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https://gofund.me/69b79d7d

As of 9/3/24, it has been 4 days since Roba’s fundraiser last received donations. And she is still only a little more than 10% past her goal! Only $2,915/$26,000 has been raised since I first came across it in July. Every single dollar matters right now. The fundraiser has not been vetted as far as I know, but you can see clips of Roba’s children and life in Gaza on her Instagram @/robafromgaza1. Please please please, if you cannot donate, then like, share, reblog!! In a little over a month it will have been a year since the genocide started, and still no sympathy or help from world leaders and big organizations. The responsibility falls to us, as people, to continue speaking and supporting and sharing. Thank you for your time :) and free Palestine!

#free palestine #free gaza #gaza genocide #palestine genocide #gazaunderattack #gaza fundraiser #palestine fundraiser #support palestine

buggy1999

Must…have…obligatory Heathers doomed Yuri au…

tallinsomniacs

my favourite thing ever is talking like a powerscaler 😭😭 like YES tybalt only has off screen feats and got low-to-mid-diffed by romeo. YES benvolio is multiversal but only when his dog is involved. YES juliet can no diff anyone in verse. YES mercutio only died to plot (“but that’s how any story goes” shhhh 🤫🤫🤫🤫) and YES paris is fodder

gh0ststag

ORBWEAVER COME HOME THE KIDS MISS YOU 💔

commission for the lovely caroldirge on twitter <3

paintscythe

drew this diva for a one hour study today 💪💪

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musical-trash-goblin

22 years later...

lipstickhamlet

guys i can't do this anymore. i have to speak my truth. hamlet is not the emo goth kid lounging around in hot topic clothes and laertes is not the varsity jacket-wearing jock. it's the other way around. before the events of the play, hamlet was very much a jock (4.7.111-114), enough so that his lack of exercise is noticeable (2.2.319-320) and was well-liked and popular by the common people (4.7.20-24). polonius implies to reynaldo that laertes is in france to study music specifically (2.1.81). laertes is easily agitated, provoked, and sensitive, which is arguably more likely to be a pre-existing condition of teenage angst hot topic-ism than hamlet's legitimate grief (open your eyes and look). i can't stress enough that hamlet's transformation into the person we see in the play is so jarring from his real self that he almost isn't the same person anymore, and laertes has similarly been pushed to be the volatile, violent person he is by his circumstances. hamlet is literally the popular athletic golden boy and laertes is, like, the kid lugging around a huge cello case every day to and from school who gets high as fuck behind the bleachers and picks fights with anyone who says anything about his sister

lipstickhamlet

look you can't say [shakespeare character] HAS TO BE [thing] without exception in every single production, otherwise you're kind of misunderstanding why we put on these 400-year plays over and over again with different twists and modern adaptational choices each time. because theatre isn't stagnant. every actor & director chooses to focus on a different aspect of the play to highlight and draw out different messages and meanings from the same text. you can't be saying [shakespeare play] HAS TO include [this scene] or have [this interpretation] or portray something [this way] or whatever every single time without exception because WHYYYY would we be still putting them on!!! if every production of hamlet made hamlet the same age and put it in the same era and had gertrude know or not know claudius' murder and so on and so forth we would've stopped putting it on ages ago!!!! shakespeare's modern day appeal is its versatility !!!

lipstickhamlet

it literally ultimately depends on what version of this story the director wants to tell this time. want to show a man lashing out and hurting others and crumbling as the catastrophic consequences of his own actions spiral his life out of control? make hamlet 30.

want to show a teenager helpless in a world of adults, powerless under his guardians but with unimaginable burden on him, trying and failing to cope with his grief as the ground spins out from under his feet? make hamlet 19.

want to show the complexity of gertrude's relationship with her son, and have her quiet complicity finally catch up to her in the last guilt-ridden effort to save her son? have her drink the poison knowingly.

want to emphasize the tragedy of the story and show the consequences of the depths claudius sank to? have her drink the poison by accident.

want to portray elsinore with an insular, suffocating atmosphere in which the rot and madness festers? cut fortinbras out.

want to emphasize the collateral damage of elsinore's deterioration on a national and international level, and leave a current of militaristic tension beneath? leave fortinbras in!

hamlet is too much of a complex and multi-layered play for ANYTHING in this show to be definitive!!! hamlet doesn't HAVE to be any age! fortinbras doesn't HAVE to be present or not present!! it's fair game as long as it makes for a good story in this iteration of it! nothing in hamlet HAS to be anything universally and i'm sick of posts claiming that it does

#shakespeare #always fuck around with his plays you're doing the world a greater favor for it

socialshakespeare

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it’s hamlet season again

#it’s never not hamlet season #hamlet #horatio #gave horatio his much needed glow up #ophelia #laertes #shakespeare

hotvampireadjacent

Halal movie night follow up

quasi-normalcy

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

quasi-normalcy

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

quasi-normalcy

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

quasi-normalcy

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.