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Z. 34. Californian. Teacher. Writer. Anti-MAGA. (side art on webpage by Jeff Pittman and background art on app by me)

[tokyoproxy]

京都 // Kyoto, Japan

[maidthings]

i wish the world was kinder to women

[rosieandthemoon]

From the Ballet De La Nuit

[myfairynuffstuff]

Erika Toliusis (b.1969) - Pacific Angel. 2022. Oil with palette knife on canvas.

[probuccalfat]

being a bitch actually saves you a lot of time

[nevver]

Summer constellations, Eli McMullen

[greengableslover]

CRIMSON PEAK (2015) dir. Guillermo del Toro Costume Design by Kate Hawley

[greengableslover]

THE FALL (2006) dir. Tarsem Singh

[sexchangedotcom]

the internet is a place for reading wikipedia articles and watching every movie for free. social media is an invasive species. never forget this

[byjove]

People were so messy in the past. I’ve been studying Alaskan newspaper archives and I just stumbled across the record of a man who abandoned his family in Washington around 1905 and lived another 30 years in a cabin along the Yukon River in Alaska with them assuming he had died around the time he left for Alaska. Dude was just sitting in a cabin in the middle of nowhere for 30 years avoiding his wife and 4 kids. No divorce, no gold panning money mailed home. And his wife didn’t even divorce him for abandonment or have him declared dead for insurance purposes. So curious if he was like “This isn’t working out, I’m going somewhere far away.” and she was like “Alright, understood.” or if he left and she couldn’t be arsed to deal with the paperwork.

[hiskidsarerunning]

Me with my “volume should be turned down” notifications

[mememuseumofhistory]

[earthanthem]

(via Home)

[hiskidsarerunning]

I dunno if this is how it is in the comics, but I appreciate how Lex Luthor isn’t a clear cut villain. In a lot of stories it’s very clear that the villain is the villain because they’re always doing only bad things. But for Smallville to start off Lux Luthor and Clark Kent as friends and then show his origin story, gradual change, and occasional fluctuation, shows the audience something that we couldn’t imagine in superhero lore: Clark Kent constantly saves his friend and vice versa despite them having different end goals (Lex Luthor wanting power and hurting people to get it and Clark Kent wanting to do the right thing and help people). A lot of people think that being a hero is just about saving us from the “bad guys,” but it can be about doing the right thing even when the right thing is harder to do (like repeatedly helping someone who wronged you because your belief in justice is greater).

[in-libris-liberta-s-deactivated]

Just finished hamlet & had to share THIS

[iamnmbr3]

btw this is literally what goes down. it’s great. 

[petermorwood]

Hamlet’s long speech there is a blizzard of musical puns.

Analysing “Hamlet” and other Elizabethan / Jacobean dramas was part of my degree course, and one of my tutors (Brian Rothwell RIP) was also heavily into dramatics, so he taught the plays as Plays as well as Literature. It brought the bits of “action” (actors interacting with props) into much sharper focus than any study which just looked at the words.

This post of mine from 5 years ago shows what Brian had in mind. It also points out that while the “flute” (actually a recorder) may appear out of nowhere in some productions, IN THE PLAY Hamlet grabbed it from one of the Players.

Shakespeare specifically calls for a recorder so that’s a deliberate choice; recorders are very simple to play (by primary-school kids, for instance) which is something the audience would have known, and it helps Hamlet drive home his point.

Remembering to mention where the prop came from, and name it as a specific instrument, also shows that Shakespeare had better continuity sense than some modern multi-million-dollar blockbusters.

I’m thinking of a recent bit of over-budget nonsense where - IIRC - a character carrying a flaming torch had a lantern in the next scene and then the flaming torch again. (Not checking to see if I’m right; watching that thing once was enough.)

*****

My post includes (I’ve checked, they still work) a couple of YouTube links to the scene - lines in OP - from the David Tennant “Hamlet” showing Will Shakespeare stretching his music metaphors until the strings squeaked and the pipe could play no higher.

Great stuff, and in many respects as clear today as when it was first performed!

[johannestevans]

Watched a documentary about abuse and advice one guy said to give children was, "Tell them that if someone is hurting them, to tell someone - and don't just tell one person. Tell as many people as possible, and keep telling as many people as possible until the abuse stops." and i really liked that

Bc so many ppl focus on the idea of telling A Trusted Adult, but even a well-meaning individual can fuck up and let abuse fall through the cracks or not know what to do

Whereas if a child tells LOADS of adults AND other kids, there's far less opportunity for an abuser to do damage control

Consistently telling their story and spreading it around disempowers the abuser to control and coerce the flow of information, or to utilise gaps and weaknesses in systems of reporting or welfare to isolate the child

Just really good advice. Not suprised I don't hear it more often.

[flowercrowncrip]

This is really good advice and, in the UK at least, also applies to “adults at risk” as well. It’s what I did when I had problems with my social care provider that amounted to a safeguarding concern earlier this year.

If your school safeguarding lead, youth worker, scout leader, neighbour, doctors surgery, local citizens advice office etc. all make referrals and follow up on them to make sure they’ve been received and taken seriously then it’s more likely that it will be taken seriously and that action will happen.

[spinmeround]

Choy Moo Kheong. 'Blue Whispering Day.'