#blorbus blorbius from my shakespearean tragedy

[transsexualcoriolanus]

my dealer: got some straight gas this strain is called "the tragedy of coriolanus" you'll be zonked out of your gourd

me: yeah whatever i don't feel shit

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw a 7 year old boy tearing a butterfly apart with his teeth

my buddy aufidius pacing: caius marcius lied to us

[transsexualcoriolanus]

hey can you stop moaning when we fight. i'm trying to be violent and ferocious over here and honestly it's a little off putting

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i'm not calling you a good boy caius marcius that attempt to destroy the romans was shit

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i find it super interesting that in coriolanus, a play with war as one of the main themes and the idea of death constantly there in the background, only one named character actually dies. something something casualties of war being invisible and unnamed

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i Need coriolanus to have a fandom. the discourse would be fucking unbearable

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i'm not saying coriolanus is actually transgender but. he is so trans. i mean

performs traditional masculinity to an extreme degree through his devotion to war and inability to show any emotion but anger. desperation to be seen as a "real man"

that but specifically about his relationship with volumnia. her love for him is completely conditional and she only accepts him as a man and as her son because of his fighting skill (stereotypical masculinity)

unable to function in society. comfortable in war, when he is a soldier and nothing else, but deeply uncomfortable when trying to just be a person

hates being talked about or even perceived: "I would they would forget me"

strong disregard for social norms, tradition and "custom"

lack of bodily autonomy. the way others demand to see his scars out of morbid curiosity as if his body is theirs

the way he is so deeply uncomfortable when this is demanded of him, and incredibly guarded and private about his body

deep admiration and envy of another man who epitomises traditional masculinity

emasculating terms used to insult him: "our general himself makes a mistress of him", "boy of tears"

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coriolanus is called that because he conquered corioles and because he and aufidius had- well. i shan't say

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sexuality: bi but whenever i watch coriolanus i become a raging homosexual via osmosis

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he brings a sort of "i sin in envying his nobility and were i anything but what i am i would wish me only he" vibe to the military meeting that the other roman generals don't really like

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caius marcius coriolanus should have been at the club

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it fills me with rage that in both hamlet and coriolanus, two of the only shakespearean tragedies in which the tragic hero's mother is present and important (i think the only other example is romeo and juliet), the relationship between them is just disregarded as an oedipus complex

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when analysing coriolanus, people make the mistake of assuming that he thinks he's better than everyone else. in fact, he thinks everyone else is worse than him. there is a difference

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i love him

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i've posted about this before but i need to do it again because i feel like i'm either a genius or going insane whenever i think about it. i am convinced that coriolanus had brothers. they're not explicitly mentioned in the play, but there's just one line that volumnia says which to me makes it certain: "when he was but tender bodied and the only son of my womb". when he was the only son of my womb. why would she phrase it like that if he had always been her only son? i am convinced i am right but i've never seen this mentioned by anyone else and any essays i've read that mention the subject state that he had no siblings. i cannot be the only person who thinks this

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coriolanus and aufidius being heterosexual

bonus corminius:

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coriolanus has many flaws but pride is not one of them: a compilation