#shx answer

[no-shxme]

i just read hit the books and i am CACKLING this was so well done, this was the type of highschool shit i WISH i had i also haven't seen much of really anything for aatrox, so it was actually kinda nice getting a slight insight to his personality considering ive only seen him in passing mention before! also just. rhaayn. lmao ALSO i love the fact that rhaast just is a person that exists and that he's a KNOWN troublemaker, and also that kayn fucking decked a man the moment that clicked i started giggling like a madman lmao it was WONDERFUL i thoroughly enjoyed the read, i haven't seen much highschool au content for things but honestly this was really well done, i loved it!

jkhlsfd GOD the high school fic. that's an OLDIE. i'm glad you liked it. i'd definitely write it differently now, mainly because i don't think i did the antagonists justice. (i dont like the idea of making established Good characters just unlikeable for plot sake anymore. i could definitely have done it differently.)

its a goofy fic and its fun to think about hrhehehhehe. i like thinking about the world and what people are up to in that verse. (dont read the sequel tho it most likely will never be finished, or just brace yourself)

#its prolly the closest ive ever written to crack #shx answer #ahhhh lovely

[shitticusfuckicus]

OhHhHhHhH noooOoOoOoO it has seems that I have dropped my box of lemons what ever shall I do? 🙊🙊

… hmmm maybe louder? 🤔🤔 Ahem

AH FUCK I DROPPED MY LEMONS EVERYWHERE

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

#ollie answers #shxs never gonna calm down now #we're lucky shitfuck is nappin or all hell would break loose

[ink-pop]

INK☆POP IS POPPIN' IN !

Splatsville's dumbest and bravest debuting near you!

Never heard of us? Don't worry, no one has! That means you are one of a kind! Now that you got a cool lil title, stick around and I'll explain!

You're probably confused, and maybe even ready to pretend you never saw this, but, I'm ready to answer what I assume is your most burning question;

"...The f☆ck is this?"

We are INK☆POP ! A Splatoon3 team made up of 4 partners and fueled by AuDHD. Contrary to our name's implication, we are not an oddly niche idol group (disappointingly so).

Please check out our other posts for some extra POP☆POINTS(tm) to raise your coolness meter (like Splat's fresh level but without the lawsuit), but I'll just go ahead and put the bare basics here:

The mods/team members are:

SODA☆POP | Soda, She/Ink

JELLY☆POP | Jelly, Any + Shx/Hx/Ink

CAKE☆POP | Cake, She/They/Ink

TARO☆POP | Taro, He/Him

And we'll be INK☆POSTING about...

Gameplay/Clips, OC talk, Art of said OCs, General talk about hit game franchise Splatoon, basically just a lot of splatting and chatting!

Our navigation tags are listed under the cut so be sure to check them out!

POP☆POINTS(tm) not guaranteed, please see your local cephalopod for more information.

INK☆POP OUT, KEEP IT REEL!

Here's our Tag Guide!

Reblog -> #re-ink

Game Talk -> #Splat Chat

Art -> ⁠#Art Brush Main

Mod -> #[mod]☆POST (i.e., #SODA☆POP)

Non Splatoon Chatting -> #so no ink?

Gameplay -> #Splat Reveal

O.C. Talk -> #INK☆POP STARS

#SODA☆POP #(i wrote this hehe) #(i like to think im funny) #splatoon #splat 3 #splatoon 3 #splatoon team #splatoon 3 team

[djbunni]

(feel free not to answer this on your blog if you want to stop talking about the topic!) but i just wanted to say we have a sys member who is dark skinned, and shx loves the recolorings you do!! ur edits are so cool <33 -mari

WAA THAT’S SO SWEET…Your edits are what got me into editing this is so !!! Thank you so much, and if you’d ever like to request please don’t be afraid to ask I’d love to edit for hxr! (If I used the pronouns wrong I apologize!)

#♡ ;; your dj #You guys are so cool omg

[the-pack0]

Alrighty, this account is run by a DID system.

Names: Caspian, Carnassial, Teeth, Wolf

Pronouns: He Shx It Mutt Thing Other Snarl Bite

Muttgender, Transfag, Queer, T4T, Demirose, Polyam

Carrd and Pronouns

We are firmly anti-endo, if you want to know why then send an ask.

Previously a-book-of-lost-things

Send asks about anything and we will reply when we can.

This will probably be mostly reblogs (probably untagged).

Specific tagging will consist of:

Anything we write relating to our personal experience and anything with things that relate to the system: #the pack

Ramblings related to our important people: #important people #june #mori #nono #erebus (Those tags will also be used on posts that are for them, remind me of them, etc, etc)

Answering asks: #the pack answers

Below the cut is alter signoffs and pronouns.

Bucky ❄️ He It Mutt Bite Thing Frost(bite)

Волков // Volkov 🦾 He It Mutt

Rot 🕷️ It Grime Death Mutt Thing He

Wolf 🐺 Mutt He It Thing Whore 'The Asset'

Olympia 🪽 It They Ae Shx

#the pack #important people #june #mori #nono #erebus #the pack answers

[mogai-headcanons]

Jackie Taylor from Yellowjackets is a femme beegender sichoret ghostgender sunshinething snowbloody seremorsic emberian asexual lesbian with depression who uses she/her pronouns, and she's in love with Shauna!

Shauna Shipman is an autistic bunthing hemobunnian rabbitmurderer florotbungender eyebun sanguihunt haretcher butchervoidborn huntix rabbitheal bi lesbian with PTSD who uses she/her and shx/hxr pronouns, and she's in love with Jackie!

Natalie Scatorccio is a bisexual genderqueer punque punkeuphoriac punkthing leatherjackic combootic preahuntean girlprince transmasculine boygirl with PTSD and ADHD who uses he/him and she/her pronouns and goes by both Nat and Natalie! He used to date Travis, but is now in a QPR with him, and she's in love with Misty!

Misty Quigley is an autistic kittytistic catgender weirdgirl deceptective autigender genderqueer hivéromic huntix sanguihunt lovursic truecrimegorean knightgender knightkisshandic lesbian with PTSD and low empathy who uses she/her and it/its pronouns, and it's in love with Natalie!

Taissa Turner is a futch wolfphoid wolfgender transneutral wolfsheepsclothic sanguihunt predthing huntix lesbian with pica, PTSD, a dissociative disorder, and a sleepwalking disorder who uses she/her and they/them pronouns, and they're in love with Van!

Van Palmer is a butch transmasculine cinderbeing foxgender butchhomme butchfoxen sanguihunt huntix lefdeadlivic dykefoxen dyke lesbian with PTSD and ADHD who uses they/them pronouns, and they're in love with Taissa!

Charlotte 'Lottie' Matthews is an autistic femme transfeminine sanguihunt huntix notdeerine undeerie genderdeer calicervus gendersaint deercrashen omni lesbian with PTSD and schizophrenia who uses she/her and doe/does pronouns and prefers to go by Lottie, but answers to Charlotte, and doe is in love with Laura!

Laura Lee is a cis gendersaint girl who's questioning her orientation and uses she/her pronouns, and she's in love with Lottie!

Travis Martinez is an aroqueer bisexual preahuntean transfeminine man with PTSD and BPD who uses he/him pronouns, and he used to date Natalie, but they are now in a QPR!

dni link

#long post #mogai headcanon #yellowjackets #d slur reclaimed #jackie taylor #shauna shipman #natalie scatorccio #misty quigley #taissa turner #van palmer #charlotte matthews #laura lee #travis martinez #femme #beegender #sichoret #ghostgender #sunshinething #snowbloody #seremorsic #emberian #asexual #lesbian #depression #autism #bunthing #hemobunnian #rabbitmurderer #florotbungender #eyebun

[neonlitlesbians]

for the oc ask game: i am curious about #39 and #40 for darcy! (and if you feel like doing more, those same two questions for ethlyn and alana as well :D )

took me a while to figure out answers for darcy specifically. had a lot of fun Imagining

39. What's the happiest they've ever felt?

Darcy: The first full night of sleep shx had with Rat, after hxr life-changing dive that almost completely destroyed hxr. ("Dive" as in like, jacking your brain into the computer and personally interacting with the code. Resulted in cosmic internet horror for hxr, basically—I'm going to write more about it soon, especially because my girlfriend just asked about that. :3)

Ethlyn: Her first kiss with Bell, years ago. It was a massive gesture of trust, and she was incredibly guarded up until that point because uhhh, her childhood sucked. Like, "beaten to a pulp and scarred for life" sucked. Bell was the first person she felt fully safe around.

Alana: Any time she's spending quality time with a friend, just in general. She gets lonely easily, so reminding herself that her friends are around is big for her. Climbing on the rooftop to show Zinnia the moon is the happiest moment I've imagined for her, so far.

40. What's the most anxious they've ever felt?

Darcy: Any dive, nowadays. Darcy's lust for information has led hxr to some scary places before, so shx's afraid to do it now because shx doesn't want to lose hxrself as far as shx once did.

Ethlyn: Bringing Alana back to life. This was the most time-sensitive experiment she'd ever done, she wasn't confident in the effectiveness of her cybernetics yet, and she felt like if she couldn't save her only non-Bell friend, she'd be a worthless scientist who only knew stuff in theory and couldn't actually apply her knowledge. (And her friend would be dead by suicide. That, takes, er, a bit of a toll on a person.)

Alana: Right before her final fight with her old master. She wanted to be free of her abusive guardian, once and for all, and break the cycle of being "worse" than him. Beating him in a duel meant he was gone forever, and she could fully start a new life.

Oh, I haven't written much about this, have I! She was raised in a dojo by the previous Watcher, an old sword grandpa-type guy who sucked major ass as a parent. (Think, like, Bro Strider from Homestuck, I guess? He's not super fleshed out yet.) She lost her arm and then her legs in her two previous duels with him, and on her third try she beat him, killed him, and then attempted to kill herself. More accurately, she did, and Bell's timely rescue and Ethlyn's intervention "resurrected" her with a new heart and second circulatory system.

#++ #ask #z axis lore #cw suicide #(<- alana) #cw torture #(<- ethlyn) #alana rizori #ethlyn calloway #darcy relayer

[gender-mailman]

AD!Mailman

He was just your sweet, regular old mailman until Darling came to the suburbs to take care of her sickly grandma. Shx came to deliver mail to the grandma's house (ad regularly delivered mail to her) but then Darling answered the door and he couldn't keep her eyes off of her. He always finds excuses to visit her, whether it be dropping off baked goods, checking on darling's grandma ( though he did actually care about her so that's not really an excuse ) , etc.

He doesn't murder but he is very obsessive. He's a bit like a more intense clown ethan in that regard

👀 👉👈 i love this ethan so much

#mailman speak #💌 i talk too much : talking #💌 i can keep it 'til i die : mutual #cupidsprotag #cup my beloved /p #yan!mailman #ethanverse

[gxlactiic]

Tag Dump

#;/ I always thought x mxght bx bad - Musing /; #;/ plxasx txll mx this isnt a pop quiz - Ask Meme/Answers/; #;/ road work ahxad? uhh yxah i surx hopx it doxs - headcanon tag /; #;/ shx has risxn from the dxpths! - mun ooc tag /; #;/ oh look a strangxr! - Promo /; #;/ wxnnx see something cool? - self promo /; #;/ no the bxg dxpper xsnt on my skxn - starter call /; #;/ gxt something you can hold on txx something yours alone - aesthetic /;

[skullzy20]

YOO did you see the spotify shit?? Im so confused but like im laughing so its good i guess?? Also! You're great! pain noises are relatable but uhhhhh it'll pass eventually so just hold on! It sucks and it probably wont stop with this ask but I wish you the willpower to not be unhealthy in these trying times! (also did I mention you're awesome and deserve love and affection and all that Good Shit?? because you are/do!!!)

#lnsndb shx than k s #i.. is there actual spotify shit or-? #am #do i just look like a f o o l #answered

[no-shxme]

so i read Mercy and HOLY FUCK where do i even start so first off talon is CLEARLY a trained bottom that man was so thoroughly a bottom from the first time sett had his hand around his throat in the storage room that is so very clear i love sett just being no-nonsense and animalistic god damn he's fun and then also we have the fact that not only do i ship this now, it is in my top 3 ships because i cant decide if i like rhaayn, twisted graves, or settalon more do you put crack in your writing or something? because holy shit, i am addicted, this was wonderful honestly im going to have to look up so much sett/talon content now jesus christ this was amazing and since it's part of a series im sure there'll be more in this storyline for me to enjoy-

AOHHHHHHHHH SETT/TAL MY BELOVED. OHH IM SO HAPPY YOU READ IT AND FCKED WITH IT. OHHHHHHHh (immense relief)

talon is so bottom he'll bite and fight but in the end he likes it ;w; though he wouldn't admit it. AND SETT is SO FUN. not only to write by himself but how he interacts with talon specifically. (i have and could continue to go on and on about why their dynamic is so interesting).

AHHHHHH sett/talon is like, the most sickeningly rare pair that i never stop thinking about ever. i forget that i have a lot of stuff for them that i havent posted yet. (though there are i think 8 or 9 fics on my ao3 featuring them.) i do recommend the rest of the series (mostly just grit, as it establishes them pretty good i think) and then if you want other flavors i suggest tarnish (cowboy bias) or one of the other one shots ive written of them. or if you want something way more serious and also longer then i'm currently writing Teeth, which contains about 2 metric tons of angst and more serious topics.

#SETT/TAL MY BELOVED #SHX ANSWER #THANK YOU SO MUCH #IM GLAD YOU LIKE THEM #IM GONNA CRY THINKING ABOUT THEM #TALON #teeth is like grit but with all the detail that grit deserved #but like read grit first maybe if you want to

[shitticusfuckicus]

like i kid you not i found your twt and iM NOT EVEN MORE OF A BITCHASS SIMP IM JUST SHOOKETH THAT THESE IMAGES EXIST.

LIKE

ew

EW?

yay?

EW.

YOU'RE LYING TO ME..

#ollie answers #do did not. #i refuse to believe it #excuse me #what #oh my god #shxs gonna eat me for this

[dullahandyke]

couldnt find if youve answered this before but how do you pronounce shx/hxr ? is it the same as she/her or is it like shix/hixer or smthg ?

Thanks 4 the ask !! I personally construe it as solely a visual thing, and my brain pronounces it as 'she/her', it just gives it a diff colour :P tho lately I've been thinking abt ditching it 4 the sake of xe/xir or ze/hir... might go change that now actually

[goodticklebrain]

Q&A August: Kevin Condardo and Dan Beaulieu

It’s the final installment of Q&A August! I hope you’ve had fun meeting some of my Shakespeare friends. I know I’ve had a lot of fun asking them these questions, and I’m definitely going to do this again some time, as I have SO MANY MORE cool Shakespeare friends for you to meet. But for now, let’s turn to my closers, my last and least, Kevin Condardo and Dan Beaulieu, the bros behind one of my favorite Shakespeare podcasts: No Holds Bard!

I was skeptical about No Holds Bard at first. Launched in 2015, it appeared to be two white dudes yelling about Shakespeare at each other, which did not particularly appeal to me. I didn’t even start listening to it until I met Dan and his partner in crime, Christine Penney, in person at the Shakespeare Theatre Association conference in 2016. Tousled and bewhiskered like a pirate, Dan was overwhelmingly brash, loud, unruly, obnoxious, insufferable… and somehow inexplicably charming. After meeting him, I finally started listening to No Holds Bard and found that the podcast was also brash, loud, unruly, obnoxious, insufferable… and somehow inexplicably charming.

Two things are immediately apparent upon listening to No Holds Bard: Dan and Kevin (his slightly less unruly and obnoxious co-host and the brains of the operation) both know their Shakespeare and love their Shakespeare. Their highly entertaining arguments and bro-y banter are backed up with serious knowledge of Shakespearean text and performance, and, in spite of their best efforts to contrary, you can actually learn a lot from them. Also (and this is important) they regularly make me laugh out loud.

In 2017 Kevin and Dan invited me to be their first ever guest on No Holds Bard. With some trepidation, I agreed and discovered that Kevin and Dan in real life are EXACTLY THE SAME as they are on the podcast. Recording with them was a blast, and since then I have thoroughly enjoyed keeping up with the podcast (occasionally falling months behind and then frantically trying to catch up) and interacting with them and other No Holds Bard listeners (a.k.a. Bardflies) on Twitter.

And so, it gives me great pleasure to present that charmingly insufferable duo, the joint top bananas of No Holds Bard, Kevin and Dan!

1. Who are you? Why Shakespeare?

KEVIN: I’m Kevin Condardo: host of the NO HOLDS BARD podcast (The Shakespeare Podcast Shakespeare Would Have Listened To*), performing arts administrator, Boston sports fan, and lover of all things theater. I’m the managing director of the Seven Stages Shakespeare Company based out of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and I work on the business end of the Off-Broadway theater industry in New York City.

My first introduction to Shakespeare was a terrible production of Romeo and Juliet that I saw on a school field trip in eighth grade, most notable for everyone being in Elizabethan costumes and having Mercutio thrusting himself seemingly on every other word in a failing effort at convincing school kids that Shakespeare was making dirty jokes and is therefore relatable. I loathed Shx until my sophomore year of college, when I auditioned for Cymbeline in college because it was a shared audition for the play I really wanted to be in (Twelve Angry Men). I was required to prepare a Shakespearian monologue and so I memorized and performed it with a British accent (as a sophomore in college!!), and about ten seconds in my professor Deb Kinghorn stopped me and asked me what the hell I was doing, and I said Shakespeare, and she said no I wasn’t. Somehow I was cast as a boorish, fratty Cloten, and over the course of that production I fell in love with Shakespeare and never looked back.

DAN: Hey! I’m Dan Beaulieu: I’m an avid Shakespeare lover, performer, director, student of the game. I am CO-host and top banana on the aforementioned No Holds Bard podcast with my fellow CO-host Kevin. I am the co-founder and Artistic Director of Seven Stages Shakespeare Company, a former Ambassador for the Shakespeare Society in NYC, member of the internationally renowned Passion in Practice and The Shakespeare Ensemble (both helmed by the incomparable Ben Crystal), and frequent collaborator with the New York City based company Rude Grooms (led by the always lovely Montgomery Sutton).

Why Shagspeare? I deeply admire his sprawling exploration of the human condition, his probing of Magick and Witches, his Timelessness, and perhaps most importantly the fact that it IS in fact for everybody, if you let it be.

2. What moment(s) in Shakespeare always make you laugh?

KEVIN: It’s more of an incredulous cackle than a laugh, but...after the Richard / Lady Anne scene, after we think we’ve seen the bunch-back’d toad bare his soul in expressing his love for his lady, he tells us “I’ll have her, but I will not keep her long” - cueing the audience to hopefully boo and hiss - after which Shakespeare gives him “What?” to respond to the disgusted audience. What a joy for an actor! (And if you have a Richard that doesn’t elicit at least one gasp on that line and thus has no audience members to give that “What?” to, you know you’re in for a long evening of theater.)

DAN: I think Petruchio’s entrance to the wedding, when costumed properly, is pretty hilarious. I also get a good chuckle out of “That’s a shelled peascod” from King Lear. Something about the phrase “Shelled Peascod” just gets me. Hamlet’s sardonic humor in the scene leading up to The Mousetrap is also stacked up with great laugh lines.

KEVIN: Do you mean country matters?

3. What's a favorite Shakespearean performance anecdote?

DAN: As a raging egoist, I’ll share my favorite anecdote from a performance I was in. I was playing Titus and in the scene where I lose my hand I was given a messenger bag to carry around with me. They actually had me carry it for the whole first half of the play so it wouldn’t be weird when I had it in this scene. The dummy hand was stored in there so when the “theater magic” moment happened I’d dip the hand out of the bag and TADA! I’m handless! Well, one night the hand fell out of the bag several moments before it was supposed to be cut off. I jumped on the hand like a fumbled football and took my rant from the floor of the stage. (It was a three quarter thrust, 70 seat black box so there wasn’t anywhere to hide.) After the show, several members of the cast commented on how I was “really feeling that scene”, not realizing I was not feeling it at all...I was simply scattering to figure out a way to justify a random hand lying on the ground moments before the audience would see it again.

KEVIN: When I was a company manager at Shakespeare in the Park in NYC, it was my responsibility to cancel or hold the show in case of inclement weather - which meant my “job” all summer was to sit in the back of the house and watch every performance while refreshing about five different weather apps and calculate if we were going to be able to get the show in. During The Merchant of Venice, we were flirting with a rainstorm all night - the sky looked very ominous from the start but nothing had fallen, even though I and the entire audience knew it was coming. The weather held all evening, up until Portia’s “The quality of mercy is not strained / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven…” at which point, the gentlest rain you ever felt began to droppeth from heaven, allowing Portia to turn her palm up to feel the rain fall and the entire crowd to “ooh” in unison. Goosebump city.

4. What's one of the more unusual Shakespearean interpretations you've either seen or would like to see?

KEVIN: I’m no director, but I’d love to see an As You Like It set around 1910, where the music at the court is all Sousa marches and barber shop (basically The Music Man), and then when they go to the country you have the same musicians and instrumentations playing Jelly Roll Morton and the jazz and dixieland that was exploding at the same moment. (Artistic directors: I’ll be waiting by the phone for my call.)

DAN: I called you to do this several years ago, but...musicians.

I’d like to direct a production of Twelfth Night in a very large warehouse immersive experience where the central design conceit is a House of Mirrors….possibly around Halloween or in Coney Island during the winter. Full creep zone. Similarly, I think it’d be fun to do an As You Like It in a corn maze or a Jacobean influenced pageant production of Midsummer Night’s Dream as a haunted hayride that starts around 6pm and goes til midnight, getting scarier and scarier as the night goes on. Bring the little kids early for fun fairies and come back at 11pm for the weird ones.

5. What's one of your favorite Shakespearean "hidden gems"?

DAN: I’m a sucker for the fact that when Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time their exchange is a shared sonnet. It’s not necessarily “hidden” but I love when I see a production that is clearly “going there” with that moment.

KEVIN: I talk about it all the time on the podcast but I LOVE the King of France in All’s Well that Ends Well. So deferential, kind, funny, but also strong and forceful when required - along with some endlessly quotable lines. Perhaps more “underrated” than “hidden gem?”

DAN: I like that we both just couched our answers in “this isn’t exactly what you asked, but it’s the answer we’re going to give anyway”. If you enjoy this kind of response to questions, you’ll love our podcast!

6. What passages from Shakespeare have stayed with you?

KEVIN: Ironically and annoyingly, the Shakespeare quote I use the most is actually a misquote that got locked into my brain during my only professional gig - a production of Antony and Cleopatra at the Theater at Monmouth. There’s a sequence where Antony is waiting for an update from the field, and when the messenger arrives the actor playing Antony would turn violently to him and spew out “The news from Sicyon, ho!”. I loved the way he delivered the line and started incorporating it into my life every time someone entered a room with information that the rest of us were waiting on. Unfortunately, that line doesn���t exist - either the actor learned it wrong, or the director inverted it - and the actual line, “From Sicyon, ho, the news!”, doesn’t quite have the same allure.

DAN: I suppose I have to go with the two I have tattooed on my body, as they literally stay with me. They are “To Be” and “This above all, to thine own self be true”. I’m grateful that the verb in both lines is Be, which is deceptively simple. As an actor, it’s really what we’re asked to do---just be.

7. What Shakespeare plays have changed for you?

DAN: I used to make Pericles the butt of all of my “Shakespeare made mistakes too you know?!” jokes. Admittedly that was before I ever read it or worked on it. Now it is easily one of my favorite Shakespeare plays and one that I expect to see more and more of in the future. Disney is sleeping on a gold mine, though I hope Pixar beats them to it.

KEVIN: I have to ask: which play is the punchline to that joke now?

DAN: Henry VIII or Measure (come at me Measure lovers!)

KEVIN: For me, it’s the histories. A few summers ago, Seven Stages Shakespeare Company (helmed by Dan, Christine Penney, and myself) did a one-day, fourteen-hour reading of all eight of the linked history plays one after the other. After seeing the way the storylines feed so deeply one into the other (most particularly Margaret’s arc), I don’t think I’ll ever be able to see any one of them individually the same way again.

Mya interjects: The Seven Stages history day is definitely on my list of “productions I’m kicking myself for missing”. If you do it again, boys, let me know. I am available for any bit parts that don’t require replicating actual human emotions.

8. What Shakespearean character or characters do you identify the most with?

KEVIN: I feel the deepest connection to the seconds-in-command, but to choose the one that encapsulates that the most I’ll say Gloucester from King Lear. Ever since childhood I’ve always considered myself a second rather than a first - I took pride in Little League being the catcher that served as the psychologist for the pitchers, I relate much more to Tom Hagen than to Michael Corleone, and in Shakespeare I’m much more connected to the person who holds the ear of the person everyone is looking at rather than being the center of attention myself.

DAN: I feel a deep connection to Jaques- especially his description of melancholy and the cynical way he sees the world around him, as witnessed in the Seven Ages speech. I fancy myself a fool and appreciate Jaques function in the play, both as a countervoice to the romanticized experience of Arden so many have, his dismay at the murder of the deer, and his departure from the rest of the group at the end.

9. Where can we find out more about you? Are there any projects/events you would like us to check out?

KEVIN: I bare my soul weekly* on the NO HOLDS BARD podcast, which Dan frequently appears on as co-host / second banana. The show is available for download on iTunes and Stitcher, and also the full* archive is available on our website at noholdsbard.com. You should also follow us on Twitter @NoHoldsBardCast and on Facebook at Facebook.com SLAAAASSHHHH NoHoldsBardCast!

DAN: If you are the market for stuff about the top banana specifically check out my website at www.danbeauknows.com. Seven Stages has a ton of exciting projects coming up including season eight of ShakesBEERiences in NH and a full production of MacBeth this autumn near Halloween. If you want more luscious No Holds Bard Content, check out our Patreon at www.patreon.com slash noholdsbard. Also, I’ll be touring Japan with several dear friends, including Dylan Kammerer, Tim Jacobs, Andrew Codispoti, Ben Crystal and The Shakespeare Ensemble this September playing Hamlet in Hamlet, Banquo in MacBeth, and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. It’s a dream track with an incredible ensemble so if you are in Japan, come check it out!

(Back to Mya) Thanks so much to Kevin and Dan for answering my questions and helping me out this month! Confession: when I was scheduling my guests for this month, I deliberately penciled Kevin and Dan in for the last slot, not because I thought they’d be a particularly boffo ending (although, obviously, they are) but because I was sure they wouldn’t get their answers in until the very last second. To my shock, they send them in well over a week early, which, I can only assume, involved a great deal of personal sacrifice and discipline on their part. For that, and for constantly entertaining me as I drive around town, I am very grateful to them.

You can listen to me banter with Kevin and Dan on the following episodes of No Holds Bard:

#86 - Holy Sh*t It’s Mya Gosling

#138: The Fantasy Shakespeare Season Draft II

Also, do consider chucking a couple bucks their way each month on Patreon, as I do.

Thanks once again to EVERYONE who helped me out this month: Austin Tichenor, Kate Powers, Sam White, David Prosser, Kate Pitt, Christy Burgess, Kevin Condardo and Dan Beaulieu! I am so lucky in my friends and in my Shakespeare community. My life is still kind of crazy at the moment so I’m taking next week off, but I’ll be back after that (hopefully, and at last) with some new comics!

#Q&A august #shakespeare

[kineticallyanywhere]

Caboose and Epsilon please!

send me a character and i’ll list:

this one got long too AND TOOK WAY TOO LONG TO MAKE IM SORRY

Caboose

favorite thing about them

he cares about his friends so much. Becoming his friend is easy. Breaking that friendship is not. I love how simple that is for him

least favorite thing about them

The team killing thing is the easy answer, but that’s unintentional. What is intentional is that the dude actually lies a lot. It can be harder to spot most of the time, because a lot of times he really is just confused, but when he’s embarrassed or did something he shouldn’t have, it’s straight to “Tucker did it” or “Not my fault.” He doesn’t really own up to anything. 

favorite line

the delivery of “We can’t. start. savings accounts if wE Don’t HAve Any MonEY !!” KILLS ME EVERY TIME. 

but: [Starting at 5:45ish, this entire scene]

[and this, starting at 4:40]

just about everything out of his mouth is pure gold, tbh

brOTP

Wash [more on that here x]. Caboose deserves someone who’s gonna worry about him and try to make him feel better when he’s down

OTP

I don’t really ship him with anybody. Not because I don’t think he’s incapable of that kind of relationship, but because I don’t think he’s interested in one. Accusing me of plastering ace headcanons wherever I can would be a fair accusation, to be quite honest, but I think Caboose really does find the idea of having lots of good friends more fulfilling than focusing particularly on a certain relationship

nOTP

Felix… might be my go-to notp for rvb. I can’t think of anyone else tho

random headcanon

Caboose isn’t allowed to have regular laces anymore. Not in his hoodies, not in his sweatpants, not in his shoes. If his shoes need laces, he gets the bungee/curly ones that you don’t have to tie. Not because he couldn’t tie them, but because they can’t risk it. …not again.

unpopular opinion

Caboose is much more self-sustaining than he’s given credit for. He really probably definitely shouldn’t be left alone in all these military/combat scenarios common to the show, but he doesn’t need his hand held or anything. (whether he wants his hand held it up for debate)

song i associate with them

Cheer Up! -A Great Big World (and its ENTIRELY @eggxalted’s fault that this is on my spotify list now and I love it)

favorite picture of them

I’ve watched this scene an embarasing number of times

Epsilon

favorite thing about them

he’s an enormous DORK

“Oh, shx, she’s done with her call. Quick, uh, talk about something else! Uhm–” “Like what?” “Anything, anything. Uh-uh- Y’know what?I think you’re right, Tucker, cows can’t talk, but maybe they can’t talk cause just no one… ever… taught ‘em how to do that. Right?”

least favorite thing about them

he kinda takes his friends for granted. maybe it’s because he doesn’t realize how much they actually care about him, maybe he’s just an ass, maybe it’s a combination of both. I would have loved to see more of him hanging out with the BGC. I know there’s like 6 solid seasons of a Church with the guys, but Epsilon really is a different character. 

favorite line

Epsilon has some of the best lines in the show. The most poetic, the most quotable, one of the most emotionally impactful, but he keeps saying stuff like 

brOTP

I know I have like 700 headcanons about him and Wash but

Tucker, probably. I like brotps that are just two dudes talking about nonsense and doing random nonsense. I know season 9 kicks off the freelancer saga, and none of the BGC are real in that season, but every Blue Team bit in the memory unit is an absolute riot. No one calls Church out on his crap quite like Tucker calls him out on his crap

OTP

Epsilon x stability and self-acceptance

I like Chex, but usually with Alpha and Beta, not so much Epsilon

nOTP

every time i try to think of an rvb notp, it’s just shipping with any of the major dick-wad characters, like the Director, Felix, or Temple. I don’t really have anything against most rvb ships, maybe I just don’t engage with them enough

random headcanon

He’s an a-hole, no doubt, but whenever he had processing power to spare, he kept an eye on everyone’s biofeeds. If any Red or Blue so much as stubbed a toe, he’d be the first to know (and make fun of them for it, but the sappy friendship point still stands)

unpopular opinion

or at least, not prevalent: He doesn’t hate Wash. There’s some serious past anger and mistrust in there, but by the time the Chorus Trilogy rolls around he’s got all of his memories and he’s pretty much dealt with it. 

song i associate with them

I spent weeks wondering this and got nothing. Suggestions welcome.

favorite picture of them

#michael j caboose #leonard church #ai epsilon #rvb #red vs blue #ask ka #me talking #ask memes #aryashi #i realize how that thing i said about caboose valuing lots of friends over one sounds #re: church #but i stand by it #in the long run i think caboose needs lots of friends to be his best person

[mogai-headcanons]

all these characters are from the show yellowjackets; let me know if you need transparents, i will see what i can do.

jackie taylor is a femme beegender sichoret ghostgender sunshinething snowbloody seremorsic emberian asexual lesbian w depression who uses she/her pronouns and is in love with shauna shipman.

shauna shipman is an autistic bunthing hemobunnian rabbitmurderer florotbungender eyebun sanguihunt haretcher butchervoidborn huntix rabbitheal bi lesbian with ptsd who uses she/her or shx/hxr and is in love with jackie taylor.

natalie scatorccio is a genderqueer punque punkeuphoric punkthing leatherjackic combootic preahuntean girlprince bisexual transmasculine boygirl with ptsd and adhd who uses he/him or she/her pronouns. he also goes by both nat and natalie. he used to date travis martinez, but they are now in a QPP instead. she is in love with misty quigley.

misty quigley is an autistic catgender weirdgirl deceptective autigender genderqueer hivéromic huntix sanguihunt kittytistic lovursic truecrimegorean knightgender knightkisshandic lesbian with ptsd and low empathy who uses she/it pronouns, and it is in love with natalie scatorccio.

taissa turner is a futch wolfgender wolfphoid transneutral wolfsheepsclothic sanguihunt predthing huntix lesbian with pica, ptsd, a sleepwalking disorder, and a dissociative disorder, who uses she/they pronouns. they are in love with van palmer.

van palmer is a butch transmasculine cinderbeing foxgender butchhomme butchfoxen sanguihunt huntix lefdeadlivic dykefoxen dyke lesbian with ptsd & adhd who uses they/them pronouns. they are in love with taissa turner.

charlotte "lottie" matthews is an autistic femme transfeminine sanguihunt huntix notdeerine undeerie genderdeer calicervus gendersaint omni lesbian with ptsd & schizophrenia who uses she/doe pronouns and prefers to go by "lottie" but answers to charlotte. doe is in love with laura lee.

laura lee is a cis gendersaint girl who is questioning her orientation and uses she/her pronouns. she is in love with lottie matthews.

travis martinez is an aroqueer bi preahuntean transfeminine man with ptsd & bpd who uses he/him pronouns. he used to be dating natalie scatorccio, but later their relationship became a QPR.

hiii for my yellowjackets request; can i add that lottie is transfeminine and deercrashen?

yeah, i'd appreciate if you could get transparents to me, thank you!

#long post #i'd do them myself but. spoons still low lol #d slur reclaimed