my favorite part of hamlet is at the beginning when they see the ghost of hamlet sr for the first time
and the guards are like “Horatio, you go talk to it! You went to college!”
and Horatio is like “Yeah! I did go to college! I will go talk to the ghost!”
like. where did horatio go to college. did he go to ghost college
YES, ACTUALLYYES HE FUCKING DIDBC
(a) EVERY COLLEGE THEN WAS GHOST COLLEGE bc ghosts were widely believed to be Real™ n thus scholars learnt abt them. moreover, as everybody knows, ghosts only communicate in Latin; Latin, which also happens to be the scholastic language. Horatio is a scholar; he both knows about ghosts and knows Latin; as such his university education patently DOES make him best suited to ask this one what’s up (as obviously sth must be up for it 2b wandering around, why else wld it b here, i mean gawd)
(B) WITTENBERG WHERE HORATIO STUDIES WAS LIKE. THE MOST SPOOPYOF GHOST COLLEGES bc they were alllllll about theology n the supernatural n shit so SUPPOSING HORATIO WILL KNO HIS SHIT ABT GHOSTS IS IN FACT A THOROUGHLY SENSIBLE ASSUMPTION
this has been said before but i am fucking adding it again bc it HACKS ME TF OFF when ppl reblog the post w/o commentary as if OP jsut fucking checkmated Shakespeare when in fact all they managed to do was fail at the most basic historical contextualisation lmao
For those of you who don’t know, self harm can be subtle. It isn’t always visible scars and blood and such. Here’s a list of a few ways people self harm that are more subtle to watch out for in your friends.
– avoiding self-care (ex: not showering, not drinking water, not eating or overeating, keeping oneself awake) – not taking medication(s) – procrastinating or completely not doing an important task for the punishment they get in response – not talking – talking, but never about themselves – spending all their cash (to binge, so they don’t buy that self-harm item they’ve been looking at, so they can’t buy lunch tomorrow and have an excuse) or none of it (so they don’t have to eat, so they don’t get that boost of happiness from buying something, so they can watch you buy something and torture themselves with the idea that you feel bad about eating in front of them and therefor they feel guilty which is a negative feeling… yeah it’s confusing but it’s what my brain does) – not allowing comfort objects or comforting people when you need them – refusing to do anything that makes you happy because you “don’t deserve it” – overworking yourself so other people think you’re successful and happy while actually you’re just doing it to feel more stressed – setting your alarm earlier than you have to so you sleep less and are therefor more tired
It can get complicated and weird to have mental health issues. Become aware of when you or someone you love is self harming, even subtly, so you can begin to stop it. Don’t torture yourself.
I’m going to go try and take my own advice. In the meantime, know that you are valid; you are loved; you are worth it. Be safe ❤
America showing the rest of the world just how “Great” it is by giving pedophiles less than a year in prison while putting black people in prison for years for the heinous “crimes” of purging the human species of worthless sex offender oxygen thieves, firing a gun without killing or wounding ANYONE most villainous of all VOTING
God bless the american justice system! I mean sure Kenneth Sammons is probably lurking in an unmarked car near a playground even as I type these words, George Zimmerman the racist worthless creature who shot Trayvon Martin is still lurking on your streets able to go out and purchase a firearm and bullets whenever he wants and Brock Turner is free to slip whatever he wants into the drinks of god knows how many women while out on the prowl like the sex offender trash he is
But Crystal Mason won’t get to vote in any elections and clearly that’s what is REALLY important! Keeping as many black women as possible from participating in democracy!
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