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Poster by Arthur Szyk for the Jewish Book Council of America/National Jewish Welfare Board, 1947.

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
also me when I was applying to PhD programs

we all love timeloops, but what piece of media introduced you to the concept? i feel like it says a lot about how and why someone enjoys them. reblog and tag with your first loop!

how come you’ll say tragedy is your favorite genre and then 100 thousand million people will be like “you should check out this adaptation of this famous tragedy but the twist is there’s a happy ending this time.” GET THAT AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nobody ever tells me to check out a Hamlet adaptation where things go even worse for him
Hamlet but he slept weird and is neck hurts a little bit through the whole play
honestly I think everyone should just play Hamlet this way anyway. he should have a tension migraine
I dunno, “famous tragedy but with a happy ending” worked okay for Goethe

They’re about to drop the most fire beat 16th century Germany has ever heard
stupid inspo under the cut

Ok so one of my pet history peeves is the “medieval people never bathed!!1!” myth, firstly because can we PLEASE stop thinking of medieval people as subhuman idiots worthy of nothing more than our derision, but more practically - come on man. Use your brain. How could the species have survived for a thousand years in medieval Europe if everyone was as repulsively filthy as you think they were. Nobody would fuck. The innate human disgust response to bodily waste and contaminants is not an invention of the 1950s, how do you think medieval people ever managed to fuck if they literally never bathed in their entire lives.

Dragon in the shape of an “S”
From “The Sherborne Missal” (Add MS 74236) c.1399-1407

Bryn Terfel as Méphistophélès
Faust (Gounod), Royal Opera House, 2004

what generation do you fall into?
silent gen (1928-1945)
baby boomer (1946-1964)
gen x (1965-1980)
gen y/millennial (1981-1996)
gen z/iGen (1997-2010)
gen alpha (2010-2024)
(This post is brought to you by the fact that tumblr are, hilariously, claiming that 50% of current users are gen z, and i wanna see how accurate claim that is.)

Zwei Seelen wohnen ach in meiner Brust, Faust fan art, digital (circa. 2017)

Republicans: we can just have Elon Musk go to Wisconsin and give everyone money. He’ll give them a million dollars. It’s all legal as long as we hold power forever and can stop anyone from doing anything to stop us. All of Wisconsin is bribed, nothing can go wrong now
The invincible Susan Crawford:
NBC news: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-results-rcna198353

it’s always sunny in philadelphia | “the gang exploits a miracle”
Is this John Donne
yes
