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Here's a remade masterpost of free and full shakespeare adaptations! Thanks @william-shakespeare-official for this excellent post. Unfortunately, a lot of the links in it are broken, so I thought I'd make an updated version (also I just wanted to organize things a bit more)

Bonuses:

From the original post:

  • A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet.
  • Russian Hamlet here
  • Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern Macbeth retelling.
  • Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here.
  • This one is the Taming of the Shrew modern retelling.
  • The french Romeo & Juliet musical with English subtitles is here!
  • Here's the 1948 one,
  • the Orson Wells Othello movie with Portuguese subtitles there
  • A Lego adaptation of Othello here.
  • Here's commentary on David Tennant's Richard II
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The Twilight Zone: Our episode "A Slot Machine Chases You Around Physically" was meant as a cautionary tale about the predatory nature of the gambling industry

The Gambling Industry: We've invented the slot machine that chases you around physically from The Twilight Zone episode "A Slot Machine Chases You Around Physically"

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That’s a real episode, for anyone who didn’t know.

The Fever (The Twilight Zone) - Wikipedia
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Daniel Jackson: *mutters* “أنت أحمق.”

Jack O’Neill: “Yeah, I know.”

Sam Carter: “You speak Arabic?”

Jack O’Neill: “No, I just know the phrase ‘you’re an idiot’ in every language he speaks.”

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haha nooooo don’t recreate puritanism under the guise of progressivism because you don’t have critical thinking skills like for realllll stopppp haha

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my third new riso!! this is a redraw of a luce piece from forever ago but i wanted to try a color palette i would usually avoid (namely red/green lol) to make the mood more creepy... 3 colors

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Anonymous asked:

Would you say that Comics Starks are Old Money™️ and the MCU Starks are **Nouveau Riche**? That’s the vibes I get.

whenas-in-silks answered:

Huh. I absolutely see what you mean. I think purely in terms of canon, that’s not accurate. In 616, Howard was the one who founded SI, and he was the one who built the mansion. The wiki said he founded the company with his father, but still, that’s only going two generations at most. I imagine he was from a well-to-do background–he doesn’t exactly give off “self-made man” vibes–but there’s money and there’s Money. So I don’t think he’s Old Money™️ the way, say, Jan Van Dyne is.

But the vibes are definitely there. My guess would be that it has a lot to with the cultural background in which the characters were created. 616 Tony was created in the early 60s, which is basically the 50s, which is Mad Men. I think people probably had a very different idea of what a millionaire was back then. Like, look at the different power fantasies in the pre-Iron Man Tonys. 616 Tony is brilliant, charming, handsome, sophisticated, rich. He could’ve stepped from the pages of a magazine. It’s the fantasy of achievable perfection–not only having it all, but being it all. Whereas MCU Tony is the fantasy of doing whatever the fuck you want, whenever the fuck you want it, no apologies. It’s a fantasy of life without restraint.** In the 60s, being a ladies’ man was a thing, an extant cultural concept–flirting with coiffed debutantes, breaking hearts but never promises (because none were ever made). There’s… not really a space in our present culture for a “ladies’ man” that isn’t filed under “asshole.” So we get the 12 for 12 on the Maxim cover models, and MCU Tony’s slut-shaming PA left to dispose of his one-night stands. And then, of course, there’s the fact that 616 Tony was written as the benevolent face of capitalism (in a publication aimed at children no less), whereas MCU Tony was an arms manufacturer in the post-Bush years. He was always gonna have to be a little bit scummy (I say this with infinite love in my heart); it’s what the cultural context demanded.

SO that’s a very long-winded way of saying, yes, I do think 616 Tony gives off Old Money™️ vibes, but that’s not because he’s Old Money compared to people in his universe (we can’t all trace our wealth back to when New York was New Amsterdam, Janet); it’s because he’s Old Money compared to MCU Tony.

**Obvs both canons turn these fantasies on their heads the second Vietghanistan happens. The entire plot of the first Iron Man film is Tony dealing with the consequences of his selfishness (I don’t mean this in a bash-y way, that’s just… like, that’s the arc of the movie, that’s what it’s written to be about, about a rich and powerful dude learning to take some fucking responsibility), while the “man who has it all” becomes this horrible mask 616 Tony has to wear, forced to keep living an illusion, cutting himself off from any real hope of connection (as he will remind you, constantly, every other panel, presumably while crying).

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Saw a comment or two about how this was Pepper bashing, and at the risk of taking a ride on the dreaded Disk Horse, let me say, oops, I’m sorry, that was genuinely on me. I trying to make a dig at the trope her character is made to embody in one particular scene; it was not intended as a dig on Pepper herself, but that’s kind of a weird distinction to make and I did not do a good job of making it clear in context. So honestly, sorry, I don’t want to make anyone feel that they or their faves are being attacked, that was my bad and I will be more careful next time.

But I do think that scene and what it represents is worth talking about, both in terms of the way Tony is set up as (and, to some people, persists as) a male power fantasy, and, since we’re here, what a sloppy and sexist bit of writing it is. Because Pepper does slut-shame Christine Everhart and, implicitly, Tony’s other casual sex partners. She literally refers to it as “taking out the trash.“ I actually like Pepper, and I tend to just… ignore this scene when I’m thinking about her character for like, fic or headcanons or whatever, because I find it so distasteful.

The REASON this scene exists is partly, like I said, sloppy writing. It establishes her as a love interest by displaying (a) her loyalty, and (b) her jealousy, which is itself a power fantasy and a pretty tired and sexist trope (”oooooooh, too hot bitches in a jealous cat fight” no. thank you. or if you really want to get into it, the classic contrast between man-eating go-getter vs the tireless and faithful sweetheart, giving so much and asking so little in return, it’s fucking Circe vs Penelope and I for one am OVER IT).

But I think the real reason this scene exists is the way it slots into this narrative about pre-Afghanistan Tony and the fantasy he represents.

The power fantasy is that Tony is so rich that he can afford to pay someone to perform the unpleasant parts of his misogyny for him. He can wham bam thank you ma'am and then he literally has an employee to “take out the trash” for him; the fact that this employee is female constitutes a tacit endorsement of his treating his sex partners as disposable.

Again, I’m not–I want to be very clear–talking about the characters here, who I think they are as people, but about the framing of narrative in a cultural context. I don’t read MCU Tony as a misogynist (or not any more so than your average ciswhite male of privilege–certainly not unforgiveably so) and I don’t think he actually thinks of his sex partners as disposable. But that’s the power fantasy that’s being summoned there.

There’s a reason so many dude bros and wannabe fuckboys (and comic writers, god help us) cling to this vision of pre-Afghanistan Tony despite the tremendous amount of character growth he undergoes almost immediately in the actual film (and, I’d argue, even the depth and nuance that is shown before the Ten Rings). It’s the fantasy of power without consequences. The sort of people who tell racist jokes but go ape-shit when they get called out for it–that’s who that particular fantasy appeals to. The whole point of the film is subverting that fantasy, but, yanno. Fuckboys gonna fuck I guess.

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There is something so special to me about the way in which people mourn fictional characters. The funeral services of Laura Palmer. The devestated live reactions to Colonel Blake's death. Something about attachment. Something about these characters representing the deaths of so many in real life. For Laura the young women failed by society. For Blake the men who went to war and never came home.

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iron man 2 tony i fucking love you

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he thought he was dying so he gave away stark industries and iron man, the two things in the world that mattered the most to him, to the two people who mattered the most to him except he pretended one was a celebration and the other was an accident and the only person he felt like he could be vulnerable with for a moment was the woman he believed was just enough of a professional stranger to not pry

and even though he had his whole life to do it, this is the year he revives stark expo and races a car on live television and throws a ridiculous birthday party for himself and eats a box of donuts inside a donut because well it's now or never and god forbid people find out that tony stark is actually a vulnerable mess who never figured out how to deal with grief god forbid tony stark not go out with a bang!

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and you know what else?? arms

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#im2 BELOVED#sometimes i like to imagine that race car driver#(also sidebar so many people harp on tony like doing the race is insanely reckless of him#when like… he’s clearly a very competent driver? he definitely built that car he knows how to drive it#it’s no more reckless than any of the other drivers doing it#maybe a bit of a dick move to the guy who should have been racing but when you think about it)#because like imagine you get kicked out of MONACO GRAND PRIX#by the dick ceo who owns your car#you’re mad. you’re so mad. the racing suit even looks better on him FUCK#so you go to some bar in monaco to drown your sorrows#and then like 10 minutes later you see on the news the car YOU WERE MEANT TO BE IN#get sliced clean in half#and you realize that if you had raced today. you would be dead.#like ok yes you could call racing a bit of a dick move on tony’s part.#but it’s a dick move that undoubtedly saved people’s lives#like vanko was just gonna go on the track and kill prople until tony showed up#now tony is already there#oh also once again let’s think about the expo being stated to last for a year#and how badly off tony is so quickly re: the palladium#(i fully don’t think he would have made it to justin’s presentation and i think vanko knew that)#and how much longer it would have gone after his death#the expo would have become a memorial. via @the-faultofdaedalus

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“you cannot, my lord, take anything of me i would more willingly part withal, except my life” is one of the easiest comedic lines in hamlet, but let me tell you it’s a KILLER when the actor delivers the subsequent repetitions of “except my life” like fozzie bear sensing that his joke did not quite land

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statler and waldorf voice “though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” “well there sure isn’t any COMEDY in it!” “DOHOHOHOHO!”