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₊˚⊹ ㅤa collection of character analysis/headcanon questions to learn more about your character and your partners'! writing/headcanon prompts requested by anonymous. feel free to edit these as you see fit.

Stop holding the gods to human standards. They’re not human. That is quite literally the point of MULTIPLE Euripides plays. Go after the heroes.

But go after the RIGHT heroes. Why are we vilifying Hector, arguably one of the least problematic heroes, in stories where Achilles and Agamemnon exist? Why is Paris exempt from criticism, but Menelaus is the epitome of evil? (That part is also aimed at Euripides, I love The Trojan Women but holy shit you did him dirty my guy.) Why are we not being MORE hateful towards Jason? Why are we continuing to make Medea the villain?

Why are we making shit up about Romeo to give Juliet her “feminist freedom arc” that she ALREADY HAS IN THE PLAY? Paris is RIGHT THERE, go rip HIM to shreds. And on the opposite spectrum of that, why don’t we NAME everyone who wronged Ophelia instead of sanitizing her to the point where she’s a completely different character, and in the end, oppressing her just like everyone else in the play?

YES YES YES EXACTLY and i was gonna talk about Rosaline in my original post but changed my mind SO I’M GONNA TALK ABOUT IT NOW.

Rosaline is one of my guilty pleasure movies, but oh my god does it fail at being a feminist retelling. Why is a movie not about Juliet still perpetuating unjust Romeo slander? I get that the point of it is that it’s a speculative narrative where Rosaline and Romeo were dating, and me complaining about that is like getting mad at erotica for being smutty or horror for being political, but keeping her a nun and barely associating her with Romeo at all would have made for SUCH an interesting story? But then that would require her arc to not revolve around men, and for the movie to not have an aggressive bias against the wrong characters.

But that would be too nuanced for modern audiences, because it would force them to accept that Romeo and Juliet is already a very feminist story. Because apparently it’s difficult to accept Juliet gaining autonomy through her choice to marry Romeo (who himself may have social autonomy, but is so restricted by his devotion to higher powers that he doesn’t think he has free will) is in itself a feminist concept. So the concept of a movie about a nun who WANTS to be a nun, whose story doesn’t revolve around men whatsoever, could have been a much more feminist concept than what we got. Rosaline could have been about Rosaline witnessing the events of the play and questioning her faith, because why would God allow so much death and destruction? It could have been about her encouraging Juliet to marry Romeo. It could have had a scene where she assures Romeo that he doesn’t have to be so heavily influenced by the stars and his dreams.

And Lady Macbeth, oh my god. She spends the whole play acting as the devil on Macbeth’s shoulder and walking him like a dog. She could rule the entire universe as a tyrannical queen if she so desired. But, again, modern audiences only focus on the scene where she’s trying to wash the blood from her hands, because it’s much easier to sympathize with a woman in pain or a woman who regrets her actions than one who is a bad person.

Waited three days and a few hours to post this:>

Although I do think I’m fortunate enough within the R&J fandom to have so much Bencutio content, even if in relation to other bigger fandoms it’d seem like less. Everything is relative I suppose.

henlo, i was tagged by beloved mutual @latveriansnailmail to list 13 songs that have been on repeat lately. i think i could have doubled the list but i did my best to narrow it down. and yes i have been getting into dark trap metal over the last year

The Sun - Brittany Broski

Fallen Angel - Alexandria

It's Bucky! - Son Lux

Gravewalker's Anthem - MOSSBACK, Saliva Grey

BAPHOMET - Grim Salvo, Witchouse 40k

ZUMIEZGIRL - Sadzilla, B-Train

2STEPPINGWITHMYGLOCK - Eldritch

Red Vineyard - Diggy Graves

Everybody Gets High - MISSIO

EASY - Lilyisthatyou

Purity - Lilyisthatyou

WHEN IT'S ALL HAPPENING - KANNER

can you hear the thunder? - Animal Sun

Sienna by The Marías

Partner In Crime by Madilyn Mei

Fine by Lemon Demon

Fooled Around And Fell In Love by Elvin Bishop

Take A Chance On Me by ABBA

L’Amour De Ma Vie by Billie Eilish

Bury a friend by Billie Eilish

I’m Your Man by Wham!

Do Me A Favour by Arctic Monkeys

The Death Of You And Me by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

Wet by Dazey and The Scouts

Imprinted in my mind by 10 000 år

Roxie by Renée Zellweger (from Chicago 2001

Sound the Bugle by Bryan Adams

Let Us All Down by Poor Man's Poison

I Want It All by Queen

Tale of The Shadow by Sail North

Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls

Kentucky Rain by Elvis Presley

Ready Aim Fire by Imagine Dragons

Red Right Hand by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

Blood // Water by grandson

Trouble by Valerie Broussard

Zombie by The Cranberries

Yellow Flicker Beat by Lorde

Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears

Gonna try to cite one song by each artist, so this list of 13 songs doesn't get completely overrun by the handful of songs I currently have on repeat from Leo/need and Marianas Trench...

Everything You Do - The Happy Fits

Here's To The Zeros - Marianas Trench

Stella - Leo/need

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

The Presidents - Jonathan Coulton

Dakota - Stereophonics

Cities In Dust - Siouxsie and the Banshees

Teammate - MORE MORE JUMP!

Sleeping With The Television On - Billy Joel

Harlem - New Politics

Tell Me If You Wanna Go Home - Keira Knightley (yes, that Keira Knightley!)

Rollin' Girl - wowaka

Tarzan Boy - Baltimora

Baby Teeth ~ Flower Face

aquatic ambience ~ Scizzie

Fytoplankton ~ Sven Figee

F6 - An empty bliss beyond this World ~ The Caretaker

Mating Dance / Beltane ~ Jenna Greene

Pocesna Strelba ~ Mizar

The Naming of Cats ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber, "Cats" 1981 Original London Cast

Leviathan ~ Marah in the Mainsail

Beltane ~ Lisa Thiel

Blood-Red Sun ~ Mizar

Skeleton Key ~ Flower Face

De Aarde is Klein ~ Roald van Oosten Studio

Valentine ~ Flower Face

1. Avoir 20 ans by Damien Sargue, Cyril Niccolaï, and John Eyzen

2. Night at the Opera by Emei

3. Superboy and the Invisible Girl by Eleanor Worthington-Cox and Jack Wolfe

4. Le Duel by John Eyzen, Tom Ross, Damien Sargue, and Cyril Niccolaï

5. J’ai besoin d’amour comme tout le monde by Damien Sargue

6. Backlight by Ado

7. Drag Path by Twenty One Pilots

8. That’s so True by Gracie Abrams

9. Cicada by Good Kid

10. J’ai peur by Cyril Niccolaï

11. Bonjour Au Revoir by Joyce Jonathan

12. Kaze no Anthem by Eve

13. Mi Vida Loca by AKUGETSU

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