glowingpinkinthenight

its vampire summer !

[tashcan]

loumand i see your future and it is bright

[suburbanwildernessdeity]

dayman, fighter of the nightman, champion of the sun, master of karate and friendship for everyone (self-diagnosed)

[erebusvincent]

[fablefire]

‪Sometimes he uses The Force to steal extra marshmallows.‬

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We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (via sunscreenandfreckles)

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For the folks who say Handmaid’s Tale can’t happen in real life

You know Margaret Atwood had one rule while writing the book? That she wouldn’t include anything that hadn’t already happened or been invented. She based the book on real shit that happened in real life. She calls her book a Skeptical Fiction, however, I would say it’s also Historical Fiction.

[rubensmuse]

romantic shakespeare quotes to seduce your lover

“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest”

“Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service”

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite”

“I wish you all joy of the worm”

“Come, let’s away to prison”

“What, you egg?”

[exit, pursued by a bear]

Sonnet 130

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I get emotional thinking about how Beatrice is all air and fire, all blazing wit and sparkling intellect. She’s “born under a dancing star” with “little of the melancholy element” - that is, earth - in her. She burns with love and anger, and her passions can only tend towards absolute love or absolute hate. She will eat the heart of the man who wrongs her kinswoman, and as for Benedick she’ll “hate him deadly or love him dearly” - kill him, or make him her husband and love him for the rest of her life. Everything about her is red and burning and dangerous, and her love is so hot and bright, her anger so visceral, her spirit so dazzling, she is pure fire clothed in a woman’s shape it is literally no wonder that every man in the play is awed by her 

[hamletthedane]

The pure raw POWER of “O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace” in the middle of an otherwise lighthearted, punchy romcom is one of the BEST moments in all of Shakespeare and critics don’t give it enough credit.

Everything about it…the iambic read of the second sentence because of its near-poetic nature…the shaking anger and shocking violence of the line…the fact that it is said by a *woman protagonist* and she is not criticized for it…

But my favorite thing is that the line ends on a “ce” sound, meaning your teeth are openly bared when you finish saying it (especially if said passionately). Like it’s literally made your facial expression more threatening and aggressive by the end.

FUCKING ART.

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Much Ado About Nothing satirises male fears about female infidelity and makes it plain that male inconstancy is much more of a problem, telling ladies to “sigh no more - men were deceivers ever”. But at the end of the play it turns the issue of male inconstancy into a message of hope.

“Man is a giddy thing,” Benedick declares, “and this is my conclusion.” Giddy, in this sense, can mean changeable. Once a misogynistic bachelor, Benedick has now “turned husband” and proven himself worthy of the dazzling Beatrice’s love through honourable actions. He trusts and respects women, and exhorts others to do the same. The message is that although men are inconstant, it is this inconstancy that gives them the capacity to undergo positive change. I was wrong, he says, but I changed, and I am proud of that. He’s a new man. Once afraid of marriage, he’s now so excited to begin life as a married man that he cannot wait another second to sweep his wife off her feet in a dance. That is his conclusion.

[vkelleyart]

And of course, for those who just want the pic… :)

Description: Simon delivers the rest of Natasha Grimm-Pitch’s message from beyond the grave, pressing a kiss to Baz’s temple.

[fredgolds]

potentially the most important bit of the globe’s much ado that i never talked about is when beatrice is screaming and raging against claudio after the wedding and benedick pulls her up with a devastating forehead touch/face touch combo and everything just goes very still and quiet. and you could take the Tensión and snap it over your leg like so many twigs. and they’re both exhausted and angry and in love and THAT’S when he says ‘tarry, good beatrice. by this hand i love thee’ and the globe was built without a roof specifically so that my fragile soul could ascend directly to heaven in that exact moment