#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!

[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….

[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

[1960z]

[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 🫶 

[0ur-diabolikal-rapture]

RSC Coriolanus theatre programme and flyer from 1994 ✨

[the-noisiest-pumpkin]

hamlet’s like if a borzoi had unmedicated depression

[johnsspacesuittight]

sometimes I think about how Shakespeare plays are often regarded as this ‘high art’ sort of thing when like realistically they were mid to low level entertainment, the sitcoms, drama shows and hallmark movies of it’s time

[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

[sableeira]

everyone has those authors that you would be so unhinged about if they were introduced in bsd right?

mine are: emily dickinson (it might be too late for her but I’m in denial), franz kafka, and any german author but especially goethe (c’mon asagiri give us the rest of the transcendents) and schiller. I’m not able to describe how unhinged I would be if any of them get introduced

[ceridvven]

i think about her constantly