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"Blorbo from my shows" no. Blorbo from my BA. Blorbo from my major. Blorbo from my primary source document.

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everybody STOP writing books that claim to tell the hidden story of ophelia (while butchering all of hamlet, making her less interesting, and ignoring gertrude) everybody STOP writing r&j spin-offs where benvolio falls in love with rosaline. somebody start writing the forbidden tamora and aaron backstory. how did he end up with the goths? is he, like tamora will with saturnius, cozying up to his captors/conquerors? do they actually care about each other? did tamora want kids? did she want to bear aaron’s kid until she realized that would expose her cheating? how much does she hate saturnius? how much does he hate saturnius? how quickly would they throw each other under the bus? did either one hesitate about lavinia, or just feel gratified it wasn’t them being torn apart by cruel [nonblack, men] yet? did either one acknowledge, to each other or themself, that it was always a yet?

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anyway. does anyone ever think about lavinia (titus andronicus, 1.1 // 5.3)

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when u like a character for their potential to be interesting and complex more than how they’re actually written

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i think i identify so much with hamlet that i kind of forget what a horror show it is from laertes’ perspective. but like you’re this ambitious young man whose dad is kind of a bumbling idiot that everyone laughs at but at least people trust him in the court. or they did under the last king. you don’t know exactly what’s going on and who’s safe and who isn’t. you’re just trying to find your footing and now everyone is talking about a ghost wandering the grounds and it’s like. ok time to skip town for a bit and go to france!! obviously you feel a little bad about leaving your little sister behind and also you’re begging her please please please don’t do anything dumb. i love you i know i’m overbearing i know dad is overbearing too but please just don’t be stupid. ok? i know you have your stupid boyfriend but sometimes guys are mean so just don’t do anything dumb. ok? ok? it’s your little sister. you have to say that. and you leave and go to france and the next thing you hear is that your dad is dead. you go back and you’re so mad that you’re ready to kill the king, you don’t care what happens to you, you break in and threaten to kill him. but it’s not his fault and it’s his asshole nephew who had some kind of thing with your sister and you literally warned her about this and you told her not to be stupid and she PROMISED she would be careful and now she’s sobbing and crying and not making any sense and everyone’s saying she’s crazy. she went to dad’s funeral without you. he was buried without you. you didn’t come. then your sister’s dead too. and no one wants to say suicide but what else would it have been and you were supposed to protect her and you went to stupid france even though you KNEW something was going to happen which was why you were so annoying about it. but maybe that made everything worse. you’re at her funeral and her ex boyfriend shows up and starts fighting you IN HER GRAVE and you decide you’re going to kill him. really. really. what else could you even think to do. your family is dead and it’s all his fault. and maybe if you stayed you could have saved them. and you have to kill him. you have to. because if you can pretend it’s all his fault maybe you can forget that you think it’s yours

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Bard Poll Round 1, Match 13

Propaganda

Lear

Edmund my beloved they could never make me hate you.

Two Gents

Early Shakespeare at its finest. Doesn’t quite hold up to the same standard as some of the more refined later plays but stands head and shoulders above Comedy of Errors. Cross-dressing, a dog, and characters ripped straight from the commedia dell’arte, what’s not to like? (Proteus. Proteus is what not to like, but we can work with that.)

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reading other people’s interpretations of the lear sisters always makes me insane bc like. does no one besides me and my tumblr mutuals know what goneril and regan are about. what’s going on

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cannot stop saying “call me richard the way I’m the third”. I’m not even a third anything. can someone more appropriate take this curse from me

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hey sexy what time do you plan on being done grieving

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henry iv is a really underrated shakespeare character i think. by which i mean he's rated about as highly as he deserves but i for one love a guy who just absolutely sucks. and not even in a fun sexy way he's just miserable and guilt-ridden and terminally ill and homophobic and i think that's beautiful.

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i could find gay subtext in absolutely anything i could find gay subtext in the straightest thing ever created. im like those medieval scholars who insisted on finding christian interpretations of pagan ideas n text but. for gay ppl

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first base is ripping each other's throats out second base is fucking and then pretending it didn't happen after it's over. third base is falling unconscious from blood loss in the other's arms

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creating a book series called "big fear shakespeare" where i expect you to know every reference and definition and instead there are comments in the margins saying things like "what kind of idiot wouldn't know this?"

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also a BIG fan of this one

nothing will ever be as transcendentally bad as "of hotspur coldspur" but i forgot how much "o were mine eyeballs into bullets turned / that i in rage might shoot them at your faces" makes me WHEEZE. i love when one of the best writers of all time can't write <3

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nothing will ever be as transcendentally bad as "of hotspur coldspur" but i forgot how much "o were mine eyeballs into bullets turned / that i in rage might shoot them at your faces" makes me WHEEZE. i love when one of the best writers of all time can't write <3