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"And you look down at Jiya. Jiya who has always been by Jay's side. Except that's not true is it?"
Some pretty little liars thirsty sword lesbians for FanaticOfBeads from the @parlorroom campaign.
They had a secret and could NOT keep it.
When you are waiting for Godot, butĀ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern arrive instead.
thinking about kattigan holding teor's corpse after the thjazi-is-julien's-shadow reveal and telling him "i'd spit on you, but i know you're down there raising hell with your brother". and it's just like... god, the implications of this.
i'd willingly curse myself so that you might haunt me forever. so that some version of you might stay by my side. but i know you too well. i know you're already gone.
I love Moriarty
I like to think that the reason that Sherlock in the original canon references various literature is solely because of Moriarty, and thus why he originally pretends to Watson that he has no knowledge of it whatsoever in A Study in Scarlet.
It was originally thought to be a plothole that Sherlock is described as having no literary knowledge, yet later quotes Walt Whitman and Shakespeare. But with Young Sherlock alluding to Sherlock picking up on Shakespeare from James, I feel like it would make sense to headcanon most literary references attributed to books James got Sherlock to read or directly quoted at him.
After all, despite Sherlock in Young Sherlock canonically reading Oliver Twist, he seems like heād mostly read nonfiction (mixture of scientific works, philosophy, and historical accounts) and more adventure focused works like epics, and James would read a lot more fiction and poetry (like @captainfairygodmotherās headcanon with James sending Sherlock a copy of Dorian Gray later down the line!).
something about the way shakespeare's plays are positioned to just barely cover the untold tragedies lurking underneath. lady macbeth knows how tender the babe is that milks her yet the macbeths have no child to pass the crown to. iago mentions that othello saw his own brother shot to pieces by cannons. olivia was planning to grieve her brother for 7 years until she met viola. beatrice knew benedick of old. lady capulet was only fourteen when she gave birth to juliet. it drives me crazy to see all the untold stories peeking out between the lines of the main plot.
reading rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is so wild. like you start out looking for Literature, because it's hamlet, after all. and then it's actually funny, and they're off babbling their little speeches and getting their names mixed up, and before you know it you forget the title and the source and you're attached to the codependent little fucks, and then suddenly it is hamlet and they are all going to die
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead makes me go crazy cuz like. the whole story is about these two dudes trying to break the endless cycle they're caught in within a story that is not their own, and yet everytime someone watches the film/play or reads the book, the cycle starts anew. we are the perpetrators of this crime that was cursed upon two friends, and while we commit the crime we wonder how or even if they can stop it
Mycroft Holmes and his social life.
Canāt wait to see the Hamnet movieĀ
guess I'm starting a collection
Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.
Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version, here's a 2017 version.
As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version. Here's Kenneth Brannagh's 2006 one.
Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston. Here's the Ralph Fiennes 2011 one.
Cymbelline: Here's the 2014 one.
Hamlet: the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. The 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. The 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1969 Williamson-Parfitt-Hopkins one is there, and the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation, the Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 2000 Ethan Hawke one is here. 2009 Tennant's here. And have the 2018 Almeida version here. On a sidenote, here's A Midwinter's Tale, about a man trying to make Hamlet. Andrew Scott's Hamlet is here.
Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.
Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.
Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one. A theater Live from the late 2010's here.
King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here. The 1953 Orson Wells one is here.
Macbeth: Here's the 1948 one, there the 1955 Joe McBeth. Here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery, and the 1966 BBC version is here. The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here, here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. The 1988 BBC one with portugese subtitles, and here the 2001 one). Here's Scotland, PA, the 2001 modern retelling. Rave Macbeth for anyone interested is here. And 2017 brings you this.
Measure for Measure: BBC version here. Hugo Weaving here.
The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie with Al Pacino. The 2001 movie is here.
The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version. Have the 1986 Duncan-Jennings version here. 2019 Live Theater version? Have it here!
Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.
Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.
Richard II: here is the BBC version. If you want a more meta approach, here's the commentary for the Tennant version. 1997 one here.
Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier. The 1995 one with Ian McKellen is no longer available at the previous link but I found it HERE.
Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version. Here's a stage production. 1954 brings you this. The french musical with english subtitles is here!
The Taming of the Shrew: the 1980 BBC version here and the 1988 one is here, sorry for the prior confusion. The 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here, and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This one is the Shakespeare Retold modern retelling.
The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one. Theater Live did a show of it in the late 2010's too.
Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,
Troilus and Cressida can be found here
Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here
Twelfth night: here for the BBC, here for the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.
Two Gentlemen of Verona: have the 2018 one here. The BBC version is here.
The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here
Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.
(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)
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Primus Tachonis is so versatile as a backstory tool he has professional D&D players raving:
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*occtis tachonis voice* you can date me but first you have to defeat my evil dad, my evil granddad, my seven *checks notes* five evil siblings, my unexamined classism, my two evil cousins and their evil boytoy knight, my two evil aunts, my unexamined CPTSD that has completely fucked my ability to manage interpersonal conflict, my one evil uncle, another evil knight (not a boytoy), and Wicander Halovar, not because he's evil but because fuck him for reasons that (you guessed it) I haven't examined. (Also if you could get any info on my mom that would be great.)
HONEY, YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN Young Sherlock | 1.02 The Case of the Burnt Photograph
Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so, And spedde as wel in love as men now do.
chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde c. 1380
glossary: eek also and even tho at the time prys great value wonder a cause for astonishment nyce stupid spedde succeeded
You know the form of language, too, can change. Within a thousand years, even the words that were most precious then, seem strange and foolish to us; yet they spoke them so and did no worse in love than we now do.
You think the devil has horns? Well, so did I But I was wrong, his hair is combed and he wears a suit and tie He's nice, polite, he'll catch you by surprise A smile so bright, he's the devil in disguise
(truly can't believe I had to google whether cigarettes were smoked in 1871 and then learned that later 19th century they were referred to as coffin nails)
