#genrefuck

[flowergirlpunk]

stayed up to listen to the new sleep token song and holy fuck it's worth every single moment of its four minutes and fifty seconds of runtime

[omfayeov]

harmony korine interview gummo 1997

[mywingsareonwheels]

Okay but the way that Mercutio’s death and dying curse cracks open the universe of Romeo and Juliet and lets in the dark and sends the genre of the play on an immediate, violent shift from romantic comedy (with peril and darker elements) to breakneck, runaway tragedy.

The great problem with Friar Lawrence is that he’s genre-savvy up until that moment. He thinks he’s the benevolently machiavellian friar in a romantic comedy, so his schemes will definitely work however desperate things get, and up until that point he was right. He perhaps rather likes the idea of punishing the Capulet parents for how they’ve treated Juliet, knowing that eventually all will turn out well. It’s exactly the same trick that Friar Francis would later use in Much Ado About Nothing and it works great (you know, for a given value of “great” that still involves Hero marrying Claudio...).

But Friar Francis really is in a romantic comedy. Friar Lawrence was, but he isn’t any more.

So basically Romeo and Juliet is the play that goes wrong, and I love it so so much for that and every time I watch it it breaks me. <3

When I watch Macbeth I viscerally know the ending that will come. Hamlet, Lear, Julius Caesar... same. When I watch R&J some part of me is still expecting that THIS TIME it’s going to get the romantic comedy ending after all. Fucking devastating. Well-played, Will, you sadistic git. Well played.

(And then of course much later he wrote Winter’s Tale which does pretty much the same thing in the opposite direction. Only there it’s time and steady human growth that turns tragedy into heartwarming and bittersweet romantic comedy, rather than an abrupt act of violence, and isn’t that interesting. Love him. Aaargh.)

[das-boog]

I was in a Mood so here's a savage, bestial vampire and her debonair upper class werewolf boyfriend

[frontmezzjunkies]

#frontmezzjunkies reviews: #Genrefuck @buddiesTO Two movement driven #soloshows by two audacious artists; #AugustoBitter's #Reina performed by #JaimeLujan Co-directed by #ClarenGrosz and #JuliaPhan's #NeverWalkAlone directed by #TawiahMCarthy "art on the edge of gender and genre" at #BuddiesInBadTimes #Theatre #TheaTO #torontotheatre

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[brysontillerteam]

LUIGI'S NXC MANSION MIX (abbi synths)

[wildunicornherd]

Two figures, one sleeping, one sitting, dissolving into dust. Illustration by Reiko Murakami.

The latest from Daniel José Older, "Dust", at Lightspeed Magazine.

Very late at night, when the buzz of drill dozers has died out, I can hear her breathing. I know that sounds crazy. I don’t care.

Tonight, I have to concentrate extra hard because there’s a man lying beside me; he’s snoring with the contented abandon of the well-fucked and all that panting has heavied up the air in my quarters. Still, I can hear her, hear her like she’s right behind my ear or curled up inside my heart. She’s not of course. If anything, I’m curled up in hers.

But then again, her dust covers everything, all of us. It coats the inner walls of this station even though it’s airtight. It coats my inner walls. It’s reddish and probably lethal, but who knows? We’ve never seen anything like it before.

[wildunicornherd]

Fantasy casting call for Captain Nemo!