How to ruin potentially awesome characters.

[clo_again]

I'm not even through the first act of Antony and Cleopatra yet. Jesus. I love this period of history and I love these crazy, megalomaniac, sex-obssessed, awesome people, only Shakespeare is making them into the most boring people ever to exist. Really. Antony's a git and Cleo's like all the most annoying BNFs and idiots in fandom and fic rolled into one. Any line now, someone's going to buy her a laptop. It's driving me nuts.

No love Shakespeare. No love at all.

To soothe my misery, someone rec me good Daniel/Vala Stargate fic? Please? I have a craving brought on by this stunning piece of NC-17 hotness.

It's reminded me I should be reading outside the box again. Which probably includes Shakespeare too and dammit, I really have to read this play. Hasn't anyone got a fun fic AU of it I can read instead? There's got to be one out there.

If not, hm. Gap in the market.

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[australian-imp.livejournal.com]

I've so far managed to read the first... scene... of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

*shifty eyes*

[clo.livejournal.com]

*grins* You're doing about as well as me with A&C then. Though, probably better since you're reading it voluntarily and I'm reading under duress. ;)

[australian-imp.livejournal.com]

Up to Act III now :D

... still don't really understand it. ;)

[clo.livejournal.com]

Yay! :D

We're studying Shakespeare and we don't understand him either. ;) We just spend the time going "Oooo, pretty!" at the language.

[australian-imp.livejournal.com]

Lol.

It did put me in the mood to write a poem for the first tiem since... grade 12?