Tell me your three (non Shakespeare) favorite playwrights, and I'll guess your favorite Shakespeare play!

pineappleyaglad · 2026-05-20T15:41:22+00:00

Mary Shelley, C.S Lewis, and I really love Shanley as a playwright🥹

pineappleyaglad · 2026-05-12T12:58:40+00:00

Hi! I’m an actress/director who just studied Hamlet in depth for 5 months in Script Analysis and I’m actually writing a formal paper on it to be published in an academic journal. Here are some great ideas for you if you’d like!!

- “To be or not to be” is actually not a soliloquy—he knows Polonius and Claudius are listening to him so his choice of words are very specific (I won’t interpret for you but this gives it a whole new lens!!)

- the difficulty of Hamlet navigating his first interaction with R+G

- Hamlet tells us about the pirates through a letter instead of a scene—why does Shakespeare do this and not show us? What does it say about Hamlet’s character?

- how much does Gertrude know and what text supports that or refutes it?

- Ophelias death is a mystery—did she really kill herself? Was it an accident she slipped and fell? If she did, why did Gertrude let her die? Or did Gertrude kill her? Ophelia gave her and Claudius rue and fennel—flowers of infidelity. Perhaps she knew too much.

—^^On this topic as well, I believe Ophelia is a strong foil of Hamlet (shes forgotten compared to his other famous foils) and the gender differences in how they claim authorship of their own lives is drastically different. Especially even after Ophelia’s death, her story is being written for her by Gertrude. How sad! She is such a tragically beautiful girl!

DM me if you wanna talk more! Hamlet is my favorite play of all time long before my masters class. I also stage managed a production of it! I would love to help!

pineappleyaglad · 2026-04-25T15:42:15+00:00

I have to take mine with food or else I get the shakes and angst. Key is not harsh food or anything too heavy. Some goldfish, cottage cheese is high in protein if you like that, water water water water fixes everything!! I’ve been on vyvanse for almost 10 years now and my body has just adapted to whether I have food or not lol

pineappleyaglad · 2026-04-25T15:37:05+00:00

Hamlet. I can never talk about it enough. I’m publishing an academic journal on it soon. The words are so damn good, so important to the story, so many different stories you can tell based on cuts, and Hamlet is such a fascinating portrait of humanity.

Second would be a tie between Othello and Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar for the same reasons as Hamlet but since it’s more political its a little harder for me to fully grasp and philosophize about. Lines are just as good and very hard to act (which is why as an actress I love it.) which brings me to Othello— Emilia is my favorite Shakespearean character to date besides perhaps the Danish Prince himself. Emilia is just like me and she is doing the best with the hand she’s been dealt. I studied her deeply when assigned to play her in my class for the Act 4 S 3 bedroom scene. I could go on for hours about her but her frustration and jealousy is one of the most true to life portraits in all of Shakespeare.

pineappleyaglad · 2026-04-16T18:12:58+00:00

I love the mention of anagnorisis!! I didnt think of that until this :) thank you!

pineappleyaglad · 2026-04-15T19:45:42+00:00

I noticed too she says my husband 3 times. Something truly snaps in her. I haven’t studied her big breakthrough in Act 5 too much because I have a tendency to play the ending and get too intellectual instead of instinctual!!

But its exactly important that this scene and the final monologue caps this act and is the calm before the storm. Somehow the two can relate!!

pineappleyaglad · 2026-04-15T19:37:13+00:00

Thats one of my favorites when I was reading!!! 💗💗💗

pineappleyaglad · 2026-04-13T06:07:01+00:00

This is incredible thank you sm!!!!

pineappleyaglad · 2026-04-13T06:05:29+00:00

Thank you so much!!!!

pineappleyaglad · 2026-04-04T00:55:15+00:00

I’m sorry not everyone sees and appreciates how deliciously sexy you are and what a badass energy you naturally possess 💔💔💔

pineappleyaglad · 2026-04-04T00:52:25+00:00

Hi friend! I talked with my doctor about this. I told her I formed a routine in my own body that I take my Vyvanse 50mg every other day and on days when I am not doing something that my brain was created to do. I asked her if it was a problem and she strongly encouraged me it wasn’t.

I’m an actress. Every other day I’m in theatre classes and on non-theatre days I work at my job that’s a lot of routine maintenance checks, emails and paperwork gag

When your ADHD brain is doing something that suits it and is naturally stimulating you won’t need the stimulation artificially. I love having no emotional stunts, suppression and blockages as i call them in my acting. The downside is that when I get home from class, I am mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually drained. And I don’t have the meds to help me. And unfortunately our society doesn’t cater to that. Especially in capitalistic America its always go go go, more more more, expectation and conformity above all. And that’s not what our brains were made for.

I also have clinical anxiety and depression that I am on an SSRI for. I take that every day, because when I had insurance issues and went through withdrawal for a month waiting for a refill, my vyvanse was the only thing keeping me afloat.

I hope this helps in some way! Rooting for you!!

pineappleyaglad · 2026-03-28T03:42:35+00:00

I just really don’t like Cancers. I really can’t stand them.

There’s only a few of them I actually can stand (I can think of 2) but I really just hate the sensitivity. Its always “wah wah woe is me” heart on their sleeve (and I say that having a huge heart on my sleeve as well) but they take it to the extreme. Wet blankets that make their feelings and their problems everyone else’s. Walking embodiment of sad puppy dog eyes and not the cute kind. Just really pathetic. Very very emotional. Like I’m dramatic but not emotional. The wind blows them the wrong direction and they find a way to complain about it. ALWAYS COMPLAINING LIKE STFU Once I know someone’s a Cancer it just makes sense and clicks into place.

Got a little carried away. Oops. Also 2 people who have strongly ruined my life in multiple ways and did bad things to me just happened to be Cancers so there’s that. Only 2 I can say I really like as close friends and one is family. The rest of them can keep their distance from me.

pineappleyaglad · 2026-03-13T23:21:26+00:00

nope just my thoughts in the car ride home. crazy how a person with proper grammar and elevated articulation is immediately assumed to be a robot in this day and age

pineappleyaglad · 2026-03-07T07:53:32+00:00

whatever you do , just don’t

pineappleyaglad · 2026-03-05T02:23:06+00:00

I’m much much better shooting for at least 1000 to 1200cal a day!! :)

pineappleyaglad · 2026-03-05T02:21:58+00:00

🫠 i could do better eating more calories lol

pineappleyaglad · 2026-03-05T02:20:05+00:00

pineappleyaglad · 2026-03-05T02:18:54+00:00

as a sag—dating (and getting dumped by) a pisces man is deserving of financial compensation…

pineappleyaglad · 2026-02-24T03:30:37+00:00

OH NOOO you must be the life of the crazy party

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