#Romeo and Juliet ..... literally Romeo and Juliet

[inyourwildestdreams22]

I read all the reviews even the bad one because I like to know what don’t they like, the common denominator is James style which the theater publication gets. These “big” publication don’t because usually they don’t do theater? They don’t like how James production is dark and void of emotion funny enough that is their problem with Tom Romeo. Obviously that is how James wants Tom to play his Romeo. It literally said Romeo and Juliet but violent and bloody. Why are you coming in wanting color and dancing?

Lol cause they don’t care, they just wanna bring Tom down somehow

[sing-you-fools]

that fucking romeo and juliet uquiz has me reevaluating my entire goddamn life. i have never felt stripped so bare. would "mercutio" be too pretentious a middle name? i wanted to stick with an e to keep my initials and it doesn’t exactly flow (or maybe flows too well? idk) but how else do i get across:

i'm just a silly little guy

literally just trying to have a good time

idgaf what you think of me but you better be nice to the people i love

none of this shit is my fucking fault

fuck you and also you

like. i mean. yeah that's my gender

[flodaya]

truly what has confused me most about the thr review especially and any other reviews saying tom's romeo is too sad/underwhelming in comparison to juliet and them equating that to him being a bad actor... that is quite literally the point. have these people ever read the play? that is the characterization of romeo and clearly the direction tom was given for the character from jamie. jeremy o'harris saying in that tweet tom is the most heartbroken romeo he's ever seen... romeo is a sad depressing dramatic character at his core which is why the play starts with him crying over a girl and ends with him ending it all for another girl. like it is not tom's fault he's written that way? 😭

"which is why the play starts with him crying over a girl and ends with him ending it all for another girl" literally

Romeo is the most lovesick pathetic hopeless romantic fuckboy ever created, he is a tragic character in a tragic play??? did people want Tom to swing from the balcony and speak in his Peter Parker voice?

anyway, i am excited to watch the play myself in about 2 months, but thr's criticsms does feel like a blatant misunderstanding of the text because Juliet is a naive young girl in love meanwhile Romeo is older and more mature and, yes, sad

[transmascswagpolls]

Transmasc Swag Polls- ROUND 1

Propaganda and other info under the cut.

CANONICITY LEVELS-

FRANKY: Coded/ Subtext ROMEO: Gender Tomfuckery (But he has been played by trans and nonbinary actors)

MEDIA?

One Piece, & Juliet

FRANKY PROPAGANDA-

He's canonically changed his name and rebuilt his body (cyborg) to his own standard of "romantic masculinity" (actual quote). Franky's introduction to One Piece was him being the leader of a gang of queer-coded delinquents (who all call him "big bro") because he himself has been cast out from society. He's a huge fucking cyborg. He refuses to wear pants ever, even as a child and only wears open hawaiian shirts.

[Pollrunner's Note: Robots have a very intentional masculine coding in One Piece, and Franky loves to pretend and play up that factor at every opportunity. I have gotten into vehement disagreements with people before who've said how he 'can't be trans' because we've gotten confirmation that Franky has a dick and balls. My counter-argument is that Franky is more than capable of building his own body parts if he wanted to, which we've seen with how he was able to turn his entire torso into a mini-fridge.]

ROMEO PROPAGANDA- okay so he came back from the dead and hes canonically bisexual and also he said 'it's super dope' as a genuine reaction to coming back from the dead

he's so dumb, he literally comes back to death and just says "it's super dope!" he's so in love with his girlfriend and is so sad when she's engaged to another guy, he self identified himself as a sexy young man with a tight body and a lot of feelings He came to me in a dream and told me himself

[fuckmeyer]

if smeyer wasn't a coward vamp!Bella would have immediately eaten her daughter Rensesmem whole-hog like Saturn Devouring His Son

[emotinalsupportturtle]

Who wants to get in a time machine and go tell him?

from that 2005 R&J essay by David Tennant

[bloodydeanwinchester]

he's thinking about the fact that he gets to see dean again here

[niallsdaya]

racist losers absolutely grasping at straws to try and come for a successful, beautiful black queen

[sunshine-and-misery-migrated]

i watched Dead Poets Society a few days ago and havent been the same since:( just been thinking about how Todd grieves, its the purest form i have ever seen. like at least once a day i have thought of that one scene and almost started crying. just the thought of feeling so much emotional pain, the chock, the throwing up, the nonsensical screaming and the pure p a i n he must have felt… imagine loving someone so much that the loss of them feels like the loss of yourself,..

[theghostparty]

Elle est belle, belle à mourir Belle à choisir, un jour, de mourir pour elle

I haven't made any Roméo et Juliette fanart since 2016, but I am back to remind you that Damien Sargue and Cecilia Cara still have a chokehold on my heart

[thecrowsart]

👁️🦎🎯

(crops under cut)

[farosdaughter]

MANSFIELD PARK (1999, dir. Patricia Rozema)

[frobby]

the evils of princess tutu have infected me and now when listen to classical music I'm like "oh its fakir's muscial motif"

[katiek101]

Graystripe and Silverstream are two very selfish cats and I can’t wait to explore that in my one-shot (two-shot?).

[beanghostprincess]

the directing of this scene is outstanding because despite being surrounded by darkness and crying, sanji is the one bathed in the sunlight of luffy's hopeful and loving words. his brothers are the ones laughing but they're covered in gloom and their narcissistic, evil selves. while sanji is acting in the most selfless and self-sabotaging way, wanting to go into the dark so his crew doesn't get hurt by the past he's been running away from for so long. he feels like he deserves this and luffy will not let him drown in his self-harm and the despair his family is. luffy literally is sanji's light, sun, hopes and dreams personified.

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

In England until the late sixteenth century, individual identity had been imagined not so much as the result of autonomous, personal growth in consciousness but rather as a function of social station, an individual's place in a network of social and kinship structures. Furthermore, traditional culture distinguished sharply between the nature of identity between men and women. A woman's identity was conceived almost exclusively in relation to male authority and marital status. She was less an autonomous, desiring self than any male was; she was a daughter, wife, or widow expected to be chaste, silent, and, above all, obedient. It is a profound and necessary act of historical imagination, then, to recognize innovation in the moment when Juliet impatiently invokes the coming of night and the husband she has disobediently married: "Come, gentle night; come, loving black-browed night, / Give me my Romeo" (3.2.21-23).

Recognizing that the nature of desire and identity is subject to historical change and cultural innovation can provide the basis for rereading Romeo and Juliet. Instead of an uncomplicated, if lyrically beautiful, contest between young love and "ancient grudge," the play becomes a narrative that expresses an historical conflict between old forms of identity and new modes of desire, between authority and freedom, between parental will and romantic individualism. Furthermore, though the Chorus initially sets the lovers as a pair against the background of familial hatred, the reader attentive to social detail will be struck instead by Shakespeare's care in distinguishing the circumstances between male and female lovers: "she as much in love, her means much less / To meet her new beloved anywhere" (2. Chorus 11-12, italics added). The story of "Juliet and her Romeo" may be a single narrative, but its clear internal division is drawn along the traditionally unequal lines of gender.

Because of such traditional notions of identity and gender, Elizabethan theatergoers might have recognized a paradox in the play's lyrical celebration of the beauty of awakened sexual desire in the adolescent boy and girl. By causing us to identify with Romeo and Juliet's desire for one another, the play affirms their love even while presenting it as a problem in social management. This is true not because Romeo and Juliet fall in love with forbidden or otherwise unavailable sexual partners; such is the usual state of affairs at the beginning of Shakespearian comedy, but those comedies end happily. Rather Romeo and Juliet's love is a social problem, unresolvable except by their deaths, because they dare to marry secretly in an age when legal, consummated marriage was irreversible. Secret marriage is the narrative device by which Shakespeare brings into conflict the new privilege claimed by individual desire and the traditional authority granted fathers to arrange their daughters' marriages. Secret marriage is the testing ground, in other words, of the new kind of importance being claimed by individual desire. Shakespeare's representation of the narrative outcome of this desire as tragic -- here, as later in the secret marriage that opens Othello -- may suggest something of Elizabethan society's anxiety about the social cost of romantic individualism.

gail kern paster, "romeo and juliet: a modern perspective," accompanying essay to the folger edition of romeo and juliet; emphasis mine at the parts that made me most wanna scream & shout