#nah son

[dragonpyre]

Shoutout to the time I was helping host an event and the girls were required to wear heels, but me being a tomboy didn't have any so I just wore my theater character shoes, then promptly got yelled at

[coriphallus]

I make super horny durge for whom sex is the only kind of non hostile physical intimacy he knows and a breath of fresh air in his blood soaked life and put him in a cage with astarion like a kid watching a science experiment

[socalledfreethinker]

big fan of sex scenes. and they don’t even need to be plot relevant; i just like when two hot characters have sex. however. i say this in complete and utter sincerity: there are too fuckin many sex scenes in True Blood

[cto10121]

Omg im so dumb. I should’ve been asked you rhis: what’s your opinion on Tycutio??? Personally it’s not for me…. but maybe that’s because i just don’t like Tybalt 🤷🏾. You already kniw my feelings for that guy 😂. Otoh I loveeee Mercutio.

Also, what’s with the while Mercutio’s gay thing? I mean, i like it, i accept it as my own headcanon and what not but i didn’t see too much bookcanon to support it… Tho it’s possible i’ve missed something.

Yeah, both Tycutio and Gay Mercutio are 100% fanon. I have a feeling it’s Mercutio’s truly intense side character energy that encourages this fanon, since the Gay Best Friend trope is still ubiquitous. It’s not the most egregious headcanon…except when they try to make Mercutio a Sad Gay, as some adaptations have done (the French Canadian modern version and that Prince of Shadows book come readiest to mind). Whatever else he is, Mercutio is not a tragic character, gay or otherwise.

I think Gay Mercutio, apart from your standard representation motives, functions as an attempt to make Mercutio a main character by giving him something apart from his role in the main drama. Unfortunately that only ruins the fun and mystique of his character for me. Transforming a beloved side character into a main character often ends up making the character boring or at least les interesting (see: Nicolai the Grishaverse character). Mercutio just doesn’t have that level of drama, either internal or external. You could do much more with, say, Benvolio, if just in terms of him being a survivor to all this tragic madness (which the French musical did to heartbreaking effect).

As for Tycutio, I think it’s more popular in French musical circles, particularly the Hungarian and Revival RetJs that leaned heavily into their rivalry. That “Depuis notre enfance/Since our childhood” line does a LOT of heavy lifting in terms of fanon. For the Shakespeare side, though, there are a few that insist their banter has sexual tension (even though it’s less banter than Mercutio snapping at Tybalt and trying to antagonize him while Tybalt is coolly aloof). None of Mercutio’s wordplay to him, however, are sexual or romantic in nature—very telling when you remember to his previous bawdy taunting of the Nurse and Romeo.

That said, some adaptations have tried to emphasize the feud have made him a kind of Riff to Tybalt’s Bernardo, which lends itself very easily to an enemies-to-lovers slash pairing in fanfiction. So yeah, Migratory Slash Fandom + “R&J is actually about the feud!!1!” + side character energy = Gay Mercutio and Tycutio.

[iwrestledavongonce]

Would-you-write-a-Star Wars-Harry Potter-Crossover-Guy is back again.

[odinsblog]

[yadivagirl]

Always, always, always, read the fine print.

Check out this language in the rules section of a scholarship my daughter was going to apply for:

"Each Applicant hereby irrevocably grants, transfers, sells, assigns and conveys to the Sponsor, its successors and assigns, all present and future right, title and interest of every kind and nature whatsoever, including, without limitation, all copyrights, and all rights incidental, subsidiary, ancillary or allied thereto (including, without limitation, all derivative rights) in and to the Application and the written response submission(s) for exploitation throughout the universe, in perpetuity, by means of any and all media and devices whether now known or hereafter devised (the “Rights”)."

"for exploitation throughout the universe..."

WOW.

[halliewriteshockey]

That photo of Chris and Mika looking at each other is just like “do they think they’re being subtle??” asdfghjkl

God, right? And they're ALWAYS like that. I have so many pictures - hell, my background is one of them. They look at each other with literal hearts in their eyes and we're the ones supposed to be normal about it??