#i have like 3 other versions of him in my sketchbook that im not happy with >:[

[dumbhirano]

Avery casually kidnapping Hirano during their shiftヽ(・∀・)ﾉ

[liliallowed]

crimson: u better not be stealing my nemesis. (referring to dust)

fell: do you feel that insecure that you'd think he'd prefer a version of himself over you?

crimson: yes absolutely he fucking hates me :3

fell: ... no shit Sherlock. maybe stop being a toxic bitch?

crimson: but then I'd show weakness! I mist be evil for respect and like... I want him to vent things out on me. be there for him! yk?

fell: you're doing more harm than good. trust me I used to put up a tough love act too till that lil freak decided to fix everyone.

crimson: oh What would YOU know you edgy excuse of a sans!? no one is DEAD in your au!

fell: yeah but like considering the fucked up shit you anomalies do with the words code... being a science experiment under your influence ain't pleasant is it? I mean believe me I'd have you over that prissy lil runt of a pacifist perfectionist asshole everyday. *chuckle* but it's really not much different. pacifist... genocide... same day same old dumb story you both are too obsessed to let go.

teal: HEY! I SAID I WAS SORRY! I BROKE THE RESET FOR YOU DUDE.

dust: that's a bold move considering he might kill you either way.

fell: are you kidding me dude this runt finally decided to QUIT and killing em will just reset.

crimson: okay but like HOW DOES ONE STOP BEING EVIL. HOW DO I FO THIS WITHOUT cringing about the cheesy bullshit... look I came here to get beaten and punched in my emotions.

dust: =] what are you our marriage councilor?

fell: pfffft I wish. masochist much crimson?

crimson: adrenaline junky not a masochist.

dust: more like a sadist.

crimson: DUDE. I LITERALLY WOULD CRY IF YOU DIE FOR GOOD. I DON'T LIKE HURTING YOU! BUT I DON'T WANT TO JUST undo everything and make you happy because it's a deservice to the sacrifice you've made! I fell in love with the person who tries so hard to prove me wrong I WANT to be judged... IF I REPENT THEN WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT!?

fell::...

dust: ...

teal: ...

crimson: actually scratch the part I said I fell in love.

fell: holy FUCK this botch is a fucking yandere. I thought you were joking.

teal: I mean I KINDA get it??? but that's messed up man. you seek therapy. you deserve happiness.

dust: yea I was starting to think the codependency thing was just Stockholm Syndrome. cuz they've sorta just latched onto me like a leech.

crimson: IM NOT A FUCKING YANDERE!

teal: your gallery is full of-

crimson: teal I will fucking dox you. don't pretend you don't have an entire sketchbook filled with fells ec-

teal: AAAAAAAAAAAA SHUT UP!

dust: why are we alive. why.

fell: huh. a stalker too.

crimson: shut up fell half of the fucking fanfics I've read about you have you as a creepy stalker yandere.

teal: wait you read Underfell fanfics?

crimson: you'd be surprised of how little fics there are of dust without bringing in other aus actually. I'd PREFER reading about dust but the other angsty mfers all also drop into the au.

teal: ooooo do you have any recommendations?

dust: *peaces out and vanished*

fell: DON'T FUCKING LEAVE ME HERE YA ASSHOLE!

[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

[maoyumo]

15/07/17

i got zines from two of my fave artists (and postcard prints!!!) and a button from another fave...i can’t believe i’m this blessed omg..i am LIVING LIFE!!!! wow i’m really happy ;; they all really inspire me <3

a few sketchbook bits under here too just so i can justify posting this on my art blog lol

haha side note! kic: ghj and sg are wearing the outfits that theyre gonna be in the third chapter! also som lil thumbnails for future pieces/projs? and some doodles for backflip which i still need to leave my comment on.. (u can see my lil list of things i wanna draw for haha)

i don’t think i was very like good at communicating w them bc i was so flustered lmao my heart was beating v fast...also i think part of it was i haven’t had an extended conversation in like a month that wasn’t textual so i’m a little out of practice (even w my friends)

and tbh (to be honest) i was so nervous my memories of the moments are kinda blurry so it’s all Gud

i think everyone and their puppy (speaking of which there was the cutest dog in the WORLD there today im lov her sm wow) has drawn durmstrang victor...since this i’ve grown really attached to slytherin yuuri but honestly im not too intensely into hp au haha i just put him in huffpuff bc that’s my house!

anyways durmstrang victor is good. so handsome. he looks good in red!

Also they kept on playing yuri on ice (like his fs song) and i was so emotional lmao i KEPT ON TAPPING MY FRIEND AND BEING LIKE “IT’S HIS SONG!!!!” that was probably super annoying but sdkfkjk i was so excited..and they also had kimi no na wa music! 

kic yuuri bein beautiful...idk if that’s the style i wanna go w for kic but...i’ll keep thinking...and some faces! cos i need to practice. i rmb drawing these while watching border security (canadian version)

and yukata boys....lov them.....will i ever finish this? who knows

but i walked around w my friends (so good seeing them <3 my absolute faves) and bumped into some of my other pals too (and so many pretty girls wow beautiful cosplayers...and this makoto cosplayer i think they were last yr too and ok. makoto just makes me swoon sm lol i was so happy to see them) 

anyway! thank you for trucking thru this post if u have! i hope the rest of ur day goes well <3