#gleefully-macabre

1. Hello! A while back I read a fic where Crowley discovers all of the clothes Aziraphale has kept from over the centuries, including his corset, and they go and get Zira fitted for a new one and he ends up buting two custom corsets—one inspired by Crowley’s snake form—and i cant recall the name of the fic but at one point zira says the corset feels like “ armor” and not restricting. does anyone know the name of this fic? Thank you! ~anon

2. I’m looking for a fix. Aziraphale and crowley started to have casual sex since the beginning and it eats at Crowley because he loves him, but figures he’ll be okay with this. surprise he’s not, and actually blows up at Aziraphale when aziraphale confesses his love and runs away to an Island and aziraphale finds him and takes him back to a hotel and they have a real conversation. In the end aziraphale kisses him and they make loves instead of just sex. It’s a long one if I remember correctly. ~anon

3. maybe I’m just being impatient lol with the days blending together but I think tumblr might have eaten my ask? I lost an amnesia fic I desperately want to reread. In it sometime in the 20th century both have their memories of each other taken away, and then everything sucks. Crowley gets into drug use, but keeps holding on to Azirphale’s cufflink he found under his bed. aziraphale tries to give away his worldly possessions. Crowley gets bindings to prevent him doing miracles. ~anon

4. Hello! I'm looking for two fics. One has demons being unable to fly, as their wings were crippled in the Fall. HOWEVER, Crowley can fly, even though it's pretty painful for him, as he imagines very hard that his wings are whole. And they look whole. I think he was flying over a lake or something? ~ @yulerule

5. So Im looking for a fic that took place right after the Bastille rescue. Aziraphale was trying to recreate a night he and Crowley slept together; Crowley had Aziraphale wipe his memories but A couldn’t bear to make himself forget.  So they make love and this time Aziraphale asks Crowley to wipe his memories, and C can’t bear to make himself forget.  That was the first chapter.  ~ @gleefully-macabre

If you know one of these fics, please use the number in your response!

Which is Your Ship for this season?

I actually haven’t seen it all the way through! I started watching the Taming of the Shrew one (I think?) but then I got..... bored........

Here’s the thing. Shakespeare didn’t write a single original story. They’re all mish mashes and adaptations, and his takes on popular storytelling devices. The plot of Hamlet isn’t original, it’s a revenger’s tragedy like a dozen other revenger’s tragedies of the day. As You Like It was literally an adaptation of a best selling novel and I imagine the title is him just going “fine, jesus, if you like it so much I’ll write a goddamn play about it. I’m trying to buy a house.”

But the reason we love him is because of his writing. He writes with such sensitivity that profound empathy that it’s baffling. Every line is about an intensely human experience, only some of which he shared. He was never a 14 year old girl scared and excited to lose her virginity, but he wrote 

hood my unmanned blood bating in my cheeks

with thy black mantle. ‘Till strange love grow bold

think true love acted, simple modesty!

and in just those three lines we can feel a girl seeking guidance, seeking to hide her embarrassment and talk herself into feeling comfortable doing something that has felt taboo all her life but is now perfectly allowed because she’s married. Take away that language and all the depth is gone. Like... what do you replace the “gallop apace” speech that has the same complexity? That hits the same beats? It would take an incredible modern writer to ape the roller coaster of emotions in just that one speech. But most modern adaptations don’t bother.

There are so many more examples but I’ll be here all night if I get started. But what it boils down to is this:

Shakespeare isn’t Shakespeare without Shakespeare.

The text is everything. And the stories modernized are just, like, rom coms. Usually (but not always) about conventionally attractive straight white people. 

😍

I would 100% die for Bog, you’re absolutely correct. I would deadass hold up his crumbling castle for him just to make sure he lived. 

Jareth...I’ve already given my allegiance and life to one Goblin King, and I HIGHLY doubt Jareth would be keen on my divided loyalties. So that’s a nada from me. But he has my love none the less!