dont make me think of a title :(

any book reccomendations would be greatly appreciated thanks

[beforebloodbooks]

as a literature student i have... feelings about 'fate of ophelia'. i know it was released a while ago but STILL

the thing is, on the one hand, its clear as ever that taylor swift is not refering to the ACTUAL hamlet. or shes trying to, but her allusions beyond some actual lyric refs at the end are more so tied to a cultural image of ophelia- i.e., the famous painting by Millias. HOWEVER, in an effort to sound super deep her and her troupe of fans are arguing this is a beautiful reference to a tragic heroine.

ophelias entire story was that she was driven mad- not just by love, but by HORRIFIC treatment by men. the moral of her story was not being rescued.

she was not a disney princess. she was a tragic figure. its weird to treat her story like this, but i could have taken it. i really could have. shallowness isnt a crime after all.

its the fact her fans now want to claim she is the greatest songwriter of all time. its the fact her fans treat this like some sort of beautiful homage to a woman whose life was RUINED by men.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

some fics really make me feel this deep in my heart man fanfics are so amazing. I love fanfics

[butchhamlet]

much ado about nothing is so great because benedick and beatrice spend the whole first half bringing the other one up out of nowhere when nobody asked and then immediately going

[shakespearesdaughters]

[sivavakkiyar]

Euripides, Medea

[pangur-and-grim]

wait I have one more story. there's a group of anti-abortion protesters who often set up by the Ethiopian cafe I hang out in, and when I was waiting to cross one of them held up an aborted fetus sign and said "how does this make you feel?" and I said "hungry", and then I was so satisfied by my own cleverness that I missed the lights and stepped off the sidewalk into oncoming traffic

[pangur-and-grim]

[darkandstormydolls]

I was talking to my mom about John Green today and I mentioned that “he’s still on tumblr” and she asked why that would be weird and I said that no one is on tumblr these days, “except him and I guess me”

So

I don’t know what all of you guys are doing here, because clearly this website is occupied only by me and John Green

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

just the two of us / we can make it if we try.

[pangur-and-grim]

all books should be written by deeply damaged autistic perverts

[nightvaleofficial]

[beforebloodbooks]

[moonageromantic]

Gonna lock Holden Caulfield, Ponyboy Curtis, and Charlie Wallflower in a room together for twenty four hours and see what happens

[grendel-menz]

Hey y'all -- I'm making this post on behalf of Sami and his family, who are currently suffering in Gaza. You can find their fundraiser here. I think (especially) in a time where people are experiencing so much cruelty, it's our duty as humans living in the world to try to help others the best we can. We've all wished for someone to be there for us in a time of need, and we can be that for other people.

Sami's family has a lot of young children and I ask you to please consider donating if you have the means-- even something small-- or reblogging to circulate their fundraiser. Anything helps! Thank you so, so much for even reading. FUNDRAISER.

[grendel-menz]

They're currently at 84%! They need less than 600 to get to 85%.

[hamza-only]

Today, many people have been displaced from the Gaza Strip. Because of the indiscriminate bombing, because it will occupy the Gaza Strip, but donate before we die

[abdalsalam2000]

This is not Horosh; this is Gaza, home to 2 million people.

[abdalsalam2000]

This is Gaza, where I live. It's completely destroyed, lacking any basic necessities of life. My father is living through the worst days of his life here in this hellish existence. There's no water, no food, no medicine—everything is practically nonexistent. My father suffers from cancer and recently had a heart attack; his condition has deteriorated significantly.

[abdalsalam2000]

I implore you, whoever is reading this post, please don't ignore me or my father's suffering. Your donation will help us escape from here. Please donate now so my father and the rest of my family can live in peace. Please help us and donate to us now.

[punkitt-is-here]

Please help out my friend Nader! He is a sweetheart who I love talking to. I want him and his family to get out of their situation as safely as possible.

[nourasbasha]

Try it...

An Egyptian programmer created a page dedicated to every Palestinian soul killed by the occupation during the war of extermination in #Gaza.. So far, he has registered 72,000 names.

Each point of light on the screen represents the name of a martyr, and when it is clicked, the name of the person it belongs to appears.

The link is in the first reblog :

I Am Not a Number

A memorial for the 60,199 Palestinian victims of the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Each dot is a name. Each name was a life.

[lipstickhamlet]

i don't even think henry bolingbroke has to experience same-sex attraction to be a repressed self-loathing freak in richard ii. i think he just works himself up into a frenzy whenever he sees people (richard) experiencing any kind of pleasure that he firmly represses for himself and ruminates on it for hours, coming to the conclusion that there's something deeply evil within those people (richard) and himself for wanting to experience disgusting perversions such as physical touch. he's spent his whole life convincing himself that it's not natural to experience "desire" and "pleasure" that when other people (richard) do it so shamelessly and publicly, he starts melting down like a nuclear reactor. i mean he can be gay too but

[bumblebeebats]

Why is it that every time I google something like "Are olives poisonous to cats" the top results are always like "Fun fact: Cats are carnivores! This means that they eat meat. There is no reason to include olives in a cat's diet. You should feed your cat cat food, which is dry or wet food especially designed for cats. You can purchase this at a store." like is there a single person alive on the planet who's googled "Are blueberry muffins safe for cats" because they're planning on switching their cat to a muffin-only diet??? No, I'm asking because the little bastard somehow popped open the packet while I was putting away the groceries and dragged one under the couch before I could react and now I need to know if I should call the after-hours vet. "Cats should not eat spaghetti." NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!!!! "Try to keep human food away from cats." i live in a studio apartment with a completely silent and permanently hungry apex predator who has the intelligence of a toddler and the desperate Machiavellian cunning of a creature who spent his formative months on the streets. He can already open doors and he is this 👌 close to learning how to open the microwave. He is stronger than me and covered in knives. So im gonna do my best but for the moment i just need you to tell me whether this yoghurt is going to kill my son y/n

[spectralhauntings]

I've been using the pet poison hotline's poison list cause it has a search function. It also tells you whether something is mildly, moderately, or severely toxic which can be very handy! It doesn't contain like everything but it might be a good place to start, it also includes plants for fellow houseplant lovers <3

Explore Pet Poison Helpline®s vast knowledge on poisons by reviewing our pet poison list. Explore our top 10 poison and holiday poison lists

[littlemousling]

For plants specifically, there’s also a wildly detailed set of posts and listings about toxicity on the old, wonderful, Plants Are the Strangest People blog

[smoothjazzdigit]

Have you guys seen that clip

Go off Kermit

[juliathefacesofevil]

we're just normal men

[oddjoblin]

Why the heck is this dude trying to confirm if the frog puppet is hetrosexual???

[karnalesbian]

assessing the situation before he shoots his shot

[defilerwyrm]

Happy Pride to Kermit the Frog, questioning king