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 is the scholastic language. Horatio is a scholar, thus both knows abt ghosts and knows Latin, so it is very reasonable to assume he will b able to ask this one what up (as obviously sth must b up 4 it 2b wandering around, why else wld it b here, gawd, this is like. the most basic of basic-level shit)
(B) WITTENBERG WHERE HORATIO STUDIES WAS LIKE. T H E 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 of this scene n make a fcuking fool of emselves lmao
this feels less like a “checkmate, Shakespeare” moment than a “fuck was this dude on, this shit’s surreal” moment
personally I kinda love the complete effect of “thing that made sense when originally written appears hilarious/fascinating/weird as balls to people who don’t have that context, and then context is made known to them and it’s like a whole new level of supercool”
it’s like the circle of life for shakespeare plays. “lol have the college guy talk to the ghost because as a college guy he has the necessary experience” transmutes into “every college was ghost college in shakespeare’s time” and the whole effect is awesome.
The existence of millions of free resources curated tirelessly by volunteers on the internet is one of the best demonstrations that people are motivated by far more than just personal profit.
Linux and wikipedia are my favourite examples to give
My neighbors call my cat “the giant cat upstairs”. I don’t get it…I mean, just see how tiny her paws are! 😉 She’s a polydactyl Maine Coon, so there’s a few more toes than usual ❤
Good lord thats a large many toed paw. I wanna see all of the giant kitty!!
She’s not entirely happy with me for this, but there you go ^^ This is the paws owner, Berta ❤ She’s a good size for a female Maine Coon as they tend to be slightly smaller than the males are but she comes in at just around 8 kg. Im 166 cm tall and when standing normally, her back reaches my knees just to give a better size comparison
I always laugh when somebody declares James Potter on the verge of expulsion for his pranks in fic because Malfoy was literally a Death Eater trying to kill the Headmaster and Dumbledore was like “Let’s just see if we can gently guide him away from this” I’m pretty sure the only thing that gets you expelled at Hogwarts is if you have already straight up murdered someone
Tom Riddle: *straight up murdered someone*
Dumbledore: *keeps an annoyingly close eye on*
me, rereading my own writing: My Guy, Have You Ever Met A Semicolon You Did Not Immediately Take To Bed; Have You Ever Heard Of Ending Sentences, Pal; Why Do You Just Spend All Your Time Caressing Semicolons As You Make Sweet Love To Them; Learn How To Use Commas And Conjunctions You Semicolon Fucker
EY FATTY BOOM BOOM 