REST IN PEACE BERNARD HILL (1944–2024)

Reblog if you stand against order, civilization, and goodness itself

goes hard ngl

Shakes-Tourney, Round 2

(summaries from shakespeare.org.uk; further summaries and propaganda encouraged)

As You Like It: All brothers hate each other for some reason. Rosalind dresses up as a boy and convinces her crush to hit on her while she's a boy. Everyone is married by a Greek god.

Coriolanus: Coriolanus hates the people, and they banish him from Rome. Coriolanus loves his mother, and she stops him from attacking Rome. He dies.

Shakes-Tourney, Round 2

(summaries from shakespeare.org.uk; further summaries and propaganda encouraged)

Hamlet: Hamlet sees his dead dad's ghost, pretends to go crazy with revenge, actually goes crazy with revenge (debatable), and everyone dies.

Much Ado About Nothing: Benedick and Beatrice don't love each other but then they do. Claudio and Hero love each other but then they don't but then they do again. Everyone gets married.

Richard III: Richard wants to become King no matter who he has to kill to get there; he kills everyone who stands in his way; spooky ghosts appear; Richard is killed.

Macbeth: Macbeth hears that he is going to be king; he and Lady Macbeth kill people so he can become king; both of them die.

Celebrating the 10th anniversary!

(summaries from shakespeare.org.uk; further summaries and propaganda encouraged)

Romeo and Juliet: The classic story of boy meets girl; girl's family hates boy's family; boy's family hates girl's family; boy kills girl's cousin; boy and girl kill themselves.

Much Ado: Benedick and Beatrice don't love each other but then they do. Claudio and Hero love each other but then they don't but then they do again. Everyone gets married.

400-someodd years ago our favorite bloody, brilliant Bill was born. Let's celebrate... with a bracket.

Yes, it's been done before; no, we don't care. Propaganda encouraged. Fight dirty if you have to. There will be a loser's bracket as well, but be warned - some of these choices are tough!

Speaking of...

(summaries from Shakespeare.org.uk)

Hamlet: Hamlet sees his dead dad's ghost, pretends to go crazy with revenge, actually goes crazy with revenge (debatable), and everyone dies.

A Midsummer Night's Dream: People get lost in the woods. Puck manipulates their romantic affections and (in one case) anatomical head-shape. They put on a play.

Yet another selection of some of the better names I've come across in Regency era newspapers recently.

I got the chance to road trip out to the path of totality! My phone camera didn’t do it justice, so I painted what I saw instead 🌞🌚

the Cazadores from Fallout: New Vegas vs. Cazador from BG3 is a fight I would pay so much money to see

fuck it, death match

am I into 'rope and rigging'?🤨 uh yeah I guess you could say so

"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "their platonic relationship in the source material is far more dynamic and complex than the sanitized personalities they gain as a result of shipping" way

"why can't they just be friends" not in the homophobic way but in the "this is a valuable exploration of intimacy and vulnerability that we’re conditioned to recognize only in romantic relationships but that can exist platonically as well" way

Had a debate with a friend and now I gotta know

please reblog for larger sample size, my friend bet me no one would say Gimli and I wanna prove her wrong