#lesbiancassius

[chthonic-cassandra]

I hear you're looking for fic requests...[hold music plays as I scroll through your ao3]...maybe do you have any thoughts on Iphigenia? I adore your one work about her very much.

also, semi-unrelated, wondering if you have anything to say about Measure for Measure? don't know if you've read it but you've read Titus and they feel equally niche. Anyway I think the vampire potential is strong with that play, and as vampire mutual, I thought that might appeal. [I wrote some 'what if Isabella got vamp'd at the end' stuff ages ago, I should dredge it up.]

Oh, do I ever have things to say about Measure for Measure! Twisting, vinegar-sour play with its language all turning in on itself like streets with no exits. It's a play I love very much, despite-because of its considerable structural flaws, and I do especially love beloved Isabella, with her extremity and abnegation-which-is-pride and her sharp rhetoric that winds itself into such psychosexual twists. I have never thought about vampire potential there, but I will ponder.

I have read some good Measure fic in my time (like this and this, and I want to know everything there is to know about your vampire Isabella). I have strong opinions about it myself, that maybe I will write in fic, but it would be ugly and uncomfortable because one of the things I believe most strongly about Measure is that Angelo and Isabella are in fact the only ones in the play who actually get each other, who actually are speaking the same language, and the fact that the only way that language can be enacted is through violence is the horror and the horrific comedy of it.

I also have things to say about Iphigenia. Some of them are (apparently, according to be my subconscious) horror movie Iphigenia Among the Taurians. And some of them are purely choreographic. But I am very touched that you like my little fic about her! Thank you so much for letting me know.

(also: touched and delighted to be the vampire mutual)

[orpheuslament]

top 5 organs go

heart, lungs, liver, stomach, & brain. i guess

[lizardrosen]

Transfem Cassandra? If you want say more I’m LOOKING

I saw a production of Troilus and Cressida where Cassandra wore a veil and had a lovely low voice and towered over everyone (partly but not entirely because of her heels) so like, how am I not going to take trans Cassandra away from that?

No one believes her! No one believes what she says about the city or what she says about herself, or what she says about Apollo

I saw a production called All Our Tragic which was a twelve-hour performance adapting all the extant Greek tragedies and Cassandra talks about time and her prophecies like a pendulum: she can see the future clear and sharp but her past gets hazy, and that's how she is about crossing between genders

She knows she's not a man, but she's never felt like a complete woman, and she doesn't want to be, she's in a country of her own

Apollo finds her attractive and desirable and he uses the terms she wants for her body and her self and it feels too good to be true

and it is

In Robert Icke's production of the Oresteia, Cassandra is sort of the ghost of Iphigenia, with a similar yellow dress and the same song at their deaths, distorted. A huge part of her speech is in the original ancient Greek and Electra is struggling to make sense of her and she finally snaps and switches to English and it all becomes even more frenzied

That last point isn't specifically trans, but it's about the Becoming, you see! It's about wandering in a hostile country as a prisoner of war and all the untranslatable experiences, but Electra tries to hear her, oh yes she tries, and she almost gets there

[ask-three-witches]

hello!!! fave plant?

Megaera: Perhaps this is a common favorite... But it does an excellent job all the same!

[ardenrosegarden]

I'm watching The Lion in Winter with friends and it felt like you should know.

Hell yeah! I hope you enjoy the unwell family members making their issues everyone elses' problems <3

[drfaustus]

43?

francesca by hozier

[helenekuragina]

hélène?

almost a month later, here she is!

[tauindi]

🍓

JUNE!!<3 you're literally a classics genius to me and THE #1 Paris (1990) stan. and honestly you're one of the best writers i know i love reading your stuff and feel so so lucky that i get to.

[measureformeasure]

MEASURE FOR MEASURE WAS AN AVAILABLE URL?????

[butchhamlet]

“a&c sets up rome and egypt as two opposite poles—the former masculine, rigid, the land of tragedy and politics; the latter feminine, fluid, the land of comedy and erotics—figured by octavius caesar and cleopatra respectively, and scholars disagree about whether shakespeare wants you to take this dichotomy for granted or if he’s poking holes in its neatness” = long, nuanced, boring

“hey master of horse i mean they” = efficient, hysterical

“mark antony in antony and cleopatra is nonbinary” is not really an ideologically coherent way of describing the section of my thesis on antony but it IS really funny to say out loud

[kebriones]

Clytemnestra for @lesbiancassius (my part of the trade for an incredible alcibiades/socrates fic ;__;)

[chthonic-cassandra]

Also for the bookshelf - your favourite (or a favourite) classical tragedy and where its copies are. from the answers to this ask I’m envying your well-stocked bookshelf…

This is a cunning attempt to get me to choose a favorite tragedy! But I'll bite.

I have seven copies of the Troades and six copies of the Ion. Troades: two in Greek (one is a Loeb, the other is the Barlow), then the English translations I have are Hamilton, Vellacott, Lattimore (twice) and Murray. Ion: one in Greek (Owen), then for English translations I have H.D., Vellacott, Willetts (twice) and Potter. They are shelved with the rest of my Euripides.

My book collection is a great joy in my life and a large part of the fun of doing this is getting to glory in that! But I hope it's not too envy-inducing or too much of a show-off. I think the particularities of my living situations from early adulthood through now have made it rather easier for me to accumulate and maintain a substantial book collection (I wasn't ever moving long distances, or moving in and out dorm rooms), for which I am grateful.

[orpheuslament]

no one gets orestes like i do except maybe tumblr user lesbiancassius but thats it

[lizardrosen]

last line challenge

Rules: In a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words. Or as many as you feel like.

i was tagged by both @glintglimmergleam and @avocado-moon so you get last lines from each of my WIPs!

orphic journey au

Laertes finds himself hoping it’s a wrong number or someone trying to sell him something, but of course that was wishful thinking, so he faces his fate with an ironic smile. “Hey, Dad, what’s up?”

viscount's men

Benedict’s only been truly angry a couple times in his life [examples] and that’s what he taps into when Laertes scolds himself for being womanish enough to cry. His memory of rage becomes Laertes’s heartbreak: the speech of fire is not exactly a lie, but it’s not Claudius he’s angry with. If anything it’s himself, or maybe God.

(So far the only examples I could think of haven't happened yet in Bridgerton canon, so I'll have to make something up. Probably a time he saw someone bullying someone much smaller than themself, that's the sort of thing Benedict would despise)

tagging: @eirenical, @tropesarenotbad, @goosemixtapes, @lesbiancassius, @suits-of-woe and anyone else who wants to show off a bit of writing!

[shakespecre]

favorite reads of the year: a mix of old and new(ish), fiction and non-fiction!

thanks for the tag @mistressaccost <33

i tag @lesbiancassius @slowlydreamingaway @drfaustus @emmenai-kalliston

[ardenrosegarden]

duality of man

within me contain multitudes