#stagepresenceofapotato

[theteaisaddictive]

shakespeare adaptations ☕️

thanks, babe!

so imo, a really good shakespeare adaptation is one that engages, on some level, with what the play is about. thematically, i mean. like how othello is about race, and maan is about gender.

to speak about maan first, i very recently saw a production which gender swapped beatrice to bertram and leonato to leonata. on vibes alone this play worked fantastically, because all of the actors were charismatic enough to pull off their roles without having to think too hard about it. but also, does the 'oh god, that i were a man' speech work as well if the actor playing beatrice is a man? does leonato's joke that his wife has 'many times told [him] so' that hero is his daughter work as well when she's a woman, making the joke about herself? honestly, i don't think so. the context of the larger play is such that thematically, it is more cohesive if the character's genders are as written. that's obviously not to say that changes should never be made -- betram was a femme gay man, a very obvious outsider to the boy's club of the soldiers, and that made the speech work. likewise, a female benedick could work despite the lines of 'it is a man's office, but not yours'.

regarding othello, a few years ago i saw a national theatre production where iago was also played by a black actor, and his wife emilia was played by a desi woman. it was also a modern-day production, really bringing into sharp focus the themes and ideas of racism, colonisation (othello is a soldier after all), and the ways that 'model minorities' hurts everyone. i haven't read or watched as many versions of othello as i have maan, so my analysis is going to be weaker, but even with the cringy white rapping scene the production really highlighted and built upon the themes of the play.

this is ofc not to say that choices in shakespearean productions can't be made on vibes alone. the gwendoline christie midsummer night's dream where they changed the script so titania and oberon said each other's lines was a fucking delight, even if they did lean super hard into the 'real world is oppressive and masculine and ordered, fairy world is free and feminine and chaotic' thing that literally everyone does with mnd. likewise, versions of romeo and juliet where the feud is altered to lines of race or queerness also Work, because the themes are so universal. the maan i saw which had a gay bertram and benedick was definitely floating on The Vibes, and i had a fucking fantastic time attending. i just think that you get a little more out of it when you do thematic shit as well!

[cinderellasfella]

overrated fall flick ☕️ (and underrated, if you feel so inclined 😁)

I honest to god can't think of any autumn movies I'd find overrated, so I'll go with underrated and say Little Women (1994). A lot of people see it as Christmas movie, but I always found the images of Concord in the autumn so striking and beautiful. It's a story of growing up, of change and transition, and I think it fits very nicely into those cozy evenings as they get longer and longer.

[wizardysseus]

the Nerve of you to make me care about ouat... in the year of our lord 2021...

this show was on the air until 2018 it ain't been that long

[bi-queer-ious]

bridget potts?? 👀👀👀

ok so the name change is purely because i just……..beatrice potts, much as i love it, is not a name i can get behind. bridget potts we can actually talk to.

on an unrelated topic, remember how the castle is literally full of queer people? and that a whole bunch of the servants’ first assumption was that belle would break the curse with romantic love?? and that mrs potts has a very close relationship with eve – some might even say, maternal???

👀👀👀👀

[grinningstan]

quarantine q&a

tagged by @stagepresenceofapotato

Are you staying home from work/school?

mostly. still working 1 day a week but with almost no contact with people. other than that, i’m home :)

If you’re staying home, who’s with you?

my mother and my sister.

Are you a homebody?

absolutely, and i’m thriving in isolation

What movies have you watched recently?

‘maurice’ (1987) & ‘portrait of a lady on fire’ (2019) bc gay rights

Show?

just rewatched all of ‘penny dreadful.’ second season of ‘what we do in the shadows’ is my lifeblood rn tho

An event that was cancelled that you were looking forward to?

my local production of hamlet :( i was going to be ophelia...

What music are you listening to?

hozier & spring awakening. we’re in some VIBES, fellas.

What are you reading?

“blood countess” by lana popović. so far so good considering i’m not a YA reader usually. i have Thoughts but also on a more primal level i’m just vibing for the wlw

What are you doing for self care?

setting a strict bedtime to keep a schedule, and reading sessions curled up with my cat :)

tagging: @actualesmeralda, @pdiddytech, @officialdavemalloy

[mrjambert]

5 fave movies tagged by @stagepresenceofapotato​

Mulholland Drive: dir David Lynch

The End of Evangelion: dir Hideaki Anno & Kazuya Tsurumaki

Blade Runner 2049: dir Denis Villenueve 

The Empire Strikes Back: dir Irvin Kershner 

The Big Lebowski: dir Joel Coen

ain’t taggin anyone in particular if you see this and want to do it go right ahead

[mirrorbluesara]

Happy happy birthday @stagepresenceofapotato

[stagepresenceofapotato]

damn-im-cute -> stagepresenceofapotato

[theteaisaddictive]

me and @stagepresenceofapotato have uncovered the venn diagram of patrick page's career . . . . hades and frollo (black costume), frollo and adult man (spring awakening) (suppressing h*rny), green goblin and the grinch (green), green goblin and hades (capitalism), scrooge and hades (religious figure), lumiere and frollo (french)

[cinderellasfella]

i've descended into wandavision hell and it's mostly your fault. bringing back the antman fbi dude? incredible 👌🏻

Yes, yes, just as I planned...

I hope you’re enjoying your stay, at any rate! And yes, I would both kill and die for Jimmy Woo 😂

[cinderellasfella]

seeing that agnes reveal like "oooh, she was a Witch for halloween, i've connected the dots!!"

rude and homophobic that big disney isnt letting me binge this...

Oh my god, that’s the exact mood I had. Just a full on galaxy brain moment 😂😂😂

And I mean, I do prefer the weekly release format to binging since it keeps your interest longer and all that... but at the same time, I always need to to be next Friday right this second 😂.

[theteaisaddictive]

69 B)

;))

69. Settle For Me - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Cast (feat. Santino Fontana)

[cinderellasfella]

where do you post your fics?

Oh, they’re on AO3 under cinderellasfella, same as here! It’s mostly Marvel with the one Frozen fic from yonks ago XD

If this in relation to my tag on the earlier ao3 comment post, I’m really sorry, it comes off awfully whiny looking at it now and I’ve decided to get rid of it. You’re welcome to check my fics out if you like, but please don’t feel pressured to do so <3

[theteaisaddictive]

12 and 30?

thanks!!

12. if you could make a candle that smelt like anything, what would you pick?

uuuhhhhh you know what?? a vanilla-scented candle that doesn’t make me feel like i’m being rolled up in a musty carpet, i’d take that! what is it with specifically vanilla candles and smelling so goddamn bad??

30. a song that makes you want to have a boogie round your bedroom

oh god, literally any given song at any moment. i’m having a bit of a 2000′s moment here though, so i’ll say reach by s club 7. 

[theteaisaddictive]

fashion icon eve, approximately 2 seconds after regaining her humanity: hold up, i gotta put on my read stockings

we stan 👍🏻

the woman has her priorities in order, what can i say?

[theteaisaddictive]

1,2,5 for author asks 💛✍

thanks, honey!! 

1. Where do you typically get your ideas?

uhh, varies i guess? like, sometimes i’ll be watching something and be like, ‘GBBO KITELLA AU NOW, PLEASE’, and other times it just kind of comes to me??

2.  When you’re writing a new story, what is the one thing you need to know before you can start?

where, generally, it’s going. this is easier for my batb retellings because the answer is, most of the time, ‘belle and the beast together’; likewise, the kitella role reversal is going to end with the two of them together in the palace. the details can be fuzzy, though; for a rose’s thorn it took me a good few months to figure out how exactly belle and benoit would reunite

5.  How do you know when a story is “done”?

i guess when i don’t feel the need to ‘fill in the gaps’ anymore, if that makes sense? like, behind a fair facade has two or three epilogues just taking about what happened next for belle and adam, but i would never do a sequel because it’s not needed. likewise for a rose’s thorn; i could see some value in doing a sort of, ‘this is what they were doing during the seven years’ short fic, but their story ends, quite happily considering what i put them through, with benoit falling asleep in belle’s shop and a montage of their future years together