#claudio

[tidalpooles]

Siblings and a Park Ranger, Pinosverdes

Their ranch property borders the national park, so they would interact often. Also maybe where the tomato is from.

[perrylemon]

This one’s for the Robert Sean Leonard Girlies! For the past few months I have consumed every crumb of Robert Sean Leonard content I could get my hands on and I have put it all in this quiz! It’s a pretty long one lads as there are over 20 characters in this quiz but I hope you enjoy!!

Additionally inspired by https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJKoqGw8/

[janeeyreofmanderley]

(This required the use of the so called scumbag hat)

[bethanydelleman]

As I search the Much Ado About Nothing tag, I'm seeing a lot of She's everything (Beatrice) and he's just Ken (Benedick).

But you know what, Benedick steps up. He believes Hero, he challenges Claudio, he delivers one of the sexiest lines of a Shakespearean hero...

They're everything (Beatrice & Benedick) and he's just an ass (Claudio).

[viejospellejos]

Este vídeo me tiene llorando:

“¿Cómo a fondo, Claudioooo?”

[cowboylexapro]

thing taken from @pineapple-coffee

[insearchofblueroses]

i love how in much ado about nothing don pedro and claudio decide to make benedick fall in love with beatrice because they are bored and think it will be hilarious to see benedick being romantic BUT THEN this benedick in love decides to freaking duel claudio out of his love for beatrice and the entire plan backfires

[shots-of-wilson-and-whiskey]

RSL in much ado about nothing

i can't tell if i want him or if i want to be him

[princesssarisa]

I've been thinking of the idea that Jane Austen might have been partly inspired to create Elizabeth and Darcy in Pride and Prejudice by Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing.

@anghraine has posted repeatedly about how P&P can almost be read as a then-modernized retelling of Much Ado, like Clueless is to Emma. Not only because of the Beatrice and Benedick/Elizabeth and Darcy parallels, but other details and character parallels too.

If Austen really was inspired by Shakespeare in this case, then I think she deserves praise for one thing that isn't often mentioned: that in writing her Beatrice and Benedick-like couple, she also wrote counterparts of Hero and Claudio, but she handled them in a way that's much less... divisive (to put it nicely) than the always-difficult Hero/Claudio storyline. Namely by dividing Hero and Claudio's role in the plot between two couples: Jane/Bingley and Lydia/Wickham.

The parallel between Jane and Hero is more obvious, since Jane is Elizabeth's sweet, innocent, most beloved family member just like Hero is to Beatrice, and since like Hero, she temporarily loses the man she loves because he's led to misunderstand her, which makes Elizabeth, like Beatrice, beside herself with rage. (If she could, Elizabeth probably would eat Darcy's heart in the marketplace after she learns he convinced Bingley to leave.) But instead of being melodramatically tricked into thinking Jane is sleeping with another man, Bingley is only led to think she likes him as a casual acquaintance but no more, and instead of taking her to the altar only to publicly shame and reject her (which would be a ridiculous thing to do for the mere "crime" of not feeling romantic love), he just quietly leaves the neighborhood without proposing or confessing his love to her, and without realizing the pain it causes her. This makes it much easier to root for Bingley to reunite with Jane and finally marry her than it is to feel the same way about Claudio.

But of course Hero's public shaming does more than break her heart: it also threatens to ruin her reputation forever, and her family's too. Austen also places her heroine's family in this type of danger, and just like Shakespeare did with Benedick, she has Darcy's efforts to set things right be the final stroke that brings the two formerly-battling love interests together as a couple. But thankfully, instead of tainting Jane and Bingley's sweet little romance by having them be the source of the near-disgrace, she has Lydia run off with Wickham. Effectively, her solution is "What if Beatrice and Hero had another young female relative, and instead of tricking Claudio, Don John straight-up seduced the third girl and that was the cause of the family's shame?" And instead of challenging Wickham to a duel, a la Benedick with Claudio, Darcy simply pays him off to marry Lydia: a choice that's telling about the difference in time, place, and genre between Austen's realistic, satirical portrayal of Georgian England and Shakespeare's portrayal of Renaissance Italy. (Austen furthers this point when Mrs. Bennet convinces herself that Mr. Bennet will duel with Wickham over Lydia's honor and panics at the thought, only to seem disappointed when he doesn't.)

I don't know if Austen consciously drew inspiration from Much Ado when she wrote Pride and Prejudice or not, but if she did, she made some clever character changes that suit the differences between a slice-of-life Georgian novel and a Shakespearean stage comedy.

[autistme]

[zavattar]

Claudio Serafino doodle

[scarecr0w108]

Some more Claudio because of reasons

@thepiguy1

[bethanydelleman]

Shakespeare 🤝 Jane Austen

Believing genuine love and happiness produce silence, not eloquence.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange.

- Claudio, Much Ado About Nothing

“I cannot make speeches, Emma:” he soon resumed; and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing.—“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

- Mr. Knightley, Emma

Had she ever given way to bursts of delight, it must have been then, for she was delighted, but her happiness was of a quiet, deep, heart-swelling sort; and though never a great talker, she was always more inclined to silence when feeling most strongly... but still there were emotions of tenderness that could not be clothed in words.

-Fanny Price, Mansfield Park

[belpheg0r-luna]

I just wanted to watch benedick and beatrice having fun, bickering and being in love!!!! Why must it come with me crying over what happened to Hero and Margaret and the tragedy of the whole play?!???

[imaginative-tekken]

What about everyone’s favorite type of snacks?

hmmm. snacks huh...

Anna - salted popcorn

Asuka - salt & vinegar chips

Baek - jerky

Bruce - nachos

Bryan - apple pie

Christie - oreos

Claudio - pretzels

Dr. B - raspberry mousse

Eddy - mint chocolates

Lili - napoleon pastry

Feng - roasted almonds

Forest - churros

Ganryu - cupcakes

Heihachi - snickers

Hwoarang - hot cheetos

Jin - ice cream sundae

Josie - chocolate chip cookies

Julia - veggies and dip

Jun - strawberry ice cream

Katarina - beijinhos

Kazumi - stir-fried anchovy banchan

Kazuya - chili cheese puffs

King - lemon meringue tarts

Kuma - i wanna go typical bear stuff and say (smoked) salmon

Lars - polkagrisar

Lee - chocolate dipped strawberries

Lei - i wanna say noodles, but idk if that counts as a snack so... fruity hard candies

Leo - gingerbread cookies

Ling - soft caramel

Lucky Chloe - lollipops

Marshall - donuts

Master Raven - bundt cake

Michelle - candy apples

Miharu - salty fudge

Nina - punsch-roll 

Panda - rhubarb

Paul - baconchips

Raven - twinkies

Robert - ranch doritos

Sergei - stuffed buns

Shaheen - zaatar croissant

Steve - cinnamon rolls

Zafina - peanut butter cups