#bisexual duke orsino

[dozecoin]

happy pride month to duke orsino my favorite sad bisexual

[couldpolyamorysavethem]

COUNTESS OLIVIA, DUKE ORSINO, and VIOLA "CESARIO" from TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL

Justification:

"I just think it would be such a fun dynamic to explore. Violacesario definitely has potential for romantic relationships with both Olivia (Olivia explicitly is in love with Violacesario, the famously beautiful willow cabin speech, plus I love their banter) and Orsino (are explicitly in love with each other, shares a lot of intimate moments like the Come Away, Death scene, and in most productions spends a lot of the play sitting in his lap). Orsino’s arc in the play is about accepting that romance isn’t cut-and-dry like he expects it to be, and that love can happen outside of social norms/expectations. Olivia’s arc is about falling in love after isolating herself from the world but also trying to escape the often restrictive nature of marriage. Violacesario’s story revolves around grief but also identity, with Orsino and Olivia’s houses representing The Two Genders. Now picture this: Crazy gnc af nonbinary bisexual polyamory. I think it would make a lot of sense!!! Furthermore, I just think their dynamic would be soooo fascinating. Especially because for the whole play Orsino pursues Olivia relentlessly, I would LOOOOVE to see their dynamic as metamours. How would they deal with inter-marrying in the era the story takes place in? Would Olivia still marry Sebastian? How would him and his relationship (or lack thereof) with Antonio play into that? Would Olivia end up marrying Orsino? Would they all move in together? Would it fix them? Would it make them worse? Can they even make this relationship work with the way some of them are at the each other’s throats in the text? I DONT KNOW!!!! But I am soooo fascinated by the concept and YOU SHOULD BE TOO!!!!! And besides, we’ve all seen That Picture." - Anonymous

[galwithalibrarycard]

Just saw the And Juliet musical and I have a list of grievances.

The De Bois Band bit was great, but they pronounced it "Da Boy". Which IS presumably the correct French pronunciation. BUT what makes me irrationally angry is that all they had to do was pronounce the S, and it would've worked as a soundalike reference to Orlando De Boys from As You Like It (arguably the Shakespeare leading man most likely to be in a boy band - him and Duke Orsino from 12th Night). The reference was right there!!! Just say De Boys!!! It would make my brain happy.

I was the only one who let out a small "woo!" when Shakespeare said "I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest." If cheering for a quote from the best love confession scene in all of Shakespeare is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

It doesn't feel particularly loving towards the works of Shakespeare. Yes there are plenty of things to criticize the man and the works for, but you have to have fondness for the thing you're parodying or what's the point?

Romeo isn't a villain, he's a stupid annoying teenager like Juliet. She should be mad at him for killing her cousin, but not for having one single canonical girlfriend before her (why did we have to make him a bisexual slut stereotype, too?)

No queer women. This show should've had queer women. Love May, love nonbinary representation, but pretty please?

I get it now, why people don't like jukebox musicals. I love a lot of those songs, and they're incorporated well, but they're too familiar, so the songs don't feel like the characters talking. They just feel like needle drops. The songs and the story don't fully hang right together, I don't know why.

Just- I feel no emotional connection to this show. I'm gonna have a mishmash of 90s music stuck in my head for weeks, but that's about it.

[thesunwillshineonusagain757]

As the @thelovelybookworm doing this and I loved the concept so I’m doing this for this blog. It want easy narrowing things down but here it is.

1. Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark ( A song of ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin )

If you follow me you saw this one coming from hey are my ultimate OTP have always been and probably will always be. Finding love in hopeless places is one things I’m very inclined to.

2. Viola and Duke Orsino ( Twelfth Night, Or What You Will, William Shakespeare )

I’m not a massive Shakespeare buff but these to ring my bell a lot. It’s the trans allegory, its the melancholic deeply bisexual man, and a deeply non binary person that make a very good duo! I think you can already see a pattern here.

3. Aragon and Éowyn ( Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien )

Here me out I know it’s fanon, and I know most purists of Tolkien will think it heretic but I love these two and their dynamic ! And yes I think they should’ve end up together. Aragon sees Éowyn and doesn’t think she should be lady like to be worthy of his respect! And the fact that Aragorn is the most badass man in the Middle-earth also helps.

4. Zuko x Katara ( Avatar : The last Air Bender )

The OG ship of ships, my OG OTP, they are still my shit and yes I’m still bitter about it. It’s the Fire and Water, opposites attract that always made me love their dynamic oh my so much. They are what I want to have in life! His redemption arc to me was Ken got he best parts of the show and I’m sad that new generations won’t know what is was like with them !

[fingerprint-insurance]

seeing pictures of eddie redmayne in twelfth night as viola and now crafting a like minds twelfth night AU where alex is forced to join the school play (twelfth night) by his dad or sumn and what do you know, he's viola, nigel's playing duke orsino and susan's playing Olivia (bisexuality strikes again) updates will come soon on whether this will just be an art piece or whether or not I'll make an accompanying fic see ya soon

[thejak]

This may just be my screaming into the void but goddamnit I gotta get it out of my system. (Rant about Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and the inherent queerness of the story below the cut)

So I’m a massive Shakespeare girlie. I have a subscription to The Globe Theatre’s iPlayer, I love to analyze it, I watch clips of the monologues online, the whole nine. But I went to my first ever live production of a Shakespeare play and it was Twelfth Night and my god it was fucking amazing. I had seen one of the Globe’s productions of Twelfth Night already online but it was nothing like seeing it live.

Because I had already seen one version of it (one that’s fucking amazing may I add) I couldn’t help myself from comparing them in my head.

And while there were things that I really enjoyed from the Globe’s version, like how they composed their versions of the songs, because Twelfth Night is lowkey a musical, and some of the jokes (like Malvolio saying “do you make an alehouse out of my lady’s house” and Sir Andrew immediately and audibly cracking open a beer and trying to drink it behind a pillar) I think I enjoyed this company’s production better.

And I think it’s almost entirely because of the fact that they didn’t shy away from how overwhelmingly queer the whole story is as a concept.

So if you don’t know Twelfth Night, if someone were to come up and say something like “the Shakespeare play with all the cross dressing” they would probably be talking about Twelfth Night (or As You Like It but I think Twelfth Night is more popular).

The core of the story is that a woman who is cross dressing as a man falls in love with a duke who sends her to woo a lady he’s perusing who falls in love with the woman instead because she thinks she’s a man.

Which is gay as FUCK.

But my main complaint with the Globe’s version is that Orsino (the duke) doesn’t seem to be in love with Viola/Cesario (the cross dresser) until well into the second half of the play.

The version I saw tonight, however, made it very clear VERY early that Orsino (who was played by Leraldo Anzaldua who voices that blonde fuck with glasses in Haikyuu!! which is cool) was falling in love with Viola/Cesario.

They even had them nearly kiss partway through the first half of the play during the scene where Viola tries to explain that women love just as deeply as men (the “I am all the daughters of my father’s house” scene iykyk) WHEN ORSINO STILL THOUGHT VIOLA WAS A MAN.

And it wasn’t even a “Viola leaned in first” kind of thing. Orsino leaned in first (or at least it seemed like it from where I was sitting) and Viola was the one to back away.

They also implied that Olivia (the lady) was bisexual at the end which was cool, but that was more played for laughs (they said something like “you were engaged to a maid and a man” and she did the lil Radio Rebel hair tuck behind the ear. Coming from a bisexual, shit was hilarious).

Anyway, I think that if you disliked reading Shakespeare in high school or whatever you should give watching a production of it a shot. I promise it will make sense when the actors bring it to life. Twelfth Night is fucking hilarious but a lot of the humor is physical.

tl;dr make Shakespeare gayer you fucking cowards

[jupitercl0uds]

duke orsino really did be bisexual eat hot chip and lie

[variousqueerthings]

diiiid now watch twelfth night! (on twelfth night! not that it's really about that at all ofc)

freema agyeman giving overly-intense, grieving-but-also-horny-af, bisexual femmedomme energy throughout was the biggest highlight for me. she was yelling, she was growling in annoyance, she was squeaking, she was giving cold and fire and *mwuah!*

and then it turned out that me and my friend were watching all creatures great and small and what-ho it ws literally one of the lead actors from that show playing malvolio which was fun, and he gave a magnificent malvolio

was a big fan of of the scene where cesario and duke orsino dance and generally the way it seemed like all the (entirely male) servants in orsino's court had definitely had sex with each other in some configuration or other, but i dont think that orsino and cesario/viola had thaaat much chemistry if im being honest

i think there was, for me, a bit of a withholding on the gender-aspect of the play, which made this viola/cesario not feel quite so believable to me and so while i very much believed in duke orsino being a bisexual who hitherto had only had sex with men realising he was kinda into this crossdressing/genderfluid/smthsmth person i struggled to suspend my disbelief that it was this person who would prompt these realisations

i thought the way they played sir toby was really very very good, i often find these "types" of shakespeare characters quite annoying (the old comedic drunk bastard with a heart of gold) but he was given a lot of pathos

feste was amazing -- equal parts funny, talented, and low-to-highkey disturbingly into fucking with malvolio + with that wonderful sense that he knew that he was In A Story to an extent, because ofc. he's the fool!

the fucking! organ! yo! i gasped!

but yeah. freema agyeman stole the show for me!

[decaf-nosebleed]

duke orsino, bisexual icon

[allottavabassa]

Duke Orsino got bisexual by default since he can't form sentences that aren't grandiose declarations of love

[lifewouldbebetteronmars]

So I think for the mc I’m going with Sivaun, I just really like the way that name sounds and it’s so distinctly elven that I’m in love with it

In the play, Viola and Sebastian are identical twins even though they’re both afab and amab respectively, so just for the simplicity of things and in order to draw on the genderqueer elements more, I’m making them both amab

Anyway, all that to say I want Sivaun’s brother’s name to sound similar to theirs, but no pressure if you can’t think of anything!!!

I’m thinking Korhina or Korrin or something that has that CORE sound at the beginning yk for Sivaun’s love interest, a duke in the fae courts

I’m already obsessed with him bc he’s such a bisexual disaster, just like Orsino is in twelfth night nennendbbebeb

Okay so this is going to take me a bit to do-

But I’m up for the challenge? First things first, I love the mc’s name, so awesome and it’s a good starting point for me-

So for Sivaun’s brother I’m thinking:

-Sulien

-Senan

-Sylvain

-Siddharth

-Vyvyan

-Viridian

-Vespasian

-Verlin

For the love interest based on Orsino:

-Kore

-Cormorant

-Corcan

-Corbinnian

-Corax

-Coretin

I hope you enjoy these!!!

[dozecoin]

duke orsino is bisexual and i can prove it because when i was in twelfth night i played him and had a huge crush on our viola who was a masc presenting girl (who i fully thought was a guy at first) who was the funniest and awesomest person ever and i was like fuck yeah and that's the energy that i like to think orsino has

[doingpushupsindrag]

guys do u think my literature teachers will finally realise I’m not straight after I hand in an essay solely talking about how Duke Orsino is a bisexual who prefers guys

[everyoneislgbtpride-edits]

Duke Orsino from She’s The Man is bisexual!!

[mispelled]

I'd quite like a Twelfth Night production where Viola is nonbinary/genderfluid, everyone is bi, and at the end, BOTH Orsino and Olivia and up with Vi. Sebastian is aroace

[visa0003]

I want a she's the man remake...but this time it has to be GAY