yours, &c.

Ivy, California. Tolerable, I suppose.

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hey dad, maybe you shouldn't have killed yourself until AFTER Knives Out came out. smdh you woulda loved it :/

[follettina1111111111]

Original handwritten lyrics, Psycho Killer by Talking Heads, c.1975.

[fourthfolio]

crazy story, this song literally just came on my playlist as i scrolled to see this. like timed to the nansecond

[fourthfolio]

ISO image or art I saw once on tumblr

I'm looking for a piece of art, it may have been fine art or it may have been made on photoshop, it looks like this

forget that my pixel art looks like sheep, they are eyes, more rows than i did, red backdrop, and as the eyes get closer to this one eye on the left they look more and more directly at it. i can't stop thinking about it! it's eerie, it's geometric, it's amazing

I have scrolled to the bottom of my likes, and every tumblr blog i have ever had, and i can't find it. If anyone knows what it is or where i can find it, you'd make my month!

[steveewheeler]

“No more secrets, okay? From now on we tell each other everything.”

[fullafag]

Neutrality is complicity. Your silence is so loud. CEASEFIRE NOW‼️ 🍉🗣️🍉🗣️

[valtsv]

people will really try to argue that love and death aren't fundamentally entangled as if they don't ring the same bells for weddings and funerals

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- first time by hozier

[lord-armitage]

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can you tell what this pixel art is meant to be?

yes

no

maybe

Voting ended onMay 2, 2024

if yes/maybe pls tell me in comments or tags

[fourthfolio]

thanks for helping me out everyone! not to keep anyone in doubt: this was supposed to be a nuke, more specifically Fat Man.

Fat man was one of the two american atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. i'm still not sure it's identifiable enough for my purposes. This is the replica of Fat Man and I'm not sure the original was actually yellow, so maybe that is a problem.

This is for a knitting/crochet pattern. I wanted to represent a nuclear weapon that had actually been used in history so it would have more significance. The only other one is Little Boy. Which I also made, and wonder if it more clearly looks like a nuke. Little boy, despite the name, was more deadly and was the first dropped. So in many ways, it has more historical weight.

And I turned Fat Man in to a gold fish cracker cuz i thought that was funny

Does Little boy look more clearly like a nuclear bomb? Would it help to make fat man grey/black? If anyone has any suggestions I'd really appreciate it. Leave comments, tags, or send me an ask/anon.

[fourthfolio]

can you tell what this pixel art is meant to be?

yes

no

maybe

Voting ended onMay 2, 2024

if yes/maybe pls tell me in comments or tags

[fourthfolio]

can you tell what this pixel art is meant to be?

yes

no

maybe

Voting ended onMay 2, 2024

if yes/maybe pls tell me in comments or tags

[grox]

Music is literally magic and the entire world is music to tge very core like the building blocks are music layed on itsself in a physical space and you can literally see it with your eyes once you become aware of iyt

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Then the voices of the Ainur, like unto harps and lutes, and pipes and trumpets, and viols and organs, and like unto countless choirs singing with words, began to fashion the theme of Ilúvatar to a great music; and a sound arose of endless interchanging melodies woven in harmony that passed beyond hearing into the depths and into the heights, and the places of the dwelling of Ilúvatar were filled to overflowing, and the music and the echo of the music went out into the Void, and it was not void. ...Ilúvatar said to them: 'Behold your Music!' And he showed to them a vision, giving to them sight where before was only hearing; arid they saw a new World made visible before them, and it was globed amid the Void, and it was sustained therein, but was not of it. And as they looked and wondered, this World began to unfold its history, and it seemed to them that it lived and grew. And when the Ainur had gazed for a while and were silent, Ilúvatar said again: 'Behold your Music! This is your minstrelsy

-The Silmarillion, Tolkien

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Seeing a lot of "death is for other people" people these days...

[bethanydelleman]

Is there a symbolism in Louisa jumping off the Cobb at Lyme?

Louisa's jump off the Cobb is a culmination of the stupidity that her and Wentworth have been engaging in up to that point. He has been encouraging her to be headstrong:

My first wish for all whom I am interested in, is that they should be firm. If Louisa Musgrove would be beautiful and happy in her November of life, she will cherish all her present powers of mind.

She's be delighting in acceptable physical contact:

In all their walks, he had had to jump her from the stiles; the sensation was delightful to her.

And this leads to the inevitable, Louisa insists on doing something dangerous and will not hear opposition, she gets hurt while doing it. The opposition comes from the very man who had encouraged her to be headstrong.

Now is there symbolism? I don't know. Louisa the Hazelnut did not outlive the storms of autumn, she cracked her nut instead? Her head was not in fact strong? The admiral does actually make a few jokes about this so I'm in good company.

Anyone else see symbolism? I just see character driven narrative.

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I think the character driven plot of the scene is poignant on it's own but I have thought about this myself.

Once I happened to read Paradise Lost and Persuasion concurrently and was constantly thinking they had parallels. The Milton specifically, not just the tale of genesis. I forget exactly what the connections were now. But looking for symbolism in this particular scene, it's hard not to immediately think of THE fall. She's a naive, blissful girl when she falls and then she wakes up into a mature, dour philosopher. Innocent to knowledgable.

Also, Louisa is clearly 'falling' in love with Wentworth. He has no romantic intentions for her, therefore, he will not be able to 'catch' her in love nor on the Cobb. She may call herself headstrong but she never had to suffer the consequences until she falls. In that sense, she's like Adam & Eve: can you truly be faithful, if you don't KNOW what it means to be unfaithful? In Louisa's case, are you really strong of purpose, if you are ignorant of the possible cost. Louisa clearly did not think it possible she could die by jumping on the Cobb.

Anne, on the other hand, is full of this knowledge. Now, at this point in her life, she knows what she is willing to risk to be with Wentworth. She listened to advice when she was young, but now she thinks it was bad advice even in its time. She doesn't just think it was bad because Wentworth happened to survive and become rich and therefore there was never any risk to begin with. Knowing herself better now, she would rather have taken the risk of becoming a young widow than breaking off the engagement.

Maybe Anne doesn't truly understand what the consequences would be for a young widow. But that's why Austen included Mrs. Grey and Harriet Smith. Their situations as poor young widows, one dependent on her father once more, and the other ill and dependent on a nurse, are unusual for Austen's typical ensemble. They give Anne (and us) the ability to see into that life, and know if she would have been willing to suffer the life of a poor widow for the chance of being Wentworth's wife.

[attemptedvictorian]

Shakespeare side of Tumblr.

I want to get more into his works but don’t know where to start. Guidance is welcome.

[fourthfolio]

Adaptations and derivatives are my preferred entry point for shakespeare rather than jumping right into a text. Stuff as lighthearted as She's the Man or 10 Things I Hate About You. Depends on your style but I like to chip away from the outside reimaginings to the original source rather than going from the original source to derivatives. Either way, here are a couple resources that are lesser known.

1) I really liked this 2005 BBC series of 4 plays reset in modern times called Shakespeare Retold. Their Much Ado About Nothing is my fave with Damien Lewis, Sarah Parish, Billie Piper, and Tom Ellis. This was before many of them hit it big and it even has Olivia Colman in some two bit part LOL! Whole thing on Youtube here. (And I posted a little funny clip below this post. I tried to include it here but Tumblr didn't like it.) The others in the series are Midsummer Night’s Dream, Taming of the Shrew(second fave), and Macbeth with James McAvoy.

2)  You can also find many streaming theatre performances from RSC and the Globe on Marquee TV. It is a paid subscription but there's a free trial period. Just glancing at what’s available now there’s so many. Of RSC productions alone there’s Richard II with David Tennant and Macbeth with Christopher Eccleston and so many more i just took a screenshot. 

I thought that trailer for RSC’s Hamlet was so cool. There’s other recordings from the Globe Theater (Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It) and Donmar Theatre and I noticed there’s even an old CBS tv adaptation of Much Ado from 1972.

If it interested you, there’s also ballet and opera adaptations of shakespeare on Marquee too. There’s SEVERAL ballet Romeo and Juliets, as well as a taming of the shrew ballet, the winter’s tale, midsummer night’s dream, and an opera called Beatrice and Benedict I never saw before that I may have to check out now!

3) I also like Shakespeare related original stories like Shakespeare in Love. It’s kind of unserious, but at the same time every beat is some reworking of a plot from one of his plays. Slings and Arrows is also interesting especially if you’ve ever done theater yourself. It’s about a struggling theater trying to pull off a production of Hamlet while their art director is sort of being haunted by his late mentor/predecessor/enemy. The show does give insights into the play Hamlet as we watch him direct it. I watched it on Acorn.tv which also offers a free trial.

4) All the typical feature film adaptations you’ll hear about are excellent (Branagh’s Much Ado, Whedon’s Much Ado, Tennant and Tate Much Ado especially! <- full recording, Twelfth Night ‘96, Baz Luhrman Rom+Ju) but I just wanna shout out the 2013 Romeo and Juliet with Hailee Steinfeld and Douglas Booth. I feel like no one remembers it but it is so beautiful, especially if you have any interest in renaissance art or costuming. When this came out I was literally taking a class on 15th century Italian art and it was mm mmm chef’s kiss. I was the only one in the theater and I sobbed through the whole credit reel before I could leave.

5) There’s this teacher who started getting deep on Tiktok about Romeo & Juliet and some other Shakespeare plays as well. Her username is Missviolaswamphadapoint and I’ll link a video of hers. I learned tons of new things from her that I didn’t learn in my college Shakespeare courses.

6) Once you’ve milked Shakespeare’s plays, texts, and adaptations you could check out critical essays. You should be able to find a digital resource at your local library like EBSCO host, WorldCat, and JStor.

Just some of the essays I can name from my courses: “Hamlet and His Problems” by TS Eliot, “Hamlet’s Dull Revenge” from A Theater of Envy by Rene Girard, Shakespear’s Universalism by Harold Bloom, “The Joker in the Pack” from The Dyer’s Hand by WH Auden, “Brothers and Others” also by Auden, “The Absence of Religion in Shakespeare” by George Santayana, and Johnson on Shakespeare. It’s been ages since I read any of them, so I don’t recall which are good or relevant.

Peace ✌️

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Shakespeare Retold: Much Ado About Nothing (BBC 2005)

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i’ve been on tumblr for over a decade, i’ve stayed through superwholock, when they changed the tumblr blue, the porn ban, the endlessly frustrating search engine, the strain tumblr takes on my internet bandwidth and my computer battery. I thought nothing could frighten me away...

but this new side bar on the left is KILLING ME

[fourthfolio]

I read hunger games and catching fire when they were published but I never got through mockingjay (and basically same story with the movies). But i just read the cliffs notes about the ending and was wondering if someone could explain:

Is there some meaning between primrose and snows white roses? Like as flowers. And What would the meaning be for Katniss to put a white rose on snow at his execution when that’s always been what he symbolized himself with? It’s as mundane to him as his own name. What’s the point? Does she say?

Or Is it to show Katniss’ vengeance by continuing snows MO in cutting roses compared to Peeta’s hope since he’s the one who plants primrose? Thoughts? Has the fandom already answered this?