#or is that Shakespeare?🤔

[thatswhatsushesaid]

The bit about Xie Lian's father seeing himself like a son of god is probably a reference to the fact that chinese word for emperor Tianzi literally means Son of Heaven. If wiki is to be believed, in both China and Japan the termin "was interpreted literally [...], whose monarchs were referred to as demigods, deities, or "living gods", chosen by the gods and goddesses of heaven." In Medivial Europe there was something similiar, what with divine rights of the king and whatnot.

thank you for this! i think this does check out and is consistent with what some other people have told me. and yeah, gotta love legitimacy stemming from the mandate of heaven/divine right of kings. it’s the stuff all the best historical dramas are made of tbh.

#all my favourite shakespeare plays are the histories #esp henry iv #maybe it’s time for a hollow crown rewatch 🤔 #asks answered #ray reads tgcf #edited to add just in case anyone decides to pedantically @ me: #yes i know shakespeare is not medieval literature #it is english renaissance theatre #nevertheless!!! his subject matter is often drawn explicitly from the medieval period #so my point stands #ok now i am going back to bed

[canyousonicme]

The Royal Shakespeare Company's The Tempest with Alex Kingston announces full casting. [x] Running from 26 January to 4 March, 2023 in Stratford-Upon-Avon, the play kicks off a new RSC season.

#Alex Kingston #Shakespeare #The Tempest #RSC #Stratford-upon-Avon #2023 #Royal Shakespeare Company #Should I Go? 🤔

[apocalyp-tech-a]

Ok, so this Tech from the Bad batch portrait was inspired by my medieval and Tudor history phase last month, but kind of suitable for July 4th as well. What say ye? Lolz...

#tudor tech #could also be tutor tech 🤔 #tech the bad batch #fanart #the bad batch #the bad batch fanart #tech tbb #tech tuesday #star wars #apocalyptecha fan art #shakespeare in love #tech addiction - i loves him #tech the bad batch in a flowy old timey shirt yes please

[une-sanz-pluis]

The 1403 rebellion bears the hallmarks of a rash and reckless act on the part of Hotspur. Before the rebellion itself, Percy's dream of establishing his Anglo-Scottish lordship was for the first time a real possibility and it is difficult to imagine that the old campaigner would abandon that for which he had consistently worked over several decades, to suddenly attack his king. Yes, he had helped remove Richard II from the throne, but the situations were radically different. In 1399, Percy had been part of a broadly based coalition moving with great force and purpose against a massively unpopular monarch who was no great friend of the Percy family. In 1403 however, the forces that met Henry at Shrewsbury were a hastily cobbled together,`ramshackle' army drawn almost exclusively from one county, and whose allegiance was based upon the lie that Richard II was about to return. The rebellion was the brainchild of Hotspur. It is difficult to imagine Percy planning, or even approving of, such a scheme. In the summer of 1403, he had far too much to lose. Hotspur did as well, but he seemed not to have recognised that fact. That the 1403 rebellion was Hotspur's scheme also accounted for the frankly bizarre timing of Percy's movement south. If he had stayed in the north as part of the plan for the rebellion, in order to guard the marches, as has been suggested, then why wander down into Yorkshire some days after the battle had taken place? If the campaign had been well planned, one would expect that Percy would have either stayed in the north to guard the march, or moved south at the same time as Hotspur in order to support his forces, and not simply get caught in between. Hotspur's movement south was reminiscent in its recklessness of his actions at Otterburn, and the late movement south by Percy suggested that he, as well as the king, had been taken by surprise by his own son's actions.

Kris Towson, "Henry Percy, first earl of Northumberland: ambition, conflict and cooperation in late mediaeval England" (PhD thesis, 2005)

#henry hotspur percy #henry percy 1st earl of northumberland #henry iv #thomas percy 1st earl of worcester #historian: kris towson #the battle of shrewsbury #the percy rebellion #not saying i agree with towson's conclusions but very 🤔 #i do think hotspur and northumberland are people who need to be unwound from their shakespearian counterparts a bit more than they are #(by which i don't mean the histories fandom/shakespeare!hotspur fandom but when we talk of them as historical figures...) #(which granted doesn't happen that much) #percies

[michaelmilligan]

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another

Midamoul week is finally here, yay!! :D

@midamoulweek Thank you for setting up the event!

Have yourself a very merry day 1 with the prompt 'Identity':

Ghoul was standing in front of the mirror in their bedroom, staring straight at it. The mirror stared back with Adam's face.

Well, not quite Adam's. This wasn't a facial expression Adam ever used. And he never slouched quite this bad. In hushed whispers, Adam had once told Ghoul that Michael used to call him out for his sloppy posture. But now that Ghoul was here... Adam had grinned, then, like it was a funny inside joke. Maybe it was funny. Ghoul couldn't remember if it had been funny at the time.

It seemed strange right now.

“What are you doing?” Adam was standing in the doorway to the bedroom, looking at Ghoul. He only ever looked – didn't study Ghoul the way Michael always did, gaze piercing and searching, like Ghoul was some kind of wild animal that might attack at any moment.

“Just...” Ghoul shrugged.

“Enjoying the view?” Adam teased.

Ghoul was naked, but right now, there was nothing sexual about the way he touched the (his? Adam's?) body.

“It's just weird,” Ghoul mused, and immediately regretted it. Why put this on Adam? Dude had enough problems (a lot of which were caused by Michael and Ghoul). Besides, at best, he would probably laugh at Ghoul.

“What's weird?” Adam stepped behind Ghoul, pressed their cheeks together. His hips didn't bump into Ghoul's butt, though, which Ghoul appreciated right now.

“I use your face. Your body.”

Adam raised an eyebrow. “So?”

Okay, maybe the guy with an archangel in his body whose projection looked the same as him wasn't the go-to guy for strangeness in this case.

“Doesn't it bother you?” Ghoul still asked, because... Because.

“Uh, I feel like you want me to say yes, but not really. When I look at you, I don't see me.”

“You see the flesh-eating monster that ate you?”

They both winced. That had been a low blow.

“Sorry,” Ghoul muttered.

“What, for saying that? Or for eating me?” Adam sighed. “Look, you know I forgave you for that a while ago. Do you feel bad about it?”

“'S just...” Ghoul frowned. “I eat people and then I look like them. And before, well... it was about surviving, you know. I never really stayed the same for long enough that I got to think about it too much. Hard to be thinking about things, anyway, when you're always just scraping by, hiding and killing and hiding again and-”

Adam put a hand on his arm. “Yeah, I get it,” he said softly.

“Yeah.” Ghoul wasn't sure he really got it. But then again, Adam had been in hell, and even though he'd had a 'handy archangel' with him, as he liked to call it, that couldn't have been nice.

Not that Adam ever talked about it.

Michael was more open, more relaxed about it (and wasn't that a miracle – Michael, more relaxed than someone else about anything), but even he got a far-away, almost haunted look when talking about the cage.

“So now that you're safe, now that you're staying the same for a while... it's weird for you?” Adam asked. Always the patient therapist for everyone else, Ghoul thought wearily. Never for himself, though.

God forbid (pun fully intended) that anyone ever played therapist for Adam. Hell hath no fury like a little dude from Minnesota when someone tried to talk about his feelings.

“Guess so,” Ghoul said, pulling back into the present, and turning towards Adam. “Sorry. Your body's fine, it's just. Not mine? I mean it is, but...”

“Right.” Adam hesitated. “Um, what did you look like? Before you... ate your first person, I guess?”

Ghoul snorted. “Hell if I know.”

“What?” Adam looked at Ghoul with wide eyes.

“I was a baby, dude! A little squirt nibbling on my dad and whatever scraps he gave me.”

“You- wait, you ate parts of your dad when you were a baby?!”

“Seriously?” An eye roll was hardly enough for this. Ghoul's whole head rolled with them. “I snack on you all the time, but that's what shocks you?”

“I mean. Michael can heal me in the blink of an eye. But your dad...”

“He tried to bring me babies. Usually dead babies,” Ghoul added when Adam's shock kept growing. “Ya know how sometimes the really little ones die? I remember dad telling me how he'd dug 'em up for me, when I was really small. Later, I learned to dig up the bigger ones myself.”

Ghoul also remembered eating adults as a kid, and shifting into bigger forms. It had always been confusing, especially after eating teenagers. There had also been older people sometimes, seventy and above. That had been weird.

They'd tried to avoid it, but there were only so many young people who died.

Adam had an unreadable expression on his face. “I never asked how old you are.”

Ghoul shrugged. “Couple years older than you, I guess. When your dad rolled into town-” Ghoul stopped, really not wanting to talk about John Winchester.

Adam seemed to be feeling the same. “Right.” He hummed thoughtfully. “So both my boyfriends are older than me, huh?”

“Aren't you like a couple thousand years old now?” Ghoul shifted. “And... how attached are you to be me being a guy?”

“Oh- I just. Wait. We've been calling you 'he' all the time, was that-”

“Relax, dude. I don't know either.” Ghoul shrugged again. “I could be a guy. Maybe. Like I said, your body isn't bad. It's kinda hot.” Ghoul winked, and Adam shook his head fondly. “But, uh... I think I may have eaten my gender at some point.”

Some people on social media talked like that. While Ghoul didn't have any accounts, Michael did. No wonder – the guy really liked getting into fights, so Twitter was perfect for him. And Insta... well, for some reason he also liked making coffee art and shit like that, so. Another fit.

Sometimes, Ghoul borrowed (not stole! borrowed) Adam's phone and posted bullshit in Michael's name. It was kinda fun, especially because it ticked the big guy of. But lately, Ghoul had been spending more time scrolling through tweets and Insta stories than actually trolling the archangel.

Seeing people with beards in skirts had been... interesting, to say the least.

“You literally eat people's genders, huh?” Adam asked, his smile a little crooked.

“Nah. I don't think a dong makes me a guy, or that tits would make me a girl, you know.” Ghoul paused, and stopped miming boobies. “Maybe I just don't need a gender. Or whatever.”

After a moment of thoughtful staring, Adam nodded. “So kinda like Michael.”

“... What.” No, not like the angel. What the fuck. Ghoul was so not like the angel! (Michael would have corrected this to archangel, like he always did, Ghoul thought with satisfaction.)

“Yeah, I mean Michael doesn't have an issue with us calling him 'he', and most of his siblings call him brother and all that. But he doesn't really have a gender, you know. He's not even human or, uh, you know. Humanoid.” Adam gestured towards Ghoul a little awkwardly. “Anyway, he doesn't have much of a connection to gender.”

Well, damn. Maybe Michael and Ghoul had more in common than that they wanted to fuck Adam.

“Is he listening right now?” Ghoul asked suspiciously. Michael wouldn't be happy with them being similar, either. Or he might use it to mock Ghoul later...

“Nope. He's busy,” Adam said, grinning.

“With what?”

“With trying not to listen.” Adam chuckled, putting a hand over his chest. Ghoul was pretty sure that was where Michael sat, or at least most of him. “I told him a couple minutes ago to give us some privacy.”

“And he did?” Ghoul raised an eyebrow, unconvinced. Then again, it was Adam who had asked. Michael was generally putty (maybe grumpy putty, but still putty) in Adam's hands.

“Yeah, sure,” Adam said easily. “So... what should we call you?”

“Uh. Ghoul?”

“Yeah, but I mean. Pronouns? And... don't you finally want an actual name?”

Another shrug. “I haven't really had one 'til now, why start? You already call me 'Gee' in public, that's good enough.”

Adam sighed. They'd been over this before – calling someone 'Ghoul' in public might be misinterpreted.

“And pronouns?”

“Eh. Whatever you can scratch up.” Ghoul thought about it. “Wait, can my pronouns be ghoul? Ghoul, ghoulm, ghoulself...”

“Seriously?” Adam seemed sceptic. “I mean, if you want, I guess.”

“I dunno. Maybe? Or he/they or whatever.” He shrugged. Hummed. “Romeo and Ghouliet...”

“What does that have to do with pronouns?”

“Nothing, it just sounds funny.” Ghoul grinned, and Adam snorted.

“Okay, Ghoulius Caesar. You about ready for dinner?” Adam held out his hand. Instead of taking it, Ghoul leaned down to bite it playfully.

“Sure am!”

Laughing, Adam grabbed Ghoul's hand and led the way to the living room. They had liver and a mostly untouched leg in the fridge, so it wasn't like Ghoul needed to snack on Adam.

He just tasted so damn good.

#Midamoulweek #Midamoul #He/they Ghoul my beloved #Slight mentions of cannibalism #Does talking about eating babies count as gore? 🤔 #Just to be safe #Gore cw #This one is very Ghoul/Adam-centric #Michael will be there more for the other days #Also yes I named this Midamoul story after a Shakespeare quote thanks for asking #Quick writing

[kashilascorner]

i'm sorry to say that this trend to cast poc actors for roles who were originally played by white people or are said not to be poc in the original material........ Is starting not to sit right with me. Not because poc actors take over those roles, but because it's just such a cheap way to gain "woke" points or say "here!! Look how diverse we are!!" without actually changing anything. The originals remain the same. The production team and writing team remain white. There's no real change. I just think it's so like manupulative in a way. Genuinely happy that poc actors get that paycheck tho!!

#it depends on the context tbh because for big classics like idk shakespeare or big culture phenomenons like barbie or whatever it just #makes sense and it's basically a good opportunity to use a re-imagining #I'm referring more to other contexts. i guess i could say the same thing about making female versions of characters 🤔 #anyways this particular post was prompted by suddenly getting the news that interview with the vampire is being adapted #into tv. and the guy that will play louis is raleigh richie and i mean it when i say i do like him for the role #but listen. why. then you see the headwriter and producer and they're all white. plus it just..... lowkey.... makes no sense? #interview with the vampire is not so implicitly racist lol like. louis owned a whole ass plantation in louisiana? slaves and all? #so yes making louis black in the year of our lord 2022 just feels cheap (and I'm sorry about it because again i do think #raleight ritchie is otherwise a fit choice for the role!! #also when these casts come up they're always controversial for the racists and tbh i wouldn't be surprised if #racist reaction / backlash = show or movie performs worse = execs justify it on the leads being poc is the thing that doesn't sell lol #blabla

[pintofperegrine]

What is the city but the people? (Coriolanus, 3.1.200)

#coriolanus #shakespeare #yo it's a banger quote #but i honestly think the guy who said it is a satire of shallow politicking that uses 'the people' as a prop #does coriolanus actually hate the people or does he just hate performing compassion? (rightly) 🤔

[sinfulforrest]

nothing like sitting in bed after you've just woken up trying to figure out what your dissertation is gonna be about fjfjgkgjdfjg 💦💦

#forrest speaks #i gotta like write 10k words about something english language/literature related #yes im a nerd who's doing an english degree dnfmgm #im just trying to think of what i could possibly write 10k words about.. #hmmmm #im leaning towards queer shakespeare things tbh 🤔 #i've always found his plays and sonnets fun to read #guess ill have to have a chat with my lecturers about this at some point

[hyperfocused-trashpanda]

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(putting this one in the notes cuz idk might be a bit of a hot take?????)

#but i think i vibed much more with 9 & 10 rather than 11 cuz they were so fruity like idk hiw to explain it beyond #11 doesnt get many fruity moments meanwhile 9 & 10 had jack hell even shakespeare like #i suppose he had some debatabley fruity moments with rory 🤔 #idk im just thinking thoughts atp ndhdjs #cheese thoughts #doctor who

[haaam-guuuurl]

The Next Step Shakespeare AUs

A Midsummer Night's Dream

featuring:

Piper as Helena

Amy as Hermia

Henry as Lysander

Finn as Demetrius

Summer as Puck

(also, Michelle as Oberon; Emily as Titania; Nick as Bottom; Noah as Theseus; and Richelle as Hippolyta)

Bonus! Another version of this AU with other characters because a big part of the original idea for this project came from me thinking Ella was so much like Puck. Eventually, I figured these guys were closer to the plot than the early cast, so I decided to go the other way, but here, as a treat:

#the next step #tns #william shakespeare #shakespeare #a midsummer night's dream #tns shakespeare au #my posts #my writing #moodboard #aesthetics #way more characters cast than all the other ones lol can you tell this is my favorite ws play? #should i have switched the couples? 🤔 #my moodboards

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

The stuff in Gabriel’s box that Crowley dumps out to read the bottom..was that stuff Gabriel brought back from Heaven that Aziraphale wasn’t a high enough rank to see..but Crowley can? Or just random insignificant bookshop stuff. Aziraphale almost looks confused when Crowley dumps it out

Hiya! :) Those were bookshop things Aziraphale put there bc he started using it as just a box :). But they are actually quite interesting :D.

In the Good Omens book there is (with Bilton and Scaggs being publisher next door to Aziraphale):

Bilton and Scaggs' second great publishing disaster occurred in 1653. By a stroke of rare good fortune they had obtained one of the famed "Lost Quartos"—the three Shakespeare plays never reissued in folio edition, and now totally lost to scholars and playgoers. Only their names have come down to us. This one was Shakespeare's earliest play, The Comedie of Robin Hoode, or, The Forest of Sherwoode. *The other two are The Trapping of the Mouse, and Golde Diggers of 1589.*

Master Bilton had paid almost six guineas for the quarto, and believed he could make nearly twice that much back on the hardcover folio alone.

Then he lost it.

In the box on the left you can see the two plays that has been lost to the publisher neighbour (*cough*StolenByAziraphale*cough*? :D).

The second document I'm a bit confused about :D.

New Cumnock,

February, 1913

...from the Trustees of the late John Gibson, Post:

...from Cumnock, the sum of One hundred and fifteen

...with interest at four per cent until final

...of the Estate is to he be deducted from the

...falling to me,

John Gibson

Some kind of last will? I found a Jonh Gibson from New Cumnock but still don't know the connection to Aziraphale? :)🤔

@neil-gaiman could you shed light on this please? :) ❤

#good omens #gos2 #season 2 #GOS2Spoilers #good omens spoilers #gabriel's box #good omens book #fun fact #the Comedie of Robin Hoode #Golde Diggers of 1589

[paleangels13]

Spotify ask game for writers you say? Alright: 16, 27, and 48

Thank you :3

16. Opinions - Blind Channel

Okay I have a few ideas sooo... Could maybe be about bullying and then set in a high school/college/university setting bc yk people having opinions about one of the guys and yeah kinda dragging him down with that

Drama because maybe two of the guys are in a relationship and either they make it public because they're tired of keeping it a secret but things don't go as planned at all and they get a lot of criticism and hate from newspapers and stuff OR it's a secret relationship and people start rumors about it and share their opinions on it without being asked OR there is no relationship going on but because they are the way they are and super comfortable around each other people start to talk and one thing leads to another

27. Emo girl - mgk

Honestly this is super hard because it already has a "gender" in the title and it's not the one I'd usually go for when writing bc 😅

Maybe genderbent with one of the bc guys and it's probably rather set in a teenage situation and they are going through their "phase" and have to deal with the reactions people have about you as soon as you look a certain way and whatnot but maybe then they meet one of the other guys (probably with their "normal" gender) at a concert or something and idk...i guess realize they aren't alone and there are others around that are the same and feel the same??

48. Fever - Blind Channel

Could go with a classic sick fic of course 😌

Alternatively to quote Shakespeare: “my love is as a fever (longing still)” and it could maybe be an unhealthy lovestory where one of the guys involved gets too caught up in it (and the other doesn't care as much) or maybe it's this almost obsessive love (not healthy either ofc) which could lead to different kinds of drama and/or angst 🤔 i think you get the point without me going into further detail ^^"

I feel like all of these are terrible and I'm sorry :') I'm in a bit of a rush because I accidentally posted this before it was finished and now I need to finish it asap and while I'm at it I'm also coughing up my lung which is... Fun 🙃😅

#asks #chaoslaura #spotify wrapped writing asks

[ryebecca]

Wait, wait, wait...you're telling me that Anyone But You is based on Much Ado About Nothing? My favorite Shakespeare play of all time?

And just like Joss Whedon's adaptation, which made no sense to me (I can talk for hours and hours about this, but I'll spare you all), I'm already going all 🤔 because the fake dating trope just doesn't fit. THE WHOLE POINT is that their friends play tricks on Beatrice and Benedick to make them think that the other one is hopelessly in love with them. It's hinted to (and can be interpreted) that Beatrice and Benedick might have had some kind of relationship in the past, but it ended poorly. But that's that. There's no pretending to like each other, even if they do deep down.

ALSO, just slapping the Ben and Bea names on your characters does not a Much Ado adaptation make. Anyway. *steps off of soapbox*

This former English major / Shakespeare enthusiast apparently has a lot to say?

#anyone but you #apparently i write text posts now #text post #seriously don't get me started on shakespeare or on this play specifically you won't get me to shut up

[ninjaturtlemaniac]

Hi can you give me a headcanon of brozone? like if they were cast in a movie what movie would they do all sort of stuff or what characters they would play etc...

Hello Gorgeous 💖

🎥🍿

I like this. 🤔

John Dory - He would either be the leading man in an exaggerated action movie based on his own life or he would be someone else's stunt double. 😂

Bruce - Romantic comedies. He's usually the handsome love interest in movies centered around a woman that has a big time job. (How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, The Devil Wears Prada, Legally Blonde) 💕

Clay - Serious drama flicks. Absolute Diva behind the scenes. (Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Bridgerton, Shakespeare) 😎

Floyd - sci-fi, fantasy and zombie movies. 🚀 He would be very into the special effects makeup and big costumes. He would even learn how to do them himself. (Lord of the Rings, World War Z, Wizard of Oz) 👠👠

Branch - I can only picture Branch wanting to produce the movies or writing the scripts. Don't think he would want to be the center of attention. Maybe voice acting in an animated movie 😏🤯

#dreamworks trolls #trolls #trolls band together #trolls movie #trolls brozone #trolls floyd #trolls branch #trolls clay #trolls john dory #trolls bruce

[cambion-companion]

God, Raphael would LOVE Shakespeare.

But which play would be his favorite?

I'm thinking Macbeth 🤔 (edit: or Othello actually)

#bg3 raphael #cambion thoughts #baldurs gate 3 #raphael baldur's gate 3

[just-another-star-47]

Thoughts on the Sallow family (I think)

Part IV

Names.

Sebastian is an old Greek name, used for the people that descend from Sebastia, a city that's located in today's Turkey. I read it was used for the children in this city, who where living on the streets and were unfree.

On the other hand the name of the city itself Sebastia seems to be used by ancient greeks the same way Latin people used Augustus. (A title for Roman Emperors.)

I read that the name was very popular in Germany during the 1980s and it appears in Shakespeares works so I guess it was well known in England as well.

The reason for this could be the tale about Saint Sebastian. He was tied to a tree because of his beliefs by the Romans and shot with arrows. He didn't die but was rescued by Irene of Rome, only to be beaten to death because of his sins later on.

Anne is a form of the Latin Anna, which again has its origin in the Hebrew Hannah and means 'favoured' or 'grace'.

Due to her history of illness and the constant conflict between two sides she was related to, one could see similarities with Anne Stuart, but I only know a few facts about her and it may be a big stretch to compare these two.

Solomon is a name originated in Hebrew and means peace.

Known by many is probably king Solomon (Old Testament). He was known as a wise and wealthy ruler, but interesting enough, texts written in Greek (the origin is unknown) claimed he used demons for his work. (It's more complex than that, but I just found it very fitting because of the relationship with Sebastian and Solomon.)

As far as I know Solomon was and is not a very popular name in England and in addition to that is heavily influenced by religion. So maybe Sebastian and Anne on their father's side of the family had their origin in Hebrew countries or were actually Jewish. (I still don't know how religion works in the Wizarding world..)

But it makes the whole dynamic between them very interesting. Solomon and Anne, both names originated in Hebrew, Sebastian's name from old Greek, the language in which the texts are composed that try to denounce king Solomon.

It also makes me wonder how Anne and Sebastian's father is called. 🤔

#hogwarts legacy #sebastian sallow #sebastian sallow headcanons #anne sallow headcanons #anne sallow #solomon sallow #solomon sallow headcanons