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Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.

Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version, here's a 2017 version.

As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here's Kenneth Brannagh's 2006 one.

Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here's the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.

Cymbelline: Here's the 2014 one.

Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant's here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here's A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet. Andrew Scott's Hamlet is here.

Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.

Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.

Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010's here.

King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.

Macbeth: Here's the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.

Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.

The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.

The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!

Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.

Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.

Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here's the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.

Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.

Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version. Here's a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!

The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one is the Shakespeare Retold modern retelling.

The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010's too.

Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,

Troilus and Cressida can be found here

Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here

Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.

Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here. The BBC version is here.

The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here

Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.

(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)

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i looooove characters who are sacrificial lamb coded. characters who have never lived for themselves. characters born to be a tool, a weapon, a sacrifice, all of the above. a character raised by the heroes to save the world, at any expense, even their own health, even their own life. a character raised by the villains to end the world, at any expense, even their own health, even their own life. characters who are denied personhood so they can be used as tools instead. characters who never even had a chance to be people because they were shaped into something else from the moment they were born. characters who were born to die.

“the ending is always the same”

war of the foxes - richard silken / waterloo - ABBA / euripides’ medea - the little theatre / anne carson / the three fates - luca cambiaso / the oresteia - aeschylus / road to hell II - hadestown / when i met you - mira lightner / andersen’s fairy tale anthology

PSA that has been given 100 times already but needs to be said again:

The reason you, gen Z queers, need to be kink positive isn't because you support those kinks. It is okay to be disgusted by them, actually.

The reason you need to support kinksters is because "these kinks are disgusting" is the framework the alt-right is using and will continue to use to outlaw you. They don't think you're any different from the guys at Pride in leather puppy suits. They think your ENTIRE EXISTENCE is sexual. They think you holding hands with someone of the same gender, or existing as a trans person at all, is the same as a straight couple playing tonsil hockey in public.

YOU ARE A FETISH TO THEM. That is all you will ever be to the alt-right. They will never see you as human. When they talk about "our children being exposed to sexual perversion" they don't mean BDSM like you think they do. They mean YOU.

The only way to preserve your own existence is to fight for the right of kink to exist, because the instant kink becomes taboo or outlawed again*, rest assured, the alt-right will become MUCH more transparent about just what they think about your existence.

When you harp on about disgusting kinks and how they need to be hidden or outlawed and how they're harmful and everyone who does them is (insert thing here), you are giving the alt-right the tools they will use to imprison you as soon as they have unchecked power to do so.

THAT is why kinksters have been part of the queer community, part of Pride, from the start. Because the only way to keep our community safe is by truly ensuring everyone has unlimited sexual autonomy so long as the activity is taking place between consenting adults. It's just like how abortion-related laws are the lynchpin for all manner of medical autonomy laws.

The queer community can't stand without kinksters and vice versa. Even if you yourself aren't a kinkster and find them disgusting, like it or not, that is just how it is.

*Sodomy was illegal in Texas until 2003 and the law is still on the books, just not allowed to be enforced thanks to Lawrence v Texas, which SCOTUS has said they have an interest in striking down

In general, "this thing is bad because it disgusts me" is reactionary thinking that the right uses to discriminate against literally everything. They will deliberately talk about the grossest possible things (or what they think is the grossest possible thing) in order to justify their bigotry.

The classic argument against being gay? Bringing up anal sex. A lot. In as graphic terms as possible. Just talking a lot about poop and anal prolapse and other viscerally disgusting things... and then using that as the reason why two men shouldn't hold hands in public. Because holding hands is actually signalling that you practice coprophagia, obviously.

(I am not exaggerating: spend any time listening to someone like Alex Jones talking about gay men, or reading anti-gay pamphlets from the 90s and early 2000s, and it's just nonstop discussions of poop and poop-related things)

One of the classic ways of othering immigrants? Talking about how disgusting their food is. Koreans eat rotten cabbage. Chinese people eat dogs. Fuck, there's a scene in It's A Wonderful Life where Mr. Potter is trying to flatter George Bailey and get him to give up the Building & Loan (while being extremely bigoted about the people George Bailey is helping), and he calls Italian immigrants "garlic-eaters." Because garlic is gross and smelly, obviously.

Women? Talk about how gross menstruation and vaginas are.

Trans people? Call a neovagina an "open wound" and wring your hands about how testosterone makes people smelly and hairy and ugly.

Unhoused people? Complain about how they're pissing and shitting in the street.

It is okay to not like stuff! It is okay to feel disgust! But I promise you that there is something you find totally normal that other people find gross. You cannot make disgust the basis of your morality system.

this slaps honestly

for everyone who wants to make this bread, i found a few recipes

it’s monday i’m in the labyrinth

it’s tuesday i’m in the evil lab

it’s wednesday i’m in the time loop

it’s thursday i’m in the medieval torture apparatus

🌸it’s friday i’m in love🌸

Illustrations from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Bernie Wrightson (1983)

Israel's government has advanced plans for more than 3,400 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank.

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ID: [A chart showing data related to Israeli settler attacks in the occupied West Bank. The chart provides details on the daily average occurrences of attacks and reads: “Israeli settler attacks on the rise. According to the UN, Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank has increased in 2023 from an average of three incidents a day to seven since the Israel-Hamas war started on October 7.”

“SINCE OCTOBER 7:”

The chart shows how the number of attacks is currently on the rise, going from an average of 1 attack per day in 2021, to 2 per day in 2022, then 3 per day in 2023 up until Oct.6th.

Since October 7th, the average of number of attacks by settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank has risen up to 7 attacks per day.] END ID

This chart was made on November 13, 2023. The number of attacks has drastically increased since then.

Update: Israel is annexing the West Bank as we speak. This is the largest West Bank land seizure (1,977 acres) since 1993.

you get me closer to god (bible, wire) by susan hannon, 2011 & 2012, photography by erik hyler

i can’t find words for my anger right now so here’s a collection of thoughts that share the sentiment

Recently I went to one of my favorite museums of all times, the Muskegon Art Museum, and discovered this new bronze by UK artist, Beth Carter, Minotaur Reading. When people think of the myth of the Minotaur it’s almost always in context of his violence, his lust, his impossible body. Here all that is swept away with this monstrous form reading a small golden book. This made me crazy happy to see.

The sand in Okinawa, Japan contains thousands of tiny “stars”. These “grains of sand” are actually exoskeletons of marine protozoa, which lived on the ocean floor 550 million years ago.

AAAAHHHHH, my area of expertise!! Okay, so these little guys are called foraminifera, or forams for short. Foraminifera is their order name, for anyone interested. (Remember Kingdom-Phylum-Class- and all that fun stuff?) Foraminifera translates from Latin meaning ‘hole bearers.’ Keep that in mind, we’ll get back to it a bit later.

Forams are super cool because they are a single-celled organism that creates a calcareous shell around themselves as protection. A calcareous shell is kind of similar to the calcium in your teeth in a way. Forams take calcium out of the water that they live in to create their shells.

So why is this neat, you may be asking? Because there are something like 4,000 living species of forams in present day and many many more throughout geologic history. Forams also are a fantastic indicator species, so an organism that likes to live in very particular environments depending on the species. For example, some only live in the deep, deep ocean. Other species love the warm waters of the Bahamas or other tropical environments. Certain species also can indicate things like salinity levels in the ocean, calcium levels, and oxygen levels. Basically, by IDing the forams we find on the ocean bottom, in oceanic sediment cores, and fossilized into rocks, they give us a fantastic look back in time to help identify previous oceanic conditions thousands or even millions of years ago.

Also, forams do create the ‘star sand’ that you can find along certain beaches of Japan but they’re so much cooler up close!

See those little holes in their shells? That’s how the foram feeds itself. It sidles up to a food source (usually a diatom, bacteria, algae, or any detritus smaller than it on the ocean floor), then it extends these sticky tenticle-like things called pseudopods from its single-celled body through the holes in the shell and absorbs the food source. There’s a fascinating video showing this if you go to YouTube and search for ‘Orbulina feeding on Artemia’. These holes are also how the foram moves around underwater. It can extend these pseudopods to slowly pull itself along.

The star sand forams are neat but are far from the most beautiful forams, in my opinion. Most forams create a spiraled or multi-chambered shell like a few of my favorites below. (These are forams from the Bahamas if you were curious)

This one here is called Archaias Angulatus. It starts life out as a small, roundish shell like in the top row of diagrams, then creates this flat, galaxy-shaped edge to it as it grows bigger. Again, you can see the holes in the shell used for feeding and maneuvering.

This is a poor picture but this guy is called Discorbis Rosea. Rosea meaning pink after the color. There are some beaches in the world that look pink because of the shells that have washed up from dead forams like these. You can see the holes in the shell on this one too, as well as a really great example of how the foram builds more chambers as it grows bigger kind of like a snail’s shell.

This concludes my Ted-talk for the evening, please do send me questions or messages if you want to know more! I did my undergrad research on foraminifera and it’s always so exciting to tell people more about them! Think of how many forams there might be at the beach the next time that you are there - right underneath your feet and you wouldn’t even know it…