Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

mumblingsage:

jellyfishdirigible:

strixus:

iamthepureblindraven:

theumbrellaseller:

one thing I find hilarious is when Shakespeare quotes are used out of context

like, people are always saying “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them” as if it’s all deep and meaningful when actually it comes from a prank letter in Twelfth Night

and “This above all: to thine own self be true” comes from Polonius in Hamlet wherein the joke is that he’s an old pompous dude giving a long and rambling speech full of contradictory pointless advice to his son

“Brevity is the soul of wit” is another joke, because again, it’s made by Polonius who will just not shut up

it’s “we are such stuff as dreams are made on” not “of “, as in, “such stuff as dreams are built on”

“wherefore art thou, Romeo” doesn’t mean “where are you, Romeo” it means “why the fuck are you called Romeo, shit, I wanted to bang you but I can’t because you’re a goddamn Montague”

all these lines have acquired a kind of dignity in text that they never had in performance or are constantly misinterpreted

It’s not necessarily bad but it is kind of funny, sometimes.

#GREATNESS THRUST UPON THEM WAS A SEX JOKE#THE GREATNESS#WAS HIS PENIS#HIS FUCKING PENIS#STOP USING IT SERIOUSLY IT WAS A DICK JOKE#IM B E G G I N G YOU (x)

THIS. 

“To gild the lily” 

NOPE

It’s:

“ Therefore, to be possess’d with double pomp,
To guard a title that was rich before,
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. “

And the one the that ALWAYS pisses me off

Why, then the world’s mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.
I will retort the sum in equipage.

Oysters are not easy to open. You open them violently and with force. The world is not your oyster easily. It is your oyster with force and brutality.

“it was a dick joke” EVERYTHING he wrote was a dick joke

Re the last comment: UNTRUE. Sometimes he wrote cunt jokes.

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i-hope-you-choke-on-it:

epochryphal:

psa “here’s a #suicide hotline with zero context” is so unhelpful and upsetting

i need to know at a minimum if they’re
1. religious-based
2. lgbT-competent
3. risk-reduction or total abstinence
4. going to inform any authorities, call ambulances, that shit

jfc shoving a string of numbers at ppl with “this’ll fix it!!!” is so insulting and unrealistic, you have no idea how many folks have been failed by this shit already

moreover: tag your fucking suicide hotlines

ok this is the single most relevant, important thing ive seen on tumblr in fucking months i want to throw OP a fucking party

a good majority of these numbers you’re flinging at people have the most INSULTING approach imaginable, they basically will just repeat everything that you’re saying back to you (“it sounds like you’re really sad! :\”) and if you mention you are actively suicidal/in severe distress they either call an ambulance against your will or tell you they “can’t help you in this severe state” and hang up on you

literally, i am not joking.

i have yet to hear of a single hotline that does not have religious/cult motivations, is respectful of the caller’s wishes not to be contacted by EMT’s/police if they so choose, and is fully equipped to actually have a fucking functional conversation beyond repeating sentences back verbatim and spoon-feeding DISGUSTING and insulting advice/platitudes (“too many people love you, you have to think of them”, “look for the positives!” “be strong!!!!”)

After being let down by the mental health system so many times I’m practically fucking underground I am EXTREMELY passionate about this, PLEASE reblog the fuck out of this so people can gain a better understanding of what suicide hotlines actually are and will stop offering them to distressed people reaching out for help and then frolicking away thinking they were a super special helpful snowflake

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calamity-cain:

death-list-five:

fight-0ff-yourdem0ns:

pongoplease:

Like seriously I wish we had a more comprehensive sex education program in the U.S. You know how many guys I know who had no idea an unaroused vagina is only 2-3 inches deep? Or that the cervix raises up when aroused to accommodate dick? Or that if a girl is “tight” that generally means she’s not turned on and you’re shitty in bed? Or that the cervix has an entire cycle it goes through throughout the month where is changes hardness, placement in the vagina, wetness? Like, when you’re ovulating your cervix gets soft and raises high up into the vagina and your hormones get you really horny. It’s like natures way of moving the furniture around and fluffing the pillow for dick because it wants to get pregnant. And before menstruation, it gets really hard and low in the vagina. It’s basically inactivating it’s Facebook and saying “I just need some alone time for a few days”

Ladies and gentlemen, take a moment to learn about vaginas. Men, take an interest into your woman’s menstrual cycle!

U.S. Needs better sex Ed because I’m a 23 year old woman and didn’t even know all of this

Hi I had no idea about the cervical cycle.

God bless this post pls share it far & wide

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