#the muppets adaptation that doesn't exist... yet

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Muppets Wuthering Heights RULES please tell me more of your thoughts if you don't mind 👀

I just medically need to hear Ms Piggy as Cathy running down the foggy moors in a disgustingly frothy and garish 1830s - 40s period dress screeching "HEATHCLIFF HEATHCLIFFFFFF~" and the music swells in the background.

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In the vision in my head I kinda want Heathcliff to be played by the only human actor, so I don't really know where I want Kermit to fit in, but the high concept is to give Ms Piggy a leading gothic heroine role to let her ham it up like SHE DESERVES. 👏

[moondal514]

Yuletide 2023 Fic Rec List

*edit 01/01/2024*: added the writers now that reveals have happened

What it says on the tin. Below is a fic rec list of some fics from @yuletidetreasure’s 2023 collection that I’ve enjoyed, though first I must rec the 2 wonderful fics I’ve received as gifts:

Your Kindness Would Be My Release by Inhammer

Last night, or maybe tonight, Agamemnon tells me we should arrive in Argos the next day. His kingdom. The place of my final visions, where I finally meet her. Clytemnestra.

Wonderful Cassandra pov

Palímpsēstos by DachOsmin/ @dachosmin

I am standing on the walls. The wind blowing off the sea is salt-bitter in between my teeth, like the tears I will cry on the day that I meet you. There are ships in the harbor.

Beautifully written Cassandra-centric prose poem that I’m still picking up my jaw from the floor after reading

Fandom: The Oresteia

Turn Thy Wrath Aside by Moondal (yours truly)

Mortals wants mattered little in the face of the desires of the gods. How could a single woman wield such power?

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Clytemnestra and Helen as mirrors.

Tragic character study of these 2 sisters

Fandom: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

saint sebastian, filled with arrows by narqueen

Coriolanus stares at it. Then he stares at her. She can see his imprecision again, the flicker of something untrustworthy beneath all the gold hair and famous lineage. “What should I do with it?” he asks, pliant, one last bid for direction.

Lucy Gray kisses him again. “Come back to me,” she orders. “Do whatever you have to do to come back to me, Coriolanus Snow.”

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(Coriolanus Snow wins the 10th annual Hunger Games with the help of his mentor, Lucy Gray Baird.)

Role-swap with wonderfully consistent characterization

The Preference for Survival by samalander/ @intosnarkness

It may have been a kindness, but it doesn't change the fact that Lysistrata was the only one of her classmates who had to draw blood.

Fantastic Lysistrata Vickers character study

Fandom: Goncharov

Guess Who's Coming to Naples by DreamerInSilico/ @dreamerinsilico

The Muppet family would like to have a word.

The Goncharov fandom would like to have several squees.

Some fandom Discord reactions to the announcement of the very real Muppet remake of the best movie of all time, Goncharov (1973)

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Goncharov by berlincorpography/ @berlincorpography

i don’t know, writing a paper with her could be… fun?

i mean, what’s the worst that can happen?

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From: leldiwany@uea.edu

To: mwright21@kcl.edu

Subject: Re: Re: Re: Fuck you

M–

If you think we’re citing fucking Samuel Kline[...]

[three paragraphs snipped – click to expand]

A hilarious tale of academic rivalry

Fandom: Tosca

recondita armonia by Ladybug_21

They should not be growing so close, Floria thinks. Famous though she has become, she and Mario are from different worlds and irreconcilable backgrounds. And yet somehow she feels they complement each other, balance each other out through some subtle harmony.

Floria and Mario, before.

Fantastic backstory for Tosca and Mario

Fandom: Babel

Homophony in Oriental Silver-Work and Applications for Non-Logographic Scripts: A Case Study in English, Using Kreyòl, French, Gaelige, and Scots Gaelic by mercuryandglass/ @mercuryandglass

Abstract:

Based on the techniques described by Dejima (1836, 1845, and 1848) regarding collaborative manifestation using homophonous links (homophony chains) occasionally seen in the Oriental tradition of silver-work, this paper describes the adaptation and combination of two existing match-pairs, one from Haitian Creole (Kreyòl) to English through French (Desgraves 1846), and one from Scottish Gaelic (Scots Gaelic) to Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge) (O’Nell 1839 and 1843), in order to demonstrate the efficacy of the Oriental technique for homophony chains when used with languages that do not make use of logographies, such as English.

Super cool in-universe academic paper