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Why is it that my fist crush is Juliet (played by Claire Danes) in the amazon prime 'Romeo and Juliet' movie. You know, the one with Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo. Like ever since I watched some of that movie in an English lesson, I have been crushing over her sooo hard.

does anyone else think romeo was a hoe?? like if he loved long enough he definitely would've fallen in love with another woman 🤷

ROMEO AND JULIET (1968)

Choose violence ask game: 1, 9, 10, and 22 for "Romeo and Juliet"

1. the character everyone gets wrong

Hmm, good question. My first impulse is to say R&J themselves, Romeo in particular, as their (actually complicated) personalities and characters get frequently misinterpreted. But as I’ve already discussed this frequently in my blog, I’ll opt for an unconventional answer: Mercutio himself.

Not in terms of getting his personality wrong (although I’ve seen plenty of angrymacho!Mercutio, childish!Mercutio, and even woobie!Mercutio, curiously enough), but in terms of adaptations taking Mercutio’s POV and opinions and attitude as gospel. Mercutio is portrayed as a guy who not only talks shit but makes up shit as he goes along (re: Tybalt being a poseur duelist and Benvolio having a ~secret hotheaded side). You’re not supposed to take him seriously but enjoy his trash talk for what it is—premier trolling.

Instead adaptations and fanfics accept his POV unquestionably and even accept it as canon (Baz Lurhmann movie introducing him as the Prince of Cats, Benvolio getting portrayed as a macho asshole, etc.). And of course, that’s where most of the Romeo-is-effeminate clownery comes from, even though Mercutio himself doesn’t think this (only that he has gotten pussified by ~love) and canon blatantly contradicts this.

9. worst part of canon

Tough one. Shakespeare’s canon is almost flawless. I guess making Rosaline a Capulet could be considered a plot hole. He did it so that Romeo has the push he needs to go to the party…but technically he could have made Rosaline just a random invitee rather than a Capulet. And Capulet turned out to be very chill with non-Capulet invitees anyway. So yeah, I don’t mind adaptations that make Rosaline into a Montague or a non-related Capulet. This does show Shakespeare’s lack of fucks about the feud beautifully, though.

10. worst part of fanon

I don’t think that this counts as fanon, per se, but I once peeked at some (hopefully non-school mandated) fanfics in AO3 and got a strong whiff of not one, not two, but several Juliet-is-cool-BFFs-with-Bencutio-while-latter-constantly-makes-fun-of-whiny-woobie-Romeo. Oh, God, you guys are killing me. Also, the Macho Action Hero/Strong Female Character(tm) Juliet, but that is part-and-parcel with the overall clownery.

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

…People are still sleeping on Juliet’s likening Romeo to a little bird she’d like to tie in a silken thread to pluck around as she pleases and Romeo 110% replying with “I would I were your bird,” huh? You guys really do like your innocently chaste kawaii R&Js. Admit it, these kids are freaks!!!

Nah, just kidding. Well, this is not something everyone ignores as much as miss entirely…but there’s Romeo’s “Let’s talk” when he decides to stay with Juliet after all after their wedding night. The antis always whine about how R&J are just lustful fiends and they are not ~really in love, and this small, almost throwaway line completely disproves it. Romeo decides to stay and his first suggestion about what he and Juliet should do…is to talk. Because he likes talking to Juliet and most likely they did speak through some of the night. Because he clearly wants to know everything about Juliet. Because their love so far has been just that—words—so of course their default is to talk.

Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

ROMEO AND JULIET (1968) — dir. Franco Zeffirelli

Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

OLIVIA HUSSEY in ROMEO AND JULIET (1968), dir. Franco Zeffirelli

hold on a second man…

Two houses both alike in dignity never establishes the level of dignity they both obtain. This is usually assumed to be high, but could in fact be extremely low. Thus an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet with both houses being rival clown troupes would not be in opposition to the text. In this essay I will

romeo and juliet (1597) by william shakespeare // bad buddy (2021) dir. backaof noppharnach

My favourite Shakespeare quotes:

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be" - Hamlet

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts" - As You Like It

"Good company, good wine, good welcome can make good people" -Henry VIII

"This above all: to thine own self be true" -Hamlet

"There is nothing either good or bad, but things making it so" -Hamlet

"I do love nothing in this world so well as you; is not that strange?" -Much ado about nothing

"O happy dagger, This is thy sheath: there rust, and let me die" -Romeo and Juliet

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool" -As You Like It

"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me" -Antony and Cleopatra

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves." -Julius Caesar

"Et tu, Brute?" -Julius Caesar

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!" - A Midsummer night's dream

"For she had eyes and chose me" -Othello

"But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve. For daws to peck at: I am not what I am" -Othello

"If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world" -The comedy of errors

"Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!" -Macbeth

"Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it" -Macbeth

"Life ... is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing" -Macbeth

dont know where the benvolio x mercutio came from but it sounds cute so i will like it

So, I was watching Romeo and Juliet sherlock gnomes and this scene came up and they reminded me of the journey to the west gang. Romeo as sun Wukong, Juliet as the monk, sherlock as Sha Wujing(?), and Watson as Baigujing(?). I'm not really sure if thats whats sherlock and Watson are but yeah; I might draw them as the little chaotic gang.

Intermission at the Ballet.

And I thought my interests in the quarry and Romeo and Juliet would never overlap. I’m currently sobbing over the comparisons now and will be unsubscribing from oxygen thank you very much

tw death

this is one of the bad unpopular endings where ryan and dylan both died, and damn it, why does it look like that very poetic death scene of romeo and juliet???? 😭😭😭😭😭

If Shakespeare were alive today, he would live in constant fear of high-schoolers

benvolio, mercutio, horatio, and ophelia all have a group chat called "bastard-free zone." sometimes they go out to brunch just to get away from romeo and hamlet's bullshit

Ever After High brain rot meets King Arthur brain rot meets Romeo and Juliet (1996) meets 'i needed to practice backgrounds so there is a wall and a field'. Yeah, i do have finals to study for.

"With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out"

- The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Act II Scene II

Martyrs

Be my Romeo

I’ll be your Juliet

Let’s get married and run away

Finish their story

Let our love be seen in all its glory

We’ll live in our own secret world

We’ll forget our names and who we were

Let us be so in love

That we are no longer two

But one

Let our story be read by scholars and in schools

Let us be martyrs for a force stronger than any god we’ve ever known

My Romeo, let us be martyrs for a love stronger than what anyone’s seen before.

Ramleela (2013)

Tujh sang bair

lagaya aisa

Tujh sang bair

lagaya aisa

Raha na main phir

apne jaisa

Ho raha na main

phir apne jaisa

-Laal ishq (Arijit Singh)

Ilia Kulik’s Romeo and Juliet costume at the 1996 Skate Canada.

(Photo by Barry Mittan)

'Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.'

ROMEO AND JULIET (1968) dir. Franco Zeffirelli

Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio as Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague in Romeo + Juliet (1996) directed by Baz Luhrmann.

Did my heart love 'til now? Forswear its sight. For I never saw true beauty 'til this night.