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khaleesiofalicante · 3 years

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HI, IT'S ME! YOUR LOCAL CHAOTIC WEIRDO!!!!! I'M BACK AGAIN LIKE I AM TWICE EVERY WEEK

IT'S MY BOY DAVID THIS TIME! WHY AM I SO HYPER! MAYBE BECAUSE THEY KISSED! AND I HAD TO SUPPRESS MY SCREAMS BCAUSE IM IN CLASS AND THE REST OF MY FAMILY IS OUTSIDE MY DOOR (NOT LITERALLY OFC)

OK OK OK OK OK OK

MAX AND DAVID ARE AT THE LONDON INSTITUTE YESYESYESYES

He rather liked that part in a story – when the hero fell, and everything seemed bleak. It always meant that hope was just around the corner. Because darkness never lasted. It was always followed by light. There was nothing more beautiful than that kind of sunrise.

THIS

I literally live my life by this analogy

AHHH DAVID IS ON HIS TRAVEL YEAR AND MAX IS WITH HIM

SCREAM

well i can't scream because my mom is sitting right there and I have class in 4 minutes so imma smile really wide

“Are you planning to read the entire library during your travel year?” Max chuckled.

“Of course not,” David replied. “I will need longer than a year to accomplish that goal.”

Me.

Wait

does max not being able to make portals have something to do with his lineage?

demon parent

ok so my programming class started 2 minutes early but screw programming I'm gonna be studying minds not this shit

ok that's a very bad attitude for someone who needs good grades in this year

Max was always hungry.

this is so me

KIT

THEY MENTIONED TY

also if David doesn't become an institute head in the future THEN WHAT'S THE POINT

“Where is the kitchen?” Max interrupted.

max is such a mood

He had told Max that he had centuries to perfect his magic, that there was no need to rush it. Max had given him a noncommittal nod and nothing more.

HE'S GONNA MAKE THE BEST PORTALS YOU'LL SEE

“I won’t tell the Consul,” Kit winked.

At the mention of the Consul, David straightened up. He had been trying to get into Alec Lightwood’s good graces for years now. He didn’t think sharing a room with his son would do him any favors.

DAVID UDUCDFUHKDUHVUHSDH

PLEASE IF WE DON'T GET A CUTE ALEC AND DAVID SCENE SOON

KIT CALLED TESSA MOM

oh my god

Word was that Mr. Herondale had gone back to his obsession with brewing tea.

JACE

I have so many emotions right now but all I'm gonna say is that I'm so so proud of Rafael

“Do you not want to sleep with me?” Max asked.

UH-

WELL-

DAVID STOP THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE AND ALL THE SHIT

STOP IT

OH MY GOD THE ONE BED TROPE

MAX IS IN HIS ARMS I'M ABOUT TO-

takes a deep breath don't scream. everyone outside this door thinks you're taking programming class

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE JUST GET TOGETHER ALREADY

AWW JULIAN PAINTED PORTRAITS FOR THE INSTITUTE

The one of Will Herondale and Tessa Gray – A love that had transcended reality and lasted a lifetime.

The one of James Herondale and Cordelia Carstairs – A love that had started with a lie and then blossomed into nothing but happiness and devotion.

The one of Lucie Herondale and Jesse Blackthorn – A love that had been so powerful that it rewrote the past.

The one of Jace Herondale and Clary Fairchild – A love that had walked through hell and shaken up the heavens.

And then there the final one. The one of Kit Herondale and Tiberius Blackthorn – A love that had survived distance and darkness and doom.

This omg...

He wanted a love story. The kind he read in the books. The kind he saw in these portraits.

But he wasn’t a Herondale. He wasn’t sure if he was destined for that kind of love.

HEY

DON'T THINK LIKE THAT

The first part though

same

He might have been a little too excited. It was biologically impossible to control yourself when you find a stranger reading your favorite book in the whole world.

SO TRUE

“I see you already made a new friend,” Max said.

He sounded a little…odd. As if he was not pleased that David had made a new friend.

honey...

take a guess

can I jump in and bash their heads together?

“You are thinking of conjuring chocolate syrup, aren’t you?” David chuckled.

“How do you always know what’s on my mind?” Max chuckled back.

Because I know you, David wanted to say. I just wish I knew what’s in your heart too.

OH MY GOD I CANT WITH THIS

“You get chocolate syrup! You get chocolate syrup! You get chocolate syrup!” Max was yelling, standing on the chair.

They residents laughed harder, and David shook his head fondly. He hoped one day Max would pursue a career in theatre. He was a born showman.

can I have chocolate syrup?

also, the way David is just so fond of him like DYUSDGYJCDYUJM

“By the angel, do you have to be a drama queen about everything?” the boy next to them muttered – not so quietly.

David blinked. That was uncalled for.

But Max being Max was completely unfazed. “Of course I do. My Bapa would be personally offended otherwise.”

exactly you rude little shit

Max often pretended like people’s words didn’t hurt him - just as he pretend that fire doesn’t burn or wounds don’t bleed.

wow ok stop calling me out

Is max jealous??????

is he??????

how are people so good at languages like damn

“Oh my god,” Max groaned. “Is he already telling people to check on me?”

LMAO

using mundane medicine...

that's risky

but it's also something that WILL help

can't warlocks tamper with the blood samples?

A part of him wondered if that’s why he had agreed to send Max away to London – at least for a week. Because sometimes you didn’t want other people to see you were hurting.

alec I really goddamn hope you're dealing with this well

some of whom had even decided to die than get help from a warlock.

alright then gets my knives but you chose this :D

Nobody brought a book down for breakfast if they didn't like to read.

yes but sometimes also to seem busy so people won't bother you or you won't look alone.

“I know,” the boy said as he walked past them to the gate. “I sat on the stairs and thought about life for a few good minutes.”

his family is the one who took over David's previous institute (i can't spell that. marse- marselli- wat??) methinks.

The gang always visited whenever all of them were in the city together. They would have so much fun! Of course, the 'fun' mostly entailed Rafael stopping Georgia from drinking random potions she found in the stalls, Selena stopping Lexi from opening a psychic booth to help people talk to Raziel and of course David stopping Max from running to the gambling booths.

LMAO, I CANT WITH THIS-

Rafe: I am anxiety.

me at any given moment

EW TESTICLES HE'S EATING THOSE-

ok maybe I'm the only person who's really picky when it comes to food and doesn't eat the majority of things

“Anything on Magnus Bane?” Max asked.

“No,” the woman snapped and shoved some of the letters into a bag and hide it under the table. “Leave Magnus Bane alone!”

“Appreciate your loyalty,” Max winked at her and started examining a diary.

I like her.

"Everyone should be participating in this" -my programming teacher

me, an intellectual: participating in what?? goes to the class web THE FUCK IS THAT

“Something for the shadowhunter?” the woman smiled. “Perhaps an unpublished snippet from the Beautiful Cordelia?”

“Do you have any love letters?” David asked.

“Hmmm,” the woman went through the pages. “I do have a correspondence between an Iblis demon and Christopher Lightwood? Would you be interested in that?”

if u don't mind I would love to see both of those-

you know I just remembered I have a computer assignment I need to submit by the end of this week fml

“Never fall in love with an immortal,” she giggled again. “We don’t like staying in one place.”

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

MAX WHERE ARE YOU

why are we using x and 3 in programming class what the heck is going on

“I’m not just some warlock,” Max said, his voice low. “I’m Magnus Bane’s son.”

GIVE HIM THAT NECKLACE BACK

we usually have programming once a week on our physical school days and those are fun because my and my friend are continuously passing notes and talking to each other through writing

The scene where Max fought off all the evil people who tried to steal his valuable belonging. He would fight without breaking a sweat and throw magic fireballs at everyone and then get his necklace back. And then he would kiss David in front of everyone and it would somehow rain all of a sudden.

But life wasn’t a movie or a book. Life was just life.

life's boring

fuck life

I just heard a student ask "why are we not taking out the values of b and c" BESTIE I THOUGHT WE WERE DOING PROGRAMMING AND NOT ALGEBRA?????

“I know there wasn’t anyone to protect you before,” Magnus Bane had said. “But we are here now. We will protect you. This will protect you.”

He hadn’t wanted it back then. He didn't even want it even now.

He didn’t want something to protect him. Most importantly, he didn’t want to cover his scar. He didn’t want to hide it. He wasn’t ashamed of it. It wasn’t a mark of a victim. It was the mark of a survivor.

So, David had smiled and given the bracelet back.

“I never wanted to be protected,” David had replied. “I only ever wanted to be loved.”

The warlock had smiled at that and given David a hug. It had felt different than other hugs he had experienced since he had come to New York.

It wasn’t just the magic. Magnus Bane carried so much love inside himself you could literally feel it through him.

I'm gonna cry during my programming class (where we're doing variables apparently all of a sudden??)

this is so beautiful

“I wasn’t talking about Bapa,” Max said now. “I was talking about the other one.”

David chuckled at that. “Oh, yeah. He is definitely going to kill you.”

what flowers would you like at your funeral?

so Jackson has family troubles

I've definitely got that

yeah I know what it's like to be jealous of someone else's perfect family

JACKSON WTF

Is he trying to ruin max's relationship with his family???

oh hell no

JACKSON THE AUDACITY

“One stolen necklace, One broken nose and One bruised cheek,” he said. “And you’ve been in London for less than a day.”

kit seriously? but is he wrong though?

“This is what I get for falling for a Lightwood-Bane,” David sighed and walked through the portal.

WELL AT LEAST HE'S SELF AWARE

Jackson...

in some ways, I can empathize with him. my younger self anyway. but Jackson this is not how you do things

There was a moment of silence and then Magnus Bane giggled.

“I do love it when the quiet ones go feral,” the warlock grinned.

MAGNUS

NOT.THE.TIME

(me too)

“David!” Mr Herondale gasped. “Is your hand okay?”

yup that's Jace y'all

David hated violence. He hated fighting – which he was often not allowed to say out loud considering he was a shadowhunter.

But it was the truth. He hated hurting people – or even things. It made him feel sick.

“It’s alright, Chouchou,” Mr Herondale ran a hand through David’s hair. “Next time, just-”

“Use my words?” David asked.

“Just don’t get caught,” the man winked.

and that is why I would never want to be a shadowhunter.

I know saying that doesn't do anything but when I first read tsc I wanted to be a shadowhunter really badly and damn that was some time ago but now...violence of any kind is my biggest trigger idek why. and I hate that so much because what kind of a person gets triggered by loud voices and fighting EVEN ON SCREEN??? I usually just push myself to watch stuff because it's dumb. I refuse to see trigger warnings before reading a book or watching a show because damn it, I should be able to stand those things I'm, not a child. and it may be doing me more harm than good but I shouldn't feel like this in the first place

okay...that was long

ANYWAY

“David, I appreciate you standing up for Max,” the Consul said. “But next time, please try not to punch anyone in the face.”

“Yes, sir,” David nodded. “Because it’s wrong.”

“Because it means more paperwork for me,” the Consul groaned and then straightened up. “But yes. Absolutely. Very wrong. No punching people!”

LMAO ALEC

Jackson...

I was wrong then

He was grinning. Magnus Bane must have raised hell in the shadow market.

that must have been fun

Max was doing that thing where he was not trying to pout but he was mostly definitely pouting. It made David want to kiss him. But then the Consul spoke, and David reminded himself he didn’t want to be the third person to get punched in the face this evening.

well-

“I understand that Jackson has been through a lot. But that’s not an excuse for him to hurt those around him. I learned that lesson the hard way. So, you shouldn’t excuse his behaviour.”

someone's trauma and pain is never an excuse to hurt others

but that doesn't mean we should invalidate their trauma either

“You can stay back and try to help him. I won’t stop you,” the man got up now. “But if he tries to hurt you-”

“You will unleash hell?” David chuckled.

“Worse,” the other man grinned. “I will unleash Lexi.”

that is much much worse

Books brought him comfort in so many ways. Just holding one in his hands automatically made him feel better.

oh my god

he gets it

I always have a book with me when I'm out even if I'm not gonna get the time to read it because just the weight and comfort of it in my hands or in my backpack brings me so much comfort and helps with my social anxiety so much

no one understands when I try to tell them that

you get it...

someone gets it finally

AYYY IRENE

“David, it’s very sweet that you want to protect Jackson,” Kit pointed out. “But literally no one is buying that. Not even Irene.”

The lynx purred on his lap as if she agreed with Kit.

“I could break into a liquor cabinet,” David said a little indignantly.

David is the nicest you can get

David wouldn’t. Apparently, everyone already seemed to know that - even the lynx he had met five minutes ago.

we are solving something in class and it's really quiet because we're all doing our work (I'm reading the fic so-) and this one person had their mic open and they kept on whispering their steps and it was so weird I cant-

BUT YES DAVID IS A CINNAMON ROLL. EVEN THE LYNX KNOWS

“We were talking about shitty fathers,” Jackson pointed out. “You’re welcome to stay.”

“I’m gonna need something stronger than red wine for this conversation,” Kit chuckled.

I remember that bitch

David used to do it when he was a child. He used to pretend his life was a story. He used to pretend everything that happened to him was happening to some other boy – a boy who wasn’t real. A boy who lived inside a book. Because it hurt a little less when you pretend like it wasn’t happening to you.

But the pain was still very real.

OK YOU CAN STOP CALLING ME OUT NOW

“I fucking hate ogres,” he said through gritted teeth.

“Was your father an ogre too?” Jackson asked.

“He was more like a harpy,” Kit snorted. “He was always flying and fleeing. I didn’t know how deep his talons were in my head until it was too late.”

you really like traumatizing all your characters, don't you?

I really fucking hope the ogre got what he deserved

and if the angel is dead then fuck everyone

“I mean, there was that time when Sebastian Morgenstern turned my father into the endarkened, and then he went around killing people. So, I would say he was more like a zombie,” the man was explaining now. “The zombie father tried to kill me but my brother killed him first.”

“Good lord!” Jackson said in shock.

Kit chuckled softly. “Boy do shadowhunters need therapy.”

they really do

He knew about those from New York. He knew Mr Herondale and Miss Fairchild went for one together.

YES GET THEM THERAPY

“Yikes,” Kit chuckled. “I’d prefer something classier. How about London Boys?”

“None of us are from London though,” Tiberius pointed out.

“The Beatles are not actually beetles, Ty,” Kit chuckled. “It’s just for pizazz.”

damn guys

Then the idea of a band turned into a possible YouTube channel where they would react to cute animal videos.

YS DO IT

“When people do awful things, really awful things, at one point we stop being surprised. Like what Valentine did to his children or what our fathers did to us or what those women did to Rafael. We might have been shocked or disgusted. But it wasn’t unrealistic, was it?”

“I guess not,” the boy said.

“Even when they did the most unimaginable acts of cruelty, it somehow managed to fit into our imagination. We accepted that the world can be unrealistically cruel. The kind of cruelty we will never understand. But why isn’t it the same for kindness? Why is that when someone is too kind, we automatically feel uncomfortable? We judge their intensions or think they are just pretending to be nice. We think they are being unrealistic. Why is that?”

we get so used to cruelty that kindness feels weird

“But that’s how our life works, doesn’t it? It’s a giant ball of what ifs and could have beens and if nots. What if my father had loved me instead of hurt me? Could I have been kinder if I was hugged instead of being abused? Would have I been a different person if not for my trauma? Our lives are an endless collection of theories about our real selves. The one didn’t we never had the chance to become.”

THIS

I used to spend a bunch of time on the what-ifs but those are useless. so screw the what-ifs and live in the present

“I guess we’ll never know, Jackson. None of us will never know how we would have turned out if things had been different for us. We never got the chance to be who were meant to be. Instead, we became who we had to become to survive what we went through. We will never know our true selves. We only know the version of us that made it through all the trauma.”

“Christ, that’s depressing,” Jackson said.

“It is,” David nodded. “But we made it through. We survived. I think we should focus on that.”

you survived. that's what matters

“There is nothing wrong with wanting to be rescued,” David smiled.

I wish I had heard this before...

maybe I don't always have to be strong. maybe it's ok sometimes just want to be saved.

I'm so happy that both Jackson and David found each other

David had learned Gaelic. Jackson had learned how to play the piano.

They had laughed and lived and loved and learned.

And they had survived – one day at a time. The London Boys.

they survived.

I know I'm always key smashing and screaming but these words, these lines, all these chapters mean so so much to me.

“You’ll write to me, won’t you?” David asked, hugging Jackson closely.

“No,” Jackson replied. “I will FaceTime you like a normal person, you weirdo!”

David laughed at that. “I prefer letters. They are more emotional.”

“I’ll text you,” Jackson countered. “With emojis.”

oh to have someone write me letters.

I love writing letters

once at the end of a school year, I wrote little letters to everyone in my class anonymously. even the people who had been mean to me. that was like 1-2 years after my transfer to that school and everyone practically hated me but I wanted to do something nice because who knows what someone is going through. I ended up not putting them in people's desks...

I threw them all away :)

but writing letters is superior

I often write my feelings down and give the letter to someone rather than talk to someone

if you receive a letter from me or a custom-made gift...you have reached my ultimate friendship

oh my god. THIS IS HOW I SHOULD TALK TO ONE OF MY FRIENDS ABOUT MY FEELINGS

It's kind of been a mess between us and I want to talk to her but I didn't know how to.

this is why i shouldn't send asks-

JACKSON CATCHING UP ON MAX AND DAVID

“You know what it means,” Jackson grinned harder. “Also, if that wanker tries to break your heart, I will break his face.”

“You know he is the Consul’s son?” David giggled.

“I’ve done it once and I will do it again,” Jackson shrugged. “He better treat you right.”

"wanker"

I HAVE A BRITISH ONLINE FRIEND AND THEY CALLED OUR AMERICAN ONLINE FRIEND A WANKER

AND OUR OTHER BRITISH FRIEND JOINED IN

WHILE ALL THE NON-BRITISH PEOPLE WERE LIKE "huh"

Lexi had cut her hair even shorter. Her girlfriend apparently got something called an undercut.

“Just in case someone dared to assume we were straight,” she had winked at him.

how many years has this fake dating been going on...

CENTURION SELENA

fterA the twins went to bed, David stepped out of the institute and went looking for his heart.

"went looking for his heart"

OH FUCK I FORGOT TO JOIN MY CLASS

MAX STOP DEPLETING YOUR SELF GODDAMN

And then somewhere along the way, Max’s heartbeat had become the steadiest thing in David’s life.

Max, with all his chaos and drama and danger, had become the steadiest thing in David’s life.

oh my god that's a parallel from canon

“Tell me why.”

“Ain't nothing but a heart break!!"

Max-

Max could make fireballs that killed demons on the spot. He could summon things from anywhere. He could heal people with his eyes closed. He was one of the youngest warlocks allowed to visit the spiral labyrinth.

Max was a warlock in every sense. A good one. A great one even.

he is so talented...

Only idiots would underestimate Magnus Bane’s power.

EXACTLY

He is probably going to be Consul like next week.”

David chuckled. “Next week?”

next week????

“Yeah, his smoking habits,” Max rolled his eyes.

Rafael wasn’t the smoker in the family. He knew who it was, but David would never open his mouth. It wasn’t his secret to tell.

this keeps on getting better

“It’s my hair!” David laughed.

“And you’re my David!” Max argued. “I say you are not allowed to grow your hair.”

MY DAVID

“I don’t want to downworld-splain it to you.”

Max blinked and then laughed. “You don’t want to what?”

“Downworld-splain,” David mumbled. “It’s when shadowhunters explain downworlders how to be downworlders.”

they were SO close to kissing

I'm gonna get in there and lock them in a closet together and tell them to FUCKING GET WITH IT

Remember who you are. Remember where you stand.

remember who you are. remember where you stand...

I know this is supposed to be about portals.

OH MY GOD THEY KISSED

THEY KISSED

IM SO CLOSE TO SCREAMING CLASS AND EVERYONE OUTSIDE THIS ROOM BE DAMNED

OH MY GOD DAVID FELL

reminds me of when alec fell down the stairs-

OH MY GOD I'M GONNA SCREAM

WE'RE GONNA GET MORE MAVID CONTENT SOON I'M SCREAMING INTERNALLY UYDRVFY7VSDU7UYVFSDUYGCADUYIGJCDSHJKGDVCSUGISDVHVF

ok, I have a computer assignment to get to and tests to study for. BUT I LOVED THIS CHAPTER SO SO MUCH!! THEY FINALLY KISSED I'M SO HAPPY!!!!!

Also I know I tend to go off track and you can totally ignore that. i just go crazy. BYEE

This live blog gives me so much life you don't even know. I am go glad you enjoyed the chapter. I love hearing you rant about it. It's refreshing lol.

And I looooooove the lil anecdotes you share in between. Also wtf is a programming class like nobody wants to learn programme what kind of hetero nonsense I-

FINISH YOUR ASSIGNMENTS AND STUDY FOR YOUR TESTS I'LL SEE YOU SOON :)

#lbaf

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mr-unlight · 4 years

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HERE THEY ARE I present to you all my OC Jessicas! I love Jessica too much lmao

1. Canonical Jessica and Morty we stan a tall gurl

2. Dr Jesse and Mort (Fragile Morty)

Dr Jesse is Mort’s nurse and physical therapist, and he often performs his check ups and helped him move and walk again when he had a stroke. He also helps Rique when he has to go do something or has a sudden shift at work. Mort has trouble engaging with people, but he is comfortable around Dr Jesse, even giving him lots of hugs when he sees him.

3. Jess and Morti (Frilly Morti)

Jess and Morti are classmates at school. Jess is one of Morti’s inspirations when it comes to her looks and presenting herself as a girl. Jess is really supportive of her, and often comes round to Morti’s house to hang out. They both are crushing hard on eachother but still haven't confessed.

4. Yessika and Morty

If you cant remember (cause it’s been a LONG time since I drew Psychic Rick’s Morty), Morty and his fam all live in Germany after coming over from Africa. Yessika is a student that has come all the way from India to study in Germany, and made good friends with Morty, as Morty helped him around the school and helped him get comfortable with the new surroundings.

5. Little Jessica and Little Morty

After his grandfather was brutally murdered, Morty became incredibly isolated, saying that he could see the shadow of his grandfather in the trees, watching over him and he ran away from home. Upon being found, a new neighbour appeared in the village and the Smiths hopefully paired him up with this little girl, hoping that they’d become friends. And they did, and they regularly play with eachother. His family have told Morty not to tell her about what happened with his grandfather, Morty cant help but tell her that the shadow of his grandfather is always watching over them.

6. Mr and Mrs Spider Black Widow Jessica and Oogie Boogie Evil Morty

Oogie’s Jessica is no different from him- vain, narcissistic, hateful.. They’re a perfect fit right? Hm, methinks that this would never work out.... Oogie likes himself too much to hold a stable relationship. But are they really together? Who knows.

#rick and morty #rick and morty fanart #morty smith #jessica #Jessica ram #ram #rnm #rick and morty oc #illustration #character design #frilly morty #oogie boogie evil morty #fragile morty #little morty.#shadow doofus rick

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inevitably-johnlocked · 4 years

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hi steph! know of any fics where sherlock dates someone else and john gets jealous and confesses his feelings?

Hi Nonny!

AHHHHHHH Okay, so I have this weird thing where I have a hard time reading fics where Sherlock is dating someone else, LOL, because I’m garbage. I dunno why… the closest I can get is fics with Victor Trevor in them as a “replacement” or “past bf” D: I’m so sorry I’m useless in this regard… Methinks these lists may help you out a bit? :)

MY FIC LISTS:

Jealous John

Jealous John Pt. 2 and Jealous Sherlock Pt 2

Jealous John Pt 3 and Jealous Sherlock Pt 3

Jealous John and Sherlock Pt. 4

ALEXX’S LISTS

John is Jealous of Victor Trevor

Victor Trevor Appears

MORE Victor Trevor/Sherlock (Part 2)

Jealous John

Sherlock with Other Men

John thinks of Sherlock with Other Men

EDIT: ACTUALLY NONNY, I just found an offline list in my folders that I think you will like; I’ve been waiting to post it anyway :P I hope this is good :D

VICTOR TREVOR / VICTOR IS SHERLOCK’S PAST FRIEND (S4)

Unforgiven by 221b_hound (M, 4,721 w., 1 Ch. || Marriage Proposal, Victor Trevor, Jealous / Protective John, Jealous Sherlock, Sherlock’s Past) – Sherlock’s latest case is for his ex boyfriend, the brilliant and handsome Professor Victor Trevor. John is not too happy about that. But things aren’t what they seem, an old friend of John’s is involved in the case, and John has a few surprises up his sleeve. Also - a proposal! Part 16 of Unkissed

Laid Bare by esplanade (T, 6,529 w., 1 Ch. || Romance, Fluff, Pining, Angst) – “I suppose it comes as no surprise that I always rather detested grand romantic gestures. They struck me as unnecessary and contrived, feeble attempts at desperately holding together relationships, most of which should have been allowed to fall apart.”

I can’t pretend by Salambo06 (E, 7,692 w., 1 Ch. || Fake Relationship, Victor Trevor, Jealous John, Miscommunications, Bed Sharing, Love Confessions, First Kiss/Time, Anal, BJs) – They had arrived more than a hour ago, and the moment they had walked inside the hotel reception, John had understood why Sherlock hadn’t wanted to come. Two men, posh suits and expensive watches on their wrists, had come to greet them with sharp remarks and badly hidden mockery, and John had seen red. Sherlock hadn’t said anything, mostly ignoring the two men entirely, and without thinking twice about it, John had slid an arm around Sherlock’s waist and introduced himself as his husband.

My Life for His by QuinnAnderson (E, 8,816 w., 1 Ch. || Guardian/Protector, Greek Mythology || Growing Up, Sex, Religious Themes, Suicide, Minor Character Death) – It began when Sherlock was eight, and he attempted to climb all the way up to the highest branch in the old willow tree in his back garden. He’d thought he was still small enough that it could support him, but the second he’d grabbed hold of it to pull himself up, the branch snapped, and down he went, plummeting a solid twenty metres. The odd thing was, he never actually hit the ground.

Illogical, even. by magikspell (E, 9,119 w., 1 Ch. || Grey-Ace Sherlock, Character Study, Growing Up, Victor Trevor, Romance, First Time/Kiss, Sherlock-centric) – Five reasons Sherlock never believed in love and one reason he does now.

I’m content as we are (but) by inqui (The_Circus) (E, 13,086 w., 1 Ch. || Jealous John, UST/RST, Pining, Victor Trevor, Minor Whump, First Kiss / Time, Misunderstandings) – In which John Watson sees something unusual, becomes jealous, and makes too much of a small thing as an old friend of Sherlock’s shows up in the middle of a case.

Say For Me, Love by MirabileLectu (T, 13,147 w., 1 Ch. || UST, First Kiss, Drama, Pining John, Victor Trevor) – If you had asked John this morning what the result of his quiet afternoon at home would be, discovering a truth about Sherlock’s past startling enough to shift the foundations of their friendship would not have been his first guess. So naturally, that was what was bound to happen.

Let’s Make a Bed Out in the Rain by theimprobable1 (M, 17,664 w., 11 Ch. || Pining Sherlock, Angst & Fluff, First Kiss, Unrequited, Jealous Sherlock, Protective Sherlock) – John is devastated after his long-term girlfriend leaves him. Sherlock helps him through it.

That Partitioning of the Things of Youth by wearitcounts (E, 35,353 w., 7 Ch. || Humour and Angst, Post-TRF, Fake Relationship, UST / RST, Friends to Lovers, Jealous John) – Victor Trevor is in town, and nobody’s happy.

(Never) Turn Your Back to the Sea by DiscordantWords (M, 39,968 w., 7 Ch. || Post S4 Fix It || Grief / Mourning, Victor Trevor, Friendship, Sherlock is Not Okay, Nightmares/Flashbacks/Panic Attacks, Parentlock, Pining Sherlock, Angst with Happy Ending, John Comes Home) – Baker Street is very much the same. Only different. And Sherlock is just trying not to drown.

Resistivity and Relative Charge by liriodendron (E, 41,750 w., 8 Ch. || Synesthesia, Angst, Case Fic, Romance, Est. Rel., Homophobia, Religious Content, Victor Trevor, Mild Jealous John, Mild John Whump) – In which Sherlock Holmes meets an old acquaintance, John Watson doesn’t enjoy a trip to the country quite as much as he thought he would, and the past absolutely refuses to stay where it belongs. Part 3 of Conductivity

Sacré Coeur by Mamaorion (M, 95,236 w., 27 Ch. || S4 Fix It Rewrite, First Kiss, UST / RST, Eventual Happy Ending, Coming Out, Holmes Family, Marriage Proposal, Husbands, Healing, Evil Mary, Beekeeping, Caretaker Sherlock, Mind Palace, Alzheimer’s Disease, Protective / Big Brother Mycroft, TD-12) – In this s4 fixit, John must piece together the gaps in his altered memory if he and Sherlock are to face the terror that has plagued Sherlock since childhood. As they untangle the web, seven years of hidden love ignite. (TO READ)

A Further Sea by i_ship_an_armada & ShinySherlock (E, 125,492 w., 23 Ch. || Historical Pirates AU || Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Doctor John / Pirate Captain Sherlock, Sailing, UST / RST, Masturbation, Action / Adventure, Mild Angst & Peril, Romance, Shaving, Molly/Janine, Bottomlock, Hand / Blow Jobs, Past Drug Use, Slow Burn, Mild Violence, Happy Ending) – Here be a tale of adventure for both body and soul, but beware if ye be not of stout heart, for this be piratelock, ya savvy? Luckless ship’s surgeon John Watson takes a chance, and finds himself eye to eye with The Ghost, the scourge of the seven seas and a definite thorn in the side of the blaggard, James Moriarty. But when John finds there’s more to this most cunning pirate than be meetin’ the eye, he has to choose… is it a pirate’s life for him?

Colors by Quesarasara (E, 140,537 w., 17 Ch. || Pleasantville-Inspired AU || Soulmates, Colour Bonds, Alternating POV, Angst, Fluff, Pining, Case Fic, Medical Procedures) – Everyone on earth is born with eyes that see in black, white, and an endless series of greys. When you meet your soulmate, you finally see the world in color. We’re all searching for the person who brings color to our lives. John and Sherlock are no exception. Part 1 of The Colors ‘Verse

SHERLOCK AND OTHER MEN

Nothing to Make a Song About by emmagrant01 (E, 36,833 w., 10 Ch. || Post-TRF, First Time, Reunion, Jealous John, Pining Sherlock, Romance, Angst with Happy Ending) – When Sherlock returned from his faked death, John could not forgive him for the deception and broke off their friendship. Ten years later, John returns to London in search of yet another new beginning. Sherlock, not surprisingly, is waiting.

Drawn to Stars by Silvergirl (E, 66,392 + w., 42/56 Ch. || WiP || S4 Compliant to TLD / TFP Doesn’t Exist, Sherlock’s Italian Adventure, Jealous John, Mutual Pining, Misunderstandings, First Kiss/Time, Idiots in Love, Angst with Happy Ending) – After the Culverton Smith case Sherlock is clean, working, and looking for a romantic partner—since John has told him that’s what he needs. Shame John didn’t mention he was interested in that role himself, before Sherlock went off to Rome with a gorgeous Italian copper to try to fall in love and become a complete human being. (MARKED FOR LATER / TO READ)

#steph replies #johnlock fic recs #victor trevor #my fic recs #Anonymous #jealous john #johnlock and other people #fic rec sunday

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[Where My Twin Watches]: Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood Episode 15

Blargage. Sorry about the pause guys, work got crazy there for a while. For the record, I understand that there is a second season to Brotherhood (for some reason broken up into multiple parts on iTunes), I was just expecting that there would be an intro change at the season halfway point cause I’ve gotten used to that from other anime. Granted, the ones that come to mind are one-season or currently-only-one-season shows like KlK or AoT, so that perspective’s probably a little skewed. Onwards with Brotherhood!

Episode 15 - Envoy from the East We open in a city at ni- wait, what’s with the electricity? I thought the Terminator died last episode? Ah, an Alchemist duel, got it. In the alleyway the smoke clears to show what. What is this. Why am I looking at an Evil Mister Monopoly?

Mr. Monopoly is chuckling as he fights oh hai Scar, how’s it going? No sunglasses? Heeey, this episode doesn’t have any subtitles. How am I supposed to spell this guy’s name then? (currently boasting that he’s the Silver Alchemist, name sounds vaguely Italian) Whatever, I’ll just stick with Mr. Monopoly. Not like he’ll be around much longer, facing Scar. Mr. Monopoly is certainly living up to his name, Transmuting numerous presumably silver weapons to fling at Scar. Doing fairly well too, dodging the Ishvalan’s attacks when he has a peg leg. Captain Monopoly, then? But it doesn’t last, one scratch is exchanged for a broken peg leg, the Silver Alchemist takes a bath and gets a Face Death Grab. Bye, Captain Monopoly! Ooh, new intro! Seems we’ve got a guy singing the intro this time, pale-shaded Al and Ed before we get normal-colored Ed on a hill reaching towards the sun/title. Hey, the captions are back! Wait no, it’s the gossiping at Central from last episode, Roy walking through the hallway. Guess the captions are broken this episode, turning them off. Odd. Intro continues with clouded skies, Ed and Al sitting under a tree- suddenly panda? Yeah there’s a little girl with a little panda on her head, striking martial arts poses. The titular “Envoy from the East”? Now another new character, older black-haired guy with a ponytail and sword standing on some ruins, what looks like a pair of ninjas drop into the scene before we transition. Quick shots of Roy’s Crew (Havoc, Furey, two others I don’t remember but one appears to be a Big Eater, and Riza) and Roy himself. Now we’re back to Ed glaring at the camera, a clear shot of Hohenheim/Papa Elric glancing back? Ooooh, they’re looking at each other in a graveyard, no doubt over whose grave is between them. Shot of metal-armed Ed getting pulled into the Gate, while a human right hand reaches for him? Dunno if symbolic or if he frak’d up again. Winry is sitting at a desk next to a picture board, we see the Elric Family with Papa Elric’s face still covered. Quick scenes of Scar surrounded by flames (“dang it, I did leave the stove on”), Lust and Gluttony on a rooftop at night (what the heck is up with Gluttony’s face?!), a dark red-eyed face surrounded by screaming masks (charming), an Uroborus left eye that I recognize as Bradley/Wrath, and Father/clearly Papa Elric sitting in his Pipe Chair holding a cup of “wine”. What is his deal, even? More fight scenes, Ed earthbending at Envy and Gluttony, Bradley firebending at Lust, werewolves charging at Panda Girl? Who’s got some neat Alchemy moves, cool! Then we get Bradley swordfighting Sword Man and the ninjas, who are actually getting in some hits? Seeing as we know that Bradley is a Goth now, this makes me very happy! Then Screaming!Scar fighting Screaming!Ed, screen whites out from their attack before we get Ed closing his watch (Don’t Forget Oct. 11), and the Elric Brothers walk along a traintrack into a desert. Episode proper continues with Scar, who does not seem happy and is asking “Who is this?” Inside the dilapidated house is that weasly guy from last episode who led the bounty hunters to Scar, is Scar crashing at his place? There’s also Intro!Girl, who politely introduces herself (going without captions here, apologies for misspelling) as Mei-Chang. And that is a little panda she has with her. Cute! Mei-Chang’s saying that “Master Yoki” (Scar shoots Yoki a look at this) found her collapsed by the side of the road and brought her to the house. Scar tries to shoo her out as she’s feeling better now, but Mei sees that Scar’s leg is cut, and says that she’ll close the wound. She sets up a standard circle-star TC, but puts shuriken at the corners? Oooh, we get to see foreign Alchemy styles now, neat! Scar and Yoki are shocked to see the injury healed so quickly, Mei says that’s it a skill called (please forgive the spelling, not having captions is really annoying) “Alcahestiry from the land of Shing”. Yoki scoffs at Mei’s claim that she crossed the desert from the east, Mei insists that she did it along with Shao-Mei (Assuming the tiny panda here). Scar is shocked when said panda looks back at Scar while Mei’s saying all this, he reaches out to either Hand O’ Doom it or pet it, I can’t tell which. Mei looks back though, and Scar freezes. Which means Mei sees his tattooed arm and identifies it as Alcahestiry? Ooh, Scar family backstory! Scar says that his brother researched both Alchemy and Alcahestiry (so there’s a distinction between the practices, then). Mei is very complimentary of his brother’s skill. Methinks that Scar doesn’t like to think about how he got the tattoo, though. Yoki notes that with Scar healed they can continue on to Central, Mei invites herself along. Saying something about immortality? Yoki dismisses her, and gets a bite from the panda for his rudeness. Ha! We get a mental monologue from Mei that she knows immortality doesn’t work with Alcahestiry, but it is possible through alchemy (Yoki’s behind her still screaming about the panda eating his hand, Scar’s sitting clearly already Done With This). That’s why Mei’s here, to meet the man she’s heard so much about. Wait, what’s with the roses and music… uh oh. Oh dear Leto no. Mei’s got a crush on Edward Elric. As cute as that is, I think Ed’s a little old for you, dear. Also, Winry. Central at night now, a blond woman (looks kinda like Riza) is walking her dog through an alleyway when the dog spins around and starts growling. Creepy laughing? Aw crap I know that hollow-voice, that’s Barry the Chopper! Run! Wait… ha! Ok, sorry for not recognizing you properly Riza, haven’t seen you out of uniform before. When faced with a Soul Armor serial killer, Riza just pulls a pistol from her groceries and starts blasting at the panicking Barry. Who tries to freak her out by removing his helmet? Pfft, sorry dude. That might work for some civilians, but Hawkeye knows Al. She just blasts his helmet away. Which makes Barry start crushing on Riza? Ew, no. Also, props to the dog who’s gnawing at Barry’s cloak. We’re at a warehouse now, puppy standing guard as it seems that Barry’s being questioned by Roy and his Totally Non-Military Civilian Friends. With Barry the crew’s got the lead on the secret lab that Bradley ordered Armstrong not to discuss. Now that Roy’s clued into the military producing Philosopher Stones, he wants to investigate the researchers- but it seems that when their research was done they got used to make Stones as well. Roy also asks if Barry was the one who killed Hughes, but that’s a dead end. Hey, it’s Rush Valley! Finally, we get to see Winry again. How’s her apprenticeship going? The mechanist is walking out of a story when she hears a familiar voice: Edward! Who’s reeeealy hoping that she’s in a generous mood today. Because yeah, Ed’s arm took a bit of a beating in the last episodes. Winry is not happy about this. Later, Winry is patching up Ed’s arm (who is slumped on a table, blood-stained wrench by his side), chiding him for getting into trouble even when their pickpocket acquaintance has an honest job as an odd-job woman. As for the brothers, they’ve made some progress but can’t give any details. Winry’s dones with the patch-job, but still needs a few parts to finish it, so until then she shoo’s the two out to kill some time. Ed’s complaining about there being nothing to do as a non-engineer in a town of nothing but automail shops. But Al’s found something in an alleyway. Aw, do we get a cute “caring for a stray cat” episode? Actually, wasn’t there a white cat in the credits scene? Oh! Not a cat then, rather an unconscious Intro-Sequence character in the form of Sword Guy. And rather than an extended healing sequence, we cut right to the guy (who sounds an awful lot like Vic from Red vs Blue) chattering away at a table piled with dishes, saying that they shouldn’t quibble about who’s paying (not him). Sword Guy says that he’s from Shing (sorry, actual map shows up saying that it’s Xing), and he crossed the desert to visit the ruins of Xerxes. *notes namedrop for future episodes, there’s no way that mention won’t pay off later* Sword Guy (when are we getting his actual name?) is info-dumping about Alcahestiry, saying that it’s actually Alchemy, or probably closer to Bio-Alchemy given the emphasis in Xing for healing. Ed remarks that for Amestris it’s more for military, what with border skirmishes to the south (Aerugo) and west (Creta), with a huge country Drachma to the north, with a sort of Russian Agreement: tentative non-aggression treaty and there’s a wintery mountain range between them, but relations are dicey. Finally there are introductions, Sword Guy says he’s Ling-Yao. Buuuut he’s not actually an Alcahestrist, he’s just in town looking for something: *dramatic eye opening* The Philosopher’s Stone. Aw come on, I was just starting to like this guy. Don’t tell me he’s another “Immortality at the expense of other lives” jerk. Ed claims that he doesn’t know anything, Ling wonders if they’re lying, snaps his fingers and SUDDENLY NINJAS!

*Sigh* Yep, Ling smirks and says he want’s to achieve immortality. Well we did kill off Greed last episode, I guess we needed someone to take his place. Mid-episode pause here, we get character portraits for May Chang (w/ Shao May) and Ling Yao. Ok, so got Sword Man’s name right, I blame Avatar for mistyping May’s name. Back to the show, Ling’s telling Ed to spill the beans, Ed bluffs that it’s a bunch of nonsense. Then he breaks free nope boot to the head. Al gets tossed too, these guys are no joke. But if they can survive Teacher, they can survive these ninjas! Across the city pickpocket-girl (sorry I can’t remember your name) notices the sparks and smoke from the fight, and Ling just laughs as he sees the fight move away and orders some dessert. Sliding along some awfully large pipes now Ed transmutes a metal staff (and of course damaging the infrastructure like that causes no immediate problems), but Silent Ninja is easily beating Ed in this close-quarters combat. Experience fighting other Alchemists? Ed rants about getting attacked just because he didn’t give them information, “you and your boss with the freaky closed eyes”- wow ok Silent Ninja really didn’t like that, tried to poke out Ed’s eyes. Yeesh. Aw, poor baby Ed. He was so proud to finally land a hit on Silent Ninja, but nope another boot to the head. But now that Ed’s seen that Silent Ninja’s weakness is insulting Ling (hmmm, sudden suspicions about Silent Ninja from that), he has a plan. Begin the trolling! On Al’s side of the fight, he’s running down the street when pickpocket girl starts calmly jogging along side him. Al’s happy to see Paninya (thank you!) again, asks her for a favor. Mustache Ninja is thinking about how “every living person emits a flow of ki”, but he doesn’t sense any from Al. So he doesn’t know that Al’s a Soul Armor, then? Quick Al, pull a Barry and remove your helmet! Suddenly Al and Paninya turn around, Mustache scoffs at the aid of one person- and we’re back to Ed vs Silent. Ed is doing what he does best and annoying the crap out of his opponent, a dodge and gutpunch later he’s got Silent by the mask and yup no surprises here that Silent is a lady. Ed is shocked (shocked I say) that he’s been fighting a girl. Buddy, you of all people should be aware that the ladies are some of the biggest badasses in this show. Riza, Winry, Teacher, a quick flash of Paninya aiming her cannon-knee… and Silent’s now neutralized Ed’s arm and dropped a grenade in his face. Ouch. The townfolk panic at the dual explosions (really? You lot live in a town revolving around Automail, I’d think you’d be used to events like this), Mustache is thinking that this county is a force to be reckoned with, when Al swoops in and binds him to the town’s sign and demasks him. Mustache is surprised to see “Alkahistry without an array”, reminder at how special the brothers are to Transmute without TCs. On brother’s end… things could be going a little better. We see Ed’s mechanical arm reaching up through rubble as Silent walks up, and now I need a new name for her as she complains that she overdid it and that Master Ling will be furious- aha, the arm’s detached! A snare is sprung and the ninja’s hoisted into the air, Ed reclaims his arm and chides her for using a weapon that would have killed anyone else. Callback to the island, setting traps for rabbits. Nice continuity! Al and Paninya arrive with Mustache in hand- And then Sword Man shows up all chipper, complimenting their skills and offering them jobs to take over the country. Ed’s giving this the proper response, when… uh oh. The townfolk aren’t very happy right now, somebody’s gonna have to cover all these damages. Ed points to Ling, who suddenly can’t speak Amestrisian good and skedadles. And of course in the few seconds we looked away from the ninjas there’s nothing but cut ropes now.

Welp, now to fix everything back up- oh right, Ed’s armless. Wait, why is it surprising that Al can Transmute without a TC now? This is a recent thing? I honestly thought he could do it from the beginning, my bad. Aw, chin up Ed. Just because your younger brother is taller than you and now he’s got your super special no-TC style as well, it doesn’t mean you aren’t important. Just… less so. Poor, poor Ed, collapsing in despair and writing something in blood. No subtitles here, can someone translate for me? Later that day, the Elric Brothers return to the AutoMail shop where Winry is apprenticing, and guess who they find? [Ling]: “Hello, we meet again!”

Ed immediately bashes Ling over the head with his detached arm, who just tries acting all friendly. Still hoping to hire the brothers? Ah, info on the ninjas! I’m approximating the girl’s name as Lahn-Fahn, and the old man is Fu. Their family (so they’re related? Father/daughter?) has served his for generations, and are quite good as we’ve seen. So what about Sword Man, what’s Ling’s deal that he has ninjas working for his family? (Also, this guy in a purple shirt and suspenders drinking tea with Ling, another employee?) Oh, Ling’s “the Emperor’s son”! The Elrics… burst out laughing? Ling’s a little nonplussed about this reaction, but the Elrics explain that they just didn’t see it coming, that the guy who they found collapsed in an alley and mooched food off of them is a prince. Lahn-Fahn does not approve of this disrespect, yikes. Oh, a lesson in Xing politics, the country’s broken up into 50 clans, and the Emperor gets married to a daughter of each of the clan leaders (yikes). Currently Ling shares the prestigious title of Prince with 23 other sons, with him at #12. Obviously this family setup makes succession complicated, and with the current Emperor’s health iffy all the clans are working to gain favor. Ling’s attempt is to discover immortality, I’m assuming for himself to increase his own survival rather than give it to dear old pops and never get the job. So he asks again for info, Ed refuses to say anything, and the noble Prince immediately latches onto Ed and declares that he’s sticking around until Ed cracks. Ed beings wailing on Ling with his arm, Lahn-Fahn prepares to respond to this aggression- Uh oh. Winry’s just arrived, talking about how there was some sort of fight on Main Street. Just in time to see Ed waving around the broken arm she’d fixed earlier that day. Ling watches with a vapid grin as tools go flying and Ed pleads for nonexistent mercy, until Fu pokes his head through the window for his young lord. On the rooftop, Fu asks why Ling is acting subservient to a commoner, Ling just says that with the fate of 500,000 clansmen on the line a little bowing is a small price to pay. Huh. So is his clan at risk if he doesn’t become Emperor? Inside the shop Winry’s asking where Ed plans to go and break his automail this time, working away at the arm as Purple-Shirt looks on (I’m assuming that he’s the mechanic Winry’s working for right now). Al mentions that they’re planning on continuing their investigations in Central, Winry asks to go along to- uuuuuuuuuuuuugh. [Winry]: “I’d like to go see the Hughes’ family again.” Whyyyyy. Why must these poor kids be heading towards such bad news? Ugh, the scene where they’re told what happened is going to be excruciating. Al asks about Winry’s work in Rush Valley, Purple-Shirt (who Winry calls Mr. Garfield and who I now headcanon as having tea and discussing prototypes with Leeron) encourages her to take a break. [Ed]: “Okay, we’ll all go!” [Al]: “Central, here we come!” [Winry]: *Cheerful giggle* [Ling]: “Oh, we’re going to Central? How exciting!” Snrk. Cut to a wagon, with a sleeping May and Shao in the back (based on tropes I can guess that May’s a half-sister Xing Princess who’s off to try and find the secret of immortality like Ling, although I’d be impressed if the writer subverted expectations by having them be unrelated). Yoki’s chattering about how he doesn’t know Scar’s name, the Ishvalan says that names among his people are considered sacred gifts from God. But he’s renounced his name, and snaps at Yoki to keep moving. [Scar]: “I am walking down a path with no return. So I will leave behind me every gift I have received from God.” New credits sequence! Singing is a mix of English and Japanese, a view of the countryside behind a short white-stone wall. Winry’s standing against a blue cloudy sky with hair blowing, Ed’s looking away from the camera in his red cloak, same with Al, shot of their burnt-down house. The new characters of Ling and his Ninjas get dramatic determined poses, May and Shao get their own against a sunset background. Flashback of Baby!Ed and Baby!Al shopping for groceries, then walking along a path back home as the sun sets. Return to the wall of pictures (with Papa!Elric’s face still covered, come on show we know what he looks like), and then Papa!Elric looking away from the camera towards Central. And back to present Ed and Al walking towards the horizon, sequence ends with a night-time shot of the Rockbell’s home. Alright! New characters from Xing promise some new shenanigans, with everyone going back to Central I’d say things are coming to a head but we’re only a little over halfway through the first season. Bleh, our poor babies learning about Hughes is going to be awful, can we get that out of the way soon so it’s not hanging over our heads anymore? Assuming that they manage to get back home next episode and aren’t delayed by filler, we’ll see how things shake out in Central.

#wmtw #where my twin watches #ranubis #full metal alchemist #full metal alchemist brotherhood #fmab #fmab 15

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athenril-of-kirkwall · 5 years

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For DADWC: “You make me feel safe.” with the pairing of your choice!

First time writing these two!

Bethany/Sebastian, “You Make Me Feel Safe” (AO3)

It wasn’t until recently that waking up alone was a concerning experience for Sebastian.

In the grand scheme of things, even back in the hedonistic days of his youth, his nightly dalliances had been such frivolous and physical matters that it was more often than not that whoever he’d brought to his quarters would inevitably be gone, whether by their own volition or shooed away by his minders.

Of course, once his family had put up with that as much as they were able and shoved him into a chantry that had been the end of it, with the bland quarters afforded to the brothers not even so much as permitting the space even if his devotions to his vows started flagging, regardless of whether he was in Starkhaven or Kirkwall.

That had all changed when everything had burnt up in flames, starting with the Chantry, and it had become manifestly clear to Hawke and his companions that it was time to leave. Given the obvious evidence before his eyes, Hawke had seen fit to trust Sebastian with his sister, who was nothing better than a fugitive apostate after Meredith’s insane decision, and the two of them had left for Starkhaven. After yet more intrigues he had finally foiled the last of the Harimanns’ intrigues and reclaimed his title, gaining a dispensation from the Grand Cleric to marry her. That had been nothing short of a miracle, given that its notaries were a Chantry brother and a mage.

In essence, the problem here was that his wife, Lady Bethany of Starkhaven, was missing from their bed, divided as it was by a bolster sewn into the lining of the sheets.

Rolling over to the source of the chill wind blowing in, he found her standing on the balcony outside dressed only in her shift, staring out into the direction of the Vimmark Mountains. Blinking away his grogginess, he picked himself up off the bed, throwing on his robe and gently draping a blanket over Bethany’s shoulders like a mantle.

Gently hugging her from the side – Chantry vows thankfully were rather vague on the whole cuddling thing – he asked her, “What’s the problem, love?”

“Couldn’t sleep,” she muttered.

“Was it Meghan?” Sebastian asked, tilting his head to the other room.

“No, no,” Bethany said, shaking her head. “I think Goran and Flora are getting through to her, just a little bit.”

“I know you still find it rather unsettling,” he said, adding, “Maker knows I do. My dear cousin’s done a marvellous job as seneschal, and at least we’ll have staved off the-”

“The succession dispute, for another generation, yes,” Bethany said, cutting him short. “Yes, Seb, I know. I was there. We’ll have to raise her at some point, you understand, or we’ll be facing the same thing all over again if some other gang of schemers gets their hooks in her.”

“Like she was our own,” he said.

“Like our own…” Bethany echoed his words, trailing off as she mentally counted the peaks between the keep and horizon, her silence revealing many unsaid doubts and concerns.

Gently turning her to face him, he asked, “Are you…happy?”

Looking up at him with eyes reddened with sleeplessness and tears, she said collapsing into his chest, “Yes, Sebastian, I am. Given everything, there’s no other place I’d rather be.”

“And given…everything else?”

She was silent, simply pressing her cheek into his bare chest. “I don’t know, Sebastian. Things could have gone in so many other ways…every morning I wake up is a blessing, a reminder of how lucky we were to survive.”

He hugged her, clutching his wife tight to him. “The dawn will come.”

She nodded, her hair brushing against his chin. “The dawn will come.”

“If it wasn’t Meghan keeping you up, what was it then?” Sebastian asked Bethany as he released her.

“My brother.”

He paused, pressing on, “Hawke the Elder? What news is there?”

Wiping under her eyes, she explained. “A hooded courier arrived before we went to sleep. He’s involved in some very deep intrigue. It has to do with the Wardens.”

“The Wardens? Have they gotten involved in the matter of the Breach?”

“I think so,” she said, continuing, “He couldn’t say much at all save that he was writing from somewhere around the Exalted Plains. And he wroteabout…about our legacy.”

“Your…legacy?” Sebastian asked, confused.

“Corypheus.”

“Corypheus? The magister responsible for the Breach? How is he your ‘legacy’?”

A fresh wave of tears sparkling in her eyes, Bethany walked back to their bed, seemingly deflating as she sat down on its edge. “It’s a long story, and one before your time. Our father, Malcolm, was a Warden, and he used…blood magic…to seal Corypheus up in an ancient prison. But Corypheus, he was too powerful to bind, and he’d corrupted the Wardens, tricking them into breaking the seals many years later. Hawke though the’d settled the matter by slaying Corypheus. Evidently not.”

He gazed distractedly at the ground, muttering, “Evidently not.”

She looked up at him with imploring eyes. “Yes, our father was a maleficar. I’m so sorry, Sebastian. Please don’t-”

Cutting her pleading short, he sat by her, clutching her tight to him and kissing her on the cheek. “I never would. Those were the decisions, and the errors of the past. Your father’s mistakes, and those of the Wardens, are not yours, nor are they Hawke’s. In fact, I assume his actions now are aimed at rectifying those very mistakes.”

She nodded quietly, cleaning the fresh tears off the old ones, asking him, “When will we ever be free from the mistakes of our ancestors?”

“Never,” he said grimly. “That’s what history is.”

Bethany shuddered as she leaned into Sebastian, taking him by his arms. “I’m so scared, Sebastian.”

“Hush…” he whispered, stroking her hair.

“An ancient evil has torn the sky open in my homeland, and Hawke is right in the middle of the storm once again, and all because of our father’s decisions. They say he’s got an archdemon, Sebastian. We all fled to Kirkwall because of the last Blight. What if this is the next one? Where will we go? What will we do?”

“Further north, methinks. Maybe we’ll surprise the darkspawn by heading right into the Anderfels. They’ll never see it coming.”

She admitted herself a little smile. “I see the years with my brother have paid off, as far as developing a funny bone goes.”

“Hawke is good for the occasional thing, yes. As for us, Starkhaven’s walls are strong, its men and women stronger, and so long as I’m here, nothing save the Void itself would prevent me from defending us till the very end.”

Bethany hugged him, leading him down across the bed until they were laying their heads on the bolster that was supposed to denote, or at least signify, their vows. She leaned into him, pecking him on the lips in an innocent kiss.

“You make me feel safe, dear.”

“And you, my love. So long as we’re together.”

“Yes.” Pressing their foreheads together, she locked her gaze with his as a distant gurgle sounded. “Oh, I think that’s Meghan, seeing as you’re so concerned with her.”

“Heh,” Sebastian said, smiling. “I think Goran can handle her.”

“Why, is the brave holy warrior scared of a restless baby?”

“Absolutely terrified, my love. Thank Andraste I have you to keep me safe.”

Feet shuffled in the room over and a bottle of milk rattled as it was drawn from a cupboard kept next to the hearth. Meanwhile, in Sebastian and Bethany’s own chambers, the loving couple fell asleep in an embrace which might have tested the limits of their dispensation if anyone had bothered – or dared – to check in on them.

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cupidsbower · 6 years

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Let me tell you people that I found a new way

Supernatural 13x06, “Tombstone,” 13x07, “War of the Worlds,” and 13x08, “The Scorpion and the Frog.”

Something very interesting is happening this season, relating to Dean’s position in the narrative. Over the course of 13 seasons, it’s been proven over and over that Dean’s hunches tend to be right. He thinks someone’s a rotter, and they are a rotter. He thinks something’s hinky and it is hinky. He does sometimes make mistakes, but generally speaking, when Dean makes a moral pronouncement, he is right about the morality, even if events don’t play out the way he anticipates.

At the start of season 13, Dean made the moral pronouncement that he thought Jack was evil. He may still prove right about this of course, as the season is still young (for me, I know you are all far ahead), but so far it’s looking like he was wrong, and that Jack is more like a blank slate trying to figure out who he can be rather than intrinsically good or evil.

Does this matter? Does Dean’s hunch about Jack count in the same way it counted when Dean knew Ruby was rotten, but tried to give her the benefit of the doubt because Sam asked? When it comes to Jack, is this just Dean being a jackass due to grief and it’s not really what he thinks?

The tension arising from Dean’s distrust of Jack has so far been used to complicate Jack’s arc, but a larger thematic question arises. What does it mean for the story if Dean’s moral compass is wonky? And what does it mean if it’s not?

Okay, cards on the table. I think Dean is wrong about Jack. I’m sure Jack will do a bunch of stupid shit, because that’s how growing up works, but so far he doesn’t seem to be intrinsically evil. So why was Dean so insistent about it? Was it because Cas’s death had him so turned around his instincts were awry? But if that’s the case, you’d expect his instincts to be back to normal with Cas back... but the text is hinting that they’re not.

I enjoyed Tombstone. Cas is back, Dean plays cowboy, and Jack gets a hug, screws up, and runs away from home. All the drama!

Tombstone is a title with a lot of meanings. The primary meaning is the headstone on a grave, but in a text where cremation is the Hunter’s way, whose tombstone is it referring to? Is it literally just talking about the location of the ghoul’s lair? Or is it talking about Jack’s use of his powers that goes horribly wrong? Then there’s the movie reference. The film is the fictionalised (and often romanticised) story of the West... when “cowboys were the law”! And as we know, Dean is all about cowboys, especially the ones in the rogues gallery up on their hotel room wall. Later he prompts Cas to act like he’s in the movie, and Cas quotes Val Kilmer to assure Dean he’s his Huckleberry, which just about makes Dean tear up. All a boy wants is a partner who fondly goes along with his cosplaying fantasies... looking good in a cowboy hat a definite bonus. And Dean gets it good here -- he wears the boots, fixes Cas’s hat, and does a slo-mo power walk to the song Space Cowboy:

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Steve Miller Band - Space Cowboy

I told you 'bout living in the U.S. of A Don't you know that I'm a gangster of love Let me tell you people that I found a new way And I'm tired of all this talk about love And the same old story with a new set of words About the good and the bad and the poor And the times keep on changin' So I'm keepin' on top Of every fat cat who walks through my door

I'm a space cowboy Bet you weren't ready for that I'm a space cowboy I'm sure you know where it's at Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (x)

I mean this is hilariously silly, and Dean is having so much fun, but he’s also completely embarrassing with his whole cowboy nerdgasm and forcing Cas to play along, amirite? This is Jensen Ackles showing off his physical comedy chops like the pro he is. But here’s the thing. The song scratches out the minute they find the law, because the old romantic version of the West does not hold true. In this version of Dodge, the law is not a cowboy, it’s a Native American. What’s more, Dean is not really the Space Cowboy either. Surely, surely, Cas is the space cowboy (but is Cas the gangster of love??? And if so, who’s heart did he steal???).

The frisson of not-quite-right continues throughout the rest of the episode. While the ghoul realises there are Hunters after him and tries to “get out of Dodge” -- the line the lawman Marshall Dillon of the TV show Gunsmoke used to say to interlopers of Dodge City -- it’s Jack who is proved to be the interloper in the end, and it’s the Winchester posse who leaves town. Except for Dean, of course, who ends up Hunting someone wearing the face of one of his cowboy faves.

I could go on, but you get the point.

Thematically, this episode is all about undermining Dean’s moral authority. It does it in several ways, many of them funny, but the intent is quite clear. He even straight up says that he was wrong at the end:

JACK: Good? How is that good? I killed someone. What was his name? The guard? Did he have a family? CASTIEL: Jack, don't do this to yourself. JACK: No, did he? DEAN: Yes, he did. SAM: Jack, look, this life, what we do, it's… it's not easy. And we've all done things we regret. JACK: Just don't. You're afraid of me. CASTIEL: Jack, no. JACK: No, maybe you're right. Maybe I'm just another monster. DEAN: No, you're not. I thought you were. I did. But… Like Sam said, we've all done bad. We all have blood on our hands. So if you're a monster, we're all monsters. JACK: No, you don't… Every time I try and do something good, people get hurt. I thought I was getting better. I'm not… I don't know what I am, but I know I can't make the world a better place, not like this. I can't even do one good thing. And I know that if I stay, I'm gonna hurt you. All of you. And… I can't. You're all I have. SAM: Jack, listen… JACK: I have to go. CASTIEL: No, Jack. JACK: I'm sorry. (x)

Winchester through and through, that boy. Unintended lesson well and truly learned! Oh, the irony.

(My pet theory is that Jack isn’t actually gone, he’s just invisible and lurking around the Bunker. Don’t tell me if I’m wrong, please. I’m going to enjoy thinking about it until canon bursts my bubble.)

Before watching this ep, when I was talking over 13x05 with my viewing buddy, I said, “I wish monsters recognised Hunters more, and especially the Winchesters. It seems dumb after so many years that so few of them do.” And lo, in all three of these eps, people do recognise Hunters and/or the Winchesters. I’m very pleased by this, although as always it isn’t playing out quite the way I hoped. In the case of our ghoul, even though he quickly recognises that Hunters are after him, and makes plans to escape, he fails because he doesn’t take the threat seriously enough. More importantly, it’s not a Hunter(/cowboy) who kills him, it’s the Law(/Native American).

There were a lot of other things to like about this episode, but the other thing I find most notable in terms of meta is something on the meta-textual level. This episode starts upbeat, after five episodes of unrelieved grieving, with Cas back, and Jack finally seeming to be finding his place. That doesn’t even last one episode before the emotional apple-cart is knocked over again. If I were writing this season, this emotional beat in this place in the story arc would mean I’d be aiming for either a happy or ironic climax, rather than a tragic one. I’m leaning towards ironic, and I think Dean’s moral wonkiness will have a part to play in the ironic twist.

Anyway, that was Tombstone. The next two eps put away the myth-arc for a bit, and move on to monster-of-the-week stories full of mirrors for our protagonists. This season they are very much focused on fathers and sons.

War of the Worlds is an interesting title to choose for this episode. It’s obviously referring to H.G. Wells’ book, one of the first stories about aliens invading the Earth and trying to take it from Humanity -- a colonisation narrative in other words. It’s pretty easy to see that Michael in this case is the alien/coloniser.

By the way, I’m now calling alternaEarth “Mordor” because of that fiery eye in the opening credits, and also it’s much easier to type. Interesting, isn’t it, how the Mordor angels managed to screw up the Apocalypse, the implication being that it’s because God, Lucifer, the Winchesters and Castiel were all absent, and so The End wasn’t just a figment of Zachariah’s imagination, but what really happened. And with Lucifer dead in that world, not around to be the antagonist and keep things in check, Michael has basically gone crazy.

Chuck really did a spectacularly bad job as Father to the angels. They only need a bit of spite to energise them and they flower into the most noxious of weeds, smothering everything else around them during their self-absorbed tantrums. What does Michael even want with ParadiseEarth? Does he know, or does he just want it the way a baby wants a toy, and so he thinks it’s his to take? He’s not wearing a Winchester either (not one we know, anyway), so that also brings us right back around to the question of Dean being the Michael Sword. Methinks it’s a really bad time for Dean’s moral compass to be going wonky.

I found Lucifer interesting for the first time in ages in this ep. If I remember correctly, he was always ambivalent about the idea of the Apocalypse, because he liked Earth and having all those Humans to corrupt. But now he also has a son in the world; in other words, a stake in the continued existence of the world. I’m finding that super interesting. How will it change the choices he makes? I’m not expecting a redemption arc or anything like that, but I do think we’re going to see a different set of choices now Lucifer has someone he’s invested in as family. Can even Lucifer learn some humility once he’s the Father rather than the rebelling son?

To go back to the title of the ep, though, my favourite version of War of the Worlds is actually the musical. I see quite a few thematic similarities between some of the tracks and this season of Supernatural. Forever Autumn for instance, reminds me very strongly of Dean at the start of the season. The Spirit of Man I can easily see as a riff on what could happen if Michael actually gets out of Mordor. It does beg the question though, of what the equivalent of the deadly microbes would be. I have this horrible feeling it might be something like “love”, which has a pretty good track record of corrupting angels, but I can’t see many good ways of getting a shot of it inside of Michael. Maybe Rowena sticks some kind of magical bio-weapon in a vessel (Dean) and then they (Dean) says yes to Michael... because TFW does like to re-use strategies, and they never did get to play that one out with Amara in the end.

Why else bring back Ketch and potentially Rowena, reminding us of the whole secret-power-inside-a-body possibility at the same time? I mean, I know resurrection is a theme this season, and I’m always happy to see Rowena back, but UGH. I’d rather NOT end the season with Michael wearing Dean, and Dean wearing a crown of blackberry thorns, if you get my drift.

In other news, Dean’s moral compass seems to be working again this ep, as he spotted that Ketch was sketchy right from the start, and he picked up on Cas being weird on the phone too. Could it be a fake-out that pays off later? If his moral compass is still on the fritz after all, it means Ketch was probably saying some truth in this bit of dialogue:

KETCH: I believe you're familiar with the witch Rowena MacLeod? She was captured by the British Men of Letters some years back. I discovered she'd sewn a powerful charm into her body that could bring her back should she be killed. I struck a deal wherein she did the same for me in return for allowing her to escape. SAM: So after we dumped your body, you- KETCH: Good as new. Only problem is, one the device is used, it needs to be recharged. DEAN: Which is why you're hunting for Rowena. Well, sorry. Lucifer burned her up. She's dead. KETCH: Is she? DEAN: Why'd you come here? You could've run. KETCH: Did it ever occur to you, Dean, that I might actually be one of the good guys? DEAN: No. Not even once. KETCH: You and I were soldiers in opposing armies who were at war. DEAN: Well, the thing about war is, one side wins. KETCH: I suppose you're right. (x)

So which bit is the potential truthiness? Is Ketch a good guy? *quietly gags, please nooooooo* Or is Rowena alive *yis pls*. Or... can you have a war in which one side doesn’t win?!?! Morder, I’m looking at you.

My foreshadowing senses are tingling. Let me just float this idea now and get it out there where I can poke it with a stick... maybe all three of these things will be true. For a certain value of true. And that would definitely mean Dean’s radar is still wonky.

This ep we have another character who recognises the Winchesters/Hunters. The witch who got away from Ketch fears them, but rightly considers them the lesser of two evils as long as she’s the victim. I’m liking this theme a lot, and I wonder where they’re going with it? I kind of hope that maybe we’ll get some more references to Carver Edlund’s books if this plot thread unspools for more than a few episodes. I’ve never felt that the villains really used that resource enough, you know? I kind of want Michael to get his hands on them, or maybe Kevin.

Which brings me to the final thing about this episode’s title -- the Orson Welles radio play of Wr of the Worlds. It’s famous for causing a panic when it aired, as people thought it was real. Or did they??? Wikipedia tells me:

The first two-thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a news bulletin and is often described as having led to outrage and panic by some listeners who had believed the events described in the program were real. However, later critics point out that the supposed panic seems to have been exaggerated by newspapers of the time seeking to discredit radio as a source of information. (x)

Ahhhhh. I did not know that. I’m starting to understand why my story brain is so hung up on the reputation of the Winchesters this season, and why it’s important that other characters have heard of them or of Hunters more generally. Propaganda and misinformation are an important part of any war, and they can play out in unexpected ways. We got a bit of this last season with how woefully wrong the BMoL’s intel was on the Winchesters, and I wanted that to pay off more than it did in the end. But I’m more than happy for it to pay off this season instead, with Michael and his posse. Supernatural’s story-within-the-story could use a good shake-up at this point, and giving us some new insight into the stories people tell about the Winchesters would be a clever way to revisit the Metatron arc without resurrecting him too.

For an ep that focused so much on characters I’m not that fond of (Lucifer, Ketch), I enjoyed it quite a lot for the way it’s opened up the narrative in new directions. It’s actual plot wasn’t that strong, but I was happy to be carried along by the revelations.

The final thing I want to say about this ep is that Dean and I are brain-twins on the Evil Colonel Sanders front -- it’s a perfect name for him.

I like heists if they do something fun, so I found the plot of The Scorpion and the Frog episode enjoyable enough. The way Sam and Dean disarmed the booby-trap made me laugh out loud! Zoooooooom, zwot, thwop-thwop-thwop. Classic.

As this isn’t a myth-arc ep, the most interesting meta stuff arises from the title and theme. I’m sure you’ve all heard of the parable of The Scorpion and the Frog, so I won’t repeat it here, except for the axiom it ends with: “When the frog asks the scorpion why [it stung him], the scorpion replies that it was in its nature to do so” (x).

This title pretty directly evokes the show’s current major theme -- nature vs nurture -- and this season’s variation on it -- who’s your daddy?

As you’d expect at this point in the season, the ep raises a lot of questions about the theme: Do people really have an essential nature, or can they change their spots? Who in the episode is the scorpion and who is the frog? Is the scorpion the demon who can’t help but lie and use people? Is it the father who can’t help but try and save his son, and then turns bitter when he fails? Is it the Hunters who can’t help but hunt, even when they don’t intend to? Is it the victim who takes her shot at ending her suffering when offered the means? I could ask a similar set of questions about who is the frog.

Not to mention:

What qualities make for a good father?

Can somone overcome their (or their father’s) nature?

How do stories about the Winchesters affect they way people interact with them?

Hunters gotta hunt?

Can a frog be a scorpion in disguse? And if so, is that how they’ll sting Michael?

Is Dean’s moral compass wonky or not?

The more I think about all these questions, the less sure I get. Must be getting close to the middle of the season. :)

Barthamus the Crossroads Demon is another character who has heard of the Winchesters, and thinks he knows everything he needs to about them in order to get to the other side of the river on their backs.

Much as Evil Colonel Sanders is Lucifer!lite, Bart is Crowley!lite. He saw how Crowley worked with the Winchesters, and decided to take a leaf out of his book, but doesn’t understand the larger consequences of that choice. So far Crowley is the only antagonist who has ever realised that the Winchesters are always more dangerous than their enemies think -- they have taken down Gods and monsters, and even Death cannot stop them for long. It was almost inevitable that they would hunt Bart, no matter what was at stake (does that make them the scorpion?). Add in Smash, an actual victim, who Dean uses his supernatural bonding skills on, and that outcome went to a 100% certainty. This dilemma is prefigured early in the episode:

DEAN: You know, this could be a trap. I mean he could work for Asmodeus. SAM: Yeah, but what if he's telling the truth? DEAN: You know, after Crowley, I told myself, no more demons. SAM: Dean, we don't even know what this guy's deal is. DEAN: Yeah, we do. He's a freakin' demon. SAM: Yeah, but you said it yourself, we need a miracle. And maybe this is it. DEAN: You know what "miracles" are called from demons? I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it's not "miracles". SAM: How about this? Let's hear the guy out. DEAN: All right, and after that, we kill him.

They enter the Smile Diner.

Did anyone else hear the name of this diner and think of Hamlet and the whole, “one may smile, and smile, and be a villain” speech? It really made me think of Crowley too -- if you go read the speech, you’ll see what I mean: http://nfs.sparknotes.com/hamlet/page_66.html.

BARTHAMUS: The famous Winchesters. DEAN: Some random demon. BARTHAMUS: Barthamus. Bart's fine. Please, sit. I ordered cherry pie. DEAN: Well, Bart, don't know what you've heard about us, but… BARTHAMUS: Everything. I've been following your careers a long time. You're a real pain in the pitchfork. And the halo. Natural disrupters. We have that in common, you and I. DEAN: Mm. Yeah, we're twinsies. (x)

Dean was a much better demon than this, and Dean was basically a shitty demon. Dean’s moral compass seems to be working perfectly here, though: some random demon, indeed.

Except... there’s the way the episode ends.

DEAN: You okay? SAM: Yeah, not really. Not exactly the best day, you know? DEAN: Well, it's not the worst. We did save somebody. That felt good. SAM: Yeah. Yeah, it did. But… [Sighs] back to square one with Jack. DEAN: We'll figure something else out. And if that doesn't work, then we'll move on to next, and then whatever's after that. We just keep working, 'cause it's what we do. SAM: It feels really good to hear you talk like that again. DEAN: I'll drink to that.

Sam and Dean clink their beer bottles and take a drink. (x)

So is Dean right here, too?

“It’s what we do,” Dean says about Hunting, as though he and Sam are only and entirely defined by Hunting, and that they do have an essential nature that can’t be changed, despite Dean’s recent bout of feelings.

If that’s really true, it’s an enormous problem, both for themselves and for Jack. Toxic masculinity is part of what they always do. Abusive fathers, the MoL’s sexism, the Angel breeding program, Mary/Dean making a deal, John/Sam sacrificing themselves...

If a person’s nature can’t ever be changed, all of these patterns are what the Winchesters are made up of and will always remain. That isn’t a very hopeful picture, so I kind of hope Dean’s wrong about he and Sam being nothing but their work.

Can people change? Can they make different choices? Will the Winchesters make the same mistakes all over again at the end of the season -- will they sting the frog and doom themselves? Or will they try out new and better mistakes, and make it safely to the other side of the river along with the frog?

I guess we’ll find out soon enough. I’m hoping for something new, but I gotta say, I’m starting to think that Castiel and Jack are the frogs.

Previously:

I never opened myself this way (13x01 and 13x02)

You say you've only got one life to live (13x03, 13x04, 13x05)

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moiraineswife · 6 years

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Percy Meta: Potential

The dam finally broke and now here is the Percy meta that...None of you have really been waiting on, but which has been inevitable for at least two weeks. Most of this is probably like...obvious af, and I’m well aware I’m late to the party but also I feel good about my present state of Revelation so like, deal with it.

This ain’t gonna be short. At all. This ain’t even gonna think about being short. Y’all have been warned.

For a little bit now, I’ve been struggling somewhat between the slight chasm between the way the audience (and me) respond to Percy, and the way Taliesin seems to respond to Percy, mostly in terms of the way they judge/see him, and Taliesin has said several times that he considers Percy to be a bad person which was something my tiny, protective little brain couldn’t wrap its head around. But I think I get it, and I think it has almost 100% to do with the way that Percy sees the world around him.

Percy sees the world in terms of its potential.

Most people see a lump of black powder; Percy sees bullets. Most people see steel and wood; Percy sees a gun. Most people see things as they are; Percy sees them for what they could be.

This is something that drives...A huge amount of his life tbh. All of his tinkering projects emerge from this way of seeing the world. The wheels are always spinning, and he’s always thinking of ways to reinvent the wheel. And then what else he can do with the wheel. And what he can do with that and on and on and on.

I think Percy wanders around a world in which everything he comes across is a raw material. It’s something he can use to make something else, something bigger, something cleverer, something better.

But I ALSO think that this way of thinking is what makes up his sense of morality, as well as his view on the world, and his view on himself.

[Please now venture beneath the cut to continue listening to me cry rivers about Percy de Rolo and his ‘you need a therapist, child’ psychology]

Percy also sees people for their potential. Which makes him incredibly interesting if you rather like picking apart a characters’ sense of morality (which, spoiler alert: I do) Most people, I think, will tend to base their judgements of others on a)- what they do or b)- why they do it.

This gives rise to the ways most people understand the world. They either flat out think: killing is wrong, that is a wrong act, whatever the circumstances. Or they consider, well, yes, killing is wrong in most cases, but if you look at why this person killed - to protect, for instance, then in that case they would forgive. Obviously things get much more nuanced than that, but basically that’s how it goes.

I don’t think Percy really thinks that way. I don’t think he really judges people based on what they’ve done, or why they’re doing it. I think he judges people on what they may do in the future. The more likely they are to do more harm, the worse of a person they are in his eyes.

For context/a source of what sparked all this, I’m in the middle of episode 67 at the moment, and they’re just reintroducing Ripley to the narrative, and Percy is coming to terms with the effect he’s had on her, and the fact that someone else in the world is producing guns - which has the potential to change said world astronomically.

This has produced a lot of Very Telling Percy moments, but the one I’m most thinking about is his reasoning behind why his decision to let Ripley live when they found her in Whitestone was wrong.

Percy sees this in very simple terms, which he explains to Vax and Vex: he should have killed Ripley because she was a greater threat to the world in the future than the Briarwoods were (as far as he understood it at the time). Letting the Briarwoods live would have meant a couple more vampire-things in the world, world’s full of them already, not as big a deal. Letting Ripley live could, in his eyes, cause the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands of people, perhaps more, because of the knowledge that she has, and her potential to unleash his designs and his guns on the world.

This is...A seriously interesting way of looking at things. Especially when you consider the fact that the Briarwoods are like...Solely responsible for the deaths of Percy’s entire family, the loss of his home, the loss of like...Everything, pretty much. If he’s judging people on their past actions he’s got every damn right to consider them as far worse than Ripley.

But he doesn’t. He considers her evil. Purely evil. She is the only thing we’ve seen thusfar that actually scares Percy. Percy who was the first to jump into the swirling ball of fire that took them to the elemental plane. Percy that made a deal with a demon and didn’t truly fear that. Percy who confronted an ancient, soul-devouring sword without so much as blinking. Percy fears Ripley. Percy judges Ripley as the most dangerous, and the most terrible being he has ever encountered, because Percy looks at this woman and doesn’t see what she’s done, doesn’t even really see what she’s presently doing, he sees what she may do in the future, and that is what terrifies him.

But I think this concept gets even MORE interesting when you note that Percy applies this way of thinking to himself.

And I think that THIS is what causes the rift between the way he views himself, and the way the rest of the world (and, out-of-world, the way the audience views him) because we are, essentially, judging two entirely different people.

The people around Percy, and the audience, are responding to Percy in the moment. They’re responding to the Percy that they can see at present.

Percy is judging the Percy that he can see five, ten, twenty years down the line, the monster that man has the potential to become, and the horrifying change he has the potential to wreak upon the world.

Percy takes a strange, twisted almost delight in being mistrusted by those closest to him. When he asks Vax if Vax trusts him and Vax hesitates he isn’t insulted, he isn’t offended, or upset, or unsettled, he is pleased. He encourages this view of himself. And I think this is because he wants those around him to perceive him as he perceives himself, as the threat that he poses, as the thing that he could become.

There was a moment a few episodes back, which I’m sure has been very thoroughly discussed in-fandom already, in which Percy told Vax, “ And in return I ask: never take your eyes off me. Never trust me. And that is the best friend that you can me." And this is absolutely founded on the same logic.

Percy will accept like. Percy will accept friendship. Percy will even, to an extent, accept love, and that those around him love him. The thing Percy will never accept is trust. And I think that is because all of those other things, friendship, and liking, and even love, are all rooted in the present. They’re all immediate, and they don’t carry any kind of impact on the future.

Trust does. Trust implies a certain investment, and trust carries with it a ripple effect. If Percy is trusted in the present, that could lead to some terrible consequences in the future. Trust is based on the potential. It’s based on unknowns - to trust someone is to accept that you don’t fully know what they’ll do, what they’ll choose, but you have faith they’ll do the right thing, and this is what terrifies Percy, I think.

Percy wants to be mistrusted. Percy wants to be watched. Because Percy’s imagination has carried him about six steps ahead of everyone else, and he’s looking at the worst case scenario of the monster he might become, and his rejection of trust is his safeguard against that. If he’s not trusted, if he’s watched, if he’s stopped, then maybe, just maybe, they can avoid that.

And what’s more interesting is that I don’t think any of this is rooted in a desire to palm responsibility off on someone else. Percy has a fairly deep self-awareness, probably too deep, in fact, and for all his flaws, he takes responsibility for himself, for his actions, and for the consequences of those actions. This isn’t about trying to pass blame, this is about his innate fear and mistrust of himself and his desire for others to see that.

And so i think that this is why Percy sees himself as a terrible person, and where that pit of self-loathing in him comes from, that the others have a hard time accepting/coming to terms with (fucking Vax has said he believes Percy to be a good person, like damn son that’s some reference) is that Percy’s judging future!Percy, and everyone else is judging present!Percy.

Because present Percy isn’t, as far as I can see, a terrible person. But Percy is fully aware of the monster that he has the capacity to become. And I think he hates that person, and he hates the fact that the potential of it is inside him as he is, and that’s what causes his judgement of himself, his hatred of himself.

And there’s something...So deeply painful about that. Because in some senses I can almost understand him judging the rest of the world and all the people in it on these terms, especially when the weight of protecting that world has been partially shoved onto Percy’s shoulders. It’s a tactical and it’s a pragmatic and it’s a logical morality, and it’s pretty damn perfect for Percy. He’s able to prioritise and weigh threats, essentially, he’s able to see what’s the biggest threat, and then works to counter that. Very suited for the life of a monster-hunter, and even a soldier to an extent, methinks.

The problem is it’s a less than perfect personal morality. He hates himself for something he may not ever become. He judges himself a monster for things that haven’t yet happened, and may never happen. He hates a thing that is by no means certain, or inevitable, it’s only the faintest shred of a chance, but that alone is enough for him to condemn himself, and that’s a dark, lonely, painful way to live.

And to just dig a little bit deeper (I swear I’m nearly done, I swear) into the veritable goldmine of analysis potential that is Percy de Rolo, this dovetails with another fundamental part of Percy’s character (as far as I see him anyway) which is: legacy.

Percy was born and raised in a noble family, and was probably educated on legacy from the age at which he was able to understand what that word meant. He is literally the walking personification of the concept of legacy. Percy and his nine hundred names has become something of a running joke, I get that, but I also think his emphasis on it is significant for two things:

1)- when he left Whitestone, his name was the only thing of his past that he had left. As far as he knew, his entire family was dead, and his house, lands, people, and future were all in the hands of their killers. 2)- It’s generated, presumably, by various names of historical significance to the de Rolo family, that had to be carried on in Percy the same way a bloodline is carried on. It’s a constant reminder of the pressure to live up to his history, but also to preserve and to continue it. And with Percy as, what he thought for some time, the last de Rolo, that makes this even more of a weight on his shoulders.

He has that beautiful speech during the Westruun arc about how he will live as long as Whitestone lives. It’s a really poignant moment (And I want to know who taliesin jaffe sold his soul to for these lines, but I’ll explore that at a later date) but it’s also super-revealing in terms of Percy.

Percy does not really consider himself in that moment an individual. Percy is a multitude. Percy is the history that has been written, and the history that is yet to be written. He is a single page in a much larger book. And he’s deeply aware, and also deeply comfortable with this ideal. (Which is also very interesting, because most people have trouble when considering their own mortality/limited purpose/place in the grand scheme of the universe)

And what Percy considers ‘the human soul’ in this moment is the things that they build with their ‘tiny moments’. Cities will stand (barring dragon-attacks and death marble destruction) for generations after those that built them set the first stones. Books and historical records will last even longer. But the truly impactful thing here is that Percy considers a person’s soul that which they create, and that which they leave behind.

So, with that in mind, if Percy creates and leaves behind Ripley, and his guns, that makes for a rather twisted, dark, violent soul. He specifically says in that episode that when he doesn’t leave any record of his creations - his notes are destroyed/put away once he’s finished making whatever it is he’s making, and he specifically asks the rest of Vox Machina to destroy all of his creations after he’s gone. He does not want that to be his legacy, he doesn’t want that to be what he leaves behind, he doesn’t want that to be the mark of his human soul on this world.

This all explains why he is so haunted and disturbed by Ripley’s existence, and also why he sees himself as a bad person. And it’s actually a really interesting, nuanced look at the trope of a character being obsessed with their legacy. I think this gives it a real substance, and grounding, and meaning, and feeling. There are reasons behind this, very deep reasons behind this obsession with what he will become, and what he will leave behind, and the fact his moral sense is based on that is even more fascinating and just...All the awards to Taliesin Jaffe for Percy’s character, honestly, because he builds this up so well, and understands and responds to the nuances of Percy’s character and trauma so damn well.

TL;DR: Percival Fredrickstein Von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III has some very serious psychological scars related to legacy, and is so afraid of what future!Percy may look like, he hates present!Percy for even entertaining the possibility of future!Percy by like...Existing.

Wow this was a marathon. If u got to the end of it a)- thank u and b)- i feel for u bc u probably have as many Percy feelings as me, and correspondingly little soul or heart left so like...I feel for u, friend, I feel for u.

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Voltron Cast vs. Personality types

Feel free to add & correct

Lance

Very Clearly ESxx. He’s practically “Extrovert problems” incarnate, poor boi, just wants to be liked & accepted.

I’d say he has some Fe there but the degree of inappropriate jokes vs value judgements/policing suggests tertiary rather than dominant. ESTP then.

Pretty much that common Fi PolR/ Fe tert problem of not realizing your own inclinations & opinions of yourself “count” & therefore looking for external validation a lot. Adding to that is his crazy aim & knack for planning sneaky strategies on the fly, also he once mentioned he has a hard time sleeping if he gets all pumped off, having so much energy it needs to be burned off is a common Se dom issue, as is his concern with looks, status & “finer pleasures” & his competitive streak.

He’s an inert subtype, and enneagram wise he’s such an obvious 3w2 someone who never saw the show could tell just from me reblogging posts about him. He keeps making up roles for himself to play (”cool ninja sharpshooter”) & hoping they catch on with the others, though there’s also an angle of wanting to contribute & be needed.

imma venture soc/sx but im not adamant on this. Sanguine classic.

Also very obvious oldham Inventive with sprinklings of Devoted and Dramatic. He’s also a dead-ringer Mercury-Venus. Also probably Thunderbird.

Gryffindor or Hufflepuff tho? There would probaby be hatstall, but ultimately I feel he would be a “grow into it” Gryffindor.

The Red Lion only takes them Gryffindors BTW. Come on. Bravery? honor? No self-preservation? Likewise, the green Lion only takes Ravenclaws and the Yellow one only takes hufflepuffs. The recipe is probably more complicated with the other two tho.

Hunk

The most obvious ISFJ to ever SiFe.

He’s cautious & prefers the familiar, a good judge of character & may need to see things with their own eyes to grasp their full scope, but also has a big heart cares a lot. Hasthat “inferior Ne panic reaction” too.

You kinda also see the “dexterous/practical” side of Si with his being a mechanic. The makers have described the contrast between him and pidge as the “figure it out & think it up” side of engineering vs the “buid it & make it work” side of it which is basically N vs. S in a nutshell.

Inert Subtype. Pudwudkie Hufflepuff. Nuff said. A 9w1, probably, though with a notable 6w5 fix. sp/soc. Phlegmatic. Venus. Clearly has some Sensitive style in him but he’s not all that shy & fluttery so there’s probably some stabilizing influence there. Not wholly sure if it’s some Leisurely or something else

Allura

Preddy much ESTJ. Brave, dutiful, action-oriented, bossy, fortright, yells a lot, can be rigid sometimes, we know the drill.

Contact subtype. Mars-Jupiter af. srly that’s just a holistic sumup of her character. Choleric. (ChlorSan prolly) 2w1 soc/sp? I do think soc is right & she does have that “politcian-y” quality.

She’s ever the altrustic helper ready to put her life in danger, insists they answer every distress call, and has this ‘diplomatic important organization leader’ thing going on that social 2s do.The w1 also manifests as back & white or oversimple thinking at times.

Oldham wise it’s hard, something of a pronounced mixed/intereference pattern with both Self-Sacrifcing and Aggressive in the mix.

Wampus. I see why someone might say Slytherin but I’m sticking with Gryffindor for now.

Pidge

This one is kinda easy.

INTP 5w6. Ravenclaw. Horned Serpent. Lunar. sp/soc. IDK bout vertical subtype but she rambles/blurts more than she snarks/criticises so I’m saying contact.

Less sure ‘bout oldham though there’s probably some Vigilant, though not, like, sharp excess.

Imma run with melancholic b/c she’s definitely not pure Phlegmatic or Supine. MelPhleg perhaps.

Shiro

Apparently there has been a case of “the fan-favorite is always INFJ” (TF?) but I think most of us will agree that he has Te - he’s goot at handing out tasks, managing people, coming up with courses of action...

He rocks that tert Fi too in that he’s a good listener & tries to further the other’s personal developement.

We often think of natural leaders as extroverts but ISTJ is prolly the introvert most likely to become head-of-state. He just fits the overall patterns of ISTJ: Dilligent, put-together (when he can help it), great integrity, perceptive with details & able to use comparision with past experiences to kick butt in the present (Like when he timed the Sentry Drones’ rounds), though he does’t have the elbowy agression/striving of other TJ-types, and he’s a morning person too.

He’s probably a contact subtype. Temperament wise he’d be one of those few where I’d be tempted to call ‘balanced/Leukine’, but if I didn’t I’d say ChlorPhleg comes the closest. 1w9 af, prolly sp/soc with a degree of both personalperfectionism & mentoring others present, and also feeling overly responsible for everything.

Oldham wise an obvious conscientious type.

While he’d sure have some gryffindor potential, his firm belief in teamwork & humility would probaby land him in Hufflepuff.- Think Cedric Diggory who was also a sort of prodigy. Though he is probably also very much a Wampus.

Also, he’s a classic, archetypical pure Saturn type. Actually, I believe at least partially saturnyne personalities are the Black Lion’s thing. Still not sure how Blue’s could be quantified, apart from possibly favoring extroverts, but that’s probably by design.

Keith

Mai Spicy Boi! .

I’m just gonna flat out say that he cannot be anything other than a contact subtype Se auxillary. Just look at all that Se! That’s about as much of the stuff as you can possibly cram into an introvert.

He’s got sharp senses & reflexes, often reacts to opportunities, observations and impressions in the moment (and very often it’s a deliberate risk that works out - he’s not just “hotheaded” or “not thinking”, but he’s thinking about things to do or investigate, not so much what happens next. ) & improvised, didn’t really have longterm plans after flunking out, He also very much has the ‘decisive’ and agressive side of Se though I wouldn’t call him dominant.

And I’m saying ISTP over ISFP b/c the Se itself seems a sufficient explanation for his reactive nature,and then there’s general lack of people skills, solitary mode of operation & difficulty with group work (not a shred of Te not even inferior)

Also, when he’s actually thinking rather than just waltzing in guns blazing, he very much has task-oriented, detached impersonal reasoning “But can we afford to save the princess? It’s not about the glory. The cause is bigger than any of us.” He’s also very much the cynic of the group or the one most inclined to see things in shades of grey rather than black & whites.

I doublechecked this to make sure I’m not just assuming him to be a Ti dom b/c he’s my fav character, but ‘ISTP’ really seem to summarize his character & much of the metas written about him very well.

Soo... is he a cp 6? a sp4? An 8? Probably all of those, they don’t call that the “tripple reactive” tritype for nothing but coretype wise I’d put him very much in the action triad as a 8w7, that’s not even all that uncommon for ISTPs. He’s also very distinctly soc blind,(which may explain why he doesn’t really manifest the dominant part of the 8, but he’s very much got the every-man-for-himself, rely-on-no-one rebel part of it, as well as the characteristic problem with backing down/shelving arguments though the other fixes, again, don’t help. ) not sure if sx/sp or sp/sx, on the one hand he’s...tempestuous, on the other he spent a year as a desert hermit and found itpleasantly calm, at least in part, so if pressed I’d go with sp/sx, also because of his tedency to hold himself apart from the group somewhat without much indication that it’s a conscious choice.

Oldham wise he’s got some adventurous & some vigilant but also some sort of more emotionally juicy counterpoint to that without which he’d have a lot more hostile unconcern. He’s not clingy enough for Mercurial tho so I’m vaguely at a loss.

He’s got some more maturity to acquire there but I do think there’s very much a Saturn-Mars underneath it all. Certainly NOT as thought-through as a pure saturn and with no shortage on the action but he does have momentzs of somberness and nuanced understanding. Very much fits both the archetype of the ‘rugged doer’ and the ‘powerful, cause-oriented person’. though he still has some work to do on the ‘inspiring others’ part.

Gryffindor, no 2 ways about it. (Some have suggested Slytherin because he’s the “edgy” one but honestly I don’t see that at all. He has zero interest in personal glory or the ‘in-group’ & doesn’t seem to think of himself as special though he would very much have the grounds to do so.)

The real question is: Wampus or Thunderbird tho?

Coran

Clearly has both Ne (wackyness and quirkyness) and Si (storytime! “Proper” Traditionalist), and too much for either to be the inferior.

Since he doesn’t seem like a Ne auxillary, that leaves us with ESFJ by principle of exclusion, like he kinda has the chattynes & is always helping with everything & taking all the duties. Probably a contact subtype.

Hufflepuff for similar reasons. IDK bout Ilvermony but he does have an adventurous side that did shenanigans with the previous paladins, so probably Thunderbird.

Out of the enneagram types that commonly occur in ExSJ, 9 seems the likeliest, he’s nor dramatic enough for a core type in the emotional triad. I’d say he also has a 7w6 fix somewhere. Also he’s probably soc-first... and in hindsight actualy acts alot like a textbook social 9, working a lot to support the community while not taking the spotlight himself.

Oldham wise I’d postulate a Dramatic-Devoted mix.

Essence type made me think for a bit i had several inconclusive kneejerk reactions but imma stick with Jupiter for now.

Zarkon

Well, another ESTJ, prolly an inert subtype tho.

Pretty much your standard evil overlord/ Te dom villain, though he’s more an enforcer than someone who does a lot of lecturing like when he does it’s usually to-the-point, plus he was sorta repressed in his youth & seemingly a strict traditionalist.

Also a very obvious Aggressive type (complete with the comon constellation where the spouse can deal with & accept that that but the kid’s can’t & regular teenage rebellion ends in dramatic estrangement), like, he would not be questioned even by his best friend even long before he went nuts enough to randomly murder ppl for talking back to him.

You could deem him an 8w9 and a Saturn for similar reasons though he evidently incorporates the more negative aspects of that... though he did have a “protective-responsible” side before things got too sour.

Ovsly Slytherin (& wampus), methinks the whole imperial family would be one those dynastic Slytherin families for all their differences.

Haggar

I found her hard to get a read on for the first two seasons, but with the backstory reveal I think I can conclude INTx, see the whole lightning speech & the whole “Think of the Potential!” attitude, also her being a misanthropic cat lady & sassing Alfor to his face (”customary gesture”) way before things went all sour.

I am less sure here, but out of the two options INTP is more likely because I think I see more indications for SiFe than for FiSe. Her present day self is markedly more cautious than she was in her younger days. She minimally toys with her victims for effect (Poor Shiro) and has this pretty honest devotion & concern for Zarkon, though she seems content subordinating herself to him, though she has this dourish Si-Ti bubble-popping, “Yeah sure but be cautious” attitude especially in interaction with Lotor & Zarkon.

Beyond that, i’d say that she is a very clearly an inert subtype, a Serious-primary and probably some fashion of 5w6 (by principle of exclusion). Slytherin & Horned Serpent. What else would a mad science shadow empress space witch possbly be? Might be Lunar but don’t really have a good read there

Lotor

Some kind of NF, ENFJ if I had to guess. Not his father indeed, though still quite ExxJ. He has the charme, he has a planning, analytic quality underneath, but while he had ambition the more fundamental motivation seems to be to enarn recognition to prove himself.

sx/soc 7, glorious, extra with lots of plumage, certainly very self-interested when it comes down but you could totally picture him just chilling with his henchladies & preferring a ‘personal’ environment/inner circle though he can totally work crowds like clay.

Self-Confident with a tinge of Exuberant perhaps.

Slytherin Thunderbird.

Perhaps what an antagonistic Solar Type looks like. He’s got charme, he’s got loftiness and big goals he works hard to accomplish and little hesitation to put his own person out on the field but he’s sorta the very opposite of naive, very much a planner and going all road runner on poor Keith. Come to think of it,one could make a good case for him as a Solar-Saturn.

As for the Generals/henchladies we’ve only seen bits & pieces of them so far all we can really tell is that Narti and Acxa are introverts while Zethrid and Ezor are extroverts, but Imma risk a guess based on rough vibes/ intuition:

Ezor: ESFP Narti: ISTP Acxa: ISTJ Zethrid: ESTJ

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Two Gentlemen of Verona: The World of the Play Part I

Sedona Garcia, Forest Gilpin, Kyle Stockdall, and Stuart Ashenbrenner rehearsing in the Quad.

Introduction And just like THAT another year has passed and we’re diving in head-long for Bard in the Quad 2017. We face a new set of challenges, and as always, an energetic cast is at the ready to bring to life a story of lovers, clowns, and many misunderstandings.

The selection process for this summer’s title began with one of our first faculty meetings in the Fall of 2016. There were several new faces around the table including our new Technical Director, Chad Rodgers, acting instructor, Nate Bush, and Don Naggiar, now in the role of Scenic/Lighting Designer and instructor. While Bard is not a part of our regular season, it is consistently one of OSU Theatre’s most popular productions. Chalk it up to the unique atmosphere or the a general “Shakespeare obsession” among Corvallis audiences, but Bard remains a beloved fixture on campus twelve years on.

As what has perhaps become part of our tradition, I seem to kick off the selection process by floating the idea of staging a tragedy. The last one we did was Julius Caesar in 2012, and while I have a vision of some day presenting a lush and sexy version of Antony and Cleopatra on the steps of the Memorial Union, I ultimately decided that 2017 wasn’t yet the right time. The other tempting title was The Tempest. I have a grand and magical vision for that production, but didn’t feel I had the right available actor to take on the meaty role of Prospero, and therefore, went back to the drawing board of a crowd-pleasing romantic comedy. Our production history includes Much Ado About Nothing, Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Comedy of Errors, and two productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. There are only so many comedies in Shakespeare’s canon, and even fewer “great” comedies. Quite frankly, we’re running out of viable titles. Although titles such as The Merchant of Venice or Measure for Measure are technically “comedies,” they are problematic in our venue due to a lack of overt physical action and other thematic issues that are difficult to work out while maintaining the breezy and fun experience we want to offer our audiences.

Ultimately it came down to wanting to do a show that hadn’t yet been staged in the Quad and one that offered a variety of comic possibilities. Two Gentlemen of Verona is by no means a “perfect” play, but while out on one of my runs in the middle of winter, it clicked: Two Gents = Wild West Melodrama. The play and characters are ridiculous and the broadly physical style is well-suited to the cartoonish personalities that populate Verona and Milan. It didn’t all come in one moment, but over the weeks/months between devising Upward-Beating Heart and casting Two Gents my concept solidified into a cohesive vision.

In this first post about The World of the Play, I’m going to discuss the concept and some of the reasoning behind the choices. In next week’s blog, I will delve into the text and the play a little more deeply and write about some of the choices I made in adapting the script for the concept.

Shakespeare’s “Worst” Play When I began my dramaturgical research for Two Gents I ran into a frequent statement from high-minded Shakespeare critics that this was one of the Bard’s earliest plays (likely his first) and, therefore, one of his “worst” plays. Keep in mind, we’re talking about the greatest English language dramatist . . . so “worst” is a relative term. This is the work of a developing writer and while the plot lines and characters are not all entirely developed, there are moments of charm and hints of comic genius to come in the boldness of cross-dressing Julia, the clownish antics of Launce, or the besotted foolishness of the scheming and inept Proteus.

Thematically, Two Gents gets at one of Shakespeare’s most enduing themes: love makes fools of us all. From Romeo to Orlando to Benedict to Orsino, Shakespeare frequently pokes fun at the conventions of courtship, the inconstancy of men, and the power of love. While the love stories between the pairs of lovers in Two Gents are problematic, they are inherently funny and do dig into deeper truths about the lengths to which some go in the name of romantic pursuits.

Proteus (Kyle Stockdall) meets his best friend’s love interest, Sylvia (Sedona Garcia) for the first time.

The plot of Two Gents begins with the relationship between Proteus and Valentine. While Valentine is ready to leave small-town Verona to seek his fortune in Milan, serving in the court of the Duke, Proteus is resolved to stay behind for the sake of his relationship with Julia. Valentine chides Proteus for his foolishness:

Love is your master, for he masters you: And he that is so yoked by a fool, Methinks should not be chronicled for wise.

Proteus admits that Julia has “metamorphosed” him into one that will leave his friends, neglect his studies, and mope around “heart sick in thought.” And thus, Valentine leaves his friend behind to better opportunities.

The tables quickly turn, however, when several scenes later we see Valentine, now consumed with his own love for Sylvia, the witty and sophisticated daughter of the Duke. Valentine, too, has been transformed, as is pointed out by his servant Speed, into one frequently exhibiting the behaviors he so chided Proteus for having. The relationship between Valentine and Sylvia is complicated by the fact that her father wishes her to marry a foolish fop named Thurio. This is even further complicated when Proteus arrives in Milan and finds himself immediately drawn to Sylvia. (Got that?)

Even in our early rehearsals, it’s hard not to completely write Proteus off as a cad, more than that later. But implausibly brash behavior is one of the key factors that led me to this conceptual approach in the first place.

Melodrama in the Theatre There are two major classifications of theatre. It is either presentational or representational. Representational theatre attempts to represent “real life” in some way. This requires a naturalistic acting style and characters that are somehow psychologically motivated to grow or change. Consider plays such as Death of a Salesmen or A Doll’s House. These chestnuts of the modern stage want audiences to feel as if they are peeking into the living room windows of ordinary families simply behaving.

Presentational plays, on the other hand, have a more distinct style and are in no way attempting to show “real life” on stage. Consider the conventions of musical theatre or Japanese Noh theatre which embrace the theatrical, the symbolic, and the suggestive. Melodrama falls into this presentational category and is well-suited to our outdoor venue.

Melodrama lives in a world of comic archetypes or stock characters. Villains wear black hats and twist their mustaches while reveling in their wicked plots that are unmotivated by any internal psychological impulse. Villains do evil things because that’s what they do. Heroes are similarly reactive and jump from one emotional high point to the next. In many ways, this is the world that Shakespeare presents in Two Gentlemen of Verona, one where Proteus can be deeply in love with Julia one moment and Sylvia the next. A world where he can be completely dedicated to his dearest friend until the very moment he hatches an overly-complicated plot to have Valentine banished so that he can steal away his girlfriend. For the most part, when directing Shakespeare, I try to embrace the madness rather than attempt to “fix” it. Melodrama in this case is an appropriate playground to poke fun at love and lovers.

In addition, I found a lot of inspiration in imagery of the Wild West, in particular, cartoons from my childhood depicting comic exaggerations of Western icons. I grew up on a steady diet of Disney and Loony Tunes and probably my first introduction to the “Wild West” was the image of Yosemite Sam,

I mean . . . right?

The hot-tempered, tiny-footed gunslinger is all bark and no bite, terrorizing the Wild West in his attempt to . . . defeat Bugs Bunny? I’m not entirely sure of his motivations, but he does parody the swaggering cowboy character in a way that seemed fitting for this production. Other iconic characters such as Pecos Bill and Slue-Foot Sue come quickly to mind when I think of the Wild West.

I don’t think cartoons can get away with characters smoking anymore.

I remember these characters as bright, optimistic, and easily identifiable - all in line with the tone I wanted to take in developing this show. I see this production as casual and family-friendly. Perhaps a little reminiscent of the madcap melodramas we would see at the Golden Horse Shoe Revue at Disneyland.

Another reason we chose this concept with this production was a necessity of one of our physical limitations this year. The Memorial Union is getting a face-lift this summer and the facades of the plinths are being repaired making them inaccessible for our performers. Rather that have elements of the architecture that we couldn’t use, I decided to stage the production at the center of the Quad with the MU as a grand back-drop. The center is a little smaller and much closer to the audience. I wouldn’t exactly call the center an “intimate space,” but without the steps to use for dramatic entrances, the world is a little closer and more casual. Melodrama lends itself to direct audience address (maybe even interaction) and stylistically will help us tell a fast-paced and physical story in a way that makes sense in the space.

The statement I made to the designers in approaching the concept was, “Imagine that this is a group of actors putting on a place in a barn.” This way we can get away with goofy low-budget special effects, rustic music, and a lighthearted atmosphere.

We are beginning our fourth week of rehearsal today (hard to believe) and things are coming along. I’ll give a rehearsal update and some background about the script itself in my next entry.

For now . . . it’s time to head to the Quad!

#bardinthequad #shakespeare #alifeinthetheatre #directorslife #Coolvallis #summertheatre

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Thoughts on 6.10 “Wish You Were Here”

This was a fun Swan Queen episode and we got some hope for RumBelle as well, though, on the whole, I wouldn’t call this the most exciting winter finale ever, and I can’t believe we have to wait till March for the second half!

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Methinks the Evil Queen doth protest too much - of course she still loves Robin. She’s a bad liar, but Regina apparently believed her.

The sword can hurt the queen - I was pretty sure that Regina would be there when Emma did something to the queen with that sword so that they could all see that, while it hurt the queen, it didn’t hurt Regina. Not sure I like how fast the Saviour Emma Swan jumps to ‘It can kill her’ and attempts to do just that. Clearly a wasted effort removing her darkness, Snowing.

Rumple, I’m in no mood - too bad, Queenie. Yes, I love protective Rumple. And, yes, that’s where one of those cuffs belongs, on your enemy, not your wife. You’re getting it, Rumple.

The Evil Queen needs to die - look at Regina’s face, Emma. People need to start accepting that the Queen is part of Regina.

Henry telling her not to - he’s worried, of course, and frustrated that she won’t listen to him. I think he’s probably tired of his family putting themselves in danger.

Emma refusing to let Regina sacrifice herself - I love the supportiveness. Emma gets, on some level, that there’s something not right with Regina. She’s too reckless.

The Evil Queen’s wish for Emma - knew that was going to come back to haunt Emma. It was interesting to see her react so negatively, suggests she is happy being the Saviour after all.

Princess Emma of the Enchanted Forest - ok, that was so funny. That so wasn’t Emma at all.

Nealfire moment - I LOVED this! It was so lovely to see that hero portrait. So glad he and Emma found each other in that world.

Henry wants to be a hero - so much so that he isn’t pleased when his grandmother says this family’s done fighting. I foresee trouble with young Henry’s unrealised hero ambitions…

How do you share a home with someone and not know their secrets? - Um, David?

Rumple and the magic globe - I love that the magic is gold :) I knew it wouldn’t work, though - that’d be too easy, but for there not to be even a trace…that’s worrying.

The Evil Queen and Aladdin - I can only echo Aladdin’s feeling. ‘Ew’. Aladdin was great in this episode :)

Regina realising she is also master of the lamp - good girl, Regina! You remembered you and the queen are the same and it worked to your advantage.

Regina and the dwarfs - I love how she’s so happy to see them!

Singing princess Emma - so not Emma! It was interesting to see Regina dressed as a prince, meeting Princess Emma. The Swan Queen was so overt this episode. Adam and Eddy know what they wrote, right?

Mom, Daddy, please help - again, so not Emma!

Rumple in the queen’s castle - cool scene. Crazy imp Rumple is great, and it’s been ages since we’ve seen him. That was a great scene between Lana and Robert. And I kind of love how Rumple just accepted the whole ‘you’re not real’ thing! Just goes to show he’s seen it all :)

Let’s start with actions - oh, Rumple, you beauty! Keep going like this and you’ll win her back. I love that that’s the first thing he does: it means he knows it was wrong and is undoing it quickly. I love that he knows he has to follow through with actions. My heart broke at Belle’s sniffle, and the teddy bear - sob!

Regina as the Evil Queen interrupts Henry’s knighting - great call back to the pilot, and I like the new version of the Evil Queen outfit. It was also interesting to see Lana play that scene as well - like acting the Evil Queen instead of being the Evil Queen - fabulous!

David tricking the queen - ooh, who knew David could be devious?! One of his best scenes, I think.

David’s wish for the queen - that she get exactly what’s coming to her, and, of course, he calls her a snake, so that’s what the man in the hood - aka Gideon - turns her into. Poetic justice. Really, though, it’s a way to give Lana a break and let Regina play out the whole wish Robin scenario. Of course, Robin is part of David’s wish too, since Regina and the Queen are the same person.

Emma, Regina, Henry, and Snowing at Regina’s castle - that was kind of intense. I think, despite what Regina said, she did kill Snow and Charming: she did crush their hearts. The way she did that too was interesting, like she got carried away with her frustration - a little darkness coming out. Emma’s reaction was interesting too - Princess Emma not knowing how to fight. I think, as much as people think it was Regina refusing to fight Henry that brought Emma back, I think it was Henry himself. She even says it was because he was willing to become dark, everything she never wanted for him, that brought her back and made her realise this world isn’t real. This makes more sense given the deleted scene from season five, where, in the Underworld, Emma tells Henry ‘Never darken your soul, not even for me’. It’s her love for Henry that brings her back, though, of course, Regina is the catalyst.

Rumple, Belle, and Blue - I do wonder about Blue here. She looks pretty beat up, but couldn’t she have fought harder to protect Gideon? And does she know that the Black Fairy is Rumple’s mother? I know some people thought she was looking at him, but I’m not sure. I think the camera moved to him from her for his reaction, but I don’t know that she knew. If she did, she could have found it out in the intervening time between freeing Belle to save the baby and now, or else she always knew, which might explain why she hates Rumple so much, and why she wanted him out of the Enchanted Forest all those years ago.

Emma, Regina, and Rumple - I do love this scene. Emma’s little smile when he says he’s off to raze some fake villages :) And Rumple keeping his promise on behalf of all Rumplestiltskins everywhere :)

David won’t use a wish to wake Snow - probably wise. He gets that magic comes with a price and he doesn’t want that near his wife. Still, I wonder when we’ll see this curse broken. It’s like Snowing is getting the RumBelle treatment - separated by sleeping curse. It is nice, though, that it’s not RumBelle in sleeping curses or comas for once!

Do you trust me? - I love how they switched that line :) And farewell for a while to Aladdin and Jasmine. I have no doubt we’ll be seeing them again soon.

Belle believes Rumple - ha! In your face, Queenie! I love that she was wrong, I love that Rumple could simply tell Belle the truth and she WOULD believe him. That shows two things. The first is that Belle isn’t so far away from trusting and believing in Rumple as we’ve been led to believe, and the second is that nobody, and certainly not the queen, really understands the depth of the bond between RumBelle. It also shows that the queen, and everyone else, underestimates Belle and her love for Rumple.

What have we done to each other? - There, one line is all it takes to highlight that both of them have made mistakes and both are to blame. I know a lot of people have been saying the show is only blaming Rumple: that’s palpably not true. This season, especially, but previously as well, they have hurt each other. I do believe that everything stems from Rumple keeping secrets back at the end of season three, and not trusting her like he said he did, but Belle has caused her share of hurt too, especially this season. I do think there are mitigating circumstances for both of them, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t both been hurt by the other. I like Belle acknowledging this, and looking really sorry and heartbroken about it

We have to work together - yes! Yes, yes, please, please, please! Put those two big brains together and fix this. I am so here for a half season that has Belle and Rumple working on a mission together, even going on an adventure together. Give it to me!

Time runs differently there. Nothing makes sense. Anything is possible - that’s the show! Nothing makes sense and time does run differently and anything is possible! :) And, of course, in walks their adult son! Dun, dun, dun! Not convinced he’s evil, even though he is the one under the hood. I think the big bad is more likely the Black Fairy or Jafar. I also think, because Rumple says anything is possible, it’s possible that more than one Gideon exists at once. Maybe dream Gideon, adult Gideon, and baby Gideon all exist together at the same time, and RumBelle can get their baby son back in the end.

Wish world Robin - this is going to be interesting. I’m wondering if this is going to be a ‘what could have been’ scenario, like they’re giving pre-Evil Queen Regina the chance to walk into that tavern and meet Robin as he would have been back then, to sort of play out Page 23. That way, we could have Regina realise that she and her Robin met at the right time, that they fell in love because of their histories and because of the people they became, that it wouldn’t have worked out had they met back then. I think realising that would allow Regina to let Robin go, and allow her to accept back the Queen as part of herself, the part that makes her strong, determined, and understanding of other people’s darkness. We shall see. I’m happy to see Sean back anyway :)

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In Defence of Sean Renard

As #Grimm draws to a close (Far TOO SOON), and it looks very like Season 6 is going to be Nick finishing off his ultimate enemy, Sean Renard; and resolving some unresolved questions to tie it all up in a neat and satisfying ending.

There is a lot I need to know.

At this point, I have to say that the ins and outs (rights and wrongs) of the stick that Nick found in Season 5 (keys and all that jazz) interest me a great deal less than getting the answers to some questions that have been burning a hole in my curiosity since Season 2 (or thereabouts).

Renard has done some very bad things, that cannot be denied, but somehow I have identified more closely with him, than Nick, from the beginning. It’s not that I don’t like Nick, it’s just that sometimes he makes me want to slap him hard.

Nick is the White Knight, the hero that we are supposed to cheer for on his quest to handle a legacy that he never asked for and didn’t really want. In the main, he handles it with grace and determination except when it comes to Renard. For instance, once he knew what Renard was, when did Nick ever think about trying to lure Renard to his side and keep him there. Answer to this, never, really.

Renard always seems like an abused child/animal to me. He gets his strikes in first before anyone can strike at him. It’s an instinctive protective reaction to his past. And what a past! We don’t know much of anything really, it’s fairly sketchy, but we do know that Renard was yanked out of French Literature class (fancy boarding school methinks) by his mother, aged 13, to go on the run for his life. On the run from his father’s wife. We don’t even need to extrapolate that his legitimate half brother would like to kill him, that’s pretty much a given. Therefore you can bet money that his earlier childhood, close to his father’s circle of influence was probably not exactly a barrel of laughs either.

What do we know exactly? Renard is half Royal, an illegitimate son, he’s also half Zauberbiest. This doesn’t mean that much, he has a sort of half and half woge, he has no powers per se, (unless a sexy growl and enhanced strength can be seen as powers), he is, at best, a hybrid, with a foot in each world but really belonging in neither.

Side Note: We are told that King Frederick (Sean’s father) ‘loves’ his sons. There is exactly ZERO evidence of this. Oft repetition of something does not actually make it so.

So. Hand-wavy stuff. Sean Renard arrives in Portland (somehow), joins the Police Force, rises to be Captain. Living in Portland gives him a home, a degree of safety, stability, and as a Police Captain he has a measure of power and authority. Things that a life on the run, never knowing when one of his father’s assassins are going to catch up with him and his mother and kill them, has never given Sean.

So after years of just surviving, he has a home, a degree of safety and stability and some real comfort. Wouldn’t you, in this situation, fight tooth and claw to keep it? Since tooth and claw are all that Sean has known over most of his childhood and into adulthood, his actions are bound to be magnified by his life experience.

From the start of Nick’s knowledge about what Sean is, he has held the Captain at arm’s length. I do get why, I really do, but a truly smart leader would know that alliance is the best way forward. You build alliances to protect yourself and gather resources that will help you going forward. Sometimes those alliances have to come with a big measure of forgiveness and a line drawn under past events.

Would Sean Renard have been a tricky prospect? Sure he would. He’s part Royal, he wants power and authority. This is clearly an offshoot of his need for stability and safety, (after all power and influence provides a lot of security). However, a simple risk/reward analysis would also tell you that long term, alliance makes a whole heap of sense. Sean has protected Nick on a number of occasions, while these have dovetailed with his own interests, they still came at considerable personal risk. Sometimes, Renard’s actions to protect Nick have actually run counter to his own best interests. Had he taken the key, given it to his family, he would have been at less risk than handing the key back to Nick did for him.

Put crudely: If you acquire a puppy, don’t bother to house break it, feed it only scraps, chuck it out of the house when you have friends round, don’t then be surprised when it attacks your friends and trashes your house. It doesn’t know any better. That’s all on you. Okay, so Sean is less cute little Shih Tzu, more lone grey Wolf, but the principle’s the same.

Juliette and the Sleeping Beauty Curse (courtesy of Adalind). Renard gets a potion from Adalind’s mother, Catherine, drinks it to purify his soul so that he can wake Juliette. Renard drinks it (seriously, kudos, that stuff looked like one of my mother’s attempts at tapioca pudding… my stomach curled up in sympathy), he then goes through agony, or are we supposed to take away from that whole scene that staggering around your apartment, tearing your clothes off like your skin is burning you alive, struggling to breathe is perfectly normal and doesn’t hurt a bit. Because that was not what I took away.

HUGE UNANSWERED QUESTION: If Renard’s soul was purified for him to wake Juliette, was his more co-operative behaviour in Seasons 2 and 3 because his soul was purified, or was that just random?

Renard dies trying to save Nick from the effects of another curse (Adalind again). Yes, there was a convergence of circumstances that led to Renard being shot, but you cannot get away from the fact that he was trying to save Nick from another curse.

He dies. He is brought back to life by his mother (this is a one way ticket, if he dies again, he stays dead). But something comes back with him. As the evil grows stronger, it’s pretty clear that Renard is terrified…

HUGE UNANSWERED QUESTION: What effect did the presence of Jack have on Sean’s hitherto purified soul? (Without the answer to the other question it’s hard to say).

After everything that has happened, Nick is still holding Sean as far away as possible. I see Sean’s actions in Season 5 being less an embodiment of evil, and more an act of desperation. He’s not exactly been smothered with love or shown that he’s valuable to Nick (and yes, the knife cuts both ways), so him cutting his losses (kinda need the answer to the Jack question here to make a proper evaluation), given everything that has happened to him both through the story and what little back story we have on him, nasty as it is, it makes perfect sense. He’s frightened, vulnerable. He thinks he needs to get back to being the aloof man he was before Nick and Grimm-ness. He has powerful cause to regret helping Nick, and he’s never been taught any different. All Nick has ever done is shove Renard away unless he’s needed him for something. Even Rachel, appeared to offer him love that wasn’t for dynastic reasons… why wouldn’t Renard fall for that? Someone who apparently wants him for himself. It was a crock, but a frightened, vulnerable man, being offered everything he thinks he’s always wanted, and a chance to hide himself away again (the kinder, gentler Sean made him more vulnerable, and for what??) of course he’s going to take what he thinks he wants.

If that comes from punishing the one person who he sees as being the cause of all of his vulnerability for no personal gain (did he actually gain anything by protecting Nick, not really. He died, remember). But even after that, he’s still trying, and still nothing. Well, me, I would have chucked up the non-existent benefits of helping someone who doesn’t care about me, my help or my well-being for the chance at real stability in a heartbeat, believe me. And I don’t have anything like Sean’s excuse.

Nick’s anger is understandable, but the fact that Nick is playing happy families with Adalind, and has a son with her, (don’t even get me started on how that happened), just infuriates me. Sean is Diana’s father. So yeah, Sean has come between Nick and Adalind and Nick’s son, but equally, Nick has come between Sean and his daughter. You cannot just airbrush Sean out of his daughter’s life. Boy, do they want to though.

Diana is clearly damaged. I feel as though Sean’s actions through the whole debacle of sending Diana away with Kelly Burkhardt were about giving her a life that Sean never had. It did not turn out that way, but since Sean has no reference points other than the knowledge that his paternal family are cruel and possibly actually insane, it was completely understandable. And Nick was involved too, yet somehow that whole circle was squared by having Nick and Adalind come together without any apparent additional consequences, and fall in love (yes, they make a cute, adorable couple, but my heart absolutely bleeds for Sean and Juliette/Eve).

[Hypocrisy 101: Reject girlfriend who saved your Grimmness and inadvertently became a Hexenbiest, for being a Hexenbiest. Fall in love with the Hexenbiest who raped you (hardly consensual sex if one of the parties to the sex is faking their identity), have son, and play happy families together (conveniently forgetting the whole “you find that attractive” moment when this Hexenbiest has her powers back, and the half-zauberbiest is standing there right in front of you)!! All the while hating the half-zauberbiest who has been (I grant you) a sneaky shit, but who has done his best to protect you from the second mentioned Hexenbiest’s attempt to destroy you.]

I don’t know what will happen in the end. Yes, Sean’s a sinner, but given everything that has happened, one way and another, he was already damaged long before the story starts, his association with Nick has had a negative impact on him personally. The man believes he is alone. He has acquaintances who use him, not friends. He’s never shown real love, or care or appreciation. He’s been through hell, several times, he has suffered and has never once had anyone show any concern for him.

Really, under those circumstances wouldn’t you choose the same?

However this pans out, I have always rooted for Sean Renard, and probably always will.

#Grimm #sean renard #nick burkhardt #endgame

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Frequently Encountered Words (FEW)

Several of the content-carrying words in Shakespeare are used so often that we find it helpful to approach them in the manner of a language-teaching phrase-book, singling them out so that readers can more easily develop an intuition about how they are used. We have selected 100 of these words, in particular senses, in the list below, and chosen quotations for them which illustrate several grammatical contexts. We like to think of these words as a preliminary word-list which captures some of the character of basic Early Modern English vocabulary. Readers who familiarize themselves with these items will be many times repaid by a smoother reading of the texts.

It is important to note that a number of these words are also used in other, less frequent, senses in Shakespearean English. We make a reference to any such senses after each entry below. These senses will all be found in their alphabetical place in the Glossary.

afeard

(adj.)

afraid, frightened, scared

Cym IV.ii.94 [Cloten to Guiderius] Art not afeard?

1H6 IV.vii.86 [Lucy to all] A phoenix that shall make all France afeard

Mac I.iii.95 [Ross to Macbeth] Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make

MND III.i.107 [Bottom alone, of his companions] This is a knavery of them to make me afeard

anon

(adv.)

soon, shortly, presently

Ham III.ii.272 [Hamlet to Ophelia] You shall see anon how the murderer gets the love of Gonzago’s wife

1H4 II.iv.31 [Prince Hal to Poins, of Francis the drawer] do thou never leave calling ‘Francis!’, that his tale to me may be nothing but ‘Anon’

apace

(adv.)

quickly, speedily, at a great rate

AYL III.iii.1 [Touchstone to Audrey] Come apace

E3 III.i.37 [King John to all, of his confederates] are marching hither apace

RJ III.ii.1 [Juliet alone] Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds

apparel (n.)

clothes, clothing, dress

Ham III.ii.45 [Hamlet to Players] one suit of apparel

Ham I.iii.72 [Polonius to Laertes] For the apparel oft proclaims the man

apparel

(v.)

arrant

(adj.)

downright, absolute, unmitigated

Ham III.i.129 [Hamlet to Ophelia] We are arrant knaves all

H5 IV.vii.2 [Fluellen to Gower, of the French behaviour] 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery ... as can be offert

attend (on / upon) (v.) 1 await, wait for, expect attend (v.) 2--8 aught (n.) anything; [together with a negative word] nothing avaunt (int.) begone, go away, be off aye (adv.) always,ever, for eternity base (adj.) 1 dishonourable, low, unworthy2 low-born, lowly, plebeian, of lower rank3 poor, wretched, of low quality base (adj.) 4--6, base (n.) bawd (n.) pimp, procurer, pander, go-between become (v.) 1 be fitting, befit, be appropriate to 2 grace, honour, dignify become (v.) 3--5 befall (v.) 1 happen, occur, take place, turn out 2 happen to, come to befall of (v.) belike (adv.) probably, presumably, perhaps, so it seems beshrew, ’shrew (v.) curse, devil take, evil befall beshrew (v.) 2 bethink (v.) past form bethought call to mind, think about, consider, reflect bethink (v.) 2--4 brave (adj.) fine, excellent, splendid, impressive brave (adj.) 2--3, (n.), (v.) brow (n.) appearance, aspect, countenance brow (n.) 2--6 chide (v.) past form chidscold, rebuke, reprove chide (v.) 2--4 colours (n.) battle-flags, ensigns, standards, banners colours (n.) 2--4 commend (v.) convey greetings, present kind regards commend (v.) 2--6,(n.) content (adj.) agreeable, willing, ready content (adj.) 2--3,(n.), (v.) Corse (n.) Corpse, dead body counterfeit (v.) 1 copy, imitate, simulate 2 pretend, feign, make believe counterfeit (n.), (adj.) course (n.) course of action, way of proceeding course (n.) 2--8, (v.) crave (v.) beg, entreat, request crave (v.) 2--3 cuckold (n.) [mocking name] man with an unfaithful wife cuckold (v.) discover (v.) reveal, show, make known discover (v.) 2--6 envious (adj.) malicious, spiteful, vindictive, full of enmity envy (n.) fain (adv.) [usually with would] gladly, willingly fain (adj.), (v.) false (adj.) treacherous, traitorous, perfidious false (adj.) 2--8, (n.), (adv.) fare (v.) get on, manage, do, cope fare (v.) 2, (n.) field (n.) field of battle, battleground, field of combat field (n.) 2--4 forbear (v.) 1 stop, cease, desist 2leave alone, avoid, stay away [from] forbear (v.) 3--4 forsooth (adv.) in truth, certainly, truly, indeed forswear (v.) 1 swear falsely, perjure [oneself], break one's word2 abandon, renounce, reject, give up3 deny, repudiate, refuse to admit fright (v.) frighten, scare, terrify gage (n.) pledge, challenge [usually, a glove or gauntlet thrown down] gage (v.) gentle (adj.) well-born, honourable, noble gentle (adj.) 2--5,(n.), (adv.) glass (n.) mirror, looking-glass glass (n.) 2--4,(v.) habit (n.) dress, clothing, costume habit (n.) 2--4 haply (adv.) perhaps, maybe, by chance, with luck heavy (adj.) sorrowful, sad, gloomy heavy (adj.) 2--10 hie (v.) hasten, hurry, speed humour (n.) mood, disposition, frame of mind, temperament [as determined by bodily fluids] ill (adj.) bad, adverse, unfavourable ill (adj.) 2--6,(v.), (adv.) ill (adv.) badly, adversely, unfavourably ill (adv.) 2, (adj.) intent (n.) intention, purpose, aim issue (n.) 1child(ren), offspring, family, descendant 2 outcome, result, consequence(s) issue (n.) 3--4, (v.) knave (n.) scoundrel, rascal, rogue knave (n.) 2--3 lief, had as (adj.) should like just as much like (adj.) same, similar, alike, equal like (n.), (adj.) 2, (v.), (adv.) like (adv.) likely, probable / probably like (adv.) 2--4,(n.), (adj.), (v.) livery (n.) uniform, costume, special clothing livery (n.) 2--3, (v.) mark (v.) note, pay attention to, take notice of mark (n.) 2, (n.) marvellous (adv.) very, extremely, exceedingly meet (adj.) fit, suitable, right, proper meet (adj.) 2, (v.), (adv.) mere (adj.) complete, total, absolute, utter mere (adj.) 2, (adv.) merely (adv.) completely, totally, entirely see also merely (adv.) 2--3 methinks(t), methought(s)(v.) it seems / seemed to me morn (n.) morning, dawn morrow (n.) morning office (n.) task, service, duty, responsibility see also office (n.) 2--8, (v.) oft (adv.) often ope (v.) open owe (v.) own, possess, have owe (n.) 2--3 parle, parley (n.) negotiation, meeting [between enemies under a truce, to discuss terms] parley (n.) 2--3, (v.) pate (n.) head, skull peradventure (adv.) perhaps, maybe, very likely perchance (adv.) perhaps, maybe perchance (adv.) 2 perforce (adv.) 1forcibly, by force, violently2of necessity, with no choice in the matter physic (n.) medicine, healing, treatment physic (n.) 2, (v.) place (n.) position, post, office, rank place (n.) 2--6, (v.) post (n.) express messenger, courier post (n.) 2--3, (v.), (adv.) power (n.) armed force, troops, host, army see also power (n.) 2--9 prate (v.) prattle, chatter, blather prate (n.) present (adj.) immediate, instant present (adj.) 2--7, (n.), (v.) presently (adv.) immediately, instantly, at once presently (adv.) 2 purpose (n.) intention, aim, plan purpose (n.) 2--3, (v.) quoth (v.) said rail (v.) rant, rave, be abusive [about] remembrance (n.) memory, bringing to mind, recollection sad (adj.) serious, grave, solemn scape, ’scape (v.) escape, avoid several (adj.) separate, different, distinct several (adj.) 2--3, (n.) something (adv.) somewhat, rather see also something (adv.) 2 sport (n.) recreation, amusement, entertainment sport (n.) 2--4, (v.) still (adv.) constantly, always, continually still (adv.) 2, (adj.), (v.) straight (adv.) straightaway, immediately, at once suit (n.) formal request, entreaty, petition see also suit (n.) 2--4, (v.) sup (v.) have supper sup (n.) 2--3 undone (adj.) ruined, destroyed, brought down visage (n.) face, countenance see also visage (n.) 2 voice (n.) vote, official support voice (n.) 2--5, (v.) want (v.) lack, need, be without want (v.) 2--4, (n.) warrant (v.) assure, promise, guarantee, confirm warrant (n.) 2--6, (n.) wench (n.) girl, lass wit (n.) 1 intelligence, wisdom, good sense 2 mental sharpness, acumen, quickness, ingenuity wit (n.) 3--6, (v.) wont (v.) be accustomed, used [to], be in the habit of wont (n.) wot (v.) learn, know, be told

KL II.iv.50 [Fool to Lear] Fortune, that arrant whore

Cor I.x.30 [Aufidius to First Soldier] I am attended at the cypress grove

Cym II.iii.36 [Cymbeline to Cloten] Attend you here the door of our stern daughter?

E3 IV.v.6 [King John to Charles] Silence attends some wonder

TG III.i.186 [Valentine alone] Tarry I here, I but attend on death

Ham IV.iii.60 [Claudius, as if to the King of England] if my love thou holdest at aught

Ham V.ii.357 [Horatio to Fortinbras] If aught of woe or wonder

TG V.iv.20 [Proteus to Silvia] Though you respect not aught your servant doth

2H4 I.ii.89 [Falstaff to Servant] Hence! Avaunt!

KL III.vi.63 [Edgar as Poor Tom, to imaginary dogs] Avaunt, you curs!

Mac III.iv.92 [Macbeth to Banquo’s ghost] Avaunt, and quit my sight!

Cym IV.iv.27 [Belarius to Arviragus and Guiderius] aye hopeless / To have the courtesy your cradle promised

R2 V.ii.45 [York to Duchess of York, of Bolingbroke] Whose state and honour I for aye allow

AYL II.vii.79 [Jaques to Duke Senior] what is he of basest function

AYL III.ii.64 [Touchstone to Corin] civet is of a baser birth than tar

E3 III.iii.183 [Edward to Prince Edward, of the latter's heart] never base affections enter there

1H6 V.v.49 [Suffolk to all] Disgrace not so your king / That he should be so abject, base, and poor / To choose for wealth

Cor I.i.155 [Menenius to First Citizen] one o'th'lowest, basest, poorest / Of this most wise rebellion

Ham V.ii.60 [Hamlet to Horatio] ’Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes / Between ... mighty opposites

1H6 I.ii.80 [Pucelle to Dauphin, of Our Lady] Willed me to leave my base vocation

KL I.ii.10 [Edmund alone] Why brand they us / With ‘base’?

TNK II.iii.2 [Gaoler's Daughter alone] I am base, / My father the mean keeper of his prison

1H6 I.i.137 [Third Messenger to all] A base Walloon ... / Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back

1H6 IV.vi.21 [Talbot to John Talbot, as if to Orleans] Contaminated, base, and misbegotten blood I spill of thine

TNK III.iii.44 [Palamon to Arcite] Base cousin, / Darest thou break first?

Ham III.i.112 [Hamlet to Ophelia] transform honesty from what it is to a bawd

R2 V.iii.66 [York to King Henry, of Aumerle] So shall my virtue be his vice's bawd

AYL I.i.74 [Orlando to Oliver] I will no further offend you than becomes me for my good

1H6 V.iii.170 [Suffolk to Reignier] Set this diamond safe / In golden palaces, as it becomes

R2 II.i.140 [King Richard to all, as if to John of Gaunt] let them die that age and sullens have; / For both hast thou, and both become the grave

AC I.i.49 [Antony to and of Cleopatra] whom everything becomes

Cor I.iii.10 [Volumnia to Virgilia, of Marcus] considering how honour would become such a person

1H6 IV.vii.23 [Talbot to his dead son] O thou whose wounds become hard-favoured Death

AYL IV.iii.103 [Oliver to Rosalind and Celia disguised] Lo, what befell!

2H4 I.i.177 [Morton to Lord Bardolph] What hath then befallen, / Or what hath this bold enterprise brought forth

2H6 V.iii.33 [Warwick to all] more such days as these to us befall!

MND V.i.153 [Snout to all] In this same interlude it doth befall / That I ... present a wall

E3 II.ii.23 [Derby to Edward] Befall my sovereign all my sovereign's wish

R2 II.i.129 [John of Gaunt to Richard] My brother Gloucester ... / Whom fair befall in heaven

R3 I.iii.281 [Queen Margaret to Buckingham] fair befall thee and thy noble house!

R3 I.iv.16 [Clarence to Keeper] a thousand heavy times ... / That had befallen us

CE IV.i.25 [Antipholus of Ephesus to Angelo] Belike you thought our love would last too long

Ham III.ii.302 [Hamlet to Horatio, of Claudius and the play] belike he likes it not

Cym II.iii.141 [Innogen to Pisanio, of he ring] ’Shrew me, / If I would lose it for a revenue / Of any king’s in Europe

2H6 III.i.184 [Gloucester to his enemies] Beshrew the winners

MND II.ii.60 [Hermia to Lysander] much beshrew my manners and my pride / If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied

Oth IV.iii.77 [Desdemona to Emilia] Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong

MV I.iii.29 [Shylock to Bassanio] that I may be assured, I will bethink me

R2 II.iii.8 [Northumberland to Bolingbroke] I bethink me what a weary way / From Ravenspurgh to Cotswold will be found

TN III.iv.289 [Sir Toby to Viola as Cesario, of Sir Andrew] he hath better bethought him of his quarrel

AYL III.iv.36 [Celia to Rosalind, of Orlando] O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, swears brave oaths .. all's brave that youth mounts and folly guides

Ham II.ii.300 [Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] this brave o'erhanging firmament

1H4 IV.i.7 [Hotspur to Douglas] a braver place / In my heart's love hath no man than yourself

Tem III.ii.97 [Caliban to Stephano, of Prospero] He has brave utensils

Ham III.iii.7 [Claudius to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, of the danger seen in Hamlet] doth hourly grow / Out of his brows

LLL IV.iii.224 [Berowne to King, of Rosaline] What peremptory eagle-sighted eye / Dares look upon the heaven of her brow

LLL IV.iii.183 [Berowne to all] When shall you hear that I / Will praise ... / A gait, a state, a brow

AC I.iv.30 [Caesar to Lepidus, of Antony] to confound such time / ... ’tis to be chid / As we rate boys

AYL III.v.64 [Phebe to Rosalind as Ganymede] I pray you chide a year together; I had rather hear you chide than this man woo

AYL IV.i.32 [Rosalind to Jaques] almost chide God for making you that countenance you are

Cym I.v.18 [Iachimo to all, of Posthumus' banishment] the approbation of those that weep this lamentable divorce under her colours

E3 IV.vii.2 [Prince Edward to King John] Thy bloody ensigns are my captive colours

1H6 IV.ii.56[Talbot to all] God and Saint George ... / Prosper our colours in this dangerous fight!

MM I.iv.88 [Isabella to Lucio] Commend me to my brother

MV III.ii.232 [Salerio to Bassanio] Signor Antonio / Commends him to you

MW I.iv.152 [Fenton to Mistress Quickly, of Anne] If thou seest her before me, commend me

TG II.iv.121 [Proteus to Valentine] Your friends ... have them much commended

1H6 IV.i.70 [King to Talbot] are you not content? [Talbot] Content, my liege? Yes

1H6 V.iii.165 [Suffolk to himself] I could be well content / To be mine own attorney in this case

Ham V.i.163 [First Clown to Hamlet] we have many pocky Corses nowadays

1H6 I.i.62 [Bedford to Messenger] What sayest thou, man, before dead Henry’s Corse?

E3 II.i.256 [Countess to Edward] He that doth clip or counterfeit your stamp / Shall die

1H6 II.iv.62 [Richard to Somerset] Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses

AYL III.v.17 [Phebe to Silvius] Now counterfeit to swoon

AYL IV.iii.167 [Rosalind as Ganymede to Oliver, of her fainting] a body would think this was well counterfeited

Cor II.iii.99 [Coriolanus to Fourth Citizen] I will counterfeit the bewitchment of some popular man

Cym III.iv.113 [Pisanio to Innogen] I have consider'd of a course

R2 II.i.213 [York to Richard] by bad courses may be understood / That their events can never fall out good

CE I.ii.26 [First Merchant to Antipholus of Syracuse] I crave your pardon

1H6 I.i.159 [Third Messenger to Bedford] The Earl of Salisbury craveth supply

1H6 II.iii.12 [Messenger to Countess] acording as your ladyship desired, / By message craved, so is Lord Talbot come

AW II.ii.24 [Clown to Countess, of his answer] As fit as ... the cuckold to his horn

Ham IV.v.120 [Laertes to Claudius] Cries cuckold to my father

MW II.ii.297 [Ford alone] Fie, fie, fie! Cuckold, cuckold, cuckold!

Oth III.iii.165 [Iago to Othello] That cuckold lives in bliss / Who certain of his fate loves not his wronger

Cym III.v.96 [Cloten to Pisanio] Discover where thy mistress is

MA I.ii.10 [Antonio to Leonato] the Prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my niece

TN II.v.154 [Malvolio to himself] Daylight and champain discovers not more!

1H6 III.i.196 [Exeter alone, of the peers' agreement] So will this base and envious disCord breed

MM III.ii.137 [disguised Duke to Lucio, of the Duke] he shall appear to the envious a scholar

R2 III.iii.65 [Bolingbroke to all, of King Richard as the sun] he perceives the envious clouds are bent / To dim his glory

TNK II.i.319 [Palamon to Gaoler] Devils take 'em / That are so envious to me

Ham II.ii.131 [Polonius to Claudius] I would fain prove so

Ham IV.vii.190 [Laertes to Claudius] I have a speech o'fire that fain would blaze

Ham IV.v.12 [Gertrude to all] this is counter, you false Danish dogs!

1H6 IV.i.63 [Gloucester to all, of Burgundy] such false dissembling guile

R2 I.iii.106 [First Herald to all, of Bolingbroke] On pain to be found false and recreant

Cym III.i.82 [Cloten to Lucius] if you fall in the adventure, our crows shall fare the better for you

1H6 II.v.4 [Mortimer to Gaoler] So fare my limbs with long imprisonment

E3 IV.vi.1 [Artois to Prince Edward] How fares your grace?

TS induction.2.100 [Sly to Page dressed as Sly’s wife] I fare well

H5 III.ii.9 [Pistol to Nym and Bardolph] sword and shield / In bloody field, / Doth win immortal fame

H5 IV.vi.2 [King Henry to Exeter] yet keep the French the field

1H6 V.iii.12 [Pucelle to the spirits] Help me this once, that France may get the field [i.e. win the battle]

AYL II.vii.88 [Orlando to all] Forbear, and eat no more

1H6 III.i.106 [Gloucester to his fighting servants] Let me persuade you to forbear awhile

3H6 IV.i.6 [Somerset to Richard and George] forbear this talk

TG III.i.202 [Proteus to Launce] Villain, forbear

AC III.xiii.107 [Antony to Cleopatra] Have I ... / Forborne the getting of a lawful race

AYLII.vii.128 [Orlando to Duke Senior] forbear your food a little while

R3 IV.iv.118 [Queen Margaret to Queen Elizabeth] Forbear to sleep the nights

AC V.ii.278 [Clown to Cleopatra, responding to her ‘get thee gone'] Yes, forsooth

1H4 I.iii.138 [Hotspur to Worcester and Northumberland, of King Henry] He will forsooth have all my prisoners

MND III.ii.230 [Helena to Hermia] wherefore doth Lysander … tender me forsooth affection

MW III.ii.5 [Robin to Mistress Page] I had rather, forsooth, go before you like a man

MND I.i.240 [Helena to herself] As waggish boys in game themselves forswear, / So the boy love is peRJured everywhere

RJ III.v.196 [Capulet to Juliet] I'll not be forsworn

TG II.v.2 [Launce to Speed] Forswear not thyself

1H4 II.ii.15 [Falstaff, as if alone, of Poins] I have forsworn his company hourly

3H6 III.ii.153 [Richard to himself] love forswore me in my mother's womb

LLL V.ii.410 [Berowne to Rosaline, of his rhetorical words] I do forswear them

1H4 V.ii.38 [Worcester to Hotspur, of King Henry] now forswearing that he is forsworn [first instance]

MA V.i.162 [Don Pedro to Benedick, quoting Beatrice on Benedick] he swore a thing to me on Monday night, which he forswore on Tuesday morning

RJ I.v.52 [Romeo to himself, of seeing Juliet] Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!

Cor I.ix.5 [Cominius to Martius] where ladies shall be frighted / And ... hear more

H5 V.ii.226 [King Henry to Katherine] when I come to woo ladies I fright them

MW II.i.125 [Page to Ford, of Nym] Here's a fellow frights English out of his wits

Per V.iii.3 [Pericles to Diana, of himself] Frighted from my country

H5 IV.i.203 [King Henry to Williams] Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my bonnet

R2 IV.i.34 [Fitzwater to Aumerle] There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine

Cor II.iii.96 [Coriolanus to Fourth Citizen, of the people] ’Tis a condition they account gentle

1H6 III.ii.135 [Talbot to Burgundy, of Bedford] A gentler heart did never sway in court

1H6 IV.i.44 [Talbot to all] a hedge-born swain / That doth presume to boast of gentle blood

Oth III.iv.118 [Desdemona to Cassio] thrice-gentle Cassio!

R2 II.iii.45 [Bolingbroke to Percy] I thank thee, gentle Percy

CE V.i.418 [Dromio of Ephesus to Dromio of Syracuse] Methinks you are my glass

Cym IV.i.7 [Cloten alone] it is not vain-glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber

Ham III.i.154 [Ophelia alone, of Hamlet] The glass of fashion

Cym V.i.30 [Posthumus alone] Let me make men know / More valour in me than my habits show

H5 III.vi.111 [Montjoy to King Henry] You know me by my habit

KJ I.i.210 [Bastard alone, of himself] not alone in habit and device

TG II.vii.39 [Lucetta to Julia] in what habit will you go along?

CE V.i.184 [Egeon to Duke] Haply I see a friend will save my life

Ham IV.i.40 [Claudius to Gertrude] So haply slander ... may miss our name

R3 I.iv.68 [Clarence to Keeper] My soul is heavy

RJ I.i.137 [Montague to Benvolio, of Romeo] Away from light steals home my heavy son

TG IV.ii.136 [disguised Julia to Host] it hath been the longest night / That e'er I watched, and the most heaviest

AW IV.iv.12 [Helena to Widow and Diana] My husband hies him home

CE III.ii.155 [Antipholus of Syracuse to Dromio of Syracuse] Go, hie thee presently

Ham I.i.155 [Horatio to Marcellus and Barnardo] Th'extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine

AYL III.ii.29 [Touchstone to Corin, of a shepherd's life] it fits my humour well

CE II.ii.7 [Antipholus of Syracuse to Dromio of Syracuse] Is your merry humour altered?

R2 V.v.10 [Richard alone] these same thoughts people this little world, / In humours like the people of this world

TNK V.ii.36 [Doctor to Wooer, of the Gaoler's Daughter] The melancholy humour that infects her

humour (n.) 2--6,(v.); HUMOURS

AC II.ii.160[Antony to Caesar, of Pompey] I must thank him only, / Lest my remembrance suffer ill report

R2 III.iv.80 [Queen Isabel to Gardener] how / Camest thou by this ill tidings?

1H6 IV.i.74 [King to Talbot, of Burgundy] Let him perceive how ill we brook his treason

R2 V.iii.98 [York to King Henry] Ill mayst thou thrive if thou grant any grace

AW I.iii.213 [Countess to Helena] Had you not lately an intent ... / To go to Paris?

KL II.i.63 [Edmund to Gloucester, of Edgar] I dissuaded him from his intent

LLL V.ii.753 [King to the ladies, of their beauty] fashioning our humours / Even to the opposed end of our intents

R3 I.i.149 [Richard alone] if I fail not in my deep intent

1H6 II.v.94 [Mortimer to Richard] thou seest that I no issue have

KL I.i.66 [Lear to Gonerill] To thine and Albany's issues / Be this perpetual

Mac III.i.64 [Macbeth alone] for Banquo's issue have I filed my mind

H5 V.ii.12 [Queen Isabel to King Henry] happy be the issue ... / Of this good day

Oth III.iii.217 [Iago to Othello] I am to pray you, not to strain my speech / To grosser issues

WT V.iii.128 [Hermione to Perdita] I ... have preserved / Myself to see the issue

Ham V.i.135 [Hamlet to Horatio, of the First Clown] How absolute the knave is!

1H4 II.ii.83 [Falstaff to Travellers] bacon-fed knaves

Ham III.ii.3 [Hamlet to the Players] I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines

1H4 IV.ii.17 [Falstaff alone] I press ... such a commodity of warm slaves as had as lief hear the devil as a drum

Ham I.ii.212 [Horatio to Hamlet] These hands are not more like

Cym IV.ii.236 [Arviragus to Guiderius] use like note and words

3H6 I.ii.75 [York to all, of battles previously won] Why should I not now have the like success?

LLL IV.ii.85 [Costard to Holofernes, of the one most likely to be pierced] he that is likest to a hogshead

AYL I.ii.17 [Celia to Rosalind] nor none is like to have

Ham II.ii.348 [Hamlet to Rosencrantz] it is most like

2H4 V.v.12 [Falstaff to Shallow] if I had had time to have made new liveries

MND I.i.70 [Theseus to Hermia] examine well your blood / Whether ... / You can endure the livery of a nun

Cor V.iii.92 [Coriolanus to the Volscians] Aufidius and you Volsces, mark

Ham II.i.15 [Polonius to Reynaldo] Do you mark this?

2H4 I.ii.123 [Falstaff to Lord Chief Justice] the disease of not listening, the malady of not marking

Mac IV.iii.169 [Ross to Macduff] Where sighs and groans … / Are made, not marked

MND III.i.2 [Quince to all] here’s a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal

R3 III.v.1 [stage direction] Enter Richard ... and Buckingham, in rotten armour, marvellous ill-favoured

Ham I.v.107 [Hamlet alone] meet it is I set it down

H5 I.ii.255 [Ambassador to King Henry, of the Dauphin] He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit, / This tun of treasure

Ham I.v.171 [Hamlet to Horatio and Marcellus] As I perchance hereafter shall think meet

2H6 I.iii.158 [Gloucester to King] I say ... York is meetest man / To be your Regent

Mac V.i.16 [Doctor to Gentlewoman, of telling him what she has seen] ’tis most meet you should

AYL II.vii.166 [Jaques to all] second childishness, and mere oblivion

Cym IV.ii.92 [Cloten to Guiderius] to thy mere confusion, thou shalt know / I am son to th’ queen

TS induction.1.21 [First Huntsman to Lord, of a hound following a scent] He cried upon it at the merest loss

AW IV.iii.20 [Second Lord to First Lord, of themselves] Merely our own traitors

AYL III.ii.383 [Rosalind to Orlando] Love is merely a madness

AW II.iii.251 [Lafew to Parolles] Methinkst thou art a general offence

Ham V.ii.98 [Hamlet to Osrick] But yet methinks it is very sultry

Ham V.ii.5 [Hamlet to Horatio] Methought I lay / Worse than the mutines in the bilboes

WT I.ii.154 [Leontes to Hermione] methoughts I did recoil / Twenty-three years

Ham I.iii.41 [Laertes to Ophelia] the morn and liquid dew of youth

Mac IV.iii.4 [Macduff to Malcolm] Each new morn / New widows howl

MM II.iv.71 [Isabella to Angelo] my morn prayer

Tem V.i.307 [Prospero to Alonso] In the morn, / I’ll bring you to your ship

1H4 II.i.33 [Gadshill to Carriers] Good morrow, carriers

2H4 III.i.32 [Warwick to King Henry IV] Many good morrows to your majesty!

H5 IV.chorus.33 [Chorus, of King Henry and his soldiers] Bids them good morrow

MW II.i.32 [Mistress Quickly to Falstaff] Give your worship good morrow

MA V.iv.14 [Leonato to Antonio] You know your office

MND II.ii.8 [Titania to Fairies] Sing me now asleep; / Then to your offices

Tem I.ii.312 [Prospero to Miranda, of Caliban] He ... serves in offices / That profit us

TN III.iv.317 [First Officer to Second Officer, of Antonio] This is the man; do thy office

AC IV.xiv.139 [Anthony to the guards] I have led you oft

Cym V.v.249 [Cornelius to Cymbeline] The queen, sir, very oft importuned me / To temper poisons for her

CE III.i.73 [Antipholus of Ephesus to Dromio of Ephesus] I'll break ope the gate

Ham I.iv.50 [Hamlet to Ghost] why the sepulchre ... Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws

Tem V.i.45 [Prospero alone] graves at my command / Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let ’em forth

AW III.ii.119 [Helena alone] all the miseries which nature owes

KL I.iv.119 [Fool to Lear] Lend less than thou owest

Mac I.iii.75 [Macbeth to Witches] Say from whence / You owe this strange intelligence

R3 IV.iv.142 [Queen Elizabeth to King Richard] The slaughter of the prince that owed that crown

E3 I.ii.22 [King David to Lorraine] we with England will not enter parley

H5 III.iii.2 [King Henry to the citizens of Harfleur] This is the latest parle we will admit

1H6 III.iii.35 [Pucelle to all, of Burgundy] Summon a parley; we will talk with him

TS I.i.114 [Hortensio to Gremio] the nature of our quarrel yet never brooked parle

CE II.i.78 [Adriana to Dromio of Ephesus] Back, slave, or I will break thy pate across

Cym II.i.7 [First Lord to Cloten, of Cloten’s bowling opponent] You have broke his pate with your bowl

AYL I.ii.49 [Celia to Rosalind, of Touchstone] Per adventure this is not Fortune's work

E3 V.i.22 [Edward to Calais Citizens] You, peradventure, are but servile grooms

KJ V.vi.31 [Hubert to Bastard, of King John] The King / Yet speaks, and peradventure may recover

CE IV.i.39 [Antipholus of Ephesus to Angelo] Per chance I will be there as soon as you

KJ IV.i.114 [Arthur to Hubert, of the fire] it perchance will sparkle in your eyes

CE IV.iii.94 [Courtesan alone, of Antipholus of Syracuse] He rushed into my house and took perforce / My ring away

R2 II.iii.120 [Bolingbroke to York] my rights and royalties / Plucked from my arms perforce

E3 III.i.182 [Mariner to King John, ofthe navies] we perforce were fain to give them way

R2 V.ii.35 [York to Duchess of York] The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted

AW II.i.185 [King to Helena] thy physic I will try

2H4 IV.v.16 [Prince Henry to Clarence, of King Henry IV] If he be sick with joy, he'll recover without physic

MM IV.vi.7 [Isabella to Mariana, of the Duke speaking against her] ’tis a physic / That's bitter to sweet end

RJ II.iii.48 [Romeo to Friar, of Juliet] Both our remedies / Within thy help and holy physic lies

3H6 III.i.49 [King to himself] To strengthen and support King Edward's place

Mac I.iv.37 [King to all] Sons, kinsmen, thanes, / And you whose places are the nearest

Oth I.iii.235 [Othello to Duke] I crave fit disposition for my wife, / Due reference of place and exhibition

Per V.i.19 [Helicanus to Lysimachus] what is your place?

2H4 II.iv.351 [Peto to Prince Henry] there are twenty weak and wearied posts / Come from the north

2H6 III.i.282 [stage direction] Enter a Post

3H6 V.i.1 [Warwick to all] Where is the post that came from valiant Oxford?

Mac I.iii.97 [Ross to Macbeth] As thick as hail / Came post with post

Cor I.ii.9 [Aufidius to all, reading a letter about the Romans] They have pressed a power

1H6 II.ii.33 [Burgundy to all, of the French] We'll follow them with all the power we have

1H6 V.ii.5 [Alençon to Charles] keep not back your powers in dalliance

R2 III.ii.211 [King Richard to all] That power I have, discharge

CE II.ii.202 [Luciana to Dromio of Syracuse] Why pratest thou to thyself

Cor I.i.46 [First Citizen to all] Why stand we prating here?

Ham V.i.276 [Hamlet to Laertes] if thou prate of mountains

Cor III.i.211 [Brutus to all] Martius is worthy / Of present death

Ham V.i.291 [Claudius to Laertes] We'll put the matter to the present push

TNK II.i.277 [Gaoler to Arcite] you must presently to th'Duke

CE III.ii.155 [Antipholus of Syracuse to Dromio of Syracuse] Go, hie thee presently

KL I.iv.235 [Gonerill to Lear] understand my purposes aright

Mac II.ii.52 [Lady Macbeth to Macbeth] Infirm of purpose!

MM V.i.310 [Escalus to disguised Duke] we will know his purpose

AW I.iii.83 [Clown to Countess] One in ten, quoth’a!

AYL II.i.51 [First Lord to Duke Senior, of Jaques] ‘’Tis right,’ quoth he

CE II.i.62 [Dromio of Ephesus to Adriana] ‘’Tis dinner-time,’ quoth I

1H4 II.i.49 [Chamberlain to Gadshill] At hand, quoth pick-purse

CE IV.iv.72 [Antipholus of Ephesus to Dromio of Ephesus, of Adriana] Didst not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt, and sCorn me?

H5 II.ii.41 [King Henry to Exeter] Enlarge the man committed yesterday / That railed against our person

R2 V.v.90 [Richard, as if to his horse] Why do I rail on thee

TN I.v.89 [Olivia to Malvolio] There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail

AW I.iii.129 [Countess to herself] our remembrances of days foregone

Cym III.i.2 [Lucius to Cymbeline, of Caesar] whose remembrance yet / Lives in men's eyes

LLL V.ii.805 [Princess to King] For the remembrance of my father's death

MA I.iii.56 [Borachio to Don John] comes me the Prince and Claudio ... in sad conference

MA III.ii.15 [Leonato to Benedick] methinks you are sadder [than you were]

MND II.i.51 [Puck to Fairy] The wisest aunt telling the saddest tale / Sometime for threefoot stool mistaketh me

MV I.i.1 [Antonio to Salerio and Solanio] In sooth I know not why I am so sad

1H4 II.ii.59 [Prince Hal to all, of the travellers] if they scape from your encounter, then they light on us

MW III.v.107 [Falstaff to Ford as Brook] It was a miracle to 'scape suffocation

AC I.v.62 [Alexas to Cleopatra] twenty several messengers

Cor I.viii.1 [stage direction] Enter Martius and Aufidius at several doors

E3 I.i.168 [Prince Edward to all] Then cheerfully forward, each a several way

LLL V.ii.125 [Boyet to Princess, of the King's party knowing their ladies] By favours several which they did bestow

MND V.i.407 [Oberon to all] Every fairy take his gait, / And each several chamber bless

Cym I.ii.17 [Innogen to Posthumus] I something fear my father's wrath

Ham I.iii.121 [Polonius to Ophelia] Be something scanter of your maiden presence

2H4 I.ii.189 [Falstaff to Lord Chief Justice] I was born [with] ... something a round belly

KL I.i.20 [Gloucester to Kent, of Edmund] this knave came something saucily to the world

Tem III.i.58 [Miranda to Ferdinand] I prattle / Something too wildly

AYL I.ii.23 [Rosalind to Celia] I will [be merry], coz, and devise sports

AYL I.ii.124 [Touchstone to Le Beau] what is the sport ... that the ladies have lost?

Ham III.ii.227 [Second Player, as Queen, to her King] Sport and repose lock from me day and night

1H6 II.ii.45 [Burgundy to all] I see our wars / Will turn unto a peaceful comic sport

LLL V.ii.153 [Princess to Boyet] There's no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown

Ham III.i.175 [Claudius to Polonius, of Hamlet] his brains still beating

1H4 V.ii.6 [Worcester to Vernon, of King Henry] He will suspect us still

E3 IV.iv.72 [Herald to Prince Edward, of King John] He straight will fold his bloody colours up

1H6 IV.iv.40 [Somerset to Lucy] I will dispatch the horsemen straight

CE IV.i.69 [Second Merchant to Officer, of Angelo] arrest him at my suit

Cor V.iii.135 [Volumnia to Coriolanus, of the Romans and Volsces] our suit / Is that you reconcile them

1H4 I.ii.191 [Prince Hal to Poins, of Eastcheap] There I'll sup

2H4 II.ii.139 [Prince Henry to Bardolph, of Falstaff] Where sups he?

Oth V.i.117 [Iago to Emilia] Go know of Cassio where he supped tonight

Oth V.i.54 [Cassio to Iago] I am spoiled, undone by villains!

RJ III.ii.38 [Nurse to Juliet] We are undone, lady

WT IV.iv.450 [Shepherd to Florizel] You have undone a man of fours core three

MV III.ii.59 [Portia to Bassanio, of the Trojan wives] With bleared visages come forth to view / The issue of th'exploit

RJ I.iv.29 [Mercutio to Romeo] Give me a case to put my visage in

Cor II.iii.76 [Coriolanus to Second Citizen] Your good voice, sir. What say you?

Cor II.iii.155 [First Citizen to Sicinius, of Coriolanus] He has our voices

Ham I.ii.150 [Hamlet alone] a beast that wants discourse of reason / Would have mourned longer

1H6 I.i.143 [Bedford to Third Messenger, of Talbot] such a worthy leader, wanting aid

AW III.v.65 [Widow to Diana, of Helena] I warrant, good creature, wheresoe’er she is, / Her heart weighs sadly

AYL I.ii.192 [Charles to Duke] I warrant your grace

Ham III.iii.29 [Polonius to Claudius, of Gertrude and Hamlet] I'll warrant she'll tax him home

1H6 II.v.95 [Mortimer to Richard] thou seest that ... my fainting words do warrant death

TNK III.vi.68 [Palamon to Arcite] I'll warrant thee I'll strike home

Tem I.ii.139 [Prospero to Miranda] Well demanded, wench

Tem I.ii.480 [Prospero to Miranda] Foolish wench!

TNK II.iii.12 [Gaoler’s Daughter alone] I pitied him, / And so would any young wench

CE II.ii.93 [Antipholus of Syracuse to Dromio of Syracuse] thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers, without wit

1H6 I.ii.73 [Pucelle to Dauphin] I am by birth a shepherd's daughter, / My wit untrained in any kind of art

AYL IV.i.151 [Rosalind (as Ganymede) to Orlando] Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement

AYL V.i.11 [Touchstone to himself] we that have good wits have much to answer for

CE II.ii.162 [Luciana to Antipholus of Syracuse] When were you wont to use my sister thus?

CE IV.iv.35 [Dromio of Ephesus to Antipholus of Ephesus, of beating] I bear it on my shoulders, as a beggar wont her brat [i.e. habitually does to her child]

1H6 I.ii.14 [Regnier to all] Talbot is taken, whom we wont to fear

3H6 II.vi.76 [Warwick to dead Clifford] swear as thou wast wont

AC I.v.22 [Cleopatra to Charmian, as if to Antony’s horse] wot’st thou whom thou mov’st?

1H6 IV.vi.32 [Talbot to his son] too much folly is it, well I wot

1H6 IV.vii.55 [Lucy to Charles, of the word 'submission'] We English warriors wot not what it means

R3 II.iii.18 [Third Citizen to others] Stood the state so? No, no, good friends, God wot!

WT III.ii.75 [Hermione to Leontes] the gods themselves, / Wotting no more than I, are ignorant

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