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something something about "i need you" being oh so much more romantic and safe and core-shattering than "i love you" something something about stanislavski saying that to love is "to want to touch" something something about love being intrinsically active something something about how much you can love someone to the point of invention

#i am looking at you jmart #honestly if someone told me #i need you #instead of #i love you #I'd immediately pass out #because its is an urge to action #and to act in a world where every action is useless #is the biggest spit in the face of death i can think of #and what is a more beautiful fuel than love #oh wow #i need to lay down #hold on #oh no i need to hug someone #oh shit #perso

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

i think i identify so much with hamlet that i kind of forget what a horror show it is from laertes’ perspective. but like you’re this ambitious young man whose dad is kind of a bumbling idiot that everyone laughs at but at least people trust him in the court. or they did under the last king. you don’t know exactly what’s going on and who’s safe and who isn’t. you’re just trying to find your footing and now everyone is talking about a ghost wandering the grounds and it’s like. ok time to skip town for a bit and go to france!! obviously you feel a little bad about leaving your little sister behind and also you’re begging her please please please don’t do anything dumb. i love you i know i’m overbearing i know dad is overbearing too but please just don’t be stupid. ok? i know you have your stupid boyfriend but sometimes guys are mean so just don’t do anything dumb. ok? ok? it’s your little sister. you have to say that. and you leave and go to france and the next thing you hear is that your dad is dead. you go back and you’re so mad that you’re ready to kill the king, you don’t care what happens to you, you break in and threaten to kill him. but it’s not his fault and it’s his asshole nephew who had some kind of thing with your sister and you literally warned her about this and you told her not to be stupid and she PROMISED she would be careful and now she’s sobbing and crying and not making any sense and everyone’s saying she’s crazy. she went to dad’s funeral without you. he was buried without you. you didn’t come. then your sister’s dead too. and no one wants to say suicide but what else would it have been and you were supposed to protect her and you went to stupid france even though you KNEW something was going to happen which was why you were so annoying about it. but maybe that made everything worse. you’re at her funeral and her ex boyfriend shows up and starts fighting you IN HER GRAVE and you decide you’re going to kill him. really. really. what else could you even think to do. your family is dead and it’s all his fault. and maybe if you stayed you could have saved them. and you have to kill him. you have to. because if you can pretend it’s all his fault maybe you can forget that you think it’s yours

eddie-spielman

oh my god this!!!

#shakespeare #hamlet

x-atropa-belladonna-x

WOMAN IN LOVE WITH DEATH

Artist

eddie-spielman

very accia coded

#poor man jester

necrophagesaint

watching twin peaks for the first time and kyle maclachlan is just sooooo cute he looks like a porcelain wedding cake topper who wished to be a real man

eddie-spielman

ON GOD HE DOES

davidhockney

i like the sound of mourning doves, cicadas, trains in the distance

eddie-spielman

i heard them as i read it, thank you

licensedfool

the collection so far

eddie-spielman

they're wonderful!

yes that's me thank you

lesbiancharliedalton

obsessed with how david lynch's son looks like a witch cast a spell on adult david lynch and turned him into a child

eddie-spielman

HE DOES OMFG

cardo-de-comer

Imri / The Eighth One - The soul came into being long before human did. If only Imri knew, how old his soul actually is...

Devil and Lyra - longtime enemies and even longer time friends.

Sun and Moon - two sides of the same coin. Gods.

I recently realized how the (untold) backstories of all characters connect back to Eden. Gods were there; they made it Devil and Lyra were there; when Devil was still an angel Imri were there; as a child - the Eighth One, a soul that just came into being. Imri doesn't remember of course - humans don't need such knowledge.

It doesn't have to do anything with the main plot of the story and probably doesn't matter at all but I find it very amusing.

eddie-spielman

this is so cool! i like just sitting there staring at this, it's like falling through an old computer and finding out it can breathe

guerrillatech

sheishine

Anatomical Heart and Japanese Eel (2024).

解剖心臓と鰻 (2024)。

eddie-spielman

such a cool idea, wow!

perfectterf

source

The Japanese government actively encourages women to enter prostitution—making it alarmingly easy—while systematically pushing them out of universities. This reveals a blatant fear of women surpassing men in education and career.

Japan’s policy might as well be: *Keep women in brothels, not classrooms.* By easing access to prostitution while limiting women’s education, they prioritize male insecurity over gender equality.

eddie-spielman

it's fucking outrageous

soup-in-the-inbox

I honestly blame the rise of anti-intellectualism and things like hating on old books because they're not up to modern standards on why people can't think with nuance and are afraid of bucking the norm or forming their own opinions. You're going to read Of Mice And Men and you're going to be fucking uncomfortable because that's the goddamn point. You're going to read the original Romeo and Juliet and remember the whole point is to make fun of how stupid and dramatic teenagers are and you're going to sit there and be uncomfortable because the only way you're going to expand your horizons is if you're feeling weird and off and hate it for awhile.

You're going to have to sit in front of the trolley problem as hate that there's no "win" scenario because that's the point. There is no Everybody Wins and Nothing Bad Happens in real life 99% of the time.

You need to be uncomfortable. You need to be conflicted. You cannot be a complete, nuanced, and intelligent person if you refuse to engage with the gray. You are just a bad person at that point. And a stupid one. Because I'm done pulling punches.

eddie-spielman

this is honestly so true. you need to be conflicted, and experience all kinds of moral dilemmas through literature if you want to grow intellectually! because lit IS the way you can safely put yourself through all those situations without any harm to yourself, plus it cultivates empathy and critical thinking!! you can't live in a bubble, because the world isn't a bubble for fuck's sake.

pissy-ramblings

Men bring nothing to the table but more dishes.

eddie-spielman

so true

soliddarrity

Not to reinvent the wheel over here but humanity is sooo right about tea. It really is the perfect finnicky little thing to do. You can use it as an excuse to get up and transition to the next thing for yourself or with others; you can use tea as the centerpiece for socializing; you can use it as a meditative device or a comfort ritual or as medicine or to soothe pain or to set intentions or go to bed or to wake up. And most tea is pretty inexpensive, healthy and sometimes you can just harvest the ingredients yourself. And there's a set amount of time it takes to heat up the water and prepare your cup and let it steep, which is all part of a ritual that makes it fast but not instantaneous which is. Good.