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[comparativetarot]

Seven of Cups. Art by Eunice Choi, from Bard’s Arcana: The Tarot of Shakespeare.

Bassanio, The Merchant of Venice

[sanguine-prince]

bassanio: what’s the big deal about borrowing money? i do it all the time! sometimes, i even pay it back!

[anyavaramyr]

The thing with summer vacations is that it drives you to into the pits of extreme boredom.

See for example:- The fact that I actually wrote a merchant of Venice fanfiction. Antonio x Bassanio. I think I need help

[maximoff-swift13]

What I hate about most adaptions of The Merchant of Venice is how damn serious they play Act 5 Scene 1. I've always read it as a more comical scene, and in my head it's always played as very overdramatic, shits and giggles, and I always imagined Portia and Nerissa being just SO overdramatic while Bassanio and Gratiano freak out like the dumb boys they are. I can always hear the laugh track after Bassanio wishes he cut his hand off. So whenever I see this scene played so damn serious with Gratiano and Nerissa, Bassanio and Portia at actual conflict, it comes off as so puzzling to me.

[rxbbit-heart]

muse profile—bassanio

𖤓 name: bassanio

𖤓 pronouns: he/him

𖤓 source: the merchant of venice by william shakespeare

𖤓 bio: venetian nobleman whose fortune is rather depleted and lives beyond his means.

[sehrgefaelltmir]

i was tagged by @captainaudax (tysm bestie!!!) to share 9 of my favourite books:

n im tagging @kylorens @joooonbug @miasanlewy sorry if u already did it lmfao no pressure etc etc etc

[gayestshakespearecouples]

I keep thinking about how Olivia literally falls passionately in love with another woman onstage. Like yeah I absolutely headcanon Viola as nonbinary or transmasc too but as far as Shakespeare was concerned she's a woman* and he just wrote another woman declaring her heartfelt, undoubtedly romantic love for her. That's absolutely wild. Outside of Achilles and Patroclus, who aren't Shakespeare's own characters, it's technically the only case of Canon Canon™ romantic love between same sex characters in Shakespeare (though sadly Viola does not return the feeling in canon.)

*of course she always would've been played by a male actor and the crossdressing comedies have fun with that, but the same goes for every female character in Shakespeare so...

[bugwolfsstuff]

thinking about when we watched a video of Merchant of Venice in English class we watched literally the gayest as humanly possible stage version of it

Like when Bassanio was saved from being cut up by Shylock Antonio ran up and fucking kissed him deeply and it went on for a minute and when they pulled a part one of them tried to go forward to continue kissing.

Oh and keep in mind Bassanio was shirtless during this scene cause he was saved moments away from Shylock cutting his pound of flesh

The teacher literally had to pause it and go "'now this adaption took some liberties, please do not write because they were gay for eachother anywhere on your junior cert paper, I am not explaining that to the rest of the staff"

[zentriii]

this post was tagged anime and istg i have the scream. antonio the anti semantic cunt who dehumanized shylock simply bc he's jewish? is fem!shylock's fucking love interest? what the actual fuck

[caliburn-the-sword]

@priscilla9993

omg. the pound of flesh. don't get me started. for my most recent exams i literally submitted an essay where the crux of my argument is that shylock never actually wanted the pound of flesh!! he did it as a joke ("in a merry sport... let the forfeit be nominated"). and yes, there are dangers in taking ANY character's words at face value, but basically textual evidence for him willing to forgive everything antonio has done to him and start afresh with this joke and deal are that he has previously been a doormat (there IS textual evidence to support this in his aside at the end of act one but i can't for the life of me remember word for word) and lets antonio do whatever. so shylock is primed to forgive (or at least overlook with minimal complaint) yet ANOTHER insult from antonio. and the joke itself is saying yeah i'm gonna trust you because we're putting aside our differences and accommodate YOUR religion and not collect anything other than the money owed because i trust you to pay me back. it all comes to a turning point where, if not antonio, it's the wider christian community have such a pack mentality and bias against him that his ENTIRE life is ruined within the span of a night. his ENTIRE fortune is stolen, he is cut off from his daughter, and antonio has also essentially robbed the guy (once again i don't have textual evidence as of now but antonio ADMITTED to planning on not paying shylock back. which demonstrates his own trust in shylock not to come collecting on the bond because he KNOWS shylock to be a forgiving man). shylock has NO ONE he can safely direct his outrage at, no one except antonio given shylock is so sure that venetian court will follow this all to the letter of the law. which they would have?? but also they were literally SO biased in antonio's favour. anyway that brings us to the trial, he states as justification for his vendetta "wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice" um mr shylock you've been stung WAY more than twice. and it also just greatly summarises what i was saying before, claiming the bond has become a self preservation instinct to protect him from having his life ruined even further by Antonio and Co™. in essence, even a worm will turn

i COMPLETELY forgot where i was going with this so hopefully i managed to hit whatever it was i started this tangent on. you gotta forgive me for being very general because it's been over a month, everything has flown out of my brain, i have no notes because they're in my locker and i'm going off pure vibes, and also i'm 17 and not very smart LMAO i only just scrape good grades usually. i'm more of a science guy. i'm just very passionate about shylock

[just2bubbly]

You can take the kid out of icse 10th but the icse 10th never gets out of the kid

[anyavaramyr]

Love is blind

Antonio x Bassanio oneshot(by a very frustrated literature student who is v v tired)

A/n:- I don't know if you've noticed but I have no idea how to actually post a fic on tumblr, but I tried.@vaguely-tricksy here you go!

Antonio did not know why he was sad

That ache he felt in his chest sometimes was now a feeling that he had grown accustomed to, that deep longing for something he couldn't name but desperately longed for. But it was never physical this pain, it emanated from somewhere deep inside of him, a part of his heart telling him something in a language he did not understand.

When Salanio first implied that he might be in love, Antonio had scoffed. Love, he'd thought assuredly, was not something that was not meant for him. As a young child Antonio had dreamed of it of course, as any child does. Finding a beautiful wife that he loved and settling down in a quaint little house near the Grand Canal, just him, her and a little mini them that he would love with all his heart. But then his father died and the responsibility of looking after the family fell to him. He'd toiled and struggled to provide stability for his family, worked hard to get to the place he is now. But even after he had become one of the most esteemed merchants of Venice, Antonio did not contemplate love. He had his trading business to look after, a family would be too much affort at this age. Besides who even needed love when he had money and friendships that he would sacrifice anything for.

Now, standing in Belmont in Portia's majestic palace, Antonio looks around at his lovelorn friends and their lovely spouses and smiles warmly. Just because he didn't believe in love for himself, didn't mean he doesn't believe in love at all. He watches the happy couples around him; Jessica and Lorenzo, jubilant after finally being able to be together without hindrance from Shylock, Gratiano and Nerissa, the latter of which helped the Venician control his wayward tongue and rude comments and lastly at Portia and Bassanio, where he lets his eyes linger

Bassanio looked....happy. Truly, wonderfully happy with the woman he loved, and his heart grew warm at how merry he looked. The merchant had always loved it when Bassanio looked like that; his green eyes alight with joy, carefree and with a smile that could rival the sun with how bright it was. He would do anything to keep that expression on his dearest friend's face. But then he felt the ache in his chest creep up again, wrapping its tendrils around him at the way Bassanio looked at Portia like she was his whole world. It was always him, Antonio remembered, that made Bassanio smile like that. And then suddenly, all at once, something in him clicked.

Antonio knew Bassanio would not be able to repay the loans he gave him, he knew that Bassanio was reckless with his money and liked to live more lavishly than he could afford to and he knew that if he continued to give him loans he would eventually run into some trouble. But he still did. Because it was Bassanio and Antonio would find a way to steal the moon from the night sky, uncaring of it's consequences, if he desperately wanted it. He would give him anything he wanted, even if it meant accepting a grant from his greatest rival.

When the news of his imminent execution reached Antonio, he did not think of writing to one of the many lawyers he knew; he did not bother calling his friends in high society or begging Shylock to show him mercy. No, instead he wrote to Bassanio to come home to Venice. Because if he was going to die, he wished to do so after seeing his closest companion one last time. He wished to leave this world, knowing Bassanio would be alright and he wished to take the memories of those last moments with him when he finally departed from this world.

Antonio could feel his breathing quicken as realization rushed through him, as he figured out why all his life he'd always strived towards his best friend's well being. He felt his pulse thrum and his heart pound in his ears as he finally came to an understanding as to why that perfect picture of a family he'd had in his childhood didn't suit his fancy anymore. Because now when he thought of happiness he didn't think of an unnamed beautiful woman who would smile up at him with love in her eyes. Now he thought of Bassanio.

The heart of the famed merchant of Venice could not belong to any woman, for it had already been stolen by the man Antonio called his soulmate.

Antonio now knew why he was so sad, and he was starting to wish he really didn't.

I fr need help if this is what I've been doing in my past time. Which I have so. Pls suggest a therapist. Also took some creative liberties with Antonio's past(forgive me Shakespeare).

[thevampirejules]

reading this would be a lot easier if all these men didn’t have the exact same name

[dystopianam]

Fun facts: Bassanio (the first Monty) have red hairs and grey eyes.

Cleopatra (the first Capp) have brown hairs and eyes.

Bassanio's red hair and gray eyes were never inherited from the Montys, while Cleopatra's brown hair was inherited twice (from Scribonia and Goneril) but never her brown eyes. (I think)

If one day a Monty were to have a child with a sim who has hair of any color except red and no recessive genetics for red hair, imagine how funny it would be if the child were born with Bassanio's red hair, with genetics that skipped generations.

Maybe none of the Montys know that Bassanio had red hair and everyone starts to think of a contamination/affair, with someone of the Capps.