helios

lover of cowboys and vampires

[faggothankhill]

i genuineyl think i might die soon i really have no idea what to do anymore i cant even get dressed on my own i can't bathe i cant eat i can barely take my medicine alone

[faggothankhill]

i already have a dumb donation post but i need to be able to get out of here i need to take legal action or hire someone to help me or something. my roommate was supposed to take care of me while i recovered from major surgery because i cant even get out of bed on my own but they got mad at me and have just been leaving me here. i got stuck in a position where i couldnt move or roll over for a full day and i didnt have any food and they didnt come home when i called them. my body was dry heaving trying to throw up but i had listerally nothing in me so it was just horrible painful gagging and gasping and sobbing.

i dont have anything in my bank account anymore and i obviously cant work right now

somebody is already helping me get groceries and occasionally a friend can visit and i really appreciate that but please just share this or help me or something there is so much shit im going to need if i break the lease or want to get out of here once i can movve my leg

p*ypal: [email protected]

c*shapp: $4mutualaidpaypal

picture so people pay attention

[peleiides]

[repost]

pairing: m/m

relationship: enemies (to lovers?)

if interested: message me for my discord

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"You didn't really think breaking into my home would be a good idea, did you?" Faizan chugged down the rest of his drink, red wine in a pretty heavy glass cup, ''I mean, if I wasn't here, you could've surprised me, but you're not exactly silent." Faizan set his cup down, standing from the velvet sofa and pulling his robe closer to himself. Sharp teeth showed over his bottom lip when he smiled.

"Would you like to explain yourself?"

[shakespeaker]

Who are the Anti-Stratfordians?

People who think Shakespeare wasn’t actually Shakespeare, but that ‘Shakespeare’ was a secret pseudonym for someone more important and better educated, like the Earl of Oxford. 

See also: imbeciles.

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

This

[thebookishgurl]

Not to piss anyone off, but why does this matter? The author is literally (and possibly metaphorically) dead.

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

I feel like I have to address this. I tried not to, but I actually think it’s really important. Most of the people who make the argument that ‘Shakespeare wasn’t Shakespeare’ are doing so on the basis that the real William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon simply didn’t have the literary wherewithal to have written what are now the most famous plays in the English (or possibly any) language. They like to argue that because Shakespeare’s family wasn’t particularly wealthy or influential, and that he never got more than the Elizabethan equivalent of a grade school education, he couldn’t possibly be as well-read or as eloquent as the person who wrote Hamlet, or Macbeth, or what have you. 

The reason Stratfordians are so vehemently defensive of Shakespeare as himself is because (a) there’s literally no proof that he wasn’t exactly who we think he was and (b) we believe that it’s entirely possible that a man who was nominally ordinary became the world’s most famous playwright. If you take that away from him, you are doing the world a huge disservice, by reinforcing the idea that in order to have a significant impact on the course of history, you have to be wealthy or politically powerful or socially superior. I for one want to be able to tell any struggling middle school kid with average grades not to give up, because passion is more important than money or power, and he or she could be the next Shakespeare. 

So, that’s why it matters. 

[engrprof]

^^^This^^^

[melusineloriginale]

Yes. All of this. The Oxfordian authorship theory is rooted in classist, elitist attitudes that insist that a glovemaker’s son from Stratford-on-Avon who never left England couldn’t possibly have written 37 plays based simply on extensive reading and a great deal of imagination.

Also they have no conception of what “grammar school” actually means. A grammar school education in the sixteenth century usually included extensive study of rhetoric, philosophy, and history. Ben Jonson claimed that Shakespeare’s Latin was mediocre and his Greek nonexistent, but there were a wide variety of classical texts available in English translation during his lifetime and we can clearly see echoes of those translations in Shakespeare’s works.

Lastly, the Oxfordian theory is rooted in an 18th century forgery popularized by a man named Looney (pronounced Loh-ney, but WHATEVER). The best book I’ve seen on the subject is Contested Will by James Shapiro, which is marvellous and snarky and everyone should read it.

[gnimmish]

It’s the exact same logic that tries to discredit Mary Shelley as the author of Frankentstein, because a particular school of (white, upper class, male) critical thought can’t stand the idea that an eighteen year old girl could have written something so profound that it founded an entirely new literary genre. 

They don’t like being confronted with the fact that great art is not the preserve of the ruling class.

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Also, here’s another reason it matters: Shakespeare populated his plays with characters from all the social strata, from prostitutes to monarchs, and everyone in between.

The view of such people, their attitudes and foibles looks a lot different when you’re looking at them from the same level than if you’re looking down at them from above, with only a vague, abstract, view of what their lives are like.

Therefore, knowing that Shakespeare had come from “common” origins and worked his way into the patronage of King James by the time he retired, gives us a different understanding of his plays, and the history of the time and place in which he wrote them.

[literally-jasmine]

The art history version of “you’d look prettier if you smiled more”

[furbearingbrick]

you know what? fuck this *un-smiles your painting*

[irspoetry]

Laika, 7/20/22

[ierotits]

international people start calling our country aotearoa instead of new zealand challenge

[ierotits]

aotearoa is the te reo name for our country, commonly translated as "land of the long white cloud" as the story goes Kupe was guided to our whenua by following a long white cloud in the sky. new zealand is a name which was forced on us by colonizers who stole our precious land less than 200 years ago. by reverting back to the māori name you are metaphorically giving the land back to the tangata whenua, the people of the land, and we can begin to normalize using the proper names for things that should have always belonged to māori

[ierotits]

heres a link to a good pronunciation, i recommend practicing saying it along to the video. but please remember that even if you cant get it perfect, say it anyway!! its better to try and get it slightly wrong than not try at all

[antimasculist]

shy internet friends who mostly lurk in chats but who you still like know are there are like beautiful deer to me. your presence is comforting and even if i only see you once every week or so its such a beautiful moment when i spot you standing in my backyard eating garbage

[asexualbookbird]

i can always tell when an author has a cat or has lived with cats. cats arent just There, they have a Presence. Characters stop and interact with the cat, and often, if there's danger, it's made very clear that the cat is okay, and i appreciate authors who have cats and put cats into their books so much you have no idea

[progressivepower]

#capitalism

[living-and-awaken]

When I was homeless a while back, I had the cops called on me for dumb shit. One of which, which is absolutely crazy, was when someone gave me money (that I didn’t ask for, he just saw me and asked if I needed anything. I said I was okay and he gave me money for food). They accused me of asking for money and threatened to arrest me for loitering or some shit when I was at a public park when they pulled up. I had to leave with nowhere else to go. I just went to the other park a half mile away lol. But I wouldn’t bother anyone and would mind my own business only for cops to show up saying they got a call. One cop was cool and basically said “fuck the caller” bought me food and told me about possible options. The rest were asshats ready to take me to jail for *checks notes* being alive and not living in a house?

[theconcealedweapon]

And people still think capitalism means small government.

As clearly shown here, capitalism means big government and corporations are in cahoots with each other. Homeless people are criminalized for not generating profits for landlords and banks (and employers in the case of unemployed homeless people).

Housing the homeless is labeled as “big government” but criminalizing the homeless is not. And that’s because anything the government does that benefits the rich is not counted as government. Rich people can rely on government all they want, even to the point of literally criminalizing people’s mere existence, but poor people are told that the tiniest amount of financial assistance will lead to big government and tyranny.

[websitedog]

Holy shit get a load of this thing

Fucking incredible

[thingsstingshouldsing]

@sadhoglet

[sadhoglet]

This is a Kune Kune Pig!!! The name is Maori for "fat fat", or basically, "very chubby". They are a NZ breed of pig that is known for being docile and friendly, and their distinct squashed together stubby body and face, usually with spots but sometimes solid colors, and fluffy hair. The lil things hanging off its chin are called "wattles" or "tassels" and they are vestigial bits that don't do anything. They just look cute and goofy.

[sadclowncentral]

yesterday my date made me promise to "not talk to any random russians this time" only for me to immediately become best friends with a kosovan gang member. saved on a technicality

[sadclowncentral]

after i successfully taught him how to play uno via google translate i explained to him that my date's phone got stolen, prompting both the most threatening AND the most hilarious sentence ever typed into a translator:

[sadclowncentral]

"why did you have to promise that you won't talk to russian people in in first place" because after a certain amount of alcohol i enter a stage of inebriation my friends have dubbed "russian hour" in which the duolingo trained part of my brain takes over and i sniff out russian speaking people like a bloodhound and exitedly talk to them until i am physically dragged away.

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

I enjoy the implication that duolingo training kicks in like a drug-sniffing dog

[dagny-hashtaggart-deactivated20]

Channeling the spirit of The Machine

[darlin-collins]

I just woke up, literally...

Idk how this happened but...

I have questions about shifters that i need answers for

They dont call them werewolfs, they call them shifters... Why??

Is there other kinds of shifters?, vincent said there is when talking about vamps can't turn to bats

Or can shifters shift to other animals??

Is it like elementals?? Where they can shift to one form strongest and other forms are weaker cuz it's not their form??

But if it's like that, why wouldn't they learn to shift to other animals?? Elementals can learn to use other elements

Is there freelancers shifters?? Ones that can shift to whatever they want???

I need answerssss

[peleiides]

on another note of that last one, can regular freelancers learn to shift? could fl learn to shift???

[darlin-collins]

To a some point

Like if they tried to turn to a wolf they'll have ears and a tail

[peleiides]

Would that make sense within universe restrictions? Specifically, would they have two sets of ears? A stronger sense of smell or hearing? Maybe be faster?

I am so uncomfortable with the possibilities

[krushkreates]

another william audio when

[darlin-collins]

I just woke up, literally...

Idk how this happened but...

I have questions about shifters that i need answers for

They dont call them werewolfs, they call them shifters... Why??

Is there other kinds of shifters?, vincent said there is when talking about vamps can't turn to bats

Or can shifters shift to other animals??

Is it like elementals?? Where they can shift to one form strongest and other forms are weaker cuz it's not their form??

But if it's like that, why wouldn't they learn to shift to other animals?? Elementals can learn to use other elements

Is there freelancers shifters?? Ones that can shift to whatever they want???

I need answerssss

[peleiides]

on another note of that last one, can regular freelancers learn to shift? could fl learn to shift???

[romeo-the-homeo]

block me if u think its ok to sexualise caelum

seen a rise in people saying its not a problem again-

[weaver-z]

One time I was at the mall with my grandfather and we met an employee who was a 6'2 woman. He later told me "Boy! 6'2! She must have to fight wannabe suitors off with a sword." and I realized with a start that my thing for tall women was genetic

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

The cultural impact of “boomer” as a pejorative has been disastrous and I’m not even kidding

[mercuryfountain-deactivated2024]

Gen z is not exceptional. Large swaths of gen z propagated Facebook-uncle tier misinformation to smear Amber Read for speaking out about their favorite pirate actor. People are convinced “deadass no cap on god” is “tiktok speak” and not butchered AAVE. Many are already starting to define themselves as a generation of work ethic and meritocracy, unlike those whiny debt-riddled millennials. It’s becoming humiliatingly clear that this generation is not exceptional, it’s not radical just by virtue of being young (and we won’t be young forever), and it’s not going to fix everything “once the boomers die out.” We are speedrunning the stereotypical “hippie to Reagan voter” trajectory of the boomers, whose counterculture at the time frankly puts ours to shame. So are you going to put in the work, or are you going to gloat about being young and special and then shit yourself when you turn thirty?