Twelfth Night - Tumblr Posts
oh you’re in his dms? well i’m a part of his house. disguised as a boy. running his errands. trying to make the local countess fall in love with him. even though i’m in love with him. but now she’s in love with me. shit.
Twelfth Night Kiss (aka Anne Hathaway Bisexual) redraw OCs are Ella Weiss, Abigail Miller, and Ella Weiss(sad) and are mine
But Shakespeare also wrote some ’comedies’
I liked ‘Twelfth Night’ cause it was pretty fun and actually had a real proper love triangle. And a happy ending. I personally didn’t read it be heard a summary of it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e3O4yJwuJes
^the link is a summary by overly sarcastic productions which is a channel I love and they summarise lots of stories and folklore and myths and tropes So I highkey recommend em! They the best. I‘m tangenting.
so we probs have two groups. Shakespearian Comedies and ShakespearIan Tragedies.
i can imagine em not carrying bout the royal rebel think as much. They’re probs like ya a comedy or a tragedy? Also will we have theatre kids inception (cause the plays are meant to be performed obv and if someone a theatre kid from the group it could be a good homage I guess)
also ‘A Midsummer Night’s dream’ is wacky but has fairies too. And could have a cottagecore aesthetic
There’s also ‘much ado about nothing’.
EAH just be wildin. They teased it and ran away and were like anyway, nothing to see here
shakespearean stories and their children exisiting in eah is so insane to me bc theyre nowhere NEAR the kind of tone that fairytales are, EVEN IN THEIR ORIGINAL FORMS. like imagine introducing ur story and apple going “i get poisoned by an apple at first:( but then a prince helps me and i get a happily ever after” and the son of hamlet is sitting there like. thats nice
Saw a musical today
It had this absolute wild romantic tangle
Like a triangle, but crazier
Pretty sure it was something like this
-Dennis loves Natalie -Natalie loves Chad -Chad loves Sandra -Jim loves Sandra -Dean and Lorraine love each other -Sandra loves Ed(Natalie pretending to be a boy) -Chad loves Ed(Natalie pretending to be a boy) -Sylvia loves Jim -Matilda and Earl love each other -Jim and Sylvia love each other -Dennis and Sandra love each other -Chad and Natalie love each other(but Chad wants Natalie to dress up as Ed now and then)
You know what I would really love to see?
Bisexuals, pansexuals, omnisexuals, asexuals, and greysexuals included in dark academia.
And when I say that, I don’t mean “I want to see more gay content and more single people content.” Don’t get me wrong, I’m always up for more gay content and more single people content, but that’s not what I’m talking about here.
I want to see a bisexual girl slowly fall in love with an omisexual boy while they debate each other over the historical evidence for Alexander Hamilton’s possible affair with John Laurens according to the letters left behind. I want them to meet up for black coffee and tea afterwards and end up laughing about their exes using bushels of diverse pronouns for past loves. I want their relationship portrayed as the queer romance it is. Because bi and omni people are queer. And that’s queer.
I want an asexual boy who sits up late in the library because his roommate brought someone home and he wants to finish reading Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. I want another student to notice the title of the book and immediately come over to ask his opinion on whether Sun Tzu would agree with Machiavelli on methods of keeping power. I want the relationship to escalate to a friendship. I want it to escalate into a romantic relationship. I want him to never feel pressured into sex because his partner loves him for his whip-smart mind and humanity, not his body. Because ace folk are queer. And that’s queer.
On a similar subject: I want an aromantic person to slowly become better and better friends with the girl who is their roommate. I want them to admire her witticisms, her strength in the face of adversity, her analysis of Ulysses. I want them to love each other as best friends. I want both of them to be happy with the relationship as it is, with neither worried that the other wants more. I want them to stay up late editing each other’s papers with together without it getting awkward late into the night. I want them to stay best friends even after she gets married to the woman of her dreams, meeting in person and online but also writing letters in heavy black ink with quill pens, because they are dark academics and friends. Because aro people are queer. And that’s queer.
I want to see two pansexuals go on a date to a production of Twelfth Night and ooh and ahh together as the characters jump between gender presentation because oh heck, the leads are all good looking. I want them to joke about whether the actor was hotter as Cesario or Viola on the way home. I want one to get so flustered while listening to their date talk about what turns them on that they ask “can I kiss you?” and swoop in the moment they get permission, leaving the other a little breathless. Because pansexual folk are queer. And that’s queer.
Gay folk? Hecking fantastic. I love y’all. You gays, lesbians, wlw, mlm, all that jazz—y’all are hecking great and I’m glad God made folk who are solely attracted to their own gender because look at you!!!!
(Also, though I don’t know if there are any straight people here: straight folk? You’re great too! We love talking about the queer content here because we rarely get spaces to talk about queer content, but don’t feel like you can’t come along for the ride. There’s no gate on enthusiasm for learning.)
But (as I’m sure everyone agrees) folk who like more than one gender and folk who like none at all are pretty spiffy too. And please remember the awesome attitude of “it’s queer screw you ivory tower you’re wrong and you know it” that runs heavy in the veins of dark academia extends to us too, because I think we sometimes forget that.
Thank u for ur time. Eat a bagel or something. They’re good.
Captain's Log
Day 1 of writing fanfiction for Twelfth Night (yes, the Shakespeare play) in which it is lesbians instead of a woman pining meaninglessly over a straight woman pretending to be a man (aka Viola/Olivia and Orsino/Sebastian).
I am slowly going insane, I no longer understand the English language and I really wish there were more details about what Viola was like, because there's basically no plot anymore if we don't have Viola fall in love with Orsino. It's all over too quickly.
I might cry. I will keep you all updated on this.
I am also taking suggestions for plotpoints to throw in for funsies. For shits and giggles, even.
“‘Cause darling I’m a nightmare dressed like a gay dream.”
— Viola to Olivia, Twelfth Night
Cute boys with rings
Viola/Cesario moodboard for @eye-think-way-too-much
Horatio: Oh my god oh my god oh my god. What are we gonna do?!
Hamlet: Here, I’m gonna call my pirate friend and see if he can help us with this.
Horatio: You have pirate friends?!?!
Hamlet: *texting Antonio from Twelfth Night* You don’t?
shakespeare in 1601: i've finished that play about the shipwreck and the gay shit and the guy with the yellow socks
richard burbage: it still needs a title
shakespeare, lighting a joint and looking at the calendar: uhhh twelfth night
richard burbage: you can't just name a play after the day we're performing it
shakespeare: call it whatever
richard burbage, the absolute madman: perfect
Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness… ~ The lovely ladies of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night on Broadway (x)
I think you all need a few gifs of Mark Rylance’s Olivia Glide™
You’re welcome.
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More Mark Rylance gifs here.
“She loves me, sure”
— William Shakespeare, “Twelfth Night”
“Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we! For such as we are made of, such we be.”
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
“Farewell, fair cruelty.”
— William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Some delightful and funny backstage pix of Twelfth Night and Richard III