did i ever tell u all that when i was 15 i went on a school trip to see romeo and juliet at the globe but my teacher didn’t realise until after he’d booked it that it was a ~sexy~ version with bdsm in it
ok people wanted the whole story here are the most Memorable Moments™️
•the production made a lot of people very very angry and the reviews were calling it ‘a desecration of shakespeare’ , other people said it was akin to vandalism
•a warning letter had to be sent home to parents because it was too late to cancel the booking
•all the teachers there looked like they wanted to die cause we were 13-15 years old lmaoo
•the play opened with really aggressive confetti cannons and in the centre of the stage there was this really muscled guy wearing almost nothing and there were four women in essentially lingerie just.. gyrating over him
•this had nothing to do with the plot by the way it was just there
•we’re only five minutes in and i think the teachers were considering evacuating us
•romeo’s dad is in an inflatable dinosaur costume for an entire scene.. no context was given
•i’ve blocked the actual sex scene out of my memory
•i might have imagined this but in the masked ball scene i swear someone was in full bdsm gear i SWEAR
•mercutio was played by a woman and just started stripping during a monologue which was an Experience
•lots and lots of twerking from background actors
•romeo was just dressed like an emo the whole time
for any doubters here’s an excerpt from an article on it ! by the financial times for some reason
This is 100% what Shakespeare would have wanted
Shakespeare would have been like, “if we had fired confetti from our cannon instead of that cannonball, the play would have gone better* and the theatre wouldn’t have burnt down.”
*This happened during a performance of Henry VIII technically but tell me that also wouldn’t be improved with a confetti canon
The only bad part about classical music is the names
Oh fuck yeah my favorite song, Blorbobio Suite No. 117, Op.5, W.1099 in K Major for String Quartet. It’s a banger.
To be fair to the composers these pieces weren’t intended to be listened to in isolation but as part of a longer piece (a symphony or opera for example) which usually had a normal name or at least a simple one.
Music scholars are even worse at naming things than historians.
oopsie! You got a bit too manic about a creative project too close to bedtime and now your brain is too awake to sleep. One million dead 10 morbillion injured
Also you haven’t actually worked on the project, to be clear
hi do y'all mind if i misuse this blog entirely for a second. idk why i’m asking i don’t actually care they found a new snake it’s a New Snake we didn’t know about this snake before!!!!
NEW SNAKE HELL YEAH!!!!
hot damn this is so fucking great but the mild perturbation that snake expresses is deeply fucking funny
like you’re moisturized, flourishing, in your lane, and this bastard noodly creature from Beyond shows up to flail it’s many extraneous appendages around in sheer joy that you exist. and this is a little bit weird so you go to the next aisle over in the grocery store.
I love everything about this. The gorgeous incredibly beautiful and majestic snake. And Prof. Freek Vonk snorkeling past in what appears to be business casual clothing and sneakers.
More information here—the snake was documented after the scientists received an invitation from the indigenous Huaorani people to study the snakes, which are considered by them to be sacred.
It is 5.5% genetically different from the other green anaconda species, which makes it very special (humans and chimpanzees are only about 2% different according to the article)
