#evil!lear

[sentienttoast]

so I went to see a production of King Lear today and in this particular production Edmund was played by a very butch woman with dark eye shadow and uhhhh.....

[edettethegreat]

every time I see a production of king lear that has edmund being a classic mustache-twirling evil-cackling villain it's like.

no. you don't get him. you don't respect him. give my guy enough respect to not turn him into a cartoon villain. he's got so much more going on.

[aq2003]

[venacesaur]

i need to talk to whoever wrote the cliffnotes analysis of king lear. i'm still in the middle of the play but WHO IS PUBLISHING LIES ON THE CLIFFNOTES WEBSITE??

[fishofthewoods]

if i think about the parallels between king lear and whalefall for 1 more second i am going to end up on the news. in minecraft

[tchousovitina]

On the train we met a couple who mentioned having a teenage daughter named Reagan (hmmmmm) but also they mentioned that she was a lesbian and they seemed pretty supportive?

[bumpyfrog]

Shakespeare does do some good character work but sometimes he just trots a character out onstage and they’re like “hello, I am Evil” and I respect that

[withasideofshakespeare]

Cornwall is a key member of Edmund’s Polycule of Evil.

My understanding of the Polycule of Evil (it’s quite complex):

Fellow Bard enthusiasts!

I have a question: Is it common to portray Edmund and the Duke of Cornwall as having an affair, in productions of "King Lear"?

(This is in addition to Edmund's other canon affairs, of course.)

I just watched a version from the mid-80s and its version of Act III, Scene V left NO ambiguity about it.

I mean...

Cornwall on the left, Edmund in the water, on the right.

(Yes, I had to blur, um, certain 'parts of Cornwall', shall we say? Because it was all out in the open...)

[apoemaday]

Mrs. Faust

by Carol Ann Duffy

First things first -- I married Faust. We met as students, shacked up, split up, made up, hitched up, got a mortgage on a house, flourished academically, BA. MA. Ph.D. No kids. Two toweled bathrobes. Hers. His. We worked. We saved. We moved again. Fast cars. A boat with sails. A second home in Wales. The latest toys -- computers, mobile phones. Prospered. Moved again. Faust’s face was clever, greedy, slightly mad. I was as bad. I grew to love the lifestyle, not the life. He grew to love the kudos, not the wife. He went to whores. I felt, not jealousy, but chronic irritation. I went to yoga, t’ai chi, Feng Shui, therapy, colonic irrigation. And Faust would boast at dinner parties of the cost of doing deals out East. Then take his lust to Soho in a cab, to say the least, to lay the ghost, get lost, meet panthers, feast. He wanted more. I came home late one winter’s evening, hadn’t eaten. Faust was upstairs in his study, in a meeting. I smelled cigar smoke, hellish, oddly sexy, not allowed. I heard Faust and the other laugh aloud. Next thing, the world, as Faust said, spread its legs. First politics -- Safe seat. MP. Right Hon. KG. 50 Then banks -- offshore, abroad -- and business - Vice-­chairman. Chairman. Owner. Lord. Enough? Encore! Faust was Cardinal, Pope, knew more than God; flew faster than the speed of sound around the globe, lunched; walked on the moon, golfed, holed in one; lit a fat Havana on the sun. Then backed a hunch -- Invested in smart bombs, in harms, Faust dealt in arms. Faust got in deep, got out. Bought farms, cloned sheep, Faust surfed the Internet for like-­minded Bo-­Peep. As for me, I went my own sweet way, saw Rome in a day, spun gold from hay, had a facelift, had my breasts enlarged, my buttocks tightened; went to China, Thailand, Africa, returned, enlightened. Turned 40, celibate, teetotal, vegan, Buddhist, 41. Went blonde, redhead, brunette, went native, ape, berserk, bananas; went on the run, alone; went home. Faust was in. A word, he said, I spent the night being pleasured by a virtual Helen of Troy. Face that launched a thousand ships. I kissed its lips. Things is -- I’ve made a pact with Mephistopheles, the Devil’s boy. He’s on his way to take away what’s owed, reap what I sowed. For all these years of gagging for it, going for it, rolling in it, I’ve sold my soul. At this, I heard a serpent’s hiss, tasted evil, knew its smell, as scaly devil hands poked up right through the terracotta Tuscan tiles at Faust’s bare feet and dragged him, oddly smirking, there and then straight down to Hell. Oh, well. Faust’s will left everything -- the yacht, the several homes, the Lear jet, the helipad, the loot, et cet, et cet, the lot -- to me. C’est la vie. When I got ill, it hurt like hell. I bought a kidney with my credit card, then I got well. I keep Faust’s secret still -- the clever, cunning, callous bastard didn’t have a soul to sell.

[nuggetpool-hi]

Guess who watched X-Men origins again

OK SO I got THOUGHTS of this movie but specially Wade's fight style because it's really similar to our current Deadpool's fighting style... so yeah I wanna yap about that hi

WELL FIRST OF wanna talk a lil about Victor, Logan and Wade's different styles... from a mortal's view point I am no expert on this just insane about these movies and I need to write my thoughts or i'll explode

Starting with Victor!! the ultimate kittycat girlypop

I love his kitty self I'm sorry ANYWAY EXAMPLES

OKAY SO VICTOR. Victor's style is obviously very animalistic but also stylized, he makes the fight a show for himself! He likes to hunt and he tries to always give chase or play around a bit before the kill, just like a cat playing with his food!

AND IF you pay attention to the start of the movie, this game he's got with his target isn't initially how he fought, he kinda developed it as the years went by and the eviler he got the more he played with his food. The first few wars he goes to he's fighting like a human soldier, then you can see him slip up some animal jumps and uses his claws more until at the end he's full on predator chasing his prey (just like when he captures Scott, my god I love that scene he's terryfing)

AND A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HIM AND LOGAN (that I will also talk about later I guess) is that with this play thing Victor has going on it SHOWS that he THINKS about the stragety when fighting, he's aware of his surroundings and his target's strenghs and weaknesses, he's good at coming up with solutions on the spot (see his fight with John, he can predict where he's going to teleport and catch him) and how to give a good chase without losing WHILE LOGAN WELL, at least in this movie he seems very lost when fighting?? he mostly just launches at his target and attacks, if the target runs away he chases, very animalistic but in a feral-based on instincts way... prolly why he coulnt win agaisnt Victor at first, because he was being blinded by his rage while Victor was quite literally playing with him lmao

ANYWAY LOGAN our favorite traumatized babygirl

and boy does he suffer in this one aughh EXAMPLES

Now you must be wondering why did I put the bathroom scene, well I feel like it represents Logan's general situation pretty well! (and its silly let me be), hes confused destroying everything and just keeps making it worse every time he tries to fix it.

The thing about Logan in this movie is that he's honestly just- confused and angry from the moment he killed his father, he runs away over and over again from EVERYTHING and he's constantly being manipulated BY EVERYONE!! Poor man has no idea what to do with himself of who he can actually trust but damn he tries, his enviroment is contantly changing and he's trying his best to adapt but he does it in a messy way.

The way he fights and acts in general is animalistic, yes, but more of the "scared dog attacks" kind of way, he's always acting on his instinct that it's mostly led by anger. When he fights he just throws himself and tries to slash whatever he can, he runs he hides and then when he gets the chance to he attacks again.

He constantly has little to no control of the situtation WHICH IS SPECIALLY SEEN pre-adamantium where he keeps losing to Victor because unlike him- he has no plan, he's being manipulated and kept blind of everything ON PURPOUSE which obviouly puts him in a disadvantage so yeah.

AFTER he gets the adamantium you can see his skills strengen with his knowledge, the more he lears about his situation the more focused he is and his fighting it's cleaner, he still moslty just launches himself head first into fights BUT he's not running away, he's able to evaluate his situation and adapt (See his fight with Gambit, he looks at him when running away and then destroys the stair so Gambit can't run away OR with Deadpool where he decides to gain height as a way to create the space needed to evaluate his enemy?? that one might be a lil bit of a stretch tho)

WADE WILSON THE ULTIMATE CUTIE PRINCESS

let's ignore how dirty they did him ok...

OKAY SO SADLY- The bullet scene is pretty much the only scene where we see him fight and it's honestly not enough to tell how his normal style is BUT I WILL SAY his general style is fancy to look at and scarily effective (which is mostly seen with our current Wade but you can see a bit in origins deadpool) he makes a show for everyone to see, which is also his stragedy to make himself even better at combat! He uses a lot of fancy movements and acrobatics that help him AND takes his enemies off-guard, confusing them as where they should attack or what he's going to hit?? anyway-

Comparison time yippieee THIS IS WHAT THIS POST IS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT LMAO

I did not get side tracked idk what you mean.... and now seeing it over and over I'm realizing not that noticeable.... so it's just not that much to talk about oops

LOOK AT THIS WADE, LOOK AT THE MOVEMENTS HE DOES WITH HIS LEGS!! HIS HANDS??? THIS MAN IS SHOWING OFF he's using all kinds of acrobatics and fancy movements while fighting, he attacks with his hands and dodges using mostly his legs, he's using all he has!! and it's making Logan lose BECAUSE LOGAN CAN'T FOCUS!! specially since he's so "target locked will attack", Wade makes it SO HARD for him to focus on a pose long enough to actually stab him also Logan ain't too good at dodging, I'm guessing it could be because he heals? dunno

now what inmediately came to my mind upon rewatch was THIS scene (maybe because I saw it recently who knows)

THE SETTING IS SO SIMILAR!! Wade is using a lot of fancy movements to get up, dodge and attack all way too fast for Logan to process, once again Logan is looking everywhere confused about where to aim bc this silly red guy it's dancing on his face and he's struggling to keep up JUST LIKE IN ORIGINS except well he IS able to get a hit bahah

Dodges like crazy, jumps over Logan (he did in origins too) just moves a lot between every attack

Actually now that I think about it Wade feels a bit less effective in the car, like yes sure he's putting up a good fight but Logan still feels like he's leading it BECAUSE WADE IS MORE EFFECTIVE WHEN HE HAS MORE SPACE!! he likes to be able to move around and do gimnastics while Logan it's a lot better the closer he gets to his target so omg yeah... ALSO LIKE WADE STILL TRIES TO MOVE AROUND he shoves Logan away from him, he gets out of the car choking logan with a seatbelt and gets to the back, he tries to create space because that's where his speciality WHILE LOGAN keeps trying to get closer to have him in his power, which he gets to do since the car isn't allowing Wade to move as freely as he would want to...

AND YOU CAN SEE HIS FANCY MOVEMENTS WITH FRANCIS TOO he's constantly circuling him, dodging and spinning while Francis is just trying to get a hit, Wade keeps his enemies chasing him when he fight THAT'S the way he controls it and gets it wherever he wants aughh

ANYWAY YEAH I think that's it, don't really know how much sense any of this does since I've been writing it on-and off the whole day lmao it's so messy but yeah feel free to add onto it I'd love to see opinions on this wahoo

Might keep talking about stuff I find interesting in the movies bahah this has been funn

[edettethegreat]

king lear is just an extended psa for why reading other peoples' mail is a felony

[charliedawn]

Hi Charlie! I love your work, but I was wondering, what about something about Bowers gang from IT and a reader? (Sorry for mistakes, English is not my first language)

Henry Bowers

The first time you met Henry, you thought he was just a terrible bully who just liked to inflict pain. But with time, you learnt to differentiate true evil from scared evil. Henry was scared and because being a bully gave him that sense of power he thought he needed—he kept being violent.

Henry grew up in a highly abusive household. His father, Butch Bowers, was a violent racist who subjected Henry to severe physical and emotional abuse. This trauma warped Henry into a sadistic bully who takes his frustrations out on others.

His bullying of the Losers' Club was fueled by hatred and a desire for control.

Therefore, you decided to confront him about it. You were brave and knew that if you wanted to help him, you needed to be gentle and patient—very patient. So, you kept trying to talk to him. At first, he mocked you and pretended he wasn’t interested in anything you had to say…

But little by little, he realised that you truly wanted to help him. One day as his father had hit him a little too hard, he came crawling out of his house and decided to call you…

You didn’t even hesitate before running to get him—knowing that he needed help and that he had called you first for a reason.

You found him and helped him up before inviting him into your house. True, he was dangerous and could sometimes borderline on psycho behaviour…but you recalled how desperate he was on the phone and decided that this was for the best. You patched him up and when he woke up—he firstly panicked before realising what you had done for him…

Since that day, Henry seemed a little less inclined on trying to bully the Losers, or spending time with the gang and spent more time observing you…He noticed that you liked flowers, cookies and ice cream…

So, he decided to pay you back for your kindness by buying (stealing) you all three of them. After that, you became quite good friends and for some reason…Pennywise’s voice seemed to dull at the back of his head before disappearing completely.

He had another voice of reason now.

And turns out ? It felt pretty good…

Vic Criss

Vic was the most reluctant member of the gang when it came to bullying and it showed. He often went along with Henry’s plans but often showed signs of unease when things escalated too far.

He tried to stop the gang a few times from going too far, but nothing could stop Henry or Patrick when they decided they wanted someone to suffer…He told you that. He always wanted to stop, to stop being so bad and violent but…he couldn’t.

He was scared of Henry and of being alone.

He knew he wouldn’t survive on his own.

One day, he cried because of it and that’s when he met you. You didn’t judge him and only wordlessly sat down next to him—offering him company…You offered him your hand. He took it.

You knew he was always more quiet and reluctant than the others. You could feel it. So one day, you decided to take him away from the gang to talk to him. You took his hand and ignored the rest of the gang who threw insults at you and once you were alone with him, you turned around and said that if he wanted someone to watch his back…then you were there.

You told him he didn’t need them or to be scared of them. He was strong—stronger than he gave himself credit for…

He refused—of course.

But the next time you found yourself in trouble with the gang and Patrick almost hurt you, that was when Vic snapped and punched him in the face before you both ran away from the rest of the gang. Once you were far enough, he asked what you were going to do next…

And then, you told him with a large grin that you had bought two tickets out of Derry—if he was interested.

Vic grinned and hugged you tightly…

Belch Huggins

Belch is a follower and acts as the gang’s enforcer, providing physical intimidation when needed. But deep down ? He is a sweet kid. He just learnt how to…turn it off because it usually ended up with him being hurt.

He was a lonely kid in middle school until he met Henry. Henry gave him a purpose, he made him think he was useful—but just as a mindless follower with big arms. So he followed and punched whoever Henry said. He was loyal to him because he felt he owed it to him.

…Until Henry asked him to punch YOU.

He had never told anyone, but he had a soft spot for you. You had grown up together. Your parents were basically friends and you were neighbours.

He hesitated as Henry shouted at him to punch you, hurt you, turn your face to mush. He was holding you by the collar—his fist raised in the air…but he felt tears in his eyes.

He couldn’t. He couldn’t hurt you.

He released you and you tried to run away, but Henry suddenly lunged at you. He tried to hurt you and before you knew it, Belch was throwing him off you. He then shouted at you to run, and you did. He held Bowers back as long as he could until Patrick and Vic got him off and Henry started beating Belch up—quickly followed by Patrick.

Belch was in pain and suddenly, there was a loud honk. They all looked up to find you inside your car…ready to charge. Henry, Patrick and Vic quickly got out of the way and you stopped just next to Belch before opening the door.

"Get in !"

He didn’t need to be told twice and jumped inside before you started the car again. You then drove away and once you were far enough, Belch relaxed.

"Thanks…"

You smiled.

"No problem…"

Patrick Hockstetter

Patrick was a true monster. There was nothing kind or particularly positive about him. He took pleasure in tormenting others…He was detached from reality and viewed himself as superior to everyone else, showing clear signs of sociopathy. He drowned kittens and killed his own little brother !

You called child services.

He would thank you later…once a little better and not surrounded by so much violence.

You would visit regularly though, to check on him and give him news from Derry and the gang.

[storkmuffin]

Liveblogging the SanHwa Lego Build (Part 2)

You can find PART 1 HERE

requested by @jess-the-mess2513

We pick up where our Iago - no, I guess not Iago because Iago wasn't hot - who???- uhh Edmund, bastard son of Gloucester (who by the way was my first literary crush so apparently my sexual tastes have not evolved since I was an incredibly perverse 13 year old) i.e. YUNHO has taken off with glee with some critical little piece of San's Lego in his pocket.

(TLDR in case you don't want to google Shakespeare's King Lear: Edmund is the bastard son of the Earl of Gloucester who takes revenge on his father who never sees him by getting someone else to gouge out his dad's eyes, forces his properly-born older brother into a life as a beggar by creating strife between his father and brother, because he's so mad about being treated badly as a bastard though never by Edgar, fucks both Regan and Goneril, sisters of (the frankly, deeply stupid) Cordelia and daughters of King Lear who are for a time the joint queens of the nation and both married to compatible husbands because he's just that devious and hot... OK So basically he's Evil Yunho. Ummmm. Excuse me. I have to go kick something.)

Even without Edmund/Yunho's assistance, Seonghwa continues to make the strange mouth noises as he clips the Lego pieces together.

This breaks San's neck.

Seonghwa WILL NOT LET UP. He keeps going "chiki- chaka" in this horrible falsetto.

"Are you doing it too?" he asks San.

San is just the sweetest sweetheart to ever have a sweet heart, because he says, "Yes," which is a lie, and then adds in a tiny little voice, "in my mind."

Seonghwa is absolutely undeterred and he's a FUCKING PERVERT AND ALL YOU SEONGHWA STANS STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM MEEEEEEE because he goes

CHIKI CHAKA again.

San is about to cry. "Do you have to do that??" But he's smiling through it, trying to hold on.

"Yes. Chaka," Seonghwa says.

San asks if there some sort of song or something that goes with the phrase, and Seonghwa says he doesn't actually have any idea what it stands for. Which means he's doing it exactly for the reasons I thought: Hwa intuited what would be horrible for San, and it worked, so he doesn't want to stop.

San, who loves music, wants to get out of this cringe hell that Hwa keeps dragging him into. Seonghwa also loves music so for a minute he sings a snippet of a song. San, relieved, asks about what songs are permitted in a Youtube broadcast. "You can sing or use a song, but you won't be allowed to distribute it on youtube at the point of upload."

Hwa says, wisely, "When in doubt, it's better to refrain."

San agrees, but is sad about reality. "If we can't use music, I don't get to create the mood I want."

"What's the mood you want?" Hwa asks. "Chiki?"

"THAT'S NOT THE MOOD I WANT," San says. I'm putting it in all caps but he's not shouting. He's just really definite.

"Something slightly... like Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence? Something nice to listen to when you're reading." San says this and then tells someone to not laugh. "Don't laugh at me. Mister Christmas, Mister Lawrence, is a piano song that's great to listen to when you're reading. I recommend it."

"You read?" Hwa asks.

San affirms.

"I can recommend something too," Hwa says, and he looks at San with the leer of a sexual deviant. San is worried.

Seonghwa starts bing bonging a song at him. I don't know it, but San does. It's apparently the theme song to a video game. (Animal Forest?) San chides Hwa for playing that game too much.

Chiki.... Hwa says. San tries to accommodate him and says Chikichakchoco etc.

San addresses the audience and recommends that we look up the song he mentioned. He says it's really lovely, and sets a mood. He always wants to help an Atiny out, does San. He's wonderful. A little bit later he wishes that it was possible to hold a lottery or something and gift these Lego finished items to the Atiny. Seonghwa of course does not give a shit what happens to the Atiny vis a vis Legos since we can't sit in a room and make it with him. I mean, I'm sure there are Seonghwa ults who are all into this as much as he is, but the point is that the person making the lego with Seonghwa has to kind of hate Legos and be forced into it and an Atiny who is excited about making Legos with Seonghwa wouldn't be fun for him. So instead of agreeing with San's very sweet suggestion, Seonghwa makes a terrible pun (여건 - yeo-gun is circumstance, 여권- yeo-gwun is passport) that San roundly ignores.

Seonghwa goes back to Chiki-Chaka-ing.

I want to throttle him through the screen.

"Are you doing a good job? " Seonghwa asks.

"Yes," San says again. Seonghwa is getting off on this but San doesn't know why.

"Yes," San answers in his little boy pout.

"Are you? Doing a good job?" Seonghwa repeats, looking crazed.

And we come to the crisis point.

San can't find the piece. Because FUCKING EDMUND BASTARD SON OF GLOUCESTER TOOK THE EYES.

I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD I AM LIVEBLOGGING THIS

I WROTE THE BIT ABOUT EDMUND BASTARD SON OF GLOUCESTER TAKING OUT HIS FATHER'S EYES 10 MINUTES OF CONTENT AGO AND IT TURNS OUT YUNHO TOOK THE FUCKING EYESSSSSSSSS

I'm so scared you guys. What the fuck. What in the actual fuck.

Ok back to the show.

omg my hands are shaking.

Ok so Seonghwa takes this missing Lego piece business very seriously. He stops Chiki-Chaka-ing. His whole demeanor changes. He starts looking for it, then looking through the manual, then examining the piece that San has mostly constructed to seek out user error. San, so tired of this he's just laughing constantly, asks the audience for help, but he doesn't stop to read the messages, which I'm sure are full of people screaming YUNHOO YUUUNHOOO

San checks the floor (there are no fallen pieces of course) and Seonghwa is doubting the whole of his existence because the manual is saying something from the number of pieces available on the table.

San has the thought first.

"Did Yunho take... it?"

"Ahh," Seonghwa says. Seongwha is laughing and relieved because his faith in Legos is restored, but San is stressed at having been the butt of this prank.

"I'm going to lose my mind," San says, before saying, "I'll go get it from him."

In response, Seonghwa says, CHICKI. Because of course he does.

Off screen, we can hear San telephone Yunho, who starts cackling loudly enough to be overheard. "I know you took the Lego piece! I was trying to give the creature eyes and the eyes aren't here! Come down right now!" Yunho says stuff. "You're-- you're washing yourself??" San says. He says something I don't understand but it's along the lines of, "You set this up - with taking the eyes? Making me search for them?" Then he says he's going to put Yunho on speaker phone. He's so mad he's stuttering. "You're- Psh! Are you drunk"

Now, speakerphone is on.

"Where are you?" San wails.

"I'm in my room. Where else would I be?" Yunho says. His voice is low and growly and hard and this is not the Boy Geisha Fan Service tone he uses on his own ToqTok Pop Live. This must be how he actually talks to the people in his real life.

"You! Give me back the thing you tooooo~~~k!!" San wails.

While San is fighting for his life with an eyeball abducting terrorist, Seonghwa has finished his Lego and he's so pleased. He had company while he was making his Lego piece, which is his thing.

Yunho threatens San and I understand what he must have been saying before: "If you want Yoda's Eyes, Use Toss!" he says. Toss is the app that you can use to send people money. He's holding the eyeballs hostage, basically. Because he's Edmund, Bastard Son of Gloucester.

"You have no morals!" San says. (Accurate). "I'm going over there right now if you don't come here!"

"I'm not in a state where you can go to that room, over," Yunho says.

"Why?" asks the innocent San. "What are you up to?"

He's probably buck naked, San, angel baby.

Seonghwa is completely in manic mode, showing us Darth Vadar, Lego Chibi Version, going "I Am Yor Fadda" in between wa-ching!! noises. He is resolutely not helping San with this Yunho eyeball hostage terrorism situation, because the longer Yunho drags this out for him, the more he can get his rocks off.

SOMEONE SAVE SAN, PLEASE!!

San accepts whatever it is that Yunho gave as the answer, which I can't hear because Seonghwa is making Star Wars noises. This has to be another perversity he's exhibiting. He has to know there are Hottok in here, who want to hear what State Yunho Is In, but this is not part of is Lego Queer Dungeon Dom good times, so he won't let us hear it.

Still very much off screen, San resignedly says that he'll go over to where Yunho is. Yunho lets out a Mwa-ha-ha of a cartoon supervillain, and says, "Use the force to come to me."

"I'm hanging up now!" San retorts.

San comes back on screen. Look at what the two perverts did to the sweet angel boy. This is the most pained smile ever to grace so handsome a visage.

"You sit here and make it," Seonghwa instructs him. "I'll go."

"You make it," San says, "and I'll go."

"Just make some other part," Hwa begins, but San is on his feet.

"No! I am going to go get this friend's eyes back myself. This is a matter of pride."

"You're a man who knows how to use his words well," Hwa says.

Because this is another aspect of this fucking Lego Kink that Seonghwa has. Someone playing a quasi-military roleplay with him, while handling Legos. He's so into this.

"I will find this friend's stolen eyes!" San declares.

"May the force be with you," Seonghwa replies.

I'm . Just going to .

Swallow my Own tongue.

And Imma.

Fucking DIE.

"While he does that and before I make the Obiwan Kenobi, I will chat with you," Seonghwa says. He starts reading the messages, which as I suspected are all about YUNHO TOOK THE LEGO PIECE. Seonghwa says he hasn't watched Mandelorian yet because he's watching a Korean drama called 환혼. Very leisurely, very pleased, Seonghwa goes to get Pringles and some other sort of cookie for snack time. While eating, he reads out simple English comments that are complimentary about his Legos.

San has returned with the eyeballs.

He reports that Yunho took both eyeballs. To this, Seonghwa answers, "Want to see something funny?"

San wants to hit him again.

Seonghwa goes off camera to wipe his hands, and returns to offer San an apple, which San refuses. Seonghwa reports that as soon as San left the screen everyone was wild for him to return.

"Yunho was so cute," San relays. "He got bright red, and explained, I was only going to take one but then I saw there was a spare one, so I took the other one. So he showed me both that he'd taken and just looked so happy." Seonghwa isn't making Legos right this moment, so San asks if he's waiting to keep pace with San. Seonghwa says No, he's just communicating with the fans.

Someone asks how they like Denmark, and they both say they like it. It's really peaceful. Lots of bicycles. Sans says it's been so long since he's been on a bike, and Hwa asks if he didn't used to go riding a lot with Wooyoung. San tells the story of how they rode bikes from Seoul all the way to Chuncheon for chicken ribs and back again. Seonghwa is impressed.

"San, don't be stressed," someone says to San on the chat, with Seonghwa reads.

"I'm in a very good mood right now," San says.

"Why?" Seonghwa says. And immediately attacks him with Chiki-Chaka.

"I feel like I'm achieving piece of mind," San says.

"The sense of achievement you feel when you complete-" Seonghwa begins, and San reaches that achievement in real time and goes OOOHHH!

Seonghwa urges Sannie to give baby Yoda the ears. San reaches that point and says, Oh It's cute.

For some reason, though he is done, there are bits left over. The Baby Yoda fits in the Egg Pram or whatever that is, and Seonghwa makes San show it off to the audience.

Seonghwa flips the ears on the Baby Yoda to make him sad. San tries to get into it, but he's so worn out.

"How do you like the world of Legos?" Seonghwa asks.

"It's so great that you held on to your childlike sense of wonder," San says. San is just so, so nice. I want to keep him in my mouth for protection. San even says that they should make the next one.

They go about pouring out bags of pieces again. San is going to make Obiwan, San the Mandalorian.

.... Which means we're only halfway through this and there's ANOTHER HOUR TO GO.

Do I have the strength to go on??

[lauralot89]

Notable annotations for May 16:

Jonathan makes two Shakespeare references in quick succession: there is the frequently remarked-on Hamlet misquote, but in the same paragraph he also paraphrases the "that way madness lies" bit from King Lear.

So on the night of May 15, Jonathan wrote in his diary in the neglected area of the castle. Was he carrying an inkwell with him? Did the vampire ladies have an inkwell?

The fair vampire is the only one without red eyes (the vampire in graveyard later on is not referred to with red eyes specifically, but the eyes are called blazing and full of hell-fire).

When Jonathan mentions water-glasses, he may have literally meant glasses filled with various levels of water and then played by running a finger along the rim, or he may have meant the glass armonica.

What language are the ladies speaking? English or German? (My personal theory is that when Dracula started to learn English they made it their goal to learn it better and faster out of spite)

The fair vampire's breath is described as mostly sweet but faintly bitter, which is very different from Dracula's.

In Fred Saberhagen's The Dracula Tape, a retelling of Dracula from the Count's POV, Dracula claims that there is not a child in the bag, but a small pig. (I myself am currently reading The Dracula Tape and would add that Dracula further makes clear he didn't steal the pig; it was given to him by a peasant woman who wanted Dracula to do some evil to a romantic rival of her's in return. Of course, this raises the question: If Dracula and his family eat animals, and Dracula keeps horses, why doesn't he raise pigs himself?)

There's a funny bit where the annotator suggests that the "horror" Jonathan refers to is the possibility of something gay happening between himself and Dracula, as opposed to, you know, the part where the ladies jumped on a baby (presumably) and disappeared. I think this annotation just exists to give space to talk about Victorian views of and laws regarding homosexuality.

[chamerionwrites]

Okay you KNOW I have complaints (Gilroy treat the women of color right challenge: impossible), but some notes-scribbled-on-back-of-hand favorite things about the final arc of S2:

Cassian and Melshi and Kay playing space poker and giving each other shit and giggling tipsily, 15/10 no notes

Luthen "The ego that started this fight will never have a mirror or an audience or gratitude" Rael's first response when he knows he's caught: "Do you want to know why?" Dedra (and by extension the ISB) does not in fact give a single fuck. The authorial restraint exhibited in writing him a meaningful sendoff but NOT allowing him the what-radicalized-me speech that all evidence suggests he's got in his back pocket. Immaculate characterization, A+ literally killing your darling, A+ not letting your fave run away with the narrative when it's time for the narrative to run away with him.

Relatedly, the smug little arrest theatrics Dedra has clearly been rehearsing and fantasizing about. They both want a main character monologue sooooo bad. Made for each other (evil version) tbh

God help me but I do love a can't-rescue-the-captured-spy-but-can-make-their-death-as-peaceful-as-possible plot point, that whole hospital sequence is so tense and good

KLEYA MY BELOVED

Top secret Death Star program not immune to CC-ing the wrong person over space email (gritty realism)

@ my past self tweaking Luthen for his theatrics and referring to that sacrifices speech as "his best space king lear audition:" how does it feel to have the gift of prophecy?

Luthen teaching Kleya that cool spies don't look at explosions (before they go off) was a great little spy-story tradecraft bit

Krennic remains an all-time great space fascist for me and Ben Mendelsohn remains a scene-stealer. The way he grabs Dedra by the FACE and shoves her back down into her seat was crazy work

Partagaz also launched himself straight to the top of the villains list. Love that* for him [*fucking around and finding out]

Honestly imo one of the most consistently strong bits of S2 - both in terms of political commentary, and of thematic continuity with Rogue One - is mercilessly drilling down on all the ways the system eats its own. All these guys (& Dedra) think that empire is their pet leopard, that it follows their commands and gives them power. But it was always only ever Palpatine's pet leopard (and it still eats his face in the end!)

I've been having lot of feelings about getting to see Yavin as a physical space where people live and eat and sleep. Even if I do find Cassian's house a bit silly (sorry it looks like a real estate brochure for some kind of treehouse meditation retreat)

Fraught Mon & Saw holocalls are exactly what I ordered from Star Wars I would watch a whole season about that

Draven looking Bail Organa straight in the eye with zero shame and the galaxy's most blandly noncommittal "You could make that case" running cover for the guys he's also completely furious with: there he is! The bastard man I know and love! (Completely hapless at controlling his operatives #notmydraven but this was good. And lowkey hilarious)

I did also enjoy his increasingly quiet & pensive face as he catches the scent of good intelligence while everybody else squabbles

Raddus sighted! Merrick mentioned! This is blatant Rogue One fan pandering but I fear I am not immune

Vel being asked to suss Cassian's story out and just. asking him

Kleya my beloved (Part II)

MY BOY WILMON LIVED

[ladymacbeths]

macbeth related posts/articles/essays masterlist

hi! here's a list of almost every single anaysis Thing I've come across in like two months of being insane about the scottish play. Most are about lady macbeth/the gender theme btw.

‘He has no children’: The centring of grief in The Show Must Go Online’s Macbeth - Gemma Allred: on the misogyny that frequently surrounds conversations around Lady Macbeth

this post by @amillionmillionvoices: Same topic as the previous one, but goes more in depth, explains ladymac’s motivations as mostly coming from love not self-serving ambition.

this post by @dukeofbookingham: also explains the prior point very prettily— that ladymac is (mostly) motivated by love, but also makes the case that many of it is guilt born from not fulfilling societal expectations

On the character of Lady Macbeth - Dr. Emil Pfundheler: paper that explains the same point made in the previous post, using the text to explain. Written in 1873 so explains gender as a dichotomy, but once you take that out, its points are very good.

Characteristics of women: moral, political, and historical - Anna Jameson: aka Why Lady Macbeth is not inherently evil— same topic and the other two, but focuses a bit on the fact that she is A Woman. Not my favorite, but worth reading I suppose. Also includes analyses of many female Shakespeare characters. It does include some very bad history in the beginning— Gruoch did not orchestrate Duncan’s murder. That’s something Hector Boece made up.

Lady Macbeth: “Infirm of purpose” (from The Woman’s Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare) - Joan Larsen Klein: on how she both fits and doesn’t fit the idea of a reinassance wife— doesn’t fit because she isn’t aligned to god (this read more like a Christian analysis than a feminist one if I’m being honest), but fits them because she behaves like one, only subverts them because she’s like, the evil murder girl version of the Wife. The essay right after this one is also very good.

The Hysteria of Lady Macbeth: required reading if you wanna play her Btw not kidding. Analyzes her character thru the lens of freudian psychology. Screws up the text of the play a bit but provides an actual in-depth explanation of how sonnambulism works. Note that "hysteria" is not a current psychological diagnosis, but a symptom of other conditions. Still extremely interesting.

The Macbeths - G. K. Chesterton: analysis of their relationship, makes some interesting point on the differences of the nature of their ambition and desire to kill the king

Shakespeare’s tragic frontier; the world of his final tragedies - Willard Farnham: this one is long but oh boy does it go deep. Talks about the lore of the witches, explains historical context to find out how the real events were so screwed up, makes an interesting point about Macbeth’s conscience against Lady Macbeth’s, and lastly talks about the tragic world of Macbeth compared to other tragedies.

Women’s fantasy of manhood: a Shakespearean theme - D. W. Harding: exactly what it says on the tin, using ladymac and her skewed (and I’d call romanticized) idea of what a man is that she pushes on Macbeth. So yeah, talks about the gender theme. Also talks about Goneril from Lear, Cleopatra, and Volumnia from Coriolanus and how they fit the theme— although ladymac is the only one who goes downhill from it.

Unnatural women in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth - Elizabeth Klett: I’ll be honest I didn’t love this one a lot. Basically talks about how every woman in Macbeth defies gender roles. Doesn’t go too deep however. But the book has a ton of essays analyzing female characters in classic lit.