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people don't talk enough about the power that wearing an old fashioned billowy shirt gives you. the poise. the confidence. the way it imbues you with an instinctive ability to stand in dramatic ways. the freedom of movement it gives you for, say, swordfighting or perhaps melodramatic lounging. the gravitas.

unparalleled

#this is not a new discovery for me #i have been wearing old timey billowy shirts since i was a small child (in the context of shakespeare play costumes)#and i've been in possession of a couple as an adult #but i sewed myself my ideal billowy shirt last night/today and it is AMAZING #i've been wearing it all day and it's fantastic #i bought the fabric on sale and I SHALL be making myself three more #the power of such a shirt is at it's peak when paired with a well fitted pair of pants-- preferably high-waisted #i feel unstoppable #plus it's super comfy #anyway yeah for no particular reason i'm tagging this with #gender

lamentable-comedy

rip geoffrey tennant you would have hated sending emails

#THEY'RE MAKING ME DO THIS AGAIN #'oh yay directing a show how fun'#WRONG! 10 billion emails #it's not enough to make the rehearsal schedule and have it live in my notebook i have to actually send it to people?????#the indignity #theatre nonsense

goldensunset

curious about something so i want to conduct a free-response survey. who (or what) first comes to your mind when you hear the name sebastian

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#know of me then antonio my name is sebastian which i called roderigo #followed by sebastian from two gents and sebastian from the tempest #though i think on a different day the order of those three would shuffle around #my guy billy shakes #tangentially

leosmiserables

obsessed with this bookshop in stratford-upon-avon having WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE listed as a ”local author”

#local boy makes good #went off to the big city and did them all proud #my guy billy shakes

piesandswords

Which mouse is the most murderous?

Jerry (of Tom and)

Reepicheep (Narnia)

The ones from Hitchhikers Guide

Pinky (of and the Brain)

Mickey (the CHARACTER not the company)

Voting ended onMar 27

#poll #for science

oysters-aint-for-me

happy ides of march! please enjoy the reduced shakespeare company’s acclaimed rendition of julius caesar

#i was thinking about the complete works of william shakespeare (abridged) on friday #specifically in relation to stoppard's 15 minute hamlet #and what abridgement and adaptation of popular works can reflect about how said works are percieved by the culture #like they stop halfway through for this. they skip the second half of the play #they hit the three lines people know and skip the rest #and the thing that's really interesting about the 15 min hamlet is that it's two adaptations back to back #one is a very good plot overview of hamlet but it doesn't really hit most of the big quotes (still gets a couple)#and the second is JUST those big moments everyone knows without ever having seen/read hamlet. and it's less complete #complete works of willam shakespeare (abridged) is very good and funny and i enjoy it as entertainment #but ALSO i enjoy it immensely as a thing to be analyzed with respect to adaptation #because the time they spend on each play and what parts they do or don't include has more to do with that play's place in culture #than with the play itself #and that's so neat!!!!!!#like. even the start of the play where they've got the “who's even heard of coriolanus” joke is kinda a nod to what they're doing #adaptation is so interesting #anyway happy ides of march!#julius caesar #my guy billy shakes

hearteyes-wheeler

Rest in peace ❌ Rest in pieces ✅

#ides of march #julius caesar #my guy billy shakes #(kinda)

bout to send a terrifying text

#posting about it to. spread the fear? maybe?#not sure.#posting out of the need to say it.#yeah.#been up since 5 this might get deleted when i'm less sleep deprived

playing a fun game of "how much of my usual pre-production chart- and list-making work can i smuggle into a supposedly casual, low-stakes shakespeare reading"

#i play this game roughly once a year with my book club but i'm not really fooling any of them. they know i'm doing it and expect it #this time it's people who mostly do not know me #i think we'll be well past the point of no return before they realize #i'm this close to preparing a copy of the script with proposed cuts if we want a shorter run time #i am perhaps taking this too seriously #i shan't be stopping #my guy billy shakes #theatre nonsense

lamentable-comedy

so my first shot was on december 7, 2021, and i’ve never missed a shot. this means that (assuming I don’t miss any between now and then) tuesday march 3rd, 2026 will be my 222nd t-shot

lamentable-comedy

Happy 222nd T-Shot Tuesday

#trans #testosterone #ftm

alexanderdanner

Leon and Autism

So, back when I was first writing Leon in Greater Boston, I gave him a set of idiosyncrasies loosely but consciously based on my wife, Brandy's idiosyncrasies. I was thinking of his quirks as a presentations of anxiety, which Brandy has always struggled with. But then we started releasing the show, and I was surprised when our autistic listeners immediately started claiming Leon as their own. That was fine, and I was glad they found someone in the show whom they related to, but I was a little confused why Brandy's anxiety was reading as autistic coded.

So, um...guess who recently figured out that she's autistic.

Apparently half her friends have figured as much all along, and just assumed she already knew. She only just figured it out because she made a new friend who's autistic and picked Brandy out to be her friend specifically because of her autistic traits.

I feel a little ridiculous not having seen it myself. In hindsight, the signs are everywhere. But I've known her since she was 15, and we didn't have that framework back then. But figuring this out has been really good for addressing some longstanding communication challenges between us.

Anyway, I've always been reluctant to declare Leon canonically autistic because I didn't know anyone autistic intimately enough to feel confident that I could depict autism authentically. But apparently I've had a very close model for him all along.

Anyway, I'm feeling much more comfortable with declaring Leon's autism official canon.

#!!!!!!!!!!!#leon stamatis #he’s just like me fr!#exciting news for autistic leon fans and autistic!leon fans #podcast #greater boston #greater boston podcast

toobusyoverthinking

🎶 our love is like jesus but worse 🎶 objectively silly line but silly in a gut punch kinda way

#THOUGH YOU SEAL THE TOMB UP WHERE YOU LAY ITS BODY IT RISES #IT RISES #tmg

linkloki

Machete order histories

#henriad #my guy billy shakes #henry iv part 1 #henry iv part 2 #richard ii #richard iii #henry vi part 2 #henry vi part 3

readingworldwanderer

You may think the phrase "He's just a little guy" comes from internet memes, but you would be wrong.

The true origin of the phrase belongs to celebrated author Tamora Pierce, in her 1983 novel Alanna: The First Adventure, when Gary says, "Still—what can Alan do for you? He's just a little guy"(49).

Thus, whenever we say of someone or some creature that they are "just a little guy," what we are really saying is that they are a short redheaded knight-in-training with some sort of Gender going on who will kick your butt given half a chance.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. May we all be the little guys we wish to see in the world.

Pierce, Tamora. Alanna: The First Adventure. New York, Random House, 1983.

#also! in possession of magic powers #that part is also important #(though if i'm remembering the context of the original line correctly i'm not sure gary knows about alan's gift yet)#alanna of trebond #alanna of pirate's swoop and olau #tortall #tamora pierce #song of the lioness