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edwad

if karl marx was real he could beat you up, effortlessly. karl marx could rip your little twig body asunder

i have like half a foot on him and know all of his weaknesses

edwad

wait, “if karl marx was real”…. is he… made up?

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cryptid

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reblog if you believe

winemom-culture

zizibutik

that smile after "i live in the area" is a ranged spell that send you into rage

starwarsgraphictee

the full on satanic possession that grasps her before the last line is truly simply fact

that-twink-over-there

This video has such a powerfully cursed aura

teathattast

Throckmorton

tredlocity

Your cousin Throckmorton, the skateboarder.

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you skate AND you die

incessantlyphlegmatic

My cousin Throckmorton the skateboarder could shred that

kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd

it's 2022. donald trump has died in disgrace days after being impeached and jailed. my chemical romance's new album is coming out the same day as the new spiderverse movie. the lizzo and janelle monaé collab song is blowing up the radio. lil nas x has a verse in it. you and your partner have time and energy for dates after work after jeff bezos' assets have been seized and distributed to the public in the wake of his arrest for keeping employees in unsafe working conditions.

baconis42

oh what a life

dee-the-red-witch

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

romancelesbian

love really is cooking. cooking for and with your friends is an act of love. cooking for and with your partner is an act of love. cooking for YOURSELF is especially an act of love. the care, the tenderness, and affection??? to nourish not only yourself but the ones you love??? those moments you spend??? god its just love thats all i can say

shakespeaker

Who are the Anti-Stratfordians?

People who think Shakespeare wasn’t actually Shakespeare, but that ‘Shakespeare’ was a secret pseudonym for someone more important and better educated, like the Earl of Oxford.

See also: imbeciles.

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This

thebookishgurl

Not to piss anyone off, but why does this matter? The author is literally (and possibly metaphorically) dead.

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I feel like I have to address this. I tried not to, but I actually think it’s really important. Most of the people who make the argument that ‘Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare’ are doing so on the basis that the real William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon simply didn’t have the literary wherewithal to have written what are now the most famous plays in the English (or possibly any) language. They like to argue that because Shakespeare’s family wasn’t particularly wealthy or influential, and that he never got more than the Elizabethan equivalent of a grade school education, he couldn’t possibly be as well-read or as eloquent as the person who wrote Hamlet, or Macbeth, or what have you.

The reason Stratfordians are so vehemently defensive of Shakespeare as himself is because (a) there’s literally no proof that he wasn’t exactly who we think he was and (b) we believe that it’s entirely possible that a man who was nominally ordinary became the world’s most famous playwright. If you take that away from him, you are doing the world a huge disservice, by reinforcing the idea that in order to have a significant impact on the course of history, you have to be wealthy or politically powerful or socially superior. I for one want to be able to tell any struggling middle school kid with average grades not to give up, because passion is more important than money or power, and he or she could be the next Shakespeare.

So, that’s why it matters.

engrprof

^^^This^^^

melusineloriginale

Yes. All of this. The Oxfordian authorship theory is rooted in classist, elitist attitudes that insist that a glovemaker’s son from Stratford-on-Avon who never left England couldn’t possibly have written 37 plays based simply on extensive reading and a great deal of imagination.

Also they have no conception of what “grammar school” actually means. A grammar school education in the sixteenth century usually included extensive study of rhetoric, philosophy, and history. Ben Jonson claimed that Shakespeare’s Latin was mediocre and his Greek nonexistent, but there were a wide variety of classical texts available in English translation during his lifetime and we can clearly see echoes of those translations in Shakespeare’s works.

Lastly, the Oxfordian theory is rooted in an 18th century forgery popularized by a man named Looney (pronounced Loh-ney, but WHATEVER). The best book I’ve seen on the subject is Contested Will by James Shapiro, which is marvellous and snarky and everyone should read it.

gnimmish

It’s the exact same logic that tries to discredit Mary Shelley as the author of Frankentstein, because a particular school of (white, upper class, male) critical thought can’t stand the idea that an eighteen year old girl could have written something so profound that it founded an entirely new literary genre.

They don’t like being confronted with the fact that great art is not the preserve of the ruling class.

capricorn-0mnikorn

Also, here’s another reason it matters: Shakespeare populated his plays with characters from all the social strata, from prostitutes to monarchs, and everyone in between.

The view of such people, their attitudes and foibles looks a lot different when you’re looking at them from the same level than if you’re looking down at them from above, with only a vague, abstract, view of what their lives are like.

Therefore, knowing that Shakespeare had come from “common” origins and worked his way into the patronage of King James by the time he retired, gives us a different understanding of his plays, and the history of the time and place in which he wrote them.

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bakuraryxu

the only fucking reason i use facebook is for access to memes like these

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thebootydiaries

me: how am i? really? as if u care lmao. im so SICK of small talk,. i want someone who asks about my day and MEANS it, wipes my tears and tells me im beautiful without make up on, but all boys do is lie.maybe love wasn’t made for people like me

walmart employee: ma'am,

ereereee

my primary goal is to have a calico cat and a sunlit kitchen

thejonymyster

AND THEN ACT LIKE I DONT KNOW NOBODAAY

AH AH AH

variouslounge

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NOT gonna say it again

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^^^ THIS!!! ^^^

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HECARRIESSTUFF!

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this wont make your blog ugly

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HECARRIESSTUFF!

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FRIENDLY FUCKING REMINDER

naramdil

it’s exhausting talking to people who are critical of everything, who only vocalize their negative thoughts and who never try to see beyond that. it’s not being “realistic” it’s being willfully negative. you don’t have to enjoy everything or like everything. I certainly don’t and nor do I think positively all of the time. but I actively choose not to talk about those things bc I would rather focus my energy on finding & appreciating the good.