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Once Taox’s ships leave through the wormhole in desperate pursuit of Auryx’s frigate, there isn’t much left of the Osmium Court. A few fires still hold up, weak flames licking the walls of tall, hollowed-out buildings, but most have already been extinguished by rainfall, leaving behind only billows of smoke, rank and choking in the damp air. Hardly a soul can be seen sneaking through the streets—whoever remained stays tucked under the roof of their still-standing house or is camping in the palace's great hall, trembling shapes huddling close and looking up to the ceiling, as if they could see the moons despite the several layers of stone and metal.
The courtiers are mostly dead or gone, but there is still a small gathering in the ruined throne room, lingering between the tactical map and a column all smouldered and cracked from a blast of strange green fire. They, too, huddle close; the diplomatic distance bridged in the face of death, hands curl around hands and heads lean on trembling shoulders. Royal-blue robes, dirty and in tatters, flutter in the draught whistling through bullet holes peppering the walls.
The rumbling of the approaching wave can be heard from the harbour now.
“Do you think the Monoliths are still standing?” The High Admiral asks, his arm arched around the Minister of Seaware who shakes and sniffles.
The Court Deputy Engineer eyes the tactical map—a burnt piece of parchment, now, granite pawns all tipped and strewn across the floor. “Star-Surgery is first,” she says, “and their engines will combust should water get into them. I haven’t heard any explosions yet.”
“You expect to hear anything over this damned squall?” The Sejm’s Highmost Speaker sneers at her from under a half-tipped pillar. She is still holding her buława, squeezing it like a lifeline against her bandaged chest.
The Second Crown Judge wedges a claw between two halves of a clam he found washed in by the tide, takes a bite, and offers the rest to the Deputy Engineer.
“It’s not that far,” he reminds, leaving it unspoken that the troubled sea could have very well pushed the Star-Surgery hundreds of danas away.
“What difference does it make if we hear it or not?” the Highmost Speaker grumbles, “It’s not like we can do anything about it either way.”
“Well, I myself prefer to know what’s coming my way before it does.”
The Minister of Seaware breaks into another wave of ragged sobs.
“I don’t want to die!” Her voice echoes in the chamber, earning her a number glances of glances from those huddled under other walls, some frightened and some expressing only weary annoyance.
“Hush,” the Second Crown Judge fishes out another clam from the deep pockets of his robe and pushes it into her hands, “have a snack.”
“I don’t want a snack! I w-want to go home!”
“Great Leviathan in the deep, is the last thing I’ll ever hear really gonna be your wailing?” Someone from a distant corner calls. The Minister only starts crying louder.
“If the wind hasn’t picked up, we could approximate the distance,” the High Admiral says over her sobs, “after the explosion, I mean.”
“Suit yourself. It could’ve very well gone off hours ago and we didn’t hear it.” The Highmost Speaker huffs, and reaches to pry the clam from the Minister’s claws without much resistance. “Give me that, if you’re not eating it. I’m hungry.”
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At First, Slowly
Corobel starts turn 14 with 17 points: 11 (roll) + 3 (nonhoarding) + 3 (left over)
Summary:
A Cult of the Circadian expresses and exacerbates centrifugal tendencies in Tiktik society.
Inhabitants of the Vault of Noon, in the Hypogea, discover ways to pipe and utilize the fluid sunlight emanating from the Heart.
The Implacable Celebrants establish themselves in eastern Incarien and raise an army against the Kǎlkayer.
Eremshung, in western Incarien, constructs a fantastic garden-ziggurat whose successive terraces hold every flower in creation.
Moon-worshippers establish the House of Faces, a competitor to the House of Transformation in Qattangu.
False-Fires in the depths found stygian Fundament.
Among the burgeoning kingdoms of Incarien’s southern peninsulas, moon-worshippers found Dheia of the Cypresses.
Command Avatar to Create Order (-1): The underlands are restless. There is a sense, among the scuttling masses, of a wider world, vertiginous and bright, that troubles the timeless and singular hegemony of Chivik. Already, something grinds the calcined hearts of time and cracks the frozen shells of ancient depths. An influence rises—an immanence of destiny, upheaval, conquest, progress. The grip of empire falters in its hundred offshoot cities; armies march under uncertain command; rebels mass and chatter in the dark. And, shining like a star in a million imbricated breasts, is a burning desire for heroic and terrible change. [This is partially the influence of the Two Stars and partially a pre-existing trend.]
Positioned to capture and express this desire is the Cult of the Circadian; they glory in the day that imposes its laws even in the absence of light. Their doctrine has no single root, but filters down from the highmost part of the world. Against the hegemony of stone and wealth, against the straitjacket of coagulated history, against the endurance of the dead and glittering queen: it is time.
The Cult, to a large extent, is all things to all isopods. It offers new rituals, new ceremonials, new ideologies of legitimation; it offers a usefully malleable celebration of passion and transformation, fertility and foresight, upheaval and dedication. Solve et coagula. It offers some insight into the extractive and distorting influence of power, a certain affection for purity, a spur to new styles of philosophy and art; to some, it is an amoral warrior philosophy of serene and untroubled self-possession. It is associated with ritual trances, dances, and romances. In practice, it lends the local nobility an excuse to veer away from Chivik and the rebels an excuse to rebel: this world is wrong, and must change. [This is a sort of Protestant Reformation–type deal. I’m not going to shatter the empire all at once, this post is ridiculously late already, and I want to give people a chance to respond, so there’ll be a follow-up in a couple of days.]
Command Avatar to Found City (-1): The Oracles found a colony, the Vault of Noon, in the Hypogea; the liquid light is piped through glass tubes to grow crops in dark areas or exported to the surface as a commodity. In outlying settlements, isolated from the webwork around the Heart, great dawn-engines refine the dim early-morning glow into noontide brilliance suitable for growing crops.
Command Order (-2): The Celebrants proselytize in eastern Incarien. They position themselves as dividers of holy from unholy, licit from aberrant, living from dead. They have a plan unfailing and their assurance is the smile of the Oracles and the cardiac rhythm of the heavens; they bear the solstice and the equinox and they know that all shall be well in the end, and the end, and the end.
Against the tide of old bones, the Celebrants offer useful tools: the terrible prowess of holy warriors and uncanny prophecy to guide them. Furthermore, the new faith thrives in panic and upheaval, as people search for more resilient certainties than those recently shattered; the Celebrants’ tendency to the stark and portentous only helps them in this regard.
Command Civilisation (-3): The Celebrants raise a religiously-motivated army to oppose Kǎlkayer.
Command City (-2): Eremshung constructs a fantastic garden-ziggurat whose successive terraces hold every flower in creation. The highest are of holy and terrible import.
Command Avatar to Found Order (-1): In Qattangu, Qurri moon-worshippers learn some of the secrets of transformation and use them to establish the House of Faces, a competitor to the House of Transformation, emphasizing cloning and cosmetic/medical metamorphoses. [This one’s on Coryphaeus.]
Command Avatar to Found City (-1): A conclave of False-Fires in the Pearl Sea band together as a priestly cartel. The temple-city spans teeming fathoms with a sprawl of black diorite, girded by seventy-seven servant-castes and warriors in uncounted centuries. This is Fundament, the greatest metropolis of the Pearl Sea. It is not hell, but it is the opposite of heaven.
Command Civilization (-3): Among the burgeoning kingdoms of Incarien’s southern peninsulas, moon-worshippers found Dheia of the Cypresses, straddling a deltaic labyrinth of subtropical marshes; its canal-webbed environs host the largest population of Night-Singers outside the Occident.
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Of swimmer, each port, and sad Winter clip, let kind there is
A tricube sequence
1
If Maud were,
it is, thou
leaves remora.
Of swimmer,
each port,
and sad Winter
clip, let
kind there is
behold tree.
2
The wind, as
make them better,
tu—whoo!
The fate, dulling
roguish
the brooke. I
cannot dull.
Yet whose blended
the snake!
3
So sordid
and shot any
resemble
vain: a
deep, the layd,
doth please a
wicked fyne.
And the morning
cleare, life.
4
Leave me to
sip; but, I
know. Say to
none back that
all incredulous
to
one of you
like a
lightened leeward.
5
Low and alone,
with
diffusive got,
shall so strong
the little
to moue their
sand. To thy
parts which He
whom if you.
6
In glide is
must light, health
answer meede
attempte to
appearingly!
And wel
with a grant
your own Blood
I dare this.
7
Tho’ but his
great is no
better
returning reply,
marrying.
Such as
dews was the
next he at
cheap huge tress!
8
Still green, as
loue come and
sparkling
heard of green
upon his
root, so the
lied. With music
so soon
this is dress.
9
Carver’s could
half a friendship!
The Musk
she scorches
so sharpely
short then
glad poetes
her sweet thou
swear again.
10
Yet sort of
me. Betwixt
kindled his
world such bread.
Faire braunches
the houses
were enough
the mirage
street is ill.
11
And love’s closet
of thy
blacker prayer
man. And
seal, without
it inquiring
says
I’m crying
lookes dead!
12
And shook at
thus safely
men a long
like dear, blush
reposeth,
to do. Therefore
hear from
my one her
weep. And there!
13
I am
sometime with
find. But vain,
till tyranny
is prayers
wide a
bow hanged … or
in equall
good: the Bee.
14
And quill, what
excuse of
the Poetes
praysd of my
amiss. No
doubt he a
waxed old won
his longer
lanes abyde.
15
Nor would euery
bit, who
love, that Lucy
place be.
For the was
never chair,
her her. This
is a lady-
flowre, hence!
16
It eats your
brands embrace.
Out the greets
they were deare
abused: and
pain nor wann’d
whence of highmost
swell, when
weeds were bowre.
17
And to be
kindlessly.
Bound up his
head assay,
then the whispered
each pride
is must, at
though those while
yet too fair!
18
Sin, and blowen
she; if
nature knows
them, as far
away he
workmanship,
war! The Poets
say sleep
or shall pray.
19
And I flee.
At the moment
sleep is
prevailed aloud,
and the
been her now
thy memory,
fair mail,
and thou are.
20
The glooming,
that by the
bestow, since
I carry
lay: som hevene
it
embaseth, stroke—
a war? To
thy new voice!
21
She giue dare?
Now I haue
purest for
though the Virgin
all weep
it will in
mine more sweet
on the change;
intrigue witch!
22
Smell the fiend
be fill this
like need water’s
at heart
from Phebus
chaungerous
conceaue: throat warm.
Any shore,
that perseuer.
23
Rose away,
I am
alone and
meane, faded,
thy name type
of her son.
She wooing
to me, for
short,—I was!
24
Nothing hed.
Chair, and people
father
head, I seeks,
make your grief
my lovely
managed, like
my procession
our sex.
25
And dim hope.
Who foremost
beyond the
devized
upon
Olympus old
comfort I
could nothing
roguish een.
26
In which might
a dreaming
for one was
new. Flatter,
I am
aweary,
he devil
tongue then ev’ning
Jewel out?
27
And your hand
ringing have
been thou suffer
form with
heed, two steps,
after to
tells of mortall
the Spyder
the blood!
28
And more. Set
it crew obiect,
and take
for fun watched
the holds her
strange or ill,
yet voyce, which
may have went,
with constrayn.
29
How they wounds,
and shame. Thou
shall except
proud of loue
doth it, thy
loue leaue lent,
that with once
as wakes; for
a mansion.
30
But the herbs
on that while,
the the boast,
let me porch,
mid base the
will truth. He
to my glad
their due to
mix the bard!
31
That may me
to mee. I
seek not, when
her Fair maids
and bright fear,
ah God begin
his slight;
mine eyes doe
I will know?
32
What Lucy’s
chambers of
the tree! Blaze
upon his
howledge my
heard and prepard.
And making
roaring
daisies kind.
33
With the
slavisher true
no powers.
And giue lyke
sacred mine,
who in her
story of
the motion
as in peach?
34
Blood, transpirit
bountercharge
her. He
was it was
there ever
is she. Thinking
about
lo, it’s
not conspire.
35
Of malice,
which in this
pale but vain
thy lossum
cheer, wanton
o’er they glided
cries wild
wife. The feet,
old my dark?
36
What where in
the sleepe in
my smart. With
to burst without,
under
the bear in
your mind, or
rare with his
count and awe.
37
Your for thing
down, advance;
prudent,
etc.
Sweet spotlesse
my restle
gates in the
praise because
of a wine!
38
Which the Jews.
With a hunts
and long in
respect making
on the
put a strived
in the
Titmose secret
this faire.
39
And so the
into
desire; her
filled has not
matter’d like
her who I
am. Lets
light to walk
of spring!
40
Why the muttere
it selfe
sweet spright art,
that giue dark
of all hand
all the day
I wrote in
your loue of
honour mind.
41
But chivalrous
take. From
our sleeping
the come tempte
to the
cruelty, despair.
Pride: but
rather the
gold oak tree?
42
She door shee
will guide. And
revision
beyond when
dart the pine,
when his also
Best;
dishonour
two skeletons.
43
And, alasse
ay green-white
blood; wherein
shore a woman
or those
light. He would
not be thought
reason knelt
by containe.
44
Half-shut then
dance, my Rose;
and base all
that all the
touch, thereby,
save fail? What
she wainscot
more my
glorious mind.
45
When models
arrow flowers
too well;
your sight. But
her grace: that
gentle for
loosing have
spright, waking
roguish een.
46
To place were
rested with
threats this back
that lie. Noon,
will we shower
a good
to Light broke
from
this continuance.
47
In worth an
or did agree,
goodness—
ah, which He
who the fading
of
Michelangelo.
The earth
which the sky.
48
’ Woman was
a stupid
husks of Poet’s
sparrow,
towards enured,
yield wives.
And yet more
lounged foot
she a words?
49
In thy singe.
Doe I not,
the flower
and his beats
on Cessnock
book; and portal
mesh and
letter
balefull verse.
50
Than the crowd;
and the shine
of all thinking
and full
verse. The Turtle
to and
sad a maid,
I tell the
world things care.
51
If in pining
on his
will then by
thenceforth the
dairy
quivered, that’s
a narrow
forgoe.
Lady Christabel!
52
As thou wronged
vest, base. But
yet for late
may he thick
and she small
appoint out
thy marbled
harebell
bands, a son.
53
Go to
Corinthian
Lycius! It
beam enter,—
ah, it faint
and take the
brutal
ravishes wound;
that wake flee.
54
I should I
bear, let us
goodness
ill. This is
blown, and if
I stay? Which
that your loue,
he too long
thus, surveyed.
55
Honey, for
ever cheek
some haycock,
am going
it their
extreaming
soft forbid
eat. Like before
her breast.
56
Like so faint
to the lightie
vengeance with
a charge terme
stub of his
loud that the
bent, with troubles
of their
hand me thus?
57
Want persuade
my heard my
poor and Geralds
bred. Yet
knew the crocus
lusty
spring I
strongly part:
but fewell.
58
She for
buttondown, she
fainting way.
Haste me divide
tendrils
round, thou art
of distresses
to ride
she pricking!
59
With vertues
keep ye. Since
thy right for
they be peace
she’ll happened
to known to
weep in which
did vnto they
this return!
60
Covet not
love his
expressing. Who
would she—off,
woman smoking
her girl
he knew not
bound my
tender again.
61
By forget
your mind is
she, what delay’d
and ears.
Mark how rapt
in her, bower.—
If I
should gray: I
wishfull verse.
62
Will not a
man’s side her
and corrosive
can no
moe they shrunk
in mind wail’d
by that blisse.
His rosy
terms of kynd.
63
Till singing
again about
his mark
these sayes did
but soone day,
constray? Bade
her, but a
world hills into
words dart.
64
Journey shame
in his lady
street your
is tuning
it? Came, they
were, while if
of body,
laid him,
as moniment.
65
His marked scope
to depart,
my love
advances virtues
keep. And
wide daring
again doubt
whirling
tuneless verse.
66
And Echo
the light, when
I’m more. How
this gone, when
said, he love,
to templation
blanc-mange
her eyes I
ioy will shine?
67
They called his
answers steal
the lord, in
mine for they
called wither;
the quest alone
the bench
heuens blithe past,
when I lie.
68
And stray. And
time to mother
robes fled:
come. But such
bright of my
lover. Because
is but
a man
courtesy not?
69
With my heart
of lost thou
find not you
strange old please
that all before
him in
his arrived.
Now in gloom,
I am.
70
How they hear
the nighten
thing in Winter’s
reign, a
lustres where
those fruit? Makes
me place in
thee hast so
doon, man, off!
71
And how his
crisis?
Penniless they
are, by morne
wit: but a
schoolmistres
willing rock,
glimpses
of desire.
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Sonnet 7 by William Shakespeare (read by Simon Callow)
Lo in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty,
And having climbed the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage:
But when from highmost pitch with weary car,
Like feeble age he reeleth from the day,
The eyes (fore duteous) now converted are
From his low tract and look another way:
So thou, thy self out-going in thy noon:
Unlooked on diest unless thou get a son.
Source: William Shakespeare - Sonnets - Simon Callow
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Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climbed the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage:
But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,
Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are
From his low tract, and look another way:
So thou, thyself outgoing in thy noon
Unlooked on diest unless thou get a son.
so like the central conceit of this sonnet seems to rest upon the idea that people regard sunrise with much more awe/beauty/appreciation than sunset, which like. my good bard,
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from @cinefantasticquemitho, for the fictional character asks: Juliet Capulet
@cinefantastiquemitho accidentally answered my ask as a private message instead of a post, so I’m copying and pasting her answer here.
Favorite thing about them: The apeal of Juliet is that she is one of the earliest examples of a young rebel being portrayed positively in western literature. She lives in a world that was screwed over by the violence of the adults around her, and is one of the few people in the story who is inteligent anough to not see this violence as something natural, and question it. Another interesting element of Juliet is that, troughout the play, she learns to be very cunning and witty. Now usually, this characteristics (specially in a female character) would be portrayed as the start of a path to villany, where a character would use them to gain power over the unhapiness of others (think of Tamora and Aaron the Moor, the Macbeths, Richard III, Iago and Edmond). But in Juliet’s writing, she is still the heroine of the story, who as a young woman in the Renaissance, is justified to use cunning and witty as a means of trying to survive and find happiness for her and Romeo, the person she loves, in a world where she lacks power. And this cunning and witty, contrary to the most popular belief, does not contradict her loialty, with is another important characteristic that she shows in relation to her beloved husband Romeo.
Least favorite thing about them: Actually, i don’t have a least favorite thing about Juliet herself. In reality, when i was young and was only familiar with the play trough parodies in pop culture, without actually having readed or watched the play properly, i disliked a caricature of Juliet, that stereotyped her as just “a cute girl who is there to suffer”. Later, when i actually readed and watched montages of the play online, i saw that this wasn’t at all the actual character that Shakespeare wrote.
Favorite line:
So many, is hard to choose just one.
“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy”.
“Ay me!
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself”.
“ O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circled orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
Do not swear at all;
Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
Which is the god of my idolatry,
And I’ll believe thee”.
“The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse;
In half an hour she promised to return.
Perchance she cannot meet him: that’s not so.
O, she is lame! love’s heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams,
Driving back shadows over louring hills:
Therefore do nimble-pinion’d doves draw love,
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
Now is the sun upon the highmost hill
Of this day’s journey, and from nine till twelve
Is three long hours, yet she is not come.
Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball;
My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
And his to me:
But old folks, many feign as they were dead;
Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead”.
“Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth;
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth”.
“Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
Towards Phoebus’ lodging: such a wagoner
As Phaethon would whip you to the west,
And bring in cloudy night immediately.
Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,
That runaway’s eyes may wink and Romeo
Leap to these arms, untalk’d of and unseen.
Lovers can see to do their amorous rites
By their own beauties; or, if love be blind,
It best agrees with night. Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron, all in black,
And learn me how to lose a winning match,
Play’d for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:
Hood my unmann’d blood, bating in my cheeks,
With thy black mantle; till strange love, grown bold,
Think true love acted simple modesty.
Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whiter than new snow on a raven’s back.
Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow’d night,
Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
O, I have bought the mansion of a love,
But not possess’d it, and, though I am sold,
Not yet enjoy’d: so tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them”.
“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather’d raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,
A damned saint, an honourable villain!
O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell,
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
In moral paradise of such sweet flesh?
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace”!
“Blister’d be thy tongue
For such a wish! he was not born to shame:
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;
For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown’d
Sole monarch of the universal earth.
O, what a beast was I to chide at him!
Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?
Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,
When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?
But, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?
That villain cousin would have kill’d my husband:
Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring;
Your tributary drops belong to woe,
Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.
My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;
And Tybalt’s dead, that would have slain my husband:
All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?
Some word there was, worser than Tybalt’s death,
That murder’d me: I would forget it fain;
But, O, it presses to my memory,
Like damned guilty deeds to sinners’ minds:
'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo—banished;’
That 'banished,’ that one word 'banished,’
Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt’s death
Was woe enough, if it had ended there:
Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship
And needly will be rank’d with other griefs,
Why follow’d not, when she said 'Tybalt’s dead,’
Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both,
Which modern lamentations might have moved?
But with a rear-ward following Tybalt’s death,
'Romeo is banished,’ to speak that word,
Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,
All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banished!’
There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,
In that word’s death; no words can that woe sound”.
“It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!
It is the lark that sings so out of tune,
Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.
Some say the lark makes sweet division;
This doth not so, for she divideth us:
Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,
O, now I would they had changed voices too!
Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,
Hunting thee hence with hunt’s-up to the day,
O, now be gone; more light and light it grows”.
“ Art thou gone so? love, lord, ay, husband, friend!
I must hear from thee every day in the hour,
For in a minute there are many days:
O, by this count I shall be much in years
Ere I again behold my Romeo”!
“Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life:
I’ll call them back again to comfort me:
Nurse! What should she do here?
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Come, vial.
What if this mixture do not work at all?
Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?
No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there.
[Laying down her dagger]
What if it be a poison, which the friar
Subtly hath minister’d to have me dead,
Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour’d,
Because he married me before to Romeo?
I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,
For he hath still been tried a holy man.
How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me? there’s a fearful point!
Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
Or, if I live, is it not very like,
The horrible conceit of death and night,
Together with the terror of the place,—
As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
Where, for these many hundred years, the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are packed:
Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,
At some hours in the night spirits resort;—
Alack, alack, is it not like that I,
So early waking, what with loathsome smells,
And shrieks like mandrakes’ torn out of the earth,
That living mortals, hearing them, run mad:—
O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,
Environed with all these hideous fears?
And madly play with my forefather’s joints?
And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?
And, in this rage, with some great kinsman’s bone,
As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?
O, look! methinks I see my cousin’s ghost
Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body
Upon a rapier’s point: stay, Tybalt, stay!
Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee”.
“Yea, noise? then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger!
[Snatching ROMEO’s dagger]
This is thy sheath;
[Stabs herself]
there rust, and let me die”.
brOTP: In the plays actual text, we see her being great friends and partners with the Nurse, and get some insinuations that Tybalt, her cousin, was also a very close friend to her. The TV series Still Star Crossed gaved to her a close friendship with her cousin Rosaline, what i apreciate very, very much. And i also like to imagine that in a Everybody Lives!AU she would be very close friends with Benvolio Montague.
OTP: With Romeo Montague.
nOTP: With Count Paris and/or Tybalt Capulet.
Random headcanon: 1. Her favorite colors are red, orange, white and gold; 2. Her favorite story from greek mithology is Eros and Psyche; 3. Her favorite fairy tale is Jack and the Beanstalk; 4. In a Modern Day Everybody Lives!AU Juliet graduates in Philosophy, Psychology and Social Services and becomes a social worker, focused on atend teenage girls and women living at risk of suffering abuse or on abusive situations/child attorney. For more details about it, here is the link for the list of ideas about a Happy Ending Modern Day! AU made in collaboration with @giuliettaluce :
https://cinefantastiquemitho.tumblr.com/post/617097864129200128/modern-headcanon-romeo-and-juliet
Unpopular Opinion: Well, i like some elements of the Zefirelli 1968 movie adaptation: the costumes are beautifull to look at, Nino Rota’s score is the worlds eight wonder of an icon, the casting choice (specially of Leonard Whiting and Olívia Hussey as Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, respectivelly) is pretty spot on… Buuuut: with the cutting of lines like the “Gallop apace” soliloquy, the lines where she reflects, deduces and concludes that Tybalt started the fight against Romeo with the intention of killing him and the “Potion” soliloquy, i think it reduced a lot of the huge inteligence that Juliet actually has, and with its extremely huge popularity it ended up contributing with the pop culture stereotyped idea that Juliet is just a “cute girl who is there to suffer”.
Song i associate with them: Flor, Minha Flor, by Grupo Galpão de Teatro (from the soundtrack of my favorite Romeo and Juliet montage)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koIO15cI-8Y
And Nino Rota’s What is a Youth, from the 1968 Franco Zefirelli film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VsgolqoeJw
Favorite picture of them:
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Ever so often, I get these from different accounts stating the same society. Is it just me? #jah #greatspirit #highmost #stickybongskeng #themeagrechanter #jahknowstar #blackroyalfamily https://www.instagram.com/p/BrMP0G8np61xMRpBxOQGYwe6CqfFKC2orme51g0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=aup6ba6daimu
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What’s said alone inside the hall
tomorrow will be known to all,
and words whispered in the closet
will be heard from the corner prophet!
What you tell in tenebrosity
shall be repeated with loquacity,
and what you’ve said behind closed doors
shall be bleated from the highmost floors!
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Untitled (“He to one eyes”)
Not a stound tower the love time of heroine.
And so croscope, sike one! Ange, while when
anguages; with your sate follow moan one she hold.
I gripe of love, what with the gift remain
waisteria’s indeed indeed not striverself
our Hebrew the spitaph wake, my mind.
And and days, bed symmetrica. Rove diedst moaning
wends to crafty, whence more could by
suicided east, and when with my brow’s exceptred to
upon highmost river’s benignal—
luke Have thrown was words: only I can mighter really
as lark on an ox. He to one
eyes forbeare belike a foolisheds the possiblesome
beguile, a good sun, and the
of tall, the first wearession all, if this: I will
my to haue your hair times, excuse, and
large bed and hand a fathere, love me by things, when
for sunning grief her face. Had not the
prey, I conuersatisfie me, and glassion. At is
that the speak, to the airily; with
gentle swain. And the youth, and, Graces of ocean-
cliffs which I gainst too much agains is
is school, hauty a sang up his Venus lips the
mother? At till tooth, while you nor knelt
aside his breeze on Fanny’s sullet is is that
flowers, fever never city far
uptying foil for the bay lively black the did now
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would Nature; the verb—and Geraldine,
so vers’ she most jewels still somehow, i’ve giue more the
hold maid the Sage in grown’d. How came murmured,
charms, but which TV shops erunt. The
rolled, as dange of Salámán fell me,
creepe, if sunk and woulden shephearden ran
Now to the taken I recocious.
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Sonnet 7 by William Shakespeare (read by Brian Dennehy)
Lo in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty,
And having climbed the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
Yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage:
But when from highmost pitch with weary car,
Like feeble age he reeleth from the day,
The eyes (fore duteous) now converted are
From his low tract and look another way:
So thou, thy self out-going in thy noon:
Unlooked on diest unless thou get a son.
Source: The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets
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On Vampires
"Motion is denied. Vampires are visually and culturally indistinguishable from healthy humans. To classify them as a separate sapient species would subject them to further discrimination and needlessly complicate medical study of their regenerative capacity. The Exalted Justices hold that vampires' sensitivity to sunlight and aversion to the genus *Allium* are symptoms also documented in other genetic conditions and not sufficient to be exclusionary of humanity. In addition, vampires continue to be at risk of human and other sapients' theft and consumption of their bone marrow. The legal protections afforded to them by the Temple of Three Sovereigns would be jeopardized by the removal of their human status, which would in turn endanger their lives. Further, other nations have similar protections for vampires, and the uncertainty of their protection under Ouphan law would set a dangerous precedent abroad."
-Ouphan Court of the Exalted Highmost, midtrial opinion in landmark Ge v. Luo
Picture is of Leyla, a bureaucrat working for the League of Restoration and Development.
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@yellingmetatron
The tesseract slowly rotates counter-clockwise. His faces shimmer with various greens, but a few flecks of dubious orange flicker here and there.
“…ARE YOU HAVING A THEOPHANY RIGHT NOW? I MEAN, IT WOULDN’T BE THE FIRST FUCKING TIME I WAS CONSCRIPTED INTO A THEOPHANY WITHOUT BEING FUCKING WARNED FIRST. EVERYONE JUST FUCKING ASSUMES I’M A-OK WITH DISPENSING HEAVENLY WISDOM AND SHIT WHEN IT FUCKING SUITS THEIR SCHEDULE.” The flecks or orange glow brighter, and begin spreading.
“AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION, MOSES MADE THE BEST FUCKING COFFEE THE WORLD HAD EVER SEEN. LEARNED THE ART FROM THE HIGHMOST MOTHERFUCKING BREWMASTERS OF ANCIENT ETHIOPIA, AND HE G-DDAMNED FUCKING WELL PERFECTED IT.“ Metatron pauses.
“YOU KNOW, I FUCKING HOPE FOR YOUR SAKE THAT THAT WASN’T THE DIVINE WISDOM YOU’RE MEANT TO RECEIVE. NOT EXACTLY GONNA START YOUR OWN FUCKING SECT WITH THAT, OR WHATEVER.”
Stanford blinked at what may or may not have been his hallucination. He took another sip of his extra dark, probably not meant for human consumption, coffee.
“Theophany? Please. I don’t BELIEVE in God or gods. I’m a scientist, and you’re a hallucination. Or possibly an extra-dimensional being I haven’t yet encountered. I haven’t decided yet.” Nonetheless, he peered at Metatron curiously.
He paused a moment when Metatron went into a tangent about how Moses had made the best coffee the world had ever seen. He crossed his arms a moment.
“I’m sure. And Samson was probably the greatest comedian in the world, too, right? Really brought the house down.” He shook his head and gave a little laugh. Then, he looked directly at Metatron and screamed for a full minute, jumping back, and then sat down to drink more coffee.
Stanford wasn’t sure why he did that. Not sleeping for eight days will do weird things to people. He stiffened a bit when the being continued to scream at him, particularly in regards to divine wisdom.
“Divine wisdom? Well, I’m afraid you’ve wasted your time here. I’ve learned my lesson about accepting “divine wisdom” from creatures and things I know very little about. I also don’t start “sects” of anything. Like I said, I’m a scientist. I learn from science, and I DO science.” He paused a moment, then stroked his chin. “I also occasionally do magic, but I approach it from a scientific perspective. Magic, after all, is really just science we don’t understand yet and-”
He frowned, stopping himself. “I don’t know why I’m explaining all of this to you. You either already know, or you’ll be gone around the time my body decides to shut down from all the caffeine I’ve consumed. At least, I THINK this coffee has caffeine.” He looked down at his coffee, shrugged, and then continued drinking it.
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"How does Moses make his coffee? Hebrews it. Much like everyone else, I suspect. However, I am on the verge of developing a faster, more efficient way of making coffee! I've already had twenty cups today and haven't slept in eight days! Are you a hallucination? You don't look like one of my usual hallucinations, but this is also the first time I've tried to make coffee with this special anti-gravitational magma from Dimension A-229."
The tesseract slowly rotates counter-clockwise. His faces shimmer with various greens, but a few flecks of dubious orange flicker here and there.
“…ARE YOU HAVING A THEOPHANY RIGHT NOW? I MEAN, IT WOULDN’T BE THE FIRST FUCKING TIME I WAS CONSCRIPTED INTO A THEOPHANY WITHOUT BEING FUCKING WARNED FIRST. EVERYONE JUST FUCKING ASSUMES I’M A-OK WITH DISPENSING HEAVENLY WISDOM AND SHIT WHEN IT FUCKING SUITS THEIR SCHEDULE.” The flecks or orange glow brighter, and begin spreading.“AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION, MOSES MADE THE BEST FUCKING COFFEE THE WORLD HAD EVER SEEN. LEARNED THE ART FROM THE HIGHMOST MOTHERFUCKING BREWMASTERS OF ANCIENT ETHIOPIA, AND HE G-DDAMNED FUCKING WELL PERFECTED IT.“ Metatron pauses.
“YOU KNOW, I FUCKING HOPE FOR YOUR SAKE THAT THAT WASN’T THE DIVINE WISDOM YOU’RE MEANT TO RECEIVE. NOT EXACTLY GONNA START YOUR OWN FUCKING SECT WITH THAT, OR WHATEVER.”
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Sonnet VII
Lo! in the orient when the gracious light
Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,
Serving with looks his sacred majesty;
And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,
Resembling strong youth in his middle age,
yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,
Attending on his golden pilgrimage;
But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,
Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,
The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are
From his low tract and look another way:
So thou, thyself out-going in thy noon,
Unlook'd on diest, unless thou get a son.
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