GNU Terry Pratchett

In my roaring twenties (but not for long). quite often improves on acquaintance.

[farenmaddox]

I can only aspire to such greatness in my use of punctuation. I am humbled before the master.

(from chapter 4 of Watership Down by Richard Adams)

[pauvrecamille]

Apparently, this statue existed until WW2: Camille Desmoulins climbing on a chair

[suigintou]

deliriously ripping open the sexy fishnet tights of a beautiful woman named bag of mandarins

[unfamiliarsculptures]

A little green badger sculpture! This little critter will be available this Friday, January 23rd at 8pm Eastern time!

[rowanclair]

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere.

[byrdcalls]

Daniel Craig and Jason Isaacs in Angels in America at London's National Theatre, 1993.

[twinpeaksfireblogwithme]

Black Sails XXXVIII / Die Hamletmaschine

[pjharvey]

my best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

[indigomood]

The handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

another thing about setting hamlet at christmas is that it reflects the beautiful human experience of having a long holiday stay at your parents’ house that makes you feel like you are going insane

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[account-moved-no-longer-active]

"Hanged Finale" by Marian Wawrzeniecki, 1907

[salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds]

[chthonic-cassandra]

Nudity figured into my 1972 Roman season [at RSC] too. In Coriolanus, I was cast as Tullus Aufidius, the titular general's nemesis-turned-ally-turned killer. The battle scenes found me and my army of Volscians wearing very brief skirts of a length you might associate with NFL cheerleaders. There is also a scene in which Coriolanus shows up unexpectedly at Aufidius' home. Reviewing the script, I picked up on an erotic charge to their interactions. I asked our costume designer if I could wear nothing but jewelry and a skirt - ankle-length but diaphanous, of the lightest silk. This outfit produced the desired result: Circling my frenemy Coriolanus, played by Ian Hogg, I was no longer a warrior but a feminine, graceful, and, quite possibly, horny Audifius. Finding this double life in the role became the most interesting part of playing the character, and I am grateful to Trevor Nunn for letting me go there.

Patrick Stewart, Making It So

[fipindustries]

if i ever become a showrunner i will actually do the fake series finalle followed by the true ending where the popular gay ship is confirmed just so i can forever poison fandom with the idea that it can happen for real and then they will truly never let that hope go for all other subsequent shows they watch henceforth. just for the sake of making the world a worse place

[officialpenisenvy]

edmund pevensie probably felt for jadis the white witch what old-timey gay men felt for judy garland

[agarfield]

Feed on what you will. Rats, chickens, poodles, I'll leave you to it and watch you come around. But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable. — Tom Cruise as Lestat de Lioncourt in Interview with the Vampire (1994)