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Hi I'm Lucas. A Barely functioning adult. 25 Feels like 12-14 Slytherin. Rattle Snake Patronus. Australian. If you want to know anything else just come ask :) Currently Reading: Black Tie by Kieran Strange

[kylieogre]

[shangchidaily]

The Women of SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS (2021) dir. Destin Daniel Cretton

[booksquoteslife]

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”

— Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

[thefallenbibliophilequote]

Y'know what, fuck this bullshit. I need to know y'all are actually against it.

Reblog this if you will NOT use or support Post+.

I hope to make @staff see how that is total bullshit. Tumblr will die without writers/creators.

[katiedingo]

I won’t be using Post+ for my 300 followers, not because 250+ of them are probably porn bots despite repeated calls over the years for tumblr to do something about the bots, blocking and blah blah blah, but because I have no need to monetise something I do for joy and not for income. I also don’t want to be sued, so ffs, don’t use or support Post+ for fandom work. And if you’re creating original content, use a better site that pays you more, please!

[anexperimentallife]

[catgirlcaliphate]

Congratulations to Definitely Craig on being the funniest person alive.

[la-d7]

no one supports you like an internet friend you never met

[pillowprincesslexa]

Europe is currently being burned alive and people still think climate change is a joke. It’s warmer in North Europe than in the middle eastern deserts.

Nearly all northern countries broke their decades old heat records this week.

[frogs-smoking-cigarettes]

Its only in the low hundreds in farenheit??? In America we get that for like a month or two straight every year??? Y'all need to deal is it really normally so cold over there that yall can live with a little heat???

[pillowprincesslexa]

If you’re gonna have an ignorant American attitude then please only stay on American posts. No one in North Europe has an AC in their houses. Stores, animal shelters, elderly houses, no one has AC. the houses are designed to keep the heat in. The people are not accustomed to the heat. A sudden climate shift like this is extremely dangerous to older people and babies specifically.

There are programs being run to inform elderly people what to do to not die in this heat. There was a heatwave in the Netherlands in 2010 in which approximately 500 more elderly people passed away than normally.

[adhoption]

One thing people don’t often appreciate is that the southern US states are along the same latitude as the Middle Eastern deserts, rather than northern Europe. We’re not competing with Texas, we’re competing with northern Canada. If Saskatoon can’t handle Mexican weather, London can’t handle Middle-Eastern weather. It’s not built for it at all.

[toebeens]

very helpful and informative graphic

[scientistclone]

German, gotta add: we have floods that kill hundreds of people; the amounts of elderly and kids/infants dying per year increases; we don’t have AC systems built into our houses; our houses in general AREN’T FUCKING CARDBOARD BOXES BUT ISOLATED SOLID FUCKING BRICK BUILDINGS; our animals are dying; our forests are dying; more avalanches in the winter, but shorter winter seasons; our median heat is rising and WE CAN’T KEEP UP with the changes; Also: if you wanna use public transport to get to work, have fun getting fried alive. So, fuck everyone who makes fun of Europeans fearing for their fucking livelihoods, you goddamn ignorant America-centric cunts!

[the-knights-who-say-book]

SGKSGKSGK MA’AM

[coolcurrybooks-deactivated20230]

1) This is hilarious

2) Her work is all really awesome! And she’s got a ton of short stories available for free online. Some of my favorites:

“Bluebeard’s Wife” -- what would happen if a woman Bluebeard married just didn’t look in the room?

“The Dryad’s Shoe” -- an aroace Cinderella who has zero interest in the ball or the prince but does love gardening

“Jackalope Wives” -- takes the skinshifting conceit of selkies and applies it to jackalopes (folkloric horned rabbits) in the American Southwest. Also stars the absolutely iconic Grandma Harken, whose left to clean up the mess when her grandson tries to catch himself a jackalope wife. This one won a bunch of awards and there’s an audio version read by LeVar Burton.

“Sun Moon Dust” -- a young farmer inherits a sword bound to the souls of three warriors, all ready to teach him to be a hero... but he has no desire to be anything but a farmer. A very sweet M/M story!

The rest of her free fiction is linked to on her site. She’s also got some great novellas and novels, including a f/f “Snow Queen” retelling!

[friendlyfrankenstein]

She also did a fantastic short form, since completed podcast (voiced by her husband and her) called The Hidden Almanac. Its like a local radio show set in an alternate universe, run by a charmingly monotone plague doctor named Reverend Mord that covers saints, history, the garden, the standing stone in the frog garden, the disastrous leyline building project, his overly chipper friend Pastor Draum (miracle worker) and occasionally grows a plot. It also has George the Crow (who shows up in abooout 2014). George is an EXCELLENT crow. 

If I recall correctly, it started because she got annoyed by people calling Welcome to Nightvale ‘eldritch NPR’ because she LIKED  Nightvale but it WASN’T Eldritch NPR, so then she just... kinda wrote eldritch NPR. It’s wonderful, I recommend it to people constantly. It’s also finished, and each episode is only like. 4 minutes long, including the Brought To You By Red Wombat Teas and Other Dubious Fictional Sponsors bit. 

Also when it comes to novels I have to highly recommend her outright horror, The Twisted Ones and The Hollow Places, but tbh everything she writes is a LITTLE horror, contains at least one corpse, and is wickedly funny and human in places. 

Also if you have any morbid 10-14 year olds about get a copy of A Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking in their hands, and if you were one yourself, pick it up too. Its got death and a living sourdough starter familiar, and is a thing of glory. 

[ieg]

[teashoesandhair]

Nothing says 'vicious hunter' quite like loudly watching a pigeon from the comfy vantage point of a sofa and hitting yourself in the eyeball repeatedly with your own tail

[teashoesandhair]

Simply devastated that this now has 13,000 notes and no-one knows that my little idiot cat is named Poo

[sayten-the-hellspawn]

We stan Poo

[teashoesandhair]

Poo is grateful for her legion of adoring fans

[theartofanimation]

Gabriele Pennacchioli  -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriele-pennacchioli-6251472  -  http://pennacchioli.tumblr.com  -  https://www.instagram.com/gabrielepennacchioli  -  https://www.facebook.com/gabriele.pennacchioli  -  https://vimeo.com/user17473475

[deathcomes4u]

I fucking love this.

Not only because hell yeah fat girl heroes and awesomely executed art and animation

But also because I know there are hundreds of assholes SEETHING over it

Everything about these pictures is PERFECTION.

[thisclockworkheart]

I love how there are people who are pissed off about the depiction of *fictional* fat people being active. These aren’t even real people, but the very idea of a fat person being active (or you know, living while being fat) and being depicted in a positive light is enough to bother some? 

Please.

These are beautiful and skilfully done. The ugliness of those others has no place here. 

[oh-for-fic-sake]

These are awesome! Even if the skipping and running ones make my titties hurt 🥺🥺

[butchhamlet]

macbeth is shakespeare’s funniest tragedy and mr. macbeth is the funniest character in macbeth. he listens to these creepy old women tell him he’s gonna be king and IMMEDIATELY decides the only thing he can POSSIBLY do is kill a guy and then he waffles about it for a full act and finally comes to the conclusion that it’s morally wrong and then HE DOES IT ANYWAY and his entire fucking life falls apart with an inevitability that is genuinely hilarious

[butchhamlet]

the other exceedingly funny thing is that he doesn’t even cover his ass that well like??? sure the morning right after the murder he gets away with it but even then he almost straight fucks it by killing the guys he framed. and then within a few months everyone in scotland independently comes to the conclusion that he did it ANYWAY because like. WHO else would it have been

[butchhamlet]

funniest moments in macbeth:

“o? by whom?” (a classic)

“what, you egg” (also a classic)

“twas a rough night”

macduff telling lady macbeth he can’t say what happened because she’s a woman and then spinning around and IMMEDIATELY telling banquo within FULL earshot of ladymac

“that i did… kill them… 👉👈”

macbeth giving the whole “blood will have blood” speech and then going “…….what time is it”

the witches, whom we’ve just seen making a potion of baby parts, saying “something wicked” about macbeth. your king steps onto the scene and these literal actual witches go “oh, bitch? a bitch?”

malcolm’s I Fuck Too Much Speech

and then. when he takes it back. he says “why are you silent?” which implies macduff is just. sitting there.

“take thy face hence”

macbeth absolutely wrecking young siward’s shit and then just going “thou wast born of woman” to his corpse

[butchhamlet]

in honor of this post getting an absurd and terrifying amount of notes here are my favorite tags

also, for those of you asking to see macbeth as a dark comedy: i haven’t seen a production specifically billed as such but definitely the funniest macbeth i’ve seen is the folger 2008 one which, by the way, is free on youtube! it definitely leans into the horror aspect but it also is just. laugh-out-loud funny sometimes like these actors know how to punctuate their lines to get at that absurd humor! and i’ve watched it twice in like two months

[antique-scarecrow]

was anyone gonna tell me Macbeth was a comedy or was i supposed to read that here myself?

[jenniferrpovey]

Okay, look. There’s something modern readers don’t understand, because definitions have changed.

To us, a comedy is a funny play and a tragedy is a cathartic one.

In Shakespeare’s time, a comedy was a play with a happy ending.

A tragedy was a play with a sad ending.

That is it.

Shakespeare was a comedic writer. All of his plays are funny to some degree and I suspect the man couldn’t write seriously if he tried.

A lot of the time modern troupes miss this and play the tragedies straight. They aren’t supposed to be. They are supposed to be darkly, ironically funny.

Because after all, these plays were written to be performed in inn yards where everyone was drunk. That did not necessarily exclude the actors.

A performance of Macbeth that makes you laugh is an authentic, correct performance. One that understands the basic fact that Shakespeare is more like Taika Waititi than Quentin Tarantino.

[what-hos-there]

@watertightvines?

[watertightvines]

All of this is correct! The production I was in last year purposefully went for laughs on all of those lines. The other two major sources of comedic gold in the play are:

-Lady Macbeth’s deeply extra “Woe, alas! What? In our house???” when she’s trying to play it cool after Duncan’s death. (Honestly, playing Lady Macbeth as Moira Rose for the entirety of 2.4 would be INSPIRED.)

-The Murderers that Macbeth hires both being total dunces and Macbeth just dissing them constantly.

-THE ENTIRE BANQUET SCENE IS STRAIGHT OUT OF A SITCOM. Yes, even the “it will have blood, they say” is darkly hilarious if you time it right. The thanes are all sitting there awkwardly while their king screams at the air and has a deeply Surburban White Couple argument with his wife, and neither he nor she will let them acknowledge that it’s weird, and it’s GREAT.

I remember being told in high school that Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s darkest texts because the Porter is the only comic relief. The Porter scene is the only bit of clowning (which is why I detest the Porter as an audience member no matter how well he’s played—the Clown characters bore me!), but I love situational dark humor, and the text of Macbeth is rife with it.

And that makes the tragedy of it hit much harder! When we see Macbeth be a himbo who is Trying His Best, and Ross and Lennox exchanging Pointed Looks, and Macduff get emails every day, and Lady Macbeth snark at her husband… then it hurts much, much more when Macbeth’ is forsaken in his vulnerability again and again, and Ross and Lennox bring news of atrocities they’re powerless to stop, and Macduff grieves, and Lady Macbeth unravels. Grimdark productions fall flat for me because they deny the characters the humanity the text enables.

The comparison of Shakespeare with Taika Waititi is spot-on, especially for the tragedies and histories. I’ve railed plenty of times about how The Hollow Crown tries so hard to be Dramatic™ that it sucks all the fun and humanity out of the history plays, which in turn sucks out all the pathos because we have literally no reason to care about anybody. Shakespeare’s a delight for actors and directors who bother to put in the work because he gives you a lot to play around with, without the constraint of the lengthy descriptions you find in screenplays and modern stage plays. Macbeth and Richard III are both bloodbaths that will make you upset for the character. They are also morbidly hilarious. Embrace it!

[seoulwave]

To The Americans who Appreciate this: I know it is a repost but it is still relevant.

[luke-is-gay2]

I love this so much

[anachronic-cobra]

The idea of a pregnant couple posting about a gender reveal party only go to "PSYCH IT'S THE OTHER KID" is hilarious and also these are some fantastic parents

[wetheurban]

Instagram.com/wetheurban

[lgbtqreads]

as a nb poc ive always been curious about gender traditions across various cultures and histories, do you or your followers happen to have any books or even, like, academic papers on the subject? (i’m most interested in [southeast] asian traditions but that’s not necessarily accessible due to language barriers.)

Hmm, I don’t know a ton about it, but I do know these two writings exist about (and by) Hijra:

The Truth About Me: a Hijra Life Story by A Revathi (Amz)

Me Hijra, Me Laxmi by Laxmi (Amz)

And I would imagine there is a lot out there about two-spirit people, including this memoir: A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby

Vivek Shraya is another interesting author to check out, though that’s again South Asian, not Southeast Asian. I haven’t come across any books about Bakla, for example, but there must be people who know more here than I do... anyone have recommendations?

[a-bright-ray-of-sunshine]

I hope today is a spectacular day for you, and if it isn't I hope you remember that tomorrow is a new day 💛