I want to write an alternative version of Romeo and Juliet where instead of being a little ponce and trying to work things out for himself, Romeo asks his smarter friends what to do about the whole thing and Benvolio and Mercutio come up with the world’s greatest plan:
Marriage of convenience between Juliet and Mercutio.
Think about it.
Juliet’s parents want her to marry into the Prince’s family. Mercutio is a good compromise between no marriage and Paris.
Mercutio probably won’t get his inheritance if he keeps being HELLA FUCKING GAY ALL OVER THE PLACE so a beard is only a benefit to him.
They would probably get along great rolling their eyes at how adorably stupid Romeo is.
Romeo and Benvolio could get a “bachelor pad” right next to Juliet and Mercutio’s house. Every night, Romeo and Mercutio high five as they hop the fence to go bang their one true love.
The second half of the play is just all of them trying to keep up the charade and being “THIS CLOSE” to getting caught all the time. But everything ends nicely because true love conquers all.
Everybody wins. Nobody dies.
If you don’t write this play I will.
Bonus points, everyone thinks benvolio and Romeo are banging
They’re cousins though…????
In Shakespeare, Cousin doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re related to that person. It’s sort of like a 16th century “bro”
Mercutio was a family friend of both the Capulets and Montagues. That’s why he was invited to the masquerade ball. Also, the only reason Juliet wanted to be with Romeo was to get out of an arranged marriage with Parris and Romeo was originally gonna be with her to win a bet and saw how hot she was. So it wasn’t really true love it was more like one part lust, to parts rebellion.
It looks like the raven really wants the owl to leave and is trying to intimidate it, but the owl doesn’t care because it knows the raven is all bark and no bite. Or all squawk and no peck. Erm…
Actually, it looks more like the raven is curious about the funny bird and wants to sit next to it, and the owl doesn’t wanna be friends :[ The raven’s body language isn’t aggressive at all — it’s backing down appropriately when the owl displays aggression. Notice the way it’s careful to draw back every time it gets too close to the owl. This is an animal that’s trying to establish it isn’t a threat.
Keep in mind there’s a huge intellect disparity here — ravens exhibit novel tool use and complex communication, whereas owls aren’t even as smart as ducks. We’re sort of trained to view crows and ravens as villainous, but really they’re very playful animals.
“HI YOU’RE PRETTY WANNA BE FRIENDS??”
“HISSS”
This is so cute ‘cause I can imagine the crow being the talkative, friendly one and he’s just like “hi gosh wow you’re pretty I’ve never seen a white crow before! How’d ya get your feathers so white? Do you eat a lot of marshmallows? I eat a lot of marshmallows! This human lady feeds me marshmallows—” and on and on and the owl’s probably just like “What no go away”
Owl: *stares into the camera like it’s on The Office*
Looks like the plot of some sort of fantasy comedy movie. Like, one is super enthusiastic dark mage and the other is a high class sorcerer.
Just keep better track of that in the future. When people say they do not care about a show/game/movie/book it’s considered rude to continue botheing them about it.
Listen, I get it. There’s a thing you like and you want to talk about it but it would be better to talk about it with someone who actually likes the same thing.
Well Life is strange yes it's a long game that comes out slowly. But in evolves drugs, step parents, death, suicides, a magic deer thing, gay, messing with time. Plot twist. Stuff like that. And it has different out comes.
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