Show Me Shakespeares Duke Of Buckingham

Show me Shakespeare’s Duke of Buckingham

No the real Duke of Buckingham

No not him, the rEal Duke of Buckingham

Not quite, the REAL Duke of Buckingham

Ahh perfect

This morning I had a 15 min obsession with the idea of a Garashir fic in which the characters put on a production of Much Ado About Nothing and Garak designs the costumes, as Garak bitches about the stupid Shakespeareian story line and the fussy 'actors', Garak and Julian are tricked into admitting their love in a reflection of the story of Much Ado.... they don't realise the parallel until the end of the story (opening night) ....

for anyone wondering, i saw the les mis us tour last night in DC and it. was. CRAZY. i’ve seen the tour a few times in my life and i noticed some new things so here we go:

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- petit gervais was actually shown in the prologue when JVJ gets out of jail, he has some line like “but monsieur!” before being shooed away

- batambois actually hits fantine with his cane, knocks her down, and kicks her multiple times before she reaches up and scratches his face (i feel like i usually see him grab her arm or something instead of actually hitting her?)

- the other lovely ladies whores are all freaking out and trying to protect fantine from batambois and the pimp men people are actively holding them back and letting him hit her

- JVJ and javert have the gayest little moment of holding a handshake before “forgive me sir i would not dare” for a solid 30 seconds

- fantine shoots up and hugs JVJ in the line before she dies and stays there until he lays her dead body back down

- mme. thenardier was just so wonderful. i loved her

- gavroche has this entire moment with javert after the robbery, yelling “yeah! clear the streets! that means you too!” (said to a cop), and when the only two people left on stage are him and javert, he completely squares up to him and then salutes and it’s a really sweet moment. it also makes little people so much more impactful because they actually recognize each other then

- enjolras has a visceral reaction to eponine and marius speaking and he hasn’t even met cosette yet. enj turns to speak to marius and sees him talking to ep and throws his hands up in the air like, SO frustrated because MARIUS THE REVOLUTION IS COMING.

- red and black is BEAUTIFUL. the entire ensemble respects enjolras so much and it’s very obvious. “marius, you’re late” is not sung and so deadpan and so enjolras.

- R gives gav his bottle after javert’s arrival and it’s really funny

- grantaire does not take his eyes off of enjolras until drink with me. at all.

-when eponine dies, gavroche turns suddenly and sees her dying and grantaire SHOOTS up and grabs him and sits in the corner with him. it’s beautiful

- R does not touch a gun at all for the entire show. whenever anyone starts shooting, he hides behind the barricade or he grabs javert in custody but he never fights at all

- when gav dies, R throws a goddamn fit and does not leave his body until enjolras is about to be shot.

- when enj dies, he climbs up the barricade and is backlit and R is sitting at the bottom of the barricade reaching upwards, and when enj is shot, he falls backwards off of the barricade and out of sight. when this happens, R climbs the barricade with no gun, just enough so his head is exposed, and gets shot and slides down the barricade. it’s very “no one loves the light like a blind man”

- when javert is picking through the bodies looking for JVJ, another officer is wheeling a cart for dead bodies, and it ONLY has enjolras in it, hanging upside down just like aaronjolras in the window. javert heaves gav’s body on top of his and wheels them both off. (i heard multiple audible gasps during this, assumedly from the other enjolras girlies like myself)

- enj and R are beside each other for empty chairs until they cross and they’re directly facing each other instead

-during the wedding song, the line “this one’s a queer, but what can you do” is changed to “this one’s a queer, i might try it too” before thenardier waltzes with a male ensemble member for like 4 bars before finishing the song

- there is a lot of rich people laughing as a bit and thenardier cues to the conductor and counts them off like 3 separate times

- the finale is beautiful as always, JVJ and the dead bishop hug before everyone just lines up in formation (R and enj are both holding one of gav’s hands on either side)

- in conclusion: i cried

If anyone else has seen the tour and would like to add little things they noticed, please do in the tags!!

You’re all giving fandom examples of this but Andrew Robinson has admitted that Garaks motive was to fuck Julian Bashir and therefore they gave him a love interest in Ziyal and had to give them less scenes together because they had too much chemistry over any of Julian’s female love interests 😭

Hey man sorry about your male co-star. Turns out you guys had too much sexual tension on screen so he was written into a lazy, heterosexual romance arc that lacks chemistry and depth and actually just makes him look even more queer tbh. Now he's off pretending to be happy with somebody else when the love of his life was right there all along. I'm so sorry dude. It will probably happen again :/

I hadn’t got into Star Trek when I watched Community and now I have to watch the entire series all over again for the references 😭

Isn't it such a coinky dink that George Takei, a gay man, is the voiceover in the episode where Troy tells Abed he loves him? Just a little something. A wee something or other.......

top five Shakespeare fuck boys

Ok j'ai sorti mes pléïades je suis prête (non) pour ce challenge. Je suis pas sûre de saisir correctement la définition de fuck boy mais bon on va essayer : (En vrai cette liste pourrait aussi s'appeler : classement des mecs du plus au moins horny dans le songe d'une nuit d'été)

1) Oberon (Le songe d'une nuit d'été) : I mean.... C'est tellement évident que j'ai même pas besoin de m'expliquer.

2) Marc-Antoine (Antoine et Cléopâtre) : He was a fuck boy and we all know it.

3) Demetrius (Le songe d'une nuit d'été) : On continue sur le songe.

4) Buckingham (Richard III) : The original fuck boy

5) Lysandre (Le songe d'une nuit d'été) : Oui il est amoureux d'Hermia. Mais il veut surtout baiser.