When there's a Will, there's a way!

Shakespeare and company- or rather Shakespeare in the company of Middle Earth, pretty pictures, random stuff and the occaisional musical, and some bits of literature!

[paulfrankjuliusthemonkey]

anyway. onto better things

[sburbling]

onto better things thursday

[vintage-tigre]

[janeeyreofmanderley]

Plan a day in Middle Earth

Spin this wheel to pick someone to spend the day with:

Wheel of Names

Enter names, spin wheel to pick a random winner. Customize look and feel, save and share wheels.

Now that's done pick an activity you will do with them:

Wheel of Names

Enter names, spin wheel to pick a random winner. Customize look and feel, save and share wheels.

How's your day?

Best. Day. Ever!

That sounds fun!

I can make it work.

Well it's ok.

Not great, but will get through it.

Oh no.

Are you kidding me?

Why does the universe hate me?

Remaining time: 2 days 15 hours

[losthavenmine]

The Secret Garden (1993)

[florencemachines]

Spring in movies:

The Secret Garden (1993) filmed mainly in Yorkshire, England (Allerton House, Fountains Hall and  Luton Hoo). The garden was built from scratch at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.

[scrambler]

Harvest mouse on a dandelion by Dean Mason.

[rabbitindisguise]

Y'know it did not occur to me that dandelion seeds were edible, but I guess if you're that small it's even bigger than sunflower seed sized

[erdariel]

@camille-lachenille not an otter but you need to see this bc i mean look at it!!!! look at the lil guy!!!

[camille-lachenille]

Awwwwww, lil guy so lil it can snack on a dandelion! 🥹🥹🥹🥹💜💜💜💜

[janeeyreofmanderley]

Plan a day in Middle Earth

Spin this wheel to pick someone to spend the day with:

Wheel of Names

Enter names, spin wheel to pick a random winner. Customize look and feel, save and share wheels.

Now that's done pick an activity you will do with them:

Wheel of Names

Enter names, spin wheel to pick a random winner. Customize look and feel, save and share wheels.

How's your day?

Best. Day. Ever!

That sounds fun!

I can make it work.

Well it's ok.

Not great, but will get through it.

Oh no.

Are you kidding me?

Why does the universe hate me?

Remaining time: 2 days 15 hours

[janeeyreofmanderley]

Feel really bad about an interaction with a teenager I had today. She mentioned she was now taking special classes to get her a levels. She never went to the kind of school that preps you for university over here (Germany) but realised she wanted to study after all which is great I think and I have mad respect for her efforts.

I asked her what she would like to study.

History. She wants to study ancient history (so far no knowledge of Greek or Latin) and become a curator of a museum.

I mean I love the idea! But also I had a bunch of friends who studied history hopibg to become curators. One is now organising office team events, one works at the supermarket, one is taking extra classes to become a teacher though she hates teaching, one has a 30% job at a publisher and had to move back in with his parents cause he can't afford rent.

All of them had good degrees, one even a spectacular one and a phd. but there are no jobs. not wihtout connections.

So I told her that. I stressed how absolutely cool I thought the idea was and I wish she would be able to do it, but begged her to cconsider planning in a way that leaves her wiht more hopeful job prospects.

It felt aweful. she was so disppointed but seems to take it to heart.

I don#t want that I want people to study what they are passionate about- so not sure should i have said sth? Her family has no academia experience so I thought she shoudl get the perspective but it feels bad.

[janeeyreofmanderley]

The human embodiment of the experience of team work

[minty86823]

子アヒルたちの水遊び

Ducklings Playing the River

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

It really is!

[granadabrettishholmes]

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes for Granada Television also known as 

“Granada Holmes”

[goosefleshthevampire-deactivate]

The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien as illustrated by Tove Jansson, creator of the Moomins

[english-history-trip]

My dad got a book about Michelangelo for Christmas and he is sharing Important Art History, so I thought I'd pass it along.

So Michelangelo was commissioned to paint a wall commemorating the Battle of Cascina (what this is isn't important), but Michelangelo never did it, because fuck painting. He did draw a plan for it, but he chose a particularly Michelangelo scene to paint. He chose to commemorate the battle with an image of the soldiers startled while bathing in the river, thereby tempering his distaste for painting with his love of man butts.

This wasn't the only time he pulled this. He was later commissioned to paint an image of the Holy Family, but damned if he wasn't gonna put some naked guys in there.

Basically, Michelangelo really was the guy from this tweet:

[english-history-trip]

Hey apropos of nothing, you know the line in the Bible where God is like "Moses, I shall let my goodness pass before you, and you shall see my back"

[drumroll]

God got Back.

[pourpasserlamelancholie]

Reblogging because of Michelangelo’s obvious priorities :-D

[janeeyreofmanderley]

On that note when asked to make a sculpture of the risen Christ he …. Well let’s just say the loincloth is a later addition by another artist.

However! If you need to see Jesus naked for research you can apply at the Vatican and if they consider your need for naked Jesus valid the loincloth will be removed for your academic perusal.

Honestly I am more interested in how you successfully apply to see Jesus naked than in actually seeing him naked.

[sophsun1]

Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) dir. Karl Geurs

[janeeyreofmanderley]

ohhhh I loved that flower valley!

[catchymemes]

[classicalcanvas]

Weeping Willow (1919) by Claude Monet