One Of My Favourite Bits Of Media History Trivia Is That Back In The Elizabethan Period, People Used

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

Post Apocalyptic Stories

video game/fanfiction: so this is NYC in the future, robots have free will and are starting a revolution against humans, non-toxic vegetables are getting rarer and rarer due to pollution, there are only 2 billion people left on earth,

me : ha nice some XXIVth century shit

game/fanfic : The Year Is 2025,

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mchoratio

6 years ago

Wizards near me

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mchoratio

5 years ago

Mykonos, Greece 🇬🇷

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mchoratio

5 years ago

Whoever can tell me what they think Hamlet’s favorite meme would be (and gives a good, solid explanation) will get a great prize. Promise.

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mchoratio

1 year ago

Full moon by johannes_moths.

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mchoratio

5 years ago

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mchoratio

6 years ago

FUCK

self-destruction doesn’t always look like taking too many pills or cutting your skin open. sometimes it’s drinking coffee when you know caffeine gives you panic attacks. sometimes it’s crossing the street without looking both ways. sometimes it’s showering with the water a little too hot. sometimes it’s avoiding eye contact with your reflection in the mirror or ridiculing your problems rather than addressing them. sometimes it’s walking out without sunscreen in scorching heat and not wearing enough when it’s freezing out. self destruction isn’t always physical mutilation, mostly it’s masked as little things so never assume what someone may be going through just bc they don’t show you visible signs of suffering.

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mchoratio

2 years ago

Polonius strikes me as a conservative who somehow raised two queer socialist kids

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