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The wokers continue to destroy the Western culture.
The Jamie Lloyd Company today announced the full cast for the upcoming West End production of Romeo & Juliet, with newcomer Francesca Amewudah-Rivers confirmed as Juliet opposite Tom Holland.28 Mar 2024.
West End productions......coincidence?

“The past and the future, considered apart from the consequences of their content, are empty as a dream, and the present is only the indivisible and unenduring boundary between them.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World As Will And Representation

In Chapter 3, it's revealed by the medical records disk that Isa's name is shorthand for "Isolde." I wasn't familiar with this name, but I felt it was distinctive enough that there had to be some meaning behind it, so I did some digging.
One use of the name "Isolde" that caught my attention was that it is the name of a facility at CERN- the ISOLDE or Isotope Separator On Line DEvice, used to produce and separate radioactive isotopes of elements for research purposes. Given the game's frequent use of motifs relating to nuclear science and the health risks of radiation, it felt too specific to be incidental. Still, there wasn't much meaning I could derive from it, but I thought it was interesting enough to be worth pointing out.
The most prominent instance of that name is from the story of Tristan and Isolde, a celtic legend and a romantic tragedy often described as a precursor to Romeo and Juliet. There are many versions of the story told across different times and cultures, but given the game's many references to Romantic Era art from the German speaking world such as Schubert's Serenade and Böcklin's Isle of the Dead, I'm inclined to think it's specifically referencing Richard Wagner's opera "Tristan and Isolde". I'll give a quick synopsis here and analyze the parallels that I think may reflect Isa's role in the story. (To avoid confusion, from now on I will only use 'Isolde' to refer to the character from Tristan and Isolde while 'Isa' will refer to the one from Signalis, unless otherwise stated.)
It begins with Isolde on a ship, being escorted by the knight Tristan, from Ireland to Cornwall to marry Tristan's uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. It is an arranged marriage she is not keen on going through. In a fit of rage, she curses the ship, hoping it sinks and takes all of them with it, particularly Tristan. After learning that Tristan killed her original fiancé, she issues him an ultimatum that she will not willingly leave with him until he drinks with her as an atonement. In truth, she is planning to poison the both of them, and he suspects as much, but in an attempt to prevent this, her attendant replaced the poison with a love potion.
Though she ends up marrying King Mark between the first and second act, Tristan and Isolde can't ignore their passionate love. They realize the only time they can safely pursue their relationship is at night, when the King and the court aren't watching. As their patience for the night grows thinner, they realize the only way to realize their love is through the eternal night: Death. But at the same time, they are caught together by the King and his attendant. Without even attempting to explain his betrayal, he asks Isolde to follow him into death and impales himself on a sword.
In the third act, Tristan partially recovers from the suicide attempt but remains delirious. At the sound of a shepard's pipe in the distance, he reflects on the death of his parents, believing the pipe to be death now calling to him. He laments drinking the potion and how it led him to live a life of madness desiring something that can never be. He dies in Isolde's arms and she follows him into death. As the King arrives to the scene, Tristan's servant kills the King's attendant in revenge and then himself. Amidst all the death, the king reveals he had learned about the love potion and had simply come to offer his blessing to Tristan and Isolde, and the story ends with them finally realizing their love in the afterlife.
In writing this adaptation of the classic story, Wagner was reportedly inspired by the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, particularly his work "Die Welt ais Wille und Vorstellung" or "The World as Will and Representation." In "The Tristan Chord: Wagner and Philosophy", author Bryan Magee identifies Wagner's use of day and night as respective metaphors for "phenomenon", the aspects of the world we can perceive and "noumenon", the fundamentally unknowable reality beneath it. Both concepts were first named by Immanuel Kant, but Schopenhauer further argued that the gap between them is the cause of misery and suffering for all sentient beings; our individual pursuits and efforts to move towards a more personally favorable 'phenomenon' cannot be reconciled with a fundamentally uncertain state of the world and its other inhabitants. That to fulfill one desire requires the quashing of ten others. Illustrating this, he writes:

"...he saw an immense field entirely covered with skeletons, and took it to be a battle-field. However, they were nothing but skeletons of large turtles five feet long, three feet broad, and of equal height. These turtles come this way from the sea in order to lay their eggs, and are then seized by wild dogs... with their united strength, these dogs lay them on their backs, tear open their lower armour, the small scales of the belly, and devour them alive. But then a tiger often pounces on the dogs. Now all this misery is repeated thousands and thousands of times, year in year out. For this, then, are these turtles born. For what offence must they suffer this agony? What is the point of this whole scene of horror? The only answer is that the will-to-live thus objectifies itself."

Returning to Signalis, this quote immediately calls to mind the first-person Shores of Oblivion scene, in which skulls are buried and littered across the sand, and a quote from one of the nearby scattered papers:

we should have never left
the primordial soup
only through death can i escape
the call of the one who rules
above all life

Tristan and Isolde, realizing that their personal passions were irreconcilable with the interests of the material world they were in, concluded the only answer was to leave it behind altogether, so they made a death pact. A "promise", if you will. So upon finding Tristan dead, Isolde takes her own life. Much like how our Isa, who upon losing hope of being able to find Erika in the living world, disintegrates.
Another related theme connecting these stories is the lamentation of fate. Just as Isolde prays for the ship carrying her to her destiny to sink with her on it, and as Tristan regrets drinking the potion that led him to a life of desire for something that could never be, two early game quotes from Isa show that she is seeking Erika not just with love and concern but with regret for how they left things:

"Erika, if you find this note, despite everything that's happened. I've come to look for you."
"Have you ever wondered if you're speaking to someone for the last time without knowing? I wish I could go back, so I could say something else."

The details of this regret are deliberately ambiguous. It sounds like they had a fight or falling out, but 'everything that's happened' implies a deeper conflict- a disagreement or choice that they couldn't reconcile. Something important enough that it took Isa away from her sister, yet also something she regrets so greatly that she would take it all back just so she can see her sister one more time.
As Schopenhauer said, "A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants." The great tragedy at the center of Tristan and Isolde is that even if we have control of our actions, we are at the mercy of the desires we were given by fate. It's a theme that permeates not just Isa's story, but Signalis as a whole.
Elster never chose to love Ariane. Had she not, she might have found the strength to end her suffering before it was too late. So she ran away from the "day" of Ariane's suffering into the "night" of keeping her in cryosleep.
Ariane never chose to love art. Had she not, she could have had a simple and comfortable life fitting in with her peers. So she ran away from the "day" of the Eusan Nation's surveillance and social ridicule into the "night" of Penrose-512.
Falke lost any hope of finding happiness after becoming burdened with emotions and identity that she could do nothing to satiate, and quite literally went from the "day" of life into the "night" of dreaming.
And then there's Adler, all but crushed by helplessness as he tries in vain to hold back the death of reality, as Elster and Isa continue to bring about its apparent decay in pursuit of their own wills. The relationship between Adler and Isa is interesting and I think quite important, as he's the only character besides Elster who gets direct screen time with her. As the game bluntly mentions the first time Adler meets Isa,

NONE OF US ARE HERE BY CHOICE (And No One Will Miss Us)

It's from this and the Schopenhauerian interpretation of Tristan and Isolde that I think Adler represents phenomenon while Isa represents noumenon.
Adler wishes to preserve the light of day. To awaken from the dream and return to shared experience of a common, coherent reality. One where what you see is what you get. Where experiences can be trusted, and results are predictable.
Isa wishes to live in the night. The world of passion and of choice. Valuing the experience of familial love over all else, even the world or truth, she continues to live only in pursuit of another reality amidst the abyss of uncertainties, one where she made amends with her sister before it was too late, or never fell out with her at all. And when she finally accepts that she cannot find it or manifest it, much like her namesake, she concludes the "eternal night" is her last recourse.
There can be no perfect reconciliation between these two wills. It can never be day and night at the same time. And yet they do find themselves together- falling into the bottom of the mine. In the Nowhere, at the end of all things. At the sunset, the liminal space in between the night and day, between dreaming and waking. Because, one means nothing without the other.
To me that is the important take away from her story. That if we don't want to live in regret over the hand life dealt us- hating ourselves for being unable to fulfill the desires we were stuck with, before its too late, we must confront the question of which world we want to live in.
Is it truly better to have loved and lost then never loved at all? Is it truly better to have tried and failed than to never try? I don't want to believe the answer is no, but none of us can be certain for ourselves until we reason with ourselves honestly about why we struggle with the question in the first place- what the true value of each side of the coin is. Perhaps then we can accept what is beyond our control.
To quote Schopenhauer once more:

Every individual, every human apparition and its course of life, is only one more short dream of the endless spirit of nature, of the persistent will-to-live, is only one more fleeting form, playfully sketched by it on its infinite page, space and time; it is allowed to exist for a short while that is infinitesimal compared with these, and is then effaced, to make new room. Yet, and here is to be found the serious side of life, each of these fleeting forms, these empty fancies, must be paid for by the whole will-to-live in all its intensity with many deep sorrows, and finally with a bitter death, long feared and finally made manifest. It is for this reason that the sight of a corpse suddenly makes us serious.

what grade would you say it is?

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I 100% blame the casting agents/her agent for putting that poor girl in a position where her physical appearance would be cruelly so...scrutinized. Just to make a political point.
The casting crew know very well that the problem isn't her race. There are many black actresses that look more "princess" like. E.g. Halle Bailey in the Little Mermaid. They could have cast Haille as Juliet instead.
I think it was a cruel political ploy they played on that poor girl. Forcing her in a position where her weakness is put under a microscope like this.
This would be like casting someone very skinny to play Superman and then for the execs to claim its body-shaming if audiences disagree. Whereas, if the same skinny actor was playing another role like a detective or a scientist etc, nobody would have noticed/be bothered that he was skinny. Not every character has to be big and muscular.
Do you think Mike Myers looks like a James Bond? Of course not. But he is still successful in his own right.
This is what happens when we overcorrect and are afraid to be honest with people.
There are many, many female roles which do not call for the "perfect princess" aesthetic. If this girl were playing an action role, a police officer, a scifi role, nobody would be harping on her looks.
The casting agents set her up.

Hello! Can anyone help me identify anime/s where the characters are in a gothic church ruin. The ground looked like a bed of flowers. I can’t remember the characters and what they were doing there. Something tells me there was some sort of promise and waiting. And then another inconsistent thought about them fighting and killing. Maybe those are different animes?🙃
EDIT: Found it guys. Thank you so much!!! Sorry the other one happens to be not an anime after all 😓
Scene relating to promise - Romeo x Juliet Fighting scenes - Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Does anyone know where to get the full score of Prokofiev's R&J arr. Borisovsky? Any input would be appreciated🙏

I've always heard about Junji Ito and I've seen some pictures from his stuff. It always made me feel nauseous and immensely unsettled. Perfect. There is nothing I want more out of my horror.
Not too long ago, I learned of a game called World of Horror. Ito-inspired game, and all. While I still haven't played it, it definitely piqued my interest in this stuff. Especially since I like H.P. Lovecraft, and I've heard people say Junji Ito is the Lovecraft of Japan.
So a few days ago I ordered Uzumaki on Amazon. It arrived today at around 6 PM. Didn't read it immediately because I was playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and getting immersed in that, but I did pick it up a couple hours later at about 8 PM. Now I finished the entire book at 11 PM. All in one sitting. Not even taking a single break to stretch or get a snack or anything. All in a single go.
I really enjoyed the characters. Characters are very important in horror. Poorly written characters means you don't care about them, and therefore the monster or whatever doesn't feel as threatening as it should be. Ito managed to make me feel for characters that were only present for a single chapter.
When Yoriko and Kazunori twisted themselves together and fled into the ocean, I didn't feel relief and happiness that they managed to get away from such a poor situation. I felt sadness for what could have been done to avoid this unfortunate and undeserved fate. But nonetheless, I was rooting for those two the entire chapter. An entire Romeo & Juliet story somehow crammed into just a few pages perfectly.
When things happened to the Goshima family in particular, I felt sorrow. Our hero of the story, who is only a teenager, had to not only *witness* unimaginable horrors and sear those images into her brain, but she lost those close to her to those very same horrors. Her little brother, who she seemed close with, was turned into a snail. Not that she hadn't already seen someone get turned into one already-she's definitely used to that by now-but it happened to someone she never wanted the spiral to touch. Her parents were lost and she was without answers of their whereabouts for a long while, until she finally discovered their fate too late. For both them and her. And her cousin? Not only was Keiko subject to these horrors, but she *participated* in them. Most definitely not of her own volition, but Kirie wouldn't have known that. Seeing all this happen is a lot like knowing the kinds of things your friend's family is going through-death, poverty, illness, etc.-and unfortunately not being able to do as much about it as you want to, apart from listening to them vent.
There's Shuichi, who we see mentally deteriorate over the course of the story. When he's introduced, he definitely seems like he's already on the path, but he still looks quite healthy. Then the things with his parents happen. His own family experiences the spiral. A massive shockwave of trauma from such unexplainable occurrences hits him fast. The next time he's seen since then, you can tell he's mostly given up on everything except for Kirie. She seemed to be the only person keeping him around. Based on her actions during the hurricane, it seems she knew that too. By the end of the story, he's only hanging on by a thread. He repeats "mad... mad... mad..." over and over again. Mostly to describe the state of the town, but I think he also knows he's included in that statement.
Apart from the characters, which were so fantastically written, I love how diverse Ito's implementation of the spiral gets. Snails, tornadoes, and hurricanes are the obvious things to go for. Of course, he uses those. But he also somehow manages to include mosquitoes and babies into this horror seamlessly, which just shows how much he oozes with creativity.
Considering how I read this entire book in a single sitting, I think I can say I enjoyed it. Only other book I read like this was *The Last Starship from Earth*, and it wasn't even the entire book. It was from just a bit before halfway, when the story actually starts to pick up, all the way to the end. I didn't sleep at all that night because I was reading.
What should I read next?
Edit: I'll add more insightful things to say later. I'm just not my most poetic and eloquent at the moment lol

I've always heard about Junji Ito and I've seen some pictures from his stuff. It always made me feel nauseous and immensely unsettled. Perfect. There is nothing I want more out of my horror.
Not too long ago, I learned of a game called World of Horror. Ito-inspired game, and all. While I still haven't played it, it definitely piqued my interest in this stuff. Especially since I like H.P. Lovecraft, and I've heard people say Junji Ito is the Lovecraft of Japan.
So a few days ago I ordered Uzumaki on Amazon. It arrived today at around 6 PM. Didn't read it immediately because I was playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and getting immersed in that, but I did pick it up a couple hours later at about 8 PM. Now I finished the entire book at 11 PM. All in one sitting. Not even taking a single break to stretch or get a snack or anything. All in a single go.
I really enjoyed the characters. Characters are very important in horror. Poorly written characters means you don't care about them, and therefore the monster or whatever doesn't feel as threatening as it should be. Ito managed to make me feel for characters that were only present for a single chapter.
When Yoriko and Kazunori twisted themselves together and fled into the ocean, I didn't feel relief and happiness that they managed to get away from such a poor situation. I felt sadness for what could have been done to avoid this unfortunate and undeserved fate. But nonetheless, I was rooting for those two the entire chapter. An entire Romeo & Juliet story somehow crammed into just a few pages perfectly.
When things happened to the Goshima family in particular, I felt sorrow. Our hero of the story, who is only a teenager, had to not only *witness* unimaginable horrors and sear those images into her brain, but she lost those close to her to those very same horrors. Her little brother, who she seemed close with, was turned into a snail. Not that she hadn't already seen someone get turned into one already-she's definitely used to that by now-but it happened to someone she never wanted the spiral to touch. Her parents were lost and she was without answers of their whereabouts for a long while, until she finally discovered their fate too late. For both them and her. And her cousin? Not only was Keiko subject to these horrors, but she *participated* in them. Most definitely not of her own volition, but Kirie wouldn't have known that. Seeing all this happen is a lot like knowing the kinds of things your friend's family is going through-death, poverty, illness, etc.-and unfortunately not being able to do as much about it as you want to, apart from listening to them vent.
There's Shuichi, who we see mentally deteriorate over the course of the story. When he's introduced, he definitely seems like he's already on the path, but he still looks quite healthy. Then the things with his parents happen. His own family experiences the spiral. A massive shockwave of trauma from such unexplainable occurrences hits him fast. The next time he's seen since then, you can tell he's mostly given up on everything except for Kirie. She seemed to be the only person keeping him around. Based on her actions during the hurricane, it seems she knew that too. By the end of the story, he's only hanging on by a thread. He repeats "mad... mad... mad..." over and over again. Mostly to describe the state of the town, but I think he also knows he's included in that statement.
Apart from the characters, which were so fantastically written, I love how diverse Ito's implementation of the spiral gets. Snails, tornadoes, and hurricanes are the obvious things to go for. Of course, he uses those. But he also somehow manages to include mosquitoes and babies into this horror seamlessly, which just shows how much he oozes with creativity.
Considering how I read this entire book in a single sitting, I think I can say I enjoyed it. Only other book I read like this was *The Last Starship from Earth*, and it wasn't even the entire book. It was from just a bit before halfway, when the story actually starts to pick up, all the way to the end. I didn't sleep at all that night because I was reading.
What should I read next?

Idk, I'm tired and it sounds super cool if it was done with the original dialogue and everything. Like 1996 movie with leonaido DiCaprio. Scout as Romeo and Pauline and Juliet or something like that.

Hi courtney! I’ve been watching for years and finally decided to start sharing some of my own stories on this subreddit. (i have tons) I’m gonna start with this one that is pretty terrifying but also kind of silly.. I guess?
So I was in middle school from 2010-2013, and I went to middle school in a super old school in Brooklyn, NY. When I was in 8th grade, my 2 friends & 1 became monitors for our Dean. Basically, we would help file paper work and bring things around the school & she would buy us sandwiches from the deli and stuff so it was pretty cool.
One day, we were in her office and she was out in a meeting or something. The office was pretty small. To paint a picture there was a couch, her desk, a big window behind her desk, and a wall lined with book shelves.
My friends and I were filing papers for her when we heard a knock on the door, but for the most part we always ignored it when she wasn’t there bc the people coming to the door were obviously not looking for us. We were being quiet and the knocking finally stopped so we started talking again.
At this time I was super hyper fixated on Romeo and Juliet. (shoutout my adhd) and I was ranting about how the actor in the first Romeo and Juliet movie that came out in the 60s, looks just like Zac efron. In true 2013 fan girl fashion, I had plenty of photos of everything I loved on my ipod touch.
I was showing my friends the photo of Romeo when all of a sudden the knocking started again but this time it was LOUD. it made us all jump and I dropped my ipod. It sounded so loud and urgent that i didn’t even pick up my ipod, my 2 friends and I ran over to the door and the banging continued.
I opened the door and no one was there. The office was in the middle of a long hallway and we looked down both sides of the hallway and no one was there. The banging was happening literally until we opened the door, so this made no sense. We were acting super freaked out but in an obnoxious 13yr old girl way.
we closed the door and started walking back to our work when I remembered my ipod was still on the floor. My friend said “omg did it crack” and looked at the screen w me. it didn’t crack which was good but when I unlocked it that same picture of romeo in my camera roll was still there but this time the face was distorted and it had a red border around the picture and red words saying something that i don’t exactly remember but i remember the word “kill” being in it. I immediately freaked out and my friend was like “what is that” and I said “i don’t know i didn’t save this” and my other friend even saw it so i have witnesses. we even got to arguing about it thinking one of us did it to freak the others out but we were together the entire time.
while we’re arguing a book FLEW off one of the book shelf’s and we SCREAMEDDD and BOOKED IT OUT OF THAT OFFICE. When we got into the staircase we finally calmed down a bit and when i unlocked my ipod again the same picture was still there but this time it was back to normal. I know most people won’t believe this, but I was best friends with one of these girls until we were 20 yrs old & we still talked about it then and remembered it the same way. So, at least i know im not crazy.

Chapter four of my fanfic ~Black~ has been posted.
Link to Story on A03
Story summary: In a world post-war, the Black family name is tarnished beyond repair. Dysfunction is all young Narcissa Black has ever known. With a drunkard father, a manic mother, and two sisters eager to pull her down two very different paths, Narcissa finally discovers peace in the form of one Lucius Malfoy. With rumours of a newly emerging Dark wizard on the horizon, and social unrest on the rise, all Narcissa can do is watch as her family struggles not to come apart at the seams.
WARNING: This work contains themes of Racism, Strong Language, Mental/Physical/Sexual Abuse, depictions of Mental Illness, Gore and Violence. Reader discretion is heavily advised.
A Lucius and Narcissa origin story — Slow Burn, Love and Loss. Trials and Tribulations. A dark and twisted Romeo and Juliet-esque tale.

Chapter four of my fanfic ~Black~ has been posted.
Link to Story on A03
Story summary: In a world post-war, the Black family name is tarnished beyond repair. Dysfunction is all young Narcissa Black has ever known. With a drunkard father, a manic mother, and two sisters eager to pull her down two very different paths, Narcissa finally discovers peace in the form of one Lucius Malfoy. With rumours of a newly emerging Dark wizard on the horizon, and social unrest on the rise, all Narcissa can do is watch as her family struggles not to come apart at the seams.
WARNING: This work contains themes of Racism, Strong Language, Mental/Physical/Sexual Abuse, depictions of Mental Illness, Gore and Violence. Reader discretion is heavily advised.
A Lucius and Narcissa origin story — Slow Burn, Love and Loss. Trials and Tribulations. A dark and twisted Romeo and Juliet-esque tale.

Hello,
It's the end of the year and I want to show an episode of a TV show. I've previewed it, I think it's something my students could handle, but I'm second guessing myself.
So there's this new show called "The Grimm Variations" on Netflix. It's a really great show that gives a dark twist on fairy tales. I thought it would be not only entertaining for my students, but it also gives them an opportunity to practice their skills with comparing and contrasting themes, which is something they struggle with.
I put it in my lesson plans and didn't think much of it, but over the weekend, I noticed that the show is rated TV MA. The episode in question is the Cinderella episode, and it's honestly fine. I thought it was TV-14 for a while, there's a little bit of violence, but nothing worse than they've seen in Romeo and Juliet, and it could honestly be skipped. Apparently there are two other episodes that give it the TV-MA rating. Do I skip it, or do I show it?
ETA: I teach freshmen.

Chapter four of my fanfic ~Black~ has been posted.
Link to Story on A03
Story summary: In a world post-war, the Black family name is tarnished beyond repair. Dysfunction is all young Narcissa Black has ever known. With a drunkard father, a manic mother, and two sisters eager to pull her down two very different paths, Narcissa finally discovers peace in the form of one Lucius Malfoy. With rumours of a newly emerging Dark wizard on the horizon, and social unrest on the rise, all Narcissa can do is watch as her family struggles not to come apart at the seams.
WARNING: This work contains themes of Racism, Strong Language, Mental/Physical/Sexual Abuse, depictions of Mental Illness, Gore and Violence. Reader discretion is heavily advised.
A Lucius and Narcissa origin story — Slow Burn, Love and Loss. Trials and Tribulations. A dark and twisted Romeo and Juliet-esque tale.

I don't follow theatre too much, but I've never seen a stage door like the Romeo and Juliet one upon Tom Holland exiting each night. People are blocking the street and sidewalks. The fans are screaming their lungs out. It's literally like a scene from a 70s Rockstar band concert. Even the security around his exit is secret service levels. I don’t think many of these fans even have tickets to the show, they just gather around the time they know Tom will be leaving to get a glimpse.
I knew Tom was popular, but other famous A-list actors have done theatre before, and I've never heard of their stage doors being like this. This seems highly unusually for a West End show. But, maybe I'm uninformed? Has anyone seen this type of reaction to a play before?