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If Much Ado About Nothing premiered today and had a thriving tumblr fandom (don’t think about it too hard), it would be made up of the following groups:

Beadick stans who genuinely don’t understand why anyone else is here but are the majority, so they can filter a lot of this out and just make parallel posts. This is the stuff that gets cross-posted to Instagram.

Subset of the above who call it Benetrice because it’s less embarrassing but who have lost the war

Claudihero shippers who think everyone else is literally missing the point of the play

Claudihero ENJOYERS who think the above are literally missing the point of the play but enjoy exploring the dynamic and writing divorce fic

Members of both of the previous two groups that start regular flame wars with Beadick shippers even though their ships don’t intersect in any way

Benedick/Claudio slash shippers, most of whom make angst content about the dual that never happens

A somehow even larger contingent of Borachio/Conrad slash shippers

A somehow even LARGER contingent of Dogberry/Verges slash shippers

Hero/Beatrice femslash shippers, most of whom end up in flame wars over whether the ship is problematic because they’re cousins

Hero/Ursula shippers, all of whom promote their ship as the Ethical Alternative to the above

Margaret/Benedick shippers that are mostly just doing their own thing although Beatrice stans do screenshot and mock them

The extremely small group of Margaret/Beatrice rarepair shippers that are just *chef’s kiss* the most valid group on this list

People who are only here to write like 50k word Margaret/Borachio fix-it fics

People who are only here to write Don Pedro x Reader fic

Don Pedro stans who write whump fic about Beatrice turning down his proposal

Don John stans who write meta about how his villainy and deceit is fine because he’s sad that he’s a bastard :( (“Don John apologists”)

People who create blocklists of the above

Weird class of Benedick stans who are NOT Beadick shippers and instead write screeds about how Beatrice is abusive because she’s less outwardly affectionate

Weird class of Claudio stans who are NOT Claudihero shippers and instead come just shy of actually calling Hero gendered slurs (“Claudio apologists”)

People who create blocklists of the above

“Beadick is clearly compulsory heterosexuality” truthers

People who are only here to call Leonato a DILF

People who create blocklists of the above

All of the above groups are participating in the site-wide #anti maan #maan critical discourse “Is tricking your friends into falling in love abusive.” Greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,000 pages of heated debate.

leveragehunters

I’m sorry but I can’t stop thinking about ‘what if tumblr had existed in the 90s’, cause:

It would have been nuts

beatrice-otter

All of this is true, but there would also be rarepair Pedro/Beatrice shippers writing AUs like crazy. (I know because I would be one of them.)

Also, this inspired me to share one of my favorite fanvids, Girls Chase Boys by grammar woman.

blackestglass

Um, excuse me, where is the Benedick/Beatrice/Don Pedro OT3 shippers representation??? Which is the part of fandom where I’d be hanging out

un-father

This was my first run in with classic literature.

expelliarmus

#I'm so emotional

quecksilvereyes

since im on a roll about tragedies:

i am sick to death of fourth wall breaks that are funny. i want fourth wall breaks that make me want to cry.

give me hamlet looking up during his monologue to see the audience and plead with them for help. give me orpheus, on the road back up from the underworld begging us to make sure eurydice is there, to tell him she is safe. give me orpheus turning when the audience stays silent.

give me someone, bloody and full of tears monologuing to the camera when the narrative has wound itself so tight that they can't escape it anymore.

"youre just watching me. help me. im dying and im rotting and im losing myself and you wont do a thing."

i want the tragedy to be the performance. i want the tragedy to be, truly, in the eyes of the beholder.

dragonsareawesome123

His Dark Materials (2019-) Season 3 // The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

don’t get me wrong I love Benedick and Beatrice so so much, but I never seeing anyone talking about how wonderful Hero and Beatrice’s dynamic is?? Hero has a reputation for being this sweet angel but if you look at her lines, even though they’re short and flowery, she’s always ALWAYS teasing her cousin. she knows EXACTLY what going on in her head and she knows it the whole time. Hero’s literal first line is her like rolling her eyes and saying “yeah my cousin is talking about Benedick. again.” don’t get me started on Hero’s ridiculous garden performance to make Beatrice to realize she’s in love with Benedick. she’s so underratedly funny and Beatrice LOVES her. she loves her!! she’s the first one to notice Hero is fainting at the wedding, she’s the first one to call for help, she probably catches her in her arms as she’s telling everyone that she knows her cousin better than anyone, that they share a room together! they’re never separated! they probably stay up every night with Hero trying to drag emotion out of poor Beatrice who covers everything she means in six layers of jokes!! Beatrice tells her uncle she swears on her soul that Hero is innocent after he disowns her in front of everyone they know. Beatrice doesn’t think twice about this, she doesn’t care about the consequences, she doesn’t worry about whether the only family she has will disown her, too. she just does it. and when none of that works, Beatrice asks Benedick to fight for Hero’s honor. that moment is so, so pivotal for Benedick and Beatrice. it’s crucial. but you can’t understand how much it means unless you understand how much this girl loves her cousin first.

you-have-to-use-your-imagination

anyone who told you much ado about nothing is good and worth watching was RIGHT and you should listen to them

finn-shitposts

In Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice and Benedick are adamant in their mutual dislike, while Claudio and Hero are deep in love, and the two s

Ah here we go! Free full play for anyone who needs it, i watched it last week so i still had the link in my history heh :D enjoy!

nymph1e

God I love this version

thesaltofcarthage

spectacular version. Tennant and Tate are on fire. Their comedic and dramatic chops are outstanding. They both should have gotten Tonys for this production. Tennant has always had the gift of making Shakespeare sound spontaneous and contemporary, but Tate more than holds her own with him.

dduane

Reblogging, because frankly I can’t get enough of these two. :)

ramfamrambs

Are absolutely awesome!

beanhusk

thinking abt how the scandal of much ado about nothing only happens bc no one believes the women. they're hardly even listened to. hero is only disgraced bc claudio doesn't trust her words. bc beatrice's insistence of her honour isn't enough for leonato.

but benedick listens! it's enough for him! he believes, upon beatrice's words, that hero has been unfairly accused. & what's more, when she says she is sure that claudio has wronged hero, benedick says it is enough. her word is enough for him, even to challenge his best friend to the death.

& that's so powerful in a broad sense- in a society in which women's words hold little weight, that beatrice's words move benedick to justice. & on a personal level- how beautiful it is that benedick puts action to his declaration of love, in both thought & deed, by trusting her words.

#Never not emotional about Beatrice and Benedick

yknow if romeo had just Cried on juliets corpse for a couple hours instead of drinking poison Right Then they would have been Fine

persephonesidekick

The moral of the story is: always take time to cry for a few hours before making important decisions.

runecestershire

So I’m more or less being facetious here, but this is actually a thing.

Hamlet is genre savvy. Hamlet knows how Tragedies work, and he’s not going to rush in and get stabby without making absolutely certain he’s got all the facts.

Except once he thinks he has all the facts – once he’s certain that it really is the ghost of his father and Claudius really did kill him, he rushes in and stabs the wrong guy, which starts a domino line of deaths and gets Laertes embroiled in his own revenge tragedy and ultimately results in the deaths of nearly every character other than Horatio.

That’s the irony and the tragedy of the story. Hamlet knows his tropes and actively tries to avoid them, and the tropes get him anyway. It’s inevitable, the tropes are hungry.

motherfuckingshakespeare

I want a sticker that says the tropes are hungry so I can put it on my laptop

daimonie

i met a scholar once who said that tragedies aren’t about a silly “flaw” or anything, it’s about having a hero who’s just in the wrong goddamn story

if hamlet swapped places with othello he wouldn’t be duped by any of iago’s shit, he’d sit down & have a good think & actually examine the facts before taking action. meanwhile in denmark, othello would have killed claudius before act 2 could even start. but instead nope, they’re both in situations where their greatest strengths are totally useless and now we’ve got all these bodies to bury.