#the skateboard of shakespeare

[hekateinhell]

Anne Rice plotting out Louis's (permanent) death in the early notes for Merrick...

Since I was already referencing a response I gave to a question about Armand's possible reaction to Louis's suicide attempt earlier today, I remembered this that I stumbled on while going through the Anne Rice Collection at Tulane — which in a way answers that very same question:

This scene has to be major in the novel, and as I see it now, Claudia will be extremely horrible to Louis and drive him to suicide.

Louis will expose himself to the sun, and the others will find his burned body in its coffin on the flat portion of the slate roof of the townhouse.

Those who will come together, having felt the passing of Louis will include Armand and Merrique.

David will be for scattering all the ashes of Louis. But Armand and Lestat will refuse to do it. Then Lestat will be won over. Armand will want to pour blood on the ashes. Armand and Lestat will get in a battle, and finally Armand will give up, and Lestat will pick up the lumps of charcoal of the body, pulverize them and scatter them to the winds.

Okay, but Armand and Lestat battling over whether Louis can be brought back to life? Lestat scattering Louis's ashes while Armand presumably watches, defeated? My heart!

Next time you complain about Merrick, remember... it could've ended like this.

I love Louis and I love him with Armand and Lestat both (separately and all together), so of course I'm very grateful Anne didn't go this route! But the idea that she might've??? 🫢

I'm not up to write this level of Angst™️ and do it justice but it's definitely something that could be explored further in fic! And it is one (of many lmao) instances where you can see such a stark difference between where Anne started and where she ended with her novels.

[monstersinthecosmos]

remember when Marius said that de Romanus was an alias so that he could protect his real living family's anonymity? because WHAT IF THIS IS A CLUE.

[apoptoses]

Happy fanon birthday Armand, the wizened funeral spirit, the beloved immortal idiot, the one who would endure, and one of Anne’s very best creations ♥️ Here’s to 540-some years of driving mortals and immortals alike insane in the best way.

[traitorsinsalem]

old people are so cool i love old people. cooking for old people and having meals with them is the coolest also.

[goldnhourwrites]

HEARTSTEEL COLLEGE AU HEADCANONS

This phrase seized me yesterday and I have not been able to stop thinking about it. Who knows, maybe I'll write a fic :)

inspired by my experiences as a college student in the US!

Yone

Pre-med student with a minor in psychology

Does peer tutoring and notetaking for his biology classes

always doing work. being a pre-med student is so much Work All The Time. this is why Yone is always seen with coffee and dark circles under his eyes.

He manages fairly well for someone with so much on his plate - he keeps an impressively functional sleep schedule (goes to bed at 10pm every night, wakes up at 8am every morning)

Is an RA (resident advisor) for his dorm floor and tries to be a good resource for freshmen

Bikes everywhere, enjoys taking walks/getting outdoors for a break from studying

Likes to make and listen to music in his free time (which is not a lot)

Sett

Majoring in athletic training to be a sports coach

Student athlete on the wrestling team - spends a lot of time training and traveling to meets off-campus, so he's not around much until the off-season

Hangs out with the boxing club when he's not doing wrestling

Part of an all-men a capella group and enjoys singing/rapping

Joined a fraternity in his sophomore year because most of the wrestling team was on it and enjoys chilling with his friends in it

Casually bakes things in his free time and brings them to the wrestling team/his classmates/office hours/his frat brothers

K'Sante

Anthropology major, education minor - interested in becoming a teacher/professor and enjoys working with kids

Also a student athlete, on the powerlifting team

Part of a hip-hop dance group on campus and likes to choreograph

Involved in campus queer life and helps organize/run events

Takes voice lessons - used to play trumpet, but didn't have time for both in his schedule

Also part of a fraternity, enjoys the sense of community it offers and plays an active part in organizing/managing their social events

Seems like he's constantly busy, but always makes time for his friends and enjoys the feeling of being on-the-go

Ezreal

History major with a minor in classics (studies Latin/ancient Greek literature and languages)

Acts with a theater club in his spare time - loves musical theater and plays, especially Shakespeare

Hung out in the history/special collections section of the library so much he got a student job there

Loves wandering around campus to find cool, obscure places that he's probably not supposed to be in

Joined a debate team in his freshman year (Kayn was on it) (they hated each other)

Big on going to parties but can't handle alcohol so instead of getting drunk he goes back to his dorm and falls asleep at like 11pm

Aphelios

Computer science major with a minor in graphic design

Does digital art and traditional art; enjoys taking studio art classes when his schedule isn't full

Occasionally does game design and similar coding projects

In the orchestra and plays the violin!

Enjoys physically making things every once in a while - jewelry, paintings, etc. and often doodles in a sketchbook absentmindedly

Sometimes publishes his art and poetry in a student magazine under a pseudonym

Kayn

Political science or government major with a minor in studio art

Spends a lot of time in the woodworking/metalworking studios, partially for art classes and partially because he just likes hands-on projects

Plays electric guitar and was part of a student band for a while (the one he got kicked out of)

Likes parkour and rock climbing, regularly shows off his ability to climb up things that he definitely should not be climbing on

Member of a fraternity (but it's the kind that throws a bunch of parties and probably has illegal drugs)

Goes out to party every weekend and doesn't wake up until 1pm the next day

Skateboards everywhere and knows a bunch of cool tricks

Alune

Film production major with a minor in biology

Part of a fashion design club and does photoshoots for/with them

Does a capella and loves performing! Does musical theater every once in a while

Active in political causes on campus

Works as a barista in one of the campus cafés

Likes to roller skate around

i have a couple combined/group headcanons that i'll post tomorrow if i have time :3 this AU has grabbed me and is currently shaking me by the shoulders and won't let go

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

good morning to teenagers with bald spots, French horn players, night school dropouts, Juilliard-trained Shakespeare performers, morbid hippies, antisocial skateboarders, greatest voice actors of our generation, Murder She Wrote bit parts, amateur conductors, gay icons, and most of all to people unable to escape the absurdly huge effect M*A*S*H has had on their lives

[mythicalmagical-monkeyman]

May I ask for headcanons on monkeys? Maybe Sun Wukong ? :3c Yours are so cool and cute

I loved the one when he shapeshifts his height IT'S SO CUTEEE he totally would lmao

I'll leave u one of my favorites here as an offering:

I hc Wukong using A LOT of glamour, even more than Macaque bc of all the punishments he got. Because the implications are so >:3c the scenariossss *evil hehe*

aww, ty (also sorry this took awhile)

& YES, agree so many glamours on that guy

his dog form is called loaf and his cat form is named sun wu-paw

Wukong inhales carbs, this man does not care what the fuck he eats, HE WILL EAT A FUCKING BLENDER IF IT SUITS HIS FANCY

He's a farmer, he's got a little garden and peach orchard on ffm he's boss at taking care of

He's very picky about his music tastes

He pirates a lot online shit

He sleeps in a hammock

He's very very fast especially when he runs on all fours

Despite his monkey instincts he tries he best to act as human as possible bc he wants humans 2 like him

Bc he was alone for a long ass time he got into all kinds of weird shit like mafia, conspiracy theories, marketing, etc.

bc of the trigram furnace messing up his eyes, he learned to rely heavily on his sense of smell and now he can sniff out things better than Macaque, like he can tell the different spices used in meatballs just from smelling them

Bonus Macaque headcanons:

Macaque does not have a sleep scheduled He also can't fucking taste anything bc he was dead He also has everyone's names saved on his phone as the worst possible names ever (ex. Mei = lizard girl) and lastly he is the biggest theater/poetry nerd ever. You ask him to quote Shakespeare/Edger Allen Poe/Oscar Wilde the bro will pull a quote out of his ass every single time.

oh yeah HE HAS A DUCK

Bonus Bonus mk head canons:

he's very into code names and tried to give everyone code names, it has yet to catch on.

Bro skateboards and mk is actually his skater name

[befickleforever]

If you liked [inside no 9 episode] watch [film] : a guide. Part 1

(Some of these films go off vibes alone, whilst others are the films that directly inspired the episode. For example, we all know where the wicker man will be included)

If you liked ‘Simon Says’, consider:

- Misery (1990). After a serious car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, who claims to be his biggest fan.

- Sunset Boulevard (1950). An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young screenwriter to help set up her movie comeback.

- Perfect Blue (1997). A young Japanese singer is encouraged by her agent to quit singing and pursue an acting career, beginning with a role in a murder mystery TV show.

- The King of Comedy (1982). Rupert Pupkin is a failure in life but a celebrity in his own mind, hosting an imaginary talk show in his mother's basement.

- The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011). Martin, a mentally disturbed loner that obsesses over the film The Human Centipede (First Sequence), kidnaps a group of people to create his own 'human centipede' to act out his perverse sexual fantasies.

If you liked ‘The Understudy’ consider:

- Sleuth (1972). This mystery finds Andrew Wyke, a wealthy author of detective novels and game aficionado, facing off against his wife's lover, Milo Tindle, a middle-class hair salon-owner.

- Richard III (1995). A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness.

- Throne of Blood (1957). Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures.

- Theatre of Blood (1973). After an unsuccessful attempt at suicide, Lionheart sets out to murder all of his critics, each with a different style of death taken from a Shakespeare play.

If you liked ‘The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge’ consider:

- Witchhammer (1970). When a beggar is caught hiding her communion wafer, the hunt for witches begins.

- The Witch (2015). In 1630 New England, panic and despair envelops a farmer, his wife and their children when youngest son Samuel suddenly vanishes.

- Witchfinder General (1968). When Matthew Hopkins is appointed Witchfinder General by the Puritans under Cromwell, he is empowered to travel the countryside with his henchmen and collect a fee for each witch from whom he extracts a confession - a policy which is exploited to the full.

If you liked ‘The Harrowing’ consider:

- Carry on Screaming! (1966). An investigation into the disappearance of several young women leads two bumbling Victorian detectives to the home of Dr Watt and his vampish sister Valeria.

- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014). Residents of a worn-down Iranian city encounter a skateboarding vampire who preys on men who disrespect women.

If you liked ‘Mr King’ consider:

- The Wicker Man (1973). Sergeant Howie arrives on the small Scottish island of Summerisle to investigate the report of a missing child.

- In The Earth (2021). A scientist and park scout conduct a routine experiment while the world looks for a cure to a lethal virus and as the night progresses, they experience unexplainable things.

- Midsommar (2019). Dani's psychological trauma affects her relationship with Christian, her lover. However, when they visit their friend's ancestral commune in an effort to mend things, it changes their lives forever.

- The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971). Ralph Gower and a local judge are on a quest to get a bunch of possessed kids with a strange fur on their skin under control after they end up killing the locals.

[actually-nagito]

“why are they making Romeo and Juliet woke” I’m sorry? interracial Romeo and Juliet is “woke”? wait until you hear about how Juliet was played by a man in Shakespeare’s time because women weren’t allowed to act. the whole point of Romeo and Juliet is a story between two lovers that have family who disapproves their relationship. I don’t think you actually understand the story of Romeo and Juliet “But that’s not what shakespeare intended” I assure you shakespeare probably didn’t intend for a high school production of midsummers done entirely on skateboards but adaptations are fun. ROMEO AND JULIET WAS WRITTEN AS A PLAY if you’re complaining that it’s not like the 1996 film, which had guns instead of swords, mafia feuds, and most notably WAS A FILM, I hate to break it to you but the 1996 film is not a historically accurate portrayal of Romeo and Juliet. if you want a historically accurate Romeo and Juliet then go direct it yourself. people are allowed to direct according to their vision.

[mikesoup]

hyperspecific poll time

[seeminglyseph]

Love that Ladyknightthebrave’s twelfth night video does have the clip of like… skateboard burrito fever dream Shakespeare to illustrate the variety of ways Shakespeare can be adapted. That’s a pull that might not be as niche as I think it is, but still feels like “here’s one for the tumblr classic lit nerds and people who think they’ll classic lit nerds on tumblr”

[hekateinhell]

Lestat on Armand, from one of Anne's drafts of her unpublished Lestat & Louis XIV novel (1998-1999):

I felt a profound comprehending affection for Armand, a love that is sometimes flaming, not the cold helpless and pointless love I knew before only because we had known each other for a long time.

I looked into his dark brown eyes, tinged just a little red from the nearby vigil lights burning in their glasses, and I let my thoughts flow to him with all the heat of this new respect.

It's so interesting to me how Anne saw the constrasting nature of vampiric relationships and the varying degrees of affection and intimacy they can feel for one another — for instance: "the cold helpless and pointless love because we'd known each other for a long time" versus a "love that is sometimes flaming." It's so passionate and poignant!

I really wish this was a concept she would've expanded upon in general, but also there's just so much background character and relationship lore in her drafts and her diaries that I wonder about the stuff she had in her head that didn't even make it onto there!

[monstersinthecosmos]

Some Marius/Pandora content from the Pandora draft at Tulane:

He set me down in the middle of this library, amid its couches and racks of scrolls. He stared at me. Beautiful Marius. I realized he was looking right at my nipples, at how pink they were, and then shamelessly he let his eyes wander over my entire form. I didn't realize yet that all wrinkles of age had been smoothed away. I knew only that I intoxicated with my new vision and that he desired me so much his heart was quivering in him. I reached over and pulled at his tunic. I pulled at the buckle he wore on his shoulder. "What are you doing." "I want to see you as well," I said. "I want to see this marvelous Osirian phallus, that is now no more than an ornament." He rebuckled his tunic. "Why do you cause me pain like this? Why?" "Because you treat me badly," I said. He stepped forward and clasped my face. He meant to kiss me. I wouldn't have it. "Look, master magician. Conjure up a tunic for me. It's not my habit to launch into religious debates while stark naked." He was poisoned by my words. It broke my heart to see how I had hurt him. I did not want to see the blood film rise in his eyes. But I knew his pain as if it had tentacles and they could surround me and draw me deeper and deeper to the core.

I fucking can't get over the concept of Marius as a fledgling trying to make sense of desire and thirst and sexuality. Pandora is so much more open about wanting to poke at it and figure it out and yet he's so burdened and traumatized already, so unable to be vulnerable. I wish we got more canon about this time phase of vampirism from other characters aside from David in the beginning of Merrick, it's really so underexplored!

[apoptoses]

The skateboard of Shakespeare! She was insane for that, thank you so much for sharing!

I saw some people on Twitter discussing who’d be more likely to forget Armand’s birthday out of the main vamps and people were seriously saying Daniel would be the most likely to forget/not give a fuck and I was like EXCUSE ME???? Quoting a tweet verbatim here: “he’d be like ‘oh you have one of those?’”. The sheer disrespect to my king 😤 I’m all for welcoming everyone’s meta and headcanons with open arms but in what world does Daniel forgetting/not caring about Armand’s birthday make any sense!?

That's so shocking, tbh I wonder if those people are show fans? Daniel in DM was so curious about everything about Armand, surely he would have needled him about his personal details like whether he has a birthday, or if vampires celebrate the date of their turning.

Honestly I've always headcanon'd Daniel coming up with Armand's 'birthday'. With Armand's memory issues chances are he wouldn't have known when he was born, and in the 15th century orthodox catholic communities often celebrated someone on the day of the saint they were named for, not their actual day of birth. In fact birthdays as we know them didn't really rise in popularity until the 18th century. And while Louis and Armand were together in the 19th century I don't see Louis as having been big on birthday celebrations as a concept at the time, considering all the grief he was going through over Claudia.

So in my mind Daniel hassled Armand about his birthday until he figured out Armand was dodging answering because he didn't really know. So on a random night in November Daniel plunked down a gift alongside a grocery store cake with a candle stuck in it and declared it Armand's birthday. And yeah, yeah, Armand can't eat cake but he can still blow out the candle and then creep on Daniel eating it, which is just as good.

Maybe Armand was a little skeptical of the idea at first but by the next year he'd come around it, and during the heyday of their time in NYC he had some truly spectacular birthday parties (and had good fun making up a new age for himself each time, and making daniel put that number of candles on the cake- sometimes 17, sometimes 490, which their friends thought a great joke even if they did nearly light the club on fire that night).

I also sometimes think about how it would have been easier for Daniel to handle celebrating Armand's birthday rather than his own, because as the years crept on it would be a reminder of his own mortality. 30 years old and still without the thing he wants most, still creeping toward death. Not that they didn't have some fights on Armand's birthday nights about how it's all a big joke, that Armand will see 500, 600, 700 and Daniel will be lucky to make it to 50 at this rate. But those were easier repaired than the arguments on Daniel's own birthday (which in my mind he still doesn't celebrate, and instead prefers to celebrate the night of his turning).

So YEAH anon I think there's so much to mine on the subject of Armand and Daniel and birthdays and to have Daniel outright 'forget' or dismiss it is a big missed opportunity!!

[unhonest-iago]

BNHA Fic Masterlist

Bento Box; Reader makes bento boxes for Aizawa in attempts to get the man to eat more [GN]

Touch Starved; Aizawa always offered y/n a shoulder to cry on. Or y/n finally takes him up on his offer [Male]

Death Rattle; How Aizawa, Kurogiri, & Present Mic (separately) react to y/n's death [GN]

For Free?; Pro heroes Eraserhead, All Might, & Midnight react to their wiki feet pages

Malicious Gentle Parenting; If Aizawa knew what Hizashi's plan was, he would never have gone to him. 'Alright! When one you starts giving me attitude, I'm gonna start hitting on mom.'

Hand Clap; Hcs about Class 1-A comparing hand sizes

Electives; Hcs about the electives that Class 1-A & Class 1-B take

Bartender ≠ Mathematician; Denki finally gets carded by a bartender when one finally realizes he's under the legal drinking age

Freeze Gopher; Kirishima reminds Todoroki of his dad

Just Keep Swimming; Endeavor teaches Hawks how to swim

Lulled to Sea; In which both Hawks & Endeavor hear the same siren song, somehow ended up as a soulmates au

Fauna-Flora; Bakugou gifts Deku a bouquet saying 'fuck you' in flower language

Not a Damsel; Bakugou notices something off about the way l/n’s punching but he can’t put his finger on it. Ends in Bakugou taking care of y/n’s injured hand [Fem]

Trapped; Bakugou safewords while trying sensory deprivation with y/n. Bringing up past memories [GN]

Till Death Do Us Part; Dabi and Hawks meet in a different life and actually get to grow old together

Phoenix; 'From the moment, Dabi first saw Hawks, he knew he was looking at a lost soul.'

Flame Boy; Todoroki headcanons and his friendships w/ Class 1-A

Pebble; Touya teaches Shouto how to skateboard

Blank Canvas; Tamaki lets Reader paint his back [Male]

Dick Jokes; Dabi takes Reader up on their dare to read Shakespeare, ends up not understanding the bard's sex jokes. Reader explains it to him. [GN]

Wtf is This?; Dabi finds y/n's sex toy. Or y/n lies their way out of a sticky situation [GN]

Achoo; Dabi takes care of reader while they're sick [GN]

Time to Face the Music; Reader's fed up at being mistreated by the hero commission and Hizashi's oblivious to it end clashing into a tumultuous combo. [Fem]

Like Mother, Like Son; Bakugou takes after his mom in that he aggressively starts hitting on Deku once he realizes he likes him romantically

[confuzzled-crow77]

Brian Kelly School Headcanons

Gleaming the Cube (1989) is a crazy, skateboarding movie where the main character, Brian Kelly, does not get enough credit for being beautiful (and also solving his brother's murder and being an expert skateboarder and other unimportant stuff like that). Some of these are kind of a given just from watching the movie; if you feel like I'm mischaracterizing (word??) him, please, please, please tell me.

Given the obvious stares and looks of shock when he did his drastic (-pasty, snotty-) change, he's pretty well known in the school to be the bad boy skater.

He'd be the class clown, purposefully interrupting class (although he'd either dial it down or all the way up in his few classes with Vinh).

Some would like him because he'd burn class time debating about the teacher's choice in chalk or making a ruckus with his friends; before the teacher would know, class is over, the bell rang, and half the students are out the door before they could give homework because of Brian.

It might just be me, but I think I'd be on his not-fantastic side because I'd walk to the wrong side of the sidewalk to get out of his way. He's zipping past on his skateboard and yelling for people to move to get to school and I'd panic and take thirty seconds to decide which way to go. Just me? ...okay. Anyway, moving on-

He and Vinh both have pretty large friend groups of people who are like them; those two friend groups have plenty of people who don't like each other, since one is a skater gang of upstarts and class clowns and the other is a study group of top students. Whenever there are feuds, Brian either ignores it or makes a show of talking to and fistbumping Vinh to half-signal to his friend and Vinh's friend to chill tf out.

To the ones who give him dirty looks in the hallway, he gives a passive aggressive smile and a little wave, which usually catches the attention of his friends. Under the stare of a friend group containing 6 '3 Tony Hawk, they turn away quickly.

Fidgets with his earring, either jangling it around, or pulling it in and out. This is when he's extremely bored and got separated from his friends.

All teachers dread him. He's the one with the reputation that transcends grades. There was an instance where a teacher, very wary and strict to him, was on the good side of Vinh, and he asked Brian to stop picking little fights with the teacher. Brian reluctantly agreed and then started to volunteer to hand out papers before class and such, and the teacher became even more wary and suspicious of him.

The Shakespeare section was Hell to him. Vinh tried to help by quoting it in random situations and asking Brian what it meant; he just burst out laughing at how stupid he sounded.

All his presentations where he got to choose what he did was on skating or punk music; he finally had a 100% to show his parents.

Wasn't a glue drinking kid; he gnawed on pencils, though.

More concerned with tossing shoes out of his closet to find the pair he wants than combing his hair. More concerned with putting milk before cereal (I'm kidding! I'm kidding! Then he'd deserve to go to jail /hj Maybe, I don't know- kidding!) than remembering to grab the crumpled homework on the table.

Has probably started a mass cafeteria food fight; one orange slice hit him in the side of the face and then he started the next world war.

Actually really good at fundraisers, since he's an extroverted boi and a lot of people know him from skateboarding all around town.

Everybody has at least a sliver of an opinion on him. The school is cleanly split into two: slightly negative and slightly positive. Slightly negative comes from the people who know him as, "The Loud Kid who Almost Ran me over this Morning." The slightly positive people are the ones who either hate school and like him wasting class, or the ones who take one look at him and agree with me: he's peak gender envy (I mean, that time was around when that kind of style was getting popular [I think]).

After Vinh died and the canon movie ends, I like to think that he went back to his more skater boy style but still tried harder to get good grades. Whenever he gets a good score, before showing his parents or friends or Tina, he goes to Vinh’s grave to proudly show him.