So tired of shallow readings of texts that begin and end with "these two men were gay for each other" ESPECIALLY bc it almost always goes hand in hand with dismissing all female characters out of hand. Yes nick was gay for gatsby but daisy is an extremely important part of novel and gatsby's relationship to her is absolutely vital. Yes goodnight sweet prince is a little fruity but I also care deeply about the tense gender politics of hamlet and ophelia's relationship and her position as a foil to him and also isn't it SO much more interesting if Hamlet really did love her? If he loved her and yet? Like I'm not saying these men aren't gay but it's not worth sacrificing the women of the story
idc that juliet and tybalt have no cannon interactions it’s okay i’ll just write them myself. they grew up together and are basically siblings, juliet adores tybalt and in turn he has a huge soft spot for her despite being a hashtag badass driven by violence and hate. he is like girl i’m transgender and she’s like i got us matching sword earrings #masc. she shoddily cuts his hair and he repeatedly fails doing hers. they drop food under the table for the cat. they squabble over little things. they used to pull little pranks on the nurse. they’ve been joint at the hip since kids. o god, did romeo’s hand shed tybalt’s blood?
why is shakespeare so good at creating relationships between characters that are just pure unadulterated obsessive psychosexual nightmares. why does this keep happening
every shakespeare play should have a final act that is Silly. make the tragedies comedies make the comedies tragedies. its shakespeare . characters shatter their reflections and fuck their narrative foils and get married by mistake. everyone gets cucked. kings get paper crowns put on their heads. i want orgies. bloodbaths. BEARS. i saw a production where a guy got murdered with a flute. more of this