pickford & Samuel Taylor - 1929

The Tempest: ~ Gregory Doran's - 2017 ~ The BBC's - 1988

Timon of Athens: ~ Barry Avrich's - 2024

Troilus and Cressida: ~ Audio Production ~ This one I found on youtube? - 2016

Titus Andronicus: ~ Anthony Hopkins - 1999

Twelfth night: ~ Texas Shakespeare Festival's - 2015 ~ Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright & Ralph Richardson - 1970

Two Gentlemen of Verona: ~ Katherine Steweart's - 2018 ~ The BBC's

The Winter's Tale: ~ Antony Sher - 1999 (Warning: they don't have a bear...)

Bonuses:

Time Loop Hamlet! (A personal fav of mine)

Rock Opera Hamlet???

Shakespeare animated tales

The Complete Works Of Shakespeare Abridged comedy

Romeo and Julieta: A Día de los Muertos Love Story

There’s also many other Latine Shakespeare adaptations listed in this archive

MacChef, a retelling but well... in a kitchen!

From the original post:

A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet.

Russian Hamlet here

Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern Macbeth retelling.

Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here.

This one is the Taming of the Shrew modern retelling.

The french Romeo & Juliet musical with English subtitles is here!

Here's the 1948 one,

the Orson Wells Othello movie with Portuguese subtitles there

A Lego adaptation of Othello here.

Here's commentary on David Tennant's Richard II

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-despite everything, there is still love

@arthoesunshine/ @artsheila/ @daisies-on-a-cup/ @gayarsonist / @hjarta/ @yunawinter on twitter/ @bakwaaas/ @death-born-aphrodite/ anon on gentleearth/ @classicnymph on twitter

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oops! it seems i tripped and dropped several million free books, papers, and other resources

https://annas-archive.org

https://sci-hub.se

https://z-lib.is

https://libgen.is

https://libgen.rs

https://www.pdfdrive.com

https://library.memoryoftheworld.org

https://monoskop.org/Monoskop

https://libcom.org

https://libretexts.org

http://classics.mit.edu

https://librivox.org

https://standardebooks.org

https://www.gutenberg.org

https://core.ac.uk

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SSHHH! Don’t you know this is a library? The Trinity College librarian is very sensitive to noise levels in her ancient sanctuary. 

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part of me understands tumblr's hestitancy to unpack their biases regarding animal agriculture. it is painful to realize how much suffering is all around. it is soul-crushing to have contributed to it. so many animals are getting harmed and killed every day. it's overwhelming, and it's natural to want to close your eyes to that. but you can change your behaviour! you can take direct action! you can stop feeling guilty! you can choose whether you want to continue to contribute or not! and trust me, it is so so liberating to do so

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Gripping people by the shoulders to earnestly tell them how parts of Ireland could be similar to the North American Pacific Northwest with stunning temperate rain forests if we actually committed to re-wilding are you listening to me? The constant rain we have supports beautiful rainforest ecosystems that were destroyed but we can bring them back. It wouldn't even be that hard. The forests will regenerate themselves over time if we just stop planting non-native pine plantations, remove livestock grazing from the land, and control the deer population. We could turn one of the most ecologically degraded countries in the world into one of the most unique ecosystems found on earth. Do you hear me???? Only a handful of other places on the planet support temperate rainforest biomes and we are continuing to destroy our own. Why are you trying to get away???

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star by mitski 🌠

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i hear the world is ending soon. when we go, and we're all going to go i will be... part of it.

"this is not the end of the world" by neil hilborn

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going vegan so far has been really nice for my mental health like i’m gonna try to explain it

for years i had this underlying guilt about consuming animal products and tbh i think most people have the same guilt because we know how bad it is, we know all forms of agriculture are ruining our planet, we know it’s not sustainable, and we know that the animals are suffering

and so when i finally, instead of ignoring and suppressing that guilt, took it and examined it, i realised that the guilt comes from our natural compassion for animals and nature, and compassion should never be suppressed

and going vegan has so far made me feel better about myself, i feel lighter and like i’m being more true to myself, by being vegan i save approximately one animal a day and it makes me feel like i matter