The Plague - Blog Posts

So I Like, Haven't Been Around For A Hot Minute Lol

But I Am Back🙏

Obviously I Have Changed Since I've Last Been Here, I Still Love Welcome Home, But I'm Branching Out To Slashers/Dead By Daylight! So Please Give Me Your Requests For It! I'm Doing Yandere/Generally Dark Stuff So Go Wild!

i'm still on lolita, damn this book is hard to read. every page i literally have a discomfort on the way he speaks about lolita. it's so sickening! but the writing is so good, i don't even know what to say. *Fiodora thinks so too!

on the other hand i'm gonna start 'pop song' and 'a peste' today! it's gonna be i guess my forth or fifth camus. i love him sm. also, i need to finish it soon cause my uni library doesn't accept us to keep the books on vacation and semester is ending. soooo... 🤸🏻‍♀️

it's nice day today, very cloudy. i love it, it puts me in a great mood! 🤍🌧

My friend made some art and got her to get Tumblr

So go support her if you want

First post here

two moods of mine…

1. absolutely unhinged rage-filled cat creature (me while alone or in alone/online mode)

hates people. go away right now

also weirdly loves people and will consequently chomp any appendage you possess. but like in a platonic way.

sprints and jumps around

splats, forgets I exist, and becomes bread

fights against a bureaucracy by defying social order

fights against capitalism by splatting instead of feeding into consumerism

fights against entitlement by blasting punk rock music in my headphones to annoy people and make me happy

rots in a bad way (can’t… move… plague acquired)

T H E P L A G U E hath taken me bones. I must now take off all my skin (literally just basic hygiene)

just vibes while loafing in the sun

ew, emotions and… feelings

s h i n y t h i n g s ✨

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (the rage from giving an unsustainable 100% for academic success, aka survival. cause if I’m not a scientist, my eccentricity will be less acceptable.)

brutally honest and does not care at all because I prefer honesty, truth, rationality, and straightforwardness over feelings. (there is truth to feelings, but sometimes I’m just too tired to care)

forgets the list of things that cause people to hate me (thereby invoking the second mood)

what people see: an awkward nerd with mid-tier anxiety but a bright future

2. what I feel in social situations

was that sarcasm or is it safe to reveal who I am? are they making fun of this subculture/minority or were they genuinely showing support for it? it’s so loud in here that I was somehow able to not hear nor process their tone while still hearing and processing the words that they said. and I don’t have enough information to use my usual strategy of context clues. if I ask, I will get an awkward stare. what is with adolescents and being the recipients of ableist indoctrination? or, just, indoctrination in general?

oh dear, I miscommunicated in an attempt to comply with social order instead of being myself. now I have to slow down the conversation and explain what I meant. either way, they’ll hate me forever, but at least I get a semblance of peace of mind with the second option. even if their suffocating glare traps me in place, at least I had the illusion of choice.

oh dear, I used a Generally Rude Phrase in a Comedic Style without changing my inflection or using better word choice because I left the template for the Better sentence in my other brain pocket and was too distracted by that fact to realize how Generally Rude that Phrase sounded.

I can’t believe they just asked me to do [very basic chore] now I have to pause my hard-earned flow state to take deep breaths instead of screaming at them before I help them because I do actually love them. /p

hey do you wanna hear an mcr lore dump in chronological order? oh, you’re already fake-snoring. I get it. (*a part of my soul dies a little*)

hey, that reminded me of a character from the book I’m writing! wanna hear about them? you do? cool! *they stop paying attention two seconds in to my 3-minute ramble/infodump (would’ve been an hour but I shortened it for their benefit)* *a part of my soul dies a little*

hey, do you wanna learn about a really cool personality-typing system called MBTI? you do? cool! *they actually pay attention and learn some valuable information* *we achieve friend status together*

I’M NOT OKAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

ugh. your voice gives me a headache and it gets worse when I respond. I don’t hate you, but I must escape.

PSA: if you want to be my friend, just listen when I ramble to you, even if it’s unprompted.

Please note: I have not been diagnosed with a neurodivergent disorder of any kind, and this is for entertainment value only. It is not meant to manipulate either, since these feelings are basically a daily occurrence for me and I choose to use memes as an outlet and to win at tumblr.

P.S.- I have more moods than these two, but… this is all you get for now.

tldr: relatable and/or possibly neurodivergent memes for entertainment value only

The Plague in Romeo and Juliet

The Plague ruins everything in Romeo and Juliet. Like, it's always understated how important the Plague is to the plot. A BIT OF HISTORY Shakespeare was alive during the second wave of the Bubonic plague in England (in the mid 1590s). Theaters had to be closed so people didn't, you know, die and stuff, so it ended up impacting his livelihood quite significantly. Romeo and Juliet was written around the time of the Plague, so it is safe to say that it was on Shakespeare's mind. Plus, it's set in Italy in the mid 1300s, during (you guessed it!) the first wave of the Bubonic Plague. So if we're looking for historical accuracy, Romeo and Juliet is going to be set during the Plague.

FAIR VERONA The Montagues and Capulets hate each other's guts. That much is clear from the first scene. And a common criticism of the play is "why don't they just get out of Verona?" It seems like kind of a weird plot hole, until you take their current situation into account. The Montagues and the Capulets can't leave Verona. Not unless they want to have long and painful deaths. - Verona is a walled city (safe from the outside world) - It is surrounded by a river - The city outside (Mantua, and we'll get to it later) was a hotspot for the Plague Verona was highly insular, and that was its benefit. It was also its major flaw, because the two major families of the area hated each other's guts. The tensions caused by the Plague and not being able to leave only went to exacerbate this hatred.

"A PLAGUE ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES" RIP Mercutio. You would've loved drag brunch. Also vaccines, since the Plague (indirectly) is probably the reason he died. Yes, I realize he dies because Tybalt stabs him. But why did Tybalt stab him in the first place? Let's roll back the clock a little. - Tybalt killed Mercutio because he was aligned with the Montagues, who are the enemies of the Capulets - The Capulets and Montagues can't just avoid each other because they're stuck in the same city - They're stuck in the same city because of the Plague There's also something to be said for the desperation felt by the people in Verona. Either they can die from sores and diarrhea, or they can die in a fight. And I dunno about y'all, but one of those things sounds a lot cooler. With the Plague closing in, of course people are gonna start picking fights. It's the perfect storm of stressed and reckless. If we contextualize the quote "a plague on both your houses" with the era, it's not just Mercutio cursing everyone out because he's angry he's gonna die (though that's definitely part of it). It's a warning. The Plague is the great equalizer, and it's going after everyone, regardless of whether they're a Montague or a Capulet.

ROMEO'S BANISHMENT Another compelling bit of evidence for the Plague's importance in Romeo and Juliet is Romeo's reaction to being exiled. Romeo is a lovesick puddle of soup. He fell in love with a girl at a party and then died because he couldn't live without her. He's overdramatic. But his reaction to being banished from Verona is pretty dramatic, even for him. Like, come on, dude. But what if it wasn't the fact that he would be separated from Juliet that he was the most worried about? Remember when I said we'd circle back around to Mantua? We're circling back around. Because Mantua (right outside of Verona) was a playground for the Plague. A Plague-ground, if you will. It was a place where a lot of people came and went, and it was blocked off by bridges. So, if an outbreak happened, Mantua (and those in it) would be cut off from the world and left for dead. Suddenly, Romeo's complaints about leaving Verona don't sound quite so unreasonable. Juliet's worry about Romeo going away doesn't seem quite so silly. And the Nurse's advice to Juliet, saying "he's basically dead now, so don't worry about him anymore" actually seems pretty reasonable. In fact, the biggest reason why Romeo and Juliet don't survive in the end is because the correspondence Friar Lawrence meant to send didn't go through fast enough, because Friar Peter (the guy he gave the letter to) was being quarantined.

ADULTS OF VERONA The Plague helps explain the actions of the adults, too. Juliet's parents are trying to get her to marry, even though she's really young (even by the standards of the era). This can be interpreted in a couple different ways. Either they want Juliet to hurry on with her life and get out of their hair, or they know that something might happen to them (or Juliet, for that matter) and they want to do their best to put Juliet in a good situation. The choice of Paris is, given what Juliet is facing, a pretty good one. He's good-looking, generally depicted as being close enough to Juliet's age, courteous, filthy rich, and not affiliated with either the Montagues or the Capulets. Juliet might not be in love with him, but she would at least be taken care of. Was Lord Capulet a perfect man? No. But can his actions be boiled down into just a desire for control? Not if you account for the Plague, at which point he (and his fellow adults) become much more nuanced and much more reasonable.

Romeo and Juliet, on its own, is plausible. It is possible to accept the story of the star-crossed lovers (I mean, the adaptations speak for themselves). But the introduction of the Plague creates a perfect storm of storytelling, cementing it as a tragedy. Not only could it happen, but this was the way it was always going to happen.