sad stories of the death of kings

20-something. Shakespeare, literature, art, LOTR, & history. Or whatever catches my interest.

[classicalcanvas]

Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette (1886) by Vincent van Gogh

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

very funny to me that johnny cash rewrote les mis in a song that's less than 3 minutes long (man in black) and did a better job of it than the musical

[hamletthedane]

OP I think you're onto something here

[hamletthedane]

fuck I just laughed so hard at Discojolras 🕺 in Lamarque Est Mort 🕺🪩 I fell over and hit my head help

[hamletthedane]

🕺🕺🕺🕺 LAMARQUE…EST MORT 🕺🕺🕺🕺

[hamletthedane]

Reblogging myself in honor of Lamarque’s death anniversary AND the start of pride month.

Please do yourself a favor and listen to the original French version of Les Mis’ Les Amis De L’ABC, featuring Discojolras 🕺🕺(Yes, Les Mis was originally pitched as a French discotheque-inspired concept album in 1980)

Whatever level of disco you're imagining is not enough. Trust me.

[veryfastnighuncatchable]

General Lamarque has been dead for 194 slutty, slutty years

[noise-vs-signal]

“Mirror Door” (2023)

[dailynarnia]

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

[helloitsbees]

happy pride month to this post specifically

[judith-beheading-holofernes]

Sforza Hours. Milan, circa 1490; Flemish insertions, 1517-1520

Add. 34294, f.252

British Library

[not100bees]

The thing about Miss Piggy is that she kind of has a Roger Rabbit comedy superpower where she wins nearly any conceivable fight she's in. But unlike other characters of which that's true, like say, Bugs Bunny, who tend to win because they make the opponent play the game with their rules, Miss Piggy wins because the joke is that she can beat the shit out of literally anybody.

[my-dailydreams]

[yesterdaysprint]

Hartford Courant, Connecticut, March 9, 1906

[hamletthedane]

on a fundamental level the War of the Roses was really just the world’s worst discord mod drama playing out during a lull in the conquering france fandom

[hamletthedane]

Love when the sun starts to go down and all my friends all around the world start causing “X is playing Crusader Kings III” notifications to pop up in the corner of my screen

[autophage]

You make soup in a big bowl. You serve it in a smaller bowl. And then you convey it, using a spoon, to your mouth. But what is the spoon? Simply a smaller bowl still

[bibaleen]

[hamletthedane]

“This looks not like a nuptial” is my favorite line in all of Shakespeare cause like….yeah dude. Your best friend is screaming at his innocent fiancée, accusing her of cheating and demanding that her father disown her and break the engagement. The fiancée is fainting from an apparent heart attack and your girlfriend is sobbing and demanding that you challenge your best friend to a duel. What clued you in that this wedding might not be going well???

[hamletthedane]

Honestly it’s tragic we don’t have a stage direction for Beatrice’s reaction to that line, because I image it would be something like

[hamletthedane]

“This looks not like a nuptial” is my favorite line in all of Shakespeare cause like….yeah dude. Your best friend is screaming at his innocent fiancée, accusing her of cheating and demanding that her father disown her and break the engagement. The fiancée is fainting from an apparent heart attack and your girlfriend is sobbing and demanding that you challenge your best friend to a duel. What clued you in that this wedding might not be going well???

[rpfofficial]

levels of mutualship :

the closest thing to real soulmates you can find

we fought in the same trenches and have a warrior's bond that carries over into every stage of life

friend i sit next to in every class and pass notes to/whisper to constantly

academic peer/colleague that i respect and have a little intellectual crush on

neighbour in the same apartment block that i say hi to on the stairs

neighbour across the street who i wave at every morning and evening

we're regulars at the same bar

i can't even remember who you are but if you weren't here there would be something fundamental missing

[canid-sys]

which mutual is prev?

the closest thing to real soulmates you can find

we fought in the same trenches and have a warrior’s bond

friend i sit next to in every class and pass notes to constantly

my little intellectual crush

neighbor in the same apartment blog that i say hi to on the stairs

neighbor across the street who i wave to every morning and evening

we’re regulars at the same bar

i can’t even remember who you are but you’re fundamentally important

nuance/prev is bald/tags

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