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Claire Richardson @claireiebelle.bsky.social · 4d

“Well, go your way to her, for I see love hath made thee tame snake, and say this to her- that if she love me, I charge her to love thee; if she will not, I will never have her unless thou entreat for her.”
AYLI
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#ShakespeareSunday #wild #tame
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Claire Richardson @claireiebelle.bsky.social · 25d

“O, never say that I was false of heart,
Though absence seem’d my flame to qualify.
As easy might I from myself depart
As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie.”
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#ShakespeareSunday #themefree
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Claire Richardson @claireiebelle.bsky.social · Jul 6

“Uncleanly scruples! fear not you: look to’t.”
King John
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#ShakespeareSunday #themefree
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Claire Richardson @claireiebelle.bsky.social · Jul 6

“Uncleanly scruples! fear not you: look to’t.”
King John
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#ShakespeareSunday #themefree
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Claire Richardson @claireiebelle.bsky.social · May 25

“The world’s a huge thing: it is a great price.
For a small vice.”
Othello
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#ShakespeareSunday #big #small
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Shake-Scene Shakespeare @shakescenery.bsky.social · May 25

#ShakespeareSunday

His legge is too big for Hector

(LLL)

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Shake-Scene Shakespeare @shakescenery.bsky.social · May 25

#ShakespeareSunday

Clo. I Pompey am, Pompey surnam'd the big

Du. The great

Clo. It is great sir: Pompey surnam'd the great

(LLL)

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Claire Richardson @claireiebelle.bsky.social · May 25

#actor #actress #actorslife #acting #filming #film #tv #theatre #selftape #scene #shakespeare #othello #emilia #tragedy #nomakeup #noworries #goodmorning #earlymorning #morning #sundaymorning #sunday #sundays #instalike #instavideo #instavid #vidoftheday

Claire Richardson @claireiebelle.bsky.social · May 25

“The world’s a huge thing: it is a great price.
For a small vice.”
Othello
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#ShakespeareSunday #big #small
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Claire Richardson @claireiebelle.bsky.social · Apr 6

“And here’s a pot of good double beer, neighbour:
drink, and fear not your man.”
Henry VI, part 2
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#ShakespeareSunday #food #drink
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Shake-Scene Shakespeare @shakescenery.bsky.social · Apr 6

#ShakespeareSunday

Tis not a yeare or two shows us a man:
They are all but Stomachs, and we all but Food”

(Othello)

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Claire Richardson @claireiebelle.bsky.social · Feb 5

What an odd discussion.
Increasing the limit won't increase people's disposable income and miraculously enable them to spend more and thus boost the economy.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Jan 29

Yet another list of Chinese names for things…

Walrus = sea elephant
Giraffe = long neck deer
Tomato = foreign eggplant
Skunk = stink weasel
Computer = electric brain
Lobster = dragon shrimp
Pineapple = phoenix pear
Sloth = tree lazy
Chameleon = change colour dragon

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Jan 29

More translations of Chinese names for things…

Unicorn = single horny beast
Gecko = wall tiger
Movies = electrical shadows
Turkey = fire chicken
Rooster = public chicken
Refrigerator = snow cupboard
Hamster = storehouse mouse
Zebra = stripey horse
Platypus = duck mouth beast

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Jan 29

Happy Chinese New Year! Here’s a list of translations (some loose) of Chinese words…

Coyote = suburb wolf
Burglar = gentleman in the rafters
Penguin = tiptoe goose
Diabetes = sugar piss disease
Dolphin = sea pig
Kangaroo = bag rat
Owl = cat head eagle
Potato = dirt bean
Porcupine = heroic hog

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Miss L @proresting.bsky.social · Jan 29

When they let Leonardo DiCaprio do the casting…

Spotlight casting that reads ‘The Old Crone, female, 20-35 years)

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Lord Arse! 🕹️ @lordarse.com · Jan 8

Terry Pratchett's "Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness". The best quote I've ever read about why being poor can be so expensive.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Dec 28

Can we just admit that we NEED immigrants for our economy to run, from agriculture to high tech?

We’re a goddamn nation of immigrants, aren’t we? Let’s be proud of our immigrant heritage!

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Amy Steele💙 @amysteele.bsky.social · Dec 23

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Claire Richardson @claireiebelle.bsky.social · Dec 23

Sounds perfect

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Claire Richardson @claireiebelle.bsky.social · Dec 22

“I have heard, but not believed,
the spirits o’ the dead
May walk again:”
Winter’s Tale
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#ShakespeareSunday #ChristmasCarol
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Shake-Scene Shakespeare @shakescenery.bsky.social · Dec 22

#ShakespeareSunday today is inspired by A CHRISTMAS CAROL 👻 💰 ♥️

Ile be reveng'd on the whole packe of you

(TN)

#shakespeare #shakespearequotes #shakespearememes #Shakespeare2024

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Claire Richardson @claireiebelle.bsky.social · Dec 22

“I have heard, but not believed,
the spirits o’ the dead
May walk again:”
Winter’s Tale
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#ShakespeareSunday #ChristmasCarol
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David Allen Lambert @dlgenealogist.bsky.social · Dec 21

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

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Claire Richardson @claireiebelle.bsky.social · Dec 20

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