“My only love sprung from my only hate, Too early seen unknown, and known too late—”
“Papa! You should have been an actor, the way you read my stories. It seems the only thing that suits you more than killing.”
“It does. But let Lestat finish, Claudia. It’s nearly sunrise, and we all need to sleep.”
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Happy Birthday… to you… Happy Birthday… To you. Happy Birthday Mon Prince of the vampires Happy Birthday to you I offer myself to be your first “Cake” of the night can i be your red velvet cake? … I love you
♛I do love to be sung to… merci beacoup for your little performance. I’ve already had my first “cake”, but there’s always room for more, you know I can’t resist red velvet… Dessert of dessert, mon cher?
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Causes of death in all the Shakespeare plays.
Stabbed takes the lead with 30, followed by 5 beheaded, 4 poisoned, and 3, in an excessive move, are stabbed AND poisoned.
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tom unintentionally gives thomas middleditch an inferiority complex during a round of improv shakespeare with ‘spring break othello’
My new favourite thing is mixing slang and colloquialisms from different generations, because the possibilities are endless. What I’m saying is it’s dandy, my home dude. Straight Wizard, m’lady. Sick af, rapscallions. are you picking up what I’m digging, my mellow cats? Not to toot my own horn but it’s the sickest. The illest, darling. A strumpet dont get shivery, me timbers
Basically Tom Hiddleston swearing.
“I’m not swearing. It’s a Shakespeare quote.”
Beetle wing embroidery of 1830-1832 Henry Art Gallery.
Thought this might be of interest to you, bc I adore this painting, and the costume:
“In 1888 actress Ellen Terry performed the role of Lady Macbeth at London’s Lyceum Theatre while wearing an awesome green gown bedecked with the 1,000 sloughed-off wings of the jewel beetle. It quickly became one of the most celebrated costumes of the Victorian era, immortalized in a portrait painted by John Singer Sargent.” (from this post by @archiemcphee)
Shakespeare’s Othello | Starring Omar Sy, Lea Seydoux, Gaspard Ulliel, Clemence Poesy, and Romain Duris.
Shakespeare’s tragedy set in contemporary Paris in the world of old money and the elite, a world made up of champagne, fast cars, and lavish parties. Self-made man Othello (Sy), has recently eloped with the breathtaking Desdemona (Seydoux), after bringing himself up from the Paris slums to become the founder of his own company. Although Othello and Desdemona’s love is passionate and genuine, it is not accepted by all: Desdemona’s CEO father is furious that Othello has allegedly seduced his daughter, and Roderigo, a wealthy bank owner and a possible husband for Desdemona, is angered that the “new money” Othello has stolen her from him. Othello takes the somewhat inexperienced Michael Cassio (Duris) as his new business partner, angering Iago (Ulliel) who believes that he deserves the job over Cassio. When Othello must go to Montparnasse for business, Desdemona goes with him, as well as Cassio, Iago, and Iago’s wife Emilia (Poesy). What no one knows is that Iago has plans to destroy Othello’s marriage and his business, bringing down everyone in the process.
Act V, Scene I
Hamlet: Why is it so hard for some people to stop being assholes?
Horatio: I don’t know, you tell me.
Hamlet: That’s the thing– no matter how hard I try, I can’t stop acting this way. I know how self absorbed I am. I know I can be cynical, jealous, hateful, even abusive at times. I know that I’m privileged to get away with half the things I do. Self awareness is not something I lack.
Horatio: Then what do you lack? Advancement?
Hamlet: Self control. I lack self control.
what is the main difference(s) of gothic horror / tragedy etc. and horror? aka why is crimson peak gothic?
I don’t know what post it was, but if its any help, horror is more of an element while gothic is a genre/mode/mood (scholars like to butt heads on it), horror would be a madman breaking into your house and slaughtering you–it scares you, its dark and grim, but it doesn’t effect you beyond the scare.
A Gothic would have you anxious over the madman, questioning your belief in such a story, and possibly in God and superstition as a whole, while wearing something elegant in a gracefully lit room, with overtones of love running through that anxiety–the madman still shows up and there may still be a slaughter but there is a chase, there is hiding, there is terror instead of horror.
Compare Crimson Peak to Halloween, or Jane Eyre to any lifetime movie where a girl marries a person with a dark secret. Hammer Horror films were very good at treading the line between Gothic and Horror, as was the original Dracula novel. For another book comparison: Frankenstein is a Gothic, but IT is a horror.
Tragedy is common but not a necessity in the Gothic, it often comes as the price for including the terror. Crimson Peak ends in tragedy (and opens with it, as most Gothics do), but the terror and suspense and questions overpower the tragedy–if you haven’t seen it yet, I’ll tell this much: you leave it excited rather than depressed, there are a handful of questions like melting snow in your hand that drip away between your fingers before you can fully form them, ethereal and haunting visuals wash away the last of the nightmare, and then the credits roll–this is the Gothic, as opposed to pure tragedy where we see Horatio speaking of Hamlet’s nobility as he stands over the corpses of the last of his friends.
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