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Mina, stranglehold on her composure, about to snap her pen in half: Okay! Okay. So, we got a portentous omen of death in the ghost ship with the ghastly sea captain corpse tied to his ship with a bottled account of an inhuman murderer arriving with a hellish storm. Followed by the unceremonious Terror Death of my newest old man friend right in the place where Lucy and I sit. Followed by a man kicking his dog in front of us and sending some kind of empathic horror-signal to Lucy. Followed by my daily and increasingly intense bout of Worry for Jonathan who continues to be missing in another country. Which country? I don't know! Still! Sure hope he's not part of the Hot Slaughter Summer queue, ha ha! At least Lucy is doing better with the health and the sleepwalking and whatnot! :) Let's hold onto that one single mote of good news! :)) Surely we can wring a microdrop of positivity out of that! :)))

Dracula, in his beachside rental suicide grave: :3c

fleshadept

anyone who was interested in the dracula daily physical book the mockup is out and the preorder is open!! it looks SO sexy

sillylittleleaf

before I scrolled down I just saw “dracula daily physical book” and immediately thought wow. what a scam. dracula is already. it’s already dracula daily! it’s already arranged by date! if you simply open your book and read a chapter each day!!

although now I have seen the other features and it seems cool. slay

starlight788

If you get lit of fire your on fire. If you get attacked by bees then that means your on bees

bedlund

sillylittleleaf

me rn moving home from college for the summer

I just listened to the entire hamilton soundtrack for the first time in years(it was my homework I love theatre college) and I feel like I’m going insane. I never had a huge hamilton phase but it’s still so weirdly nostalgic it’s crazy. hottest take of all: hamilton’s pretty good

kvotheunkvothe

now I'm curious

What age is your first discrete memory?

younger than age 2

around age 2

around age 3

around age 4

around age 5

older than age 5

Voting ended onMar 15, 2023

this isn't about where you think your continuous memories start, but rather what you think is the earliest thing you can remember (even if it's only a few seconds or a quick image)

kvotheunkvothe

there's about 1 day left in the poll. please respond and reblog

sillylittleleaf

I remember the day my little brother was born (I was almost 3) very clearly but I don’t actually remember anything about him, I only remember running and falling down the stairs on my way out to stay at my aunt and uncle’s house. I also remember that the bed I slept in was really big (probably a twin, but I had a toddler bed). I just think it’s very funny that my earliest memory Is from the day he was born, but he kinda has nothing to do with it!

newlyorange

Okay so a production of Hamlet that ends with “Goodnight, sweet prince,” etc. and then Horatio looks up and sees the audience for the first time and is both shocked and furious, because his world is falling apart and you sat there and watched.

devilsss-dyke-deactivated202202

This idea would go fantastically well with my director’s idea that Hamlet knows the whole time that he’s in a play. He had me (when I played Hamlet) interact with the audience, exchange looks with people in the front row, deliver my soliloquies to people in the first few rows casually like I was just talking to them, and I even had the idea to not freeze and just walk about the stage when other characters had their little ‘asides,’ which he allowed me to keep in.

Basically, if Hamlet continuously acknowledges the audience unnoticed by all the other characters (almost Fleabag-style) and then suddenly he’s gone, and obviously he knew he’d have to be gone at the end, and then poor Horatio is left all alone to finally realize there was someone else there the entire time, now that would make it all the more devastating.

wisteria-lodge

There’s no difference between the Danish courtiers, who showed up because they wanted to see the Mad Prince get his butt kicked in a staged sword-fight, and us the audience (who… also showed up to watch Hamlet loose a sword fight.)

I want to see a production where Horatio just stares at us, and screams “Now cracks a noble heart!” with the subtext “You fucking fuckers. He was better than all of you, you watched him die, and you just stood there.

Then, he just silently cries over the body. For like FIVE MINUTES. And the courtiers peel away into the wings, one by one, until Horatio is alone on stage with a lot of dead bodies. It starts getting uncomfortable. You’re thinking… is the play over? Am I supposed to go? (hamlet is just about the *only* play where the final scene is cut about 50% time, so use that uncertainty, use that ambiguity.) Maybe some people do get up to go. There’s definitely muttering. And then there’s smashing sounds coming from the direction of the box office, and Horatio looks up, with an expression like something’s gone wrong.

But then he says, “Why do the drums come hither?” Fortinbras enters though the audience, and the play continues.

(I *also* think it would be really cool to cut for intermission right after Claudius freaks out and breaks up the play-within-a-play. Just imagine it: king yells “Lights! Lights! Lights!” And the houselights come up.)

illonink

All good. And also–

As Hamlet is dying in Horatio’s arms, he puts his hand on Horatio’s face and turns it toward us. And that’s when Horatio sees the theater.

anexperimentallife

Horatio: You WATCHED all this? And what did you DO about it?

Audience:

william-shakespeare-official

You are all hired

muppethole-deactivated20240312

you ever find a piece of clothing and feel like you just stumbled upon an essential bit of your character design

sillylittleleaf

been thinking about how my style has changed (not a ton, pretty subtly) over the last year which means that my “standard outfit” (like when people picture me what am I wearing) is different to my high school friends than my college friends.

#literally how dare I develop as a person #college #i am so silly #fashion

virtualtoybox

jesus christ. fine. ill say it. im sleepy. im sleepy, okay? do you know what being sleepy does to a person? to their spirit? i should be pitied.

I wanted to wear a skirt for an audition today since the song I’m singing is very princess-y but it turns out trying to make any professional-looking outfit with a skirt is just a back and forth between “i have an interview for a secretary job” and “i’m on my way to second grade at a catholic school”

#I look like I could be in matilda the musical #matilda #matilda the musical #theatre #audition #I spent 30-45 minutes trying on outfits #gay little outfit #fashion

jauntylittlefrillyboy

Now, I’m not saying romantic relationships are inferior, or that they’re useless, or that you being in one or that you shipping some characters romantically is Bad or something off the walls like that. What I’m saying is that two people (or characters, since we’re talking shipping here) can be just as devoted to each other, love each other just as deeply, mean just as much to each other while being in a platonic relationship. The end point of caring about someone doesn’t have to be romance.

Friendship isn’t a stepping stone between strangers and romantic partners, it’s a different path. And you can follow that path as deep into the wood as a romantic one if you want, and neither is inferior to the other, they just have different views.

jauntylittlefrillyboy

reblog my aro posts you cowards

sillylittleleaf

me when I got asked “what kind of stories do you think there should be more of” as part of a theatre project and I immediately was like friendship!! they are friends and don’t get together in the end and it’s ok!!

serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty

Capitalism only values nature by how it can be exploited.

serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty

Case in point.

serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty

People in my replies be like “bUt wHaT aBoUt fRuIt TrEes and CaMpInG GrOuNdS”. Yes that’s pretty much my point. Trees are only valuable if you can make money off them or hijack them for human activities, rather than because they literally sustain life on earth.

In capitalism’s eyes, everything is but a tool or resource to make profit. Workers and nature alike. A forest is not inherently “valuable” to a capitalist; individual people are treated as “human resources” and labour for 8 - 13 hours per day, most days of their life, until they’re physically too old to continue.

We will only attain a better world when nature and people become inherently valuable, rather than something to exploit.

sillylittleleaf

oh my gosh in geology the other day we were talking about the eruption of mt st helens and after telling us why it was so destructive and how many people died my professor was like “and it destroyed over 100,000 dollars worth of lumber”(estimating, I don’t remember exactly) and I was just like. why is that the metric we’re using. why was “[however many] miles of forest and ecosystem” not enough to get the point across.

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

didn't know mean girl y/n books existed. truly fascinated by the genre

cryptobranchid

girlboss honestly for taking over the male-dominated “bully whose victims for some reason love them” genre. usually that’s bad boys’ territory.

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

omg you're right...a win is a win #feminism

I bought a copy of hamlet from a used bookstore and it’s full of annotations and my plan is to reread it and add my own, but in my preliminary skim I found this?