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

[hamletthedane]

Okay somebody go get Joan of Arc

[hamletthedane]

Odysseus 🤝 Hamlet 🤝 REALLY not wanting to be the main character

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

mistborn experience so far:

book 1: wow this is so cool wait are they EATING mETAL? oh my god they just killed god

book 2: elend is kind of annoying me but i wouldn't be handling this any better. oh wow we have once again killed what is seemingly the main villain part way through the book. oh wow i don't actually think the voice in his head was fake after all. maybe the stories *were* all true. oh wow that was definitely *not* just a voice in his head and none! of the stories were true

book 3: a ghost is quite possibly maybe alive and also woaaaah theeeee unintentional unreliable narrators ever, nothing is true nothing is true nothing is--

[hamletthedane]

Cosmere fans watching new cult recruits readers descend into madness as Mistborn continues to subvert their expectations in the most interesting ways that still come together perfectly:

[likeniobe]

career

[dogpuppy]

[hamletthedane]

[hamletthedane]

[gemikanxiii]

✨️witchcraft✨️

This is how Fiyero turned into a hamster btw. 😆🌰🐹✨️

Rest assured, that dork is exactly where he wants to be. 😌🫶

I know the animation is wonky but I lost patience. I really have to practice more. 😅💖

🎵 W.I.T.C.H. by Devon Cole

[hamletthedane]

Kit Marlowe was really out there in 1590 like ‘‘be gay do crimes spy for the queen pretend to be catholic for the aesthetic flirt with william shakespeare write iconic gay stage play about banging the devil call yourself Merlin get arrested for your jesus slash fanfic collection die in a bar fight at age 29”

[hamletthedane]

[hamletthedane]

FAUSTOPHELES FOREVER 🤘

FAUSTOPHELES FOR LIFE

[parkchanwoohoo]

[divorcedwife]

need

[enki2]

[gatto-italiano]

Americans doing fascism Americanly: What is this, soviet russia?

[a-method-in-it]

I am frankly sick to death of this lens being applied to things all the time. I think it started from a good place --- Americans should be able to recognize bad things are bad without knowing that The Bad Thing also happened in Places Americans Think Are Bad. That's a dumb worldview. Stipulated.

But it has very quickly morphed into making fun of people any time an American draws a connection between our current regime and other examples of authoritarian governments. And like. Guys.

Learning from history is good. Seeing commonalities between your circumstances and the circumstances of people from other places is good.

Do you genuinely want Americans to treat our country as some exceptional land where there are no parallels to be drawn with other places?

Are you so ignorant of history that nothing going on around you ever reminds you of things you've learned about other times and places?

This is like that time on Twitter I watched someone quote Marjane Satrapi's iconic line about how ordinary Americans have more in common with ordinary Iranians than either of us do with our governments --- a thing this person was quoting in order to express support for Iranians being fucked over by US foreign policy --- and someone else responded by questioning their right as a white American man to claim to have things in common with Iranians.

Fuck that.

It's rad as fuck to learn about the jokes that carried other people through their dark times. I hope someday someone going through their own dark times learns about the jokes that bounce around my groupchats on any given day and thinks "That's sounds just like OUR nascent fascist regime!"

It's rad as fuck to see your own circumstances reflected back across time and across borders. It's rad as fuck to situate yourself as part of an endless human tapestry, with a history that doesn't repeat, exactly, but definitely rhymes.

And if you aren't interested in learning that history or applying its lessons to our own lives, then at least stop making fun of the people who are.

[dilutedh2so4]

Penthesilea and her Amazons, illustrated by Alan Lee for Rosemary Sutcliff's Black Ships Before Troy.

[girl-blorbo-polls]

If you were handcuffed to your girl blorbo with magical unbreakable handcuffs for 24h, would you be okay with this?

I trust her, I’ll be fine

I trust her, but it’ll be a stressful 24h

It depends on what kind of day we’re having

This is gonna suck…

Other/nuance

Voting ended on3h

[amnesiaguy]

best m/f dynamic is a flamboyant bisexual show-off desperately in love with an extremely practical girl who’s difficult to impress 🤩

[varijacija]

[perriaeyjeve]