GLEN WHY DO WE BOTHER WITH BUTTONING IT AT ALL AT THIS POINT?!?
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wild to me to see posts like "wow everything in the tempest is named after shakespeare...emet you melodramatic bitch you sure loved theater". because the prospero-emet thing gets played up so hard in the english script and you can carry it so far!
like prospero is an asshole magician who, after being deposed by his brother as duke of milan, settles himself and his daughter on a remote island, enslaves the local spirits using his magic, and bitterly plots to reclaim his past glories. he rules through violence and deceit, and only survives and is reconciled when his plots reach their fruition and his brother is taken to his remote island and plots ensue and everyone decides he was totally right all along and they were huge dicks to him and they're sooooo sorry and he gets to go back and be duke again wow! and it's okay because he's like "i was only doing mean magic to get my rightful spot back and now i'm giving it up because magic is evil. :)"
the tempest is what emet wants his life to be. prospero is not a villain in the text of the tempest. he is barely treated as antagonistic by the text and framing of the play itself. all his abuses, his neglect and control of his daughter, his enslavement of caliban and ariel (local spirits/monsters/people of the island), his deception and plots against his brother, his abuse of magical powers (not awesome, from the pov of the contemporary audience), all that ultimately gets swept aside in the rightness of his return to milan and the warm feeling of the world being set to rights. prospero can't undo the years he spent on the island but they are ultimately a blip in his life before he returns to the rightful state of affairs. his abuse and enslavement of caliban, easily the worst thing he does in the play, is totally set aside when caliban goes "wow now i see how truly benevolent my master is. i love him and see the ways of christian good and i'm so, so appreciative he chose not to kill or beat me even though he totally could have and would have been in the right. he's so just and intelligent." everyone loves and forgives him and they all agree both his management of the island and his ultimate return are so good and so wise and so right.
emet comparing himself to the tempest (or being compared to it, depending on how you want to read the diegetic status of the place names) is absolute wishcasting. it is an attempt to manifest the happy ending he will never, ever get because his sins cannot and would not be forgiven in the way he wants. he wants to imagine himself as the righteous returned duke whose crimes, including the enslavement, abuse, and exploitation of those he saw as his rightful inferiors, were totally worth it, i promise. and if emet is prospero, the warrior of light is his caliban.
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this is a scrapped scene from Trikaranos & originally it joined a standalone series of comics from Pompey’s point of view, but it got scrapped from THAT set too because I decided they both needed to be weirder and worse and this is kind of vanilla ngl. however I’m still kind of fond of it in some kind of way, and it’s been a second since I’ve posted a comic! also I wanted to draw it. so I did.
for context: Crassus cut his hand open helping Pompey out with something in a previous scene! for more context: the answer to Pompey’s question is a reliable (business/political) partner. that’s about it!
⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / tip jar!
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i want to know every possible thing about him. how he takes his coffee. what body wash he prefers. what his biggest pet peeve is. what his favorite movie is and why. what made him become a teacher. if he’s ever done this before. i want to know if he keeps his house tidy or if it’s messy. what his bedroom looks like, how his sheets feel. what his first love was like and why he loved them. i want to know what cologne he wears and who bought it for him. i want to see santa photos from when he was a boy. i want to know what he dreamed of last night (and every night before then.) what he was like in college, when he was young and reckless and free. i want to know what his first job was. what growing up in california was like for him. what kind of porn he watches. i want to know his biggest regret. i want to know the meanest thing he’s ever done, and the nicest. i want to know what he holds most dear to himself. i want to know what he’s thinking at any given moment. i want to know why he loves stamps. i want to know what made him choose me, how he was able to pick me out of everyone. i want to know who his first concert was. what he’d buy if he won the lotto. what he’s reading. you name it, and i’ll want to know it.
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1999 recording of noel playing the acoustic track for it's a crime, the unofficial name given to the demo that would eventually become let there be love.
the lyrics are completely different from the album version and they're pretty interesting, so i included them under the cut
Well you can say what you want
But you won't get a thing from me
And if you don't understand
That's it's not in your hands you need
Let there be love
Let there be love
Let there be love
Let there be love
But you can say what you feel
And it might never steal from me
And then you must understand
That it's all in your hands what you need
Let there be love
Let there be love
Let there be love
Let there be love
And I never knew
But all the thing's that you've done
Are coming right back to you
But everybody know's that it's no crime
But does it make you feel ashamed?
You never said what you done
And there's no need to blame
But everybody knows
Yeah everybody knows
Everybody knows that it's no crime
It's no crime
So you can say what you want
But you'll not get a thought from me
But if you say what you mean
Then you might get a thing from me
Let there be love
Let there be love
Let there be love
Let there be love
If I ever knew
That all the thing's I've thought
Are coming right back to you
But everybody thinks that it's a crime
It never makes you feel ashamed
You sit around and you sold
And then you're passing the blame
But everybody knows
Yeah everybody knows
Everybody knows that it's a crime
It's a crime
It's a crime
It's a crime
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i am just completely overcome by him. i am a mess in his hands. god, i would do anything he asked of me, become anything he asked of me, whatever he wants. i’d do it happily and without complaint. i just love him so much it’s like i can’t breathe because my heart takes up so much room in my chest when i’m near him, when i think about him.
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do you think he lets you wear the hat during cowgirl... ? until his motor system is overheating and there’s steam coming out.. and he has to calm u down because you’re damn near about to break him LMAO — 🍓
isn’t there a thing like if you take a cowboy’s hat you’ll have to ride them or something (the cowboy hat rule) 🙋🏻♀️ i volunteer!
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