Ah here we go! Free full play for anyone who needs it, i watched it last week so i still had the link in my history heh :D enjoy!
God I love this version
spectacular version. Tennant and Tate are on fire. Their comedic and dramatic chops are outstanding. They both should have gotten Tonys for this production. Tennant has always had the gift of making Shakespeare sound spontaneous and contemporary, but Tate more than holds her own with him.
Reblogging, because frankly I can’t get enough of these two. :)
wait i just saw a tag on one of your posts that said “annabeth was odysseus in pjo” - i was just wondering if you could explain/expand on those parallels. if not, that’s okay! hope you’re having a good day!
well, every pjo book focuses around percy completely subverting a different mythological hero’s journey, while annabeth (+ thalia + luke) play into the role of like more classic greek heroes
part of that is annabeth’s explicit admiration of odysseus, who’s like basically the most iconic greek hero ever and it comes up a lot in som, so there’s a lot of parallels, some surface level and some thematic:
annabeth is a daughter of athena, odysseus was favored by athena, and they have to prove themselves to her with their strategy + wit
desire to hear the siren song, and annabeth uses his same trick with the wax and tying herself to the mast (though she fails when he succeeded so that could mean something)
literally think annabeth uses odysseus’ “nobody” trick with polyphemus, plus her general hatred of cyclopes
annabeth was initially seduced + favored by circe, but ultimately outsmarted her, like odysseus
annabeth and odysseus both are the main war strategists in tlo and the trojan war
annabeth’s fatal flaw is hubris, and odysseus is like the poster-boy of hubris
odysseus is driven by a need to get home to his family, and annabeth is literally almost completely driven by her desire to “get back to” a family that doesn’t really exist anymore
Listen. I hope the TV show has like… the tiniest subplot of Sally Jackson. I think Percy might be the ~tiniest~ bit of an unreliable narrator about her in the best way possible. He thinks she’s the sweetest most angelic person in the world (and she is) but I also have this ongoing belief that Sally kicks ass when her son isn’t looking. i.e.
Percy’s voiceover: I had never heard my mom say an unkind word to anyone or even raise her voice <3
*flashback to baby Percy sleeping and Sally is beating a robber with a frying pan*
Percy’s voiceover: You see, my mom always does the right thing. She just isn’t a violent person <3
*flashback to when Percy is 3 and Sally is shooting a monster out her car window as she drives away with Percy looking a picture book upside down, jamming to the music turned up all the way*
Percy’s voiceover: She’s never even yelled <3
*flashback to Sally sweetly asking Percy to wait in the car before screaming at a school principal for expelling her son of some wild bullshit that wasn’t his fault*
Percy’s voiceover: I bet that’s why my dad fell in love with her. Because she’s the nicest <3
*flashback to Sally flicking off the sea*
Sally: Pay child support, you coward.
I just FULLY believe that Sally is 100% the kindest, most patient, sweetest person when it comes to people who have good vibes (and perhaps even to the worst person up to a certain point) but she is also an absolute NIGHTMARE to those who fuck around and find out.
Bonus:
Sally: I have a *surprise* for you Gabe!
Percy voiceover: I told you. My mom always does the right thing <3
annabeth and percy dressing up as spiderman and gwen for halloween but percy’s instagram caption is “dont worry, I’d actually catch her” and the comments are just the argo crew booing him
Princess Diaries 2 AU | enemies to lovers | Percabeth
Chapter 1: Time to Shine
Annabeth nearly fell all the way over, but whoever she’d run into grabbed her arm before she could, providing a steadying grip that kept her from toppling to the floor.
“I’m so sorry, are you alrig…”
Annabeth involuntarily trailed off as she looked up into the face of the person she was speaking to.
Immediately she wished she had kept staring at his shoes. Running into someone because she wasn’t looking where she was going was embarrassing, but running into the most attractive man she’d ever seen in her life because she wasn’t looking where she was going– that was on a whole different level.
He was about her age, maybe a few inches taller, with windswept black hair and eyes so green Annabeth was half-convinced they were contacts. He had perfectly balanced features, tan skin, and she could feel the well-defined muscles of his arm under her fingers as well as she could see them. Despite the fact that Annabeth had caused him to spill his whole drink down his front, he was still smiling, looking like he was trying not to laugh.
“I’ll survive,” he said, eyes sparkling with barely restrained humor, “It happens to the best of us, your highness.”
1) When I posted that, I didn’t realize within a year that I would become a middle school teacher. Lol oops. There goes being able to reread things unless I’m super motivated.
2) I definitely thought no one would pay attention because I’m not very active on tumblr and the kingdom keeper fandom is pretty small.
3) I still want to reread kingdom keepers and the new updates. Maybe that could be a fun summer project or something I’m suddenly inspired to do this year at some point in time.
Modern adaptations of the Arthurian mythos: everybody’s covered in shit and some guy sleeps with his sister. Maybe there’s a prophecy?
The actual source material: okay, so a Kryptonian, a werewolf, a one-handed guy with super-speed, and a dude who inexplicably keeps finding increasingly outlandish magic swords walk into a bar.
So Arthurian legends read like outlandish DND campaigns?
At one point Lancelot prevents a war by seducing the enemy warlord – mid-battle, no less.
so like I feel like this is a good time to bring up Gawain and the Green Knight because it’s fucking hilarious
a full on green giant fae comes into the Arthurian court looking for a fight
and Arthur is like I’m not dealing with this someone else please deal with this
and the knights draw straws and Gawain draws the short straw
and the Green Knight is like “okay so here’s an axe and you should hit me with it and then whatever you do to me, you have to let me do to you in a year” ya know as fairy deals typically go this isn’t a bad one you just have to like, not hit him that hard?
But for some reason Gawain gets the brilliant idea to chop the guy’s head off. which would have gotten him out of the deal probably if it weren’t for the fact that the dude just, picks up his head and carries it with him going “cool, that was fun, see ya in a year”
So Gawain spends the next year just kinda…fucking around, knowing he’s gonna get his head chopped off from this dude and ya know, not be able to pick his head up and walk out fine.
So at some point he ends up at this castle and the lord of this castle is like “you can stay here, and i will give you whatever i get hunting during the day, but you have to give me whatever you get during the day”
and well turns out this dude’s wife, ends up coming onto Gawain HARD, and like kissing him and shit, but he’s not into it, and every time at the end of the day he kisses the lord of the castle to “give him back” the kisses he got, which he seems to enjoy considerably more. this goes on for a few days, until the lady of the castle gives Gawain a belt to make him impervious, and per his agreement he should give this to the lord but he thinks about the fact that he’s about to get hit in the neck with an axe and thinks “nah i’m gonna keep this” and gives the lord the kisses but not the belt.
then gawain has to face the green knight and he kneels down to be decapitated and the green knight just deadass trolls him, he swings the axe at gawain and gawain flinches. and he mocks gawain for flinching. and gawain is like, yeah dude it’s an axe and the green knight is like “you scared bro?” and fakes him out a second time. and gawain is like just kill me already. so the green knight swings a third time, but stops when the axe hits his neck, just cutting him a little bit. and then he’s like “jk bro you’re good to go” and gawains like “you’re not gonna kill me??” and the green knight is like “nah bro, we’re cool” and it turns out that he was the lord of the castle that Gawain had been staying at, and respected him for not fucking his wife, so decided he was too legit to die. But he gave him the nick on his neck because he didn’t give him the belt back. but overall he was just trying to fuck with him for the luls
