#i’m actually Shakespeare

[smxleyfaces]

i love being marviiinn!!! i LOVE being MARRRRVVVINNN!!!!!!! slash lyric

[hamletthedane]

Hello, would you be able to explain why wicked bootlegs are called slime tutorials? It's very clever but I'm curious as to the origin. Thank u!

Ha! I actually can, though you could probably guess the answer:

So back around ~2016, Universal was in pretty serious talks to make a Wicked movie, as they were a little jealous of the Les Mis movie’s popularity in 2012 and Menzel’s resurgence of popularity after Frozen. As part of this, they got really aggressive about copyright and began blasting the best Wicked bootlegs off the internet left and right. They apparently even sent C/D takedown letters to people who ran bootleg blogs listing the recordings they had for trade.

Around that same time, the genre of ASMR “how to make slime” tutorials was starting to get really popular on YouTube. There were approximately 8 million of them being posted every day by anybody with a camera. So people who filmed broadway performances began uploading them under names like “Wickedly Cool Green Slime Tutorial - O/B/C Full” and “Pink Slime and Green Slime Tutorial - SJB/AA” , or even “As Long As You’re Slime - Aaron Tveit” to bury them in a sea of uploads and avoid their removal.

Fans did this for a variety of different broadway performances - the term DEFINITELY wasn’t exclusive to Wicked, by any means. I’m actually pretty sure the term was first used for the Hamilton OBC performances that circulated back then, since those were still hush-hush.

However, Wicked performances in particular are among the most highly sought-after in the bootleg community (mostly bc each set of actresses creates a pretty different viewing experience, and there’s tons of weird lore). Plus Universal’s aggressive takedowns were making them harder and harder to find on the open web.

Thus, the term “slime tutorial” (or “slimes”) is commonly used for all musical recordings, but it became very highly associated with Wicked performances in particular!

[maybe-boys-do-love]

If and when y’all see an epic THK meta about the rejection of the black and white Christian institutional morality represented by Captain Christ (Biblical Good) and Mother Lilith (Biblical Evil) through the experience of love and compassion, someone please send it my way.

[freddie-221b]

David Tennant being Macbeth and my school doing a Macbeth play that I will be auditioning for next Monday? Coincidence? I think not….

[wishmemellon]

Gather my fellow countrymen for I have finally drawn the first entry of my outlaw retelling of Julius Caesar.

I’m really focusing on the time period after Caesar’s death with this story so Brutus and Cassius are loan sharks after being exiled from town because they killed the mayor…

“Brutus” is the one on the left. His horse is an American paint named Hector.

“Cassius” is on the right and his horse is a thoroughbred named Libertas.

All of the characters actually have completely different names effectively making them my ocs but I’ll refer to them as their ancient Roman counterparts until I have all of the names decided for certain lol.

[javierduffy]

I have been having... a very bad day. Any spare fluffy headcanons for the boys? (and maybe some nsfw ones if you're up to it-)

ohh no my dear helena !!! its unfortunate that you’re having a rough day today :( remember that everything is temporary and that this day, like every other hard day before (and all following after), will pass in its own time.

i can absolutely spare some fluff ! that’s all i’ve got !

• javier goes to bed at about the same time that kieran is waking up every morning, right before dawn, and it’s a common occurrence that he will forget to untie his hair before laying down for bed, especially after a long night of guard duty. kieran will notice every time, and knows himself how easily long hair can get matted, so he will beckon javier over so that he can untie his bow. usually, he’ll also take the time to run his fingers through javier’s hair to detangle it as well, so that he’s even less likely to wake up to knots. javier adores it, teetering with the weight of his head and leaning hard into kieran’s legs on each side of his shoulders- sometimes kieran will even indulge himself in giving javier a head massage. javier never sleeps better, and coincidentally, he began forgetting to take his hair down a lot more after moving out to clemen’s point ….

• javier snuck kieran his first bowl of pearson’s stew after ‘making a social call’. john kicked kieran off his horse at the entrance of camp and javier watched as the latter dredged himself through the brush to what would become his usual resting place behind the rock by the horses. he looked miserable, dead on his feet, and javier knew by then he’d been weeks without a meal. he was a dirty, disloyal, unholy traitor of an o’driscoll, but something about his sunken eyes, the shake in his hand as he lit his first cigarette as a free man again- likely to quell off the hunger- it urged javier to act in a way that he’d never felt before. javier could kill a man in cold blood easier than he could stand to watch fear starve a man even after his hands are free to reach for the bowl. the study for learned helplessness in psychology will come years later, but javier understands himself now through watching kieran’s instinctual desire to survive be beat out of him by the gang javier dedicates his life to. with a healthy amount of spite to himself, he scoops a heaping amount of fresh stew into the cleanest bowl he can find, and sets out to add a fresh layer of flesh to kieran’s prominent bones.

• following this, cooking for kieran is one of javier’s favourite things to do when they get together. javier will cook for him traditional mexican dishes from home (as best he can. both with his limited skills and also with his limited accessibility to the proper ingredients. (probably for the best that he can’t get authentic chili peppers from home and has to use a less spicy chili native to this northern climate. kieran does okay with spice but it isn’t in his genetics to truly have a high tolerance.)) and not only will it be an unknown love language from javier, to feed kieran and make sure he is full, but it will also be a love language from kieran, to let javi share a piece of home with him.

• ^ also applies to modern au javieran ! javier loves cooking, and especially for kieran. they would cook together, but kieran struggles to cook with other people in the room, and javier gets so absorbed in it that he’d likely be running into kieran or otherwise being unhelpful in aiding in making sure the dish is being cooked correctly because he’s too Locked In to guide kieran LOL but they’re more happy to simply keep each other company, anyway. kieran on the counter/table/floor, watching javier sing and dance to the music he’s blasting from their speaker. cue dancing in the kitchen when the love songs come on (here’s a good one (rip javier escuella you would have loved dannylux)). the parallel play and quality time with these two is off the charts

• come mid/late clemens point, the way javieran make most of their money for the camp is by going on days-long fishing dates, laughing and laying close to one another in the grass under a tree on the riverbank in the shroud of darkness. they come back to camp flushed as all get out but with stacks of cash in their hands wadded up so thick no one dares to ask where it came from. kieran will get excited at even the smallest of fish, perking up and sharing/asking javier for tidbits on the species. they never miss a bite, either. one time one of the bells on their bobber rods rang once and they both broke out of a very hot and heavy make-out sesh so fast that javier tripped on kieran and nearly broke both of their wrists. they laughed so hard about it, javier was certain that by the time he arrived to his rod, the fish had already successfully ripped the bait off of his hook. he reeled in a boot, at the end of it all. he never lives it down.

• kieran is ambidextrous, and javier is fascinated by it. javier stumbled upon kieran writing on one rare occasion, and noticed immediately that he was writing with his left. “left handed, huh ?” kieran cocks his head at him in thought. javier wonders why on earth he would have to stop and think about a question like that. “uhh, not really ?” well, now javier is simply confused. “right, then ? is something wrong with your dominant hand ?” “um … no, that’s not it either …” and at this point, javier is demanding kieran explain what the hell he’s talking about, and why he’s pulling a prank on him. cue kieran explaining and javier making him do all kinds of silly “tests” like writing, shooting, playing guitar (as if kieran is going to any better with either when neither of them can do it right to begin with) because he finds it so cool.

• modern au kieran gets overstimulated incredibly easily, so he’s got a pair of noise canceling over-ear headphones that he often wears to dampen sensory input and ground himself when there’s a lot going on. when it’s cleaning day, generally no matter what he’s doing, he HAS to wear his headphones. javier is left to dodge him the same way he has to dodge the cats when they’re weaving in and out of between his feet. it also leaves him to dance to his own tunes when kieran suddenly swoops or sways or dips him to the music only he can hear- though just as often, javier will catch kieran dancing by himself and he will simply be unable not to join him, even though he can’t hear what it is he’s dancing to. as overwhelming as they can be, cleaning days for javieran somehow always end up feeling more like a date than anything.

• on a similar note, kieran also wears his headphones to bed, and listens to asmr/white noise to sleep. the pressure helps him feel safe, and the silence of a room makes him anxious. he also has a terrible bedhead and rbf in the morning. both of these things javier finds incredibly charming, and if he ever does wake up when/before kieran does (incredibly rare), this is his pov (right before he tries to kiss kieran’s face off and gets shoved away with a sleepy giggle that only bolsters his aggression);

nsfw under the cut !

and how could i resist a chance to finally talk about this ;3€ ?? i’ll try to keep them fluffy !

(context, i hc both of them as tguys usually (though im content with writing javier as amab too), with both of them being absolute, unabashed switches. they have little preferences anywhere in terms of bottoming/topping, though kieran has a preference for subbing, and javier has no qualms with domming more frequently.)

• as much raunchy, animalistic sex that javieran have, they have double as much slow, loving, tender sex. and most times between, they’re having raunchy, loving, animalistic sex.

• javi loves to turn kieran’s brain off, he loves more than anything to make kieran feel so overwhelmingly pleasured that he forgets everything that ever has, ever could, or ever will happen to him. nothing gets javier off quite like seeing the face of bliss kieran makes when all he can think about is javier’s mouth/hands/cock working overtime just to make him feel good.

• both of them i think are quite vocal when they’re able to be, and kieran tends to be vocal whether he’s supposed to be or not. both of them often dissolve into whimpers and “i love you”s and praise like “you feel/sound/taste so good” by the end. their love for each other has a carnal grasp on every aspect of their sex lives as well <3 so they’re always speaking so sweetly to each other, even if the way they growl it seems violent

• javier LOVES love bites. he loves to mark kieran up and he especially loves to bite and lick and suck on his neck, not only because of the primal aspect of his jugular being so close (as well as the warmth of his pulse thrumming against his mouth), but also because it arouses kieran to the point of making him shiver nearly every time. javier has permission to bite him hard, but it’s pretty rare that he ever does, and it’s only late into their relationship does javier feel like it will be more pleasure for him than it would just be pain. sometimes he can’t help it though, he’ll get so worked up that he just latches on and the way that kieran tightens around him is mind-numbing.

• unironically i think kieran is a GREAT soft dom, and that is something that javier generally had never experienced prior to getting with kieran. javi thinks it’s hot to be man-handled and roughed up, and kieran can do his very best (despite the constant guilt and fear) if javier is really feeling it, but where he really excels is soft domming. once the nerves melt off, he’s so gentle with javier that it makes the latter’s skin hot all over. constantly praising him, cooing at him, asking him nicely, rewarding him for good behavior, all the while touching him oh-so-gently, it all makes javier feel so awkward but so, so good. kieran makes him feel so loved and worshipped that the world in which he has anything to question simply just fades away, and all he has to think about is doing what meager tasks kieran asks of him.

• they find so much peace in each other’s bodies. in every rib and wrinkle and sunspot, these two will spend hours simply exploring and enjoying the body of the other in whatever the closest form of “privacy” they can manage to acquire. turns out, kieran has sunspots all over him. turns out, javier has a keloid scar on the back of his bicep. turns out, kieran has a mole on his scalp right where his part is (this is canon btw i saw it once when i was studying him in photo mode like a specimen in a petri dish), and javier has back dimples, and kieran’s ribs stutter and dance beautifully when he laughs, and the flex of javier’s thighs warps his skin like a marble statue. javier escuella and kieran duffy love like artists, and they spend hours just learning and looking and studying each other, like a painter with his muse, like a writer with his words, like the last things they want to see while they’re dying are all the hours they spent learning the beauty of the other.

i could honestly come up with more but it would never leave my drafts, so i hope u like these that i came up with as quick as i could :’) ! i hope you’re feeling better and have gotten some good rest !! thank you for the ask !!!!!

[morieli]

so do people still like Romeo and Juliet?? Roméo et Juliette specifically ?? Bc I’m kind. Of cooking

[emotinalsupportturtle]

Just more random stuff I felt compelled to note down whilst listening to the rest of the Putting it Together podcast (decided to put it all in one post to spare everyone of the spam)

Love the image of David Tennant struggling to name footballers to look cool in front of his Macbeth cast mates

David when asked about what sports he watches initially saying none then suddenly remembering he’s been photographed there - “I like a bit of Wimbledon”. also who actually watches darts (David tenant apparently)

he cannot take a compliment it’s so funny, the dude simply said “you seem fit” in response to DT worrying about his age and David nearly melted in to the ground. You could hear him blush

I forgot he’s actually funny even in serious talk mode

Brian O’Sullivan (the host) saying David has a way with interpreting Shakespearean text. that’s so real of him

I think I just really like listening to theatre people talking about and geeking over shit they’ve done

I know way too much about Shinda the magic ape (is that how you spell it? Idk). no complaints though

“he was VERY handsome” David, was that necessary?

David IS doing the old actor telling anecdotes thing, as he himself points out but who cares I’m eating this shit up

Both fascinated and horrified listening to him recount bad reviews early on

David talking about getting advice from another actor early in his career about not milking it and then going “look he wasn’t wrong but he was doing it too lol” - this is interesting to me cause I’ve always felt he knows exactly the right balance to get always, without overplaying or underplaying, I guess it’s something he learnt

DT’s revenge on Taggart “I’m going to reboot that shit that’ll show them”

you know he’s good friends with someone when he just starts dissing them

DT with his costars (almost every one of them, including the host) is one of my favourite genres actually

Brian O’Sullivan is a cool podcast host (maybe Ive had bad experiences so far but I find most podcasts by actors really insufferable and annoying - excluding dt, and now this guy)

Bad puddingbowl haircuts and hitler-esque moustaches are not uncommon mistakes among young actors

newsflash! David Tennant has toyed with the idea of writing but gets put off every time he sees a good script

We need your writing David, please

Help not them talking about famous actors having egos and the host says “I mean that is something potentially accessible to you” and dt being like “god I can’t imagine.. maybe I should, but I just couldn’t” and Brian going “nah man we love you don’t change”. Wholesome moment

[funnygirlthatbelle]

production of taming of the shrew where the players are a bunch of podcast bros and the entire play is how they think being an alpha male works

[1960z]

[koifishhies]

saw dt’s macbeth in cinemas yesterday. I think my life is changed. my world is turned on its head. I’m gonna start thinking of time in terms of Before Macbeth and After Macbeth. holy shit.

[hamletthedane]

dealing with a code-red RSD-meltdown anxiety attack by laying on your bedroom floor reciting all the Shakespeare you’ve ever memorized to yourself for nearly three hours straight is something that can be so personal, actually-

[withasideofshakespeare]

Hamblet

[toldentops]

the things that drives me up the wall about tswift and that new album is that it’s just so nothingburger. It’s so boring. there’s nothing “messy and horny” about it. I’m not saying everyone’s music tastes have to be fun and interesting or whatever but I just think it’s so aggressively mediocre. I took a listen just to see what the buzz was about and the songs are all so indistinct and washed out feeling. I’m reading the lyrics and can’t fathom any of them sounding good when sung. There’s the whole discussion about how “art doesn’t have to be good, you can make art that’s a bit shit sometimes” but it’ not gonna apply here when you have critics describing it as “rap-like conversational verses”. What! It’s trying to be poetry in song and the poetry isn’t even good. It’s so unserious. You can’t expect me to believe there’s genuineness in there. Call me a snob or whatever but at least there’s songs out there with shitty lyrics that are unabashedly fun about it.

[obii-wan-kenobiii]

near the beginning/middleish area of the play hamlet goes to horatio and says hey. i love you and i admire you and i enjoy being around you because you have qualities i admire. something something in my hearts heart (i don’t have it memorized yet and im paraphrasing). the pure devotion horatio shows to hamlet throughout the play is just. oh my GOD. at the end of the book in hamlets death scene horatio says “now cracks a noble heart. goodnight, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to rest.” which implies that he believes hamlet will go to heaven. keep this idea in mind for a minute while i clarify that it’s pretty clear throughout the play that the characters are written as christian. horatio tries to drink the rest of the poison that killed gertrude when hamlet dies, attempting to kill himself. in christianity, suicide is a sin. he knows that by doing this, he is committing himself to hell. now, if hamlet is going to heaven, why would he do this? you ask. well, horatio’s sheer devotion to hamlet, as a friend, as a lover, as whatever you classify it as is so strong that a life without him would be a walking hell, making actual hell bearable if he can follow hamlet into death. side note - i want to draw a parallel here to the scene in romeo and juliet where juliet kills herself after finding out romeo really is dead. they were written as lovers. do you see the parallel? also, specifically in the scene of hamlets death, horatios referral to hamlet as “my sweet prince” is especially important here. sweet has been a term used in shakespeare to imply romantic love in multiple plays. the fact that it’s used in this scene so explicitly steps out of subtext and ventures into canon territory. and honestly, this isn’t a the curtains are just blue situation because many of shakespeares works are inherently queer. for example, twelfth night. viola literally pretends to be a man for a large portion of the play, crossdressing and playing the part. that isn’t even subtext at that point. okay rant over but yeah hamlet was bi but that’s not the main point of the play and i think anyone using it to erase whatever the hell he had going on with ophelia can just stop talking 🫶