Let Me Have Men About Me That Are Fat,

Let me have men about me that are fat,

Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,

He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

—Julius Caesar, Act1 Scene 2, Shakespeare

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Hello. Based on your "Please Reblog This If It’s Okay To". Do you have a favourite fic you've written?

Thank you for asking!

My current favorite is The Purple Spider's Web, a multichapter MDZS fic that gives my ideas about Madam Yu's backstory and why her marriage with Jiang Fengmian is so bad. It's long, and I wrote it quickly with minimal editing because I figured no one was going to read it anyway, so probably in 6 months, I'll be so ashamed of it that I'll delete it. But right now, I'm pretty happy with it.

I've always been fond of The Spirit that Unites Them, which is mostly RPF about the medieval English king Richard II, his French princess child second wife, Isabella (who he treated like a daughter or little sister), and his cousin's son, Henry (called Hal in Shakespeare), who later became Henry V and honored Richard's memory. Re-reading it, I hate that I wrote it in present tense, which I generally don't like, I was giving it a try back then.

The basic idea is that Richard (who became king when he was just 10 years old) loved his first wife, Anne of Bohemia, very much, but they could never have children. There is some evidence they were having trouble conceiving and that Anne might have had at least one miscarriage.

He was devastated when she died. He later married the 6-year old daughter of the King of France to cement an alliance with France. He later banished his cousin, Henry, for stirring up shit, and basically took Hal hostage. That ended when his dad deposed, imprisoned, and starved Richard to death, and crowned himself Henry IV. But Hal seems to have thought well of Richard, and gave him a better burial after he became king.

So I like to think that Richard kind of turned both these kids into substitutes for his own kids.

This is my most "popular" fic: One Founding Father Who Fancied the Doctor and One Who Didn't.

It's a silly Hamilton-Doctor Who crossover based on a throwaway line in a Doctor Who episode called The Impossible Astronaut. It made me laugh at the time, but now it's a little embarrassing. But everything Doctor Who is always a little embarrassing. It just comes with the territory when you're a Whovian, so ultimately, I'm happy with it still. And I can't delete it because it still seems to appeal to a handful of very specific fans.

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My collection of vintage Shakespeare imagery is dramatic.

hey hi so hypothetically speaking: if i were to get some of my writer friends together for a Shakespeare themed project during 2025, would any of you be interested?

The vague deets/scope of the project is me and 4-5 writer friends (and an artist or two) would each write a short story based around a shakespeare retelling or a continuation, etc. It would primarily be digital only release but I also think it would be neat to do a limited run hand-made zine-esque run for the individual pieces.

If I got someone involved that knew more about getting a physical print run (and possible merch that could be used for pre-order bonuses), then that would be neat, but the default assumption would be that I am managing the whole thing myself and I plan on keeping it on a digital release via itch with a limited number of physical copies.

I would be able to pay contributors a flat amount, and based on pre-orders/continual sales, I'd be able to reimburse myself for supplies for physical version and pay contributors more.

This has been a thing I've wanted to do for ages and, due to reasons, I am now able to actively consider it! So I thought I'd float it out there. (This is also a poll running on twitter so, some of you will see this twice LOL)