#apologies for messiness

[romeoisalesbian]

look man i just wanna ramble about romeo & juliet because it's a play that's near and dear to my heart

ok ok SO.

I feel like I keep seeing the take that Romeo & Juliet is REALLY about how dumb teens are and how their love was too impulsive and it's supposed to be a cautionary tale because their love gets them both dead.

And that's a fine takeaway I think! That's something you CAN get from the story. BUt I must confess it makes little sense to me.

I may be foolish, but I feel like everyone forgets about the whole familial conflict aspect of the play. like bro the first lines of the entire thign are like "hey guys there are these two families that ahte each other SO MUCH and they have FOREVER and now they're murdering each other." the first scene is about how the Montagues and the Capulets super duper hate each other so much so they're gonna square up in the middle of town with swords and shit after flipping each other off a few times

The turning point of the play, when it shifts from a silly romcom to a Balls Wrenching Tragedy, occurs firmly when Tybalt kills Mercutio.

THe actual romance aspect of the play is going FINE until this point! Romeo and Juliet the couple are pretty on the same page about everything happening in their relationship (even if that page is guided by impulse). Romeo is pretty jazzed at the start of the murder scene, and is in fact entirely unwilling to do the murder thing at all.

BUT! Tybalt is kinda a dick! And IS NOT willing to overlook the whole family-conflict-clown thing. And Tybalt's whole "i need to challenge romeo right this instant oh my god" impulse has very little to do with Romeo and Juliet's actual relationship. While a lot of adaptations have Tybalt see Romeo and Juliet being all Romantical at the party, textually Tybalt entirely is ready to brawl because Romeo showed up to the Capulet party at all and Tybalt is all Death Before My Rival Commits a Minor Social Faux Pas.

And Romeo murdering Tybalt and getting banished ALSO has little to do with Juliet or their relationship. His bro just died man. Yes it was stupid and impulsive, but man sometimes it's hard to keep your head on straight when your bestie just died (worth noting that Mercutio curses the family conflict itself when he dies!)

Like Romeo's issues all stem from that key interaction with Tybalt, who upholds the family conflicts above all else in every single scene he appears in.

Juliet on the other hand, is in the SHITTIEST situation. Her father is physically abusive towards her, and her parents are pressuring her to be married off to this random dude that is at best mostly well-meaning and adhering to general romance standards and at worst a massive creep (that's something that depends on acting and directing choices, I think. Paul Rudd Paris has never done anything wrong in his life). Juliet is trapped in this situation in which she is surrounded by pressure and abuse and familial conflict and death. It is reasonable to want to escape that at all measures, even if she acts impulsively and doesn't think through every single thing about the Friar's Genius Plan because god how could she in her circumstances?

If you're Juliet, your one escape from a shitty situation and environment is a boy who you firmly believe loves you, even if he has done some weird shit. If you're Romeo, your entire life has fallen apart because an ancient conflict resulted in your best friend dying and you getting banished for murder. What do you have to care for but someone who you think loves you and who you love amidst all the conflict?

To me, so much of the story hangs upon the familial conflict that the ending of the story is representative of a societal failure as opposed to a personal failure of our two leads.

No matter whether you see the relationship between local weenie romeo and local brain cell juliet as true love or as some passing fancy (i personally think it can be considered love but that's a different post for a different time, send me an ask if youre curious), it SHOUDLN'T end in several deaths and two suicides. The reason it does is because of a pointless family conflict our leads are brought up in.

[razcascade]

big fan of grian's threatening aura this session

[hamsternamedmarinette]

Don't ask how it got into his room

[bleepzip]

✶ i love you more ✶

[just-null]

a funny because i lost my file and then life began to test me

[k1tty5]

i heard ship reqs, maybe gempearl or tangtho?

i did draw gempearl but they uh. didn’t come out great. so. i will have to redeem myself in the future. for all the gempearl nation. for now, however, have a tangtho

[maplecoffee]

Its 6 am im so tired

"OH LITTLE BILL WORE VELCRO UNTIL HE WAS SIXTEEN"

[jajatoc]

A bunch of eldens rings sketches I've drawn in the last months and that I will never finish

[platoapproved]

not even ONCE have we gotten to see armand with blood smeared all over his face and neck.

[lacquerheadd]

buckle your knees looking up at me, and beg me to spare thee the back of my hand.

[queruloustea]

a sketchy hornet and shade lord :)

not exactly sure what i was going for when i started this piece, but that's alright :)

i will thank @mxyzptplk for the rough idea, too! big shadow critter my beloved

[turnipoddity]

I need more chainshipping drawings, they are like food for me.

Please feed me

ask and you shall recieve

[silvermun]

may i offer you all the smidgeon of a crumb

[cryptocism]

You think just anybody can qualify for a crush on Superboy? There's a vetting process. You have to submit an application to the board.

I continue to draw the silly bits of Frequency (this one is from Chapter 5, if context is a thing you like to have)

[cheerioskid]

skyblings!! (i firmly believe jimmy belongs in the skyblings)

closeup & no color ver vv

the inspiration ^^

also please pretend that 1) grian is just hanging onto the side of the cart with his bird feet or whatever and 2) that jimmys wings DO EXIST and that they like show up whenever he needs them or something bc i couldn't draw these without losing readability or my mind :)

[dailyhmsw]

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