#talk like shakespeare day

[itsglor]

It doesn’t have to be in the original Klingon.

#shakespeare #talk like Shakespeare day #talklikeShakespeareday #star trek #geek #literature

[mewtwo24]

I finally finished reading the fourth volume of svsss in full, and thing is--the first time through I only read the bingqiu content because I was ravenous for more of their happy ending.

Turns out that was a perilous mistake.

Because I started reading the airplane extras. And I swear to god. MXTX is trying to kill me

What do you MEAN demon lord Binghe was sitting on his big fucking throne. All stoic and forbidding. Surrounded by his demon generals who don't know shit about human courtship. Asking them what he should do, fully demoralized by constant rejections from sqq, only to have airplane tell him to act more pathetic and needy. Which is already hysterically funny and insane, UNTIL LBH'S RESPONSE IS THIS, KILLING ME INSTANTLY:

LUO BINGHE. WHY DOES HE SAY IT LIKE: "I already tried that, didn't work--nothing works :/ not mean, not maidenly, not housewife, not spicy, not capable disciple. Is doubling down on clingy really all it will take? What's a born hater with only one love in his life to do????"

The dichotomy of him sitting there like 'how can I reach the unfathomable depths of shizun's heart?' A HEART HE'S ALREADY WON OVER, MIND and then in the Holy Mausoleum solving the puzzle without blinking and being like 'oh yeah you just have to hit the acupoints, no sweat.' Literally the comedy writes itself I'm so--

How am I supposed to be normal about this. MXTX understands the juicy quintessential queer joy of a person with the world's power at their fingertips wishing only for love. Willing to do anything to earn that love, when unbeknownst to them it's already been freely given. Totally not screaming and yelling and clawing at the walls

And that's not even touching airplane's uproarious account of events. The way he's like 'lol what's next, lbh and sqq are best friends now? smfh' only to see lbh TACKLE SQQ LOVINGLY. FOR SQQ TO BE BASHFUL ABOUT IT BUT SO SO FOND OF THE LITTLE SCAMP. This when we've been experiencing sqq's constant inner monologue of 'I'm so cool and so dignified about my role, truly the epitome of propriety and poser-level fortitude.' Meanwhile, in their universe:

Airplane constantly flaming???? Sqq and lbh in his observations????? His absolute bewilderment and confusion????? Legendary. No notes every single second of this shit was hilarious.

Airplane's comment that sqq + older adolescent lbh traveling together was just watching a couple in their honeymoon phase. OR the fact that lbh is exceedingly petty and refuses to share their food in the wake of airplane's interruption of their time together, until sqq relents sheepishly and insists airplane eat what's left (ONLY AFTER PLACATING LBH WITH MORE FOOD FROM HIS PLATE, SOBBING)

Watching airplane salivate over Mobei-Jun and acting like that's totally normal behavior. Finding out mbj and airplane got together first. Finding out sqq encouraged airplane. LIKE THIS. WHILE HE IS STILL IN DENIAL ABOUT HIS OWN FEELINGS:

Mobei-jun clearly thinking their arrangement is a forever thing, heartbroken his human abandoned him with all the hapless fury of a scorned wife swept away by false promises of fidelity. Airplane writing demons to be the type to beat up their crush lovingly and still unable to connect the dots about mbj's feelings. Mbj letting him go and respecting his wishes, only relenting when there's indication airplane was poorly processing his own feelings and didn't actually want to leave. Mbj caring for him and listening to him as soon as airplane voices what he needs directly and with clarity. None of these gays are functional and it's everything to me

Unrelated, but I physically can't hold this information in anymore:

I'm still reeling from younger lbh having his sexual awakening from the image of sqq wrapped in the immortal binding cables. Condemn me as you like he was so, so real for that.

And no I will not be taking any comments about how luo bingge couldn't bear to see luo binghe cherished in ways he never got to have and all the haunting implications of that. I will also not be taking any comments about luo binghe's instinct to look for sqq in that alternate universe, only to be shaken to the very core to be unable to find his shizun anywhere. The unspeakable and latent horror of his relentless mind likely piecing together what happened, but unable to say it; to suspect what is true, and live with the harrowing confusion of his double's actions. To blame himself, to assume that he had let his anger get the better of him in that world and result in unspeakable folly...

I also refuse to talk about how heartrending it is to hear Tianlang-jun weakly say "In the end, I really can't bring myself to hate humans." The implication that the foolishness of that hope and bright-eyed fondness--the very thing that put him through such unspeakable agony--couldn't be beaten out of him entirely. To discover that his faith in Su Xiyan hadn't been misplaced, to the contrary: his beloved hadn't scorned him at all, but rather fought to the miserable end to protect the fruition of their genuine feelings of love when she couldn't protect tlj or herself.

How MXTX has sqq deliberately draw parallels between their situation and that of ygy+sj and tlj+sx; desperately wishing it might not be too late for them. The concept of breaking cycles of abuse and harm pervasive throughout the newly devised story, how it evolves for the better only when love takes the place of power, pride, and domination. How the moment sqq chooses vulnerability instead of saving face, the genre shifts to the so-called "cringe" girly genre where most if not every character is more fulfilled, more true to themselves. How the "male-oriented" former genre was aimlessly sensationalized and sexualized, how it was a sustained performance of aspirational toxic masculinity. How men objectify other men without end. All of the unspoken gendered implications that come with that.

Anyways. Going to go put my head in a sandbox and try to process everything I just witnessed because even a second reading is not enough to find a modicum of closure.

#svsss #bingqiu #moshang #i swear to god this series is just 'gay man who doesn't know shit inflicting his delusional reality on everyone else and inciting chaos' #and literally it's slapstick levels of hilarious every single time; mxtx never change #also i fully agree that we did not get NEARLY enough mobei-jun and sqh/airplane content #the amount of mental illness to mental illness communication going on there was astonishing #mobei-jun being afraid of his uncle and bringing sqh because that's the only person he trusts fully (WAILING NOISES) #sqh having a tantrum but running away because for the first time he was honest about his needs + his dissatisfaction with catering to other #how that reflects his narrative compulsions and how he felt forced to warp more creative story paths for the sake of survival as a writer #how sqq's restoration of much of his original intent--as well as mobei-jun's acceptance of his needs--helps airplane begin to heal #how his happiness begins; how just like sqq he wanders in such confusion and denial before he's forced to realize what truly matters to him #SHREK VOICE: STORIES HAVE. L A Y E R S #it feels like modern day shakespeare and when i say that i don't mean it in a hollow elevating sense i mean it more like #mxtx just hits that perfect balance of poignance but also hilarious concentric circles of botched communication and brainworms #okay but real talk for a minute? .........;-; #the way lbh constantly struggles with such a crushing feeling that he'll be abandoned over any little mishap/thing/problem #really hit me where it hurts??? if only because its so clearly an anxiety that stems from original goods' upbringing #the way it becomes even more heartrending when you think back to all the sect leaders clamoring that he should have been killed as an infan #that he should have been aborted as a fetus--insisting right in front of him that his birth was a mistake and a disgrace #over having demon blood in his veins. like my god that scene is so viscerally upsetting i struggle to read it #the way its so easy to see the demons as a manifestation of otherness in precipitated form #how both sqq and sqh are influenced by human rhetoric without evening meaning to--assuming the worst against their better judgment #how both sqq and sqh both struggle with their own otherness in different ways and only find solace when they begin to accept who they are #how their lovers (lbh and mbj respectively) both are willing to navigate those confusing waters with them #how both demons love them as they are--accept them as they are despite how difficult forgiveness of perceived betrayal is for them #ty mxtx for changing my brain chemistry #as i get older i have such a fondness for the messiness of thematic queer self-discovery and growth into self-acceptance #that and how youth can so easily be defined by perfectionistic self-harm and the violence of repression

[brainfullofquotes]

I'm REALLY enjoying this David Tennant hyperfixation I'm on. I've watched so many things I never would have before, and honestly, I've liked every single one of them so far!

#just watched the decoy bride #utterly ridiculous #and yet SO FLIPPING CUTE #will be adding to my romcom rewatches #staged was great #saw a screening of 'Good' which left me heartbroken for days #casanova was another ridiculous one that MADE ME CRY #up next.... Shakespeare!! #Hamlet followed by Much Ado! #david tennant #love this hyperfixation #adding more tags cause ive watched more things! #broadchurch was amazing #i can see why everyone keeps talking about it #I didnt care for You Me and Him #although I loved the outfits Tennant got to wear #Around the World in 80 days I finished like one big movie #now onto Jessica Jones!

[sableeira]

everyone has those authors that you would be so unhinged about if they were introduced in bsd right?

mine are: emily dickinson (it might be too late for her but I’m in denial), franz kafka, and any german author but especially goethe (c’mon asagiri give us the rest of the transcendents) and schiller. I’m not able to describe how unhinged I would be if any of them get introduced

#bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #tell me the authors you would want to see in bsd and why plssss I’m curious #I know goethe is part of transcendents and that gives me hope for future goethe and schiller in bsd #my friend and I talk about this every few days btw we need them to be in bsd and they need to be gay lovers #also I need shakespeare right noooooow that’s another one I would be unhinged about #pssss pssss psss asagiri you want to introduce the transcendents soooo bad #other german authors I would like to see in bsd: heinrich heine bertolt brecht stefan zweig #would also love to know if camus will become an actual character or if meursault is all we are going to get #same thing with yukio mishima (author of the decay of angels) #also I feel like it’s too late for emily dickinson because the american arc is over #and I don’t really think asagiri would introduce kafka… even tho I think that bsd!kafka would be asagiri’s ultimate blorbo or a self insert

[averagehermitcraftenjoyer]

i do have to give ren credit, making the ex-doom speedrunner the minister of hell was an extremely funny decision. like yeah i sure hope he knows how to handle hell

#rendog #hermitcraft #hermitcraft 10 #love you dog man who talks like if shakespeare was raised in modern day california

[joshuaalbert]

listen I know the kira and dax arthurian legend holosuite dates are little more than a haha funny hats running joke and if you examine it any more than that you’re taking it too seriously but it really is such a throwaway representation of how infuriatingly earth- and english language canon-centric star trek tends to be. none of the characters involved in this are from earth. this is a trill showing a bajoran this fun program in a holosuite run by a ferengi. I don’t doubt that dax could have run across arthurian legends at some point over hundreds of years and maybe jadzia likes them but are you telling me that there are no trill Romantic Legends that she could introduce kira to, thereby bonding more by showing her (and us) this piece of her own culture? a centuries-old story from bajor that maybe kira didn’t even know about because that kind of thing stopped being passed down as much during the occupation but dax does from a previous host? a story from a third entirely unrelated culture that’s not earth that has some kind of personal connection? I mean, shit, even something from earth that’s not so deeply western?

and it would be a different kind of bad if they’d thought about it and went mm I think that kind of detail makes them a little Too close send in the het love interests but like. it does not feel like they thought about it hard enough for that it’s just a brief recurring gag about funny ooc outfits that unconsciously reinforces the idea of english canon as the default.

#the way trek always does this drives me a little insane #I like shakespeare believe me but why are those the grand quotes of humanity? #one of the few times i can remember where a non english or usamerican author is quoted it’s like. the art of war. #it’s not about the literary value #I get that they want it to be recognizable to their audience but god forbid the audience learn something about the other cultures #on their own planet while watching the space show #not that thousands of people haven’t talked about this before me I’m just thinkin about it #san rant #sorry for vanishing for two days and then coming out swinging about some random shit #I was busy setting up a five year plan to become a trophy spouse. slash j. unless?

[poppyseed799]

btw I don’t know if this is a thing anyone is thinking about but I’m not gonna stop drawing Jimmy as a canary. It’s a lovely bird. It’s still something that’s been really important to his series. There’s no reason to drop the canary headcanon just cuz Lizzie fell into the void.

#warning: don’t open up these tags I went on a very heated and rather unrelated rant cuz I’ve been mad #trafficblr #life series #secret life spoilers #secret life smp #jimmy solidarity #also I’m sick of seeing ppl celebrate Jimmy surviving because they hate the canary curse fans like SHUT UP!!! LET US HAVE FUN GOD!!! #LIKE LITERALLY EVEN IF NOBODY CAME UP WITH THE CANARY METAPHOR WE WOULD STILL BE TALKING ABOUT HOW HES ALWAYS DYING OK WE DIDNT MAKE UP THAT #HE DIES FIRST HE JUST DOES. GOD. so what if some people make shakespeare sounding posts about the curse that I don’t understand. we are JUST #having fun and making connections where we don’t need to BECAUSE ITS FUN. NOT CUZ WE DONT CARE ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE. sorry for the past few #days I’ve been genuinely mad at this fandom’s growing hatred towards its own community. #LIKE IM FINE IF ITS NOT YOUR THING BUT GOD. WE ARENT EVEN DOING ANYTHING 😭😭😭 THE LORE LITERALLY WRITES ITSELF OR IS WRITTEN BY MARTYN LOL #I’ve just been getting SO TILTED man. like ohhh yeah okay ur right i said too much guess I won’t say anything anymore #does anyone else genuinely not know wtf ppl are talking about when they say a certain hc takes over everything about the character #cuz I literally see so much varied Jimmy content yet I’ve seen several ppl complain that ppl ignore aspects of his character in favor of #WHATEVER when I literally don’t see that happening to him. step out of ur circle or something I don’t even HAVE a circle man

[azulashengrottospiano]

ME TOO GIRLIE!!!!!

#shakespeare route update hopefully soon??? #i need to upload like 20 days of screenshots oops #auburn talks ikevamp <3

[b4kuch1n]

gonna start subjecting u lot to my rambling abt classic viet authors

#bakuspeech #nhân văn+giai phẩm #thats gonna be the tag I guess #anyways. idk shit abt shakespeares. gonna give yall a taste of what that feels like #jk that's mean I just like rereading this stuff once in a while #it's fun! I'm recovering from viet public literature education on main now #like. idk sometimes I talk to foreign friends and we both realize how we each are privy to #hundreds to thousands of years of stories and records and writing #that the outside world knows basically nothing about. #it's insane to me every time. I'm entering vibe mode. I will never shut up again #I feel like in ~5yrs I will become the most wrong person about nguyễn trãi specifically #and I need to own it early. so this is actually not gonna be a learning moment for anyone #actually tho it's so funny I'm invested in nguyễn trãi as a historical figure I don't even like his writing #it's mid! sad to say this but it's aight at best. nguyễn khuyến is much more my speed #and YOU will learn what all of that just now means! one of these days! when I get to it! #for now. oh baby we are gonna talk so much shit.

[emotinalsupportturtle]

the main reason I will always be obsessed with David Tennant is that fundamentally, we share the same mental illness

#I’m constantly in awe of him #and obv he's immensely talented and attractive and a great person #but that man is clearly insane #i mean he sits and writes 10k essays on the homoerotic subtext of shakespeare #he can't sit still for like 2 seconds #or sit normally on a chair #he thinks using real skulls for hamlet is cool (it is) #he says things like “i'd rather hide under a table than go out” and “i wear hoodies so people don't talk to me (they assume I'm a murderer) #he faked an assistant to get out of attending events #is obsessive about his geeky shows #is somewhat an adrenaline junkie. said about doing theatre; #“it was horrible and it was actually killing me. but once it was over i ofc thought to myself 'oh i think i might have to do that again” #in interviews he keeps going off in tangents and looses the complete point of the question #i mean i just watched one where he was asked about his first day on set on doctor who #and he somehow ended up on passionately speaking how we are all fucked if donald trump is elected (this was before he was president) #and nearly started an anti-trump campaign (king) #has the chronic inability to make sartorial choices that would result in anything but the gayest outfits #has imposter syndrome #ofc i can only aspire to be fractionally as cool as him #but all this actually deeply relatable #this is probably why tumblr likes him so much #david tenannt

[softiecharlie]

"I prefer the sun being just in the shadow and working in it without anybody really noticing."

— Charles Leclerc for RacingNews365, 2022

#charles leclerc #this man will put Shakespeare to shame one day #WHAT HOW EXCUSE ME WHAT #how is he so poetic wtf #THE METAPHORS?!?!? #formula one #i have always adored charlie but his ability to say poetic stuff will always catch me off guard like #wow this is so #charlie is actually a poet #also just to clarify i did take the quote out of context because i wanted to talk about Charlie's poetic bone #read the article for the context okay bye

[brechtian]

I can’t believe this. A) he’s just like me for real nedd somehow in one scene became the most Rosie-coded character in the book B) suddenly being jolted back to all those jokes skyward discord made years ago about nedd and Arturo doomed romance living out the plot of Romeo and Juliet in the background of these books

#this is so so silly but I can’t NOT post about them talking about Shakespeare and also I’ve been lowkey waiting the whole book for nedd and #Arturo to interact so we could bring back the nedturo bit #for those unfamiliar the bit is that if skyward was mainstream nedd and Arturo would be the random background men everyone would be #weirdly obsessed with #defiant liveblog #skyward #ALSO. then they talk about hamlet and I literally have been thinking spensa has been a little hamlet coded in this book #but was like no surely it’s just bc I’ve been thinking abt hamlet 24/7 the past few days #AND WHAT DO I SEE. #I need to finish this book I’m embarassed everytime I post abt it #it’s okay. Lucia gets the brunt of my thoughts she’s my little angel

[galacticlamps]

'to thine own self be true (and thou canst not then be false to any man)' Polonius tells his son Laertes in Act 1 - and it's so trite a saying that we quote it on everything from greeting cards to jewelry and almost laugh to stumble upon it in its original context

and then Laertes goes and spends the rest of the play - and let's face it, what little of it came before that as well - playing the foil to its tragic hero until it kills them both in Act 5 (and through the means of his own deception too)

#i am soooo normal about laertes (i'm lying) #one day i'll write a book about how normal i am about him but for now have this textpost #anyways nobody asked but i think that's probably the shakespeare quote i have the biggest love/hate relationship with #because we talk about it so much but hardly ever actually talk about IT #and even when we do it's mainly to be like 'oh polonius you with your empty maxims you!' (& we do need to remember that part too) #but it's also: #'oh polonius you are in conjunction with that & in more ways than one the very thing that dooms your son and therefore all of them' #it's the quintessential hashtag-its-not-that-deep quote #while at the same time being bitterly ironic and rarely do you get to discuss how both of those things can be true at once #so i Love it but i also Hate that i could undoubtedly find it on a t-shirt without much effort yk? #(and before anyone points out that there are multiple shakespeare quotes for which the same can be said re: the whole #itssodeep-noitsnot-actuallymaybeitisforadifferentreasontho dance #trust me i know but i refer you back to the first tag & how extremely normal i am about the character of laertes in general)

[thejugheadparadox]

well im being proven right in my hypothesis that im incapable of keeping a uni friend for more than like 9 months BUT. at least im besties with like four of my professors and am soooo good at having adult fun convos with them that make them think im interesting

#i chatted w my tutor about musicals and the state of modern shakespeare performance for like 20 mins #and then ran into lovely medievalist who i hang out with on the ucu pickets and talked to her about strikes #and the other day i spoke to Incredibly Cool Woman about my measure for measure production #I AM SO SOCIALLY ADEPT THAT IT DOESNT MATTER THAT EVERYONE WILL EVENTUALLY REALISE IM TOO DIFFICULT

[murderousink23]

04/23/2024 is German Beer Day 🍻🇩🇪, World Table Tennis Day 🏓🌎, St. George's Day in Catalonia 🇪🇸, National Cherry Cheesecake Day 🇺🇸, National Lost Dogs Awareness Day 🐶🇺🇸, National Picnic Day 🇺🇸, National Take a Chance Day 🇺🇸, National Talk Like Shakespeare Day 🇺🇸, International Macaron Day 🇬🇧, St. George's Day 🇬🇧, English Language Day 🇺🇳, Spanish Language Day 🇺🇳, World Book and Copyright Day 🇺🇳

#german beer day #world table tennis day #st. george's day in catalonia #national cherry cheesecake day #national lost dogs awareness day #national picnic day #national take a chance day #national talk like shakespeare day #international macaron day #st. george's day #english language day #spanish language day #world book and copyright day

[fluffypotatey]

girlie talking about how she's not a fan of shakespeare but her only point of reference is reading romeo and juliet from high school

#like.....girlie #g i r l i e #it is day one in this class and i already want to throw hands #i need to stop being a hater every first day of school it's not healthy #she talking about how the writing is just not for her but ma'am that was your first and only shakespeare play #you read it freshman year (1st year) of high school #of course it made no sense to you then! you've never read that kind of writing before!!!! #also shakespeare is not meant to be read!!! #it's meant to be performed but i digress #cannot believe i'm defending romeo and juliet #there was also another girlie who mentioned she wasn't a fan of shakespeare either #bc her only reference to shakespeare was reading King Lear in high school but this isn't about her this about the r&j girlie #(but again: you've had no other work similar to it and thus opinion is null & void) #anyway #i'm ranting