I’ve decided to make a masterpost of free and full adaptations:
Richard III: here’s the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier, and here’s the 1995 one with Ian McKellen. (the 1995 one is in english subtitled in spanish. the 1955 one has no subtitles and might have ads since it’s on youtube)
Macbeth: here’s the 1961 one with Sean Connery. Here’s the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. Here’s the 1948 one with portugese subtitles and here the 2001 one). The 1969 version with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here and the 1966 BBC radio one is here.
Hamlet: The Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. THe american version has a young Michael Caine and a young Christopher Plummer. THe 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here.
Timon of Athens is here. Troilus and Cressida can be found here
Julius Caesar: here’s the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one
King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a kng lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here.
Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here’s part 1 of a corwall school version.
Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here.
Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version.
Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.
The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here.
Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.
(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)
It’s loud and bright and productive and glamorous. It’s fast-paced and things cycle through the environment in hours. Everyone is trying to fight for their position in the food chain and stay Relevant. There are lots of pretty things to look at. If something gets Popular it has an impact on everything around it, for a brief time until the next big thing arrives. To an outside observer it’s chaos but to those involved it has order, reason, a Purpose.
Tumblr is like a deep-sea ecosystem.
Things are slow and weird. Memes bounce around for years and even decades. People exist in their little isolated hydrothermal vent communities of mutuals. Sometimes something big happens (suez canal, November 5th, Queen Lizzie kickin’ it) and we all gather around like a whale fall but for the most part we’re just snootling around in the sand doing whatever the fuck. Occasionally someone comes down and shines their flashlight around and immediately leaves and tells their friends about what freaky shit we have going on in the depths. We don’t care. We’re very busy talking about Our Friend Jonathan from a book published in the 1800s like worms slowly digesting the bones of a long-dead organism.
Sometimes you’ll be drifting around minding your own business, and something massive and horrible will drift past just out of sight range and you’ll know it feom the way the current changes. And you’ll be glad it didn’t see you.
Today (Jan. 22, 2022) is the 97th Anniversary of the Distress Call that Kicked Off the Nome Serum Run that brought Life-Saving Diptheria Antitoxin to the Epidemic in Nome, Alaska
Also, if you have not gotten a TDaP (tetanus, diptheria and acellular pertussis) in the last 10 years, you should probably go get it- especially if you hang out with kids. Cause while Diptheria doesn’t kill all that many people anymore, pertussis sure does, and you don’t want to be that guy who killed a bunch of infants cause you weren’t vaccinated. Also tetanus is a pretty great vaccine for you to have too.
Do it for my man Togo (et cetera) who busted his lil husky butt across the Alaskan wilderness when he could have been laying in front of a nice warm fire. He’s judging your unvaccinated self.
help i’m in london w my dad and he keeps pointing at buildings and saying ‘there used to be a coffee shop here’ but by ‘used to be’ he means. in the seventeenth century
we went past a pub and he was like ‘when this was a coffee shop (in the seventeenth century) isaac newton dissected a dolphin in the back room one time’ like ok. we are about to miss the train
I keep seeing people talk about the “oncoming cult boom” like we haven’t been here for like three years.
Here’s a fun game:
Go onto incognito mode and start a fresh account ok the social media website of your choice. When it asks you about your interests, pick “health and wellness” and/or the religion of your choice and fill the rest in with whatever you like. See how long it takes the algorithm to give you straight up cult recruitment videos.
When I tried this on TikTok I got some in under 30 seconds.
this is important information but i also feel like a lot of people aren’t really able to identify cult-produced media on their own. here is a (non comprehensive) list of red flags for this:
presenting an image of a wholesome, good, unified in-group while simultaneously presenting the out-group as shameful, dirty, or evil
presenting the narrative “i would be dead if i didn’t join X”
bragging about adhering to high-control rules, such as restriction of sleeping, eating, or ability to leave
heavy emphasis placed on “retreats,” aka trauma bonding or brainwashing members en masse in a secluded area
spiritual leader (typically a living person, or often in the case of older cults, a board of directors) presented as an infalliable extension of god
“comfort zones” and similar concepts presented as an inherently bad thing that you need to overcome
constant recruitment efforts
public faces of the organization are typically extremely extroverted and physically abled, and there’s a spoken or unspoken shame placed on the group members who don’t resemble this
there is an ex-member community that insists the group should be acknowledged as a cult (search for “ex-[group name]” or “[group name] abuse” to find relevant online pages)
And DONT REPOST stuff that’s already here! WHY do we even have to go through this again huh? DON’T. DO. IT.
And if you share something from a different platform that isn’t on tumblr already you ASK the creator for permission and then give CREDIT!
reblog, don’t repost, this
Terminology reminder: reblogging is Tumblr’s in-site sharing system but REPOSTING is saving a picture from a post and then making your own post
I have seen genuine confusion about this in the past (largely from ppl more used to other sites that don’t have a reblog system) that’s the only reason I’m adding the explanation
