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[ask-shakespearehigh]

Q&A post with the Mods!!!!

This is going to be a long one oh boy

How strict is the delineation of creative control vis-a-vis characters/plays between the mods? (@pedanticlecturer)

We generally have the plays split up along lines of “what we know”— we have a list at the very beginning of the blog. Sometimes we’ll draw the others’ characters (mostly me drawing some of Star’s…) but even then the final say on characterization is up to the “main” mod for that play — mod aster

what aster said -- mod star

What is your favorite play? What is your favorite character in terms of how they were written in the source material? (@pedanticlecturer)

I think my favorite play overall is Macbeth, just because I like the vibes (and the fact that I too could kill Macbeth), the fact that you don’t say it’s name in theatres, and the fact that it’s a play I did a full read through and analysis of in class. Favorite character? Puck from Midsummer. — mod aster

uhhhh,, hmm. ive always had a soft spot for midsummer since i saw it with aster esp bc of how fun the costumes were. of the comedies it has the largest potential to be the most visually pleasing bc of the concept of fairies,,,and im gay and dramatic so i love that. id die if i got to costume design for midsummer,,,or be in it,,,yeah. fav character. hmm. probably mercutio?? i recently saw a version of romeo and juliet where mercutio was played by a woman and oh my god it was amazing!!! not to mention mercutio’s portrayal in baz luhrmann's INCREDIBLE version of r n j!!! (I based my mercutio design on him) he just spends the entire time making dick jokes. love that. -- mod star

How do you answer asks so fast? I mean it's great but I'm impressed 😂 (Anon)

Personally, it’s a mix of: notifications on, quick drawing speed, and using the blog to avoid my class work — mod aster

aster is fast and (as you can see from all of my answers) im lazey -- mod star

Are there any elements/characters of the plays you're covering that you would have liked to work into this blog's plot, but couldn't due to the constraints of the setting or the synthetic nature of the blog? (@pedanticlecturer)

I wanted to make everyone gay but unfortunately due to plot constraints we have to have some hets but that wont stop me from making it lgbt as possible. -- mod star

I did want to make The Tempest more of a central play, but it just didn’t translate well. Similarly, other supernatural elements like the witches in Macbeth. This isn’t so much a constraint mentioned, but my own time/energy means that I want to show the Macbeth backstory, in a specific format, but I can’t right now— mod aster

Is there a hierarchy of import when it comes to each play's individualized impact on shakespeare high's general arc? If so, what plays are crucial to the foundation of the story? Which ones did you do mostly for shits and giggles? (@pedanticlecturer)

This is phrased like an ACT question and i might not answer it right so sorry in advance but: mod aster and i only selected a few plays for each of us to do given we dont know all of shakespeare’s works, but we tend to put more emphasis on the the more well known. But it also comes down to 1. How much we have plotted out for each play and 2. What the followers ask about most. Our two most popular are hamlet and macbeth bc people are familiar w those but around march caesar always becomes relevant again. I didnt even have designs for some of the characters until someone asked about them. -- mod star

I would say the same as star— it generally comes down to what people ask about. I will say that the overall plot is sort of separated into “has happened” and “is happening”. Like, the human potion of Midsummer, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth are all in the “aftermath” portion, while Twelfth Night, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet, among others, are happening. We’re trying to incorporate as much as we can, and I don’t think any of them were really put in without some thought.— mod aster

What personal significance does shakespeare hold in ur guys' lives? (@pedanticlecturer)

I go to a theater school rn and so ive dealt w shakespeare (although not all of them) it also helps that i was in loves labours lost last year as moth and that i read hamlet and r n j. Theres also a theater in my state that always does One Big Shakespeare per season and they always do them super well!!! My love for shakespeare probably started w seeing midsummer at that theater w mod aster!!! So. Theater kid rights!! -- mod star

To be honest, I got back into Shakespeare Because of the blog. I’ve been friends with some people that got really Pretentious about Shakespeare, and it kinda put me off of it. I did have a book of abridged plays (the plays’ plots written out in prose, basically) that I read as a kid, which is what got me into not only the plots of a lot of the plays, but also the idea of having them illustrated. And, same as star, the theater in state does the One Big Shakespeare— and they tend to do some really cool things with the costumes, setting them in diff time periods. I haven’t been able to see any lately since I’ve moved, but they still slap. — mod aster

🥰😘💙🥰🥰💜💟🥰I 😍💗💚😍😍LOVE🖤🖤 YALL ♥️♥️🧡💛💚💝❣️💕💘💖💗💓💞💝❤️💛💜 okay now i have a question i swear— how long have the two of you been doing art??? and what were your first shakespeare plays??? (@hellaghosts)

Uhh i started drawing when i was like idk 12 and i have the giant boxes of sketchbooks to prove it!!! I moved to digital art at abt 14-15 but mostly stayed traditional until this yr when i got a Neat New Tablet so some of my sketchbooks are sitting abandoned rip. My first shakespeare was either romeo and juliet or midsummer nights dream and i love both of them v much!!! I have a very old piece of art that i did for r n j for my freshman class assignment on it and it hasnt aged well alsdjfjafd circa 2016 i think??? -- mod star

Oh man. I started drawing when I was about 10, but it was Bad. I don’t think I got much into drawing again until I was about 14? Sometime around the end of middle school/beginning of high school. I would say I started getting into drawing as more than doodling/coloring edits sometime around 2015-16? I would draw on my iPad with my finger, then I got a tablet for my computer, and now I pretty much stick to my iPad with an Apple Pencil. My first Shakespeare play was….. uh…… probably Midsummer???? I have No idea. We would go to plays when I was little, so I honestly don’t remember if I saw others before. It may have been Romeo and Juliet— I had that book where it was the original and the “modernized” with the little dog that explained things— which, if you know it makes sense, but if you don’t is probably a bonkers answer. — mod aster

Do you think this blog has like? An overarching thesis (be it b/c intentionally or simply b/c ur own take on the world has bled thru to the point where u believe it’s central to the piece at this point)? (@pedanticlecturer)

Not gonna lie, I had to read that like three times AND dm you to figure out what you were asking from us and all I have is “be gay, respect women, write your own happy endings”. — mod aster

This blog started with an ides of march shitpost and you think we have enough brain energy to write a whole thesis? I projected feelings of found family onto my half of the blog but idk if that counts. Be gay do crime 420 69 -- mod star

What’s the nature/rough dynamic of ur relationship? How do y’all know each other? (@pedanticlecturer)

Met mod aster when i was like 4 and even tho we didnt live close we became like, best friends although the Best part didnt start until we were like 13-ish and eventually we talked like non stop (about anime and homestuck. Yknow. 13 year old kid things) and we didnt see each other a lot bc of Distance and now its even worse bc aster is in colleg.,e but we consider each other siblings regardless of family bc we’re adopted into our own respective families so that bled over into our friendship and it would feel weird calling him anything other than my brother now. We’ve seen each other at our best and worst and if you really want a good insight on what we’re like as siblings watch griffin and justin mcelroy’s overview video of catlateral damage wherein i am griffin and he is the long suffering justin. -- mod star

Star is basically my long distance sibling and functionally the only cousin I recognize bc like their parents are basically an aunt and uncle and like our dads look enough alike that we’ve both accidentally gotten the wrong dad for a hug or similar so like. Anyways yeah Star is the Griffin to my Justin, complete with our absent middle brother who we love dearly— mod aster

Dubiously relevant q but what kind of music do y’all listen to when u do art (if that is indeed a habit either of u partake in) (@pedanticlecturer)

It can depend on the piece? I was working on some (unrelated) oc prints that were song-focused, and for those I just listened to said song on loop. Sometimes I have playlists. Sometimes I’ll just be in a Mood and throw a song on loop. But a lot of time for the blog, I’ll listen to The Adventure Zone for the billionth time, because I have Too Much Attention. I’ve also, on request from Star, linked the most recent “loop song”.— mod aster

I tend to obsess over the same like 3 songs every few weeks so those get listened to on repeat but it also depends on the tone of what im drawing or who im drawing i might genre switch bc of that. If im drawing ophelia i stick to lana del rey and if im drawing hamlet its the neighborhood, horatio is sufjan stevens etc. i have categorized,. Most of the characters i draw into different songs/genres/energies of music but not like i ever follow that. Sometimes i just pull up a really long nonsense video and forget to draw. Essentially: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- mod star

How’d y’all come up with ur pseudonyms? (@pedanticlecturer)

I love space so much and my main blog is starryeydsailor space gay rights!! Im also tiny and full of energy and bright so basically i;m star -- mod star

Uhhhh i was like “hey i want to do uhhhhhh flower?” And then I google searched flower names until I found one I liked —- mod aster

How did you end up deciding the rough timeline of events in canon? (@pedanticlecturer)

It’s mostly determined by like. How we choose per story? If that makes sense. Like, we just take story by story, and decide “is it happening, has it happened, and when?” And then we fit them together in relation to each other just by dint of. All existing at once. Like, I knew I wanted Macbeth to be in aftermath, because like, even though there’s no murder, the way I’ve translated it to the AU is still kinda heavy, and it’s something that I don’t know that I could do properly if it were happening right now. Also, it’s more interesting IMO to have them at different times. Tl;dr we wing it per story and slot them together— mod aster (mod star agrees I just can word better, in theory)

If you could tell the story of shakespeare high in a different format than an ask blog, would you? Obviously y'all are making very good use of the format, but would you want to write this as a animated series or like? a comic book? or is the form inseparable from the story? (@pedanticlecturer)

I kinda wanted to do a webcomic or maybe to plot develop through like, animatics but the element of surprise comes from the asks we get and really makes us think so the blog is a good start. We didnt think we’d get this far -- mod star

Pretty much what Star said— there are certain elements where it’d be neat to do as a comic or as an animatic. Like, the fantasy dream is like, an anthology webcomic of each story, where you can like, see other characters in the background and stuff. But to be honest, we develop a lot by what we’re asked— there was a post about developing worldbuilding by being asked questions and then pretending you’ve thought about the answer, and it’s not far off. Personally, it’s hard to just lay out a story, because I have a whole WORLD and what’s relevant? What are people interested in? It’s by getting questions that I can then focus in on an area to develop. And yeah, we Super didn’t think we’d get this far lmao — mod aster

Any headcanons about your characters that you don't think will ever come up on the blog through asks or plot posts? (@pedanticlecturer)

I could make a whole separate post for this!!!!! Mostly its voice headcanons (and by mostly i mean like 1 or 2) or relationship hcs!!!! -- mod star

Honestly same. I don’t think I have voice headcanons for mine, though I bet I could find some. I’ve got a bunch of miscellaneous headcanons that just kinda float around, but like they’re scattered, too numerous for this post, and also not always things I’m sure are canon yet.— mod aster

[awitnesstocorruption]

If one is being honest and law abiding and rational, then one ought to be expecting the response of concern from those in positions of public authority: Law Enforcement & Government; or at the very least, friends and relatives. And yet here it is a secular holy day, and the last visit from any offspring of Ms. Virginia Rosa Hurtado Ureno, 2/2/45, a person not in possession of a right mind, and someone who uses her self in the state of putative delusional insanity" to cause the physical conditions within a house in Fresno CA to degrade and decay. I very much think that an old decaying female who is putatively my genetic mother is faking her condition to a large degree and what is my evidence? Her physical self; shes not malodorous and filthy physically, she manages to keep herself from throwing up on herself which is what one eould assume someone who was smelly and dirty would do. (2) Her irrationality results periodically in her interactions with others in public businesses which cause the Fresno PD to respond and then somehow a "concerned" step brother who resides in Oakland CA but used to visit regularly but last seen here on June 25/6. (3) IF SHE IS SO TRULY DELUSIONAL but neglects to make a stop in the publicly owned thoroughfare and allow vehicles in motion to give her that one last dream of a failed human, her jackpot insurance stash of money. She hasnt taken a knife to her throat. She just acts like a human dog or cat that isnt able to be functional so instead chooses to be verbally obscene, talk to herself incessantly and throw away food that is refrigerated or in cubbords and create piles of refuse and filth. She hasnt taken a shit on the ground or floor yet, but my ipad or iphone cameras are waiting to take a photo when that should ocvur. In any event, if my step siblings; David Anthony Ureno of Sacramento, Gena Ana Marie Ureno and her daughter Alyssa Estrada of Sacramento, Joseph Ureno of Oakland Ca, ------if those relatives dont appear to assist here in Fresno any time soon, I shall consider them to have given up any right or interest in the affairs and estate of this women who I believe is misbehaving like a retarded errant child of 80 yrs old. Oh, forgot to include John Manuel Guzman of Fresno CA. He's another step sibling, but his father was married when John was conceived andvhis father never acknowledged him during his entire life. If Inhad been Virginia, I would have renamed John with a different patronimic. Its been his sad shame his entire life. Thats why it was important for me to change my first name from the James of my father and grandfather (Cf the Way of St James, the movie about the "Way" in Spain...) to the Michael, a name I chose for its rhetorical neutrality, the generic male name in English that is without the taint of criminal assault and heretical desceratory pseudo catholicism practiced by the terrorists of opus dei and their allies in the diocese of fresno

that ever since her first delusional insanity episode when I was in 10 th grade, before my Confirmation imputational as Augustine by Bishop Madera at Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church in Fresno. I mention that because I did have a dentist in Clovis who was military and Opus Dei and a father of children and I still accepted and endured some strange social scenarios and without ill will without any racist reaction or religious prejudice. But that doesnt mean that I wont use the appropriate labels for the man who criminally assaulted me, the portuguese filth who desecrated the Body of Christ at a Mass by playing terrorist actor and pretending to give the Body of Christ to me but instead gave a poisonous and destructive time delayed neurotoxn (time dalayed like a street drug, LSD or MDMA, a substance and accident which looked and tasted like a host but was an item of terror and desecration in the treasure chest of opus dei, the papal prelature) that was issued at the 12 noon mass and became actively destructive of my neural matter within my skull that evening of May 17 1996. As I felt the unmistakable pain in my head begin I ran a few blocks to near Gettsburg Ave & Willow Ave in Clovis Ca. I had already been introduced to a supposed chaplain of st agnes hospital, a Jim Cairns, publicly gay and not afraid to stare at your dick like a regular queer seeking a snack. So he was used to allow a curious catholic clergy both diocesan and opus dei to find out what they wanted to know in previous days.

9:00 PM PDT Fresno California USA July 4 2021

Michael Brendan Nicholas Lujan 555-11-5829

[greatwesternroadtrip]

What is The Great Western Road Trip?

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In the end of May, 2017, my 9 yr old daughter and I are going to spend 10 days traveling the US by car from Eastern TN to San Diego CA. In planning this trip, our guiding tenets include:

Stay off the Interstates when we can  - really SEE America, places, people and things.

Visit as many new-to-child states as possible (*visit minimum has been determined to be "stop in for at least 1/2 hour - like visit an attraction or eat lunch in") Current plan is to visit: TN, GA, MS, AR, OK, KS, TX, NM, CO, UT, AZ, NV, CA

No hotels - we will be camping or crashing in vehicle each night. [Exception - 2 nights in a hotel at the Grand Canyon, courtesy of Grandma.]

Visit at least one National Park or Monument per day - get as many Junior National Park Ranger stamps or badges as reasonably possible.

Take Pictures and Write about it each day/evening - via Tumblr, Instagram and Facebook

Come back home Safe. Don't die, get kidnaped, or sustain a major injury. Stay healthy - make sure we have water, first aid kit, bug spray, etc

Other plans - looser guides/rules/plans:

Check out cool critters, nature, history, geography, people, etc. This isn't about amusement parks and spending money. Science and social studies educational focus. Expand our minds! (play with maps!)

Try at least one new food thing per day - BOTH of US. (Otherwise we'd just eat comfort/junk food out of the cooler the whole time.) Goal is to *experience* new things - food too.

Keep in touch - Find free/reasonable wifi each night to keep in touch with the world and share our story.

Get a music education/listen to cool music - Daddy Zig is supposed to FILL an iPad with a playlist of cool songs from like the 50's through to today to keep us entertained on the road.

Minimal stuff - we are renting a one-way vehicle and have to fly home. No large or heavy souvenirs. Sleeping/light stuff will be shipped back from San Diego. We're checking ONE bag each kiddo, I SWEAR.

Swim - try to locate swimming options for child as often as possible (right now looks like maybe every 3rd day-ish, with a state park lake in Oklahoma, one in Kansas, pool in the AZ hotel (2x), and 1/2 a day in the Pacific ocean.)

From now until we leave on May 20, we'll be posting plans as we firm them up, cool images we find on the internet, ideas and hopes/dreams. We welcome followers, asks, suggestions and conversations!

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Apple Underappreciated Technical Evolution

Apple has evolved an interesting approach to creating our lives higher. Specifically, as numerous technology factors are developed and then shipped, every seeks to clear up a specific problem we have. On occasion, the problem is intrinsic to our lives, inclusive of answering the iPhone when it occurs to be out of reach—with an Apple Watch. Every now and then, the issues to be solved are added on through the solutions themselves. The iTunes app is a good (or horrific…) instance.

The Particle Debris article of the week comes from someone I regularly mention: Jonny Evans. His article, “10 New Apple Technology Brought in 2016.” reminds us all that Apple is constantly at work doing the little things that regularly move left out. And that got me wondering….

Apple has been a success by way of figuring out what we need subsequent. That regularly takes the form of an unmarried encapsulated product like the iPhone or the AirPods. We eagerly get our head round this kind of a package deal idea. It, whatever “it” is, comes in a box. We open it with glee and are immersed in its pleasure. Apple does an exceptional quantity of studies to ensure the experience is something we are able to respect with a grin.

In a technology in which so many merchandises from other organizations are rushed to market, Every so often it appears in the beta form, it’s very fulfilling to shop for a new Apple product, like an Apple Watch or AirPods, that are entire and gratifying out of the container. But it’s also genuine that products like that don’t come round every month. It’s the in-among time in which Apple engages in those continuous enhancements that move beneath preferred.

That’s in which the object above with the aid of creator Evans comes in. He cites trends in ceramics, differential privateness, the Watch’s S2 chip, waterproofing generation, and the MacBook Pro keyboard, among others, as examples of the way, progressively, matters get higher with Apple products in a manner that’s regularly underneath the radar. In any other case, now not referred to, something like Fast Playgrounds offers up a pleasing surprise.

My suspicion is that Apple predicted us all to appreciate the MacBook Pro Touch Bar as one of those exceedingly liked refinements. However, the timing became wrong. Apple gave us an extraordinary refinement at the quit of the yr when something meatier changed into expected. What the network was hungry for became a splash.

2016 become a difficult 12 months for Apple. The company didn’t ship any new desktop Macs. The 12.9-inch iPad Seasoned didn’t get an A10X upgrade. The Apple Tv didn’t get upgraded to 4K/UHD/HDR. The end result is that we didn’t have the opportunity to enjoy lots of-of those glorious unboxing studies. the ones periodic revitalizations make us feel as if we’re plunging into the future. while we don’t get them very frequently, the withdrawal signs and symptoms are excessive. Even supposing we’re not equipped to upgrade, it’s important to have that unique some thing to dream approximately.

In that experience, Apple’s ability to move ahead with new products has a profound effect on our psyche. The corporation that we like is cranking out the future, and we yearn to be in sync. Or, at worst, simplest a step at the back of. However, while Apple has a problem shipping new, thrilling merchandise, we sense as though our loved bandwagon has a broken wheel. We get cranky.

That’s why it’s vital to observe what Apple does, in little approaches, to offset that bad psychology. era bursts are superb, However, non-stop refinements also are critical. The Tempo of Apple Time

Anther thing to bear in mind is that individuals who write approximately Apple accomplish that every day. Apple’s progress is viewed at very excellent-grained scale. But, the average customer indicates up in an Apple save much much less often. All those many refinements acquire. To many, they should appear overwhelming. For many, a brand new MacBook or MacBook Pro with handiest USB-C ports have to seem interesting, possibly a little frightening. The Apple Watch Series 2 is handiest few months old. The nine.7-inch iPad Seasoned is still much less than a year antique.

The buildup of small upgrades by Apple, visible at a different decision of the timeline, can mixture to the factor of being frightening to many clients. In the end, most Apple clients handiest upgrade every few years. To them, simply maintaining up at that interval is an undertaking.

It’s nearly like Einstein’s relativity idea. For observers on that classical concept experiment’s rapid transferring train, time moves in another way than for the one’s observers at relaxation. And so, one’s belief in Apple’s progress relies upon on how rapid your personal train is transferring.

Apple has its paintings cut out in 2017, and I’m searching ahead to some big splashes. But, alongside the way, look ahead to all those little matters Apple does to make our lives higher. We want the ones as properly, and that attention to the element is fundamental to how Apple works.