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Bison’s gaze is piercing as he looks at Kant. “You have to understand what you’re asking me. He’s a child. He’ll be stuck a child forever. He won’t get to have friends or a normal life. Everything you’ve worked so hard to protect him from, his innocence you’ve worked so hard to preserve, it won’t matter. He will have to hurt people, to kill them, he will be a monster,” Bison explains firmly. Kant shakes his head. “He’ll be like you. You’re not a monster.” Or. Kant asks Bison to turn Babe.

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peanutbutterangelic

i really loved the image of him begging in here idk

#pinning this so i can look at it everyday

yenvengerberg

"She doesn't have that. No Madeleine. No rest."

#like really the lack of care for madeleine shows how little they care about claudia too #she was her everything :(#interview with the vampire #claudeleine

cupiidzbow

I have to defend overhated women characters with my life this isn’t a game to me anymore dog I’m so serious

#genuinely

rosefinchie

how it all feels lately

#real

lakevida

free the nipple has to make a resurgence for a number of reasons but bro look at our upcoming eternity of wet bulb temps youre smoking straight up cock if you think im keeping a shirt on when it hits 105° in new england

lakevida

everyone tits out with a parasol is such a beautiful world to imagine that the fact it doesnt currently exist fills me with equal parts fire and misery

#much in the same way i support going braless but cant do it myself i support going topless but cant do it myself #my boobs are simply too big. and no i don’t mean that like ‘theyre obscene’ i mean like going braless hurts #and topless is also uncomfortable because i always need to be able to keep a layer #between stomach skin and boob skin. for sensory reasons 😭#but the rest of you get your parasols out

Do you have any favorite recorded productions of taming of the shrew and/or othello you would recommend ? 🤔🤔🤔

so here's the thing about me. despite loving shakespeare + being an actor and therefore knowing that the best way to engage with shakespeare is to watch it, i am like. laughably bad at watching productions i can't physically attend. i think it's cause they fall into the same category as "movie" in my brain when i have to watch it like that and i'm just. so bad at watching movies.

that being said, i have, i believe, seen one (1) production of taming that i recall enjoying? i had to watch it for one of my classes, and it was the 2012 production done at the globe theatre, which you can find here. but also when i was searching for that specific production, i also found this one from the stratford festival in 2024 which features a black bianca and i'm very interested now in watching it!

as for othello, truth be told i've yet to read the play in full! i've read excerpts and seen pieces performed, and ofc i know the general idea, but it's unfortunately not one i've done a deep dive into. (yet! i do plan to eventually read through and likely pick it apart for thk parallels). but as a result i also haven't watched any full adaptations! idk if @fadelgender has, but they seem more well versed in othello than me, so they might be able to help :)

#but also another thing is that i don't think i'll ever find the Perfect taming adaptation anyways #because as far as i'm aware theres not any recorded version that truly plays into katherina as a tragic character which is my Ideal version #of the play #also this did get me thinking. i had a friend in college who was light skinned (i believe he may have been mixed? dk for sure tho!)#and he did a piece for one of our classes from othello and yknow black guy one might assume he did an othello monologue #but he actually did iago's revenge monologue and now i'm wondering about an othello production #that tackles colorism. hm.#shakespeare #the taming of the shrew #othello #asks #betsy 🐮

akkpipitphattana

With all my heart, I'm glad to see you.

The Taming of the Shrew (Act I, Scene II) by William Shakespeare | The Heart Killers, Episode 9

#CON TUTTO CORE BEN TROVATO!!!!#srb

akkpipitphattana

You can't just say you love me like a normal person, huh?

The Taming of the Shrew (Act I, Scene II; Act I, Scene I) by William Shakespeare | Kant & Style in The Heart Killers, Episode 9

#because so well i love lucentio……#srb

akkpipitphattana

The Taming of the Shrew (Act III, Scene II) by William Shakespeare | The Heart Killers, Episode 5

#and lest we forget kant is also a little bit tranio……#srb

evardstentacles

fuck everything. whats the media people ASSUME youre into. what are people surprised that you havent watched/played/whatever

#everyone thinks im a gleek.

userarmand

I get to pick one thing for myself. And it's her. // I spend every fucking second of nowhere looking for her! And where is she? Why is she not here with me?

#she can’t find her:(((#interview with the vampire #claudeleine

when i say kant is a little macbeth btw, i do of course mean that christ is his lady macbeth.

#:)#the heart killers #kantchrist #macbeth #shakespeare

hurlumerlu

Gotta add that Bison as a semi-accidental Iago (convinced he was cuckholded betrayed and engineering a betrayal of his own) fucks SO hard.

hurlumerlu

Of course Bison being also an Othello of sorts (trusting someone he shouldn't + made to believe his beloved's loyalties lie elsewhere) makes Captain Christ also an accidental Iago which ACTUALLY brings back race into it in the most insane way.

hurlumerlu

@fadelgender keeping your tags because they're so good.

First of all I shouldn't have passed over Emilia like that, shame on me, but also I think part of what makes THK a compelling Shakespeare adaptation (with the disclaimer that I haven't seen/read TotS in its entirety, only some scenes) is that while obviously each main character is an adaptation of the play's characters (so Kant/Lucientio, Bison/Bianca, Fadel/Katharina, Style/Petruchio), the division between play!characters sometimes blurrs, and we get Kant tattoed with a Katharina quote or Style and Fadel sort of swapping the Katharina role during parts of their little trip.

I think it's the same thing here, but with even more license because it doesn't claim to be a direct adaptation, so we can in fact have othellodesdemona and emiliagothello and iagodesdemonaemilia in a funhouse mirrors version of the play where every character is reflected and echoed and warped.

...but I also think that THK dares ask the groundbreaking question: what if Desdemona was an asshole?

#i reaaaally gotta read othello ive been putting it off too long #but yeah i find the way every character is representative of different shakespeare (and also biblical!) characters v fascinating #bison is bianca and also petruchio and also katherina and othello and iago and jesus and judas #kant is lucentio and katherina and petruchio and grumio and iago and judas and john #AND STYLE IS VERY IMPORTANTLY TRANIO I MUST MENTION THAT #and fadel and bison are both hamlet and kant is a little macbeth and lily is king lear #it’s so fuuuun. wonderful show :)#the heart killers

outofthemouthsof

I think consuming QL with wildly different levels of budget and experience has made me a lot more able to roll with imperfections and not let them take me out of the story.

My bestie is very discriminating about technical excellence and tone and pitch and believability and plots not having any holes or logical fallacies and I get it, but I feel like it’s very limiting.

And I don’t know, it’s kind of imagination-deficient? I used to let a bad special effect or implausible story element take me right out of an entire movie, but now I feel like, you don’t have to spoon-feed me perfection. I can have discerning taste and also allow leeway for things to go a little wonky as long as there’s enough good stuff in a piece to keep my imagination fired up.

(I also think there can be regional bias about what is and isn’t considered excellent, tonally non-cringe, plausible etc., but it was really the limiting nature of it all—and the inability to fill in a bit with imagination—that I was thinking about at the moment.)

#like wheres our suspension of disbelieffff yknow

kuttithevangu

If a character in a book is presented as a boy the whole time but then in act 3 she is revealed to actually be a cis girl In Disguise no one thinks twice about it but the moment that same Girl In Disguise As A Boy is trans suddenly goodreads becomes can’treads

kuttithevangu

Uhh ok people are only tagging this with characters they wish were trans men so I must clarify that by a Girl Disguised As A Boy I did mean a trans girl who has been forced By Society to be disguised as a boy. I see why you are having trouble coming up with examples that aren’t cis girls who could have been trans men to be fair but Clarification Of Intent: I think when a girl is disguised as a boy that can equally be a trans woman narrative

#prev i tend to personally view viola (12th night + shes the man) as a trans man mostly cause like you said staging is important #and from what i know (and have seen) MOST productions of 12th night with leave viola in drag at the end of the play #buuuut trans woman interpretation is just as good. i would loooove to see a staged version of 12th night that does that….