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i want to scream "bisexual culture" but i know better and thus i scream "theatre culture" instead

ugh the TENDERNESS of it all, i am going to EXPLODE

HE FINALLY UNDERSTOOD oh my GOD thANK YOU. i love oblivious idiots. idiot men are my type. please let me know if you are an oblivious man i Will date you🔪🔪🔪

Oliver: looking for gay subtext is wishful thinking. grow up
also Oliver, not even ten pages later: i need to... stop my collegue... i mean ROMEO whom my collegue is playing... from leaving the stage.... i wonder why i skipped lines and made this scene sound gay as fuck..... a mystery😳

"I glanced over my shoulder at the philosophers, still debating Euclid’s possibly homoerotic obsession with Socrates. (It sounded like wishful thinking to me.)" this boy is Straight Up A Theatre Student. someone should fill him in on the Theatre Gay Agenda and tell him everything has a gay subtext and he should actually be the first to notice. this is scandalous

Yes i was at indigo and then my favourite used books store today and Yes i went feral with those editions of shakespeare. Maybe a certain book with a shit ton of quotes from shakespeare is to blame for this and Maybe i was just talking and thinking about shakespeare a lot recently, i would ask you to be patient with me in this trying time

“These kids,” he said. “The fourth-years. I don’t trust them.”“Why not?”“They’re a bunch of fucking actors,” Colborne said. “They could all be lying through their teeth, and how would we know?” haha yeah literally never thought of it this way but FUCK. what a terrifying and valid concern oh my god

hhhngffnfhhh these Shakespearean puns combining sex and death and humour in a novel with quotes from Shakespeare are KILLING ME. the IMPLICATIONS of this. the POWER

there is NO excuse for sleeping in your jeans, not even if there was a murder recently. absolutely NO sleeping in jeans, Oliver is a disaster

this was absolutely NOT what i expected to happen ABSOLUTELY NOT🤔 though it makes sense🤔 amazing

the disaster™️ is slowly building up and i Love It. everyone (mostly Oliver) is oblivious and i Love It. very intricate much drama many stress I Love It !!!

yes i picked this up on a whim while in the middle of two other books and exams coming up yes this us how i live my life. this book is giving me maze runner vibes and any book that gives me maze runner vibes is a good book

i'm starting to piece together the structure and also i definitely am reading Macbeth asap and also why is this so beautifully written that my heart is breaking

"Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster." — the further i read, the more i understand just how terrified i actually am of theatre students when i'm not busy admiring their talent and passion holy SHIT. but also like, how is this book so real and alive i-

me: wow this could not get any better
n.k. jemisin: how about a polyamorous relationship
me: oh hold on sister....hold on haha wh- wdym haha wh-
n.k. jemisin: but get this... they also have a child

OJSHSHSISHSJZKSJSKSJ?????? AH. A H . THIS IS COMING TOGETHER IN A WAY I DID NOT EXPECT AND IM SO EXCITED

"Also, they're pirates." HELL YES BABY PIRATES??? HOW IS THIS STILL ONLY GETTNG BETTER

i feel like i should mention for anyone who wants to read this, it's a great book it's Phenomenal in my opinion but there are some sentitive topics and triggering graphic scenes. not something i'm personally turned off by but i know many people would consider it a Lot w/o a warning so. jsyk

hi i'd like to issue a complaint: this book makes me feel bittersweet because im constantly reminded that i could have picked drama and theatre and chose english instead and i dont regret my choice but it's bittersweet do you understand me it's bitt-

being allergic to chalk is possibly the NERDIEST thing to ever exist, what an icon

you might be wondering, nadia, how the hell did you manage to spend your entire life studying literature and get away with never actually reading shakespeare, and the truth is, i don't know. this book absolutely must make me interested and force me to finally read some is what im saying

just had the first class discussion and I Did Not Know This Book Could Be Even Better Than I Already Thought It Was Yet Here We Are

im not updating because what can i say about a good book other than that it's good, like??? i'm glad there are things i can look forward to doing every day this month, yes the end of semester is killing me, yes i am barely holding on, yes i am grateful for this book on the syllabus, yes

i can't believe an assigned book is making me realise just how much i missed being excited about Good Books. these are truly dire and trying times y'all

well, this was thoroughly unsatisfying. rtc

this is so profoundly boring that i absolutely must keep complaining to you in every way i know how. i need to entertain myself by making fun of this bland pseudo-deep wannabe-beautifully written book, otherwise i might just become the first person to perish by starving myself of excitement or a single fuck

this reads like somebody summarizing a real and exciting full-length book for me and i'm pretty sure that's not a definition of middle grade😶

aren't children's books supposed to be, like, the opposite of super boring😶

im so tried what even is this book literally nothing is happening im going in circles and it doesnt develop the characters or the plot goodbyeeee