media vita in morte sumus

aske (any pronouns) | internet old, fandom bébé. i like to look at things and talk about them. queer | trans | autistic | parent | 18+ | fuck off terfs and fuck jkr || pfp is Honoré Sharrer, Reception, 1958, oil on canvas.

[midnights-dragon]

In case anyone is having a bad night

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean 

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Take a breath. It’s going to be okay, I promise.

[smartypantsshow]

Should you kiss your homie?

Watch the new episode now on Dropout

[dropoutdottv]

happy pride again

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

Star Wars has three types of guy: Fump Geezgo from the Womflee system, Stabba Badguyman, and Chris

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

Happy May the 4th to this, somehow my most popular original post of all time! In celebration here's some more examples of the Guy Types:

Wam Lufba the Yuzzum, Morally Evil, and Wade

[dkpsyhog]

You know how canaries were historically brought into coal mines, because if the mine was full of carbon monoxide the canary would die first and the miners would be able to escape before they died too?

I just found the greatest thing.

This is a canary resuscitator.

When the miners notice the canary getting sick with carbon monoxide poisoning, they can close that circular hatch so no more gas gets into the canary cage, and open the valve on that oxygen tank to keep the canary breathing. In other words, they made a spacesuit for birds.

By immediately giving the canary access to clean air, the miners can save it from the poison. The bird lives. To be clear, this is not for economic purposes, this was specifically created because the miners felt bad and wanted to save the bird.

Isn’t that just the perfect demonstration of what humans are like? We started sacrificing small creatures to save ourselves, and then felt bad and spent our valuable resources on saving the critters too. Because yeah the canary was the only way to test for CO, but it’s a living creature too, dammit!

[potter-on-my-wayward-doctor]

[libraryogre]

Union watches out for its members.

[princesskuragina]

Every time someone tells me they hate Shakespeare (which is frequently, bc people who hate Shakespeare r usually very proud of it and they need to tell me immediately when they learn that I'm a Shakespeare actor) I enact a sort of self contained stoic ritual where I remind myself that I do not need to be defending the most read and lauded and hegemonic English writer of all time even though I KNOW that they've only half-read Romeo and Juliet when they were 14 in a lame English class and formed a grudge and never changed their opinion. I have that knowledge and I allow it to wash over me and leave me undisturbed

[piratescarfy]

there was a disastrous performance of Macbeth at the Old Vic by Peter O’Toole and apparently there was this one part in the play one night where a Servant comes in and should say “Your wife, my lord, is dead” but what ACTUALLY happened was

Servant: …My wife, my lord, is dead.

Macbeth: Well, what about my wife?

Servant: Oh yeah. She’s dead too.

Macbeth: 

Servant: There’s a lot of it about.

[arundelo]

This is like a Monty Python skit.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

ok last hamlet post sorry. but tbh i kind of buy the theory that the ghost is actually an evil spirit

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

what kind of father apparently suffering in purgatory for the many wrongs he committed in his life that he now must atone for condemns his child to a miserably short and violent rest of his life by making him swear to enact vengeance for a crime that hasn’t even been proven? btw purgatory theologically is not like some inbetween place for people who weren’t all the way good but not all the way bad. it’s purification for heaven. meaning if someone is there, they are heaven bound!! it’s not a maybe! so what heaven bound soul would ever come back from the dead to sow discord among the living and to do it with the hands of his own son? anyway

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

i do think claudius is a much more interesting character than we give him credit for because he’s so close to being repentant. at the beginning of the play he’s talking about how sharply polonius’ comments lash his conscience. at the very beginning! this is an aside! to us! it is not for anyone but the audience to hear! then after hamlet’s play his reaction is anger, horror. because he’s almost caught. almost caught because somehow hamlet’s plot works, somehow claudius feels so guilty that even seeing the play makes him sick to his stomach. but what is crazy about this is that his line of thinking is, maybe I should get caught. he almost tells the truth. like think about claudius’ prayer!! he’s desperate! he doesn’t know if he can be forgiven! if there’s enough snow in the heavens to wash him clear! he’s tormented! but what can he do now? he’s the king and he’s married and he’s gone so far and how can he change now? is he too far gone? would he have to give up the very things for which he murdered his own brother? the question is too hard and too unpleasant and so he does the easy thing and gives up. and he goes and tries to kill hamlet twice and his wife drinks poison in front of him and he says nothing. he’s made his choice. but for a moment the play almost changes

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

thinking about when i got my little sister (who was like ten at the time) really into hamlet and she very thoughtfully a few weeks later sent me, through the U.S. postal service, an envelope with a small drawing of hamlet captioned “let’s go commit regicide”

[threefreeze]

shakespeare was ahead of his time

[natashkashai]

reblog if baby don’t hurt me just played in your head in perfect tonality

[louisegluckpdf]

we're settling this once and for all. no nuance

to be

not to be

Voting ended onOct 7, 2024

[nochd]

Is it nobler in the mind

to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

to take arms against a sea of troubles

Voting ended onOct 7, 2024

[pseudo-boyfriend]

[passion-of-l0vers]

emo hamlet….

[shyocean]

And his friends used to be legit but they turned into such fucking posers

[crabussy]

something pickled this way plums…..

[viewtiful-kim-deactivated202105]

Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube

[animatedamerican]

… I am unironically here for this

[oldfilmsflicker]

this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

[kabesattic]

This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, he’s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, they’re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but they’re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewer’s lived experience. They’re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?

Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.

So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.

[butchhamlet]

okay i know i’m Back On My Bullshit but hear me out: found footage macbeth

[butchhamlet]

so much of the plot of macbeth revolves around… the fact that we don’t get to watch the plot of macbeth. we never get to see macbeth and banquo win a battle; we never get to see macbeth kill the king; we don’t see his coronation; we don’t watch lady macbeth die. so much of macbeth is what’s told through the cracks - we just get the lead-up to and aftermath of events.

so: found footage macbeth. security videos and transcripts from dunsinane and inverness. interviews with castle guards, lady macbeth’s handmaidens, figures like ross and lennox. news articles about the deaths of duncan and macbeth… battle casualty counts… whatever lady m wrote on those papers during her sleepwalking scenes… young siward’s school records… i could go on

[zforzelma]

The scene between Macbeth and Banquo at the beginning taking place via night-vision cameras affixed to their helmets. The witches would look just amazingly terrifying.

[kabaks]

[carys-the-ninth]

William Shakespeare, while re-writing Rosalynd into As You Like It: Here's my OC Jaques de Boys. Does he provide exposition, or advance the plot in any way? Absolutely not. He's a professional hater, gives the best monologue of the play, and in the end fucks off to live in a cave. Bon appetit.