Princess of Quite A lot

I play imaginary games for a living. Proud mama of a baby cat and 6 plants. probably reading something somewhere, or snuggled up under a blanket.

[methodwriting]

all human emotions can be found in either the mamma mia soundtrack or hozier’s album

[chalamet]

Please don’t avoid me. It kills me. I can’t stand thinking you hate me. Your silence is killing me. I’d sooner die than know you hate me.

Timothée Chalamet as Elio Perlman in Call Me by Your Name (2017)

[different-landscapes]

Silent Glory - Rudy Pohl

[jpaddey]

Tale as old as time. I love this story so I just had to draw something!

[inkskinned]

i think the moon would like you

[mjalti]

why? did she say something to you? tell me word for word

[rhiannonmcgavin]

yes i am a triple threat!! spilling drinks, screaming, and shedding long strands of hair everywhere

[mdme-x]

Hope Gangloff

[maddie-grove]

Is Mamma Mia! is a lost Shakespeare comedy/romance?

Evidence for:

It’s set on an idyllic Mediterranean island.

The plot revolves around a bunch of ridiculous misunderstandings.

The night of the bachelor and bachelorette parties functions as a “liminal space” that allows the characters to throw off the veneer of civilization and realize things about themselves.

A major theme is the return of a loved one who was thought to be lost forever (as in The Tempest and A Winter’s Tale).

The timeline is confusing. (Donna appears to have been in some 1960s/1970s-style band at the time of Sophie’s conception, even though Sophie must have been born in the late 1980s; similarly, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, nunneries are mentioned despite the ostensibly ancient Greek setting.) 

There are songs.

Evidence against:

The dialogue is really bad.

There aren’t enough dick jokes.

All of the songs are by ABBA, a musical group that was not active in the early modern era.

Conclusion:

Shakespeare wrote a comedy/romance with the same plot and characters as Mamma Mia! (called The Three Gentleman Suitors); however, all manuscripts of this play were lost, and the only version that survives is an imperfect illicit transcription of the play by one of his rivals. Through the years, this transcribed version was further changed in accordance with popular tastes (losing the dick jokes in the Victorian Era) and eventually got adapted into an ABBA jukebox musical (mainly because it was in the public domain). 

[the-mad-prince-of-denmark]

I hate this because it’s true

[yarnandthyme]

Concept: I live in a tiny cabin in the woods. I dry my laundry on a clothes line. I wake with the sun, stay up late reading and nap during the afternoon in a hammock. I have a garden full of flowers, herbs, vegetables and berries. I go on picnics regularly by a nearby river. I rarely need to leave my beautiful home tucked away in the forest.

[chiropterica]

I like it when tybalt tells mercutio to “have at thee boy” because it’s like a really old timey “try me bitch”

[honeyes]

stop talking

[brassparker]

i failed a student for their midterm grade, and they just sent me an email that just says “bruh.”

[brassparker]

deadass

can we appreciate the respectfully tho?

[peripateticmeg]

“And lo, I saw a rider on a pale horse, and the rider was death.”

[peridotsofficialtwitteraccount]

IF YOU CANT HANDLE ME AT MY WORST, JUST REMEMBER THAT I HANDLE ME AT MY WORST AND THAT MAKES ME STRONGER THAN YOU

[myneurodiversity]

Oh my goodness this makes me feel powerful I hadn’t even thought of it like this.

[chikier]

whenever somebody responds with “I beg your pardon?” assert your dominance by announcing “Then Beg.”

[melonmemes]

[briedaily]

brielarson Finally cool thanks to @shagthreads