#shakespeare code

[ncutis-special-human-being]

[byyoursinner]

shakespeare's code

[christianworld]

We better be able to replenish our magic 😩

[willowfae82]

some of my favorite bits on dr. who are when the companion will do everything in their power to interject themelves in historical moments. to wit:

[casasupernovas]

my blog must make it appear that i hate the tenth doctor, and i don't. he's actually my favourite doctor. really, that's why im so critical of him, i love him so i want him to do better!

[timelord-winchester-22b]

Oh my god you guys so I found this thing on Shakespeare and you remember how he flirted with both Martha and the Doctor? And the Doctor pointed out the 57 academics who were apparently theorising that Shakespeare was bisexual. And he starting saying that sonnet to Martha. Within his sonnets there’s mentions of ‘The Dark Lady’ which he called Martha, and a ‘Fair Youth’ which is apparently a young man that people think Shakespeare had a thing for, but no one knew who it was. oh my god you guys.

[mizgnomer]

The Shakespeare Code - Behind the Scenes (Part 4) Excerpts from Benjamin Cook’s set report from DWM #382

DWM quizzed David and Freema (separately, of course - no conferring!) to determine who knows the most about the Bard. They get one point for completing each famous Shakespeare quote, and one more for naming the play. 

Q: To be or not to be, that is the question...

DT: “’Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer / the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune' - Hamlet”  (2 pts)

FA: “’Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well’? Um - it’s from Hamlet.” (1 pt)

Q: And thus the whirligig of time...

DT: “Oh bum. ‘And thus the whirligig of time draws on, um...’ That’s not right. It’s that kind of thing. [DWM: ‘And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.’] “I was close, though! Is it from Macbeth? [DWM: Twelfth Night.] This is terrible.”  (0 pts)

FA: “Is that from A Midsummer Night’s Dream? I’m not even going to pretend that I know. My God, I’m awful. I bet David got them all right.” (0 pts)

Q: Friends, Romans, countrymen...

DT: “’...lend me your ears; / I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.’ Julius Caesar.”   (2 pts)

FA: “’Friends, Romans, countrymen, um, listen up!” Ha! It’s from... ooh, is it Julius Caesar? Yes? It is? Put that I said that with conviction.”  (1 pt)

Q: By the pricking of my thumbs...

DT: “’Something wicked this way comes.’ That’s Macbeth.” (2 pts)

FA: “It rhymes? Um - ‘By the pricking of my thumbs / I’ll end up smacking those big bums.’ Ha ha!”  (0 pts)

Final Score: David got 16 out of 20, Freema got 6 out of 20 

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[songofwizardry]

Last night’s episode of Doctor Who was EPIC and the Doctor punching a racist shitbag might be the best thing I’ve seen since “Fifty seven academics just punched the air”.