in grade 12 we were reading romeo and juliet and we were at the romantic-ass balcony scene and this hot girl in the class volunteered to read juliet’s parts and i put up my hand to volunteer for another part and the teacher goes ‘oh do you want to be the nurse, amanda?’ and i was like ‘no i wanna be romeo’ and the hot girl swiveled around in her seat to give me a Look™
she and i later ended up making out at a bunch of parties in university lmfao
in retrospect this moment was absolutely pivotal to my butch awakening but it was also just a lesbian power move
I too got a girlfriend over this play. In grade 10, I was reading the balcony scene to study with two other people (one guy and one beautiful girl) and I insisted point blank I had to read as romeo, because he had the most lines and I’m a dramatic little shit.
So the other two in my group are used to my antics by now. We’re all friends, so the pair of them decide that the one guy in our group gets to be the nurse. Now, my Juliet and I have been friends for a couple months by this point, so I decide to be a little more dramatic.
We put Juliet on a spinny chair, and pump it up as tall as it goes, and my baby, closeted lesbian ass crouches on the floor, ready to be as melodramatic as possible. Like, I’m about to do a rendition that makes William himself walk into the class and tell me to take it back a notch or twelve.
And then I look up.
And holy shit.
There she is, Juliet, haloed in the worst fluorescent light known to mortals across the globe. Light just streaming down around her, that weird off-green colour that it always is. And she’s the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen. My little gay soul is barely holding on as the words barely leave my lips, breathlessly. “But soft… what light from yonder window breaks?”
And Juliet was the sun. Romeo was not exaggerating that line at all.
Juliet and I have also been together for more than 4 years now. She’s every bit as spectacular as she was when I was a lovestruck teenage Romeo, kneeling on the yellowed linoleum floor of second block english.
Thank you Shakespeare for bringing love into peoples lives
twilight rewrite: everything is the same up until the baseball scene in which victoria falls in love with bella and spends the rest of the time trying to seduce her
Consider:
It’s been so long since Victoria has thought of humans as anything other than food that she has no idea how to get one to like her. She then proceeds to show Bella affection the same way a cat would:
– bought home a live person to show Bella how she hunts (this only happened once because Bella was freaked out?? and made Victoria let the dude go??)
– following her from room to room without acknowledging her
– staring at her for awkwardly extended periods of time
– leaving gifts for Bella at her front door (Victoria has no concept of monetary worth so the gifts range from things like a shiny rock she found in the forest to thousands of dollars she took from the wallet of a man she killed)
The central conflict of the story is that Victoria thinks she’s doing a really good job of acting normal and Bella thinks Victoria is planning on killing her.
For those of you who are interested in rearing your own moths (or just insects in general!) here’s a list of my favorite websites.
argiope.se/ovogram– A great site based around trading and exchanging ova (eggs) and pupae of insects, mainly moths! It’s great because it is completely free. Right now there are a ton of people offering large saturniidae eggs like cecropia and polyphemus!
www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/hostplants/search/index.dsml– A great database of what moth or butterfly species eat what! If you plan on rearing caterpillars you should have plenty of their larval hostplant available, and this database will tell you every recorded hostplant of a species.
www.insect-classifieds.com/lepidoptera/livestock.html – Insectnet is a place for people to sell insects, both living and as display/research specimens. There are always a number of moth and butterfly eggs/pupae available, sometimes even extremely hard to find species.
www.inaturalist.org – iNaturalist is a citizen science project and online social network of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists built on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe. This is probably my all time favorite website (and app, you can download it on your mobile devices too!) It’s as simple as uploading a photo of a organism you found and 90% of the time the app will automatically identify the correct general species/family for you.
Viking Asgardians blog 