#also romeo montague somehow

[autismmydearwatson]

Attention Transsexuals

You DO NOT have to bind/pack to be who you are

You DO NOT have to be on hormone therapy to be who you are

You DO NOT even have to define yourself with a clear-cut label to be who you are

But you DO have to:

Point out random fictional characters and say "that's gonna be me someday"

#for legal purposes this is a joke #you dont actually have to do this you can do whatever you want forever #characters ive said 'thats gonna be me someday' about: #jim hawkins treasure planet #silco arcane #hamlet #also romeo montague somehow #maul opress #reb tevye #fiddler on the roof #viktor hargreeves #paul atreides #kaz brekker #sherlock holmes #the chamberlain from fucking Dark Crystal #obligatory hmmmmmMMMMMMmmmmm #wesley the princess bride #rm renfield #frodo baggins #12th doctor #also today #fucking HP Hatecraft from Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc #took one look at that fuckin filler episode character with haunted eyes and an undercut #languishing in an empty mansion with a room full of hos bestselling books yet tormented by unseen forces #apparently???? #i say this not necessarily in a kin way #but like in a hopeful way #these men give me hope ill live long enough to be like them #trans #transgender

[cinnamon-notes]

i have been ghosting my friends for idk a month??? and they have been doing the same??? except for when we meet in a workplace cuz somehow our jobs decided to cross over :)

#feeling so bad about it but like i cant bring myself to interact with people right now but i am also constantly sad because i dont interact #with anyone out of work :/ but working makes me socially exhausted & tbh all i wanna do is be depressed with my books & my movies &my tunes #but i also crave affection like i realize i have zero social life and i sometimes schedule some hangout with my friends but it's almost #become like idk a task? something i look at through work eyes. like- i arrange our hangouts the way i arrange work meetings. it's so sad. #i know it is. but still- i cant help it. through all my life ive been missing having a lifelong friend who knows me like the back of their #hands and i know like the back of mine. never had it. cant cry over that. it's passed. i cant invent lifelong friendships that never existed #and i gotta make peace with that. plus- what am i complaining about if im just incapable of keeping any friend for longer than a month??? #after the first month- maybe the first couple of months- it all gets boring and dont get me wrong i really love my friends but somehow they #lose interest in me and i lose interest in them and we become just people who know each other and occasionally hang out but like- i've never #had a friend who's there for me when things happen in my life. i've always had friends to tell things to afterwards. like- i know i cant #really pick up the phone and say “hey. im having a bad time. can we take a walk? talk on the phone? can you tell me about your day? can you #just be here for me?“ and i cant even idk just randomly pop up with a ”oh my god i hate him i hate him i hate him it's a whole montague vs #capulet but if romeo and juliet never existed kind of hatred!!“ i just cant vent right away. ive always thought that that's my problem. #and maybe it is. but still- how's come they can vent to me? im always there right away. i do love my people and i show up for them. #sometimes my depression makes it soooo difficult to hang out constantly but if there's one thing that cannot be said about mw is that i dont #care. cuz i do. and maybe that's the problem #and maybe it's just easier for me to care than let others care? idk? but then again- i did try to open up. i did try to let them care. i did #try everything by the book & off the book but still- idk it's always just an “im sorry” never an “i care so much to say more than im sorry” #and yeah it's my problem cuz i am not a constant person im not that steady in what i do. i still dont know if it's because i havent found #yet the people worth doing it or if i am just traumatized (my ex is knocking on this door lol) but- idk it makes me extremely sad!!! #and ive rambled on way too much but i jusg needed to let some things out of my mind cuz i cant understand whats wrong with me and why i #crave true friendships although im hella scared of and bored of and unwilling to nurturing one :) #cinnamon diary

[stoat-party]

My lukewarm takes on Romeo and Juliet characters, heavily influenced by the specific production I watched yesterday

Romeo: So extra. Absolute drama king. He would watch Encanto and not be able to stop thinking about it for a month. He absolutely fell in love twice in a week based purely on looks, but that love was pure and romanticized to no end. In his mind, it was worth dying for. He should have been allowed to be a stupid kid, but under the circumstances he felt forced to marry in secret.

Juliet: Every adult in this girl’s life failed her. Of course she fell in love with Romeo, she’s thirteen. Their relationship isn’t particularly profound, it’s their devotion. Their innocence. When you were a thirteen-year-old girl, didn’t you fantasize about doing something drastic just to make your father understand? She’s the girl who acted on that fantasy, in the most horrible way. And she’s a child. A baby. They’re all just babies.

Paris: Himbo. Yeah, he tried to marry a thirteen-year-old girl. Yeah, he’s probably an adult by our standards, or close to it. However misguided his feelings toward her, though, they were real. He felt protective toward this girl he’d barely met. That wasn’t the blood feud talking. It was his meathead himbo brain. What caused this man to think it was okay to marry a little girl? How was he so casual about it? Why so violent? We’ll never know.

Benvolio: Shares an archetype with Horatio. Guy who lives, but at what cost? When I read the play he seemed like the sweet, reasonable one, but this production really played up the teenaged boyness of it all. The important parts to him, though, are that he loved Romeo, and he didn’t want any of this. Noticeably absent in the final acts.

Mercutio: Baby. Actual tiny baby man. I read this book when I was fifteen, I had no maternal feelings toward any of these kids, but this actor’s Mercutio broke me. He was just a little goofball from a rich family, he had no concept of consequences. The actor was an adult but somehow made his voice crack. When he started a swordfight over a cause that had nothing to do with him, it was like I was watching a puppy trying to play keep-away with a tiger. Tybalt even backed off and tried to sheathe his sword, but Mercutio gave him a little *boop* on the backside and it started again. His death scene started off laughing and ended in screaming. After Act III, all jokes in the play cease.

Nurse: I just feel bad for whoever gets cast as the nurse to get insulted for three hours.

Friar Lawrence: Who does this guy think he is? Okay, he couldn’t have predicted the plague or the duel, but he seems very confident about courses of action that have a high likelihood of ending in tragedy. The lesson is, don’t enable teen hormones just because you think it’ll help you end a blood feud. I can’t discount his good intentions, though, and the kids would probably have been worse off without him.

Tybalt: I seethe.

Lord Capulet: I’m doing this for your own good but also I’ll ruin your life if you disobey ok? <3

Lady Capulet: She definitely shares some of the blame for what happened, but her love was genuine. She had been brought into this cycle at Juliet’s age, how was she supposed to break out?

Lady Montague: idk why shakespeare thought killing her offstage was necessary. we don’t even find out until after the climax so why? it’s more thematically consistent if all the deaths are young people.

Rosaline: If thou findeth thyself in a Shakespearean tragedy, get thee to a nunnery.

#romeo and juliet #romeo montague #romeo #juliet capulet #juliet #shakespeare #mercutio #tybalt #tybalt capulet #benvolio #benvolio montague #william shakespeare #romeo & juliet

[skrittle-mix]

The Bingham House

I've only seen a little bit of talk about the Bingham house, so I wanted to add my observations to see how it represents season four and Mike’s character.

Starting off, we have a moment before the group even enter the house. Jonathan says how the group need to be on “their best behaviour”. We are expected to take this as meaning Argyle, who chimes in asking why Jonathan looked at him when he says this line, but it’s Mike who adds that the Binghams are very religious. Also, to note, Mike is the only one to make a change within the house - correcting himself from saying holy shit to holy heck in the father’s study.

Next, we see the door opening and Mike gets stuck with a yellow arrow by Cornelius. I’m not going to go in-depth into the yellow/blue byler colour coding, but basically, Will is yellow and Mike is blue. So Mike gets hit with a yellow arrow from someone that shares the name with a saint that unites an artist with his lover is a neon light. (he was also the patron saint of lovers in Rhineland)  Not to mention, the artist was commissioned to do his piece of work, which Mike currently believes to be true with Will’s painting.

Upon entering the home, we are shown two children sword fighting on the kitchen table. They are quoting Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1, Act II, Scene IV;  “you starveling, you elf-skin, you driedneat's tongue”. They also quote Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II, Scene IV when Suzie’s father runs downstairs; “away, you mouldy rogue, away”. We’ve been made aware of Shakespeare in the past when Dustin refers to Suzie and himself as ‘star-crossed lovers’. In the script for 3x01, it refers to Mike and El as star-crossed lovers aswell. In this season, we’ve had Mike being called Romeo by Argyle and the oven behind him while giving his monologue is branded as ‘Montague’, Romeo’s family name.

We then have the death scene being directed, which later gets paralleled to Mike’s monologue, and shows that the monologue is in Will’s POV. The director says to the father, who would be in Mike’s situation, “your terror, it looked genuine”. 

Argyle and Eden’s scene is showing love at first sight, and exploring the comedic and non-realistic element to it. And we have a season three parallel to a certain pair that ditch their friends to.. um.. hang out.. just like Argyle and Eden do in the Surfer Boy Pizza van. 

slightly delusional points:

Something that sticks out to me is that in Suzie’s bedroom, Mike is the only one who does not sit down, which makes me think he felt uncomfortable in the house. Why would he not be comfortable, unless he had recently discovered somethings about himself in the months the Byers had been gone from Hawkins. Mike actively avoids any eye contacts with Suzie's father on the stairs when the group leave the study and pushes himself away from her father, almost hurling himself over the banister, when the rest of the group look him in the face and don't feel the need to physically be miles away.

While the group are hovering over the computer, Jonathan makes the comment of “maybe it’s hidden in the code somehow”. Codes have been used in the past such as the “when blue and yellow meet in the West”, this reads as a sign to look further into everything, just as we’ve been doing.

Some non-byler parallels that I think are interesting:

The kids cooking are adding salt into a pot of water - the sensory deprivation tank El uses 

The group needing to get into a room in an attic - Vecna being in the Creel’s attic and the Hawkins group getting into the attic 

The father needing to be distracted so the group can get into the attic - Dustin, Eddie and Max distracting Vecna so the Hawkins group can get into the attic

The fire in the kitchen - the fire in the Creel’s attic

apologies if any of this is incoherent, its very late and im very tired, but thanks for reading if you got this far! 

#byler #mike wheeler #will byers #stranger things #i'm going to bed now so good night guys #st

[definitelynotshouting]

OUGHHH sorry to be on anon, I need to make a proper tumblr to talk to people in hermitblr but currently I only have a sideblog and am not gonna expose my ten year old main aklsdjhfdklas, but I am the author of the romeo and juliet au tysm you made my heart grow warm and fuzzy and then explode I've never seen my fic mentioned out in te wild before <33333

to fuel ur theatre au brainworms, in the romeo and juliet au: mercutio is bdubs + benvolio is cleo, and jimmy and joel are sampson and gregory (two capulets from the start of the play they're such dumbasses my absolute beloveds), so we've got the design philosophy of the montagues and the capulets mirroring the aesthetics of the family and the bad boysss. (I never came up with a design for bad boy!Ren when he steps in as Tybalt instead of Grian during show week but I feel it's not too hard to imagine hehe)

but also (separately from that au, because I saw other talk of the life series and theatre and plays on ur blog) I constantly think about the life series as a greek tragedy, specifically in relation to the purpose of the series' inevitable tragedy being catharsis for the watchers (with the watchers also being literally the viewers). we love to see them suffer!!! but there's also a bunch of politics surrounding greek tragedies that Plato and Aristotle had discourse about that you can rope into it and tldr; my understanding is catharsis was Aristotle's answer to Plato's concern that tragedies' emotive affect could encourage rebellion against the state, with Aristotle saying that instead the cycle of pity and fear and eventual catharsis felt by the audience has a "purifying" effect that's like an emotional release from those emotions instead. Then with the extra layer of lore the fandom has surrounding Grian running away from the watchers, if Grian designs the life games, to the end of sating the watchers' need to emotionally feed (thank you Martyn for that piece of lore I'm stealing it jkfhdsk), the purpose of the games could be the cleansing of the watchers' discomfort with him running away and being a player and maintaining the status quo where Grian is actually the one in control !!!! even if he makes himself suffer. also different characters "curses" as their harmatia!! And, if we interpret the watchers as a fictional force AND the viewers simultaneously, then the chorus could absolutely be watchers who are vocal in the fandom - removed from the "players" (and OH how I love the dual meaning of minecraft players and players as in actors) but providing additional commentary and insight into what's happening that further feeds the emotional experience of the audience !!

alsooooo if you don't know the show "& Juliet" scar and grian are ALSO romeo and juliet in that to me, it's their last life/early double life era </3

theatre theatre theatre theatre theatre theatre theatre theatre

YOOOOOOOOO HELLO OP YOUR FIC IS AMAZING AND IM GLAD I COULD REC IT BC IT DESERVES RECOGNIZED!!!!! Also all of this is AMAZING im so obsessed with bdubs being mercutio and cleo being benvolio. Thats incredible like HELLO????? based choices tbh thats so fun

Also super obsessed with the meta of plays feeding into the watcher canon (and im STILL not over martyn somehow accidentally canonizing a key element of my au, this is insane, i came up with the idea for watchers feeding on player emotions in SEPTEMBER OF LAST YEAR), thats so fucking neat, i love a good tragedy OUGHHHHH its so compelling.

Also no worries about being on anon!!!! I did that too before i finally cleaned up my main blog so all the posts were privated, and then changed my url to match this one so ppl would recognize me WHEEEEEZE. Smth that helped me was tagging my own sideblog in anon asks i sent, so ppl would know it was me, and i'd get the notif when it got answered. Ofc you might not be comfortable linking your sideblog, but if you ever made one you wanted to sign off with, thats the option i used for a while before using mass post editor to private my entire main blog!!!!

theatre theatre theatre!!! Your ideas are SO pog and cool my dude feel free to ramble to me any time :]

#shouting speaks #asks #scarian #hermitcraft #3rd life #WATCHERS AS GREEK CHORUS.... WHAT IF I WENT INSANE /POS #long post #txt

[solanine-and-swords]

some highlights from shakespeare in the park romeo and juliet:

romeo was just. freakishly tall

the nurse was teeny and they looked so silly together i loved their dynamic

when a character was being talked about you could always see them “backstage” or somewhere close in the audience

benvolio was so so fun and happy and laughed at everything

benvolio told romeo to look for other women and romeo looked straight at the audience and made a face

romeo greeted friar lawrence by giving him a noogie and friar lawrence tried to do it back but romeo was too tall

romeo just like. straight up forgot who rosaline was

the benvolio/mercutio relationship was really cute and played as pretty gay. loved it

i had on a grey blanket and mercutio made aggressive eye contact with me when he was talking about the “grey-coated gnat”

juliet had a star-shaped pimple patch stuck to her shirt which was really cute actually

just. really hot tybalt. like worryingly attractive. horrible evil awful facial hair and haircut but somehow it worked. and the swordplay?? okay shutting up about him now

the montagues wore blues (boy colors) and the capulets wore reds (girl colors)

juliet had a pink dress and the nurse wore both pink and red which was an amazing aesthetic/symbolic choice

juliet’s dress was GORGEOUS

mercutio’s suit was the ugliest thing i’ve ever seen. houndstooth and red leather and blue floral print. it activated my fight or flight response

during the “sex” scene they just danced around and there was some pretty music it was actually beautiful

romeo had on a shirt that was so see-through that he might as well have just not been wearing one

the “lamentable day” scene was done so that the nurse/lady/montague/count paris were all crying and talking at the same time and it was AMAZING

lady capulet screamed so loud

the original count paris was sick so there was just some woman holding a script onstage. she slayed it actually

lady montague was also the musician and after she died she just played the harp and looked really sad on the side of the stage

tybalt was in the crypt during the death scene. just hanging out. just chilling

the stage manager played peter and just ran around carrying a cheap paper fan for the entire duration of the play

tybalt sort of saluted everyone with his sword during bows. did i mention he was hot??

everyone was hot actually it was insane

#shakespeare #shakespeare in the park #romeo and juliet #theatre #mine

[harmonyckrs]

Day 18 of Twisted Pleasantview: Everyone Returns (mostly)

THE PREVIOUS DAY

NAME: HERB OLDIE

LIFE STAGE: ELDER

STATUS: ALIVE, FUNCTIONAL

SPECIAL NOTES: A hopeless romantic and hard worker. Mary Sue takes a lot after him.

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Dear Diary,

Grandma really is back! And so's Mom, but that's not important. For all she knows I could be dead, and I don't care enough about her to try to reconnect now.

While we were still processing everything that happened, Grandma told Angela and I about what she had seen. Apparently she was stuck in a realm of fire, but that a fairy ring somehow appeared out of nowhere which she used to teleport back home. From this, Mr. Dreamer having a very similar testimony, and the fact that Vidcund's wish required three fairies that all passed out afterwards and just before everyone returned, I think it's safe to say that those fairies were responsible for what's going on.

I decided to share my notes with Angela, and she mentioned meeting someone back at our old school who was named Meadow. We decided to theorize about who "Chrissy" could've been, who I imagine is probably the person who's controlling the fairies or at the very least serves as their boss.

Angela and I decided to call Dustin, Dirk, Pascal and Nina separately. During Pascal's call, Vidcund butted in to tell us that there was a woman that he and his brothers used to know back home named Crystal, who dated Lazlo before he "died." He remembered Lazlo referring to Crystal as "Chrissy" a couple of times, but that she had been brainwashed during the Strangetown Takeover and was likely still under the control of the tyrant Dr. Vu.

I'm guessing Crystal is having her body piloted by Dr. Vu? That's gotta suck. I don't know how brainwashing works, but I'm really hoping she's unconscious or something because that sounds like hell

Also, not everyone had returned well. Tybalt, Ripp's chef, and Bianca Montague were all found dead, and Romeo hadn't returned. Kent and Antonio made peace since they both wanted to avenge Bianca, but this doesn't really stop everyone else in the family from being mad about their dead and missing family members.

Mercutio is now swearing to eliminate all Capulets, and Juliet wants to eliminate all Montagues. Rosaline told me that Juliet was starting to have some kind of breakdown to the point where she cut her hair and started wearing a mask like Tybalt's. Can't really imagine Little Miss Prep doing something like that but I guess I'll see how bad it is once I see her again at school

And Bella Goth, the very first disappearance, is still missing. I think she's probably just dead but I overheard Grandma mentioning that she had briefly seen Bella in her realm, but that she had disappeared as if she was a ghost. Creepy. I guess it could be a different Bella, though. She's always been mysterious, even before she got abducted.

Also I got a really weird email from Mom's work email. I'm guessing she probably had fairy madness, but it went something like this:

HELP

DESTROY NOVA AND CONVINCE THE FREELANCER FAIRIES TO LET ME GO HOME. SHE TRICKED THEM INTO THINKING I'M A THREAT

AND TELL MY BROTHERS I'M SORRY

Who the fuck is Nova? How am I supposed to destroy her if I don't even know who she is, and who even are the "Freelancer Fairies?" I marked the email as unread so I could remember to look at it again later and tell everyone else.

I wonder if anyone else got a weird email like that.

THE NEXT DAY

#ts2 #pleasantview with a twist #sims 2 gameplay

[cto10121]

Greetings 👋

I'm currently reading David Blixt's essay on Romeo and Juliet "The origin of the feud". Have you read it? What are your thoughts about it? If you didn't, would you read it? So far I agree and disagree with some points he made but it is too early to say much since I started it a few hours ago.

…My man really just started writing fanfiction whole cloth. Woof.

So I did read (1) essay by him of the same title online, (he has a whole essay collection that somehow managed to be published) and boy, was it a doozy. Long story short, Blixt found it strange that Lady Montague’s off-stage death came so suddenly, basically tacked on at the end, and thought it might have a symbolic meaning—that is, signaling the end of the feud. From there he headcanoned that Lady Montague was the cause of the feud re: love triangle. Lords Capulet and Montague were once best friends turned rivals over the love of a woman, who would become Lady M.

First of all, the Chorus was clear that the feud was an ancient grudge; if a recent-ish love triangle were the cause, then it would certainly be the new mutiny. Second of all, for would-be ex-BFFs and rivals, Lord Capulet is eager to save face to young Count Paris and assure him that it would not be hard (he thinks) for him to keep the peace with Lord Montague, as they are both old. It’s possible, but not very probable.

Most likely Shakespeare axed Lady M off for symmetry—Romeo and Lady Montague from the Montague side, Juliet and Tybalt from the Capulets, and Mercutio and Paris from Escalus. Each side lost at least two people. (Then again, he did have Benvolio killed off-stage in the Bad Quarto, so it may not have been symmetry after all).

In any case, I also looked up some reviews of the whole essay collection and I’m not impressed, either. Apparently he is one of those R&J-is-a-comedy-turned-tragedy clowns, which makes sense given this fanfic-esque meta. He did write a fun-sounding novel called Her Majesty’s Will, though, so who knows? Maybe that will be my next read for some clown-eating.

#giuliettaluce #ask #romeo and juliet #david blixt #the origin of the feud #this guy is an actual director #ho boy #that is the magic of r&j tho #once you get in…

[ryunumber]

Courtesy of @kchasm: Romeo has a Ryu Number of 2/3.

(explanation below)

"Trying to find a Ryu Number of Romeo & Juliet's Romeo can be a bit iffy. Is a high school AU version of Romeo still Romeo? If a couple of characters are 'Romeo' (surnamed 'Montague'/of the Montagues) and 'Juliet' (surnamed 'Capulet'/of the Capulets) but nothing else comes from the play, is that still Romeo?

"Well, this Romeo of the Montagues lives in the city of Verona, buds around with Mercutio (who dies), and is sweet on Juliet of the Capulets who's got a cousin Tybalt (who dies) and is set to be married to a 'Paris' but doses on a soporific instead.

"That said, this Romeo and Juliet are royals, so that's a little different. And Lord Montague is a lot more active in his enmity. And it turns out Friar Laurence is being puppeted by a vengeful ghost. Still, it follows the basic outline of the whole play pretty close. (Until it veers right off the road just before the end, and then gets sequels, but that's more or less unimportant here.)

"If that's a little too hinky, though, there's also The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune's Fool, a life simulator (i.e. raise your stats raise your stats) that takes place in the city of Vanora, which is inexplicably populated by a lot of Shakespeare characters all at the same time. Since you don't actually spend a lot of time with the characters themselves, there's nothing that suggests most of them aren't operating as according to script when your back is turned. The Horatio in this game is explicitly the one from Hamlet, having fled to Vanora after near everyone died and Fortinbras took over, while Juliet's story is just beginning, and will apparently follow to its tragic end unless you interfere.

"Then again, the gravekeeper is named Yorick, so, uh. Aunno.

"Also Hamlet and Horatio are apparently codamned with Shakespeare in Richard & Alan's Escape from Hell, but this seems less hinky to me somehow? Go fig."

#romeo #romeo montague #romeo and juliet #william shakespeare #shakespeare #ryu number

[mamadalena]

If (if!) Still Star-Crossed ever got a second adaptation (Shonda Rhimes, make it happens!) there are some things from Melinda Taub's book that I would like to watch on screen:

- Duchess of Vesuvius: I can imagine the nasty Capulet matriarch as a bad temper, but equally sharp-tongue version of Lady Danbury, somehow guiding the Tirimo sisters.

- Escalus as the original prince from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: I prefer the Escalus from the book. More assertive, more experienced and more exasperated with Montagues and Capulets. Also, cruelest with Rosaline, which made all far more interesting when he stood as Benvolio rival.

- Lord Montague and Benvolio father-and-son relationship: Lord Montague trusts in Benvolio as the heir of Montague house (and is torn apart when he was about to be executed). Besides, one filthy uncle is enough.

- Benvolio's dedication to his family: seductive and unruly lords are the current style, but Benvolio honored behavior toward the Montagues (but aware about to when skip the rules) would be also fun. 

- Rosaline and Livia NOT as Capulet housekeepers: lowered to servants by their relatives were one of the biggest (and awkward) mistakes of the series. I keep asking myself why not let Rosaline and Livia as the poor and ignored, but also independent and proud Capulet nieces. 

#still muttering about it #Still Star-Crossed #shonda rhimes #shondaland #melinda taub #netflix help

[ao3feed-bencutio]

A Close Call

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/j53xCfN

by mypersonalityisgay

Mercutio is stupidly loyal. Benvolio has somehow fallen for the pretty dumb boy. Mercutio also almost dies but I guess that's normal.

Words: 783, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Roméo et Juliette - Presgurvic

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Benvolio (Romeo and Juliet), Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet), Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet), Romeo Montague

Relationships: Benvolio/Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet)

Additional Tags: Mercutio is stupidly loyal, Benvolio is protective, Romeo is probably traumatized, Tybalt was not ready for an aggressive benvolio, Benvolio really do be gay panicking, Benvolio got them protective and possessive voices, gay boys, love these gays, why did i literally blank while writing the end

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/j53xCfN

#bencutio #benvolio montague #mercutio

[shortpplfedup]

The mansion of a love Bad Buddy Episode 7

O, I have bought the mansion of a love, But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold, Not yet enjoy'd.

In this episode, nothing plays out like I expected but it's all somehow even better than I could have ever hoped for, as things start to show signs of dovetailing with the novel (no spoilers). Pat and Pran engage in an absolutely necessary extended courtship, Paa joins in the university shenanigans finally, and gays somehow manage to lock the door AND have a series of cute uninterrupted-ish moments.

BLAH BLAH MONTAGUES BLAH BLAH CAPULETS

He is a kinsman to the Montague; Affection makes him false; he speaks not true

Aof makes it clear that homophobic parents are not on the menu at Pran's house. Also not on the menu at Pran's house? Having ANYTHING to do with the house next door. The enmity between the families is starting to slowly creep to the fore as Pat and Pran become more and more certain they want nothing to do with it.

Also creeping to the fore: the pressure from Pat's dad. I don't think we're out of the homophobic parents woods entirely at all.

A MUTUAL WOOING

O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?

What satisfaction canst thou have to-night?

The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.

Pran is such a little minx...lol. At first glance I was definitely confused by this episode, because why would you let all the air out of the balloon with a time jump instead of keeping the sexual (and other) tension high from the end of episode 6? But as the episode went on I realised that this was EXACTLY what Pat and Pran needed: they needed to recalibrate their relationship and break a lifetime of patterns in how they interacted with each other, and that would have to take time. In short, they had to learn how to speak nicely to each other. This is Aof saying 'this is how 'enemies to lovers' SHOULD work'.

Pran needed to be wooed and courted and to become comfortable to woo and court in return, because he has associated his feelings for Pat with unhappiness and doom for so long. He needed time and continuous reinforcement to see that actually, Pat can be a source of joy for him, not just a painful wound. Pat for his part I think understood instinctively from the moment he realised how he felt that it would be a journey of inches to Pran's heart, and he was ready to be patient and consistent. But he's not a saint, and the longer things go on without a resolution the more he gets restless (and I think, ultimately, reckless, but that remains to be seen). Pat's tired of playing games, he was tired of it from before he knew what name to give his feelings.

ROMEO LOSES BUT STILL WINS

With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do that dares love attempt...

So Pat loses the bet, but not in anything close to the way I thought he might. Pat actually forfeits the bet because in the end it only existed for Pran's sake, and Pran doesn't actually need it anymore, he's just using it as a crutch now. But this is only the midpoint of the journey. Yes they're boyfriends now, Pran will allow that, but that was never all that Pat needed. Pat is such a straightforward dude, he doesn't like hiding, and he doesn't want to do it. He's proud of Pran, he's happy with him, and he wants everybody to know that they belong to each other.

And here lie the seeds of the next conflict, because they may be healing from the trauma of their childhood, but the trauma of their youthful parting is likely very much alive. Pran and Pat do not want to be separated again. For Pran that means avoiding that confrontation by hiding what they are for as long as possible. For Pat it's clear that there's no avoiding it, they just have to hold hands and face the music together. He can't do it alone. If Pran is willing to go public, then that means he's ready to fight for him, for them, just like Pat is.

Commentary from the Chorus

THE INK/PAA SHIP IS SAILING, ALL ABOARD!

In that same vein *sprays Wai with water* STAY AWAY FROM PAA.

It's like Aof is taking us on a tour of BL's greatest hits and saying 'what if show x but less y?'. Like Ink standing up for the freshmen...'what if SOTUS but less hazing-y?'

So Paa is now Benvolio? I feel like that's right-ish? Or was she always? Maybe the next episode makes things clearer. I feel like characters are shifting between characters too. Like Ink is looking like the most likely candidate to take up the Friar Lawrence mantle at this point as a true neutral party.

The episode was so soft and sweet and gentle after the high emotions of the last two, a lovely turning point.

#bad buddy #bad buddy series #in fair verona #on art #bl meta series

[endoplasmian]

Theory on To The Ark based on Issue 3.5

MAJOR SPOILER WARNING FOR THE MARBLE HORNETS YOUTUBE SERIES AND THE COMIC ISSUE 3.5 - TOTHEARK!!!

I’ve been thinking about all the new information we get in Issue 3.5, and I feel like I have some stuff that I’d like to run by others or at least just sort of put out there. Specifically, about ToTheArk's sort of catch phrase- "You will lead us To The Ark." This post/ theory also assumes that Brian is ToTheArk.

I think a lot of people, including myself, and likely Jay, Tim and Alex, interpreted this phrase as kind of a threatening command. It reads like the Ark is a destination and ToTheArk wants to be led there by whoever they’re speaking to. However, knowing what we know now about the Ark, and specifically Brian’s relationship to it, this reading doesn’t make sense anymore. Brian has already been to the Ark many, many times, enough times to have a system for escaping it. He doesn’t need anyone’s help to lead him there.

I started to rethink the reading of that line, and the parallel I draw now (because I’m a dweeb) is to the chorus in Romeo and Juliet. Before the play even begins, we are told that it will end in death and tragedy, and that Romeo and Juliet’s love will never come to fruition because of the bloody feud between the Capulets and the Montagues.

I think that ToTheArk is Marble Hornets’ chorus. Brian, much in the same way he knows what’s on Jay’s tapes before Jay even watches them, knows somehow that there is no good ending to this course of events. We also know that the Ark is reached through death. Whether he’s talking to Jay or to Alex (you could argue both of them are responsible), Brian is telling them “You are the ones who will lead all of us to our deaths. We are not getting out of this alive.” However, because his brain has been scrambled by the Ark (I might make a post about this later because I also have a lot of thoughts on this), it comes out incomprehensible and cryptic.

#marble hornets #to the ark #totheark #marble hornets spoilers #mh comic spoilers #I could literally go on about this comic for like days #How they managed to completely recontextualize Totheark without retconning anything is fascinating to me #talkin

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

I've always wondered how Romeo and Juliet would be if it were written as a comedy instead of a tragedy but then I read your post and realized that the play is indeed a comedy up until Mercutio's death. Out of curiousity, how do you think it would play out if Mercutio hadn't died and it was a comedy until the end?

Honestly, R&J isn't one of Shakespeare's plays I know extremely well, I have seen it, and seen a lot of adaptations, but it's slightly more peripheral for me than for say Much Ado or Hamlet. That being said, I'll try to give a decent answer for this!

If Mercutio hadn't died, then Tybalt wouldn't have been killed, meaning there was no need for Romeo to be exiled. Thus, there would have been no need to rush the whole Juliet pretending to be dead, Romeo never getting the letter, thing, and the whole affair could have been planned out more.

I think if that were to have happened, we have some indication perhaps of the direction it would have taken in Much Ado: there, a similar ploy is used, Hero pretends to be dead, leading to Claudio having a change of heart and facing emotional punishment for his crime. So, my first conjecture, I think it's perfectly likely Friar Laurence might still suggest the fake death ploy. However, he would suggest it to both Romeo and Juliet at the same time. Furthermore, instead of it the planned outcome being for them to run off together, which had to be the outcome in the original play because of Romeo's exile, the plan would be to shame both the Montagues and Capulets into realising the extent of their war and making peace. The lovers would both pretend to be dead, pretending they commited suicide together because of Juliet being forced into marriage and Romeo not wanting to live without her, the families would reconcile out of grief much as it is at the end of the real play, and then surprise! they're not dead! and they marry! as they must, for all comedies must have a marriage.

My second concept: again the Friar suggests the ploy (I think he very much would have, Shakespeare loves a bit of miscommunication leading to hilarious plot). However, he only suggests it to Juliet! Romeo never gets the letter! how tragic! He comes to kill himself on Juliet's grave! However in this version Mercutio is still living and as the comic relief character he is crucial in making the protagonist question himself and his own behaviour. Here, he stops Romeo from a. killing Paris, and b. killing himself. Suddenly! magically! Juliet lives! Everyone is so relieved she isn't dead that the Capulets offer peace and the Montagues are so moved by the love of the young couple they stop fighting! (and before you say oh that's a cop-out, look at the end of Midsummer Night's Dream, a bit of a cop-out isn't unprecedented). They marry!

My third concept: the Friar suggests the ploy to both of the young couple, but the plan still is for them to flee (flights of young couples whose parents disapprove also isn't wholly unprecendented, actually I'm thinking of Midsummer again, Lysander and Hermia planning to run away). It works! Juliet pretends to be dead to escape her marriage, then runs away with Romeo! I'm not quite sure about this one because it would open up a lot more plot than a normal length play would allow for, but it certainly might happen, and then ultimately they would be reconciled with their families, who had also reconciled with each other somehow, and they get married.

I think those first two are the most likely, and the last less likely but still possible! Primarily the death of Mercutio, beyond the symbolic death of the possibility of this being a comedy, means the plot isn't allowed to slow down at all: Tybalt dies instantly, so Romeo has to be exiled instantly, so the fake death plot has to happen before he can be told, etc. Allowing the play to continue as a comedy means more can be explained to the people who matter and a more thought out scheme can be hatched.

Thank you for asking this! It was really fun!!!

#romeo and juliet #shakespeare

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

i know y'all love discussing the morals of assholes but like that's the point of being an asshole you behave like one to other people without looking back but like regardless idk if y'all have never had beef with someone but all rules are out the door when it comes to particular targets and like there's also the fact that this is a romeo and juliet adaptation a bit too fucking obviously so conflict between the friend groups has got to be there somehow as nonsensical as it could possibly get like in romeo and juliet the conflict has been going on for so long nobody remembers anymore what it was all about, and regardless it poisons any second the capulets and the montagues spend with each other, which eventually leads to the younger generation into creating their own grievances with each other and like yeah they're just groups of random friends in bad buddy but i do think a different lens needs to be applied to how they're outside of the interactions with each other cause it does crash a bit with the fact that they clearly know when they could be crossing a line, and again have y'all had beef like that shit makes you see red, not saying it's cool it's just that i think everybody is right when they say that they're irked by pat's friends behavior but well so is pat and so is pran and in the end both groups showed their asses as in both were looking for physical retaliation and like idk maybe i like fighting lmfao but like yeah i feel this shit is its own issue outside of who all of them are without the resentment and ire

#bad buddy #bad buddy the series #lakorn posts #i have a feeling the series will make a point of patpran's relationship changing those around them #which is also the point of the death of romeo and juliet #:(

[milkiane]

juliet, my angel

pairings: romeo montague x juliet capulet

warnings: character death

word count: 631

note: this was written for my ap lit creative writing and i was really proud of it, so i decided to post it on here <3 "If given a chance to change the ending of the story "Romeo and Juliet", how would you want it to end?"

when romeo have heard the awful news about juliet’s death, he was crestfallen, brokenhearted. just a few days beforehand, the both of them have spoken about all their dreams in life if they weren’t to be betrothed to another lover’s hand in marriage.

romeo could still explicitly hear the dreamy and faraway voice of his beloved’s, causing tears to fog in his eyes. he took a shaky breath in and opened the door to her mausoleum.

taking in her pale but still angelic appearance, he let his guard down as sobs shook his body. he held onto juliet’s hand, giving it a weak kiss before whispering a few words that he knew would remain unheard.

standing up to leave, he spared one last glance at the woman who would hold a special place in his heart before making his departure.

our paths will cross again if it’s meant to be, my love.

“i want to become a poet someday,” she whispered, staring at the twinkling stars above the newly wedded couple.

“what else?” romeo questioned, loving how juliet’s eyes sparkled with passion and zeal.

“i wish to learn how to paint sceneries and landscapes,” she smiled softly, biting her lip in thought, “i’d also love to bake pastries for the town’s children,”

turning to look at romeo, she whispered, “but most of all, i want to run away with you, live in a small cottage amongst the fields of wildflowers together. grow old and grey by each other’s side in a home full of love and warmth,”

romeo felt his heart flutter as soon as she said those words. he pressed a kiss to juliet’s lips, and he knew, at that moment, that everything would be alright.

romeo wished that he would have known what would happen to juliet. he wouldn’t be wallowing himself in pity and guilt if he did. he would have made her dreams come true together. they would have been at their dream house, painting the walls side by side.

but they weren’t, and that made him feel even worse because he shouldn’t be doing this by himself. he should be doing this with her.

romeo sighed, slouching at the publishing house’s wretched chairs.

“mr. montague,” the lady at the desk called out, “mrs. cher is waiting for you in her office.”

he stood up, nodding thankfully at her as he made his way towards the office.

mrs. cher was an elderly woman who’s in her 50’s. as soon as she heard the door to her office open, she looked up from the newly published paperback, giving romeo a soft smile, “it truly is such an endearing thing for you to do, mr. montague. my deepest regards for your loss,”

he gave her a tight-lip smile, gingerly taking the book full of her exquisite poems, a rose in the field of wildflowers, by juliet capulet.

romeo let out a frustrated groan, grabbing the towelette after making another wrong stroke in his painting.

“how do you do this, m’love,” he whispered as if he knew that she could somehow hear him.

he let out a breath of determination, dipping his paintbrush into the palette of myriad colors once again.

for the first time in a while, romeo smiled. a wide, genuine smile.

and he felt happy. like an angel was showering him with affection and joviality, effectively raising his spirits.

perhaps there is, he thought, juliet, my angel.

romeo didn’t let the smile on his face fall. he grabbed the basket of pastries in hand and locked the door of his new home.

before disappearing betwixt the fields of wildflowers and into the bustling town, he looked back at the amiable cottage he calls their home.

our paths will cross again if it’s meant to be, my love.

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