#scottish play

[shakespeare-guy-anon]

this sucks so bad im gonna kill (remembers the three witches told me none of woman born shall harm me) the king of scotland

[two-bees-poetry]

and i will hold the knife (lady macbeth)

[usefulhouseeater]

Hiiii guys

[the-beginning-of-somewhere]

My roommate is back with more translations into old Semitic languages!!

2 poems/songs, both in Ugaritic, and chapters 1-4 of Gideon the Ninth in Biblical Hebrew — both poems have a back translation into English, and GtN has extremely thorough notes for those of us who don’t speak ancient Semitic languages :)

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow (Macbeth V.v.20-31)

We Raise Our Cups (Hadestown)

Chapter 4 of GtN in BH

[whichgreathousewouldtheybepartof]

Bonus poll: Since Lord MacBeth was determined to be a member of House Targaryen (or at least, that’s the Great House he’d be most affiliated with), if he was around during the Dance of the Dragons, which side would he support?

Supports Rhaenyra and Team Black

Supports Aegon II and Team Green

Voting ended onMay 13

[danskjavlarna]

Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.

[swannybenny]

Trans Macbeth be like :

"What, you egg?"

[micahrats]

Arguably one of my favourite bits in Macbeth is found in Act IV. Scene I when Macbeth visits the three witches & in response to his questions about Banquo’s prophecy (‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none’) the witches show him this vision

And the funniest thing is that amidst Macbeth’s utter exasperation and despair at the humiliating truth of the apparition (and, consequently, the fact that his line shall be barren), amidst his quick harsh bouts of anger at the witches he stops and cuts in with ‘What, will the line stretch out to th’crack of doom?—‘

Shit is so funny oh my god. He’s so tired and distraught that for a moment he loses his usual prophetically-deep-ready-to-soliloquy-right-on-cue composure and goes like

‘bitch will these fuckass kings ever end’