it's 2 am and the world is full of horrors and here I am in my room ugly crying because of Karlach BG3

she's my bestest goodest favouritest ever girl and I haven't even ROMANCED HER

I hate central London I hate central London I hate central London I hate central London

Two autistics go to central London around Christmas, instantly regret it

"I appreciate your presence in my life through thick and sin" (c) Dariia rolling a 1 on sentimental dinner speech

my appreciation for Kai was so strong I got a situational disadvantage on the performance check

I would like us all to appreciate the fact that my earrings match my noise-reducing earbuds (I wouldn't be able to survive without the earbuds AND they're pretty)

Me and Dariia are gonna have a Shakespeare podcast. No context.

Yeah so The Tempest with Sigourney Weaver went well

You don't get it people we managed to start fangirling for Shakespeare The Tempest I'm not sure how we did that or whether this is good but we're having the time of our lives right now

currently having sapphic shakespearian tempest brainrot (sponsored by Sigourney Weaver) to the life is strange before the storm soundtrack

i am so normal. i’m fine. this is fine. everything is fine.

Just so you guys have some context about why Kai and I are losing our absolute marbles.
The Tempest is a classic Shakespearean play. Loosely, a sorcerer named Prospero (guy), a duke of Naples, is betrayed by his brother, escapes death with his daughter and crashes on and takes ownership of a magical island and basically enslaves a spirit, Ariel, to do his bidding (Ariel is male. Yes, it's a male name. This was before Disney's Ariel).
Twelve years later he uses Ariel to crash his enemies, including his brother, onto the island and take revenge. Shindigs ensue, his daughter ends up marrying the prince (don't ask), all is forgiven, Ariel is freed.

This is a heartbreaking play about power, and the most tragic character in it is Ariel who is the actual doer of magic and just wants to be free.

That said. In the production we saw today, Prospero is a woman and is played by, you've already heard it, Sigourney Weaver (of "Alien").
And Ariel. Is. Non-binary. And played by THIS PERSON.

This is Mason Alexander Park and they're heartbreakingly talented.
It also turned out that I've seen them in The Sandman on Netflix (and they're also in Cowboy Bepop but we don't talk about that, I hear the show is horrible)

I promise we said some very intelligent things about the actual critical readings of the play and the implications of the gender bending but nobody on this channel wants to read the 2.5 essays on The Tempest I wrote over the course of my English degree so I will just say that there is so much incredible joy in seeing queer people finally proudly taking the stage in Shakespeare. Because Shakespeare has for too long been taken and weaponised and sterilised by fucking straight white men. A lot of Shakespeare is INHERENTLY queer and messy and fun but that's not how we're used to thinking about it because whatever works at the stage of its creation is always at risk of being appropriated by those it wasn't made about or for.


In Shakespeare's time, a (cis) woman WOULDN'T have been on stage. All female roles were played by prepubescent boys. Theatre was too unclean for a woman (or a woman was too unclean for theatre, depends on how honest the person is being).



And today we saw a production with Prospero as a woman and a non-binary Ariel. And yes, le wokisme, but let me celebrate the small victory of the fact that we could.

Перечитую цей шитсторм і в мене в голові такий писклявий гоблін кричить "який квір-Шекспір війна в країні"
Не маю чого самій собі заперечити крім як те що шо тепер, не ділитися зі світом враженнями від медіа чи шо

Дякую Віо за неймовірно правдиве відео
З того часу як я встановила в себе ЛЕД-стрічку велике світло в моїй кімнаті тупо не вмикається ніколи.