SO.
In my Shakespeare class, we just read The Merchant of Venice (and watched the film with Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, and Joseph Fiennes).
AND OH MAH GAWWD ANTONIO AND BASSANIO.
THEY ARE SO IN LOVE
I SHIP IT LIKE BURNING
UGHHHH I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS
And according to Wikipedia, the director (and Jeremy Irons) didn’t intend for Antonio to be gay but JOSEPH FIENNES SHIPS IT and I don’t understand how the director doesn’t ship it because AUGHH THIS MOVIE WAS SO GAY AND IT WAS BEAUTIFUL AND EVERYTHING HURT
Also, everyone in the class ships it too. It wasn’t just me.
Woah, wait, he didn’t intend for it to be gay? Then wtf was with all the GAY OVERTONES? Like, the sly looks they give each other, the scene where they lay on the bed talking about love, um, the kiss??? I mean, I know men of Shakespeare’s era had much stronger platonic bonds than they do now, but watch that movie and LOOK at Antonio’s face when Bassanio kisses him. It’s not a look of surprise. It’s pain in knowing that he can never have Bassanio for himself.
Also, this movie is awesome because Al Pacino KILLS as Shylock. I was like “FUCK THEM CHRISTIANS BRO, I’M ON YOUR SIDE.”
That awkward moment when I’m a Christian ;D
Me: Hmmmm I'm not too sure about this character
Writers: We'll make you fall in love with them
Me: omg omg omg I love you my favourite character
Writers: lolololol lets kill them
Me: wait what
Writers: They die
Me: wait
Writers: They die
Me: No wait
Writers: Die
Me: NO PLEASE
Writers: DIEEEEEEEEE
As a black person, it always pisses me off that people are okay with a character being a half dragon, half elf hybrid, but if a character shows anything close to blackness there simply MUST be an explanation.
One day I will write a comic that makes people yell “OH SHIT” at each cliff hanger.
I feel like writers do what we do to “pay back” the world for all the kick ass adventures it gave us. Like, how many fighting comics have put me on the edge of my seat, man? I feel like I need to return the favor, you know?
Ahem.
Books? Are NOT compatible with all hands/eyes. Accessibility issues in terms of changing text size, changing font, changing page color and text color, having a screenreader incorporated and having images described are some of the REALLY SERIOUSLY VALID points That I’ve heard made concerning E readers and their advantages.
Can we stop having a pissing contest about books vs e readers and accept that they are two different and equally valid delivery methods of text, suitable for very different applications that happen to have a wide overlap? Each have their advantages and disadvantages and one need not supplant the other?
THE THING I LIKE BEST IS THE SUPERIOR CHOICE FOR EVERYONE.
Somewhere, a bard is whining about how the printed word will bring about the end of all knowledge.
Random_Nexus: Reblog if you love to write.
Whether it be fanfiction, original stories, drabbles, songs, poems, books, or anything that has to do with creative words, then reblog. Let’s gather all the writers of Tumblr together.
Back again, are we little meme? Oh, yes. ‘Love’ doesn’t quite convey the depth and dedication inherent in my…
Consider this: It is now 1:30 in the morning and I have to get up again at 6:30 to go to work tomorrow. Why am I still awake? Because I have been writing. Yep, it’s reasonably certain that I love to write.
You lucky 60,000 people! I freakin’ hate it. X_X
(Source: insaneandproudofit)
Fandom: Harry Potter
“Neville went back to where Luna and Hermion were both girl-porking with great kinkiness “fetish” HOT AND HEAVY and he pulls all his clothing off and lets it fall away to maybe land thousands of feet below and cause traffic accidents so you know its very bad to throw clothing off high places becuze you get the police and it is very bad!”
(Source: ghostfim)
I write like
J.k Rowling? Nice :)
Sampling three things for my english class I got H.G. Wells, Shakespeare, and Rudyard Kipling
Dan Brown???
H. P. Lovecraft.
I…okay. I mean, I didn’t…um. Right then.
Vladimir Nabokov
HOLY SHIT
Chuck Palahniuk
okay
i can work with thatMario Puzo
Stephen King
awesome
Edgar Allan Poe…
FUCKING YES!
J.K. ROWLING?????
HOLY FUCK
I DIDN’T SEE THAT AT ALL BUT AHH
I write like
Arthur Conan DoyleChuck Palahniuk
H P Lovecraft.
Need to read some new things now…
H.P. Lovecraft
First it told me Anne Rice, then it told me Chuck Palahniuk, then it told me Anne Rice again, and then it told me Chuck Palahniuk. Now it tells me Cory Doctorow. And now James Joyce… and now Ursula K. Le Guin.
So, apparently I write tidy domesticity like Stephen King and porn like Arthur C. Clarke.
Also, I’m going to guess it goes by vocabulary more than style because I put in a story that involved a spider and woods and got J.R.R. Tolkien, even though this is a story about a semi-anthropomorphic spider messily devouring buxom pixies.
Chuck Palahnuik
greeeeeeeeaaaaat…
(Source: vivianesection)