Romeo and Juliet but told in “it’s more likely than you think” memes

Part maybe 5 or 6- I’m not really sure at this point

Hmmmm……

For some reason the TCOMC fandom on here has been slowly growing over the past few days. I’m not sure why but hey at least I’m not alone here anymore

Twelfth Night but told in “it’s more likely than you think” memes

BONUS:

Reading Titus Andronicus now and wow these guys really like killing people don’t they?

https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/180/the-count-of-monte-cristo/

You all have no excuse now- go read it.

(Also @eddisfargo you can check how to spell chapter names now if you want to- though tbh you’re pretty good at spelling them even without seeing them)

I look around the people currently active in the TCOMC fandom and all I see are like 5 different accounts obsessing over Villefort. 

Like look, I get it- corrupt politicians are cool to some people- but if the King Lear fandom were to ever read TCOMC, all the people from there obsessing over Edmund of Gloucester would be obsessing over Benedetto and you’d be outnumbered

So yeah I’m just gonna patiently wait for that to happen 

answering the question everyone has- “Why on earth does Edette have such horrible taste in characters?”

Ok so here’s some points to have in mind when you realize that I normally like really horrible characters:

( @eddisfargo dw there aren’t any spoilers here- I decided to finally justify my (admittedly) horrible taste in characters)

- my favorite character ISN’T the one I love the most, it’s the one that has the best scenes or lines, or the one who’s story I was the most invested in. For example, in TCOMC I was very invested in Andrea’s story, so he became my favorite. If I would choose the character I love the most it would either be Beauchamp, Albert, or Franz.

- Sometimes I like characters not because of anything they themselves did, but rather because they share similar opinions as me on the other characters in the book/show. If I already dislike certain characters and like other characters, and a new character comes along and shares those opinions, chances are I’m gonna like the new character.

- the character’s cool/smart/talented in some way and I’m interested in seeing more content of them

Ya know I tried to make this longer but honestly that’s it. Everything else I have to say can be summed up using point 1, 2, 3, or some combination of the 3. 

For example, to justify the 5 characters in my top 5 male characters thing I posted a few days ago-

Edmund of Gloucester- point 1

Ash Lynx- point 3

Max- point 3

Andrea Cavalcanti- point 1 and kinda point 2

Yohan Lee- point 3

(Normally there would be more point 2s on the list, it just happens to be that it doesn’t apply to these characters that much)

eddisfargo:

rainmakesyouwhole:

you: this is so sad, alexa play despacito

shakespeare in pericles, prince of tyre act iii, scene 2: the rough and woeful music that we have, / cause it to sound, beseech you.

@edettethegreat​ in case you haven’t seen this already!

This is great and I love it

TCOMC characters as things my friends have said so often it’s basically their catchphrase

Evereyone, about Hermine: wow, Ben’s cheating on Mikaela again.

Chateau-Renaud: GUYS. ALASKA RHYMES WITH NEBRASKA.

Any of the antagonists: As everyone knows, I’m secretly the world’s most evil criminal

Franz after the drug cave incident: It was all a dream? Nah, it was all a hallucination.

Caderousse: *chanting* SALT! IT’S SALT! AND HERE’S WHAT NO ONE KNOW! WE’LL USE THE SALT TO DO ASSAULT AND POUR IT UP YOUR NOSE!

Benedetto at his trial: It’s me, your local non-existent ghost.

Albert: Ok so I was kidnapped like maybe… 12 times today?

Also Albert: Contrary to popular belief, I’m not a complete idiot

Eugenie, while chopping off her hair to disguise herself as a boy: You just don’t know the absolute STRUGGLE of curly hair. You just. Don’t. Know.

(I had SO MANY MORE, but I had to delete them because I had no idea which character they would fit with. It was truly tragic. It was very sad. Alexa, play despacito.)

Can I just say. Edmund from King Lear and Benedetto from TCOMC are the same person, just put in different situations.

No kidding. It’s true. Lemme prove it.

Ok let’s start with Edmund. If instead of raising him to whatever extent Gloucester raised him, Gloucester would have been like “whoops this kid sure is a mistake that could potentially be bad for my reputation!” And tried to kill him when he was an infant to cover his tracks, we’d literally just end up with Benedetto instead of Edmund. Are you gonna tell me that if Edmund survives and finds out about that whole attempted murder thing he wouldn’t go find Gloucester and publicly be like “yeah so that guy’s my dad. Also he tried to kill me because he was scared that having a kid out of wedlock might ruin his reputation. Well how’s your reputation looking now, dad?”

And now onto Benedetto. If instead of trying to kill him, Villefort left him alive and raised him with Valentine, he totally would have become salty that Valentine was favored above him and he would definitely not like that Valentine is getting all the inheritance money. So of course he’d pull the same thing Edmund pulled, ie. telling Valentine something like “oh no dad is just soooo mad at you! You gotta leave immediately!” And he’d have no trouble forging a letter from Valentine that says “I sure hate dad!” (After all, he’s literally a counterfeiter.) Villefort would believe it right away, (after all, he believed Dr. D’avrigny (or whatever his name was) that Valentine was the killer) and that would be that.

In conclusion- Benedetto=Edmund and Edmund=Benedetto

So that’s that.

CoMC Chapter 67

eddisfargo:

CHAPTER 67

At the Office of the King’s Attorney

30 minutes

Oooh shoot, the situation has changed–Villefort knows MC is not his friend. Because it turns out he is fully aware there was no baby skeleton buried in the yard for him to find. He tried to dig it up a year after the fact and found it gone. And he even knows it was surrendered to the orphanage and he EVEN knows it was claimed by some lady (although he couldn’t find the lady). And he even knows it’s Andrea Cavalcanti! 

Just kidding about that last part, he definitely does not know that. 

Interesting monologue about doing regrettable things in a moment of fear that you realize later you could’ve done differently, that clearly applies to what he did to Poor Edmond. Which ends with him saying women don’t feel remorse because there mistakes aren’t due to their own actions, just things that have been done to them. As a woman, oh yeah, that’s definitely my experience. Yup, you’ve got us pegged, Dumas. I mean, I guess it’s not quite fair to attribute a Villefort quote directly to Dumas–he’s a villain, after all, not necessarily a mouthpiece for the author–but this monologue kind of seemed like actual philosophy, not something the narrative was denouncing. But who knows.

Also, we hear the story about Bertuccio’s failed murder–it wasn’t mistaken identity after all, he was only mostly dead. 

Also, glad I never tried to spell Mrs. Danglars’s name. Sounds like Ermine, which is an animal and sounded silly so I never wrote it. Turns out it’s (probably) Hermine, hence the H on the baby’s blanket. 

Anyway, Villefort is now going to try to figure out just who TF this Monte Cristo guy is. I wonder if MC knows that that particular part of the jig is up…

Also. Importantly. It seems like they totally didn’t intentionally kill the baby? They just thought it was dead and buried it in secret? Which, to me, is… not what infanticide is? I think the evidence MC presented at the dinner party when that possibility was presented was “if it wasn’t murder, why did they bury it in a box in the yard like a hamster? This was never a cemetery.” but obviously we know it’s because it’s an affair baby they’d rather keep secret (although it seems like the husband kind of figured it out when he came home to a very pregnant wife, and he did in fact kill himself in shame, so… there’s that). 

But anyway, what passes for infanticide, then? Just… not baptizing it or whatever? Or is it just that they can’t prove it wasn’t? Or… I don’t know, but it seems (operative word) like no one attempted murder after all. Except Bertuccio lol.

You’re right that’s too funny to be in tags. That’s why I gotta reblog it. 

OK POLL TIME

What color hair do you picture Hamlet having?

Can I just... obsess over Cassio’s role in Othello for a second?

(Please excuse any stupidity you may find here- it’s currently 3am and I don’t know what I’m doing)

OK so Iago has this whole big fat evil plan for how he’s gonna take down Othello. And he’s doing this whole big fat evil plan with little to no motives. Yeah, he heard a rumor that his wife may have cheated on him with Othello, but ehhh the rumor doesn’t seem to be even remotely true. (His wife might have cheated on him with someone else- I’m not saying that would be completely impossible- but probably not with Othello. Othello’s pretty loyal to Desdemona.)

His only other complaint is against the fact that Othello gave Cassio the job that he was after. So logically speaking, shouldn’t Iago make his main mission to destroy Cassio rather than destroy Othello? Because if he gets rid of Cassio, he could possibly get the position he wanted. But if he gets rid of Othello, how would that solve anything? Anyway, if this were about anyone other than Iago, I’d say that he was just an idiot. But this is about Iago- the guy who knew how to manipulate everyone into doing everything he wanted. So Idk I don’t believe he’s all that stupid. 

Now ya know how I promised this would be about Cassio? Well it is. Because the thing is I find Cassio’s whole part in the play to be really, really funny. Mainly because of how he reacts to Iago vs how everyone else reacts to Iago. He, along with Othello and Rodrigo, are the main three people Iago tries to manipulate. When it came to Othello and Rodrigo, he had to come up with ways to convince them of whatever he was trying to pass off as the truth. And they questioned him, but he was still able to prove that he totally has no ill intent towards them. BUT WITH CASSIO, HE HARDLY HAD TO SAY ANYTHING. It’s like it didn’t even matter what he said or did, Cassio was gonna do the thing Iago wanted done anyway. Iago didn’t even have to manipulate Cassio like he had to do with everyone else- and around halfway through the play Iago realizes this and stops trying to convince Cassio to do things he’s probably gonna do anyway. 

Seriously, their conversations go like this-

Iago: Hey do you maybe wanna drink some more-

Cassio: OH MAN I THINK I’M GONNA REALLY PARTY TONIGHT AND DRINK SOME MORE

Iago: Hey you should maybe talk to Des-

Cassio: HEY I’M GONNA GO TALK TO DESDEMONA AND ALSO RUN AWAY WHENEVER I SEE OTHELLO COMING BECAUS THAT WOULD BE AWKWARD YA KNOW?

And then Iago realizes that hey, Cassio doesn’t need to be manipulated for his plot to work- he can just let Cassio be himself and everything would turn out just the way he planned.

should I start a series “Monte Cristo but as texts?” Which would literally just be screenshots of my friends texts with tcomc names put over them?

For example: 

2o2o-kit:

time-and-space-penguin:

royal-rickardian:

newsies-lesamis-oz-and-me:

erin-wants-a-tuck-revival:

lalalalivy:

eriklivesinmybasement:

jennyfair7:

littlelattewanders:

🌿17 Questions, 17 People🌿

🌿Tagged by: @harry-leroy - thank you so much! 

🌿Nicknames: Lysa (pronounced “Lissa”)

🌿Zodiac: Scorpio

🌿Height: 5′2″ (roughly 157 cm)

🌿Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw

🌿Last Thing I Googled: “5′2″ in cm” lol

🌿Song Stuck in My Head: “All You Wanna Do” from Six the Musical

🌿Number of Followers: 265 (I love you all so much!!) 

🌿Amount of Sleep: Between 6-8 hours, sometimes more on the weekends 

🌿Lucky Number: 3, 17

🌿Dream job: English professor, ESL teacher for human trafficking survivors and published author

🌿Wearing: Pink v-neck t-shirt and black shorts

🌿Favourite song: How dare you make me choose?! It changes pretty much every day. Right now, it’s “Fra gli amplessi” from Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte (stealing this answer from @harry-leroy because it’s so good) and “Before the Eyes of Storytelling Girls” by Anaïs Mitchell  (I’m obsessed with her music right now).

🌿Favourite Instrument: I play the piano! I love all instruments, but my favorites are piano and violin. 

🌿Aesthetic: Some unholy mix of dark academia + cottagecore + Victorian gothic heroine + vintage 

🌿Favourite Author: There are many! I’d say my top 5 are Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter, Jane Austen and Mikhail Bulgakov 

🌿Favourite Animal Noise: A wolf’s howl 

🌿Random: I don’t really discuss my life here, but I am a professional writer and have published works on how English should be taught to non-native speakers and best practices writers can apply in technical communication to bridge the language barrier.  I am also a passionate anti-trafficking advocate and write/research is this field as well. As I mentioned in a previous question, one of my dreams is to teach ESL to trafficking survivors to help them gain sustainable employment.

🌳 @deardaaery @wilderflcwers @someoldghost @je-suis-em-jee @wheel-of-fish @theres-music-in-you @jennyfair7 @a-touch-of-darknesss @theatricalbride @lovelygirl @madamefaust @simplyshelbs16xoxo @littleblondesoprano @takethatbembridgescholars @lionessfics47 @dying-suffering-french-stalkers @princess-of-france

Thanks for the tag, @littlelattewanders! (It won’t let me tag you)

🌿Nicknames: Henny, Jennifer Lopez

🌿Zodiac: Leo 🦁

🌿Height: 5′3″

🌿Hogwarts House: Gryffindor

🌿Last Thing I Googled: “rancor keeper actor” 😂

🌿Song Stuck in My Head: Nothing at the moment!

🌿Number of Followers: 500+

🌿Amount of Sleep: Around 7.5 hours

🌿Lucky Number: 7 & 11 (some say basic, I say classic)

🌿Dream job: I pretty much have it already! But getting paid to travel and/or pet cats would be pretty awesome, too 😸

🌿Wearing: Red tank top & gray sweatshorts

🌿Favourite song: A song that always makes me happy is “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder 🎵

🌿Favourite Instrument: Cello

🌿Aesthetic: N/A (I’m the worst with these questions!)

🌿Favourite Author: A few are Émile Zola, Charlotte Brontë, Hans Christinan Andersen, Edgar Allan Poe, George Sand

🌿Favourite Animal Noise: Cat’s purr

🌿Random: I got my nose pierced when I was 19 during a beach vacation with my friends because it was a rainy day and we were bored 😆 18 years later, I still love it! Whenever someone asks me about it or tells me they’re thinking about getting it done, I always say go for it - if you don’t like it, take it out! 

Tagging (no pressure!): @letyourfantasiesunwind81 @benny-lynne @embergeist @i-penna @helloitskrisha @maze-zen @little-swedish-soprano @phantom-triumphant @ladycavalier @ofbeautsandbeasts @a-phantom-fool @wynnemoon @madphantom @cdaae @eriklivesinmybasement @rscoil @phangirllnd 

Thanks for the tag @jennyfair7! Looks fun!

🌿Nicknames: Squirrel

🌿Zodiac: Scorpio

🌿Height: 5′4

🌿Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw

🌿Last Thing I Googled: Google Docs

🌿Song Stuck in My Head: Fast Car by Tracy Chapman

🌿Number of Followers: 100+

🌿Amount of Sleep: About 7 hours.

🌿Lucky Number: 12

🌿Dream job: Freelance artist and/or author

🌿Wearing: Oversized gray t-shirt and black gym shorts (aka my pajamas)

🌿Favorite song: It’s always changing, but currently it’s Lullaby for a Stormy Night by Vienna Teng.

🌿Favorite Instrument: Violin

🌿Aesthetic: An old library, a graveyard, crystals, black and white stockings and herbal tea.

🌿Favorite Author: Although I haven’t read their books in years, it would have to be Erin Hunter. They wrote the Warriors series, and that was the series I was obsessed growing up and made me fall in love with reading and writing.

🌿Favorite Animal Noise: Either the howl of a wolf or the caw of a crow.

🌿Random: I’ve been working on a webcomic/series for the past eight years. I’ve had my beginning and ending planned out from the start, and I now have different character arcs, events, and storylines planned out. Now it’s just a matter of piecing it together to make a cohesive story (which is proving to be pretty difficult), and improving my art skills.

And now I tag! No pressure though, and I’m sorry if you’ve already been tagged before. I don’t know a lot of people on here. @lalalalivy @eriksangel666 @phantom-of-the-uhhhpera @baepsyche @cdaae @raoulsgropinghands @thisthemaskwewear @i-ll-be-the-moon @mcfickletons @ashadeintheshade @ladyrock18 @the-amazing-fire-fox @theginnyweasleyblog @punk-of-the-opera @behindthemirrorofmusic

Thanks for the tag @eriklivesinmybasement!!!!

🍄 Nicknames: Liv, Livia, L

🍄 Zodiac: Virgo

🍄 Height: 5”4

🍄 Hogwarts House: Slytherin

🍄Last thing I googled: Picrew

🍄 Song stuck in my head: Baby Hotline by Jack Stauber

🍄 Number of followers: over 50 but idk-

🍄 Amount of sleep: maaaybe 5-6 hours?

🍄 Lucky number: 18

🍄 Dream job: Freelance author or independent actress

🍄 Wearing: Pink shorts and a pink t-shirt (also my pajamas)

🍄 Favorite song: My all-time favorite song is Breezeblocks by Alt-J but atm it’s I Wanna Be Yours by The Arctic Monkeys

🍄 Favorite Instrument: Autoharp

🍄 Aesthetic: Cigarette smoke, dark skies, ink under fingernails, highway motels, filled journals, messenger bags filled with books

🍄 Favorite author: Hmm - Lemony Snicket. Either that or Gillian Flynn, I both love their writing styles and their ways of telling stories.

🍄 Favorite animal noise: You know when cats purr? Just randomly? I love that

🍄 Random: I will protect Mary Bolonsky from The Great Comet Of 1812 with my heart, soul, and spirit. She needs it.

Tagging: @panicatthelafayette @academic-orpheus @supernaturallysteampunktrombone @supernova-exe @storytravelled @ricehair @boombiotch @justapeachymango @erin-wants-a-tuck-revival @eriksangel666 @halfusek @aperformersdiary @starryeyed-dyke @violetsnickets @kitsnicketts @irreplaceable-ecstasyy @eliza-i-wish and anyone else who wants to join!

Thanks for tagging me, @lalalalivy!

🍁 Nicknames: idk a few of my friends call me spiderman as a joke

🍁 Zodiac: Taurus

🍁 Height: 5″5

🍁 Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw

🍁 Last thing I googled: “man in car singing unwritten vine”

🍁 Song stuck in my head: The one the siren/mermaids sing in Pirates of the Caribbean

🍁 Number of followers: 45 (I honestly don’t know why anyone would follow me but I’m guessing at least one of those 45 is a bot)

🍁 Amount of sleep: 5-10 hours, beats me

🍁 Lucky Number: 6

🍁 Dream job: idk I’d love to be an acrobat but I don’t have the talent so I guess I’d like to open a bookstore?

🍁 Wearing: jeans and a red t-shirt from a school musical 4 years ago

🍁 Favourite song: I mean “It’s Over Now” from Little White Lie is probably one of my favourites

🍁 Favourite Instrument: The drums! I can’t play them (at all) but I think they’re really cool

🍁 Aesthetic: clouds, referring to Time with a capital T, loose fabric, climbing things for no discernible reason, books you read in grade 3 and never forgot

🍁 Favourite Author: Lois Lowry or Marissa Meyer

🍁 Favourite animal noise: crickets

🍁 Random: when I was about 10 I used to set up pulley systems in my room so that when the door was opened not only would a pillow fall on your head but several bean bags would be catapulted in your general direction (they usually missed). It’d take ages to set up and involved tons of strings wrapped around pillows, alphabet blocks, and my bunk bed, and the payoff was never worth it.

Tagging: @evan-hansen-seizetheday @davey-in-a-minivan @thefriendlyneighborhooddyke @an-inspired-eternity @my-life-a-pop-opera @lykoi-the-nerd @tuckquartet @blessthisbroadwaymess @puff-poff @newsies-lesamis-oz-and-me

🦋Nicknames: At the theatre normally any variation on the word ‘tap’ because I can’t stand still without tap dancing (tappy, tapper(s), etc), buttons (from the years of pantomime I’ve worked - inside joke), Meg

🦋Zodiac: Sagittarius (although with this new old new one then I’m Ophiuchus)

🦋Height: I think about 5"4-5"6

🦋Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff

🦋Last thing I googled: ‘new star sign’

🦋Song stuck in my head: Jolly Holiday from Mary Poppins

🦋Number of followers: I honestly never look.

🦋Amount of sleep: Anywhere from 2 to 12 hours a night - I work tech in a theatre, we thrive on little sleep

🦋Lucky number: 4, 13

🦋Dream job: Theatre technician (mainly LX design or costume), Vet, Writer.

🦋Wearing: leggings and a top from the IDontMind mental health charity

🦋Favourite song: Changes daily, but usually As Long As You’re Mine from Wicked. However I will always dance to Footloose for some reason…

🦋Favourite Instrument: to hear, violin, to play, either ukulele or banjo

🦋Aesthetic: Has been described to me before as ‘chaotic chill’. Mysteries to be solved, old books, knickknacks that have a moving function for no reason, clocks and gears and cogs (oh my!), winter mornings, snowfall in the night under the streetlights, theatres when it’s just you.

🦋Favourite Author: I really don’t know there’s so many books!

🦋Favourite animal noise: Dog or birdsong

🦋Random: I’ve always wanted to have a bookshelf that has a sliding ladder and leads to a secret mystery room where I can go on an adventure. Also I am one of the only crew members at work to have seen/heard/e.t.c. all 3 ghosts in our theatre.

Tagging (the last few users I can find in my activity and anyone else who wants to!): @cutesiewoojin @theresa-mays-bum @lesbianpomatter @batsharkrepellent @theresagoodchanceicouldfly @royal-rickardian @swordoftimeandspace @quoththeraven-fuck

🥺Nicknames: I literally don’t have one, my parents use my dead name and my name is too short for a nickname.

🥺Zodiac: Sagittarius.

🥺Height: 5'3.5.

🥺Hogwarts house: Slytherin🐍.

🥺Last thing I googled: Jalaal Hartley.

🥺Song stuck in my head: Suffragettes.

🥺Number of followers: Around 170… I think.

🥺Amount of sleep: Anywhere between 5 and 12 hours.

🥺Lucky number: 13.

🥺Dream job: Designer, signer or actor.

🥺Wearing: Underwear (I’m in bed).

🥺Favourite song: Pioneers of Transportation, She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy or Down in New Orleans.

🥺Favourite instrument: There’s something extremely ethereal about a harp that I very much enjoy and the flute.

🥺Aesthetic: Vintage, child, minimalist.

🥺Favourite author: Tanya Landman, Sita Brahmachari, Cathy Cassidy and Jacqueline Wilson.

🥺Favourite animal noise: I love the sound of pigs and cows🐖🐄.

🥺Random: whaddup😎

Tagging: @a-seya-seya-kiya @grimdarklaurence @stealing-your-kittens @scribe-elderho-tan @scumbagsimon @time-and-space-penguin and anyone else who wants to have a go!

🌺 Nicknames: don’t really have any

🌺 Zodiac: Taurus

🌺 Height: 5’3” (about 160 cm)

🌺 Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff

🌺 Last thing I googled: gavin screaming meme

🌺 Song stuck in my head: You’ll Be Back from Hamilton

🌺 Number of followers: 1,018

🌺 Amount of sleep: A steady 7-9 hours a night (but those hours are def a lot later than they were pre-quarantine 😄)

🌺 Lucky number: 256

🌺 Dream job: Something either in biology or history

🌺 Wearing: A blue t-shirt with stripes, and jean shorts

🌺 Favorite song: Hmm, maybe Touch Tone Telephone (it’s so hard to pick just 1)

🌺 Favorite instrument: Piano (but I played the oboe as a kid)

🌺 Aesthetic: Idk, I like dark academia

🌺 Favorite author: I don’t read as much as I used to, but I would say Diana Gabaldon

🌺 Favorite animal noise: Cats purring

🌺 Random: I am a little obsessed with Stuart royals right now, and I’m currently writing a short story that’s kind of based on the Spanish Match of 1623.

Tagging @the-concept-of-galaxies @damn-yer-eyes @hwen-will-i-stop @2o2o-kit and whoever else wants to try!

🦄Nickname: O

🦄Zodiac: Scorpio (I think)

🦄Height: 5ft 7.5 in (172 cm)

🦄Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw (I don’t even read Harry Potter 😂)

🦄Last Thing I Googled: Inches to CM (I wonder why ⬆️⬆️)

🦄Song Stuck in my head: Mary I (Horrible Histories)

🦄Number of followers: 100!

🦄Amount of sleep: 7 hours (I gusss)

🦄Lucky Number: 2020 (I might change it)

🦄Dream Job: Playbill Designer

🦄Wearing: Unicorn slippers, unicorn socks, unicorn-puppy T-shirt, and black shorts

🦄Favorite Song: Sincerely Me from Dear Evan Hansen

🦄Favorite Instrument: Cowbell

🦄Aesthetic: I’m not sure anymore

🦄Favorite Author: Jane Austen or Shakespeare

🦄Favorite Animal Noise: IDK 😂

🦄Random: On Mondays I go vegan and I might do that on Thursdays too

Tagging: @callifornia @lordbyronbutworse @edettethegreat @herbluebirdmiracle and anyone else I guess

⭐️Nickname: Bea/ BEE 🐝 

⭐️Zodiac: Maybe Aquarius

⭐️Height: 4″11 (but 5″0 with shoes)

⭐️Hogwarts House: Slytherin 

⭐️Last thing I googled: When was the lightbulb invented 

⭐️Song stuck in my head: The Neva Flows from broadway’s Anastasia 

⭐️Number of followers: 80 something

⭐️Amount of sleep: A healthy 7 hours 

⭐️Lucky Number: 13

⭐️Dream Job: Get Money By Doing Nothing OR anything involving art, theater, or writing

⭐️Wearing: white t-shirt with the British flag on it, light orange hoodie, black fuzzy pj pants, black slippers

⭐️Favorite song: Burned Out by Dodie

⭐️Favorite instrument: Guitar or Harp

⭐️Aesthetic: idk 

⭐️Favorite Author: hey. this account is literally dedicated to Dumas and Shakespeare. Who do ya think?

⭐️Favorite animal noise: once again, idk

⭐️Random: I exist.

Tagging- @mcfuckingmcbastard @eddisfargo @sargent-major-jane (also btw @sargent-major-jane it confused me SO MUCH that you changed your username)

OK SO

I was just going through old papers from school, and I came across one of the short stories we had to read- The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams. 

When we read it in school, my class and teacher couldn’t agree on an interpretation of the story. Some people (me included) found the doctor in the story to be incredibly creepy. Others thought he was doing his best and the young girl was being unnecessarily difficult. 

To anyone else who read it- please tell me your interpretation

STILL going through old things- and I found THIS AMAZING WORD DOCUMENT.

Younger me was a comedy genius.

I strive to be as funny as her.

sargent-major-jane:

sargent-major-jane:

me @ literally everyone i know

it’s been a week so it’s time to be annoying about this again

Hmmm…. should I watch The Old Guard? Or should I stare at the walls until I think of something better to do with my time? Nobody knows…

sargent-major-jane:

edettethegreat:

sargent-major-jane:

sargent-major-jane:

me @ literally everyone i know

it’s been a week so it’s time to be annoying about this again

Hmmm…. should I watch The Old Guard? Or should I stare at the walls until I think of something better to do with my time? Nobody knows…

yes @edettethegreat oh my god you have to please oh my actual literal god please please it’s so good please yes

You’ll never guess which movie I just finished watching.

(Hint: It starts with “The”, ends with “Guard”, and maybe, possibly, has “Old” in the middle)

my overall thoughts while watching The Old Guard. They’re in order so I’ll be giving no context for them. Just word for word what I wrote down while watching.

( @sargent-major-jane it was a good movie thank you so much for posting about it)

*MOVIE STARTS*

-Hmm everyone’s already dead.

-I wonder why it’s called The Old Guard

-This looks like a sketchy drug deal or something. Motorcycle dude and backpack girl- no wait it’s not drugs it’s Don Quixote

-Idk what they’re talking about I thought they were immortal not time traveler (<- this was me not realizing just how old these guys are exactly)

-OOH NICE MOVE WITH THE SELFIE SWAP

-Is the girl in charge? IS SHE? … YES SHE IS!!!

-When the guy waved at the sniper dude. THAT was funny.

-”hmmm yes I’ll use my infrared goggles to- oops I’m dead”

-aaaaand they’re dead. Oh well.

-WAIT THAT’S THE SHOT FROM THE OPENING!

-They’re very much not dead.

-I sure hope protagonists’ team kills the other team

-Is she fighting with a fancy ax or something now?

-If cool soldier lady dies I’m not gonna continue watching.

-Didn’t she say Paris? (<- this was resolved about a second after I wrote it)

-Nile would be excellent at Cinema Sins 

-Nile’s in de-NILE hahahahaha

- “what are you gonna do- kill me?” HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

-woah this guy’s poetic (<- the dude who gave the whole love speech)

-I LOVE these guys 

-If it turns out that the Mona Lisa is actually her that would be cool 

-This guy’s a neat antagonist. He doesn’t look intimidating. But he sure loves stabbing people.

-I like this cashier

-If Andy dies that would be tragic, Alexa don’t play despacito

-WAIT. They won’t ALL die, right?? 

-This movie isn’t supposed to be this sad

- Ooooh extra dude’s a traitor! 

-I was wondering when that extra dude would get interesting

- “Your time is coming” “As is yours” Yeah you guys better kill fluffy hair dude

- that dude: “I thought it would be the end of disease” Nile: “ :/ ”

-No Andy. Stop. You’re dying you idiot. 

-WHAT’S WITH THE DRAMATIC MUSIC

-All I want is for Andy or Nile to kill the fluffy hair dude

-Andy you buffoon. Let Nile protect you.

-Nile. Don’t listen to Andy. Go first.

-Oh. Neither went first. Nice compromise 

- “I will kill her!” WILL YOU, FLUFFY HAIR??? WILL YOU??

- YES. THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO END A MOVIE.

-So NOW they’re in Paris. Or at least one of them is.

- OH SHE’S BACK! Is this setting it up for a sequel?

*MOVIE ENDS*

OK SO

thesynthesist:

edettethegreat:

I was just going through old papers from school, and I came across one of the short stories we had to read- The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams. 

When we read it in school, my class and teacher couldn’t agree on an interpretation of the story. Some people (me included) found the doctor in the story to be incredibly creepy. Others thought he was doing his best and the young girl was being unnecessarily difficult. 

To anyone else who read it- please tell me your interpretation

I hadn’t read it before but I just did and here’s what I think:

The doctor is indeed doing his best to begin with, and appears to be against the use of force to begin with (his disgust at the parents when they tell the girl the doctor won’t hurt her because he doesn’t want to scare her). However, any objections he has to violent behavior quickly goes away in the face of the girl’s violent reaction to him. 

This is where he starts to get incredibly creepy, as with the help of two other grown adults he wrestles a child for what seems to be a significant portion of time to get a spoon in her mouth, severely injuring her by completely ignoring her lack of consent. At first he seems to be justifying it as being for the greater good of her health but he also admits to enjoying it pretty soon after. 

The way the wrestling part is written reminds me of bits of other stories where there is a hunt or a grand battle where our narrator must triumph over an evil adversarial force and the surge of adrenaline makes them feel alive and ‘savage’. The narrator says he admires the girl more for her ferocity as the match between them goes on. He looses sight of the reason he’s there and what he’s actually trying to do. 

I think the point of the short was that it’s easy to justify the use of force when you are in a position of power even if you consider yourself someone who works for the good of other people and that there was a great adversary for the doctor to beat during the wrestling match but it wasn’t the little girl, it was his own desire to obtain her compliance through the use of force. While he wins the wrestling match against the girl eventually, he ultimately loses to his actual foe, himself. 

As for the little girl, considering she has 3 days worth of bacterial matting on the back of her throat which probably sucks, and also 3 whole grown adults trying to push her around while she’s hurt and scared I’d say she was acting perfectly reasonably. The fact that she wasn’t obeying someone in a position of power doesn’t mean that the use of force is justified but we’re also only given the POV from the doctor. That makes it easy for us to empathize with him and come down on his side even if his side ends up creepy and abusive. 

Again this leads me to believe that the point of the story is to show just how easy it can be to justify the use of force, because since we’re completely sunk into the doctor’s POV we are with him in a position of power. We are with him in that our ideal resolution to the situation is that the girl does as she is asked and opens her mouth so she can receive a diagnosis and treatment. So we are with him (largely) when he decides to use force, and some folks may be with him the whole way to the end. 

I think if you were to rewrite this short from the perspective of the little girl, her fear at both the doctor and the punishment of disobedience, her rising revulsion at the thought that she is helpless here between 3 people who no matter what they say do not wish to listen to her and help her, you’d have far less people thinking that the doctor was being reasonable. 

sargent-major-jane:

quick someone ask me for the top 5 fictional guys i would marry right now no questions asked

Who are your top… 10 fictional guys you would marry right now???