alright, here we go with riff one

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[rubber-glovs]

INTRO POST!!!💥💥

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🍁 bbc sherlock holmes

🍁 musicals (hamilton, newsies, rtc)

+ many many more!! ^^

"everything you make contains a part of your beautiful soul" — grian

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[yuriisms]

god the “grace go home” scene never fails to bring me to tears. rocky stomping his legs refusing even the idea of grace dying alone in space. grace bringjng out the teacher voice with his “listen. listen.” (meanwhile his voice is already almost about to crack). rocky literally shrinking away in denial of grace’s acceptance of his fate. GRACE SAY GRACE DIE ROCKY FIX.

i could keep going but there is already a tear streaming down my face after watching that one isolated scene

[writingdose]

“I want to write a fic about this but I don’t think anybody will be interested in it” ummm hello excuse me ma’am what do you mean you don’t think anybody will be interested in it??? YOU. YOU ARE INTERESTED IN IT???? write it because YOU are interested in it and YOU want to write about it. fanfic writing should always be first and foremost about YOUR enjoyment, not other people’s.

[breathaaaaa]

Happy birthday to Grian!

[awakefor48hours]

"You should create for yourself" and "it's okay to feel discouraged when creating your own original projects if no one interacts with them" are two sentences that should be able to co-exist with each other

[awakefor48hours]

On the one hand, you should kill that capitalist in your head that tells you to make art only for the enjoyment of other people. On the other hand, it's totally fine to be disappointed that you spent hours or even days on something that only got 4 notes. You can feel both ways.

[avagarde]

It’s so unfair i don’t get to see where evolution will go in 50 million years

[geekysteven]

crab

[existennialmemes]

Crustaceans: Crab

Mammals: Weasel

Plants: Tree

Amphibians & Reptiles: Unchanged because they are perfect

Birds: 360° around back to dinosaurs

Fungi: I shan't speculate on the affairs of gods

[addiemilfgomery]

me and who?

[thelibraryofalexandriastillburns]

Josie Rourke (the director of the 2011 Much Ado about Nothing) is a genius for the staging and I hope she knows it.

Benedick’s spit take in his gulling scene

is because Don Pedro announces loudly that Beatrice loves him, but also because Don Pedro and Claudio both put their cigarettes out in his drink like a minute before

That must have tasted really weird

@pleureros

[oopsalldt]

Much ado about nothing (click for better quality, hopefully)

[lovelyinspiration1463]

I'm somewhere between "How long do you have?" and "I don't know! Please, send help."

[addiemilfgomery]

my silly shakespeare bisexuals.

[aq2003]

david tennant and catherine tate have the range

[theres-pansies]

This is how it went, right?

References because I thought they were funny (but the first one is classic)

[thesidebloggerrrr]

is there even a fandom for this

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

i can’t get over how crazy much ado is sometimes. it feels like a deconstruction of shakespeare’s other comedies when you look at how quick and lovesick and beautiful hero and claudio are and how well they fit the script of just classic young lovers, things like how hero is one of the only characters to speak in verse, the way claudio praises her to all his friends etc. and then how in the middle of the play the script is completely flipped. now hero is in danger because of what claudio believes and no one can help her. and suddenly the love story shatters because the same willingness claudio has to fall in love with her at first sight is the same willingness he has to believe a baseless accusation and the love story starts to descend into horror because there’s no legal course of action hero can appeal to her and her own father insults and disowns her at her wedding and she’s quite literally left for dead fainting on the ground with her father saying let her die, what is it to me? it’s insane because like 30 minutes before it’s just a happy comedy love story but shakespeare shows a real darkness to the genre because claudio may think he loves her but when it comes down to it he will never trust her. her word isn’t good enough. no one is going to listen to the woman

[lipstickhamlet]

some of my oddly specific shakespeare staging opinions:

modern stagings of hamlet should keep them as royalty unless the fact that they aren't is hugely relevant to that production.

benedick and beatrice should be in their early 30s at least and claudio and hero should be noticeably younger. beatrice being adamant against marriage and both her and benedick's reaction to each other makes more sense if they're older.

this one's controversial but i think paris should be in his late teens, not way older. i might make another post elaborating on this but paris' death frames him as another victim of the families' violence, with romeo mourning + identifying him as being in the same situation as himself. it's not that old man paris isn't a good interpretation; it's often the easiest way to show romeo and juliet's positions as children helpless under their parents, and makes very clear what demands are being made of juliet. but i feel that adding paris to the list of young people killed in the play as a byproduct of the adults' violence gives romeo's identification with him more weight. given that he clearly has much more control than romeo and juliet but is still identified as a victim of the violence, i think it makes the most sense if he's a bit older than r&j but still very much young.

modern stagings of julius caesar should keep all the knives as knives, but if there has to be a gun, make cassius shoot himself in the head while caesar and brutus still die by stabbing. i've posted about this but the short version is that's it's the best way to show cassius' death as cowardly in contrast to brutus and caesar, whose deaths still mirror each other.

give the fool in king lear an onstage reason for disappearing. i like the 2018 national theatre version that has edmund kill him, and the 2023 south korean production that had cordelia be the fool in disguise the whole time. there was one from 2014 where lear beat him to death in madness which i think would be very shocking, but to good effect. the subsequent lack of comedy in the play after his disappearance would feel more jarring if we actually see his death.

benvolio should appear again in the last scene of romeo and juliet, mourning the two along with everyone else.

[for-those-who-wait]

They didn't notice him. Or maybe they did