#10th: Macbeth

[livhowlett]

Happy 53rd to...

The Demon Crowley

The 10th and 14th Doctor

Amazing Stage Actor

And 'Staged' Actor

Father of 5

Georgia Tennant's Husband

AND Michael Sheen's Husband

💙💙💙David Tennant💙💙💙

[casasupernovas]

freema agyeman is presenting at the olivier awards so in my movie she presents best actor to david tennant for macbeth.

[thomasenglishclass]

(via ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane - The New York Times)

[davidtennantedits]

David Tennant as Macbeth MACBETH Donmar Warehouse Theatre (8th December 2023 - 10th February 2024)

[cantheykillmacbeth]

Could Julius Caeser kill MacBeth?

No, Gaius Julius Caesar, former Roman emperor, could not kill Macbeth.

It's a common belief that a Cesarean Section (aka C-Section) got its name from Julius Caesar, and that he was born through this method, but historical evidence shows that this was very unlikely to actually be true. At the time, C-sections were almost guaranteed to be fatal to the mother; the 10th-century encyclopedia The Suda says that Julius' mother Aurelia died when he was born after they cut her open. The big problem with this account is that... that's not what happened at all? Aurelia not only survived childbirth, but went on to be an advisor for her son when he became emperor. There's no solid historical evidence that we have that suggests Caesar's birth was anything out of the ordinary.

In fact, it's probably more likely that Caesar got his name from Cesarean Section, not the other way around. Historia Naturalis, a work of Pliny the Elder from the first century, talks about a Caesar that was born this way (most likely an ancestor of Julius), and says that he "was so named, from having been cut from his mother's womb," which suggests the name Caesar is derived from the Latin word caedere, meaning "to cut," and/or the Latin word "caesones" which specifically referred to children who were born by being cut from the womb. (That is just a theory, though- don't take my word for it, I am a gimmick blog.)

So, with being born normally from his mother Aurelia and being male, Julius Caesar does not qualify on any grounds to be able to kill Macbeth.

Thank you for your submission!

[donjuaninsoho]

Final evening performance of Macbeth at Donmar Warehouse on 10th February, 2024

[yelenasdiary]

No words will ever express how proud of I am of Florence! I love her so much! This October marks Florence’s 10th year in the film industry!

Starting with The Falling (2014) to currently filming Thunderbolts for a 2025 release & she’s been in 2 of the biggest movies within 12 months of one another.

Florence Rose Pugh, I am forever proud of you!

(Photos are from Lady Macbeth, 2016 & Dune Part Two, 2024)

[rorygilmoreh4ter]

i’m sorry but you weren’t a teenage dirtbag, you read macbeth once in your 10th grade english class and it has been a downward spiral ever since

[fearandhatred]

ATTENTION MACBETH-GOING MUTUALS

i have officially booked flight tickets so anyone who will be in london from 9th to ~20th december and/or are going for macbeth on 10th or closing night!! this is a psp (public service plea):

please

[thealogie]

My colleague's friend took her 13 yo daughter to see Tennant's Macbeth (press night, how people do it?). Not a Doctor Who or GO household, she just wanted to educate her kid. By Monday said kid together with mom watched GO, Hamlet and Broadchurch, started Doctor Who and kid requested 10th Doctor's cardboard cutout for Christmas. I mean... I heard of things working the other way round, Doctor Who to Shakespeare, so it's pretty neat. My colleague thought it would tickle me so much, she phoned from her vacation to tell me.

The Tennant Effect will get you even if you’re the type of person who goes to see Macbeth on opening night because you’re high brow

[sigma-showdown]

SIGMA FEMALE SHOWDOWN

FINAL RESULTS

16th: Nina Sayers 15th: Elaine Benes 14th: Dr. Temnova 13th: Jennifer Check 12th: Tomie 11th: Xenomorph Queen 10th: Pearl 9th: Lady Macbeth 8th: Asa Mitaka 7th: Bayonetta 6th: Makima 5th: Carrie 4th: Lain Irukawa 3rd: Asuka Langley Soryu

2nd: Akane Kurashiki

1st: GLaDOS

[scorchedthesnake]

March 7, 2011

I moved to New York City in August 2010. My life before New York was something I’d grown completely unsatisfied with: I had moved to Connecticut for graduate school in 2001, had weathered two recessions in the relative security of academe but could see the writing on the wall for the doom of that profession and so had, via my teaching assistants union, begun to work for our international union as a communications staffer. This had given me a way out of Connecticut, though escaping the cultish environment of the union would still take a few more years.

The person I was back then was very unlike the person I am now. I wasn’t very much fun those first nine months in the city because I was just so afraid of everything. Bars scared me; too many strangers. Clubs scared me; too dark and too many unknowns and unpredictable scenarios. I was happy to be in a new place but petrified by what that freedom actually meant, and I had yet to find any place to belong or feel at home in.

I worked on 7th Avenue back then, around 27th Street. I remember sitting in my dreary cubicle that Monday, when I got a message from my best friend Matt, asking me if I wanted to go to a show that evening. No, I said, I really just want to go home and hide from the world. It’s the show John (O’Malley) is working on, he said, and he got us comps. Well what kind of show is it, I asked? “We’re gonna, like, chase sexy dancers around a warehouse.” Oh god that sounds so stupid, do I have to? “Just come with me, if you hate it you can leave.” 

So around 7pm I walked over to 10th Avenue and the block was so dumpy back then – junkyards, warehouses, not much else. I saw a small line of people gathered at the address I’d been given, so I approached and was handed this card:

I don’t remember anything about checking in or what it was like seeing Manderley for the first time, though I do remember Maximilian being there, giving a short speech and then we were taken to the elevator. I remember getting off the elevator on 3, and taking far too long to explore an empty Macbeths bedroom before, I suppose, figuring out I should investigate the other floors.

I’ve told this story often, though: at some point I came across an extremely attractive man moving quickly, so I did what it seemed like many others were doing: I followed him. We were in the 2nd loop by now, and I had realized it was a loop; but my target soon was running down High Streeet and through a darkened door and it slammed in my face and, to my surprise, was locked.

Oh, there are secret things all over here, aren’t there?

So I picked up his trail again as soon as I could, and stuck as close as I could. Including when we stumbled down all the flights of stairs and I wondered, should I call for help? Is the performer injured? But I stuck to him like glue and when he again approached that darkened door I was close enough to get inside.

And so the highlight of my first show was seeing Luke Murphy in interrogation.

After the finale I reconnected with Matt. We had, of course, seen completely different shows. As we exited we saw John. “Did you get any one on ones,” he asked? One on whats? “Well, I had one where the man in the lobby took me into a room and started putting on makeup.”

No we hadn’t seen anything like that. We immediately set about buying tickets for later in the six-week run. And we wandered the streets for a couple hours after that, comparing notes, feverishly reconstructing what we had just experienced. 

Obviously I did not sleep that night.

So much of the time you don’t know when everything has changed. You realize it long after the fact and in retrospect. Not this, this I knew was a fundamental shift. I’d never felt my senses at full alert like that, my mind racing trying to make sense of something so visceral. The music rang in my ears for hours, days later, and I knew when I came back, I’d need a plan.

[thomasenglishclass]

(via Macbeth Musical Chairs - playlist by Andrew Anglin | Spotify)

[hubristicassholefight]

Full contestant list

Hoping to put the bracket together sometime in the next couple of days. Sorry this took a while, I had to deal with RL stuff for job onboarding (also Splatoon Side Order dropped)

Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein)

Feanor (The Silmarillion)

Erin Ruunaser (Aurora webcomic)

Vriska Serket (Homestuck)

Gale of Waterdeep (Baldur's Gate 3)

Light Yagami (Death Note)

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb)

Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars)

Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Odysseus (The Odyssey)

Starscream (Transformers)

Jurgen Leitner (The Magnus Archives)

Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z)

Icarus (Classical Mythology)

Five Pebbles (Rain World)

Elias Bouchard/Jonah Magnus (The Magnus Archives)

Kim Dokja (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)

Laerryn Cormar-Seelie (Critical Role: Exandria Unlimited Calamity)

Essek Thyless (Critical Role)

Macbeth (Macbeth)

10th Doctor (Doctor Who)

Magolor (Kirby Series)

Achilles (The Iliad)

Herbert West (Re-Animator)

Magnus the Red (Warhammer 40k)

Old Lady Odin (The Mechanisms: The Bifrost Incident)

Manfred von Karma (Ace Attorney)

The Entire Allagan Empire (Final Fantasy XIV)

Cave Johnson (Portal)

Ahab (Moby Dick)

Hal 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey)

John Franklin (The Terror)

The Pale King (Hollow Knight)

Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Lord Shen (Kung Fu Panda)

Walter White (Breaking Bad)

Lucrezia Mongfish (Girl Genius)

Adam (Nier: Automata)

Gordon the Big Engine (Thomas the Tank Engine)

Ford Pines (Gravity Falls)

Ego the Living Planet (MCU)

Gregory House (House MD)

Yoshikage Kira (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

Lelouch vi Britannia (Code Geass)

Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts)

Dream/Morpheus (The Sandman)

Emperor Belos (The Owl House)

Maxwell Carter (Don't Starve)

Richard III (Shakespeare's Richard III)

Ace (Zero Escape)

Fei Wang Reed (Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles)

Dimentio (Super Paper Mario)

Nemesis (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Riliane Lucifen d'Autriche (The Evilious Chronicles)

Gojo Satoru (Jujustu Kaiden)

Eustass Kidd (One Piece)

Flowey (Undertale)

Andrew Ryan (Bioshock)

Bedman (Guilty Gear)

Akio Ohtori (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

The Scarab (Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake)

Sinbad (Magi) Hamlet

[cantheykillmacbeth]

The saw trap ask made me wonder… if I like accidentally dropped an anvil from a 10th story building and it landed on Macbeth’s head, would it kill him? Would it only kill him if I wasn’t cis male? Is it me doing the killing, or is it the anvil? Does it change if I’m a cis male and I deliberately drop the anvil?

Either way, it's you doing the killing, not the anvil. No matter what your intentions are, whether it be an accident or not, if it wouldn't have happened if not for you, then- generally- you would be at fault for the purposes of the prophecy. A man of woman born cannot kill Macbeth, even on accident.

-Mod Anthem

[pieandpaperbacks]

Top 10 books of 2023

My favourite books of 2023, in no particular order:

A House With Good Bones - T. Kingfisher I was so disappointed when this didn’t win the goodreads choice awards for horror of the year. It’s so creepy and unsettling but in a uniquely T. Kingfisher way that somehow manages to still be funny and kind of cozy.

Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett Of all the Discworld books I read this year, this one was definitely my favourite. I feel like Pratchett started to find his stride in this one, which I noticed more reading chronologically. Also it’s a spoof of Macbeth, and I’m a sucker for anything with Macbeth jokes.

The Bone Season (10th Anniversary Revised Edition) - Samantha Shannon I’ve loved the Bone Season series ever since I binged it in 2021, but the first book always fell a little flat for me. This revised edition fixed all the problems I had with the original. Highly recommend if you’re looking for a really unique fantasy/dystopia.

A Day of Fallen Night - Samantha Shannon I love Priory of the Orange Tree, so I was a little hesitant about a prequel, but ADOFN somehow managed to surpass Priory. It’s a  perfect high fantasy that spans many countries and characters, and features multiple sapphic characters, as well as bisexual, asexual, and other queer folks. This was my absolute favourite book of the year.

Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg One of the most important queer novels of the last 50 years. So glad I read this.

Tell Me I'm An Artist - Chelsea Martin This book found me at just the right time. It asks what it means to be an artist, and explores the intersections between the art world and privilege, and looks at the age old question; what is art?

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir I am so late to the Locked Tomb hype, and I can’t believe it took me this long to pick up Gideon the Ninth! The Locked Tomb is quickly becoming one of my favourite fantasy series.

Heartstopper Volume 5 - Alice Oseman I waited all year for this instalment of the Heartstopper series to come out, and I devoured it in one day. Alice Oseman's work is always beautiful and heartfelt, and Volume 5 of Heartstopper is no exception.

The Well of Ascension - Brandon Sanderson I dipped my toes into Sanderson's work for the first time this year, and I started with the Mistborn series. While the prose is not the most complex, the characters and setting are what truly drew me in. So far, The Well of Ascension is my favourite of the trilogy.

Nettle and Bone - T. Kingfisher I read six T. Kingfisher books this year, with the first one being Nettle and Bone, and it's still one of my favourites. A weird dark fairytale with goblin markets, a quest to kill a prince, grave witches, an evil puppet, and a chicken possessed by a demon. What else could you want?