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twofaced-xiv · 2 years
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i just love her your honor 
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whenthegoldrays · 13 days
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ELLY’S PLAYLISTS
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k-dramas
Marry My Husband
kang jiwon / jiwon x jihyuk 🧸
jeong su-min / su-min x min-hwan 🧸
Tell Me That You Love Me
moeun x jinwoo 💌
Twinkling Watermelon
eun gyeol x eun yoo 💌🧸
yichan x cheong-ah 💌🧸
Live Up To Your Name
im x yeon kyung 💌
Crash Landing On You
jeong hyeok x se-ri 💌🧸
dan x seung-jun 🧸
The Matchmakers
jung woo x soon deok 🧸
Castaway Diva
seo mok-ha / mok-ha x ki-ho 🍄
Our Beloved Summer
yeon-su x ung 🧸
Familiar Wife
ju-hyeok x wu-jin 💌🧸
Hometown Cha Cha Cha
hye-jin x du-sik
The Wind Blows
do-hun x soo-jin 🧸🍄
Hidden Love (c-drama)
zhizhi x jiaxu 🧸🍄
period dramas
Emma, Jane Austen
frank x jane 💌🧸
The Blue Castle, Lucy Maud Montgomery
valancy x barney 💌
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
fanny price / fanny x edmund
maria bertram / maria & henry 🧸
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
jo march / jo x friedrich 🧸
Poldark (TV)
morwenna x drake 💌🧸
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
romeo x juliet 🧸🍄
other
anna x william (Notting Hill) 🧸
diana & charles (The Crown) 💌🧸
margaret & peter (The Crown) 🧸
milo x amanda (Milo Murphy’s Law)
phineas x isabella (Phineas and Ferb) 🧸
candace x jeremy (Phineas and Ferb)
barbie & ken (Barbie, 2023) 🧸
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💌 = favorite
🧸 = play in order
🍄 = needs work
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Book Recommendations: For Fans of… Knives Out 
Did you enjoy the newest Knives Out mystery, Glass Onion? Here are some read-alikes you may enjoy!
Secrets of the Nile by Tasha Alexander 
Lord Bertram Deeley, a renowned amateur British collector of antiquities is entertaining his closest friends at a lavish cruise up the Nile to his home at Luxor when he suddenly collapses after offering a welcome toast, a victim of the lethal poison cyanide. Who amongst this group of his nearest and dearest would want to kill their generous host: an archeologist whose dig Deeley was funding until he suddenly withdrew support? A powerful politician whose career Deeley had secretly destroyed? A dyspeptic aristocratic English spinster whose hired travelling companion seems determined to protect her employer? Or even the formidable Mrs. Hargreaves, Lady Emily’s mother-in-law, who may have spurned the advances of Lord Deeley when they were both younger? A key clue may lie with several ancient ushabtis, exquisite three-thousand-year-old sculptures that played a role in yet another murder in Ancient Egypt, a crime with a very real link to Lord Deeley’s death. Lady Emily and Colin gather their suspects together to reveal the identity of a killer whose motive is as shocking as it is brilliant.
This is the 16th volume in the “Lady Emily Ashton Mysteries” series. 
The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith 
In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult - the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division. These are their stories.
The first case: the small matter of a man stabbed in the back of the knee. Who would perpetrate such a crime and why? Next: a young woman's imaginary boyfriend goes missing. But how on earth do you search for someone who doesn't exist? And in the final investigation: eerie secrets that are revealed under a full moon may not seem so supernatural in the light of day. No case is too unusual, too complicated, or too, well insignificant for this squad to solve.
The team: Ulf “the Wolf” Varg, the top dog, thoughtful and diligent; Anna Bengsdotter, who's in love with Varg's car (and possibly Varg too); Carl Holgersson, who likes nothing more than filling out paperwork; and Erik Nykvist, who is deeply committed to fly fishing.
This is the first volume in the “Detective Varg” series.
The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray 
The happily married Mr. Knightley and Emma are throwing a house party, bringing together distant relatives and new acquaintances - characters beloved by Jane Austen fans. Definitely not invited is Mr. Wickham, whose latest financial scheme has netted him an even broader array of enemies. As tempers flare and secrets are revealed, it’s clear that everyone would be happier if Mr. Wickham got his comeuppance. Yet they’re all shocked when Wickham turns up murdered - except, of course, for the killer hidden in their midst.
Nearly everyone at the house party is a suspect, so it falls to the party’s two youngest guests to solve the mystery: Juliet Tilney, the smart and resourceful daughter of Catherine and Henry, eager for adventure beyond Northanger Abbey; and Jonathan Darcy, the Darcys’ eldest son, whose adherence to propriety makes his father seem almost relaxed. The unlikely pair must put aside their own poor first impressions and uncover the guilty party - before an innocent person is sentenced to hang.
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz 
Alan Conway is a bestselling crime writer. His editor, Susan Ryeland, has worked with him for years, and she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. Alan's traditional formula pays homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. It's proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.
When Susan receives Alan's latest manuscript, in which Atticus Pünd investigates a murder at Pye Hall, an English manor house, she has no reason to think it will be any different from the others. There will be dead bodies, a cast of intriguing suspects, and plenty of red herrings and clues. But the more Susan reads, the more she’s realizes that there's another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript - one of ambition, jealousy, and greed - and that soon it will lead to murder.
This is the first volume in the “Susan Ryeland” series. 
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they’ve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands - the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world.
Two days later, on New Year’s Day, one of them is dead.
The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. But after a decade, the weight of secret resentments has grown too heavy for the group’s tenuous nostalgia to bear. Amid the boisterous revelry of New Year’s Eve, the cord holding them together snaps. Now one of them is dead... and another of them did it. Keep your friends close, the old adage goes. But just how close is too close?
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cloudberry-sims · 2 years
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1600-1700 names list
I been collecting names for my decades challenged and I decided to share it. It has a bunch of different names in alphabetical order. 
Not 100% sure how accurate these names are as I’m not a historian , but I like them. 
Some names are “nicknames” or a variation of the same name, like Faye is from Faith ,Orelia is from Aurelia and Sisely from Cecilia/Cecily. 
Some names are Shakespearean , Puritan/Virtue names , American Colonial and perhaps a Arthurian here and there. 
Female names: 
Abigail
Adilene/Adeline
Adrian/Adrianne/Adriana
Afra
Agatha
Agnes
Alice
Aliena
Althea
Amanda
Amelia
Amie
Amity
Amphilis
Anastasia
Andrea
Anis
Annabell/Annabella
Anne/Anna/Annie
Anthea
Aphra
Aquila
Arabella
Artemisia
Audrey
Augusta
Aurelia
Aurinda
Aveline
Avis
Ayala
Azaria
Azoah
Barbara
Barsheba
Basilia
Beatrice/ Beatrix/Bettrys
Berenice/Bernesia/Bernessa
Bethsaby
Betty
Bianca
Blanch/Blanche
Blisse
Blythe
Bridget
Candace
Caroline
Cassandra
Catherine
Causeanger
Cecilia/Cecily/Cicely
Chantal
Charis
Charissima
Charity
Charlotte
Chloe
Christabella
Christian/Christina/Christiana
Clary
Clemencie/ Clemence/Clemency
Clorinda
Constance
Cornelia
Cressida
Cynthia
Deborah
Deodate
Desdemona
Desire
Dessorell
Diana
Dido
Dinah
Dionise/Denise
Dionyza
Divinity
Dolabella
Dolora
Dorcas
Dorothy/Dorothea
Easter
Ebotte
Edith
Edna
Edonie
Effemia
Eleanor
Elise
Elizabeth
Ellen
Ellois
Ely
Emilia
Emma
Eppie
Esther
Etheldreda
Eunice
Euphanie
Evadne
Eve/Eva
Faith
Fanny
Fanstine
Faye/Fay
Felicity/Felice
Florence
Fortune
Frances
Francisca
Fronia
Gartheride
Georgette
Georgine
Gillian
Gilot
Gonerill
Good
Grace
Grisell
Gwenhoivar
Hannah
Harriet
Haven
Helen/Helena
Henrietta
Hermione
Hester
Hezekiah
Honesty
Honor
Honoria
Hope
Humility
Ida
Idonea
Imogen
Irelee
Irene
Iris
Isabella/Isabel
Isolde
Iva
Ivette
Jacobina/Jacobine
Jane
Janikin
Jemima
Jennette/Jennet/Janet
Jeronomie
Joan
Joanna
Jocatta
Jocosa
Jonee
Joy
Joyanne
Joyce
Judith
Juliana/Julia/Juliet
Karissa
Katherine/Kathleen
Kezia/Keziah
Kitty/ Kitlyn
Kloe/Khloe
Koreen/Korinne
Laura
Lavinia
Leah
Leticia
Lettice
Love
Luce
Luciana
Lucretia
Lucy
Lydia/Lidia
Mable
Magdalen
Maggy
Magnolia
Margaret
Margery
Marian/Marion
Mariella
Marina
Martha
Mary
Matilda
Maud
Mercy
Mildred
Millicent
Milly/Millie
Mirabel
Miranda
Modesty
Monica
Muriel
Myra/Myrah
Naomi
Nazareth
Nell
Nerissa
Nola
Octavia
Odelle
Olivia
Ophelia
Orelia
Orinda
Pain
Patience
Pauline
Penelope
Perdita
Petronella
Philippa
Phillis
Phoebe
Pleasance
Primrose
Priscilla
Prudence
Rachel
Rawsone
Rebekah/Rebecca
Remember
Rhoda
Robin
Rosalind
Rosaline
Rosamond
Rosanna
Rose
Ruth
Samantha
Sarah
Saskia
Sebeliah
Selah
Selina
Silence
Silvia
Sisely
Sitha
Skyler
Sophia
Susanna
Sustillian
Sybil/Sibilla
Syntha
Tabitha
Tace
Tamar
Tamora
Temperance
Theodora
Theodorien
Theodosia
Thomasin/Thomasina/Thomasea
Timandra
Titania
Trinity
Trothe
Tryphena
Ursula
Valentine/Valentina
Valeria
Vecula
Venetia
Verely / Verily/Verity
Veronica
Viola/Violenta
Virgilia
Virginia
Virtue
Winifred
Wulfhild
Wybetha
Zelda
Zipporah
Male names: 
Aaron
Abacuck
Abraham
Adam
Adlard
Adrian
Alan
Albert
Alexander
Alveredus
Ambrose
Anchor
Andrew
Annanias
Anthony
Archibald/Archbad
Archilai
Aristoteles
Arnold
Artemas
Arthur
Asa
Ashley
Atkinson
Augustine
Augustus
Austin
Bainbridge
Baldwin
Barnabas
Barnard
Bartell
Bartholomew
Bardolph
Basil
Bellingham
Benedict
Benjamin
Bennett
Bertram
Bevil
Blaise/Blais
Bradford
Brian
Cadwallader
Cesar
Charles/Charlys
Chadrick
Christian
Christopher
Chroferus/Chroseus
Ciriacus
Clement
Clifford
Conrad
Constant
Cornelius
Cosmo
Court
Cotton
Cromwell
Cuthbert
Cutlake
Cyrano
Daniel
Dary
David/Davide
Demes
Denton
Denys/Dionise
Didimus
Digory
Don
Drugo
Dudley
Ebenezer
Ebulus
Edric
Edi
Edmund
Edward
Edwin
Egedius
Eli
Elias
Ellis
Eloy
Emanuell/Emmanuel
Emericke
Emery
Emmett
Enoch
Erasmus
Ethan
Eustace
Evan
Everard
Everard
Ezrah
Fabian
Fairfax
Faustinus
Felix
Francis
Frank
Frederick
Fleance
Fulk
Gabraell/Gabrell/Gabriel
Galileo
Gamalie
Garmayne
Garnett
Gavan/Gawen
Gentile
Geoffrey
George
Gerlick
Gerrard
Gideon/Hedeon
Gilbert
Giles
Gillam
Gobind/Govind
Goodwell
Godfrey
Gottlieb
Goughe
Gregory
Grenville/Grevill
Griffin/Griffith
Guy
Hamond
Hannibal
Hansse
Harman
Harry
Harvard
Hector
Helegor
Henry
Hercules
Herrick
Hieronimus
Hiram
Hobbes
Holland
Howell
Hugh
Humphrey
Ilia
Ingram
Isaac
James
Jarret
Jasper
Jenkin
Jeremiah
Jeremy
Jerome
Jesse
John
Jonathan
Joos
Jordan
Joseph
Joshua
Josias
Justinian
Kaherdin
Karl/Karel
Kenelm/Kenhelm
Kip
Kolby
Lambert
Lancelot
Lawrence
Leonard
Lewis
Lucas
Lynoell/Lionel
Machutus
Manasses
Mark
Marmaduke
Martin/Marton
Matthew
Maurice/Morrice
Melchior
Meredith
Michael
Miles
Morgan
Moses
Nathaniel/Nathaniell/Nathan
Newton
Nicholas
Ninion
Nivinius
Noah/Noe
Noble
Octavius
Odnell
Oliver
Osmund
Ostyn
Oswin
Oswold
Ottewell
Owen
Paschall
Patreas
Paul
Pawll
Percivell/Pesevwell
Peter
Phillip
Pierce/Piers
Phineas
Prospero
Quince
Quinton
Quivier
Ralph
Randall
Randolph
Raphael
Rees
Reginald
Renold
Reyvell
Richard
Robert
Roger
Roland
Roman
Royal
Rymon
Salamon
Sampson
Samuel
Sander
Schuyler
Sebastian
Seraphim/Seraphimus
Septimus
Seth
Shadrick
Silvester
Simon
Simond
Stephen
Taz
Ted
Tedde
Thadeus
Theodosius
Thomas
Timothy
Titus/Tito
Tobias
Trenton/Trentin
Tristram
Tunstall
Turner
Ucentius
Umfray
Uswald
Valor
Valentine
Vandyke
Vaugn
Vernon
Victor
Vincent
Walter
Warham
Watkin
Wiggett
Wilfred
Willing
William
Wine
Wombell
Wymond
Zachary
Zephaniah
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fictionturnedherbrain · 9 months
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Geeking out over the cast for The Scarlet Pimpernel (1917) and The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1928)! The films are lost to cinematic history, I'm guessing, but I bought two programmes (in Danish because why not) to fire my imagination.
The 1917 film starred Dustin Farnum, an American actor later known for westerns, and English actress Winifred Kingston as Sir Percy and Marguerite, with honourable mention going to Bertram Grassby as Sir Andrew (hel-lo). There's also a plot summary in the programme with an intriguing detail: 'Then [Marguerite] learns that her husband's unkindness is due to jealousy: he wrongly suspects her of being in contact with a Frenchman named Chauvelin, who occupies a prominent position within the secret police of the revolution. In reality, she hates and loathes this Chauvelin, who has stormed her with declarations of love in the past - but fate now gives him an uncanny power over her.' (Thank you, Google Translate.) Perhaps the 1982 film wasn't the first to write in a love triangle after all!
The 1928 sequel, The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, follows the book with Theresia, Tallien and Rateau, and stars Canadian Matheson Lang and his real life wife Marjorie Hume.
The actors seem to resemble Fred Terry and Juliet Neilson from the original screenplay, and I would love to find even a clip from either film but the programmes are fun finds.
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theteaisaddictive · 2 years
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shakespeare adaptations ☕️
thanks, babe!
so imo, a really good shakespeare adaptation is one that engages, on some level, with what the play is about. thematically, i mean. like how othello is about race, and maan is about gender.
to speak about maan first, i very recently saw a production which gender swapped beatrice to bertram and leonato to leonata. on vibes alone this play worked fantastically, because all of the actors were charismatic enough to pull off their roles without having to think too hard about it. but also, does the 'oh god, that i were a man' speech work as well if the actor playing beatrice is a man? does leonato's joke that his wife has 'many times told [him] so' that hero is his daughter work as well when she's a woman, making the joke about herself? honestly, i don't think so. the context of the larger play is such that thematically, it is more cohesive if the character's genders are as written. that's obviously not to say that changes should never be made -- betram was a femme gay man, a very obvious outsider to the boy's club of the soldiers, and that made the speech work. likewise, a female benedick could work despite the lines of 'it is a man's office, but not yours'.
regarding othello, a few years ago i saw a national theatre production where iago was also played by a black actor, and his wife emilia was played by a desi woman. it was also a modern-day production, really bringing into sharp focus the themes and ideas of racism, colonisation (othello is a soldier after all), and the ways that 'model minorities' hurts everyone. i haven't read or watched as many versions of othello as i have maan, so my analysis is going to be weaker, but even with the cringy white rapping scene the production really highlighted and built upon the themes of the play.
this is ofc not to say that choices in shakespearean productions can't be made on vibes alone. the gwendoline christie midsummer night's dream where they changed the script so titania and oberon said each other's lines was a fucking delight, even if they did lean super hard into the 'real world is oppressive and masculine and ordered, fairy world is free and feminine and chaotic' thing that literally everyone does with mnd. likewise, versions of romeo and juliet where the feud is altered to lines of race or queerness also Work, because the themes are so universal. the maan i saw which had a gay bertram and benedick was definitely floating on The Vibes, and i had a fucking fantastic time attending. i just think that you get a little more out of it when you do thematic shit as well!
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heavenboy09 · 1 year
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Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To 1 Of The Most Incredible & Greatest Actors Of Our Times & Has Been Hailed The Face Of Versatility In Acting & 1 Of The Greatest Actora Of His Generation.
Hailing all the way from New Cross, England 🇬🇧
He is an English actor and filmmaker. Known for his versatility and intense acting style, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three British Academy Film Awards. His films have grossed over $11 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing actors of all time.
Born On March 21st, 1958 In New Cross, London.
the son of Leonard Bertram  (1921–1985), a former sailor who also worked as a welder, and Kathleen (née Cheriton; 1919–2018). He said his father was an alcoholic who left the family when He was seven years old. His older sister, Maureen, is an actress better known as Laila Morse; she performed in His directorial debut Nil by Mouth (1997), before taking on her most famous role of Mo Harris in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
He attended West Greenwich School in Deptford, leaving at the age of 16 to work in a sports shop. He played piano as a child, but he gave up his musical aspirations to pursue an acting career after seeing Malcolm McDowell's performance in the film The Raging Moon (1971). In a 1995 interview with Charlie Rose, he said, "Something about Malcolm just arrested me, and I connected, and I said, 'I wanna do that.'"
He began acting in theatre in 1979 and made his film debut in Remembrance (1982). He continued to follow a stage career in London's Royal Court and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, with credits including Cabaret, Romeo and Juliet, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Saved, The Country Wife and Hamlet. He rose to prominence in British film with his portrayals of Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987) and Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990), while also attracting attention as the leader of a gang of football hooligans in the television film The Firm (1989). Regarded as a member of the "Brit Pack", he achieved greater recognition as a New York gangster in State of Grace (1990), Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK (1991) and 
He would have gained the greatest recognition of all when he starred in the Most Important Role of a Lifetime
As The Infamous Vampire 🧛‍♂️ In All Of History & Based On The Actual Person In Life but Fictionalised In Novels
Count Dracula
 in 
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).
He portrayed the villains in films such as True Romance (1993), The Fifth Element (1997), Air Force One (1997) and The Contender (2000); corrupt DEA agent Norman Stansfield, whom he played in Léon: The Professional (1994), was called one of cinema's best villains. He also played Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved (1994) and later appeared in franchise roles such as Sirius Black in the Harry Potter series, 
&
Lieutenant / Commissioner James Gordon in The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012)
Critics never fail to single Him out... he is one of a few truly great living actors—arguably, even, the best." Of his diversity, Yahoo! Movies noted that he had "gained a well-earned reputation as a brilliant chameleon"; the Houston Chronicle dubbed He Is "the face of versatility".He was regarded as one of the greatest actors never nominated for the award.
Please Wish This Distinguished & Devoted Actor Of English 🇬🇧 Filmmaking a Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊
You Know Him & You Already Love Him
The 1
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MR. GARY LEONARD OLDMAN 🇬🇧
HAPPY 65TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU MR. OLDMAN & HERE'S TO MANY MORE YEARS TO COME.
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junewongapologia · 4 months
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Okay The Murder of Mr Wickham may not be technically good JAFF, but it is enjoyable, I listen to the audiobook constantly, and really you're reading it for the OCs who are genuinely perfect.
Jonathan is the best deconstruction of the Autistic Detective trope I've ever read, utterly relatable king in every way. I love the way it's pretty heavily implied Fanny Bertram is also autistic and he has these moments when he clocks her without having the understanding of the reason for it.
Juliet is also great, my favourite thing about her is how hardened she gets to murder immediately. Book one has her screaming at a body, in book 2 she's like 'well, this might as well happen'. Very strong parallels to her mother in Northanger Abbey, tho if I'm honest, Juliet handles it much better than Catherine would have.
Their cute little mutual crush is so great and it blossoming into mutual Exteme Yearning is great. I've never wanted a couple to get together so badly.
Also Mr Whickham is, like, implied to have invented the Ponzi scheme in this universe, which is on brand and hilarious.
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literarygoon · 8 months
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So,
It's been nearly four months since I was first cast as Count Bertram, a member of the French nobility who is potentially being groomed by the King to be his successor.
He's young, impulsive and headstrong — and according to Shakespeare experts, one of the most problematic characters ever dreamed up by the Bard. He has a tendency to blurt out offensive and outrageous things, and he's so determined to be the captain of his own fate that he routinely leaves those around him frustrated, betrayed and upset.
When I first sat down with director Alex Gallacher, we discussed how we wanted to conjure up this complex and confounding 15th century jerk. Though at times he seems misogynistic and needlessly cruel, it's crucial that the audience understands things from his perspective and gets the opportunity to like him — even if his actions and words are wholly objectionable by contemporary standards. Alex repeatedly coaxed me away from depicting him as mean-spirited and conniving, instead emphasizing his youthful impetuousness and lust for adventure. It's not clear how old he's supposed to be, but I imagine he's somewhere in his late teens — nearly 20 years younger than I am.
(The photo above shows me in the mourning uniform I wear during the first scene, where I'm being sent from my mother's estate to serve the King in Paris. I'm joined here by my costar Laife, who plays my trusty page.)
At first I didn't realize what a choice role this is, as over the course of the play I get the chance to have comedic scenes, dramatic scenes, seduction scenes and even an epic sword fight. It's pretty much an actor's dream, a chance to really explore my range as a performer, and now that we've done two preview performances it's really sinking in how physically and emotionally demanding it is. At times I find myself panting from the exertion of rushing from one scene to the next, pivoting from screaming a mournful lament to leading a battle cry to showing my vulnerable side in moments of tender romance.
This is the third Shakespeare play I've performed in, following Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest in high school. I'm insanely grateful to the Shawnigan Players for giving me this opportunity, and I'm proud to share the stage with an eclectic cast of local performers who also happen to be world-class human beings. I hope to be associated with this troupe for many years to come, and in October I'll be following this with a performance as Laertes in Hamlet. For over a decade now I thought my acting days were behind me, and I honestly can't express how grateful I am to have resurrected these abilities.
There's a special kind of high that comes from bringing a character like Bertram to life, and it appears that I've become thoroughly addicted. The Literary Goon
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eights-of-spades · 3 years
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Masquerade Brawl:
You can tell a lot about a person by what’s in their pockets. You can tell more by what’s in their shoes...
What’s better for team building exercises? Trust falls and kumbayah or bare-knuckled, no-holds-barred brawling? When it’s a rag-tag team of would-be criminals with mysterious motives then it’s most certainly the latter.
The Charlatan arranged an exciting little get together out in Southern Thanalan; ditching the straightforward arena method for a variety of landscapes in a small area. Rocks, ridges, desert sand and even a water hazard. The crew was gathered and paired off to blow off a little steam as well as getting to know each other a little better in the common language of thinly veiled aggression.
Aurum and Outlaw squared off, rather than simply standing around posing menacingly at each other they tried their best at first to keep it clean. Unfortunately for them and their codes of honor Felicia and Frey were facing off simultaneously in a battle that quickly devolved into kicks up to Thal, pocket sand and ‘breast crimes’. While Frey was eventually taken down with a violent de-shoeing the shenanigans spilled over into the other fight, with said crimes being enough to distract Outlaw into a blushing mess that was taken down by an opportunistic Aurum.
Slick and Knave were up next to take on the winners, having to leave their comfortable makeshift snackbar with Charlatan. Slick went head to head with the boot-bandit Felicia to avenge the fallen Frey, showing her a few tricks of her own with a deadly use of shoe-fu. Meanwhile Aurum had to deal with Knave’s showboating antics and saliva-based tricks. While the fights were fierce, Felicia was too powerful despite sandy cleavage and the questionably-good doctor was taken down. Aurum was eventually forced to yield or risk a loogie being dripped on bare skin.
By that time the day as well as the excess energy had run out, allowing Charlatan to skate by without a round. This time...
Charlatan: @guttergodsknife
Knave: @eights-of-spades
Aurum: @atomicdeke
Outlaw: @the-wanted-man
Felicia: @twofaced-xiv
Frey: @sola-ffxiv
Slick: @lazne-of-the-urit
((OOC: Special Thanks to @lazne-of-the-urit for additional screenshots))
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cedric-hunt · 4 years
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A missing Polaroid..?
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The Hyur sat at his desk going through some bounty papers he picked up from the Adventure’s Guild bounty board in Limsa Lominsa, trying to decide which one to take. He wanted a challenge, but also wanted something that would pay well. As he grabbed one of the papers a photo fell from the backside of it sliding across his desk, he didn’t notice the photo attached to the paper, or perhaps it was stuck to the bounty wall already and when he grabbed the bounty paper he got the photo as well, either way he picked it up examined the woman on it. His eyes tracing over her figure and taking in her face, she was definitely pretty.
“Hello, missy. Who are you? Don’t suppose this photo was part of this bounty… there must be some kind of mistake here.” He clicked his tongue and then tapped the photo on his desk before setting it down and continuing to go through his bounty papers to find which one he wanted to take.
(Thank you for the submission @twofaced-xiv!)
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twofaced-xiv · 3 years
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“Me, take a vacation? That’s funny! You’re funny.”
poc wol week day 1: vacation taken by @eligos-venator! 
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parttimerper · 4 years
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Send 🎰 for me to put our muses into a random list generator then post the first five as potential ships!
Alastor Moody & Lucas Snyder - I don’t remember Lucas much, but I think there could be some potential of something? Even if it’s just some sort of friendship?
Cordelia Parkinson & Archer Hawkins - Don’t know him but... give me Brenton.
Bertram Aubrey & Winnie Abbott - You know that... could actually work.
Charles Myers & Seth Campbell - Another Matt and Cody pairing and I’m still here for it.
Marietta Edgecombe & Juliet Quinn - I think it could work? Closed off girl and party girl, sounds like a good match to me.
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kaybaewrotethat · 4 years
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maybe it's much too early in the game ah, but I thought I'd ask you just the same what are you doing new year's, new year's eve?
Pandora was well aware that she lived in a world of magic; however, there was something extra magical about her world around the holidays. Christmas had come and gone and as such, people started to return to the castle for the annual New Year’s Eve event at Hogwarts. She had spent hours helping the professors and the other students who opted to stay behind over break decorating the Great Hall. It would all be worth it in order to see her friends returning. She felt extremely spoiled by getting to see them every single day at school that the break seemed almost cruel.
Unfortunately, Bertram had sent an owl earlier that day letting her know that he would not be able to come to the party. Something about family obligations and a pureblood exclusive event. She found herself saddened by the fact that she wouldn’t be ringing in the new year with her best friend even if she understood that it was out of his control. Rather than settle into low spirits, she took to the bar, pregaming with Juliet for the party. 
The two girls made their way to the Great Hall and marveled over the transformation even if they had contributed to it. Pandora lost Juliet in the crowd, but as she turned to look for her friend, her eyes landed on the tall man with intense eyes walking towards her. Gilderoy Lockhart was someone she had never anticipated befriending, but she was grateful for his friendship nonetheless. There was something extremely dashing about him in the light of the Great Hall’s enchanted ceiling, but she wondered if he was always this smoldering or if it was merely because she was drunk. 
Suddenly, he was there in front of her, greeting her with a low whistle. “You are quite the sight, tonight.” he started. “Perhaps you could give me the next dance?”
“Gilly!” she said jumping up and wrapping her arms around his neck in greeting. Pandora pulled back and let her hand linger on his arm. He was quite handsome, but she wouldn’t let herself say it out loud just yet. “It is so good to see you. I would love to dance tonight. I haven’t gotten to dance yet. Can we dance now?”
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“Oh, well, I was thinking maybe we could dance during the next full moon,”  Gilderoy jested, wrapping an arm around her. “But, now can do, I believe.” She grinned widely and pulled him out to the dance floor. Their bodies remained close as they danced, and Panda allowed it for the moment. Usually when Gilderoy flirted with her or made advances, she would do everything to try to distract him from his suggestions. But tonight, she had lost track of how many drinks she had and needed his support to remain standing. 
The night pressed on with them dancing some more, greeting other friends who had returned for the party, and grabbing some more snacks and drinks at the bar. Soon enough, the professors announced that they were going to start the official countdown to the new year. Pandora sighed, looking at everyone enjoying themselves. It certainly had been a successful party and the company wasn’t all too bad either. She still felt like something was missing.
“I wish Bertie was here,” she sighed as the countdown started. She desperately missed her friend even though parties were not necessarily his scene. He would rather stay behind in the common room and talk about the books that they had exchanged for Christmas. But she was sure that if he was back at school, she could have convinced him to come out with her and Juliet. Pandora tried to shake her thought. She needed to be present in the moment, joining in on the countdown and leaning back against Gilderoy whose arms were wrapped around her torso. “3! 2! 1! Happy New Year!” 
She lifted her glass, toasting to the air and the people around her. Suddenly, she felt herself turned around and soon, the tall boy whose company was hers all night long had his lips on hers. Her eyes opened wide as she hadn’t expected it, but after a moment, she began to relax into the kiss. His lips were soft. Did he have flavored chapstick? Was she supposed to do something else with her hands? Pandora up until this point had never been kissed so she had no reference to go off of. 
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“Happy New Year, Panda,” Gilderoy whispered as he started to pepper kisses down to her neck. “Wanna get out of here?”
Pandora looked up at him and wasn’t sure what to do. She liked Gilly and she enjoyed the kiss. If that was the case, why did she feel so bad? It wasn’t sickness, although that was something she would surely experience the following morning. No, there was something else there. She felt guilty, but she couldn’t put her finger down on why that was the particular feeling that filled her.
“Um... I actually...” she started, pulling back and looking around. “I need to go find Juliet. I don’t feel well and you look lovely and I don’t want to get sick on you... I’m sorry. Thank you, Gilly.” 
She quickly turned and started pushing through the crowd, not hearing the words that he had called out to her as she left him. Her vision was blurry, welled up tears impeding her vision. Why was this happening? Yes, it was her first kiss, but it would have appeared to the untrained eye that everything happened just as it should have. Panda finally found Juliet celebrating, but her friend’s joviality quickly turned as soon as she saw the Gryffindor girl crying. “I... Can you... I’m sorry, but I need to...” Pandora stuttered through her sobs.
Juliet set down her drink with a nod, not asking any questions. “Let’s go. You can stay at mine tonight,” she said as she guided the both of them out of the hall and to her room in the Hufflepuff dormitory. Pandora attempted to keep the tears from falling but it was no use. She continued to cry all the way to Juliet’s room, her head landing on her friend’s lap as the symphony of fireworks drowned her out. Juliet simply brushed her friend’s hair in an attempt to soothe her until she finally cried herself to sleep.
It was a New Year alright, but it was clear that Pandora was not starting it out happy.
@exmusemyfrench @kianamadcira​ @thvnderbclt​
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helenasbertram · 3 years
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Top 5 Shakespeare characters?
1) Duke Vicentio (Measure for Measure): not my favourite MM character, but by far the most terrifying. The Duke is an unfit ruler, selfish, the rotten and hollow centre of the play who seeks exculpation and lack of guilt. Sure he saves Claudio, sure he helps Isabella not getting raped by Angelo, sure he helps Mariana consume her wedding, but he manipulates Isabella (withholding the information about Claudio being alive) and, because this is a play about consent, he actively plots and has Angelo violated. Vienna is slipping, he "retires" and promotes Angelo who a) is way too inexperienced b) possesses a questionable moral character (he left Mariana) and that's a disaster waiting to happen, but it's perfect because the Duke's objective is to have his authority restored and to come out victorious (which would have happened either way). Not only that, he acts as an improviser and a liar, misleads people in the most damnable way, lies, and commits the play's cheapest and most conspicuous rape. In the end, he also reveals himself to be a hypocrite because Mariana's excused, but Juliet isn't, but actually, after 1563 neither marriage contracts de presenti nor de futuro would have been valid. There are lots of men like the Duke, I know men like the Duke (arguably we all do), and the most terrifying moment in this amazing cobbled together mess of a play, is when the Duke turns to Isabella and says "if he be like your brother, for his sake/Is he pardoned, and for your lovely sake/Give me your hand and say you will be mine" (bold mine): that unexpected arrival of the word lovely that turns a non-sexual conversation into an implicit sexual proposition, it is something sexual veiled by the use of the word "hand": the comma after pardon (it's also a comma in F) links that pardon to the proposal and is often emended as a semicolon so that it's safely off. But it isn't, it reveals the Duke's agenda at once, it reveals the connection between love and the power of the state. And there's one question at the heart of it, why does the Duke want Isabella? Because Angelo didn't get her? Because he can? 
2 + 3) Helena (Midsummer and All's Well): Shakespeare's Helenas, the anti-Helen, are a voracious breed and the most exquisite glitch in the canon. Named after the paragon of beauty, they're not beautiful (not enough, perhaps, certainly to catch the interest of the chaps they like although these fellows always seem to have a load of problems of their own), but they are wickedly clever and articulated. Above all, these two are active subjects rather than objects which per se throws the entire world into chaos because how do you react to that? How do carry yourself when you're suddenly cast as the one to-be-looked-at a role conventionally attached to girls/women? They are wandering knights, the eye of the hurricane and their mouths are crammed with romantic intellectualism that comes straight from the ancients. They believe and they know and they are in love with some angry and befuddled and inarticulate young chap (who always, always looks better through their eyes) who stout-heartedly refuses to care and consequently, journeys are made (whether that's Europe or a wood nearby) as people and royalty (real or supernatural it doesn't matter) become personally invested. They have the power to revitalize a decaying world, they don't care about common sense and are unfazed by norms and conventions and have the heart of a lion. And there always comes a point when their faith falters and they suffer a sudden loss of hope, but it's okay in the end because they get their self-appointed endgame because they are the agents of their own romantic destinies and have such strength and such conviction, merely fuelled by desire, that they could do anything: fuck some sense into the chaps they like, heal a dying King, heal/save a city, heal/save society, heal/save a person.  
4) Bertram (All's Well) who is the annual winner of "most hated Shakespeare character" as voted by everyone. Some of the criticism is fair, some of it isn't, and most of the time it feels like playing bingo (which I did while writing my dissertation). Bertram resonates, there's something about him and the way he behaves that always makes me go "this is it, this is how you turn out when you're [redacted] and raised as a member of the upper-class" and I'd say that the funniest thing is that he has absolutely no clue on how to be a person. He's not a villain and cynicism is out, he's a caddish idiot who is way out of touch with his feelings (he accidentally declares them while lying up a masculine storm). He is stuffed with aristocratic self-conceit, cut to be the perfect product of his upbringing, as gullible and selfish as possible, we may even say that he's exquisitely and wickedly clever because his letters are (and then he just stops using his brain). Entitled and convinced that he won't suffer any consequences - society then is society now - but he's never vicious and has a conscience and a great heart, and it's not too late but he has to hit rock bottom (which he does) before starting his journey upwards. But there’s something about the way he describes Rouss. which is heartbreaking? Because the connotation is house in mourning, but also madhouse (and the complete isolation when he’s pushed over the edge). He's got good qualities which people overlook because part 2 of the play always seems to overshadow part 1? He's a victim (because the King is abusing his power, using him to pay off a medical bill, asking him to be his displacement in bed) so Bertram violently and unexpectedly challenges the very soul of body politics thus becoming the new embodiment of honour. He is proud and true and stuffed with excellent ideas like leaving France altogether and creating a new world in which he can move on his own terms and solve his problems in his own way. He's a person with his fair share of flaws and virtues who ends up learning quite a lot about himself and makes tons of mistakes in the process, but arguably that is life. He should probably learn how to speak, but he's getting there so... It's about the success, failure, and self-assertion thing that ends in self-knowledge, which is necessary for love which is necessary for greatness.
5) Oliver (As You Like It) bc I'm easily impressed and in the year of our Lord 2013, the RSC had Norris as Oliver and he was dressed like that(TM). Oliver's great and his life makes zero sense which is hilarious and never fails to entertain me - "bad guy" walks into the woods and changes completely (because to be wood within the wood means to take on its qualities and become as changeable...) and his "conversion" as he passes from danger to love is ever so similar to prose romance and its conventions. Idk it's probably strictly connected to the sheer hilarity of seeing him and Celia fall in love because it's one of the most dramatic cases in Shakespeare and it's expressed in such a way that contains both the real physicality of love and the ideal romanticism of it. He moves to the refusal of societal conventions so that he's equal to Orlando and his journey can be divided into three bits: the villain ("unreasonable persecution of Orlando" + "act of supreme unkindness" + "simply evil"), the brother, the lover. I like that he starts as bitter and resentful, he's got his father's money so there's technically no space for jealousy, because, it would seem, people like Orlando better (1.1), to end up being ""good"" and enhanced by what he was.
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shredsandpatches · 4 years
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Also, now I’m thinking about Shakespearean appearances of mothers and children:
Countess of Roussillon & Bertram (All’s Well)
Aemilia & the Antipholi (Comedy of Errors)
Queen & Cloten (Cymbeline)
Mistress Page & Anne/William (Merry Wives)
Thaisa & Marina (Pericles)
Hermione & Mamillius/Perdita (Winter’s Tale)
Queen Eleanor & King John; Constance & Arthur; Lady Faulconbridge & Philip (King John)
Duchess of York & Aumerle (Richard II)
Hotspur & Lady Northumberland (1/2 Henry IV). Sort of an edge case as they only appear in separate plays: Hotspur in 1 Henry IV and Lady Northumberland in 2 Henry IV, after Hotspur’s death. But as Part 2 picks up right where Part 1 left off, and Hotspur does have a mother who is a character onstage, I decided they count. 
Queen Margaret & Edward; Queen Elizabeth & Edward V also squeak in there just before the final curtain (3 Henry VI)
Queen Elizabeth & Edward V/Richard of York; Duchess of York and Edward IV/Clarence/Richard III (Richard III). Rutland in 3 Henry VI is also her son. 
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth (Henry VIII) are an edge case as Elizabeth is a non-speaking baby (and they actually never appear onstage together).
Volumnia & Coriolanus; Virgilia and Young Martius (Coriolanus)
Gertrude & Hamlet (Hamlet)
Lady Macduff and her son (Macbeth)
Lady Capulet & Juliet; Lady Montague & Romeo (Romeo & Juliet)
Tamora & Chiron/Demetrius/Alarbus/unnamed baby (Titus Andronicus)
Conclusion: the histories have tons of moms and people assume they don’t because they’re thinking about the Hal plays (which have a good excuse as Hal’s mother died years before they start); the tragedies have very few; the comedies and romances have a lot of parent/child separation. There are also a few characters who are mothers but their children never appear (e.g. Cleopatra); I didn’t include them.
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