#mercutio x benvolio

[enbysiriusblack]

i love how mercutio is shipped with like. every man. i see mercutio/benvolio, mercutio/romeo, mercutio/tybalt. man is so gay but no one can agree on who he's actually gay for.

#btw i'm a mercutio/benvolio shipper #mercutio #mercutio x benvolio #mercutio x tybalt #mercutio x romeo #romeo and juliet #shakespeare

[lou-wilham]

There is nothing better than a cheese tour through time and space except. . .

It's cover reveal day for @ellebeaumontbooks & I's first co-author project Benvolio & Mercutio Turn Back time!

BLURB:

Verona has 99 problems—including a time machine.

All Benvolio has ever desired is a peaceful life alongside his spirited—albeit quarrelsome—roommate, Mercutio. But as the story goes, the course of true love never did run smooth, and when tensions between the Montagues and the Capulets reach a boiling point, Benvolio and Mercutio are dragged into the mess Romeo makes of all their lives.

Then an older version of Benvolio crashes into their lives, offering the opportunity to change fate, Mercutio does as he always does—seizes the chance. There's just one problem: no deal is without strings, and this one involves a deadly secret that Mercutio is determined to take to the grave.

What follows is a lively adventure through the ages, replete with love and heartache. Amidst the chaos, this inseparable duo will unravel the true depth of their friendship.

A riotous romp of a retelling of Romeo & Juliet. Side effects of reading may contain laughter, heartache, and a need for more. This light, sci-fi fantasy is the perfect shelf companion to The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian, Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall, and The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by KJ Charles.

Publication day: July 31, 2024

Genre: Adult Sci-fi Fantasy Romcom

Tropes: Friends to Lovers, time travel, retelling, and they were roommates, deal with the devil

Purchase Link: https://books2read.com/bmturnbacktime

Pre-order a Copy w/ a signed bookplate: https://forms.gle/qtTcP2Tgh6Vfbw3u8

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/193907562-benvolio-and-mercutio-turn-back-time

Cover Artist Credit: @oblivionsdream

Tag for: @jokeringcutio

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[shakesqueers13]

Curious about y’all’s queer R&J takes:

#personally I am a Benvolio & Mercutio were deeply in love girlie #which is partially why the Jessie Buckley version is my favorite #shakespeare #william shakespeare #romeo and juliet #mercutio x benvolio #mercutio

[spindlesaurus-rex]

I want a version of Romeo and Juliet where the Prince goes fucking OFF in his speech after Mercutio’s death.

I want a Benvolio who is weeping as he explains what’s happened, who is trying to hide his

I want actors who take the general iambic regularity of Benvolio’s speech and the slightly less regular metre of Prince’s pronouncement as evidence of the attempt at controlled performance but who just jump on the Caesurae of lines like ‘who, all as hot, turns deadly point on point’ or the messiness of ‘of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled’ if they’re Benvolio and then contrast that with the insane regularity of ‘this is the truth or let Benvolio die.’

And I want a prince who fucking jumps to finish that half line of Montague’s with ‘and for that offense/ immediately we do exile him hence’ and then loses it for the next two lines which cannot be contained by metre but are balanced in rhyme.

I’ve just always loved the way the Prince’s speech juxtaposes the ‘hearts’ proceedings’ of the feud with ‘my blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding’ and the way he cannot speak of Mercutio but personally, the way he speaks of the feud as the proceedings of their heart but of Mercutio as his blood, essential to himself.

Also Mercutio and Benvolio should kiss and I will say more about that if anyone literally looks in my direction.

#shakespeare has just got better for me #god i love shakespeare #shakespeare #mercutio x benvolio #Mercutio #Benvolio #Romeo and juliet

[rorygilmoreh4ter]

this is exactly how i see mercutio and benvolio’s dynamic

#bencutios are we alive it’s almost 2024 #bencutio #mercutio x benvolio #benvolio x mercutio #benvolio montague #mercutio escalus #william shakespeare #shakespeare #romeo and juliet memes #romeo and juliet #classic literature #classic literature memes

[maybeonedayillfindout]

thinking about productions of shakespeare plays where there is exactly one character who knows theyre in a play. benvolio with his "we talk here in the public haunt of men .. here all eyes gaze on us" right before mercutio dies. he knows something is wrong before it happens, and when it does happen he knows only worse will come, so he disappears. he stayed only to try to save mercutio, and he couldnt, so he leaves. he survives the play. the same with horatio, often the voice of reason, staying only to save hamlet from his fate. in the end he is, as is benvolio, alone. but he survives. in a way the plays are about them. in a way this is their story. the only ones alive to tell it

#i know a popular interpretation is that hamlet is the one who knows. but idk something about horatio having to watch as it all goes to shit #hamlet #shakespeare #romeo and juliet #mercutio x benvolio #horatio #maybe/elias' fantastic new thoughts

[ellebeaumontbooks]

Coming July 31, 2024 the retelling you didn't know you needed!

Verona has 99 problems—including a time machine.

All Benvolio has ever desired is a peaceful life alongside his spirited—albeit quarrelsome—roommate, Mercutio. But as the story goes, the course of true love never did run smooth, and when tensions between the Montagues and the Capulets reach a boiling point, Benvolio and Mercutio are dragged into the mess Romeo makes of all their lives.

Then an older version of Benvolio crashes into their lives, offering the opportunity to change fate, Mercutio does as he always does—seizes the chance. There's just one problem: no deal is without strings, and this one involves a deadly secret that Mercutio is determined to take to the grave.

What follows is a lively adventure through the ages, replete with love and heartache. Amidst the chaos, this inseparable duo will unravel the true depth of their friendship.

A riotous romp of a retelling of Romeo & Juliet. Side effects of reading may contain laughter, heartache, and a need for more. This light, sci-fi fantasy is the perfect shelf companion to The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian, Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall, and The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by KJ Charles. (add it to your Goodreads TBR!)

#mercutio x benvolio #elle beaumont #william shakespere #retelling #time travel #scifi #steampunk #fantasy books #queer books #lgbt reads #lou wilham

[cupids-fiction]

#romeo and juliet #mercutio x benvolio #tybalt x mercutio

[theghostparty]

Quand Mercutio nous chantait "la vie est belle" Moi, j'y croyais...

This one goes out to the absolutely wild hairstyle choices they subjected Cyril Niccolai to during the 2010 revival.

#romeo et juliette #retj #mercutio x benvolio #bencutio #wow in our lord's year of 2024 I really didn't think i'd be once again outing myself as a shipper of these two #I would like to dedicate this art to rebecca who beta'd the romeo et juliette novella I wrote when I was 14 that just follows benvolio #I would also implore you to listen to nuno resende's comment lui dire if you've never heard it #cyril niccolai #john eyzen #joyce draws #cyril's benvolio the first time around had hair like he was tossed in a windtunnel with a can of hairspray #ALSO I DID JUST CHECK and cyril still follows me on tumblr good GOD

[incorrectromeoandjuliet]

Juliet: What are you getting Benvolio for the holidays?

Mercutio: I don't know. It's kind of hard buying a gift for your partner when they already got everything they could've ever wanted when they married you. So I'm not sure yet.

Romeo: I'm getting Benvolio a divorce lawyer.

#romeo and juliet #romeo #Romeo Montague #romeo and juliet incorrect quotes #mercutio #mercutio x benvolio #juliet #Juliet Capulet

[lesbiansforhenryclerval]

Romeo and Juliet is literally just a cautionary tale about horny teens

#romeo and juliet #mercutio #benvolio montague #bencutio #mercutio x benvolio

[kaleb-is-definitely-sane]

Why. In. The. World. Are. There. People. That. Ship. Mercutio. And. Tybalt? Why?? Whyyyyyyyy???? Please explain this lack of sense to me!

#romeo and juliet #mercutio x benvolio #tybalt x mercutio #shakespeare #shakespeare aesthetic #william shakespere

[lou-wilham]

It’s title reveal time….

If you love: Time Travel ✓ A satisfying end ✓ Deals with a devil ✓ Doctor Who but make it Shakespearean, Queer and add Cher ✓

You’re going to want to keep an eye out for more news on @ellebeaumontbooks and @lou.wilham’s Benvolio & Mercutio Turn Back Time!

#indie author #indie books #indie writer #lgbt writers #lgbt author #lgbt books #lgbtqia books #lgbt reads #queer booklr #queer writers #queer fantasy #queer fiction #queer books #lgbt fantasy #lgbt fiction #shakespeare retelling #benvolio & mercutio turn back time #mercutio x benvolio #benvolio montague #mercutio #shakespeare retold

[princeanon]

Romeo & Juliet except Mercutio lives and Benvolio isn’t sad and they’re in love

#romeo and juliet #benvolio montague #mercutio escalus #bencutio #mercutio x benvolio #Romeo and Juliet can still die that’s fine #actually Juliet needs to survive because & Juliet #I love & Juliet #I should post about & Juliet

[spindlesaurus-rex]

As mentioned previously, I had one 3% beer earlier and opened up my feelings about Romeo & Juliet like they were a sleeping bag that I might crawl inside and now I’ve been IN MY FEELINGS about Prince Escalus, Benvolio & Mercutio.

And now all I want is a version of Romeo and Juliet where the whole first exchange do act 3 scene 1 is delivered by a Mercutio who is holding Benvolio by the face and pressing his forehead to his.

Because SERIOUSLY the undercurrent of that exchange is so tender and furious it makes me ILL.

It’s about ‘please don’t brawl out here for nothing, I’m calling you good I’m using ‘thee’ my metre is so measured please listen please listen’ meeting ‘I know you, you’re trying to be good but you can’t be because none of us can you’re like me you’ve got mad blood and let me make you laugh because maybe that’s all we’ve got’ and then they’re joking about death and oh it’s simple, isn’t it? The fee simple of your life is an hour and a half?

Fucking FROTHING

#mercutio x benvolio #mercutio #god i love shakespeare #shakespeare #Benvolio #Romeo and Juliet

[glascoo]

okay you can have your "accidental murder" or "they were flirting in text tho" but where's the: in every adaptation you died in my arms and i couldn't save you and it's my fault you died ???? THAT is the true homosexual gay agenda (and for the record they also hard core flirted in text)

#romeo and juliet #mercutio x benvolio #shakespeare #benvolio #mercutio