selene's paris

subs? dubs?

or a secret third thing: watching media originally from language A (which you do not speak) dubbed into language B (which you do) and subbed in language C (which you also do) and, whenever there is a greater-than-expected discrepancy between the two, pausing to scroll through the subs in languages D-G (where available) in a trigonometry.meme attempt to triangulate the Truth based on consensus, language family, and likelihood of translation from an intermediate language (and also to see which languages are Cheating).

People often wonder why writers are intricate in describing feelings and sentiments in words. It's because we've experienced the highest of highs, the lowest of lows, and everything in between. This is one of the reasons I can only write about melancholy feelings - I never had an adequate number of happy recollections to expound on, which thus is the motivation behind why I can't portray happiness in words.

Oscar Wilde couldn't straight (ha) up tell us that dorian was a twink so he compared him to Paris and Adonis and hoped we know enough greek mythology to understand

— Darlene Schacht

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. ”    ―   Louis L'Amour  

Uluru blackh●le rise, me, pixel art, 2022

[ID : An animated, pixel art gif of a round void over a broad mesa, by night. Everything is in shades of blue and black – shadows lay heavy across the rock, the highlights lined with paler blue, the plain surrounding it is dark blue with barely distinct black lines, and the sky is dark blue with medium to pale blue stars, some of which flicker. At least seven rings of sliding glimmers of bright dance around the void in layers, with light blue and white moving back and forth in arcs and blinking in and out along their rings. The edges of tendrils of shadowed clouds pulse toward the black hole as the rings’ lights shine off them. /end ID]

[Art source]

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Achilles and Patroclus in the royal shakespeare company's Troilus and Cressida makes me feel things

Odysseus killing Patroclus to frame Hector in the royal shakespeare company's "Troilus and Cressida"

i said i was going to arrange a list of my favorite articles/criticism about shakespeare, so here’s my first little roundup! obligatory disclaimer that i don’t necessarily agree with or endorse every single point of view in each word of these articles, but they scratch my brain. will add to this list as i continue reading, and feel free to add your own favorites in the reblogs! :]

essays

Is Shakespeare For Everyone? by Austin Tichenor (a basic examination of that question)

Interrogating the Shakespeare System by Madeline Sayet (counterpoint/parallel to the above; on Shakespeare’s place in, and status as, imperialism)

Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan (also a good parallel to the above; on whether Shakespeare is really culturally “universal”)

The Unified Theory of Ophelia: On Women, Writing, and Mental Illness (“I was trying to make sense of the different ways men and women related to Ophelia. Women seemed to invoke her like a patron saint; men seemed mostly interested in fetishizing her flowery, waterlogged corpse.”)

Hamlet Is a Suicide Text—It’s Time to Teach It Like One (on teaching shakespeare plays about suicide to high schoolers)

Commuting With Shylock by Dara Horn (on listening to MoV with a ten-year-old son, as modern jewish people, to look at that eternal question of Is This Play Antisemitic?)

All That Glisters is Not Gold (NPR episode, on whether it’s possible to perform othello, taming of the shrew, & merchant to do good instead of harm)

academic articles

the Norton Shakespeare’s intro to the Merchant of Venice (apologies about the highlights here; they are not mine; i scanned this from my rented copy)

the Norton Shakespeare’s intro to Henry the Fourth part 1 (and apologies for the angled page scans on this one; see above)

Richard II: A Modern Perspective by Harry Berger Jr (this is the article that made me understand richard ii)

Hamlet’s Older Brother (“Hamlet and Prince Hal are in the same situation, the distinction resting roughly on the difference between the problem of killing a king and the problem of becoming one. … Hamlet is literature’s Mona Lisa, and Hal is the preliminary study for it.”)

Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in Antony & Cleopatra Criticism (about more than just reviewers; my favorite deconstruction of shakespeare’s cleopatra in general)

Strange Flesh: Antony and Cleopatra and the Story of the Dissolving Warrior (“If Troilus and Cressida is [Shakespeare’s] vision of a world in which masculinity must be enacted in order to exist, Antony and Cleopatra is his vision of a world in which masculinity not only must be enacted, but simply cannot be enacted, his vision of a world in which this particular performance has broken down.”)

misc

Elegy of Fortinbras by Zbigniew Herbert (poem that makes me fucking insane)

Dirtbag Henry IV (what it sounds like.)

Cleopatra and Antony by Linda Bamber (what if a&c… was good.)

*blood warning*

The Song of Achilles - color keys

I’m trying to work on my coloring/framing, so I thought it’d be fun to try some color key type drawings with a whole book!

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

happy pride

John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1 [originally published 1667]

never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"

love the word "methinks". like lol. yeah. me sure is thinksing.

Thomas Burton Kinraide

the saying you cant miss what you never had is so insane to me.... like um actually i am always missing what i never had. theres so much missing... i miss everything