#yes they dated

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[time-woods]

they are on a picnic date cloud watching

(well one of them is)

#screw fancy dining at the ritz let them go on a picnic date at a park #let them live in that simplicity #good omens #good omens 2 #crowley #aziraphale #also yes aziraphale is wearing crowleys coat

[thesociallyanxioussociopath]

Part 4 and End of Alastor's bad day Alastor survived his fake date and will probably (not) think twice in the future before trying to one-up Lucifer on unknown projects. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #radio demon #alastor hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #radiostatic #kinda ? #charlie morningstar #charlie hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel lucifer #vaggie #my art #and we will never know what else happened on that fake date #except that Vox is still alive after it which is a miracle #also yes I do have the full color HD version of the photo #still haven't decided if I'm gonna do something with that #it's just my desktop background for now #fun fact their poses in the photo was greatly inspired by the “cock shame”/“pussy facing the world” meme

[lazylittledragon]

mombin pt 6 and look who showed up

(1)(2)(3)(4) (5)

#stranger things #platonic stobin #steddie #steve harrington #robin buckley #eddie munson #cw pregnancy #sorry to rob you of the meet cute but steve's got a lot going on. sometimes he needs a tinder date #someone said on my first mombin 'steddies will insert eddie into everything' kshjsdjsdjs #yes i will. i would be betraying myself if i didn't #ALSO #there is a teeny little plothole/inconsistency somewhere in this #it's like. easily explainable #i want to see if anyone else notices it #it's not that the car is backwards btw let's say that was just a crazy u turn

[divinebunnii]

cute date idea: shamelessly being goofs and also very sexual in the kitchen at 3am

source: yes

#yes yes and yes #thoughts #bunni speaks #love #date idea

[goldenpinof]

6:47 (2018 -> 2023)

#dan and phil #daniel howell #amazingphil #phil lester #danandphilgames #dan and phil games #my edits #mentol illness. that's what it is #Dan and Phil are Dating Boys #What If Your Best Friend Secretly Hated You? #6:47 #yes. in both cases #hi i'm phil #parallels

[arunneronthird]

the thinking chair

#happy batman day! #neeeearly missed it holy shit ive been struggling to draw but cant miss completely random date festival for bats can i #yes i am indeed a froggy chair supremacist #batman #bruce wayne #batman day #dc comics #my art #ladies. gentlemen. you have eaten well.

[dahliadagger]

sir you'll have to specify that a little

#atsushi: cool. so. uhhhhh. hat man from port mafia or benadryl #correct answer is both like yeah he's dating chuuya but also probably on mushrooms and hasn't slept in a week #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungou gay dogs #soukoku #skk #my art #yes i used that one feral stick figure meme as a reference

[temeyes]

won't be home for a few days! please look after this big guy for me!

#also pls make sure his meals are varied (no- diff kinds of burger doesn't count!!!) #yes you may bring gaz price and soap for play dates to keep him entertained #my art #2024 #call of duty #call of duty: modern warfare #call of duty: modern warfare ii #call of duty: modern warfare iii #cod #cod mw #cod mwii #cod mwiii #mw #mw2 #mw3 #modern warfare #ghost cod #simon ghost riley #simon riley #art #fanart #digital art #digital drawing #sketch #doodle #video games

[sentientsky]

guess who’s been wading thru the archives again

#yes i know it’s as a result of semantic drift etc etc but it’s funny (to me) #this is from the late 19th century I THINK #i found the clipping in my files and forgot the exact publication date #it’s somewhere between 1880 and 1910 definitely (cause that was the era I was examining) #the original paper was discussing chameleons hehe #good omens #crowley #ineffable husbands #good omens 2 #aziracrow #aziraphale #go2 #ineffable lovers #ineffable wives #good omens season 2 #shitpost #good omens shitpost #gomens #gomens 2 #David tennant #Michael sheen

[solarmorrigan]

Steve who absently touches his face a lot + Steve who wears glasses = Steve whose glasses are constantly smudged

He does his best to wipe them off, but most of his shirts aren't made from a good fabric for it, and they mostly just end up smudged in a different way

Eddie, on the other hand, is almost constantly wearing soft-worn t-shirts and flannels. He starts offering to clean Steve's glasses for him when he notices him struggling with it. After a while, it just becomes habit to take Steve's glasses and wipe them off when he sees they've gotten smudged. Like he just. Sort of plucks them right off of Steve's face, cleans them, and puts them back on for him. Without asking or saying anything. And Steve just lets him

No, they are not dating

#yes yes obligatory 'they are not dating' punchline but I mean come on #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #stranger things #solar wrote #eddiesteve

[ditzybat]

j’onn, who’s been watching one too many sitcoms with m’gann, seeing bruce and clark exhibit mannerisms similar to that of on screen couples: ah yes, they are married.

#j’onn: i will be happy to provide babysitting services for any future date nights you and clark may have #bruce: date nights…? #j’onn: yes it is important for married couples to get away from the kids every once and a while #dc #bruce wayne #clark kent #j’onn j’onzz #batman #superman #martian manhunter #superbat

[walrus-tusk-615bc]

Imagine your polycule’s cottagecore gf goes on a vacation, comes back as an evil sorceress and kills the majority of your kingdom’s population, then resurfaces again like 1000 years later, traumatized, but with cool fairy powers while the evil sorceress version of her is still out there somehow. Would that be fucked up or what.

#Crk #white lily cookie #pure vanilla cookie #dark cacao cookie #hollyberry cookie #golden cheese cookie #pitaya dragon cookie #tarte tatin cookie #snapdragon cookie #Polycule ancients #Yes both Pitaya and Tarte Tatin are dating Holly #I like to think White Lily got cool a bug form after EF died #I made Golden Cheese half-sphinx cause it looked cool #Ancients crk

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Laios's three Boy Best Friends. And yes, they hate him.

#dungeon meshi #laios touden #toshiro nakamoto #chilchuck tims #kabru #BF in this context could be boyfriend or best friend. The line is so blurry. #Chilchuck less so but whatever is going on between Shuro and Laios & Kabru and Laios is giving strong: #“dude if you were a girl I'd date the hell out of you”. And from the genderswap extra's that sentiment is canon for BOTH. #This was made prior to the translation of the Laios & Kabru & Shuro restaurant date comic and honestly I am just feeling vindicated. #I don't even know what to call this dynamic other than a situationship. There is so much going on between all of them. #Even on a purely platonic reading - the miscommunication and male yearning for friendship hurt so bad. #When we got the Big Hug scene in the epilogue arc I was whooping and hollering! Pure catharsis moment! #I also don't like hugs very much so I really felt it went Shuro ('hates being touched') went in for the bear hug. #Do not get me started on the agony of 'always lying' Kabru telling the truth (I just wanted to be friends) #and 'always believes' Laios thinking it's another lie and brushing him off. #I am once again supporting dungeon meshi day by posting art. Please watch dungeon meshi. #obligatory edit because I’m tired: YES. Chilchuck cares for Laios and him admitting it was a huge part of his arc #YES he is more just fed up with him that actually hating him. #I needed a third guy to be canonically done with his ass for the THREE WEED SMOKING GIRLFRIENDS reference

[felsicveins]

The Brozone reunion tour is going well so far

#trolls #trolls 3 #trolls band together #brozone #jd ex husband #trolls oc otto #trolls oc #john dory #john dory trolls #jd trolls #floyd trolls #trolls floyd #trolls bruce #bruce trolls #hes there too : ) #yes #both jd and floyd dated otto #more info to come #how do they know theyre looking at the same troll 🤔 i guess they dont #well.... floyd knows ....

[seiseimaru]

pen pressure still not working,,,maybe ill redraw this someday….T_T

#not orv #i drew this on mspaint pls be nice #fear and hunger #cahara #enki ankarian #ragnvaldr #d’arce #yes i used the dating sim color palettes #i love blue hair pronouns cahara #couldve put legarde in this but honestly this is funnier to me #fear and hunger meme #i see no difference #love is love