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HI HI!!! i was actually just going to respond to your last ask - i know it's been a Minute but your animal pictures have been making me so happy every time i look at them <3 and now these ones!! lil guy on a grecian head!!! the cats!! the mice are giving each other a lil kiss i love them <3 <3 <3
I know it's unlikely, but in the slim chance that you might see this, I want to thank you from the depths of my heart for your tma fics. I've read nearly all of them (can't finish Cut the Cord without risking spoiling the last season of the podcast for myself, and I'm still in the process of reading Darkling I Listen) but I digress. What I want to get at is that I was introduced to your works through a mutual, who recommended The Lives We've Shared, and I made a meme based on the last chapter of said fic, so here you go. I hope you get it and find it as funny as I did when I made it.
Thanks again for sharing your writing!
(Ps. If you're unfamiliar with this meme, google "my city now")
It's been a minute but i just saw this and i wanted to say thank you so much!!! hhh it's always a pleasure when someone reads my writing but all?? of it???? that's hhh such an honour. (sorry to hear you're reading darkling i listen, tho 😅 but seriously, i wrote it during a uhh angsty time for me and made some creative decisions toward the end of it that i regret, which is partly why i haven't updated in so long)
i love your meme so m u ch tho hhhhhhh lookit him!! jon is angy!! his archive now <3 <3 <3
thank you so much for sharing this with me!! it means a lot <3
So best i can tell all of Shakespeare's works have a free pdf version on Google play books what ones do you suggest reading first? (Also the audiobook of The Divine comedy by Dante is also currently free)
oooh NICE
HM it depends what you’re looking for in a Shakespeare play! My favourite’s probably Twelfth Night, which is a comedy (i.e. it has a happy ending) (or at least. Nobody important dies), because it’s absolutely CRAMMED full of Shakespeare’s signature genderbending/identity play. Plus, it’s probably? one of the easier plays to read? All around a good introduction to Shakespeare’s style when writing a “comedy”--lots of different kinds of humor, showcases different social castes, twelve different plotlines going on at once, copious amounts of deception and misunderstandings, “oh what tangled webs we weave” hilarity, so much chemistry between all the wrong people, and as happy an ending as you can get when everyone’s forced to fake heterosexuality.
I also really liked Measure for Measure, because it had me on the edge of my seat the whole way through (which is impressive, because you don’t expect to be that tense when you’re reading a Shakespeare play, especially one typically labelled a “comedy”) but it’s weird of me to like it because it’s a weird play (which involves a lot of sexual manipulation and harassment, tw for that). So maybe don’t start with that one.
The Comedy of Errors is also quite short and fairly simple in terms of poetic diction, so if Shakespearean language isn’t your thing that might be a good introduction. Then again, a lot of people dislike it because it’s kind of missing the extra level Shakespeare adds to his writing (it kind of reads like the Bard wrote it in one night), so don’t judge Shakespeare by the CoE if you do start there.
If you’re looking for a good romance, of course, Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice and Benedick, am i right?). I’m also partial to Celia and Rosalind’s relationship in As You Like It, but of course they don’t end up married to each other. Rosalind’s still a delightful genderbending levelheaded female character, though, the likes of which modern Hollywood only dreams of creating, so there is that, and it’s a pretty good intro to Shakespeare’s style when it comes to writing romance (i.e., he can’t/won’t do it right but he sure does end up writing something).
AND if you’re interested in tragedies, Hamlet is probably my favourite. I love the emo gay Danish prince. Horatio deserves better and so does Ophelia. (Nobody else though.) But Hamlet’s the longest one out of all of Shakespeare’s plays, so if you want something a little shorter I’d probably recommend King Lear. I dunno what it was about that play exactly, but I found it a particularly visceral read--maybe it’s bc I related so uncomfortably hard to Lear’s descent into madness. And if neither of those appeals to you, Julius Caesar’s another really good one (and you get maximum clout for quoting it around people, bonus).
Also if Google Play doesn’t end up working out, I found these three websites super helpful when I was working on my degree! They should have all of Shakespeare’s works free for browsing, too :)
Family legend says my great grandfather was a corrupt cop in Boston
Dude that is SO COOL. Corrupt in a good way or a bad way?
If you started a youtube channel? Hm, either poetics, literature and analyzation, or worldly issues; corrupt politicians, the rich, human rights. Maybe just cute animals. Just based off your usual posts.
DANG you just summed up my personality in a nutshell didn’t you
hmmmmmm the wheels are turning, the juices are percolating... imagine. a youtube channel dedicated to literary analysis. that is far too compelling i am such a nerd
My partner is an EMT so even though we are all on lock down he still works. He did a 24 hour shift fri-sat so I made him a big dinner for when he got home, dressed up, even put on makeup, jewelry, the whole shebang! He promptly fell asleep ten minutes after his shower. I understood, let him sleep and packed up the dinner I knew he'd munch on in the middle of the night. But there was a shallow part of me going "Who did I get dressed up for, the cat!?" but we've had the whole day today together :)
Aw, i'm so sorry, that's a rough place to be (a 24 hr shift?! that must be beyond exhausting), but i'm so glad you got today together!! That's lovely, he's lucky to have you 😉
Also, I mean, if all else fails, a cat is a perfectly valid person to get dressed up for!
@barclaythebigfoot why... why are you like this
What character you have the same energy as? Well, it is 3 in the morning, but from what my brain can pick up, probably Crowley tbh. Gets kinda pissed and tired, especially when humans are doing crap things, but has still good humor. Like you'd saunter over and drop into a chair that you won't properly sit in with a quirk and smile, ready to discuss memes and fandoms and be supportive, to tell us to take no shit but still ready to laugh with us.
@lunarmultishine asflajd thank you!! I usually see myself as Aziraphale in the A/C dynamic, because physically I present as book- and tea-oriented and Soft, but like. This is a spot-on description of my personality. I may have to reconsider my self-image here
