Hot Take That Shouldn’t Be Hot:

because i get so much marauders text content and because lowkey everyone has the same dynamic (james is romeo, remus is ben, sirius is mercutio, lily is juliet, snape is tybalt) you can READ the text content witH DIFFERENT NAMES and get DOUBLE FANDOM CONTENT because theyre LOWKEY THE SAME

like everyone still dies at twenty because of a miscommunication. its okay.

can somebody please talk to me about the parallels between bencutio and wolfstar

like not only is it a similar dynamic but THEY ALSO LOOK THE SAME i swear

school tests become so easy when one hyperfixes on the source material.

Rip Mercutio, you would’ve loved Madonna

So, every now and then, I go and watch/rewatch iterations of Romeo & Juliet to see/remember how different characters are portrayed.

The 1968 Romeo & Juliet keeps reinstilling my belief that Benvolio is GAY and is dating Mercutio

APPARENTLY this is an "unpopular opinion" amongst my day-to-day interactions cause EVERYONE I mention it to is like: "...uh.. nah.. I don't see it that way. They're just friends."

FRIENDS? Friends don't have the energy of:

(Imagine this in the stereotypical gay voice, please. It makes it funnier.)

Ben: "Please, can we just go inside? I'm tired of your drama, you're gonna get hurt.

Mer: "Try and stop me bitch."

AND THEN LITERAL LOVE STARING WHEN MERCUTIO IS DYING???

They're husbands, I'm sorry, y'all. They're husbands.

I have this picture printed out and laminated

older image asi don't have it with me

If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.

Uh lil collage thing/aesthetic moodboard I made, a few months ago, of Mercutio when I got cast as him-

Which reminds me I have to yet design/make what terot cards he will have on stage,,, I should get on that

And I need to ask Paris‘ actor where the heck he wants to get 4 siegelringe from qwq for the prince, paris, mercutio and valentine

adding onto the fact that i am insane

Elisabeth from Elisabeth das Musical is La Mort from Romeo et Juliette

reasoning?

In Wie Du, Elisabeth is talking to her father about how she wants to go and explore the world and have all sorta of adventures, and going to Verona seems like enough of an adventure to me.

in Elisabeth's sort of postmortem scene, we see her in a white dress, thin and long. La Mort's dress almost looks like it if it was that dress, torn into pieces.

And if Elisabeth is Death's lover/wife/SO post musical, that probably means she absorbs some of his power to be able to kiss people into death, hand them weapons, reveal herself at will.

Specifically, la Mort's muteness and only being a dancer- she will only dance in death's sight (wenn ich tanzen will), so whenever any Veronese peeps see their deaths coming, she reveals herself (or in moments of intense suffering for Comment Lui Dire). Specific to Comment though, Mort is taking Benvolio's suffering and physically moving and stringing him up by it, which totally recalls die Schatten Werden Langer blocking with Rudolf and Tod to me.

Elisabeth's hair is also totally long and fabulous enough for all those hairdos. Her choreo also often obscures her and her face, which is a bit of a callback to Elisabeth always hiding her face with a fan, but that might be a stretch.

This has been sitting in my drafts literally for months OTL

Finally did a character lineup for Romeo & Juliet; did a lot of experimenting with this one but I’m happy with how it came out. 

Can we stop treating Benvolio like the little child in the Montacrew™️?

Pls.

I can agree w/ the fact that Ben is more rational than the others in the group but he can be levelheaded and still want to get into shenanigans with his friends. He’d just perfect there to be no property damage.

He’s still a little shit along with the rest of them and we love him :).

(Is this influenced by my friend and I’s reading of Benvolio and the rest of the crew? Yes absolutely but there is textual basis for it as well which I could get into, nonetheless this is still my own interpretation and by no means the only way to view the character. I just wanted to bring up an odd trend I was seeing with the disconnect between Ben and his actions along with the rest of the group :D.)

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