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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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I was just wondering a thing
In dmbj universe, people stay in wild of far away or in tombs for days. While staying there how women and trans people deal with their periods? Like whole tomb raiding shenanigans can't be scheduled with taking care of everyone's periods nor can they text periods to come later.
[emerges from my hiatus coffin Nosferatu style because it’s time to talk about GENDER]
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Ok first thanks this is SUCH a good question. If NPSS wasn’t like, so aggressively a cis man we might have a canon answer, but as it is I’m gonna extrapolate from real life and make some guesses!!
My first instinct would be to look at how people with periods cope with long distance, multi-day trekking today. This website touches on a few practices I think tomb raiders with periods would probably also use: (1) keeping used sanitary items in Ziplock bags for later disposal, and (2) using unscented baby wipes and hand sanitizer for sanitation
It’s also possible modern tomb raiders with periods use birth control, whether or not they’re worried about pregnancy, for assistance in regulating / moderating their flows + hormonal shifts
For folks in the Mystic Nine era (1933), things would definitely look different! In the late 1920s, there were some pads available, so it’s definitely possible tomb raiders with periods in the late ‘20s were using pads. If they were, they likely used Kotex disposable pads, which were quite popular at the time (though far from perfect), and were being advertised in China as early as 1928. Keep in mind, though, that self-adhesive pads weren’t around until the 1970s; to wear a pad, a person with a period would also need to wear a ~sanitary belt~ or other clothing item designed to hold the pad in place. Annoying, but probably better than a just bleeding everywhere?
More under the cut, since I had a lot to say I guess!
Alternatively, 1920s-30s folks might have used / repurposed surgical gauze; many early pads — including those Kotex ones — came from wartime advancements in surgical gauze in WW1. Plus, a tomb raiding team would be sure to have a significant supply of surgical gauze on hand! Obviously, this wouldn’t be super comfortable (if you’ve ever stuff toilet paper in your underwear as a makeshift pad, it sucks), but it might be more flexible — a noted and necessary benefit for a tomb raider, whereas the Kotex pads were known to be cumbersome.
However, as the articles cited touch on, many of these pads were problematic in one way or another — reusable ones were annoying to clean; disposable ones were inflexible, burdensome, or not sturdy. All of that sounds problematic for a tomb raider on the go; it would probably behoove a tomb raider with a period to plan, as much as possible, for their period to arrive before they enter the tomb, when disposal / care of used sanitary products will be more convenient. This could, of course, be problematic if you were trans and not out or otherwise hiding the existence of your period; while Chinese attitudes were starting to open up towards periods in the late 20s, there was still a long legacy of periods as being deeply, inherently private — which would make openly planning around your period difficult, especially in a predominantly cis male setting.
The first commercially successful tampon was marketed in 1931, so it’s definitely possible our Mystic Nine era folks were using tampons. However, I’m gonna say it is probably unlikely, and similarly unlikely for our later Paracel Islands team and South Sea King team; according to consumer polls, tampons are not the preferred sanitation product choice in China today. A cursory Google search didn’t turn up much on advertisements for tampons in China in the 1930s, either. Similarly, while a rubber cup (think today’s diva cup) was invented in the early ‘30s, it wasn’t a commercial success; I couldn’t say for sure if it was even marketed in China at the time. Another unlikely choice, though for modern tomb raiders it would have the benefit of not producing non-bio waste?
For folks prior to the ‘20s (or folks using more traditional methods), I wasn’t totally able to verify if this is accurate but a few websites mentioned that parts of ancient China would wrap sand or fiber in cloth; when the “pad” soaked through, they would toss the filling and wash the cloth. This might be slightly more functional in a tomb setting (“don’t mind me, just gonna toss my period sand over in the corner here thanks”), though I’m not sure how disposal would intersect with traditional / Confucian norms around yin and yang energy, which we see discussed in DMBJ as part of tomb raising “etiquette” or sense
Tangentially Related:
NPSS originally conceptualized XG as a (presumably cis) girl, apparently, which: would her period blood have typical Zhang powers? Also, would the Zhang clan be a matriarchy OR would the title of clan head be non-gendered OR would the Zhang clan be patriarchal and she would be an exception? How would her gender figure into her being chosen as the replacement mythical baby, and/or her having to (unwillingly, admittedly) scrounge together the shattering, fragmented remnants of a clan collapsing in on itself? 
We’re talking early 1900s — how strong would she have to be to rally even the small amount of main line Zhangs that canonically have XG as their patriarch? Would her gender be weaponized against her, or seen as “proof” of her illegitimacy? If the Zhangs were inherently a patriarchal clan, would she be othered from her gender in the same way XG is (presumably) othered from his Tibetan heritage (acting under the assumption that XG’s mom is not Han Chinese living in Tibet; I haven’t read Tibetan Sea Flowers, so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong!)?
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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How are you my sunshine?
Give me a character - Wang Pangzi and Hei Xiazi
HELLO MY BELOVED ☀️☀️☀️ ok I answered Pangzi HERE but I will give the ✨rundown✨ on my beloved weirdo, HXZ
(From this sexy, sexy ask list)
How I feel about this character: I love him. I love him so much. He’s the only thing that kept me watching the horrifically boring mute village arc in TLTR. He can rock a sarong. He has a stupid mullet. Xiao Hua wants to kiss him and so do I. Jack (@psychic-waffles) joked that everyone in DMBJ has had a weird crush on HXZ at least once, and that includes me and HXZ himself.
LOOK AT HIS DUMB FACE:
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(Ok also, SORRY, I have too much to say: he’s silly, and he’s ridiculous, and he’s probably always wearing too much cologne, but he’s also immensely practical and skilled, and I really love that duality of his personality. It reminds me a lot of Pangzi, tbh)
People I ship with our favorite glasses wearing bimbo (endearing): ok so as I joked above, I do think everyone has had a Weird crush on him at some point that has made them seriously question things about themselves. But in terms of actual ships, I am Deep in HeiHua hell, and it’s all @humanlighthouse’s fault, with her sexy, sexy fic and her juicy, juicy brain
My non romantic OTPs for This Idiot: oooo ok so right off the bat, I LOVE his relationship with Zhang Qiling (“6 times more protein than beef!”), and I wish we could see that explored more. I think they understand each other in ways others can’t really hope to, and I think they see the humanity and brutality in each other. Also, no one brings out ZQL’s annoyed 😒 more than HXZ and I love that
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Mmm I also love his friendship with Wu Xie and Pangzi, and I’m super intrigued by how he and Xiuxiu might engage with each other. Ok AND ALSO Li Cu of course (he puts so much fucking effort into his shitty desert man costume and then Li Cu sees through him in 2 seconds? HXZ is ready to be a dad IMMEDIATELY) and Su Wan, but ALSO the desperado fam!!! I like to imagine that after TLTR HXZ likes to take JiaJia and Bai Haotian out for hot pot on Xiao Hua’s credit card ✨no we are not going to talk about how his heart tugs or his eyes tighten when Jia Kezi finally starts feeling safe and comfortable enough to wear low collars again :)
(ASIDE: I am listening to @s1utspeare’s playlist again and a song just said “in every group of friends there is a whore” and I am YELLING the timing y’all...immaculate)
Unpopular opinions about my favorite dumbass: uhmmmmm honestly not sure...probably that I don’t really connect with the actor portraying him in Sha Hai? Just on first impressions / introductions? (I think he has an uphill battle with me, because I LOVED Baron Chen and Liu Yuning’s versions so much)
One thing I wish had happened: in TLT3, I wish we had seen more interactions with him and XiuXiu! Honestly I wish we had gotten more XiuXiu in general. An underutilized queen.
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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Hey, question. Do you watch any AvenueX videos? You can learn some really interesting things in those, like how reboot ershu's actor has been in an LGBTQ film. Years ago, admittedly, but like. I'm sure that could fit into ershu's backstory somehow. >.> the film is Lan Yu, if you want to look it up. Apparently it did pretty well internationally at the time.
!!!!! I have never seen them, no! Thank you so much for the recommendation! I will definitely look up both of these videos!! 🥺🥺
Also, yes, I am pretty firmly in the camp that Wu Erbai is queer (whether gay, or bi, or even ace, I leave to individual interpretation). I think it opens up a lot of interesting thoughts about his character, his ruthlessness, and his approach to family:
Adds valence to how much he demands or expects of Wu Xie, in terms of Wu Xie sacrificing his self for the family (after all, hasn’t he? If we see him as someone who is queer, and who has denied that part of himself either consciously or unconsciously in order to serve the Wu family, of course he expects Wu Xie to do the same. To be a Wu is to sacrifice.)
...Though to the point above, that makes it extra interesting that he himself never actually married, doesn’t it? How far does sacrifice go?
Which — would marriage to a woman have made his life easier? Is there an additional component in his interactions with his nephew of needing Wu Xie to carry on the family line, but also perhaps desiring to protect Wu Xie from the rumors and dismissal and loneliness that has dogged Wu Erbai’s life?
All this to say: does Wu Erbai see himself in Wu Xie? Does that please him? Scare him? Both? How does that (especially if we read them both as queer) carry into their interactions as uncle and nephew — interactions that are so deeply and richly painted with love, and care, and control?
Is their a “right” way to be a queer Wu, in Wu Erbai’s mind — and what does he feel (anger, frustration, jealousy?) when Wu Xie denies it?
@canary3d-obsessed made a comment in one of their lovely TLTR outfit posts about Wu Xie’s sweater when he visits Wu Erbai showing that he is “someone else around his family” — for queer folks, this might particularly resonate. But what about the inverse? Is the Wu Erbai who greets Wu Xie the same as the Wu Erbai who runs his empire alone in his office? Is the Wu Erbai who humiliated rivals the same as the Wu Erbai who wears his reading glasses in bed? How and in what way does his queerness filter in? How does he experience his own self? We don’t get to see this, but I wonder how much of the Wu Erbai we know is construction (just as so much of the public Wu Xie is, ESPECIALLY after Sha Hai. The difference is that we see Wu Xie in private, with the veneer stripped away. We don’t see Wu Erbai in this way, because to Wu Xie he is inherently functioning “in public.”)
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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(jock, jock, my dear, idk if i said wrong in my other ask but i meant number 23 and not 22, am sorry djkjgdf)
Vishie my love please do not fret how could I possibly begrudge you more opportunities to shower you in my curly y’s
23: celebrity crush(es)?
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Send me an ask, get Visual Art in return 😂
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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if you're still doing them could i get some affirmations please maybe 🥺🥺🥺 (thank you i love you)
HELL THE FUCK YEAH YOU CAN
Also even if I wasn’t doing this ask game please always come by my ask box for affirmations, I am Ready And Willing to serve up those sweet, sweet reminders of how perfect you are
OK LET’S HIT IT !!!!!!! JACK MY BELOVED ❤️❤️🤸
Right off the bat you’re like, easily one of the funniest people I know? An absolute laugh riot I cannot handle it at all
I feel like you love really deeply once you find someone you care about, and I think that’s really special and amazing ❤️
I love that we always have weird off-time-zone chats and I get to hear about your nice mornings 🌞
One time when I was sad you sent me a picture of your cats and I never forgot it, you made me feel so safe and valued. I think that’s a special talent of yours!
I love how friendly you are!! I feel like every day I see you talking to someone ELSE on here and I’m like wow … jack … how do they do it … he is a king among men …
I love how you go out of your way to give people validation 🥺 yes I am thinking about how you always comment on my fic
SIMILAR TO ABOVE I love how into my silly URSF playlists you are!!!! Every time you message me about them my face goes :D
Your tags and jokes live rent free in my dreams, you are an aspiration for me tbh, you’re such a natural at Humor Content
Ok I feel like 8 was too similar to 1 so here’s an extra: ALSO YOU’RE HOT 🥵
Send me an ask, I’ll tell ya 8 things I love about you!! 🐸
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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OH BUT FOX!!!!! AND KHOLRAN!!!! AND STAIDWATERS AND WINDSOFSONG shit I gotta pick a different play we’re running out of room
Why the fuck am i doing this in ur ask box I need to go to bed :/
(FOXISCAPULETKHOLRANISMONTAGUEWINDSOFSONGISLADYC)
Please do more of this in my ask box every day? I love you? Also does this mean @foxofninetales @kholran and @thewindsofsong are our collective parents because I can work with that 👀👀 they all bring me personally so much light, love, validation, and sheer joy on a daily basis so this tracks tbh
Though it might make the number of times I say “step on me mom” a little weird 😭
Other Brigid castings HERE
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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U didn’t even ask for this but I’m assigning u Mercutio as ur Shakespeare-sona for these reasons:
1) funny as fuck
2) would fight an army for his dumbass best friend (ok so in this version of the play I’m Romeo and Cross is Benvolio and ur Mercutio so like trios bitch. Also Anna gets to be the Prince and ur gf is the beautiful and badass Capulet cousin that isn’t Tybalt that u run away with after elaborately faking ur own death. Also in this version no one dies and we all get to go vacation in New Zealand after we solve all the problems the end)
3) I love him
Sorry I thought about this earlier tonight and then didn’t stop so I had to let u know
This is the most important ask I’ve ever received. I read it aloud to @lesbianspacedad and cried a little. She laughed at me but it was so worth it holy fuck Brigid baby I would die for you also @cross-d-a cry with me
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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I felt I should send my Imperial Coroner polycule chart for anyone else who might like to see it...
AND YOU WERE RIGHT!!!!!
Could you …. Could you also post the Legend of Fei one 🥺 I love that one 🥺
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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for that ask game: 🌍 (bc i would love to talk about some aus. as if we don't do that already but. aus. yes.) also i hope you are doing fine! love you ♥
OHHH vish my beloved!! In my ask box!!
(Also I’m...I will be ok! Luckily I don’t have to teach today, so I’m outside, listening to birds and trying to self soothe with asks on tumblr dot com ❤️ sweet of you to say!!)
Ok BUT to the question — ooooohhhhhh ok so I have not written many AUs? But I am having a LOT of fun writing the Star Trek one!!! I think I tend to lean towards sci-fi or realist AUs (detective AUs @epicwalrus! Reporter AUs! Stripper AUs @humanlighthouse!) over fantasy in my own writing, THOUGH I really enjoy reading fantasy AUs!!!
🐸From this juicy ask list🐸
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you. Get to know your mutuals and followers.
#1: MY BELOVED MUTUAL SASSY IN MY INBOX
Actually this is a nice thing to reflect on today! I’m about to call my dad and pretty nervous about it, so this will psych me up!
🌸🐸👇🐸🌸
2:
All the DMutualsBJ, like I know i joke about it a lot, but I honestly feel so fucking blessed to have met such a beautiful, gorgeous group of hot, talented, brilliant people. How did I get so lucky to meet you all!!!!!
3:
Whenever people send me pictures of their pets. Yes I’m thinking of @xia-xueyi’s turtle and @psychic-waffles’s dog / cats and @gaiahenshin’s plethora of cats and @humanlighthouse’s neighbor’s cat. Just Know I love it and sometimes I save the pictures or make memes out of them. It’s great
4:
This silly little Xiaoge drink topper @cross-d-a sent me like, the first few weeks we knew each other. I drink so much more water than I ever used to
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The mutual I actually get to kiss on the mouth (@lesbianspacedad) and our two cats, both of whom are idiots. Please ignore stinky’s dandruff, he is a sensitive young man and did not enjoy the fancy food we bought him 😮‍💨 he is back to being a sleek furred chonk machine 🌸🐸
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I’m a bit too worn out socially to send this to everyone, but please feel free to drop 5 things that are bringing you joy in the replies!! I think that’d be fun 🙈
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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📒 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀🖤🖤🖤
OMGGGGG NOPEY I LOVE YOU 😭 ok so 📒 is any fics planned! There are, of course because it is me and I cannot finish shit, more 😭 I’m gonna break this into categories, honestly mostly for my own organization 😭😭😭
Posted WIPs
Star Trek AU / Out Here is Wondrous - I’ve finished the second chapter, actually! I’m waiting to post it until I write the whole thing, though, so folks don’t have to wait ages again
URSF - @humanlighthouse and I have this fully planned, and I have done about 2/3 of the 2nd chapter draft at this point! Another one I won’t post until it’s done ✨😚
Current Drafts
What’s Given Can Be Taken - sex pollen AU, from an anon kink prompt! ~2/3 done
A Little Care (Like Holding Together Two Bits of Cracked China) - iron threesome w/Bonus tomb shenanigans, though I may break it into two fics. Smut is outlined and tomb stuff mostly written!
Li Cu Parent Conference Fic - haven’t worked on this in ages tbh, but I have a couple pages written 😭
To Choose an Altar - one of the prompted mini fics from that prompt list! This one is one of @s1utspeare’s 😚
Planned Collabs + Status
PingXie stripper AU, with @humanlighthouse and bonus comments from @mejomonster — status: brainstormed / outlined, no drafting yet
PingXie ABO AU, with @humanlighthouse — status: some plot ideas outlined
Iron Triangle Buzzfeed Unsolved AU, with @s1utspeare — status: brainstormed / outlined, no drafting yet
Detective Wu Xie / Mob Boss ZQL AU, with @epicwalrus — status: epic has done an INSANE amount of drafting and world building on this! I’m just vibing rn, but y’all are in for a treat for sure ✨
Ideas I Plan To Write, No, Really 😢
2 additional kink prompts
A Li Cu centric fic from a very old anon who has probably been wondering why I never replied ;)
Additional mini fic prompts
And then I think I’ve talked about most of these before? Tintin AU, Advance Bravely AU, and begrudgingly-able-to-see-the-paranormal, keeps-trying-to-lie-about-it mystery solving WX 🥰
Oh! Also I joked with @psychic-waffles about writing a HeiHua fic around that spite gardening post 😂
🐸👌from this most excellent ask list🐸👌
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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well I'm late but 20 for the handwriting meme 👀
Akwneksodxg no such thing!! Thank you for coming to the Sierra Scrawls Express!
Also you literally chose SUCH a whammy fuck how am I supposed to narrow this down 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 I ended up choosing a line from Late Night by Foals, in part because it’s always stayed in my mind since it’s the line @lesbianspacedad referenced when she was like, “I can’t believe you don’t listen to lyrics!! Look how good this shit is!!” And I was like damn babe…u right
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Can’t believe Yannis created the sad cowboy emoji…amazing
Send me an ask, get illegible scribbles in return! ❤️
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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Darling I love you. Please do not do affirmations for me because I will irredeemably combust, but I hope you are recovering from the school bustle and drinking water and ACTUALLY SLEEPING SOMETIMES and taking breaks and hugging kitties.
Also this is for you 😘
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NOPEY!!!!!!!
But if I love you … and you love me … why aren’t we platonically making out at a social gathering yet 🥺
Also: sir
Sir what the FUCK the ,,, the suit. The COLOR. The FRILL AROUND THE COLLAR. The rose. The HAIR? This sure is a gender and I sure am obsessed with it
(I am respecting your wishes to not swamp you with my love and affection for you but please know I love you so much and you’re so kind and so funny and one of my favorite people on this hell site)
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)
Omg !!!!!! AN ASK!! Thank you 🥺 from this ask list
I’m not often super proud of my writing (I’m working on having better self esteem about it!!) but I think I’ll pick something from Out Here is Wondrous — it’s the first AU I have ever tackled, and the first time I really explored Li Cu’s POV. I did a lot of Star Trek research and reworking to get the tone and energy I wanted for him and Wu Xie, and I ended up really happy with the result!
I think since I wrote this chapter, I’ve gotten a lot better at description and dialogue. But this silly paragraph will always have a special place in my heart:
God, Li Cu wants to kick the other man’s ass. Or maybe his own ass, for getting caught up in this situation. Maybe he’ll kick Wu Xie’s ass, then throw himself out of a nearby airlock. Li Cu nods, decisively, in his mind. That should do it.
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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WAIT BRO I MISSED A HANDWRITINF ASK???? Fuck me literally write me anything ur handwriting is so pretty and I’m gonna die
AKASNSOSOC BRIGI stop lying in public, my handwriting is scrawl and you know it
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Send me an ask, get illegible scrawl in return! ❤️
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jockvillagersonly · 3 years
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WAIT I CAME UP WITH MORE Vishie is Juliet bc she is pretty (i just know this I have not seen pictures but I know) and Xzciel is Friar Lawrence and Meri is the nurse and uhhhh hhhmnnn I need a Tybalt and a Paris (in this version we’re all very nice I’m casting it based on vibes/who I want to see brawl in the marketplace) OH OK Joy is Paris cause she’s sweet and unassuming (I’m a fan of Paris actually) and Nope4Ever can be Tybalt bc I think u two would have the best sword fight anyway ok I’m done now maybe
Have I mentioned that I adore you dearly !!!!!! Holy FUCK please keep these coming. Putting edits under the cut because it’s gonna be LONG
1. I have seen pictures you are right @vishcount is fucking stunning. Also, I too would commit to a suicide pact for her. Though she’d probably rather I just made her cookies or something
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2. @xcziel AS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR THE GOOD HEARTED FRIAR!!! INSPIRED. Also I just feel like this picture from Romeo + Juliet encapsulates her chaotic and yet deeply loving nature. Also it’s kind of terrifying. And I love that for her.
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3. @merinnan is ABSOLUTELY the nurse!! The wisdom! The guidance! The heart and soul of the play! Also, the light of my life!
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4. Love that you casted me as someone with very marketplace brawling energy, I love this for me and you
5. @bookjoyworm sweet 🥺 kind 🥺 a lovely Paris 🥺 the wholesome Paul Rudd energy. This is not a picture of Paul Rudd because in Romeo + Juliet he just looks like Some Dude
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6. It’s because @nope4ever and I both make memes isn’t it. God what an honor to be compared to the number #1 DMEMEBJ queen 😭🥺 cross swords with me anytime. Aka the inherent homoeroticism of crossing swords in the marketplace
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Other Brigid Castings HERE 🥺 she sent me ANOTHER ASK but I gotta go get the laundry so give me a sec to edit it up
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