#and dt has a penchant for playing roles opposite female characters like this........

[variousqueerthings]

wow.

the mental gymnastics of "famous macho actor dt is playing feminine and therefore we can intuit that this production thinks femininity is weak (because femininity is weak)" is fascinating to me. and no critical queer or intersectional feminist reads were accessed on this day 😩

i will say, between this and the breakfast show lady outright saying "you look like a woman!!!" there's an interesting paper to write about the gender of richard ii in the play, david tennant's portrayal, and modern day transphobia in a microcosm

the discomfort with which some people put their lens on the production and richard ii generally (the idea that it's "opaque" or his character's emotions and motivations are hard to gauge) bubbling beneath the surface of famous actor david tennant is doing this one out of the history plays and not *doesnt spin wheel that hard* henry v who is so much more accessible?? and now he looks like a woman!

anyway: "the play in which dt was just so hot and gender transgressive it made everyone want to kill her... slut." #feministreads

lgbt hcs for dt's shakespeare roles

touchstone - genderfluid but he doesn't know what that is. doesn't particularly care abt the gender of the person he dates. though he has only been in relationships w women and also he cannot keep a relationship down for more than 2 months

antipholus of syracuse - cishet man. but this is incidental what really matters is that i think he is someone who was rejected by every girl he tried to confess his eternal and undying love towards

romeo - this is a he/him lesbian. just trust me on this one

berowne - the one disaster bi in a friend group of cishet men. someone please free him!

hamlet - trans man obviously bc this is hamlet. ace and bi as well but specifically in the sense that i feel like he hooked up with guildenstern one time and the sex was so terrible he spent a solid few years believing he was straight

benedick - the most he/they aroace bisexual you'll ever see in your life

richard ii - gay & nonbinary transfem. in fact so transfem that david tennant the actor started getting microaggressed by interviewers in real life

macbeth - nonbinary probably but he is currently plotting a whole bunch of murders and sinking himself further & further into the Blood so he doesn't have the time to think about that rn