help this video was the most specific callout of all time
just wrote a gay fanfic in latin. 9/10 can reccomend. might share it here later. depends on how i feel.
Romeo - "i'm in a state of emotional paralysis and lord does it suck"
Juliet - "yeah i'm definitely missing something; it's probably my neurodivergency ngl"
Mercutio - "ty's drinking pizza sauce" "HELP?' "and it's yummy omnomnom"
Benvolio - "girl, shut your white trash cracker ass up TT"
Friar Laurence - "if there is one person you can talk to judgement-free, it's me"
Count Paris - "i'm so nice go out w/ me" "no, thanks" "YOU STUPID WHORE I NEVER LIKED YOU ANYWAY, YOU'RE UGLY, NICE GUYS ALWAYS FINISH LAST"
Tybalt - "LIKE BITCH I KNOW YOU SAW ME"
some lady said the shakespeare one looks like a minalima edition and i cant argue with that
that feeling when you bring eight tragedies along to a family friend's destination wedding trip.
i got my girlypop greatest tragedies o shakespeare and my theban plays
i regret nothing.
My hot take of the day is that a loooot of the “twists” people add to performances of Romeo and Juliet are actually just Troilus and Cressida.
“I’m staging R+J but the central conflict has actual political implications, it’s not just a pointless feud” That’s Troilus and Cressida.
“R+J but they’re both adults” so, Troilus and Cressida.
“We’re adding a queer romance to R+J” like the one in Troilus and Cressida?
“R+J, but with a bigger ensemble cast” Troilus and C-
bencutio for your soul
Rip Mercutio, you would’ve loved Madonna
If I had a nickel for every time Ben Cook smacked someone with a rolled up newspaper in a musical, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
still reminiscing over the one boy in english 1 who whispered 'is mercutio gay?' to me while watching 1.4 in the 1968 romeo and juliet movie. still cant get over the fact that i said yes.
The reaction of the Danish after seeing milions of warriors, all wielding weapons made entirely out of garlic bread, & riding dragons, fly in & attack Copenhagen.