proposed new holiday: valoween. combination valentines and halloween. take a monster on a date
Guillermo Del Toro we know that’s you
To top off Easter/April Fools with Saint Oniisan or Young Saint Men #anime #youngsaintmen #saintoniisan (at Phoenix, Arizona)
First time attending Easter Service with my pals @adorkablejojo, her hubby and a fellow Hive member. It’s a sight to see as a Buddhist. #easter (at Foothills Baptist Church)
little known fact, millenials burned down the Library of Alexandria
And sank the Titanic
If you zoom in on photos of the grassy knoll on the day of the Kennedy assasination you will see someone playing Pokemon Go beside a high powered sniper rifle
Millenials shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
oh! I have to tell you guys a great story one of my professors told me. So he has a friend who is involved in these Shakespeare outreach programs where they try to bring Shakespeare and live theatre to poor and underprivileged groups and teach them about English literature and performing arts and such. On one of their tours they stopped at a young offenders institute for women and they put on a performance of Romeo and Juliet for a group of 16-17 year old girls. It was all going really well and the girls were enjoying and laughing through the first half – because really, the first half is pretty much a comedy – but as the play went on, things started to get quiet. Real quiet. Then it got up to the suicide scene and mutterings broke out and all the girls were nudging each other and looking distressed, and as this teacher observed them, he realised – they didn’t know how the play ended. These girls had never been exposed to the story of Romeo and Juliet before, something which he thought was impossible given how ubiquitous it is in our culture. I mean, the prologue even gives the ending away, but of course it doesn’t specify exactly how the whole “take their life” thing goes down, so these poor girls had no idea what to expect and were sitting there clinging to hope that Romeo would maybe sit down for a damn minute instead of murdering Paris and chugging poison – but BAM he died and they all cried out – and then Juliet WOKE UP and they SCREAMED and by the end of the play they were so upset that a brawl nearly broke out, and that’s the story of how Shakespeare nearly started a riot at a juvenile detention centre
Apparently something similar happened during a production of Much Ado at Rikers Island because a bunch of inmates wanted to beat the shit out of Claudio, which is more than fair tbh
honestly Shakespeare would be so pleased to know his plays were nearly starting brawls centuries into the future
Sandra Soapbox Cosplay 