#antonio x bassanio

[anyavaramyr]

The thing with summer vacations is that it drives you to into the pits of extreme boredom.

See for example:- The fact that I actually wrote a merchant of Venice fanfiction. Antonio x Bassanio. I think I need help

#on another note its a pretty damn good story #i rlly wanna post it #MERCHANT OF VENICE FANDOM ARISE #mov #merchant of venice #the things the Indian school system does to a person #antonio #bassanio #antonio x bassanio

[dandyduel]

Harold Bloom the mind that you are

#mov #merchant of venice #antonio x bassanio #shakespeare #shylock #slay #harold bloom

[castles-in-the-eyre]

best queer shakespeare ships crowdsourced from this poll <3

#william shakespeare #shakespeare #hamratio #hamlet #romeo and juliet #twelfth night #a midsummer night's dream #polls

[cornyregans]

GVGP Profile: Claudio Monty

With Olivia Monty's entry done, it's now time for us to talk about her husband -- Claudio.

When it comes to his ancestry, Claudio is the deceased son of Patrizio and Isabella Monty, as well as the brother of Antonio and Bianca Monty. His grandparents include Valentine and Silvia Monty, as well as Vincentio and Francisca Pantalone. Finally, Claudio's great-grandparents are Bassanio and Portia Monty, Angelo and Mariana Capitano, Proteus and Julia Pantalone, and Lucio and Overdone Zanni.

Claudio Monty's Genetic Profile

Before his untimely death, Claudio was married to Olivia Monty, and they had two children, with a third on the way. As such, Claudio will be present in his offsprings' genetic profiles, and will be given a mention whenever necessary.

Skintone

As the son of two S3 parents, Claudio’s S3 skintone makes perfect sense.

Hair Color

If you’ve already read through Patrizio and Isabella’s genetic profiles, you'd know that their hair genetics are a mess. In Patrizio’s case, it’s due to contradictory sources, one where he has black hair, and one where he’s a brunet. While both of these hair colors can work, the brunet option is more situational, as we can't truly ascertain what Valentine and Portia Monty's genotypes truly were.

Claudio's Great-Grandparents via Patrizio Monty

SimPE lists Isabella as a blonde, but you will often find her depicted as a brunette (both by fans and in TS3). Unlike Patrizio, Isabella’s problem lies more with her parents’ faulty hair colors (specifically her mother’s). Much like Valentine, Vincentio Pantalone's headshot shows him with black hair despite having one brunet parent, and one with a recessive hair color. Conversely, Francisca has dominant brown hair in her headshot, yet both Lucio and Overdone Zanni had recessive hair colors.

Claudio's Great-Grandparents via Isabella Monty

As you’ve probably figured out, this whole hair thing is incredibly complicated. That said, in the interest of keeping this entry as short as possible, I’m only going to focus on how the following hair combinations affect Claudio’s genetic profile specifically.

Option 1: Black-Haired!Patrizio x Brown-Haired!Isabella: With a black-haired father and a brunette mother, Claudio’s black hair would make sense.

Option 2: Brown-Haired!Patrizio x Brown Haired!Isabella: Claudio’s black hair would only make sense with two brown-haired parents if Patrizio inherited the corresponding allele from his mother.

Option 3: Brown-Haired!Patrizio x Blonde-Haired!Isabella: With a brunet father and a blonde mother, Claudio’s black hair would only make sense if Patrizio received an allele for black hair from his mother.

Option 1: Black-Haired!Patrizio x Blonde-Haired!Isabella: With a black-haired father and a blonde mother, Claudio’s black hair would make sense.

Eye Color

Much like Consort Capp, Claudio is the victim of having an eye color that appeared spontaneously. Claudio’s ancestry consists of sims with brown, grey, and dark blue eyes; however, Claudio has light blue eyes. Of the known eye colors in his genetic history, the only recessive eye color is grey; however, only three of his ancestors were programmed with this specific gene.

On Patrizio’s side of the family tree, the only sim with grey eyes is Bassanio Monty. While we can’t say for sure if he was homozygous or heterozygous, we do know that he passed down a recessive allele to his son Valentine, who passed his down to Patrizio.

As for Isabella, both her father and paternal grandmother had grey eyes. In this case, Julia would have passed her recessive allele down to Vincentio, who passed it down to Isabella. That said, Vincentio couldn’t have had grey eyes if Proteus Pantalone was homozygous for dark blue eyes, so the latter sim would have needed a hypothetical recessive allele to justify this.

With these factors in mind, Claudio’s light blue eyes aren’t completely impossible. That being said, one of his great-grandparents would have needed to possess the proper phantom allele. Unlike with Consort, where there are multiple possibilities that can only be narrowed down so much, Claudio’s can be narrowed down to one sim.

Of his great-grandparents, the only one who couldn’t have passed down a light blue allele, not even with hypothetical genetics, is Portia Monty. As we’ve already discussed, Bassanio’s recessive eye color means Portia is the only sim who could have passed down a dominant allele to her brown-eyed son.

Valentine Monty's Visual Profile

With Portia eliminated, we can remove four more sims. All of Patrizio and Isabella’s maternal ancestors had brown eyes. As a result, the Capitanos and Zannis could all pass down exclusively dominant alleles, and the Monty family tree wouldn’t be any worse off. Not only that, but these exclusively brown-eyed ancestors perfectly explain how Patrizio and Isabella could be heterozygous for brown eyes, meaning Claudio's recessive alleles would have come from the Monty and Pantalone lines.

Silvia Monty's Visual Profile

Francisca Pantalone's Visual Profile

Now we’re left with only the Monty and Pantalone lines. We’ve already debunked Portia through a process of elimination, so we’re left with three sims — Bassanio Monty, and Proteus and Julia Pantalone. Of the three, the first sim we can remove from the list would be Julia. If Julia had a light blue allele, then it would mean that Proteus’s recessive allele would need to be grey to explain Vincentio’s eye color. While this situation is plausible, it’s not the option that uses the fewest hypothetical genetics.

Vincentio Pantalone's Visual Profile

This leaves us with Bassanio and Proteus as potential sources for the light blue allele. While both could have realistically had the gene, only one is needed to explain Claudio’s eye color. Of the two, however, the option that uses the fewest hypothetical genetics would be to assume that Proteus was the one who initially possessed the recessive allele. Unlike Bassanio, who could be heterozygous, Proteus would need to be heterozygous to explain how his son, and by extension his great-grandson, could realistically have recessive eye colors.

As a Whole

Claudio Monty's filled out genetic profile. As you can see, his skintone makes perfect sense when taking his genetic history into account. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for his hair color, which makes sense on the surface, but has too many tangled webs to properly unweave. Finally, Claudio's eye color is a happy medium, as it makes sense with hypothetical genetics; however, the journey to deciphering the source is rather tedious.

Who's Next?

With all the ABC Montys out of the way, our next entry is going to cover the final sim to marry into the Capp family -- Albany Capp.

Thank you for reading!~ <3

#claudio monty #veronaville #sims 2 #sims #veronaville vault #great veronaville genetics project #gvgp #monty family

[mistressaccost]

you’re in his dms. i bargained a pound of my flesh for him. we are not the same.

#the merchant of venice #william shakespeare #shakespeare #bassanio #antonio x bassanio #bassanio x antonio #is this ship real?? lmao

[mxlcncholy]

just hopping on tumblr again bc i jumped on the antonio x bassanio ship

#antonio x bassanio

[mitskismum]

portia and nerissa were the real queer love interests in merchant of venice

#portia merchant of venice #literature quotes #classical literature #dark acadamia aesthetic #billy shakes #shakespeare #female writers #portia is queer #fight me #portia x nerissa #lesbian #willy shakes #the merchant of venice #tmov #portia #bassanio #nerissa #antonio

[spocklock]

so we are reading Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in class and ??? Antonio and Bassanio ??? Love each other ??? the ship sails itself i love it

#the merchant of venice #shakespeare #gay #antonio x bassanio #bassanio x antonio #bassantonio #canon #queer shakespeare #books #play #venice #ship #gay ships

[anyavaramyr]

Love is blind

Antonio x Bassanio oneshot(by a very frustrated literature student who is v v tired)

A/n:- I don't know if you've noticed but I have no idea how to actually post a fic on tumblr, but I tried.@vaguely-tricksy here you go!

Antonio did not know why he was sad

That ache he felt in his chest sometimes was now a feeling that he had grown accustomed to, that deep longing for something he couldn't name but desperately longed for. But it was never physical this pain, it emanated from somewhere deep inside of him, a part of his heart telling him something in a language he did not understand.

When Salanio first implied that he might be in love, Antonio had scoffed. Love, he'd thought assuredly, was not something that was not meant for him. As a young child Antonio had dreamed of it of course, as any child does. Finding a beautiful wife that he loved and settling down in a quaint little house near the Grand Canal, just him, her and a little mini them that he would love with all his heart. But then his father died and the responsibility of looking after the family fell to him. He'd toiled and struggled to provide stability for his family, worked hard to get to the place he is now. But even after he had become one of the most esteemed merchants of Venice, Antonio did not contemplate love. He had his trading business to look after, a family would be too much affort at this age. Besides who even needed love when he had money and friendships that he would sacrifice anything for.

Now, standing in Belmont in Portia's majestic palace, Antonio looks around at his lovelorn friends and their lovely spouses and smiles warmly. Just because he didn't believe in love for himself, didn't mean he doesn't believe in love at all. He watches the happy couples around him; Jessica and Lorenzo, jubilant after finally being able to be together without hindrance from Shylock, Gratiano and Nerissa, the latter of which helped the Venician control his wayward tongue and rude comments and lastly at Portia and Bassanio, where he lets his eyes linger

Bassanio looked....happy. Truly, wonderfully happy with the woman he loved, and his heart grew warm at how merry he looked. The merchant had always loved it when Bassanio looked like that; his green eyes alight with joy, carefree and with a smile that could rival the sun with how bright it was. He would do anything to keep that expression on his dearest friend's face. But then he felt the ache in his chest creep up again, wrapping its tendrils around him at the way Bassanio looked at Portia like she was his whole world. It was always him, Antonio remembered, that made Bassanio smile like that. And then suddenly, all at once, something in him clicked.

Antonio knew Bassanio would not be able to repay the loans he gave him, he knew that Bassanio was reckless with his money and liked to live more lavishly than he could afford to and he knew that if he continued to give him loans he would eventually run into some trouble. But he still did. Because it was Bassanio and Antonio would find a way to steal the moon from the night sky, uncaring of it's consequences, if he desperately wanted it. He would give him anything he wanted, even if it meant accepting a grant from his greatest rival.

When the news of his imminent execution reached Antonio, he did not think of writing to one of the many lawyers he knew; he did not bother calling his friends in high society or begging Shylock to show him mercy. No, instead he wrote to Bassanio to come home to Venice. Because if he was going to die, he wished to do so after seeing his closest companion one last time. He wished to leave this world, knowing Bassanio would be alright and he wished to take the memories of those last moments with him when he finally departed from this world.

Antonio could feel his breathing quicken as realization rushed through him, as he figured out why all his life he'd always strived towards his best friend's well being. He felt his pulse thrum and his heart pound in his ears as he finally came to an understanding as to why that perfect picture of a family he'd had in his childhood didn't suit his fancy anymore. Because now when he thought of happiness he didn't think of an unnamed beautiful woman who would smile up at him with love in her eyes. Now he thought of Bassanio.

The heart of the famed merchant of Venice could not belong to any woman, for it had already been stolen by the man Antonio called his soulmate.

Antonio now knew why he was so sad, and he was starting to wish he really didn't.

I fr need help if this is what I've been doing in my past time. Which I have so. Pls suggest a therapist. Also took some creative liberties with Antonio's past(forgive me Shakespeare).

#merchant of venice #Merchant of Venice #capitalisation for the win #shakespeare #william shakespeare #antonio #bassanio #antonio x bassanio #antonioxbassanio #gay #?? #ig #have fun people #portia #lorenzo #gratiano #nerissa

[ladyannelister]

Bassanio in the deepest affliction replied, 'Antonio, I am married to a wife, who is as dear to me as life itself; but life itself, my wife and all the world are not esteemed with me above your life: I would lose all, I would sacrifice all to this devil here, to deliver you.'

Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb; p. 89

#damn I forgot how queer The Merchant of Venice is #Antonio x Bassanio #Tales from Shakespeare #Charles and Mary Lamb #The Merchant of Venice #book quotes #William Shakespeare

[fawad-khan]

Shreya no lie I found Antonio x Bassanio fic on AO3 and idk whether to laugh or cry

GOODBYE DJEJEJEJJE

#pls send it💀💀 #asks #pika!!

[that-unhinged-stem-dude]

Honestly Portia and Bassanio are such simps for each other and their inability to flirt makes me want to tear my textbook apart. Only the elites know that Bassanio x Antonio is the superior ship. ICSE humans know what im talking about right

#portia #bassanio #antonio #shakespeare is hella queer #gay #queer

[cornyregans]

GVGP Profile: Bianca Monty

Our next sim has what is, up until now, the longest genetic profile covered in this series. Today, we’re going to look at Bianca Monty.

Unlike the sims we've covered so far, Bianca is the first one with three generations of ancestors. This means that her genetic profile will be more complex than what we've seen before.

When it comes to her ancestry, Bianca is the only daughter of Patrizio and Isabella Monty, as well as the sister of Antonio and the late Claudio Monty. Her grandparents include Valentine and Silvia Monty, as well as Vincentio and Francisca Pantalone. Finally, Bianca is the great-granddaughter of Bassanio and Portia Monty, Angelo and Mariana Capitano, Proteus and Julia Pantalone, and Lucio and Overdone Zanni.

Bianca Monty's Genetic Profile

Unlike the sims we've previously covered, Bianca has no children of her own when the game starts. As such, she won't be present in any further entries unless I feel the need to highlight specific aspects of her genetic code.

Skintone

As the daughter of two S3 parents, Bianca’s S3 skintone makes perfect sense.

Hair Color

If you’ve read through Patrizio and Isabella’s genetic profiles, you would already know that their hair genetics are a mess. In Patrizio’s case, it’s due to contradictory sources, one where he has black hair, and one where he’s a brunet. While both of these hair colors can work, the brunet option is more situational, as we can't truly ascertain what Valentine and Portia Monty's genotypes truly were.

Bianca's Great-Grandparents via Patrizio

SimPE lists Isabella as a blonde, but you will often find her depicted as a brunette (both by fans and in TS3). Unlike Patrizio, Isabella’s problem lies more with her parents’ faulty hair colors (specifically her mother’s). Much like Valentine, Vincentio Pantalone's headshot shows him with black hair despite having one brunet parent, and one with a recessive hair color. Conversely, Francisca has dominant brown hair in her headshot, yet both Lucio and Overdone Zanni had recessive hair colors.

Bianca's Great-Grandparents via Isabella

As you’ve probably figured out, this whole hair thing is incredibly complicated. That said, in the interest of keeping this entry as short as possible, I’m only going to focus on how the following hair combinations affect Bianca’s genetic profile specifically.

Option 1: Black-Haired!Patrizio x Brown-Haired!Isabella: With a black-haired father and a brunette mother, Bianca’s brown hair would make sense.

Option 2: Brown-Haired!Patrizio x Brown-Haired!Isabella: Bianca’s brown hair would make sense with two brown-haired parents.

Option 3: Brown-Haired!Patrizio x Blonde-Haired!Isabella: With a brunet father and a blonde mother, Bianca’s brown hair would make sense.

Option 4: Black-Haired!Patrizio x Blonde-Haired!Isabella: With a black-haired father and a blonde mother, Bianca’s brown hair would make sense if we assume Patrizio has a brown allele in his genetic code.

Eye Color

Bianca has two brown-eyed parents. As such, her brown eyes make perfect sense.

As a Whole

Bianca Monty's filled out genetic profile. As you can see, her skintone and eye color both make perfect sense when taking her genetic history into account. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for her hair color, which makes sense on the surface, but has too many tangled webs to unweave.

Who's Next?

With the biggest profile so far out of the way, we're going to scale back a generation for the next entry. Next time, we're going to cover the sim who could most easily pass as the Unsavory Charlatan -- Cornwall Capp.

Thank you for reading!~ <3

#bianca monty #veronaville #sims 2 #sims #veronaville vault #great veronaville genetics project #gvgp #monty family

[bm-american-art]

Is It So Nominated in the Bond?, John Rogers, 1880, Brooklyn Museum: American Art

Statuette of figural group based on Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," the famous trial scene from the fourth act; plaster painted light tan color. Four figures in period garb standing on oval base: in center, Portia (female figure masquerading as male lawyer) stands on staircase holding scroll in proper right hand and gesturing to Shylock; bearded Shylock stands on right side pointing to scroll with proper right hand and holding knife and other implements in proper left hand; Antonio and Bassanio stand at left side, Bassanio, seen in 3/4 rear view, holds money bag in proper right hand and places other hand on Antonio's shoulder; Antonio opens his robes to expose chest. Condition: Good, few minor chips. Size: 23 x 21 x 11 in. (58.4 x 53.3 x 27.9 cm) Medium: Painted plaster

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2608

#museumarchive #americanart #brooklynmuseum #johnrogers

[steliosagapitos]

     “Portia”, by Charles Edward Perugini (British painter) 1839 - 1918.

Oil on canvas; 68 x 49.5 cm. (26.8 x 19.5 in.).     Portia is the heroine of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. A rich, beautiful, and intelligent heiress, she is bound by the lottery set forth in her father's will, which gives potential suitors the chance to choose between three caskets composed of gold, silver and lead. If they choose the right casket – the casket containing Portia's portrait – they win Portia's hand in marriage. If they choose the wrong casket, they must leave and never seek another woman in marriage. Portia favours Bassanio, but is not allowed to give him any clues to assist in his choice. Later in the play, she disguises herself as a man, then assumes the role of a lawyer's apprentice whereby she saves the life of Bassanio's friend, Antonio, in court. Portia is one of the most prominent of Shakespeare's heroines in his mature romantic comedies. She is beautiful, gracious, rich, intelligent, and quick-witted, with high standards for her potential romantic partners. She obeys her father's will while steadfastly seeking to obtain Bassanio. She demonstrates tact to the Princes of Morocco and Aragon, who unsuccessfully seek her hand. In the court scenes, Portia finds a technicality in the bond, thereby outwitting Shylock and saving Antonio's life when everyone else fails. Yet, she also shows immense injustice and cruelty towards the figure of Shylock and those who are sympathetic with Shylock see her as the epitome of blunt, barbaric, Christian primitivism. It is Portia who delivers one of the most famous speeches in The Merchant of Venice: "The quality of mercy is not strain'd. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes." The strength of Portia as a role has made it attractive to many notable actresses. Frances Abington, Sarah Siddons and Elizabeth Whitlock all played Portia in the 18th century when actresses first started appearing on stage. More recently, the role has been depicted in the cinema and on television by a number of notable actresses such as Maggie Smith, Claire Bloom, Sybil Thorndike, Joan Plowright and Gemma Jones. Portia's nature has received some negative critiques. The famous Jewish writer Wolf Mankowitz dubbed her a "cold, snobbish little bitch" in a video he made about anti-Semitism against Shylock the moneylender. The concept of "rhetoric" and its abuse is brought to light by Portia: the idea that an unjust argument may win through eloquence, loopholes and technicalities, regardless of the moral question at hand. * * * Genre and portait painter. Born in Naples, Italy, he was encouraged by Leighton to come to England in 1863. Under his influence Perugini painted one or two very fine classical pictures, such as 'The Loom'. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1863. His pictures are mostly of elegant ladies in interiors, sometimes with a romantic or humourous theme. He married Kate Dickens, daughter of Charles Dickens and widow of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Charles Allston Collins.

[aadyeah]

what are ur thoughts on bassanio x antonio

My first OTP

I mean, do yall even realise how tense the separation scene is? The entire fucking workbook keeps saying, "they were emotionally bonded," and "bassanio was the closest person to antonio" 

And the teachers fucking explain this friendship like: *awkward laugh* uh, huh so- so they were *really* close best friends, you see. Just like- JUST LIKE YOU ALL! *awkward laugh* cute, isn't it?

lmao maam, I was fucking gay for my best friend. So yeah, *just like me*