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27 | she/they | shakespeare and literature posting. basil hallward did nothing wrong.

[therealscraft]

Where the FUCK are all the horatio fans. give my boy some love

[queer-benoit-blanc]

need tumblr to know that this year is the 1069th anniversary of the assassination of julius caesar, not last year. people joked about it last year but it's this year. tumblr please

[fluentisonus]

me reading one of the most famous books ever written: do people know about this book. do they know.

[anvael]

[casgirl]

the thing is i actually am pro adaptations being like weird and anachronistic and based on like the feelings and ideas that the source material evoke rather than being a faithful 1:1 historically accurate rendition. that's not my problem my problem is that emerald fennell is doing it and she's doing it badly. with white heathcliff.

[hercorrupterofwords]

happy twelfth night everybody, remember to celebrate by: experiencing a shipwreck; crossdressing; entering a gay love triangle; duelling with swords; getting your identity horribly mistaken or just wearing some yellow stockings

[louisegluckpdf]

oh i know the 19th century literature girlies were gagged at this

[mephistopheles]

all this praise for female actors who have been hamlet onstage. well. what about the praise for ME. who has been hamlet so many times. inside my head

[arkham]

"they should teach media literacy in schools" english class "they should teach students how to spot misinformation" it's english class "they should teach kids critical thinking" it's called english class

[san-sebastienne]

Dashiell Hammett, who basically invented the noir genre (think: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man) hung out enough in the queer scene in San Francisco in the 20s-30s that he picked up some contemporary queer lingo that he folded into his stories. In The Maltese Falcon, there’s a scene where the wildly gay-coded villain shows up at a meeting with a skinny little blonde with a bad attitude and a gun in tow, and detective Sam Spade tells him to “leave the gunsel outside” — gunsel being contemporary gay slang for a young, effeminate man who probably bottoms (from the Yiddish gansl, meaning gosling). Basically, he’s saying “I’m here to talk to you, not your twink.”

However, a lot of writers mimicking Hammett did not know gay lingo or Yiddish, saw the word “gun,” and assumed “gunsel” meant “scary bodyguard with a gun.” They took off with a word they didn’t understand and spread it so fast that it’s now basically impossible to read a noir story written between 1930-1960 without someone accidentally being called a twink at least once. Look out for it next time you’re reading Raymond Chandler or his ilk, I guarantee you’ll find it.

[thelovingend-deactivated2025073]

Believe women

[negatinginfinity-deactivated201]

[itbeslikethat]

THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING!!

[theweight]

when something has obvious influences and references other things and i like it then it is intelligently intertextual. when something has obvious influences and references other things and i dont like it then it is derivative

[hellcatsandcars]

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

imagining an alternate timeline where shakespeare wrote a play about king arthur. we would be so unwell

[william-shakespeare-official]

yeah cause thou art so well otherwise, tumblr user currently crying about Lancelot

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

you know what verily i deserv’d this

[doctorcurdlejr]

Donna tartt wrote these gay guys so well because she did participatory field research asa gay man

[berrytart]

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[kineticpenguin]

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

[yourunderwaterskies]

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

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For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

[aloeverawrites]

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

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[segamascott]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I'm so glad that machinima is alive and well