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The Viscount's Men present: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Anthony: Theseus/Oberon

Benedict: Helena

Colin: Lysander/Nick Bottom as Pyramus

Daphne: Hippolyta/Titania

Eloise: Puck/Egeus/Philostrate

Francesca: Hermia

Gregory: Demetrius/Francis Flute as Thisbe

Hyacinth: Peter Quince/First Fairy

Daphne directs this one, and everyone joins in as fairies/mechanicals as needed. Anthony is mad about Benedict playing Helena in the same way he was mad about him insisting on playing Cleopatra, but Benedict gets away with it this time because Anthony is older and slightly more mature and also because there's literally a subplot in the play itself about a man needing to play the female love interest

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(Note: the difference between guilt and shame is that ‘guilt’ focuses on specific acts or behaviors, while ‘shame’ involves the overall sense of self.)

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Turnchetta

@pilferingapples, @amysterywrappedinanenigma, i think you were the most vocal supporters of Musichetta/Turning Woman #3, so have a little fic I wrote for them!

Musichetta has known women who laughed all the time and women who only wept into their handkerchiefs, but after the night-into-day-into-night of the barricades she becomes aware of a woman who is always turning. She looks back over her shoulder to look for a voice she thought she recognized or she flips through a book of scripture to find the right passage to comfort a woman who's become a widow before she was a bride, or she turns some treasured trinket over and over in her palm.

What happened this June has happened before, she says, because no one ever listens, and it will happen again because no one ever hears. They, the women left to clean up these messes, are the only ones who truly understand the cost of progress, but even with that cost, the Turning Woman insists that it is worth it to keep seeking the light that illuminates.

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i was just thinking "gosh, i hope daniel rabin knows how much i loved his performances as reynaldo and cornwall, i hope he's having a good day" and then i got overwhelmed with embarrassment at just the THOUGHT of him or any actors actually reading my fic, even the rated-G ones, so it's more that i hope he feels my love from afar.

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i don’t know why tumblr won’t let me post this image in a way that looks normal but i have to imagine that it’s because of the contents of this image

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some fun facts about the production of hamlet i’m in right now:

the ghost never appears physically

ghost scenes take place in complete darkness, lit only by the guards’ flashlights

rosencrantz and guildenstern’s first entrance involves a tango choreographed to beyoncé’s “crazy in love”

other transition music includes “applause” by lady gaga, “loveless” by lorde, “only angel” by harry styles, and “a little party never killed nobody”

gertrude is either drunk or hungover for the entire play

when polonius encounters hamlet to find the cause of his madness, hamlet is reading a copy of “infinite jest”

rosencrantz and guildenstern try to seduce hamlet into a threesome

they also try to seduce claudius

at intermission laertes goes onstage to practice his swordplay and flirt with the audience members in french. osric watches him from behind the curtain and takes notes

the pirates who deliver letters to horatio are dressed in trench coats, sunglasses, and fedoras

fortinbras is a thirteen-year-old boy

and finally:

hamlet doesn’t give the “to be or not to be” speech. horatio does. at the end of the play. over hamlet’s body

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The cast of Hamlet

Residential College - Ann Arbor, MI | 29 Mar - 31 Mar 2018

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maria!!! that is quite enough out of you! just because you are a child does not mean you are excluded from being a suspect! cease this nonsense talk about plumbers at once and back away from my daughter!!!

kihihi! mario is real! mario is real! at midnight mario will come and take us all to the mushroom kingdom where he'll teach me all about becoming a plumber and stomping koopas! kihihihihi~!

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anecdote time: when i was really little i went to see the Blue Man Group and i had a blast, so i wore a sticker on my little jacket with pride. another kid at kindergarten really aggressively told me "first of all, you're not blue, you're not a man and you're NOT a grownup" and then i smugly told them that it said "group" and they were just mad they didn't get to see a really cool show. i was a brat

also when i was in kindergarten one of my favorite movies was "beethoven lives upstairs" about a boy who becomes friends with the composer, but when i talked about it one of the teacher aides thought i meant the saint bernard. cue hilarious miscommunication.

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the student said, "i'm reading a zen buddhist cookbook. with no recipes." and the teacher replied, "ah, dogen's instructions for the cook, written in 1237?" "yeah," said the student, "it's saying not to let rats fall into the rice pot"

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the title of the last song you listened to is the epitaph on your tombstone

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omg, i got this notification:

and the post in question is about mark scout from severance, but i spent a solid minute trying to figure out when mark immortell and bad grief from pathologic get to interact with each other, and more specifically when i would have posted about such a thing - they're both showmen of different kinds, and they probably have a lot to learn from each other!

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I am obsessed with fictional guys being really weird about each other. Hard at work in the plausible deniability mines. You know those pairings who would jerk each other off before they'd kiss

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oh you’re a fan of my blog? name five of my worst opinions

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meta imposter syndrome: that little voice insisting "you only get to call it imposter syndrome if you're actually good, otherwise it's just the truth"

but the meta version is also a lie, so die vampires die

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Spin a wheel to be assigned someone!

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