#shakespeare fandom

[velvet4510]

“Let’s be weirdos together” is true couple goals and the objective fact is that Romeo and Juliet are the ones who invented it, like in modern times we hear “it wasn’t a love story” this, “they would never have actually lasted” that, “it was just lust” here, “they only loved an idea” there, BUT if you actually read the text, Romeo starts spewing nonsense about pilgrims and saints at the moment they first meet (rather than, you know, introducing himself) and Juliet not only takes his little speech and immediately runs with it, buying into it and continuing it with total ease, but also completes it to form a perfect sonnet, and if that isn’t soulmates who match each other’s freak stuff, idk what is.

[thetyrannytranny]

I’m gonna be honest, I really hate when people say stuff like “holy shit, Shakespeare’s ghost must have possessed me when I wrote this line”

(First of all be proud of yourself, you (yes you🫵) wrote the line)

But also the line almost never sounds like something Shakespeare would write, it’s usually just something that’s very nice prose.

Like if Shakespeare possessed you, I’m pretty sure there’d be more sex jokes.

Also I just don’t like when people use Shakespeare as the example of good writing, bc that man has written bad stuff (everybody has, he’s not perfect)

[onesizedgirl]

Rejoice, for god is real and he loves me.

I’ve managed to find my dearest Much Ado and now shall spam screenshots from it like an awakened sleeper agent

Links to part 1 and part 2 for anyone who’d like to watch it

[antique-ro-man]

Who is the tumblr sexy man of the Shakespeare fandom?

Hamlet

Brutus or Cassius

Coriolanus

Puck

Sebastian (TN)

Iago

Edmund

Benedick

Hal

Other - clarify in tags

Voting ended onMar 14, 2023

Might expand this into a bracket if I feel so inclined. I’ve included characters I feel like have received the tumblr sexyman treatment, but I’ve definitely missed some.

[carniistir]

outsourcing to shakespeare tumblr i know ur out there.... does anyone know of any adaptations (film, stage, novel, anything; of ANY play) that are set in/around the 1960s? i'm talking adaptations made recently (like, 1990-now) that are SET in the 60s, not adaptations made in the 60s.

[uncommon-lamp]

Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder 👻👻👻

[snack-size-shakespeare]

Can't believe there's a Twitter debate right now in "Is Romeo + Juliet a good movie"?

It's epic. It's fabulous. It's stunning. What's to debate?

[rayatii]

I love how the idea of Mercutio being gay is practically almost fanon in the Shakespeare fandom by now