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 This is a dreadful play full of assholes. But the HoYay makes it all worth it. 

In rehearsal I keep shipping the characters. Antonio/Bassanio goes without saying, everybody in the cast has been joking about that from the start. But today I was thinking about Antonio/Bassanio/Portia because in that final scene Portia is all "Sir, grieve not you; you are welcome notwithstanding" to Antonio so I started to think about them having a wicked hot threesome and sharing Bassanio - who would not believe his luck, being the meat in that sandwich, and then Antonio/Bassanio/Gratiano came to mind (because you know Gratiano would want to try everything at least once, and that includes a threesome with his friend and his friend's sugar daddy) after some joking among the cast about how Portia threatens to deny Bassanio sex FOREVER and the guy playing Lorenzo said "well, there's always Antonio" and the guy playing Gratiano yelled something like "come on, Bassanio, let's leave these women and go have fun!" and everybody laughed so much, and Bassanio/Portia/Nerissa maybe because Portia and Nerissa so have a Thing and they would love to mess with Bassanio even more than they already did.

And I can't help shipping Antonio/Shylock. (Not in even production, obviously, but there are ways one could interpret certain lines and actions.) Their FoeYay would be so disastrous, oh gods. I ship it pre, during, and post play. Especially post play, when Shylock has lost EVERYTHING and Antonio lost his boytoy but has lots of moneys, and Shylock has that thing about knives ...

Yeah, I should probably go to sleep now, shouldn't I? I've had some crazy days, and they're only gonna get busier.
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 Happy 42 Day Everyone! *cheers*
(... because '10-10-10' is '42' in binary ...) Hope you all brought your towels with you today!


Today I was in a parade and then in a play and then the play was over and now I'm suffering from that post-play depression one gets after being through a wonderful production. That feeling of 'what do I do now?' and 'how do I live without Shakespeare?'

I'll get through it. I always do. But at the moment, I'm feeling a little down, with nothing but mountains of work before me from now until the next play, which feels EONS away right now.
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 If you are a geek of ANY kind, you have NO excuse for not seeing this movie! I'm looking at YOU, Linkara!
Seriously, whether you're a film geek, a music geek, a comic geek, an anime geek, a manga geek, a video-games geek, a tvtropes geek, a fan of the books or a geek who has yet to read the books, you MUST SEE THIS MOVIE!

Spoilers for the movie. I suggest watching it before reading this. Warning: Massive Squee Concealed Behind This Cut! )


On a less-wonderful note, let me ask you one question: have you ever sat through a play that was awkward to witness and painful to watch?
I have. Tonight I saw a ... strange version of a play that I'm rather dissatisfied with for many reasons, though not many of them are easily explained to someone who hasn't seen the play. It was too ... abstract? The set-up was too ... sparse? It looked like a high-school production in a bad way? *sighs* The actors were so good, I've seen them preform many a time and they're funny and evocative and powerful ... but in this production not even they could save it. You could tell when they all came out for their bows that they could hear how muted the applause was. It almost broke my heart. I wanted to tell them that I thought THEY did a great job, it was just that the production sucked, but you can't tell that to a bunch of complete strangers, so I just left. It was ... awkward. 
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This is mainly for elaine_miles, as she requested I post this. It's a ridiculous play I had to write for a class, and then preform, but because I didn't have a partner I used paper cranes (and struck strange poses for the goddesses.)
I'm afraid there's no slash in this, but this is just David's backstory, in a book I'm writing he shacks up with a hot (male) vampire, so all you have to do it wait.
Also, everthing below this is MY WORK, steal it without citing the source and FACE MY WRATH! *glares*

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I just preformed the Greek Play I wrote for my class! *slump* I was the only one who didn't have a partner (but also the only one who followed the perscribed format, you know 'scene followed by Chorus-recap' so I'm feeling pretty good about the imminant grading) so I was very exhausted. I had like nine pages of dialogue and OH BOY never let me do THAT again ...
Since I didn't have a partner I used paper cranes to signify characters. I had a string for the Chorus, and since I didn't have time the Oracle was a silver piece of Oragami paper that was half-crumpled.
When I had to portray the Goddesses, I struck really lame poses and then did their lines. People laughed, but it was good-natured laughter. *smiles* This is a good day so far.


In other news, this morning on the long bus ride, I wrote 'RASSILON' in the spaces between my knuckles and my nails. It's VERY hard to write 'RASS' with your left hand on a bumpy buss, so the 'A' came out all funky and I had to redo it, and the 'R' is kinda puffy. Anyhoodle, when I make a fist (or the sign for 'a' in sign language) and hold them up to face someone, they spell 'RASSILON' ... of course, nobody KNOWS what Rassilon is/was/will be, so someone thought it said 'assilon' and when I showed her the 'R' refused to accept it. *sigh* She's lovely, except when she's being difficult. She, aimisan, and myself kinda form the Academy Trio, except minus the sexual tension and snogging and Time Lord business. Difficult Girl = Ushas, aimisan = Theta, and I = Koschei. Mostly because Difficult-Girl mildly harasses aimisan and aimisan pleads with me to save her from difficult-girl, so yeah, Ushas, Theta, and Koschei. Tee hee, Fingers of Rassilon ...
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Ok, first off, The-Guy-I-Have-A-Crush-On:

*sigh* Today he looked like the Tenth Doctor right after he regenerated. He now has Ten’s crazy hair, but today he wore what looked like Nine’s sexy jacket (but brown.) If he wore glasses I’d have exploded all over Spanish class and aimisan would have had to mop me up. (Also: she’s taken to calling me a lesbian. I don’t know why, as I spend much of Spanish class idly conjugating verbs and gazing at that-guy-with-the-10th-Doctor’s-Hair. I retaliated on Tuesday and called her ‘Celery’ because her borrowed-jacket smelled like celery and she was wearing a green shirt. I suck at insults.)

Also, today in a class we were discussing why people do drugs. We’d arrived to the conclusion that we’re all a little unhappy, and that-guy-I-have-a-crush-on said, “We should have trampolines all over the place! Then I’d never go to sleep, I’d just say: there’s so much life to live!” Then he mimed leaping onto a trampoline.

I sincerely hope he doesn’t find my ridiculous high-pitched squeaky worse-than-Hilary-Clinton obnoxious seal-death laugh unattractive because if he does I might have to die of shame and hopelessness, as his dry-wit provokes most of my laughter-attacks.

 

 

 

 

Next:

Today I realized that the Sawyer/Kate/Jack/Juliet love-square of DOOM reminds me of the whole Spike/Buffy/Angel/Cordelia thingy. I mean, we all thought the Buffy/Angel and the Kate/Jack thing was meant to be, but it turns out that the Kate/Sawyer, Buffy/Spike, Jack/Juliet, and Angel/Cordelia romances make more sense, look better, and bring out the best in the characters.

Of course, now I’ve offended all the Bangles, so I’ll go hide before they team up with the Doctor/Rose shippers and kill me dead. *flees*

 

*returns to tell you that*

Yesterday I was so tired after going to the Opera on Wednesday night that I passed out in one of the back rows in the theater and didn’t move for like half and hour. It was really fun to listen to people arriving and greeting each other onstage, though …

A person in my house is SICK. I am drinking large quantities of orange juice and planning on a lot of sleep tonight so I don’t get sick (please, gods and goddesses, especially those of the theater, DON’T LET ME GET SICK! PLEASE! After we strike the set, you can smite me with … I don’t know, Bubonic Plague or whatever my housemate has, but PLEASE NOT UNTIL after the set is gone!)

 

 

I’ve finally done some profound musings on Doctor Who. I did it last night when I was trying to sleep after Lost and exhausted because of the play and … for a few seconds I thought I was drunk because I NEVER think like this:

 

The TARDIS and the Doctor changed Martha for the better, unlocking her inner-potential, whereas Rose was always going to have that hopeless, wide-eyed, fantastic-ness. Mickey had to see himself to become himself. Jack had to die to be born. Rose was there to heal, help, guide, and comfort Nine and Ten, to give them someone to chase after and rescue and laugh and dance with – she was there to doctor the Doctor. If Rose hadn’t come first, the Doctor would have been in no condition to bring out the real Martha. The Doctor and Martha doctored each other in the way friends do, though it was mostly Martha gently reminding the Doctor that there is life after Rose, however difficult that is to accept, especially when, just as you think the Doctor’s back on his feet and ready to dance once more, the Master (my only love, sprung from my only hate) starts bounding about.

Doctor Who isn’t just a show about bananas and buffalo and dancing, any more than it’s just a show about ‘that guy with the time-machine.’

 

(That’s all I got. Weird, eh?)

 

 

(And, that’s right, that song is stuck in my head again! … Damn, I lost the game!)

 

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