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hi tonight we cry about the fact that the goddess from the Saffron Goddess fresco appears to be wearing necklaces of duckies and dragonflies

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Voltaire and Rousseau every time:

"I find conversation unbearable owing to the very fact that I am obliged to speak."

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

Do you ever think about how Hamlet starts after the king’s death - after Hamlet has fallen into depression - therefore, we have no idea of knowing what Hamlet was like before all of it went down?

Do you ever wonder what Hamlet was like before tragedy struck? Who was the man Horatio and Ophelia were in love with? Who was the man that the people of Denmark adored?

Because I do. All the time.

Hi guys, my commander died and we're trying to sort out his legacy, what should we do??

Did Saint Sebastian really have to look like that while being tended by Saint Irene?

Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene / Nicolas Régnier (1625)

The Birth of Venus / Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl (1888)

Inside a medieval sketchbook

colin morgan as ariel, the globe theatre, 2013

Broke: vampires are vulnerable to the trappings of Christianity only, particularly Catholicism, no matter how dubiously applied. (See: Van Helsing's Communion wafer grouting).

Woke: vampires are vulnerable to sincere faith of all kinds, and atheist vampire-hunters need to believe very strongly in the Power of Friendship or their love of Star Trek to get by.

Bespoke: vampires are vulnerable to the faith that they followed when they were alive, and hunters tracking down an ancient vampire are obliged to learn about Neo-Babylonian theology or Middle Palaeolithic bear cults.

sorry, i mythologized your boyfriend. yeah i took him and a few other boyfriends and merged them together with local folklore and mystic elements into one legendary figure. he's going to be really hard to pin down historically. sorry about that. I can make you his consort in some stories if that helps.

yeah maybe i watch wagner’s operas only to make even more stupid jokes so what

so I was talking with my brother the other day and I mentioned the new Barbie teaser trailer that came out and it prompted him to pitch me that instead of doing the live action film, what they really should have done is continue to do more of those animated Barbie films except instead of adapting the typical fairy tales, they should have Barbie play classical and historical figures such as Joan of Arc, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Medea from Jason and the Argonauts, Mary Antoinette, etc.

and ideally these films should still be PG-rated so that a whole generation of kids will grow up watching these films and then later on in adulthood write posts like ‘TIL that the barbie film i grew up watching was actually based on the story of Joan of Arc.’

who do I call to make this happen because I think my brother is on to something here…

King Hamlet: Brief let me be

Me: come on man

🌾serf03 Follow she swinks on my pikeshaft afore i crow gardyloo

👑lord-williams Follow utter hogwash. banished from my domain

🌾serf03 Follow alas

2023

1. COMMIT TO THE BIT

2. PARTAKE IN THE DIVINE ACT OF CREATION

3. LET THE SOFT ANIMAL THAT IS YOUR BODY LOVE WHAT IT LOVES

john darnielle / black sails viii / pathologic 2: the marble nest / ghost quartet, dave malloy / black sails xvii / the ostereia / black sails xxxiv / the illiad, homer / no second troy, william butler yeats / black sails xxxviii / planet of love, richard siken / catherine deneuve discussing belle du jour / hannah kent, from ‘burial rites’ / the worm king’s lullaby, richard siken / true detective 01x08 / rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, tom stoppard / pathologic / dark (2017-2020) / julius caesar, shakespeare / twin peaks 07x07 / heroes: mortals and monsters, quests and adventures by stephen fry / sherlock 04x01 / the city, c.t. cavafy (trans. edmund keeley) / la clairvoyance, rené magritte (1936) / sir gawain and the green knight (trans. james j. wilhelm) / arrival (2016) / the castle, franz kafka / dark (2017-202) / hamlet, shakespeare / the green knight (2021) / the silmarillion, j.r.r. tolkien / hadestown, anaïs mitchell

Someone today will read Shakespeare's hamlet and say omg he's just like me fr. Another person will read moby dick and proclaim Ishmael as an adhd king.

A person grieving for their recently deceased lover reads the iliad and they watch as Achilles rages and rages and god how righteous anger fueld by love is so devastating that it's ramifications still affect the world several thousand years later.

We might one day settle down and read the epic of gilgamesh and watch as a king has to accept the death of the person he loved the most. One of the very first stories ever written and it was about coping with death, and how to grieve.

We don't read classics because they're old, we read them because they remind us that we are never alone. That a character created over 500 years ago struggled with the exact same problems we all still have today. That even a king from centuries past had to deal with death just like me. That's what makes stories so powerful--they prove to us that we are never truly alone in what we are feeling.

at some point you have to realize that you actually have to read to understand the nuance of anything. we as a society are obsessed with summarization, likely as a result of the speed demanded by capital. from headlines to social media (twitter being especially egregious with the character limit), people take in fragments of knowledge and run with them, twisting their meaning into a kaleidoscope that dilutes the message into nothing. yes, brevity is good, but sometimes the message, even when communicated with utmost brevity, requires a 300 page book. sorry.

I’ve been making gay knights (and ladies) collages on my phone at work

(Part two)

head full many thoughts none of them useful

“I want to remain an eternal mystery to myself and others.” - King Ludwig II of Bavaria

big fan of the “I can’t fix him but I can follow him to his tragic and untimely end and love him even as he becomes corrupted and decays into a shadow of his former self” trope

literally i just can’t comprehend any interpretation of hamlet that doesn’t put grief at the center like. hamlet’s father died and he is actively grieving throughout the play that is the driver of all of his behavior. “is hamlet actually crazy or is he putting on a performance” is a boring question to me because grief is a type of insanity. grief makes you feel like you are performing even when you are all alone. it makes you feel like you’re seeing things it makes you feel completely alone it makes you cling to the people around you it makes you push them away it makes you angry and sad and hamlet wants to kill claudius for replacing his father and taking his mother from him as much as he wants to kill him for revenge.

all this praise for female actors who have been hamlet onstage. well. what about the praise for ME. who has been hamlet so many times. inside my head

I was so confused during today’s Drac Daily about this part in particular

Because that??? Bro, that ain’t Hamlet.

I went digging and found someone attempting to explain it:

If it is referencing this scene then it’s the part in the play where Hamlet says he’s going to throw everything off the table of his mind and focus only on revenge (this does…not work out for him).

BUT THEN

SO BASICALLY

B A S I C A L L Y

Stoker’s dumb acting friend MISQUOTED SHAKESPEARE loudly and often enough that it wound up in this novel????????

I couldn’t sleep until I drew this

biblically accurate angels • tip jar

for the next emoji update they should add an ouroboros

24 etruscan/roman bronze statues found!!! yes!!!!