~anna~

a side blog to yodel about history and literature and stuff.

[lucienff]

no bro YOU live in a society, I live in a homoerotic renaissance inspired painting of a half nude young boy with curly hair and melancholic eyes sensually caressing some fruit

[babewithluv]

achilles took “drag him” a little far

[sirensorisons]

[koobaxion-deactivated20220403]

[grizzlyadventures]

[thoodleoo]

zeus during the judgment of paris

[charlesoberonn]

Social media is wonderful because it let the common folk enjoy endless posturing, making of enemies, and flaunting of wealth and romantic prospects. All of which was previously reserved for the aristocracy.

[charlesoberonn]

What's the difference between posting a selfie at the gym knowing your highschool bully will see it and showing up to the archduke's ball with a new silk gown from Italy to oneup Janet of Salisbury?

[feanor-the-dragon]

The hottest take

[wineandphilosopia]

Fellas, is it gay to have your ashes mixed with the man who was your lifelong companion and whose death during the Trojan War resulted in a raging killing spree and your ultimate demise? Asking for a friend.

[terpsikeraunos]

who hasn’t fantasized about illuminating manuscripts by candlelight in a medieval scriptorium tbh

[mjalti]

I love reading books cuz for a couple hundred pages, all these goddamn problems aren’t mine to deal with HA! this must be what God feels like

[annabelle--cane]

I’ve seen the “get thee to a nunnery” scene done where hamlet has no idea he’s being spied on and just goes off on ophelia because he’s hangry. I’ve seen the “get thee to a nunnery” scene done where hamlet knows he’s being watched from the start and the whole thing’s an act. I’ve seen the “get thee to a nunnery” scene done where hamlet figures out he’s being watched half way through and gets super mad at ophelia for betraying him. now I want to see the “get thee to a nunnery” scene done where ophelia covertly nods at where polonius and claudius are hiding, hamlet gets the idea, and they’re both in on the performance the whole time. I want classically trained shakespearean actors to give us their best best show of bad acting. I want ophelia to mouth some of the most cutting lines to hamlet before he says them. I want hamlet to frown exaggeratedly at her and for her to take this as a cue to start crying. I want hamlet to go grab her by the wrist, her to wince, and him to automatically loosen his grip. I want them to stage hamlet dragging her around by the ear using classic stage-fight techniques. I want them to be aggressively in cahoots with one another because they know each of their bastard father-figures are watching. 

I want this for the lols of seeing them trying to fake-fight on the spot, to give ophelia more to do than just be the victim, and so it never crosses ophelia’s mind that hamlet’s actually losing it a little bit.

that is, until she hears how her father died.

[animatedamerican]

Oh my GOD.

…

OPHELIA [talking just a bit too loudly and clearly] Good my lord, How does your honour for this many a day?

HAMLET [distracted, not quite getting it yet] I humbly thank you; well, well, well.

OPHELIA [even louder, pointedly so] My lord, I have remembrances of yours, That I have longed long to re-deliver; I pray you, now receive them.

HAMLET [caught off guard and genuinely perplexed] No, not I; I never gave you aught.

OPHELIA [exasperated silent sigh, meaningful stare] My honour’d lord, you know right well you did; And, with them, words of so sweet breath composed As made the things more rich: their perfume lost, Take these again; for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. [in an undertone, gesturing with her head to where her father and his uncle are hiding:] There, my lord.

HAMLET [after a second or two of silent realization, loud and theatrical] Ha, ha! are you honest?

OPHELIA [exaggeratedly startled] My lord?

… and so on. 

[aprilslady]

You’re a genius

[hxasinthus]

“Hamlet and Horatio were in love,” I say into the mic.

The crowd boos. I start to walk off the stage in shame when someone calls out, “She’s right.”

I turn around. There, standing in the third row, is Shakespeare himself.

[disgoth-deactivated20180319]

yeah im lgbt: Loud Goth Bitchy Teen

[suits-of-woe]

hamlet ghostwrote this post

[lonelyhum]

don’t you just love the original text of hamlet

[valtsv]

hamlet au where claudius tries to murder hamlet sr by pouring poison in his ear but hamlet sr has airpods in and they block the poison so he doesn't die

i cant decide if i want to high-five you or block you for this

[hungwy]

I wish I could terrorize ancient people with things that are commonplace today

[despazito]

releasing a roomba into the greek forums

[dykenstein-archive]

The very foundation of gothic literature is built on the existence of himbos

[hamletboner]

oh you "love literature" but you dont want to fuck frankenstein's monster??

[an-amateur-roman]

AU where the odyssey takes place entirely in ikea