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so it's normal to use viola/cesario to talk about the character from twelfth night, right, but the author of this shakespeare crit book i'm reading keeps also interchangeably only referencing the twins as viola/cesario/sebastian or viola/sebastian or cesario/sebastian and i really love what this does for the implied interchangeability of all three of these identities among two people. you're two people on purpose, but also you're a third sometimes. you're trying to be one person, but there's two other people you are sometimes, even though they're actually only one other person. you're not one or two of these people but it doesn't matter because to everyone else, you're any of them, really, and what can you do about that? you are one person despite the three names but you have to share that exact personhood with someone else, and it's too tight. you are twins and there are three of you. three is a size too big for two people, so identities are always slipping. it's good that you love the person to whom one or more of these other names belong because if you didn't, there's no way you could escape them.

who else up thinking about lesbian malvolia from the national theatre’s 2017 production of twelfth night

the fact that people are getting to see Miss Sandra Oh in Twelfth Night FOR FREE and I'm not among them?? genuinely devastating

THE GLOBE MIGHT BE DOING A PROD OF TWELFTH NIGHT THIS YEAR?? IM SO TJERE

are u having a flipping joke i probably can’t go and i missed out on a local twelfth night 💔 i need someone to give me a full review

The beautiful thing about She’s the Man is that not only does it perfectly translate shakespeare into the world of cheesy 2000s movies, as well as maintain a lot of accuracy for something that’s less of a direct film adaptation and more of a movie BASED on the original play, but it also captures it in ESSENCE. Yes, a good Twelfth Night DOES have me down bad for both the Viola and Orsino characters at once (and Duke isn’t even my usual type in men at ALL, they literally just got his personality down so well that I fell in love). Yes, The All-American Rejects WOULD play in the backgrounds of scenes multiple times. Yes, Malvolio would have a pet tarantula, and yes, both Viola and Orsino would be terrified of it.

you're in her dms i'm making me a willow cabin at her gate and calling upon my soul within the house, writing loyal cantons of contemned love and singing them loud even in the dead of night, hallowing her name to the reverberate hills and making the babbling gossip of the air cry out. we are not the same