my fictional reality

WARNING: current obsessions change on a regular basis!! -- theater // movies & TV // classic Hollywood // anything vintage // photography // art & literature // everything dance // everything wrestling // a lot of coffee // a little fashion

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from a letter featured in Letters of Fyodor Michailovitch Dostoevsky to his Family & Friends

[viewtiful-kim-deactivated202105]

Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube

[animatedamerican]

… I am unironically here for this

[oldfilmsflicker]

this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

[kabesattic]

This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, he’s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, they’re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but they’re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewer’s lived experience. They’re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?

Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.

So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.

[spicedtealeaves]

A post about this went round recently, and I’m delighted to announce she’s since come out as trans and goes by Jasmine 🏳️‍⚧️

Jasmine Brimsmayd

Actor and Writer

There’s a whole series of the Hamlet videos on her YouTube, as well as a bunch of other films she’s made

[world-of-wales]

YOU TELL THEM, WILLS ♡

𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒, Patron of the Football Association & the Welsh Rugby Union, using the Fourth of July eve to teach Americans very very important life lessons | 3 JULY 2026

[wetheurban]

May you internalize that it is a privilege to know you, to love you, and to have access to the version of you that you've fought so hard to become.

[midnightinshadow]

[shisasan]

So hot yesterday—so hot, June 28, 1932 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941) originally published: 1953

[landsccape]

[frostedmagnolias]

Embroidered net and satin dress with roses

c. 1918-1922

Pale pink satin dress with net overskirt trimmed with satin roses and blue ribbons. Made by dressmaker Helen Gjertson, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Minnesota Historical Society

[museiums]

artist: ana clerici

[lightnessandbeauty]

(of unknown provenance)

[lacetulle]

Zuhair Murad | Spring/Summer 2026 Couture

[makinginfinity]

[metrocentric]

Osaka

[maldeveloped]

[oysters-aint-for-me]

i keep getting this instagram ad for what i assume is a romantasy novel that begins w the phrase “imagine knowing your destiny in life…is to die” n it’s pissing me off SO BAD. everyone’s destiny in life is to die. that’s like. kind of the main one.

[haus-plant]

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

anyone would be lucky to get the opportunity to love me + to be loved by me