#othello no last name given

[messytoybox]

I finished this a while ago. Here is the Othello canvas.

[pop-roxs]

guys where the FUCK is the tweet that like "girl: haha people who are scientists or smth are soooo weird/me hiding my ingenious invention behind me: yeahhhhhh i know righttt" THATS GRELLETHELLO TO ME

[magicalara]

I can’t listen to bad romance by lady gaga without thinking of Grelle and it’s becoming a problem so I’m writing out what my mind keeps making me think about when I hear it (specifically the part in french bc Grelle knows french and is french on her mother’s side bc I say so). I might continue to make these impromptu posts a thing so here’s Grelle scenarios I think about part 1 

TW: mentions of alcohol 

- So we’re gonna start by establishing the fact that there are reaper-only bars/clubs. Most of them are open to both retired and active reapers, but there are ones that are only for each group respectively if a reaper prefers to only be around those in or out of the profession. There are also LGBT specific ones, though the vast majority are LGBT friendly spaces anyways.

- You and Grelle had known each other for a while after getting paired together for collections and frequent little chats around the office. Throughout this time, you’ve developed a nice crush on the lady in red which she suspects but doesn’t push besides her general flirting not wanting to ruin the friendship y’all have in case she’s wrong. But Grelle’s intuition tends to not be wrong and you are, in fact, head over red and black heeled boots for her.

- Grelle likes to go to the club sometimes you know just to let loose a little and have some drinks, especially after stressful days. Usually, her target as company for these nights is none other than our dear Ronnie but tonight he’s a little busier than usual and so Grelle’s options are to go alone or pester someone else enough to get them to come with her. Naturally, she chooses the second option. The only question now was who?

- She could have gone to William or Othello (William is a tough nut to crack, but sometimes he cracks nonetheless and Othello is definitely a fun drunk who can’t handle his alcohol after two hours max) but after running into you in the hallway, she got ideas.

- “Oh come on, I can’t even begin to remember the last time we hung out together that wasn’t for work reasons.” is what she’ll tell you. She gives you the puppy eyes, calls you every pet name she can think of, and even offers to buy you lunches for the next week. When you agree she does little happy jumps and hugs you and tells you that she’ll pick you up later that night.

-  It’s later that night and she’s there and she brings you to the place and you know you get some drinks and now you have the influence of alcohol in your system and oh dear here we are now to the part that’s always in my head.

- So The Song comes on and let’s say that you guys are already dancing okay that’ll make things easier and you know that Grelle knows french and you know that there’s a part in french and so with a surge of confidence when The Part comes on you just fully pull her into you (and move her head down if you’re shorter) by the waist and whisper the part into her ear and she’s just all hafshdgadgaldg basically

- Congratulations, you’ve successfully flustered Grelle and now she definitely knows that you like her but it’s all good because she likes you too and now she is down to fuck cuddle you very nicely 🥰

- But in all honesty, she takes this as a “yeah they’re getting a little too drunk it’s time to go home” and she stays over to take care of you (it doesn’t matter if you’re good at holding your alcohol or not, she’s staying) and in the morning she finally starts the conversation about it and y’all confess and it’s all thanks to Lady Gaga and a spur of confidence

[blondeaxolotl]

Raahh, the last anon ask got me thinking about these guys in the AU so I decided to doodle them! Finny and Othello are a duo! A Prince and his butler! (They come from Germany, mostly cause I headcanon Finny is German). Unfortunately Soma and Agni aren't a duo, since they never met in this au (Soma being a gardener with inhuman strength for the midford household while Agni is a grim reaper) which means he was never given the name "Agni" by Soma, therefore "Arshad" stayed instead.

[sebastianmichaelisslander]

Any unpopular opinions/headcanons about shinigamis?

Lessgooo! I’d been waiting for this for a while!

Headcanons

• Not fully sure there’s a proper academy for Reapers, though that’s the case in a lot of fanon hcs and even the anime.

The Dispatch setup resembles a very typical one in the corporate world, though - newer Reapers are all assigned a mentor who they train under and who asses them for their capabilities in varying fields. According to this, they join a particular department and work under its head (e.g., collections, forensics, auditing, etc.).

• There are several different branches of the Dispatch spread out over major cities in England - and the same goes for branches in other countries. Headquarters will be either at the capital or in a major city (e.g, London).

• Though Reapers are all pretty much blind as bats without their glasses, younger ones would probably have it slightly better. Slightly.

• As for whether they would retain any memories of their past lives, it depends for me.

What would be worse than having memories of who or what was dear to them wiped to prevent them from straying would be remembering it all, but knowing they will not be able to return under any circumstances.

But as I’m uncertain about how to make sense of that, I’d say that I share my mutual @grimreaperauthority ‘s headcanon about their memories of their past lives being wiped and thus remaining mostly fuzzy. I’d say that’s the case, save for the day of their death or anything particularly defining which shaped or changed their beliefs, imho.

• Relationships between colleagues aren’t forbidden, but it’s expected that one adheres to decorum and keeps their liaisons under wraps. Especially if there’s a major power imbalance involved, because you’d be cooked.

Unpopular opinions

I’ll probably have several of you trying to break down my door with pitchforks and torches in hand, but here goes.

• I don’t see Eric as Scottish, lol.

I haven’t fully watched the musical so I don’t fully get where the whole headcanon about him came into being, but it’s not just that. I tried looking his last name up, and ‘Slingby’ isn’t even a real surname - closest thing is ‘Slingsby’, which is of English origin. ‘Knox’, however, is a Scottish surname, so make what you will of that. 😉 (Yes, I unapologetically write Ronnie as a Scotsman.)

• I do not ship Sascha with Ludger.

I always saw the former as a very young student figure of sorts to him, and not just because they appear rather young to me. I’ve never seen them as a couple given their interactions in the manga, and there’s also the fact that Sascha seems to be a literal teen.

Whilst Sascha’s age hasn’t been stated in canon and they could very well be an adult for all I know, which would be highly unlikely, them as a ship just isn’t for me. Ludger as their father/brother figure, though? That’s where it’s at.

• I’m mostly indifferent to Undertaker. I don’t know why, but I never paid him any special attention. Like, he do be kinda fit, but that’s about it.

• I don’t vibe with the fanon interpretation of Ronald as a player or fuckboy - and not only because I headcanon him as on the asexual spectrum. Even in the manga, he appears to be (quite a major) flirt at most - which can also be backed up by how he disappears.

• If Othello could talk to women, he’d be like a more toned-down Ronald when he’s interacting with them, but shyer too. But he can’t, lmao - he’s forgotten how to. Takes personal space and being respectful to them seriously, though.

Bi Othello is my fav headcanon for him. I can definitely see him with a woman as well as a man. And though he’s often absorbed in his work or Dispatch shenanigans and doesn’t think about girls (or guys) all that much, he definitely likes a pretty one as much as the next man.

• I don’t see William as a prick with all the emotional range of a teaspoon and little empathy whatsoever. Is he too harsh on himself and his subordinates? Yes. Can he be an asshole at times? Also yes.

But is he a terrible person with no redeeming qualities whatsoever and a rock in his chest where a heart would otherwise beat? No.

He seems like he’d be an overthinker and feel extremely strongly towards people and ideas both, but tries to suppress this as he thinks that he needs to. Not only to remain impartial for the sake of professionalism, but also because how men in general are socialised plus his tendency to withdraw when he’s overwhelmed mean it’s difficult to confront his emotions.

• I do not see Ludger as German William, but rather someone who’s similar to him yet incredibly different in a lot of ways. William is pensive, almost overly fastidious, and coldly professional. Meanwhile, Ludger is reserved, a tad rough around the edges, and focused - but he’s surprisingly patient and better with conflict than Will.

If I have more, that’ll call for another post!

[scotianostra]

Happy 98th Birthday the Scottish actress Gurdrun Ure.

Every year when I get to this anniversary I have a wee smile, Gurdrun was born on 12th March 1926 in Campsie, Stirlingshire, making her probably the oldest living person feature in my posts.

A lot of people , even now thought that Supergran was played by Rentaghost actress Molly Weir who passed away in 2004 aged 94, and theatrical rag The Stage even confused the two in Molly Weir's obituary, but it was always Gudrun in the award winning series, I must say I never confused the two, I loved Supergran, the series based around a grandmother with super powers. I even found a picture tagged Gurdrun that was in fact Mary Ure in one source, as far as I am aware they are not related.

The show was made for Tyne Tees Television for Children's ITV and became hugely popular with people asking 'Is there nothing that she cannae do?'. Gudrun's enemy on the show was The Scunner Campbell played by the late actor and theatre director Iain Cuthbertson and the show was so popular it won an Emmy, and was sold to over 60 countries worldwide.

In the mid-50s, she decided to start using the name "Ann Gudrun" to make it easier for her audiences but, by the 60′s it looks like she had started using her real name, according to IMDb, certainly though by the times her bout of fame came about in the 1980s she had reverted back Gudrun Ure in a new climate of more acceptance of unusual names.

Gurdrun starred in Orson Welles' 1951 stage production of Othello and also appeared in 1953 film 36 Hours at the age of 27 under the artist name Ann Gudrun. She later appeared in shows including T-Bag and the Pearls of Wisdom, Midsomer Murders, The Crow Road, Where the Heart is and Casualty, the latter being her last TV role in 2009. She also appeared around the country on stage and on radio.

Oh and the name originates from the old Norse language, but is also nowadays has been one of the most frequently given female names in Iceland as Guðrún.

There has been a buzz kately that a big screen version of the show may be in the air, Tilda Swinton, an adopted Scot has been mooted for the lead role.

[ecargmura]

Wind Breaker Episode 3 Review - Patrolling The Town

This episode was a good mix of fighting and world building. It also seems that Furin High School has no teachers as the students mainly obey the top dog of the school, Umemiya, and abide by the rules of the school. It’s an interesting concept as the school doesn’t feel like a school, but rather a base of operations.

The Sakura and Sugishita fight could’ve been better, but I know they were mainly saving the animation for the latter half of the episode. Though, it was nice to see Sakura not losing to Sugishita and even getting a hit on him that caused the taller guy to get a bad nosebleed. Their fight gets interrupted when Umemiya starts his broadcast on the intercom. It was also nice to see the other Bofurin kids praising Sakura, helping him open up and soak in human warmth.

I also like that this portion of the episode shows off all of the important characters’ personality so well. Sakura is hot-headed but can be rationalized; he only picked a fight with Sugishita because the latter did it first. It’s justified. Sugishita is a rather rampaging mad dog, but he stops the moment Umemiya speaks in the broadcast. He’s super loyal to him to the point that he glares and barks at Nirei when the latter commented on how weird it was that Umemiya brought up shaved ice. Nirei is just the stressed kid with anxiety. Suo is a troll, but he also functions as the mediator. I think that’s pretty neat. The mediator role usually is calm and a bit motherly, but this guy is just trolling like he breathes in it.  There’s also Hiragi who gets introduced formally and while he seems like a grouchy guy, he’s just a dude with stomach issues. I love the little gag of him taking out stomach pain medicine and plopping them into his mouth like candy. He’s going to die of overdose one day…

Their first order of business on the first day is…to patrol the town. Yes. Instead of studying, they patrol their side of the town. Accompanied by Hiragi, who happens to be one of the Four Kings of the school and works under Umemiya, Sakura, Sugishita, Nirei and Suo walk around and help out people. The part where they get taiyaki after painting walls was so cute, especially the part where Suo gives his taiyaki to Nirei! A lot of information about the town and the gangs’ policies are dumped into this episode.

Apparently, there is another territory just under a train track bridge and it belongs to a rival gang called Shishitoren. One of their bigwigs is introduced from the get-go. His name is Togame and his design and demeanor stand out a lot! I really like him! I love the green eyes, round sunglasses and his rather slow way of talking. I really like how he seems flighty and slow but he’s crazy dangerous. He’s also funny as he called Sakura “Othello-kun” and just casually says “Yahoo” to Hiragi when he sees him. His voice actor is Yuichiro Umehara! Togame is a bit different from the usual characters Umehara plays, but I really like his voice acting here! I’d love to hear more of the slow and relaxed type of voice from him more often!

Umemiya is introduced in the last portion of the episode. He’s a lot different than I expected. He likes gardening and is very laid-back. He even showed off his eggplant and green peppers. Given that he’s the top of the school, he is definitely powerful. Heck, he’s voiced by Yuichi Nakamura. You know he’s a big deal.

I honestly can’t wait to learn who Umemiya is and if Shishitoren will attack given that Sakura and Sugishita did sort of violate the rules. I’ll see you next week for the next episode review. Let me know your thoughts on this episode!

[breha]

anne rice, pseudointellectual extraordinaire, managed to squeeze into the tale of the body thief references to: "sailing to byzantium" and "the dolls" by william butler yeats, a tale of two cities, anna karenina, the postman always rings twice, lolita, "the tyger" by william blake, a tree grows in brooklyn, "the thing on the doorstep" by h.p. lovecraft, "eyes of the mummy" by robert bloch, goethe's faust, jeffrey burton russell, mircea eliade, john milton, marcus aurelius, hart crane, george bernard shaw, diogenes, thomas aquinas, jacques maritain, pierre teilhard de chardin, dostoyevsky, albert camus, and john keats. at one point lestat uses the alias "sebastian melmoth," which was a pseudonym used by oscar wilde, itself a reference to melmoth the wanderer by charles maturin. later lestat goes by the last name "wilde." he also references othello and at one point asserts that he is "not time's fool." the alias "sheridan blackwood" might be a reference to sheridan dufferin given rice's interest in art, and i assume she got "alexander stoker" from bram. the movies that appear or are referenced are suspicion (1941), vice versa (1988), all of me (1984), the company of wolves (1984), beauty and the beast (1946), the dead (1987), it's a wonderful life (1946), and body and soul (1947). characters see or reference art by rembrandt (specifically the syndics of the draper's guild), picasso (three separate times), willem de kooning, jasper johns, andy warhol, monet, and edward hopper. there's also a reference to the actor rutger hauer. uhhh i think that's it but holler if you caught one i didn't

[abybweisse]

How do you think names work for reapers?

Do they get transfered to their afterlife and reapers just have the option to either go by their name or the number? Or do they get to choose their own names once they get reborn as reapers?

Names aren't really official in the human world, at least they aren't for reapers, since they are just ways to identify each other. It would make sense if the dispatch refused to use names of the reapers from when they were alive.

But that leads me to wonder whether UT could actually be Cedric?? Don't get me wrong, I'm fully on board with Grandpa!UT theory, but if he always went by his ID number, that could mean he never chose a name for himself, which would mean Cedric can't be his name since he has no name! That is of course, in the case that reapers have to name themselves.

I might just be thinking a bit too far into this though hehe 😅

Reaper names

Well, now that I'm reading Scythe by Neal Shusterman, I started to consider that perhaps Kuroverse reapers choose completely new names when they become reapers. Much like how royals can choose what name to use when they ascend to the throne or how clergy can choose new names to go by, "scythes" in that book series do this, usually choosing the last name of a scientist they particularly respect. Faraday, Curie, etc. In Kuroshitsuji we've seen a nod to Shakespeare himself, as well as to a priest who wasn't even born until February 17, 1888 (Ronald Knox).

However, we've also seen a Shakespearean character (Othello), a nod to a serial killer who wouldn't be born for several decades (Sutcliff), and two names (in the manga) that seem random (Sascha and Ludger). We haven't been given Sascha's or Ludger's full names -- or Othello's -- but it's probably safe to assume they have them.

It's entirely possible these are their actual names from before they died. If they go through karmic reincarnation (get reborn as reapers with their old souls), these could be the names they were born with as reapers.

The mere fact that Undertaker's name isn't known to Othello, since he preferred to use his registration number, increases the chances of it being Cedric K. Ros-- (whatever that is, like Rosewood, Rosedale, etc.). This allows Yana-san to make us wait even longer to learn the truth about him. Then, for some unknown reason, Undertaker wanted to cut ties with his old self. Even back then.

And Othello makes it sound like they usually go by names they had before they were registered. More specifically, these are "given names".

This suggests that, wherever the names come from, reapers don't typically choose them for themselves. Undertaker, despite being the epitome of a reaper, was breaking customs right from the start by using his registration number.

I'm curious now why Othello just says "most of our kind" instead of "all of our kind, except this one". What other reaper changed their name, and why?

Of course, this all lines up very well with one of Undertaker's parallels in Mother3. There are 7 Magypsies in the game, just as there are 7 named reapers in the manga. (Eric and Alan's names have never been mentioned in the manga; Anderson hasn't either.) They are all named after musical modes: Aeolia, Ionia, Lydia, Doria, Mixolydia, Phrygia, and Locria. Locria deserts the others and changes their name to Fassad (like a façade). We don't learn that Fassad was a Magypsy until a while after they're destroyed. But this works with how Undertaker uses a given number instead of a given name... and then changes it to something else when he deserts his position.

One way to find Undertaker's given name when he chose to go by 136649? Have someone pull his old registration files. The given name he chose not to use should be there. Othello just didn't know because he never looked. Probably never had access to it. But I bet William does. And Sascha and Ludger might have seen it, too, by now. After all, William is sharing intel with them.

[animebw]

Thinking some more about Attack on Titan, I find the concept of Paths so fucking fascinating as it relates to the role of fate in classic tragedy. Because that’s what Attack on Titan is: a tragedy. At least it is for Eren, who’s followed the path of so many tragic protagonists before him (IMPORTANT NOTICE I AM ANIME ONLY IF YOU SPOIL ANYTHING FROM THE MANGA I WILL END YOU). Hamlet’s indecision, Oedipus’ arrogance, Othello’s wrath, all their fatal flaws led them down increasingly dark paths until they were finally swallowed up by them. And Eren is no different, made a slave to his rage by his mother’s death and pursuing that rage against his perceived enemy until the only way he could be at peace was by destroying the entire world.

But what would happen if, say, Othello was suddenly handed the script of the play that bears his name? What if he was granted the ability to see how his tragic tale would play out while he was still in the middle of living it? Would he try to reject his lines, change his story, re-write the play that dooms him to a tragic end? Or would he accept his fate and follow the path laid before him, knowing everything that’s coming but unable- or unwilling- to stop it?

Because that’s where Eren is right now. He’s a character on a stage that was just handed a copy of the script of his life, a script that shows him how his rage will eventually doom the world and everyone in it. The power of Paths shows him, in no uncertain terms, that his destiny is to become so consumed by hate that nothing less than global genocide will quell the heat. And instead of trying to fix himself and find a better way... he accepts it. Because deep down, I think he knows it’s too late. He’s been so poisoned by the darkness of this world that even if he tried to give up his anger now, its roots have already pushed too deep inside him to ever be pulled free. Even as he cries and apologizes to the children he will one day crush under foot, he knows he doesn’t have the strength of character to find a better way. The script is already written. The performance is well under way. And no matter how hard he might try, he’s already given too much of himself to this role to change this play’s bitter trajectory toward one last curtain call.

Attack on Titan is a story about many things. It’s about war. It’s about generational sins. It’s about lies and propaganda. It’s about the sins of nations falling on their civilians and how those civilians are affected by them. It’s about the compounding failures of humanity that may one day lead us to ultimate destruction. It’s about the need to break free of cycles of violence and fight for a world ruled by kindness. And here, at the end of all things, it’s about how hatred is as powerful a force as fate, driving those consumed by it toward their inevitable end no matter how desperately they thrash against the current. Hate, AOT argues, will eventually be the end of us. It will set us on a course we can never correct, no matter how many of us can see its bloody terminus. And unless we’re able to change before it’s too late, we’ll end up just like Eren: fully aware of the abyss we’re falling into, but too far gone to stop ourselves from plummeting to our doom far, far below.

Unless, of course, there are still people who haven’t taken the plunge, trying their hardest to pull us out before we take the world with us.

[lenbryant]

LONG POST - Cancel Shakespeare? No way!

(NYTimes) Make Shakespeare Dirty Again

Aug. 13, 2023, By Drew Lichtenberg

It seemed, for a moment, that Shakespeare was being canceled. Last week, school district officials in Hillsborough County, Fla., said that they were preparing high school lessons for the new academic year with some of William Shakespeare’s works taught only with excerpts, partly in keeping with Gov. Ron DeSantis’s legislation about what students can or can’t be exposed to.

I’m here to say: Good. Cancel Shakespeare. It’s about time.

Anyone who spends a lot of time reading Shakespeare (or working on his plays, as I have for most of my professional career) understands that he couldn’t have been less interested in puritanical notions of respectability. Given how he’s become an exalted landmark on the high road of culture, it’s easy to forget that there’s always been a secret smugglers’ path to a more salacious and subversive Shakespeare, one well known and beloved by artists and theater people. The Bard has long been a patron saint to rebel poets and social outcasts, queer nonconformists and punk provocateurs.

Yes, Shakespeare is ribald, salacious, even shocking. But to understand his genius — and his indelible legacy on literature — students need to be exposed to the whole of his work, even, perhaps especially, the naughty bits.

The closing lines of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20, addressed to the poem’s male subject, are among the dirtiest — and hottest — of the 16th century. “But since she pricked thee out for women’s pleasure, / Mine be thy love and thy love’s use their treasure.” A favorite trick of Shakespeare’s was to play with word order, especially when he wanted to disclose something too daring to be said in a more straightforward way, such as the love that dared not speak its name. The untangled meaning here: Your love ultimately belongs to me, sir, even if women (sometimes) enjoy your prick. Or, from the neck up you are as beautiful as a woman, and from the waist down you are all man.

Sex is one thing. The plays are also astoundingly gory. The bloody climax of “King Lear” so horrified the playwright Nahum Tate that he felt compelled to rewrite its ending. Tate’s sanitized version of “King Lear,” premiering in 1681, held the stage until 1838. In the 18th century, Voltaire called “Hamlet” the apparent product of a “drunken savage” who wrote without “the slightest spark of good taste”— which didn’t stop Voltaire, who also recognized Shakespeare’s “genius,” from openly borrowing from the Bard for one of his own plays.

In 1872 in “The Birth of Tragedy,” Friedrich Nietzsche praised this savagery. To him, Shakespeare contained the ne plus ultra of grisly truths. Hamlet, he wrote, “sees everywhere only the horror or absurdity of existence.” Nietzsche being Nietzsche, he considered this a good thing. Art, wrote Nietzsche, transforms “these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live.”

In light of Nietzsche’s counterintuitive epiphany, the notion of Shakespeare-the-hipster caught fire. Hamlet, uniquely among male roles in the classical canon, became an aspirational part for female theatrical stars looking to prove their bona fides and upend gender preconceptions: Sarah Bernhardt most famously, but also the great Danish actor Asta Nielsen. Shakespeare’s sonnets were a source of succor to decadent aesthetes such as Oscar Wilde, just as they had been to Charles Baudelaire. The writings and teachings of queer poets such as W.H. Auden and Allen Ginsberg suggests they saw themselves in Shakespeare’s works, as did anti-racist writers from James Baldwin to Lorraine Hansberry and Ann Petry.

Where the avant-garde led, pop culture followed. Shakespeare’s plays have always lent themselves to all manner of interpretations and they found new life in the postwar era, with landmark works like Basil Dearden’s “All Night Long,” a neo-noir film from 1962, which set “Othello” in a British jazz soiree. Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” in 1968 plugged into a different cultural zeitgeist, capturing onscreen the summer of love, while Roman Polanski’s film version of “Macbeth” in 1971 feels like an encomium for the dying utopian dreams of the ’60s.

In the transgressive ’90s, Shakespeare was everywhere: taboo, art house, alternative and cool. Gus Van Sant’s “My Own Private Idaho” reimagined Prince Hal and Hotspur as gay grunge gods and Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” featured Leonardo DiCaprio at the peak of his androgyne allure. Even “Shakespeare in Love,” a relatively middlebrow Oscar winner, presented a vision of the brooding, bearded, sexy Shakespeare, as embodied by Joseph Fiennes.

In many other cultures, the bawdy lowbrow and the poetic highbrow are often personified by separate champions: In France, it’s Rabelais and Racine; in Spain, Cervantes and Calderón. In English literature Shakespeare has always combined both brows into something rich, special and strange. In “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” one of Shakespeare’s most magical and sensual plays, Bottom — a man with the head of a donkey — spends the night in bed next to the fairy queen. He wakes up having had something close to a religious experience. Every play in the canon features something similarly subversive and transcendent — and all of them are essential.

One can no more take out the dirty parts of Shakespeare than one can take out the poetry. It’s all intertwined, so that Shakespeare seems almost purposefully designed to confound those who want to segregate the smutty from the sublime. His work is proof that profundity can live next to, and even be found in, the pornographic, the viscerally violent and the existentially horrifying. So if you’re looking for sex, gore and the unspeakable absurdity of existence in Shakespeare, you will definitely find it. That’s the genius of Shakespeare. And it’s precisely what makes his work worth studying.

Drew Lichtenberg is a lecturer at Yale University and the resident dramaturg at the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C.

[messytoybox]

Redraw

[pop-roxs]

ok so im pissing myself

[magicalara]

Time for Sweets!

Once again, I looked to @superjelly11​ for characters to make this about lol. There will be actual fics for Grelle and Undertaker at some point but until then, enjoy these!

TW: none it’s fluffy :)

❤ Madam Red ❤

- Alright well first off, my girl can’t bake to save her life. Cook, maybe, but only little things. Bake, though? Nope. She can’t stick to the recipe enough to get anything right.

- But when you bring up the idea of baking something together, she isn’t one to say no. Sure, she might make sure that whatever it is y’all are making isn’t too too sweet or unhealthy (she is a doctor after all), but Ann isn’t the kind of person to turn down anything that you make. Moreover, you wanna make it with her??? Her heart, it’s burst. You’re just too cute for her to handle.

- Doesn’t do much, though, if we’re being honest. She’s more of a “sit there and look pretty” kind of person when it comes to baking. Ann would much rather admire you as you mix everything together or measure out the ingredients. 

- Absolutely loves to see the concentration on your face while making sure that nothing is too much or too little. On the outside, she’s calm, cool, and collected but on the inside??? Nah she’s all kicking her feet, squealing, giggling. Madam is in love with you and all of your little mannerisms.

- Can’t help but squeeze your butt when you bend over to get something out of a cabinet or the oven. Gives you a loving but mischievous smile and a “What? I just couldn’t resist.” when you look at her after. Might laugh a little if you jump too, saying something like “Honestly, love, I do it enough where it shouldn’t startle you anymore.”

🐉 Lau 🐉

- In research for this I learned that Lau is 5 foot 10 (177 cm) and like??? I thought he was like 5′7″ or something but no motherfucker is taller than me. Granted he only has an inch on me but like still. My ego is gone /j

- Anyways, Lau’s another watcher. The only time he might (and this is a big might) help out is if it’s a Chinese desert that he likes. But even then he’d rather just. watch you. If you’re making something like cookies or cake he might not even be there if you don’t force him to either lol. My guy does not care about things he does not care about.

- Thankfully, he isn’t hard to negotiate with, especially considering that he loves you (even if he won’t say it out loud). Just give him the suggestion of a possible fun time in the bedroom while whatever you’re making is setting or resting or proofing or baking or [insert other form of thing where you have to wait that has to do with baking here] and he’s in. The promise of a favor is more than enough to peak his interest. Really, though, he’s mainly just teasing you and was probably going to sit nearby at the very least. 

- When he���s watching you, he’s very quiet. You can talk as much as you’d like and he’d listen, but he doesn’t give much input. Prefers watching your movements as you put things together and is almost mesmerized by it. If you aren’t much of a talker either, than it’s a comfortable silence as you work and he watches. This is just how Lau likes it to be, even when you or he are just doing something like paperwork. Quiet and comfortable, that’s the preferred atmosphere.

- Lau is a very much picky eater. He won’t eat things he doesn’t like. Your food is the only exception. For you, he’ll try anything once. If he doesn’t like it, tough luck, because he’s not eating it. If he does, though, then good job, you managed to please one of the hardest people to please.

- Also makes Ran-Mao try it. I should add that. I’m adding that.

🕶 William T Spears 🕶

- William, oh William. My dear William. The only actual person in this list that can bake. He can’t cook for shit. But he can bake! So he’ll actually help you!!

- If there’s one thing that Mr. Spears over here is good at, it’s following directions. And baking? It’s allll about following directions. (There’s an input here where Othello No Last Name Given is also good at baking because of this reason but he’s not on this list so...rip to him i guess)

- Likes to bake the like general baking stuff with you. Cookies, cakes, bread, things like that. He can’t do intricate designs but he can help put everything together and put it in the oven to bake. The most difficult thing he’s ever made was macarons but that was a one-time endeavor the two of you made and he’s sworn to never do it again. Macarons are too hard to make to do it more than once in a lifetime, is what he claimed, no matter how good they were after the many failed attempts.

- He once brought some of the cookies y’all made to work and that’s how William ended up getting roped into making sweets for everyone for a work party during the holidays. Ronald practically begs for him to bring more whenever you make them. He has a sweet tooth and your cookies are the only thing that can fix it.

- The time when Will is the sweetest and most affectionate is when you two are waiting for something to be done baking and so he’ll come up from behind you and hug you while slighty swaying back and forth. He feels most calm in that moment; the smell of whatever you baked in the air and the warmth of your body against his is grounding, he’d trade anything for these moments to last forever with you.

🎩 O!Ciel 🎩

- Poor child can’t do shit without his butler, I’m sorry to say. He takes after his father hard in his cooking skills, and that extends to baking as well.

- However!! Ciel has a big sweet tooth. That much is made clear. So the fact that you can bake and that you’re as close to Sebastian’s level as a human can be is like heaven to him. In other words, he makes frequent requests of things you should make for him.

- Ciel tends to not like to be in the kitchen in general, and this extends to you baking. He’s both too busy and doesn’t want to bother going. It’s not that he doesn’t care, because he does and he definitely appreciates the effort you put in to making things for him, he just has other things to do.

- But he will make time to try whatever it is you made with you, even if it’s only ten minutes. He even sends Sebastian away so you guys can have your own little you time.

- Overall, horrible baking partner, but nice company while eating.

🤍 Doll 🤍

- Baby child I love her. She grew up poor and, even when they got a bit more money from the circus, still didn’t spend much on baked goods. So when you bring her things that you made to try, she’s so happy and excited.

- Happy stims. Doll is the kind that will jump up and down and shake her hands when you bring her these things or allow her to help out. She might not always have time to help-help, but she’ll stay close so she can at least keep you company from time to time. 

- Doll will also go around to her brothers and sisters and make them try what you made for her. She’s so proud of it and happy she’s like “Look what they made me :D” and it’s absolutely adorable. 

- The time when she was able to help the most was when she came up with the idea of making cookies for everyone in the circus around a holiday like Christmas and so you and her stayed up until like 2 am making everything. It was hard, but she was so happy in the end. Anything to make Doll smile.

[grellestie]

I LOVE HOW OTHELLO'S TAG IS "othello no last name given"

he's really just othello lastname. imagine that's his actual last name

[sebastianmichaelisslander]

Some random Othello headcanons I had

• Loves wearing ties with quirky patterns on them - think wee dog bones, penguins wearing bobble hats, little rubber ducks in a row, etc. He’d even get one with the periodic table on it.

• Has pulled some INSANELY beautiful women the few times he’s actually been in a relationship. And incredibly handsome men, too. Ronald often wonders how someone who’s as much of a hermit as Othello has so much game - but it’s his amiable, mellow nature and awkward charm plus that dirty streak.

• As I’d said in another post, he’s a great storyteller and incredibly entertaining. So he’s a lot of fun on dates, but once he gets over his nerves. Can get very flustered around those he fancies, especially since he can’t remember the last time someone caught his attention.

• Smokes on occasion (inspired by @dont-call-me-algernon’s fic) - keeping hard candy and, ofc, liquorice on hand helps.

• Has a fondness for the morbid and macabre - especially in literary works. Goethe’s Faust, Frankenstein, and any of Poe or Lovecraft’s works are his thing.

• He has an artistic streak and is unexpectedly good at sketching - especially given that he’s probably been drawing quite a few diagrams, too.

• Is extremely fond of the Shakespearean play of the same name. Not majorly into Shakespeare though he’s read all his work to pass time, but Othello stands out to him - and not just because there may or may not be parallels between him and his fictional namesake.

• Can play the oboe. Don’t ask - it just made sense to me. Not to mention it’s considered one of the hardest instruments to master.

• Has quite the collection of highlighters, tape flags, correction pens, bookmarks, and even stationery organisers. However, his things are still almost always everywhere.