...never doubt I love.

[academic-vampire]

𝔰𝔭𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔱𝔯𝔶𝔰𝔦𝔡𝔢

[marcuscrassus]

John William Waterhouse - The Decameron

[academeia]

jessica pineda

[realwilliamshakespeare]

who up suffering the slings and arrows of they outrageous fortune

[unfuckablebogtroll]

Anyway Jessie Buckley better be getting flowers come awards season cause damn. The way she screamed when Hamnet died made me want to actually throw up from the squirming shocking visceral horror. Like how dos anybody survive that? But people did, people do, people will. And then the end when the play overcomes her and you feel how Shakespeare made their poor lost mortal son something eternal… chills.

[allthishumanityforfree]

[a7estrellas]

PAUL MESCAL & JESSIE BUCKLEY HAMNET (2025) dir. Chloé Zhao

[justaverysmallbird]

i was thinking about lady macbeth again (as one does) when i realized it’s possible that her hands actually ARE bloody from all the washing making them dry and cracked, or even from actually scrubbing the skin off in places.

her frantic attempts to make herself clean are only harming her, but when she looks down at the bleeding wounds, all she sees is sin. so she washes them again, stopping them from scabbing over and healing. is that anything

[c0ff33-and-tv]

Tomorrow? like the thing that killed Macbeth?

[inversedlines]

[toughcookie01]

They said: "time heals" but dostoevsky said, "one never forgets the taste of certain tears."

[perriaeyjeve]

[bethanydelleman]

I was talking about a historical male author I dislike because I found his works misogynistic and the person said, "Oh, well I suppose you don't read Shakespeare either." and I was like, "Shakespeare? SHAKESPEARE?!?! Of course I read Shakespeare, that man loved women."

Shakespeare wrote a wide variety of fleshed out female characters. He wrote Damsels in Distress, Cross-dressing Girlbosses, and Complex Female Villains. He wrote a woman who refused to sell her virtue to save her family and then shamed her brother for suggesting it. He wrote Taming of the Shrew and it's opposite, All's Well that Ends Well, in which the wife hunts down and tames the husband. He wrote men who are good because they listen to, trust, and defend women. He wrote women of all kinds. He wrote women who drive the plot and women doomed by the narrative. He wrote women in love and women who pathetically follow a man who doesn't like them and women in hatred. He wrote sensible women and silly women and everything in between of all ages.

I wish modern authors could write women as well as he did.

[nostalgayz]

Ophelia by Friedrich Heyser (1900)

The Fate of Ophelia by Taylor Swift (2025)

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Thinking about Romeo killing himself through poison (more passive, "woman's weapon) Vs Juliet having to kill herself with a knife (more active, images of falling on your sword, typically masculine concepts)

[c0ff33-and-tv]

Tomorrow? like the thing that killed Macbeth?

[shisasan]

October 14, 1925 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 2]