#slings and arrows

[kuwdora]

Anytime I see people talking about canon and fan fiction and all the discourse that happens therein, my brain always goes back to this line from Slings and Arrows. It’s been living in my head rent free for nearly 20 years.

Geoffrey Tennant is standing in front of a workshop class full of corporate middle management people who tell him they’re at the workshop to learn communication skills and management styles by learning about the works of Shakespeare. And they’re all just very cut and dry business folk who are there and are gonna Learn a Thing. Geoffrey basically waves the class’s notions aside and says: “Let’s fuck around with some text.”

I love that line. I think about that line a lot when I think about fandom. Taking canon and finding our own way to play and fuck around with it. Search for profound truths about a character. And the horny. The silliness and fun. Explore the new and process trauma or share joy with fic or art or vids. Going in completely different direction from canon because we’re in so deep and are possessed and that’s where the stories and the fanon has carried us.

Let’s fuck around with some text. It’s so good.

#also geoffrey and darren's incandescent rivalry is *chefs kiss* so good #their ideas of fucking with the text are so different from one another #makes for such great drama behind the scenes #slings and arrows #blogdora #textpost

[joehills]

Some people might not see a marketing value for established brands making pinball machines these days, but the Toy Story 4 pinball machine is the only reason I knew there was a fourth Toy Story.

Also, I learned a lot from Craig Bobby’s The Pinball Show report on the new Abba pinball machine about the band Abba, which is it turns out is not just the Canadian equivalent of Billy Joel.

#I thought Mama Mia was the Canadian equivalent of the Moving Out musical and it was in a Candian TV show called Slings and Arrows #pinball #the pinball show #craig bobby #abba #billy joel movin out #abba mama mia #slings and arrows

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

These memes are for all 9 people in the Slings and Arrows Fandom and us 9 people alone.

#Darren nichols #don mckellar #slings and arrows #Slings & Arrows #post o' mine #Theater

[spacecowboycunt]

Ophelia is a child. She has been dominated by powerful men all her life, and suddenly they disappear. Her brother goes to France. Her father is murdered by her boyfriend, and he is shipped off to England. She is alone, for the first time: grieving and heartbroken and guilty, because, as far as she’s concerned, it’s all her fault. She ignored her brother’s advice and fell in love with Hamlet and now her father is dead, all because of her. And the pain, and the loss, and the shame, and the guilt–all of this is gnawing away inside this little child’s mind. And it comes out as… little songs. And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no. He is dead. My father is dead, and I killed him.

—Slings and Arrows (2003-2006)

#slings and arrows #television #ophelia #hamlet #shakespeare #words

[andsomemaniacgotridofthewheel]

Top five underrated TV shows?

Aww, thank you so much for the ask 💙

My Top Five Underrated TV Shows are:

Slings & Arrows (Tbh I would like to put this on all 5 spots please, it's insane how few people know this brilliant show. It's the sole reason I could never ever hate Rachel McAdams.)

Moonlight (Vampire show which got cancelled after 16 eps, it had just missed the beginning of the vampire hype started by Twilight by a couple of months. Hardly anyone knows it, and it is one of the few shows where the immortal acts his age and the woman isn't a damsel.)

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (Aaron Sorkin & Behind The Scenes of a SNL-like sketch show. Got cancelled after 1 season.)

Midnight Mass (Mike Flanagan, emulating the feeling of Stephen King's "'Salem's Lot". Different Story, though.)

Hustle (British "Leverage", alas less Robin-Hood-y. But still a very fun heist / caper show.)

#eybefioro #slings and arrows #slings & arrows #moonlight #studio 60 on the sunset strip #midnight mass #hustle #nikku #nikku answers

[eaion]

"And I love you both very much. More than I love myself, which is saying a lot, believe me."

Slings & Arrows S01E01 - Oliver's Dream

for @paulgrossaddict :)

#slings & arrows #slings and arrows #geoffrey tennant #oliver welles #ellen fanshaw #paul gross #stephen ouimette #martha burns #my gif #ds30below #I mean I guess it fits to the canadian 6 degrees week :)

[danishprince]

i really do think that, given the right amount of exposure, slings and arrows would do numbers on this site

#what if you were an ACTOR who had a MENTAL BREAKDOWN and the GHOST OF YOUR DEAD GAY MENTOR/DIRECTOR showed up #and other such universal experiences #slings and arrows

[irate-iguana]

Hello to all 8 people in the Slings & Arrows fandom, please accept my humble offerings.

#slings and arrows #slings & arrows #i probably shouldn’t tag this as shakespeare‚ huh? #shakespeare adjacent #slings and arrows spoilers #geoffrey tennant #paul gross #anna conroy #susan coyne #ellen fanshaw #martha burns #original post #meme dump

[ofkithandmckinney]

Musical Mark

#mark mckinney #kith #kids in the hall #death comes to town #the kids in the hall #superstore #glenn sturgis #slings and arrows #richard smith jones

[ds30below]

ride_4ever's Fannish History

Crossposted from Dreamwidth with permission

"How did I come to due South fandom? Well, to take a phrase from Ray Kowalski: "I took this bus, I drove this car, I got on this train, I walked down this street, I turned this corner, I opened this door, and I stepped into...."

The year was 2009. The setting was a Thanksgiving dinner in Chicago to which I was invited by a casual acquaintance who knew that no family member of mine would be inviting me to Thanksgiving dinner. Seated next to me at the dinner table was the MIL of my casual acquaintance, who said to me “I hear that you appreciate Shakespeare. There’s a Canadian TV show you should see -- it’s called Slings & Arrows....” And there it was, the moment that began the sealing of my fandom fate -- OH CANADA! -- I would soon be learning that “Canada is the country that is a fandom”. Slings & Arrows totally grabbed me, and my first exposure to Paul Gross was nothing short of experiencing a paradigm shift, and then I felt that I had to go in search of his other shows. So I went from Slings & Arrows in 2009 to due South in 2010 to discovering online fandom community (via stumbling onto a slash fic) in 2011.

And here's how due South led me to slash. I had finished watching the show, and having been introduced in the final episode to the notion of "the hand of Franklin, reaching for the Beaufort Sea" I did a Google search on the phrase "the hand of Franklin". Well! The top hit I got in my search did not go to a history website -- it went to a fic entitled "The Hand of Franklin" and the reference was to Sam Franklin. It was Sam Franklin/Ray Kowalski dubcon with eventual Fraser/Kowalski.

And here is the first fic I ever read, the first slash I ever encountered, the fic that pimped me into fandom community: The Hand of Franklin by akite."

#witness accounts #fic #sam franklin/kowalski #fraser/kowalski #due south #slings and arrows #c6d #ride_4ever #ds30below

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Pleases reblog to spread the good word about all these things.

#Please. God. I should be seeing a million memes and reactions from all of these #The Middleman was made for tumblr. If it debuted now Tumblr girlies would be screaming and pulling hair and sacrificing goats to it #Maniac #Netflix maniac #Maniac Netflix #pete and pete #the adventures of pete and pete #Pete & pete #robihachi #The middleman #slings and arrows #slings & arrows #at home with amy sedaris #Amy sedaris #Ahwas #barb and star go to vista del mar #post o' mine #tumblr polls #Poll #clearing out the drafts

[destroy-some-evil]

DS Fic Rec - Crossover Fic

Now Heaven Hath All by

Summary:

Slings & Arrows/due South crossover. A producer approaches Geoffrey Tennant with an unusual acting opportunity.

A fun short little crossover with Slings & Arrows. Paul Gross has very good range as an actor. Due South made me slightly obsessed with him. The characters he has played are all very distinct and it's fun to see them interact in crossovers.

#ds30below #due south #slings and arrows #crossover

[gallopinggallifreyans]

he proceeds to play lear in stratfest 2023

#ana says stuff #slings and arrows #geoffrey tennant

[thissying]

Slings & Arrows | Sea Fever

#and this one too! #slings and arrows #fanvid

[travsd]

"Slings and Arrows" Turns 20

This comes under the header of neither fish nor foul…neither quite historical yet, nor any longer contemporary. But I do take note of the fact that the Canadian television show Slings and Arrows premiered 20 years ago today. The program ran in Canada in three six-episode seasons, from 2003 through 2006, and debuted in the States a couple of years later. I hugely relished this highly original and…

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#Bob Martin #Mark McKinney #New Burbage #Paul Gross #series #Shakespeare #Slings and Arrows #Susan Coyne #Television #The Kids in the Hall #theatre #tv

[lovepollution]

Luke Kirby and Rachel McAdams in Slings and Arrows season 1 episode 5 ‘Mirror up to Nature’

#luke kirby #rachel mcadams #slings and arrows #slings & arrows #look at these BABIES #i'm love to see them work together again #the first one is new to me so obviously i had to post it