Author: tcdoherty

petermorwood:

dukeofbookingham:

reeve-of-caerwyn:

dukeofbookingham:

Types of Shakespeeps

Comedy people: hopeless romantics but also really into dick jokes; unfazed by the wildest coincidence but confused about their gender, their whole identity, or both

History people: either Team York or Team Lancaster and will fight you over it; on a first-name basis with several dead monarchs; on a weird personal crusade to exonerate their problematic fave and won’t shut up about it

Tragedy people: love to suffer and plan to take everyone else down with them; ready to die for the ‘aesthetic’; not-so-secretly into BDSM

Romance people: consider themselves exempt from the forces of time, geography, probably gravity; high like 90% of the time; career prospects include pirate, statue, bear

‘Problem play’ people: too serious for the comedies, too squeamish for the tragedies; have a really strong opinion about the end of Measure for Measure and will tell you about it whether you want to hear it or not; DISCOURSE FOR DAYS

Apocrypha people: Shakespeare hipsters

BONUS

Jonson people: don’t actually like Jonson but Shakesepare is too mainstream

I’m a history person and this is embarrassingly accurate.

This came around my dash again and I’d forgotten about it

Kyd, Tourneur and Beaumont & Fletcher people: think that Jonson people aren’t posing hard enough.

Also, Team York, though I couldn’t be arsed fighting about it. They did, and look where it got them. 

🔥 about mercedes lackey books, 🔥 about mythological creatures (NOT the one we already know about unicorns), 🔥 about uhhhhhhh anything you know that I like but dont necessarily follow closely yourself?

Oh, good ones!

Mercedes Lackey: While her inclusion of gay characters was and still is important to me, now that I’m an adult it does seem more than a little fetishy especially because there are lot’s of beautiful gay men~ but only one lesbian couple in the whole Valdemar series, and they’re side characters anyway. In her newer works the gay representation also seems to have disappeared other than being mentioned off-hand (and it being set in the past is no excuse.) She does a lot better than the vast majority of fantasy authors but it hasn’t evolved enough over time to be acceptable to me.

Mythical creatures: I’m not really sure if this is controversial or just weird but if you have a dragon character they should not be able to drink alcohol in my opinion (even in human form) b/c dragons are reptiles -> cold blooded -> alcohol lowers your body temperature. That’s how I write them, at least!

I don’t know very much about the stuff you follow so I’m gonna go with Dragon Prince and do a minorly controversial opinion: why is everyone so interested in drawing the one elf dude? He has like no personality. All he does is be an ass and then get imprisoned. He says like 15 lines in the whole show. I’m not that into it anyway but there are better characters to draw.

man.

I miss the Principessa series. I miss having something so absolutely batshit insane to talk about and look forward to.

I gotta try to get one of her other series and see if they’re anywhere near as good.