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MATTHEW NEEDHAM as the Duke of Pavia in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Love's Sacrifice (2015)

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ok in other news we've finally got a name for Matthew Needham's role in the new Blade Runner show

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oh criston x alicent x larys...

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bring back real journalism

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LARYS & AEGON; REPTILES

Horace Walpole / The Castle of Otranto

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cymbeline 1957 production by peter hall photo that I couldnt figure out how to work into the larys webweave + another act 1 scene 6 excerpt that makes me crazy

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he lives in a shed at the back of roose's property (read: where he keeps the rifles/axe/circular saws for 'pest control') and spends his days smoking dope with his band or working in the town's VHS rental store where he plays snuff on the employee tv. he took up trapping and killing domestic cats at 13, and seeking new thrills at 16 turned to rape and S&M. Domeric is a melodramatic goth who wallows in his romantic agony and Ramsay doesnt go a day where he doesnt want to storm into the main house and blow his brains out with a shotgun

literally love when ppl draw ramsay as a fat greasy metalhead who jerks off to video nasties. inject that shit into my brain

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literally love when ppl draw ramsay as a fat greasy metalhead who jerks off to video nasties. inject that shit into my brain

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game of thrones meme | two outfits kingsguard whites + night’s watch blacks

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Larys Strong and Shakespeare's Cymbeline

House of the Dragon 'We Light the Way' (2022) dir. Clare Kilner | The Arden Shakespeare: Cymbeline (2017) eds. Valerie Wayne | Cymbeline (1949) dir. Michael Benthall | Cymbeline (1611) William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 6 | 'A Son for a Son' (2024) dir. Alan Taylor | 'Driftmark' (2022) dir. Miguel Sapochnik | Cymbeline (1962) dir. William Gaskill | 'The Green Council' (2022) dir. Clare Kilner | Imogen (2016) dir. Matthew Dunster | 'The Red Dragon and the Gold' (2024) dir. Alan Taylor

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its far from a 1:1 because Iachimo's 'invasion' of her 'privacy' was initiated by another character + he does it moreso to fuck with people as opposed to having a singleminded sexual fixation on his victim + he is eventually made to ''''atone'''' for his misdeeds (debatable). But. at the same time like you really cant outdo the slippery pervert creeping in on his vulnerable lady, it's just too iconic to overlook

Another strong Shakespearean parallel for Larys (Larycent in particular) can be seen in the relationship between Imogen and Iachimo in Cymbeline, which is made all the more potent by the fact that Matthew actually played Iachimo during a 2016 production of the play

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Another strong Shakespearean parallel for Larys (Larycent in particular) can be seen in the relationship between Imogen and Iachimo in Cymbeline, which is made all the more potent by the fact that Matthew actually played Iachimo during a 2016 production of the play

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not that im completely innocent here but i think a lot of larycent stuff inadvertently ends up being a little ableist

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You keep me company

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Larys Strong / A Lot

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The biggest difference is that Richard never really desired Anne (romantically or sexually) - it was more a desire to possess her in order to flaunt his skills at deception and to revel in his own duplicitous nature - from the get-go he's entirely open to the audience that she is only a temporary pursuit, and that he has no desire to hold her for any longer than what she is useful for. Whereas, Larys also wants to possess Alicent, but in his circumstance she becomes more of a sexual toy for him than a tool for personal gain. Perving on, and assaulting her does him no favors, and, if anything inhibits his upwards social mobility - the fact that he is able to not only maintain his position, but improve his social standing is entirely in spite of his relationship with her, and is testament to his political maneuverability and skills. She becomes a sexual passion project at Larys' own expense, whereas Richard took on Anne as an instrument for his own benefit - that is to say, she is a conduit for his exercise in vanity.

Class is obviously another significant difference but funnily enough I don't think it has any major bearing on differences between the couples - putting aside the fact that Richard is able to enact all his physical desires on Anne at will, while Larys is restricted to wooing Alicent with morbid promises of hacked-off limbs from a 5foot no-contact masturbation quarantine zone

the larycent heroin has been hitting me hard these past few days