Do It For Him

Do it for him ✨️

(I spend way longer on this than I'd like to admit. Time to release him to the public)

(also it's the first time I ever wrote an alt text. I hope I did okay. pls tell me if not)

Let me have men about me that are fat,

Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,

He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

—Julius Caesar, Act1 Scene 2, Shakespeare

THIS IS THE CLIP

and yes it’s a two second clip … what about it

i think more puppets in Shakespeare always please and thank you

Someone today will read Shakespeare’s hamlet and say omg he’s just like me fr. Another person will read moby dick and proclaim Ishmael as an adhd king.

A person grieving for their recently deceased lover reads the iliad and they watch as Achilles rages and rages and god how righteous anger fueld by love is so devastating that it’s ramifications still affect the world several thousand years later.

We might one day settle down and read the epic of gilgamesh and watch as a king has to accept the death of the person he loved the most. One of the very first stories ever written and it was about coping with death, and how to grieve.

We don’t read classics because they’re old, we read them because they remind us that we are never alone. That a character created over 500 years ago struggled with the exact same problems we all still have today. That even a king from centuries past had to deal with death just like me. That’s what makes stories so powerful–they prove to us that we are never truly alone in what we are feeling.

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My collection of vintage Shakespeare imagery is dramatic.