Chaos And Poetry

SCREAM (1996) dir. Wes Craven

I love seeing other people make the overblown OOPS I FORGOT SOMETHING performance for no-one that most of us do when we have to turn around in the middle of the pavement.

- when someone thinks no one’s paying attention and they sing-talk themselves thru a task

- when people are looking for scissors, in their home or in a store, and they make the scissors gesture with their non-dominant hand as an aid to remind them what they’re doing.

- when automatic social interactions glitch, like when you tell a waiter that you hope he enjoys his food too, or tell the stranger on the phone that you love them. 

- the hand gesture people make when they’re thinking at their computer, not typing, and their elbow rests on the table, and they feel the edge of their fingernail with their thumb. This is such a lovely little gesture and to my knowledge I have never seen it in fiction. You’d think it would come up all the time in fic.

- when you’re sharing an experience with a complete stranger (like watching a seagull throw up in public, or waiting for a late train) and you make eye contact, and some comment to each other, and then you guys are, like, ALLIES now. Like you would willingly ride to war to save them. You can’t make eye contact again, but you are very aware of them. 

I wish the world were ending tomorrow. Then I could take the next train, arrive at your doorstep in Vienna, and say: “Come with me, Milena. We are going to love each other without scruples or fear or restraint. Because the world is ending tomorrow.” Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably because we think we have time, or have to reckon with time. But what if we don’t have time? Or what if time, as we know it, is irrelevant? Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow. We could help each other very much.

Fucking rich people!

Love’s Labour’s Lost = You like poetry

Richard II = You believe all guys named Richard are a Dick.

Romeo and Juliet = You believe in love first sight despite there being plenty of other fish in the sea

A Midsummer Night’s Dream = You liked fairies as a child

King John = You find the Magna Carta overrated

The Merchant of Venice = You read this as a tragedy to rather than a comedy

Henry IV Part I = You are just year for your sprit character: Falstaff

The Merry Wives of Windsor = You enjoy fanfics or spinoffs that happen in a different genre from the original text

Henry IV Part II = You spend many nights at your local tavern (or whatever your modern day equivalent is)

Henry V = You either really like war stories or stan Tom Hiddleston or Timothée Chalamet

Much Ado About Nothing = Your ideal way of flirting is constant sarcastic insults

Julius Caesar = You ‘know’ the government is corrupt

As you like it = You used to dress up in your parent’s clothes and put on shows

Hamlet = You say you listen to Nirvana but you’ve only listened to “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Twelfth Night = You are a members of the LGBTQ+ community

Trouilus and Cressida = You liked the star cross lovers part of “Romeo and Juliet” but you just wish it was more of a Greek tragedy completed with a battle sequence