forum Things You Want LESS Of In Books

Started January 21, 2019 by @evastardust groupRRAAAARRL

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IT'S CANON OKAY??

HAMLET, OPHELIA, AND HORATIO WERE CLOSETED POLY AND NO ONE CAN CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE

HAMLET, OPHELIA, AND HORATIO WERE CLOSETED POLY AND NO ONE CAN CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE

HAMLET AND LAERTES ARE EXES

~is stunned at the perfection of that statement.

I've slowly fallen into shipping Henry V and Montjoy and I'm not sure how I feel about that.
Listen, when I played Montjoy my directors had me kiss Henry's hand twice and stare into his eyes for a really long time in a few scenes, and had Henry and I make direct eye contact when he was saying how terrible the loss of the French soldiers was. It was surprisingly gay.

oh my god

I also got down on both knees to beg Henry to let the French see the Agincourt field.

Yes I still have post-show depression from a show I was in in July, that's why my username is still MontJyn

What if it was normal male affection because that stuff wasn't as stifled as in modern times? _{Okay, minirant over.}

To be gay was a crime in the ye olden days

What if it wasn't, because queerness is erased enough in history and Shakespeare literally wrote his most well-known love sonnet to a man?

To be gay was a crime in the ye olden days

Be Gay, Do Crimes

What if it wasn't, because queerness is erased enough in history and Shakespeare literally wrote his most well-known love sonnet to a man?

Do me a favor and post it here.

OMG

I’m sorry but my class just finished a Romeo and Juliet unit

AND BENVOLIO AND MERCUTIO ARE LOVELY TOGETHER

I want to see less of the mY sOuLmAte dIed aNd nOw i wILL nEvEr loVe aGaiN tropes, and overdone dramatic horrid backstories for the point of having them there. I mean, if it happened for a reason significant to the book, go for it! But please don't do the "I was tortured and now I'm goth" because it's no use
I mean, one of my character's entire plot started because her little brother wanted an exotic flower and she just wanted to get it for him. No death, no tragedy. Just a simple life.

Isn't that just what people guessed though?

What if it wasn't, because queerness is erased enough in history and Shakespeare literally wrote his most well-known love sonnet to a man?

Do me a favor and post it here.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Like there’s one line where Mercutio says something about Benvolio’s ‘hazel eyes’, and how they’re like hazelnuts or smth, and I was like yikes cause I don’t look into any of my friends eyes enough to compare them to various food items

yeah I want more where the plot starts because of something normal. Makes me feel better about my own boring life

Like there’s one line where Mercutio says something about Benvolio’s ‘hazel eyes’, and how they’re like hazelnuts or smth, and I was like yikes cause I don’t look into any of my friends eyes enough to compare them to various food items

Me but with "goodnight sweet prince". That was hella gay.
Also "my dearest friend and benefactor"/the various "my dear Clerval"s in Frankenstein.

(I’m sorry I just wanted to talk about Bencutio for a bit lol. Ciao!)

(Noooooo stay!! I love Bencutio lol!!)

What if it wasn't, because queerness is erased enough in history and Shakespeare literally wrote his most well-known love sonnet to a man?

Do me a favor and post it here.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

I can see either way, I suppose. Can't wait to hear what Dom has to say lol

Who was it to?

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

^^And how do we know that?

Can't remember, but it was about a guy.

^^And how do we know that?

Um. History? Listen, as much as you want to have your whole "but that's how friendships were!" thing, there's a big difference between straight guys being affectionate and writing a sonnet about how lovely someone is. Alexander Hamilton was queer as well, his letters to Laurens were not just "male affection".

Like there’s one line where Mercutio says something about Benvolio’s ‘hazel eyes’, and how they’re like hazelnuts or smth, and I was like yikes cause I don’t look into any of my friends eyes enough to compare them to various food items

Me but with "goodnight sweet prince". That was hella gay.
Also "my dearest friend and benefactor"/the various "my dear Clerval"s in Frankenstein.

Oof ya I need to up my classic literature game cause there’s some real gems in there

Like there’s one line where Mercutio says something about Benvolio’s ‘hazel eyes’, and how they’re like hazelnuts or smth, and I was like yikes cause I don’t look into any of my friends eyes enough to compare them to various food items

Me but with "goodnight sweet prince". That was hella gay.
Also "my dearest friend and benefactor"/the various "my dear Clerval"s in Frankenstein.

Oof ya I need to up my classic literature game cause there’s some real gems in there

Oscar Wilde has entered the chat

^^And how do we know that?

oh no I was pointing out another sexuality questionable relationship created by Shakespeare.