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palaces-out-of-paragraphs · 6 years

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LGBT+ Shakespeare Series

Hey all! I’ve been sitting on the idea for a while now about adapting all of Shakespeare’s comedies (and maybe even the tragedies?) into something extremely gay. So I want to know everyone’s favorite queer ships (or any other LGBT+ headcanons) from any of the following plays:

As You Like It

The Comedy of Errors

Love’s Labour’s Lost

The Merchant of Venice

The Merry Wives of Windsor

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Much Ado About Nothing

The Taming of the Shrew

Twelfth Night

The only rule is that I won’t be changing the gender of any characters, but I could change their relationships, ie. cousins become best friends to avoid incest, etc. ;)

I am a writer devoted to the idea of getting more LGBT+ fiction out into the world, so please reblog among the community! I need all the help I can get.

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ciceroisthefamilycat · 7 years

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BuzzFeed-Inspired LGBTQ Film Posters Series: Bonus

21. Sixty-Nine: What's a lesbian's favorite number? More importantly, how many Sapphic old maids can live together in their own unofficial sorority house without driving each other insane or breaking all their hips?

22. Eat Me!: Inspired by this post. Evan (Tucci) is a master of fine dining and French cuisine. Which is why eventually he had to separate from his food-truck doting ex, Roger (Goldblum). But now their fairy god-father (Cumming), will give you all the recipe of how he fixed their relationship and reunited them.

23. All or Nothing: Inspired by this post. Macy (Garofala) is super outgoing and a huge flirt. Sharon (Schilling) is socially awkward and has trouble ordering coffee let alone getting a date. Then Macy see's Sharon's ad looking for a roommate, moves in, and changes her life.

24. Afterworlds: Inspired by the Scott Westerfeld novel, about Darcy Patel, a young writer who bangs out a novel in her senior year of high school, has it published for a ton of money, and moves to New York City to revise it, write a sequel, and hang out with the NYC YA crowd. Interspersed with Darcy’s story is the entirety of her novel, also called Afterworlds, about Lizzie Scofield, a young girl who escapes a terrorist attack by playing dead, but then discovers that she has played too well . . . Darcy writes the words and Lizzie lives them.

25. The Bloom: Idek. Something with other planets and witches. Jodie as an evil queen and Portia as her former lover who tbh isn't trustworthy. Evan as the even less trustworthy princess who is Jodie's heir. Drew as the good witch and savior. Angelina as her tortured lover whose magic is dark.

26. The Merry Husbands: Not pictured because I obviously got lazy. But a sort of sequel to "The Merry Wives of Windsor," in which at the end the suitor Caius accidentally marries a young man. So a frame story about a young playwright (Michael Willett) scared to come out to his father (John Benjamin Hickey) who unbeknownst to him is gay himself (and dating a character played by Jaason Simmons). But anyway he writes this sequel with the idea that Caius knew what he was doing but used the excuse of not knowing to finally be himself and marry another man in a restrictive society. Then the local theatre group puts his play on (the producer is played by Antony Sher, the director by John Barrowman, and his playwrighting mentor by David Yost). He doesn't originally get along with the actors (Caius is played by a Luke Macfarlane character and the young husband Liam by Jussie Smollett) but then the playwright and the Liam actor fall in love. And then Luke Evans and Chris Colfer are Caius and Liam respectively.

#mine #long post #bfqproject #I got so lazy but idek

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shakesprick · 7 years

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the signs as eccentric Shakespeare-themed quotes from my theatre troupe:

Aries: Yes the wives of Windsor are merry, but are they happy inside? Are they emotionally fulfilled?

Taurus: Trinculo can't hold his liquor, that's why Stephano left him for a half-fish demon.

Gemini: Be gentle with Yorick! Or Ivan, or Lin-Manuel Miranda or whatever his name is, he came from Target.

Cancer: As if Othello would be caught dead in a onesie.

Leo: My father would kill me if I was in Titus Andronicus, but I would also give my left hand for a role... you see my problem.

Virgo: And we all know why scenes end without a set change? *unified chant* So they could relight the lanterns.

Libra: Make Phebe a lesbian! Make everybody gay! I don't care.

Scorpio: Try me, Prospera! *crash backstage* Oh, shit.

Sagittarius: Get out of my face with your Oxfordian bullcrap.

Capricorn: We can't perform it as well because Shakespeare only hired magicians for his troupe...

Aquarius: Ferdinand and Miranda are just Romeo and Juliet with heavy lifting.

Pisces: The Bard is witty, alright! Also a douchebag!

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