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reposting this from twitter bc it's making me lose my mind

I finished the first book in the series. I came here to see if anyone else liked the first book like I did. 

Whoah! 

Maybe I should ease on back out the door I came in...

Shipping wars get ugly fast. 

I still enjoyed the book though. 

the fact the new series of hypothetical isn’t allowed to talk about the pandemic just in case people forget it happened is genuinely the funniest thing i’ve ever heard

Sanditon seems like it might do better on a bigger budget streaming service.

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Niles: Dad, have you mentioned Eddie yet? 

Frasier: Eddie?!

Niles: Ta-ta!

Frasier: Oh, no, Dad, no, no! Not Eddie!

Martin: But he’s my best friend!

Frasier: But he’s weird! He gives me the creeps! All he does is stare at me! 

I get the feeling that before this is over he and Ceresi are going to get it on, at least once. He is her type after all. Why else cast an actor this attractive? He looks like Jamie does in the books. 

I can imagine Ceresi sleeping with him, thinking it’ll placate him (a callback to the Euron scene in episode one), only for him to immediately reply:

Harry: “That was all well and good, but you still need to pay the gold cloaks our salary. Our real salary.” 

I can’t wait for the memes if that happens. 

Don’t judge, but I ship this new character, Harry Strickland, with Sansa

For all that tumblr complains about the writing for female characters on this show, at least these female characters actively do something and D&D write for them

Jon Snow: His entire arc was invalidated in one episode, his parentage was there for the sole purpose of turning Dany paranoid considering Jon himself was not allowed to deal with the ramifications of it. Jon himself has no reactions to things happening around him and makes idiotic decisions to drive the plot. His entire season 1-7 arc invalidated.

Bran: Has done nothing of consequence and there was no point in watching his early season journey and him becoming the 3ER. Utterly useless character on the show.

Jaime: No redemption arc, nothing. He died as Cersei’s lackey. No meaning to his arc with Brienne

Tyrion: If he had fallen off the boat and drowned in season 5, it would have been the best thing to happen to Dany considering what a moron the show has turned him into. All he does is stand there and look sad about Dany.

Folks complaining about the female characters. At least the female characters have agency and actively drive the plot.

Dany decides this is it and takes KL with fire and blood.

Sansa actively schemes against Dany and sets this plot in motion with Varys.

Arya kills the NK and and is the hero of the long night.

Cersei holds her ground and KL till the very end.

The men on the other hand are useless lackeys. There is no development there, they actively regressed and became more dumb to prop up the female characters, they had no story other than to serve as plot devices. So if you are complaining about bad writing, at the least acknowledge that the bad writing affected all characters, not selectively one gender.   

“Well. Things didn’t work out.”

Some favourite staging moments in productions of Shakespeare plays:

Clarence actually getting drowned in a barrel of wine on stage in Richard III; it was a small barrel, they stuck his head into it as he struggled, pulled him out for an instant as he gasped for air and screamed, his head was wet and sopping, his face all red

Macbeth clutching his empty hands to hold an imaginary child, casting a clawed shadow on the wall

Ophelia ripping out hanks of her hair to give to people during her ‘flowers’ scene (obviously fake hair in real life)

Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing hiding from Claudio, Leonato and Don Pedro, taking a swig from a can of beer that happened to be full of cigarette butts and spit-taking it all over Don Pedro and Leonato

who then awkwardly pretend to check if it’s raining

Angelo in Measure for Measure taking off a bloody cilice belt from around his thigh while saying ‘Blood, thou art blood’ 

Also a really good bit where Angelo shows up in a two way mirror later on when the Duke’s speaking to himself and cursing him; the Duke turns to point at the mirror and there’s Angelo, in the chain of office, pointing back, accusing the Duke as much as the Duke does to him

The moment in Julius Caesar where Brutus asks his servant Strato - who’s been sitting with his back to the audience and wearing a hat with a wide brim - to help him commit suicide; Strato stands while taking off his hat to reveal that he’s played by Caesar’s actor

(a collective gasp went around the theatre; really lent a whole new meaning to ‘Caesar, now be still. I killed not thee with half so good a will’)

After a frantic chase scene in The Comedy of Errors which ends with all the cast collapsed across the stage in exhaustion and the scenery itself falling to bits…a pair of underpants falls from the ceiling, and Dromio of Ephesus (who’d tried in vain to retrieve them at the start of the play) crawls over several other characters, seizes them and screams in triumph