she/they. 21, lifetime shakespeare nerd. i post whatever i feel: right now it’s chess the musical, the divine comedy, persona 5, classics, and homestuck.
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Here, we’ve got Freddie and Anatoly’s chess match that results in Freddie storming out, and I just adore both Raúl and Ramin in this. They’re simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious all at once, I never want to stop watching them.
chess tournament put on hold briefly as White's bishops are having a schism
Black's pawns are taking the opportunity to discuss wages with their king, threatening him with the guillotine if they go further without proper care
the king obliges
while this may cause distrust in Black's upper castes, particularly, his knights, the overall quality of Black's army has greatly improved
one of White's rooks has suffered structural damages. knights are investigating to determine if it was sabotage or simply a result of the rook's old age.
meanwhile, White's bishops have come an agreement: one will continue with traditional Catholicism, the other will modernize, translating their scripture from Latin to English
the royal family is yet to comment
the royal family is too busy dealing with an affair between the two queens, who somehow managed to escape both kingdoms
White's pawns are jealous of Black's pawn labor rights and have unionized, but are for some reason targeting the kingside knight
White has ordered a new rook to replace the crumbling ruins of White's old rook, though due to a mixup with the delivery boy, White was given an albino rook (Corvus frugilegus)
both Black and White agree to play the rook as a normal rook, despite the difficulties of making a bird fight in a 12th century land battle
the bird keeps jumping when it's not supposed to and frequently flies over half the board above several pieces. Black's knights are jealous and try to teach a pawn the basics of falconry so they can capture the bird for themselves.
White's kingside knight has used lethal force
White's remaining pawns have deserted White's army to join Black
Black's queenside knight and rook has left to join White, frustrated over the pawns' apparent privilege
White has successfully rebuilt their crumbled rook after White lost the rook (bird), though White technically now has three rooks
Black has replaced Black's lost bishop with a rabbi
amidst all the chaos, the queens have returned to the board and are hosting a wedding ceremony in the center squares
White's rook (bird) discovered it had free will and is functionally on a third side. it attacks every piece it sees.
White's modernized bishop (both of White's traditionalist bishops refused to hold a same-sex marriage) officiates the wedding, which was nearly crashed by Black's remaining knight getting drunk at the minibar and getting into a fistfight with White's rook (tower)
Black's pawns are hiding in fear from White's rook (bird)
White's rook (bird) is circling ominously above White's king
White's king cannot run from a bird
it appears that Black has won the game, by White's rook (bird) checkmating White's king
the players shake hands, congratulating eachother for a good game
what i love about hamlet is that whenever i start to try to analyze it or pin my interpretations of it down it’s impossible. the compulsion to qualify and go on tangents is just too powerful for me. the text just begs me to over explain and over consider. i have so many thoughts about it that are all loud and passionate and completely contradictory. and as i type this, i realize it has left me with the same indecisiveness and doubt that hamlet suffered from and my eyes are welling up. good play
DEATH in the ILIAD: an Infographic
(originally 2014, updated slightly for 2023 - hey it's almost as old as Homer's Trojan War was long!)
the musical theatre equivalent of Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny is Everyone Is Performing Vocal Gymnastics and No One Is Emoting Worth A Damn & to be fair it's not the performers' fault that modern musical theatre is concerned w making clapping seals of them
cleverclove asked:
“Spare an old friend some wine?”
lizardrosen answered:
“Spare an old friend some wine?”
Without looking up from his parchment, Horatio answers, “No, you’re not really here. Besides, I don’t drink anymore.”
“What, not at all?” When he nods, the air shifts like someone sitting in the chair beside him while he pivots to stare into the candlelight instead of that empty space. “Oh darling, when I asked you to absent yourself from felicity, I didn’t mean you should stop living.”
“Oh darling, when I asked you to absent yourself from felicity, I didn’t mean you should stop living.”
DUDE????
Brb I'm gonna be thinking about this for the next uhh five weeks
i hate when you see a good post about how visible aging is sexy and then the notes are full of people making it about men. like i'm sorry do you live in a world where men are taught to fear any sign of having lived past the age of 25 while women are somehow celebrated for it??? do you think wanting to fuck that old man is revolutionary?? should we throw a party??? should we invite pedro pascal???
i hope geriatric jakey dies
just a reminder - do NOT boycott streaming services or not watch new things. the unions have not called for one for a reason. for one, it affects residual payments, which as minimal as those currently are, actors are still getting them during this time, and for two, studios will use lack of viewership as an excuse to cancel shows because you are showing them there is no demand. it deeply affects the industry the writers and actors stand to come back to once the strike is over
Also: going to these places puts pressure and demand on the company. Demand they can't meet without actors and writers. That puts stress on them, and stress is good.
^^^^ive been looking for a rb with this addition because YES. if a customer wants a burger and there is no cook to make it, that puts pressure on the owner to pay the cook what they want so the customer will still give them money. if there is no customer, the owner has no reason for the cook to make burgers
Stop watching IF AND ONLY IF the unions call for a boycott. For the time being since they haven't, streaming the shows actually helps. You're not crossing a picket line to watch because that picket line does not exist unless a boycott is called for.
