okay but "would i were a man, i would eat his heart in the marketplace" is like. The Line of the play. it's beatrice's anger and frustration and, most importantly, her complete lack of power as a woman. her best friend and cousin was humiliated, abused, and left for dead, and there is nothing that she can do, because, even if she's allowed to make fun of the men when people find it funny, she ultimately has no power as a woman. and no one understands, no one believes her, no one gets the absolute rage that she feels on behalf of hero. to the men it's all a game. and it's this line that makes benedick understand. after that line, he goes from refusing to hurt claudio to promising to fight him, because he understands. he sees when no one else does that beatrice has no power. and he agrees to fight his friend, not because he wants to, but because he sees that she can't.
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I'd surrender my all. I'd vow it. I'd bleed desire and weep at her feet. It is her whom I'd whither and rot for.
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the thing about tiktok is that it’s so easy to come up with ideas that exploit your everyday, sincere interactions into bastardized snippets that try to capitalize on the sacred bonds u hold with the people you love most everyday, but to actually go through with it & revolve your life around trying to commodify relationships genuinely is so sad and has to be actually putrid after a certain point
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7. Thursdays.
i think of you often.
no, not often.
constantly.
in the day, in the night,
in the morning, in the afternoon,
all of the time.
i dont know if you remember me.
surely you must,
its not even been a year.
but do you?
i miss you.
i see you -
in cups of tea,
in games of solitaire,
in sadness and laughter.
you kept me sane.
i thank you every day.
i miss you.
thank you.
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For the record I was absolutely aware of how comically unhinged I was getting with those tags on the last poll, but like, I genuinely enjoy cracking myself up about something ridiculous like that and will periodically go back to read my old stuff and then laugh again. And I REALLY needed the laugh and the mental focus on something utterly trivial today.
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Weird having a birthday with mums side of the family and not having nana be here. She really carried so much of the conversation and made things more lively, it's quite quiet.
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