admittedly I don’t normally like modern shakespeare adaptations but once I went to see my cousin in a midsummer night’s dream and it opened with a high schooler saying “I don’t wanna read this play” so he sits down and eats an entire chipotle burrito on stage and then immediately falls asleep and the play begins but instead of the forest the faeries all hang out in a rainforest cafe TM and at one point in the middle of a scene the guy from the beginning just slowly drifts across the back of the stage on a skateboard, staring at all the characters as the events of the play transpire in the form of some sort of chipotle-induced coma lucid dream
THAT is EXACTLY what Shakespeare would have wanted
I swear if this isn’t floating around on the internet I’m gonna cry
Oh buddy IT’S ABOUT TO BE. I am like, 98% sure this was my high school’s production and I’ve got photos and video clips like craaaazy…
Here are some fun additions… the Mechanicals were also based on the characters of The Breakfast Club (here I am below, eating an actual Captain Crunch and Pixie Stix sandwich on stage.)
…and the one on the longboard was actually our Puck – he rode it through the whole play in the background. Please note his “Forest Cafe” shirt… which we also had logos for on the cups.
…and we had both a flash mob at the end AND an interlude where myself and one of the other Fairies danced to “Sexy and I Know It” while we were cleaning up the tables at the cafe.
I will post more of this later. I have a DVD at my house and will endure cringing at myself to bring you some quality clips… there’s probably one of K eating the burrito before the start of the play, too.
Here ya go kids… all 2h20m. if you make it through the whole thing once, that’s probably more times than any of the cast watched this DVD. You can probably see why. Tbh if you watch this, I am sorry in advance.
Important notes:
– Chipotle burrito makes a cameo about 30 min in,
– the end has a flash mob and a “commercial” for the Forest Cafe,
– unfortunately, the lunch scene where all the mechanicals whistle like the Breakfast Club got mostly cut for some reason?
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@vampireapologist in case you have any interest in reliving this… at the very least you can prove to any doubters that there was, in fact, a Chipotle burrito onstage.
I cannot even fully conceptualize, much less put into words, how wild this chain of events has been.
I have dozens of posts going around that have broken 50,000 notes, and plenty that have broken 100,000.
On every single one of these posts, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of comments and tags calling me a liar and the story fake, but none so much as this post.
This post was my most doubted of all.
And you came in………
with a Two and a Half Hour Long video.
I’ll never forget this.
We have a bond forged in fire and spirit now.
@hexstuck shakespeare is incredible and i feel like this would make you happy
Welcome to the official launch of Homestuck, Explained– a fan project aimed at making a deep reading of Homestuck accessible to a casual audience.
In this first episode we establish a new, more accurate description of the comic that should help new readers better understand what to expect from it, and old readers better understand what it’s doing.
Specifically, Homestuck is an illustrated, animated, occasionally interactive play centered around a creation myth. And to explain exactly what that entails, we illuminate Homestuck’s influences from both Shakespearian theatre and the religious texts like the Bible.
Special thanks to @hexmeridian , without whom this episode would not have happened. He helped me a ton with research and sources and I can’t thank him enough, especially since he is a rad friend 😀
The link above includes the overviews and details for the long term scope of this project, but the basic premise is this:
Donating one dollar or more on Patreon will give you access to a private discord server for patrons and enthusiasts of this project, and a vote on what order I do these videos in. You’ll also get a voice in shaping how these videos get made through the conversations about Homestuck we can all have there.
Higher amounts of donations include bonus rewards, including the ability to invite friends who can’t afford patron themselves to the project.
The idea here is to create a new kind of Homestuck community:
A friendly, moderated community that includes people passionate about or interested in Homestuck and discussing it in artistic, critical terms. I want this place to be a sort of “Big Tent” for critical discussion about Homestuck, where new ideas about Homestuck can be born and old ideas traditionally sectioned off in fandom subcultures can find new audiences.
All told, I hope this will lead to a more vibrant, inquisitive, excited fandom–both in the discord server itself, and in the rest of the fandom as more and more people get exposed to this content and benefit from people continuing the conversations we start on public platforms like Tumblr, Twitter and Youtube.
Especially with Hiveswap coming in, there’s gonna be plenty of thinking and recontextualizing of Homestuck to do, and I’d argue there already is! I’m hoping you guys will find it exciting to join me on that journey.
Edit Note: Tumblr cut off part of this post initially, so if you reblogged it earlier and see this, please do me a solid and re-reblog if it’s not too much trouble! Thanks!
Flying through Storytelling 