My favorite genre!!

Jo: Oh, however did you know the poem was mine?

The poem: Four girls named Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March were all sisters who lived together. Jo was a writer, just like me. Their home address was —

love shakespeare. did a hamlet run tonight, looked someone dead in the eye to say “am i a coward?” during a speech and the fucker shrugged and nodded

Hot wedding idea, the worst man, it’s his duty to try and prevent the wedding at all costs.

THEY FUCKING DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

okay what did i miss

(yes some of these overlap and some are suppositions. for example if parchment is always used for ephemera, rough drafts, notes, and never re-used or re-purposed, we can also assume that the author is unaware of wax tablets as a concept)

David Tennant as Touchstone in a Royal Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like It (1996).

Photo by Reg Wilson [x]

Actively trying to summon them

Unusual flintlock pistol with integrated lantern, Italy, early 19th century

from Czerny's International Auction House

agamemnon was killed with a sword vs agamemnon was killed with an axe…… neither of these are correct. the only source i trust is this etruscan funerary urn where agamemnon is killed by clytemnestra bashing him on the head with a chair

my beloved

from a moral standpoint tentacles can pleasure men just as much, however male tentical erotica is not as common

I’m sorry a… moral standpoint?

Latest xkcd is so good

u know someone’s about to get dragged through the mud when an academic uses the phrase ‘it’s tempting to assume’

Everyone gives Sherlock Holmes a hard time about being mean about Watson's writing, but honestly imagine you told your roommate "sure, you can write up an account of my work for the newspaper," thinking it would be like, about the murder, but then he publishes it and it's 90% about you, as a person, and it's a huge hit and now everyone in London knows that you hoard newspapers and do cocoaine when you're depressed. Because I think you'd be little miffed too.