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i found an old technique for generating color palettes ages ago and made more than i knew what to do with. may as well share them! since they're easy to make, i'll inevitably do more, so look out for parts 2+. the names mean very little don't think about it too hard

use these for request memes or just your own reference idc have fun stay safe

i think ppl who record "weird" ppl in public without their knowledge or consent should be mauled on camera i think that would be pretty epic

a plague angel :]

Lestat de Lioncourt in Interview with the Vampire (2022–) → 😡😏🙄😍

I hope my followers don't expect anything of me, I'm only here to be insane.

Feathers

I'm inventing new mental illness right now btw

bitches love a man plagued by eye imagery

Gerry Keay really is the Character of all time.

Remember when we first met him through the eyes of that nurse and she was like “this man is literally covered in third degree burns everywhere except around the weird eye tattoos all over his joints. he should not be Physically Able to stand up through all that pain” and you were like “oh shit here’s another evil person with evil powers” but no. gerry really is Just Some Guy. he Was in debilitating pain from the third degree burns all over his entire body, he just decided not to deal with that fact until after he killed the bad fire man.

He also ignored any and all symptoms from a stage 4 brain tumor. like, it’s possible he just didn’t have any symptoms, that happens sometimes, but I feel like he probably had symptoms, he just Did Not Allow Them To Be Perceived. Migraines? No. Loss of sensation? Fuck that. Fatigue? He’s been exhausted for his whole entire life he doesn’t know what it’s like to Not be tired. Memory loss? Prolly that lonely avatar he fucked up last week.

And you Know life as Gertrude’s assistant was not like… a boring inactive desk job. I put one thousand moneys on the fact that she realized that this guy could push through any pain ever, and so she just sent him on progressively more dangerous and physically demanding tasks just to see if there was a limit

Gerry!! Keay!! He’s Just Some Guy, but he’s also covered in scars and marks and regularly experiencing debilitating pain, and he just looks at it and says “no thanks not for me actually. I got shit to do, people to save, leitners to burn, and old men to beat to shit.”

11/10 dude. no notes.

Fact: Today (September 23rd) is bisexuality awareness day. Be aware of bisexuals. They are dangerous.

HAPPY BI VISIBILITY DAY TO EVERY SINGLE BISEXUAL OUT THERE 💖💜💙

Layers of Fear portraits of wife by Andrzej Dybowski

shakespeare plays need fandoms. like real, actual fandoms, not just 13 people on tumblr. i want people to make velocity edits of this favs. i want angsty hamlet edits to exist. i want viola x orsino and viola x olivia ship wars to exist. i want chronically online tiktokers to fight over this shit. i would pay real money to see people to make AUs on ao3 where the most unhinged ships who have never met to become canon. i want really poorly written romeo and juliet fanfics to happen. someone please help me make this dream a reality

“’I will wear him in my heart’s core’: Tragedy, Community, and Queer Identity in HAMLET Online” A post mortem on my first ever academic conference presentation At the beginning of this month I had the absolute privilege to present some of my current research at the Utah Wooden O Symposium at Southern Utah University. My biggest belief is that research, the arts, and education should be as widely accessible as possible. This is why today, I am sharing the highlights of my survey results, research you all helped contribute to! These are not all the answers or data, but some of the most fun bits I’ve used so far. This survey will be used for future projects (by me only) as well! In addition, I will be filming and presenting a series of TikToks and a longer video essay on Youtube with an alternative reading and presentation of my research. If that’s not enough Hamlet research for you, I will also (hopefully!!!) be publishing this research in 1-2 journals. Until then, I wanted to give you the tumblr community the data on your Hamlet thoughts. If you like this research, content, or want to participate in future research please either reach out to me or… watch this space! I’ll be developing my thesis work in similar ways and I’ve got a Ph.D. after this to research for… hopefully! Thank you all again, I hope to provide more accessible education for everyone. For now, please enjoy just how gay we all are. Disclaimer: Graphs auto displayed the top 5-10 answers, the full numbers and percentages I do have but graphs do not reflect all genders and sexualities provided. Future and previous presentations of this data will reflect all genders and sexualities provided. ALT TEXT is Below

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Prince of Cats

Tybalt from William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996). Drawn on my iPad with Procreate.

my little cousin confidently declared that mother nature had a counterpart named daddy electric and i feel like this concept needs to be explored

reblog this to fuckin BITE all your mutuals

#artists

I think now that queens dead they should have her stuffed and put on display in Cairo for the next 150 years.

starting a collection

Things your friends with social anxiety disorder wish you knew:

Unlike the name implies, social anxiety is not fear of people or crowds. The illness is as likely to occur in extroverts as introverts.

My favorite definition is a phobia of humiliation.

So this can include many things, but it mainly comes down to others’ perceptions. SAD sufferers can be afraid of being seen as sloppy, ugly, inappropriate, perverted, crazy, dirty, whiny, incompetent, needy, immodest, slutty, impulsive, dirty, unstable, messy, clingy, cold, awkward, stupid, know-it-all, conceited, avoidant, rude, stuck-up, oversharing, prudish— you get the picture.

Read those words again. It’s not fear of being disliked. It’s fear of being humiliated. Being thought of as any of those things is specifically humiliating.

The fears range from taboo to simply embarrassing, however irrational.

We struggle to form beliefs, values, and self concept. Any interaction could leave us feeling guilty, either in the moment or (even more scary) out of nowhere, long after the interaction. Remembering my life is like rewatching a movie but sometimes it has a horror soundtrack at random. We think: it can’t all be bad. I must be overreacting. We’re left fumbling around, unable to identify which feelings are real.

Disappointing authority is terrifying. When we do mess up, we fear the worst possible consequence. When I was a freshman, I heard a rumor about myself from another kid. I had a panic attack lasting hours because I thought all my professors had heard and believed this thing of me.

We have a lot of physical symptoms. Stomach, bladder, tight shoulders, awkward, nervous mannerisms, a stutter. All these things are cyclical and make it worse. I have one wish and it is to be in a tight ball covered in spikes for the rest of my life.

It’s a porcupine. I wanna be a porcupine.

The illness is more likely to occur in someone with features that make them conspicuous such as weight issues, a tremor, no hair, or any other physical impairment.

Or, behavior symptoms like struggling to make eye contact, difficultly not interrupting, obvious learning issues, or being held back.

Not everyone is self conscious about these kinds of things, nor should they be. But those with social anxiety feel like there’s a neon sign over our heads listing whatever the stuff is.

It’s not unusual to use substances to lower inhibition and get through parties and meeting new people. Of course, this creates the circular problem of later being even more embarrassed. It’s just as normal to overcompensate with humor and bluntness. Personally, I don’t think “claiming it” is necessarily a good coping strategy. Transparency isn’t the same thing as vulnerability and also you have the right to privacy.

Shy isn’t a bad word. But shy isn’t a mental illness either. SAD is deep-seated clinical terror of being cringe.

We struggle to seek support. In reality, we’re going through it. We literally know we’re going through it. When the truthful answer to “hey, how was your day?” includes your experience of mental illness, you’re not going to give your real answer.

When we do seek support, it’s usually in the form of a joke. Remember what I said about transparency vs vulnerability. There’s clear like glass and there’s clear like plastic. Sometimes you have to get close and touch it to tell the difference.

We replay conversations obsessively in case maybe this time we won’t sound so weird in our own heads.

“Just be yourself!” is not helpful.

It’s not fair either. The sanest homie on the planet has no default “self.” We exist in context and community. You wouldn’t answer “uh just wear ur clothes?” to someone who was nervous about the dress code to an event or interview.

People with social anxiety can be charismatic

People with social anxiety can have depression

People with social anxiety may be rude, snarky, or prickly because they’re so uncomfortable. Think April Ludgate. This is actually a lot more common than traditional “shy” behavior.

Or they might be super nice and fawning.

Or totally frozen and awkward.

What we want most is compassion. But how can you expect or ask for such a thing with all the features that come with this illness?

Just because we complain in anticipation doesn’t mean we don’t want to do something. I can know I’m gonna have a great time at a party, and in fact have a great time, but be miserable the week leading up to it. It’s mixed messages but I don’t really wanna be talked out of my life.

There’s literally so many ways this can play put and I think it’s as applicable to Tumblr as anywhere. ❤️

much ado about nothing it's still PEAK FICTION even after 400 years like Benedick and Beatrice can't stand each other so much that they can't even say "pass me the salt" without inserting some slander and then their friends one day wake up and think "what if we pair Benedick and Beatrice up, for fun, just to kill time" and so they make Benedick believe he is accidentally overhearing their conversation and it's all about how Beatrice secretly loves Benedick so much that she spends her nights crying screaming shitting throwing up and they think it may kill her so Benedick straight up say "so they're serious. Well, her love? It's required. Now I am gonna get a portrait of her".

How do you guys even DARE to say that you hate classics bc they're boring when Shakespearen plays walked so that modern romcoms could run

The Devil card illustration from The Slavic Legends Tarot made for Taroteca Studio.

I am on my hands and knees begging people to listen to the Malevolent podcast because it's so incredibly well written and the characters are so interestingly complex and human amidst a backdrop of otherworldly horrors and it's also all created by one dude (Harlan Guthrie, you mad lad)!!

It's certainly not a story for everyone (PLEASE note the posted warnings for it) but the story payoff is so incredibly worth it, please do yourself a favor and give it a try

Commission for  coffeenoire

thank youuu💓

no one draw attention to the fact I've drawn this scene before

Arabesques on the Theme of Pirosmani (Sergei Parajanov, 1985)

Asking for directions