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prokopetz:

prokopetz:

More dumb magic items for your D&D campaign:

  • A sword that inflicts emotional wounds
  • A hat that, when left alone with another hat, will mate and produce hybrid offspring
  • Negative gold pieces

  • A map that is the territory
  • Armour that becomes more effective the uglier the wearer
  • A living pocket-watch that never needs winding, but if you don’t feed it, it dies; it’s an obligate carnivore
  • Goggles that put censor bars over monsters of the Aberration type
  • An instructional tome in the secret language of ducks
  • A dagger that glows in the presence of one particular goblin
  • Angry shoes
  • A magnifying glass that interrogates unexamined assumptions
  • A quill and inkwell set that lets you write with perfect fluency, but only in languages you don’t understand
  • Clothing whose colour and pattern are literally impossible to describe
  • A magic potion that renders the imbiber both incredibly persuasive and extremely gullible
  • An actual key to your heart

the-mad-prince-of-denmark:

maddie-grove:

Is Mamma Mia! is a lost Shakespeare comedy/romance?

Evidence for:

  • It’s set on an idyllic Mediterranean island.
  • The plot revolves around a bunch of ridiculous misunderstandings.
  • The night of the bachelor and bachelorette parties functions as a “liminal space” that allows the characters to throw off the veneer of civilization and realize things about themselves.
  • A major theme is the return of a loved one who was thought to be lost forever (as in The Tempest and A Winter’s Tale).
  • The timeline is confusing. (Donna appears to have been in some 1960s/1970s-style band at the time of Sophie’s conception, even though Sophie must have been born in the late 1980s; similarly, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, nunneries are mentioned despite the ostensibly ancient Greek setting.) 
  • There are songs.

Evidence against:

  • The dialogue is really bad.
  • There aren’t enough dick jokes.
  • All of the songs are by ABBA, a musical group that was not active in the early modern era.

Conclusion:

  • Shakespeare wrote a comedy/romance with the same plot and characters as Mamma Mia! (called The Three Gentleman Suitors); however, all manuscripts of this play were lost, and the only version that survives is an imperfect illicit transcription of the play by one of his rivals. Through the years, this transcribed version was further changed in accordance with popular tastes (losing the dick jokes in the Victorian Era) and eventually got adapted into an ABBA jukebox musical (mainly because it was in the public domain). 

I hate this because it’s true

lieutenant-sapphic:

wicked was a homoerotic book written by a gay author that was made into a somewhat-less-homeoerotic-but-still-subtextually-gay broadway musical. one of the musical’s tracks was adapted into a pop song sung by mika and ariana grande, a gay man and gay icon respectively. for all these reasons and more, “popular song” objectively contains the most gay energy of any mainstream music since tchaikovsky. in this essay, i will