#and Shakespeare

[tallbluelady]

10 Archetypes that I Made Up That Make Up My Blorbos

@sasslett tagged me with 10 Characters/Fandoms but my brain was getting mad at the restrictions so I made up my own thing.

Smart and Loyal Woody (Toy Story), Scarecrow (Wizard of Oz), Faramir (The Lord of the Rings), Aragorn (LOTR)

Cool Dad Dr. Henry Jones Jr. (Indiana Jones), Qui Gon Jin (Star Wars), Alan Grant (Jurassic Park), Auron (Final Fantasy X), Aragorn (LOTR)

Green Girl Buttercup (The Powerpuff Girls), Makoto Kino/Sailor Jupiter (Sailor Moon), Sam (Totally Spies!)

Relatable Scamp Simba (The Lion King), Sora (Kingdom Hearts), Tidus (FFX), Riku (FFX), Scout (To Kill A Mockingbird)

Adventure! Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII), Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas), Miguel and Tulio (The Road to El Dorado), Dr. Henry Jones Jr. (Indiana Jones)

Sexy Supportive Boyfriend Captain Hook/Killian Jones (Once Upon a Time), Urianger Arugelt (Final Fantasy XIV), Will Turner (Pirates of the Carribean)

Sentient Animal Red XIII (Final Fantasy VII), Reepicheep (Chronicles of Narnia), Any Talking Animal Media, (Suspect for Freya (Final Fantasy IX))

Gender Urianger Arugelt (FFXIV), Cloud Strife (FFVII), Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop), Jack Skellington (TNBC), Elizabeth Swan/Turner (PotC), Emma Swan (Once Upon a Time)

Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Goku (Dragonball), Kenshin Himura (Ruruoni Kenshin), Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)

Shakespeare Urianger Arugelt (FFXIV), Didymis (Labyrinth), Shakespeare (Romeo x Juliet anime), Shakespeare (Fate Series)

Feel free to do w/e: @yloiseconeillants, @lilbittymonster, @hermits-hovel, @azure-dragonsinger, @mythandral, @abyssalmermaiden, @whatsthisascianbullshit, @sayonaramidnight, @tishinada, @janzoo

#smart and loyal is probably just my primordial self getting into media and picking favorites #cool dad is like characters who would normally get a regular ass crush but my asexual baby self just wanted a mentor #green girl is fairly self explanatory and part of why i have a hard time picking a mlp:fim blorbo #relatable scamp is also fairly self explanatory #adventure is basically dudes i daydreamed having adventures with #sexy supportive boyfriend is self explanatory #sentient animal is self explanatory #gender is self explanatory but each character has unique gender qualities #crouching moron hidden badass is a character who appears to be harmless but will prove otherwise #and shakespeare #well you know

[darkenchantress]

You cannot release a new Ewan interview where he talks about Johnny Cash, Slipknot, Black Sabbath, Linkin park, wearing black and Matt Smith all together and expect me to concentrate at work. Not today.

#ewan mitchell #not happening #aemond targaryen #and shakespeare

[guujikaroko]

So... Fontaine. Court. Trial. Traveler going to jail?

There are a lot of things I'm thinking about. Focalors lives for the drama of the courtroom; she wants excitement, she wants twists and turns, she should probably be in her room playing Ace Attorney but decided to toy with her nation's judicial system instead. What if the Traveler gives her what she wants?

The Traveler is famous on Fontaine, that much we know. They might receive a warm welcome at first, probably courtesy of Charlotte and her friend Navia? But then there's the teaser narrated by Alice which implied someone might expose the Traveler, which in turn implies them being persona non grata in Fontaine?

The Archon Quest's title is Masquerade of the Guilty. The Traveler WILL be in hiding, that much it's obvious. Another obvious thing it's that a revolution will happen. I mean, it's France in Genshin. It's bound to be revolutionary.

Now the question is when exactly the Traveler joins the supposed resistance. I have a wild guess of the Traveler being declared guilty and the resistance crashing the courtroom to save them. Imagine if a fugitive escaping the courtroom is something unprecedented? Now THAT would be a surprise worthy of Focalors' attention.

This is all just conjecture, though. I have no idea about how this will go...

#genshin impact #genshin theory #fontaine #genshin impact traveler #focalors #I'm prepared to see les miserables everywhere #and Shakespeare #probably dante's inferno too? #greek theatre is fair game too #commedia dell'arte about to go ham #that's just how Hoyoverse does things

[2dayihaveaheadache]

Anakin as Macbeth (?)

I am obsessed with the idea of how much Anakin could have resembled Macbeth and does in some ways. Please let me elaborate! At the moment, my University is forcing me to reread Macbeth and thanks to my Professor, we are obligated to compare the classics to Pop Culture. One of my fellow students pointed out that Anakin does share some similarities with Macbeth. Regarding their motivation, both are driven by ambition though Macbeth is more focused on his gain, while for Anakin the protection of his beloved one is more important. (Quick side notes: I think Anakin’s need to desperately prove himself should not be underestimated.) This weakness and both of their emotional instability are brutally exploited to influence their future actions. In Macbeth, his wife plays the role of the manipulator, similar to what Palpatine does in Star Wars. So, Macbeth’s emotional journey and end seem to be a what-if scenario for Anakin’s fate as Darth Vader. 

#star wars au #Anakin has emotional problems #Macbeth what-if #star wars what if #obikin au #star wars mix with classic literature #that's the au #Anakin as Macbeth #Author is a Literature Student so way too much lit references here #thanks I love my Professor #and Shakespeare #Felix's weird thoughts and drabbles #weird shit #weird thoughts #macbeth au

[thepoetsvortex]

Severus Snape also loves Edgar Allan Poe.

The darkness of the stories lead us to draw our own conclusions

#severus snape #snape meta #prosnape #no i will not shut up about Snape’s literary taste #It includes much dark Russian lit #And Shakespeare #no i will not elaborate #not apologizing

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

#media #theatre #history #shakespeare #media piracy #media preservation

[gettingnutsfromsquirrels]

#meme #funny #memes #books #reading #Shakespeare #monkeys

[bloodybellycomb]

One massive, legitimate way to improve as a writer or artist or in any creative endeavor really, is to become absolutely obsessed with something and to allow yourself to be weird about it. Genuinely mean this btw.

#dc comics #disco elysium #shakespeare #hamlet #scott pilgrim #<- all this things have made me a better #writer and artist for both fan creation #and for my own original work #literal life hack #allow yourself to become obsessive and cringe to a certain degree #birdy chirps

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Another year, another group of my delightful ninth graders trying to spell the word "tragedy" for their Romeo and Juliet assignment.

Last year's collection

#i started questioning how to spell it myself #but again... at least they knew the right answer #i love them endlessly #teacherblr #teacher life #teaching #english class #english teacher #grammar #literature #romeo and juliet #shakespeare #william shakespeare #language #tragedy

[shojoboy]

dropout tv is like . what if there was an animal shelter but it was for 30 yr olds with BAs in Theater

#warms the heart. glad they have somewhere to frolic and improv shakespeare scenes #sam reich has that vibe to me like. feeding them anchovies if they do a lil jump. #funding a nature preserve for them so they dont have to go back to waiting tables and podcasting #-_- #dropout

[peggy-sue-reads-a-book]

#classics #shakespeare

[claraoswalds]

Oh, is that who I am now? Well, it was never that far from the surface, mate.

#dwedit #doctor who #usertennant #userteri #usertoph #ninth doctor #tenth doctor #eleventh doctor #twelfth doctor #thirteenth doctor #fourteenth doctor #jack harkness #william shakespeare #martha jones #jacobi!master #simm!master #rory williams #clara oswald #bill potts #yasmin khan #dan lewis #donna noble #best enemies #* #i'm sure there are lots more these are just the ones i could remember <3 #emphasis on doctor/master bc well. i'm me #i was going to make a set like this in... feb of last year? #picked out the scenes & had the frames all ready and then i was like. actually that's too much work #so i bailed fjlkdsjls i giffed like three of them individually but that was all #and now a year n a half later here we are.....

[insomniac-arrest]

The first rule of tragedy is to be yourself. The second of rule of tragedy is to be literally anyone else. The third rule is that however much you try, there is no escaping being yourself forever.

#shakespeare #he speaks to me

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[mysharona1987]

#william shakespere #twitter #shakespeare #elon musk

[shakesqueers13]

Say what you want about the 2023 Shakespeare in The Park production of Hamlet, but the choices made in that play WORKED. Having Hamlet wear a black hoodie and cargo pants and him dramatically putting his hood up when he was pissed off was inspired. Having Horatio video tape Claudius on an iPhone camera from the side of the stage during the play within the play was hilarious. Having the play within the play be a hip hop dance number that represented the murder!?! Fantastic. Having Ophelia be a singer before she went mad and having a beautiful voice that everyone loved to listen to and then seeing her singing get worse and worse as she got nearer to death?!?! Hamlet pulling out his iphone after killing Polonius to show his mom a picture of his dad compared to a picture of Claudius and angrily swiping back and forth between the two as he said “What judgement would step from this… to this?” The crowd fucking lost it every time. Horatio singing to Hamlet as he died made me fully sob every time. The way they did the ghost on stage was so chilling and I can’t even accurately describe it, you just had to be there. Hamlet being deeply exasperated the entire time was just perfect. Hamlet and Horatio had a secret handshake. Laertes inexplicably carried an acoustic guitar case for much of the play which was very funny but also hit you with the heartbreaking implication that he had used to play while Ophelia sang and he stopped carrying it after she died. It was peak teenage-angst-hamlet and it was so dear to me. PLEASE if anyone has a recording, send it to me.

EDIT: THEY'RE GOING TO BROADCAST THIS PRODUCTION ON PBS, CHECK THE NOTES

#shakespeare #william shakespeare #hamlet #hamlet and horatio #hamlet x horatio #Ophelia #shakespeare shitposting