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Edward’s mother could have given him the ring while she was ill and before she died…Carlisle could have retrieved some of Edward’s family heirlooms…or stolen some from a living relative to ease Edward’s transition into his new life…you know, something reasonable instead of Edward literally going to Chicago to rob his mother’s grave, Jesus fucking Christ

#😭#twilight #twilight clownery #twilight clown takes #eclipse #the anti fans are unhinged #based on the comments they are thinking about the dumbass movies #but that’s no excuse #this isn’t even in character for edward #i just saw their other reels esp the one about bella’s blue blouse being actually ugly #so yeah to the clownery bin you go

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I haven’t read the books in a long time so I don’t have a solid opinion on Rosalie but I get how annoying it can be at times when people like a character too much that was purposefully written to be a petty bitchy or antagonistic/villainous for one reason or another just because they have moments of being sad or have a sad backstory that explains their crappy personality and think that automatically makes them interesting,complex,relatable, and better written then the protagonist when sometimes the bitchy character in question is uncompelling at best and at worst and the story gives you a solid good reasons for why you find them to be obnoxious. If they not entertaining to me, or have little to zero good qualities, or do things that piss me off then why should I care about them?

Yeah, definitely. Although in the case of Rosalie, it’s not the character I’m annoyed about. Her character makes sense, her role in the narrative is written just fine, and actually has reasons for why she is the way she is without suddenly changing their established characteristics.

What I’m annoyed about is the fandom’s irrational worship of her and belief she has been “done wrong” by Meyer and the narrative. Except that she gets a super sympathetic backstory and she and Bella come to be allies and true sisters in the last book (!!). Rosalie got away with literally everything. So why the fandom is so precious about defending her when Meyer herself is the one who gave her actual sympathetic motives is unclear. It’s giving Bardugo and Zoya all over again.

All fandoms develop what I call myths that are not really rooted in anything canonical. And I think the fandom thinks that Rosalie is meant to be Meyer’s psychological bashing of a conventionally attractive basic rival to her Not Like Other Girl(tm) protagonist. Woman-hating disguised as traditional gender role bashing, as it were.

But Rosalie’s dislike of Bella (beyond the initial gut reaction of being annoyed that Edward was attracted to her) is really just an envy of her mortality and of Bella’s wishes to become a vampire. Nothing to do with Bella herself or even competition about looks (there is no comparison, at least in Rosalie’s mind). Rosalie even has at least one tomboyish trait—she is a mechanic who likes cars—so not even that holds water.

So based on this clownery fans overcompensate and become Rosalie stans, to the point of victim-blaming Bella. That, or some fans really are as petty, shallow, conventional, and superficial as their fan favorite and are beyond miffed at seeing them portrayed negatively. Some people in real life are petty, shallow, and superficial, after all.

#i come anon #ask #twilight #twilight meta #twilight renaissance #and no rosalie was not right about hating on bella for wanting to be a vampire #it was bella’s choice and honestly bella definitely had good reasons #escaping her terrible weak ass parents for one thing #being with edward whom she adores #all the cool shit of vampires in general #immortality has its downsizes for sure but for bella they’re not that great

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Twilight Clown Takes—Part 7

Featuring Twilight being both queer and homophobic, more deranged Rosalie fan dumb, and a random simping for Sarah J. Maas. On nom nom away

Twilight Is Homophobic AND Queer!!1!!

Or…and I’m just throwing it out there…Twilight is a romance and the romance genre are notoriously heterosexual???? To the point where one of its nastier tropes is the predatory gay villain (looking at you, Outlander)????

Hell, even now the number of homosexual characters in romances are low, mostly just limited to supporting characters. I suppose it’s improved in recent years, but even in fantasy romance you get, like, Mor from ACOTAR.

At least Clown OP has the self-awareness to know they are indeed writing fanfic.

But regarding the “Edward/Bella would never last and they would get divorced!!” clownery…what canonical basis is there even???? They could barely last six months apart without having a complete nervous breakdown. Yes, they are blinded by their own insecurities and delusions, but they eventually communicate and resolve their issues fairly easily. Their love proves greater and helps them overcome these.

You would think Kristen Stewart would have an easier time playing Bella if she were so obviously bi-coded. Instead we got the most awkward and ill-fitting performance of a major character in years, to the point where her version of the character is among the most hated film characters—ever. Part of it is definitely the stupid script and questionable direction, but there is also a matter of casting type. Bella is a modernized romance heroine while Stewart is a grounded indie actress who at BEST can play a major fantasy heroine—a more emotionally intelligent version of Katniss. Perhaps an animated TV show will be beneficial in that respect, in actually casting for the character.

Rosalie Fan Dumb

Bella: *wants to be a vampire*

Rosalie: How dare you, an autonomous individual different from me, make a completely different choice than what I would make!!!1!! 😡

Clown OP: Complexity 😍

Seriously, we have got to have a long talk about this fandom’s idealization of Rosalie resenting Bella her own autonomy and pissing on her own choices. Edward literally has the exact same position as Rosalie (except that homeboy doesn’t hate Bella for it and understands why) but he is criticized so much more harshly. What the hell is going on?

Also, Bella was gung-ho on becoming a vampire anyway, so this pregnancy did not change her plans in the slightest. Hell, it was her plan to get changed right after birthing Renesmee, so it was all on her terms. Let’s not pretend she was at any point coerced into vampirism! For all this whinging about Bella’s agency, it’s the anti fandom itself that refuses to acknowledge it.

Except that in Midnight Sun we do see Rosalie’s hostility from Edward’s POV and boy, is it super petty and irrational—she cannot even stand to be in the same room as Bella! It’s completely juvenile, which is well, par de course for vampires frozen in their adolescent state.

But again we have the victim blaming. Bella’s existence doesn’t endanger the Cullens; it’s the Cullens’ existence that endangers Bella, as Edward correctly notes and angsts about. The only way Bella endangers the Cullens is that she knows their secret—but of course, she would never tell, so it’s moot point. It’s not even on the table after the car accident scene.

Sarah J. Maas? You mean the author with prose like unseasoned rice? You mean the author with 80% of the most boring ass worldbuilding and 20% actual erotic sex scenes, her actual strength? You mean the author who literally turned her first love interest evil and stripped him of all his personality in the sequel just so that her female MC could end up with the fan favorite antagonist (who drugged her and made her dance suggestively in front of people)? That Sarah J. Maas? A better writer than Meyer? Really????

#my creation has returned to me #twilight renaissance #seriously this simping for rosalie is getting on my nerves #meyer even gave her a sympathetic backstory but it’s still not enough #also she has bella and rosalie become allies in bd and antis still bitch #also also she wrote some new moon extras from rosalie’s pov

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You mentioned in the tags of one of your posts on Mercutio's (non-existant) sexuality that you're partial to the idea that he may have been inspired by Kit Marlowe; I want to hear all about this lol.

Also, do you have an Marlowe recommendations? I've heard good things so I would like to read some of his plays.

Oh, yeah, my Christopher-Marlowe-may-have-been-the-inspiration-for-Mercutio theory! Glad to talk about it.

So I’m definitely not the only one with this theory—some scholars have mused as much and I did come across them. But the case for Mercutio-as-Marlowe stands roughly as follows:

One of Marlowe’s nicknames was Mercury (!!). Now, Shakespeare clearly did not come up with the name, as he got it from his source material in Brooke et al. But as the Mercutio there was just some random courtier, I have no doubt that Shakespeare got an eyeful of that name in the Brooke poem and just 😏 and seized that golden opportunity to honor his friend in this way

By all accounts Marlowe was charming, erudite, intellectually edgy (an avowed Arianist and homosexual), with a nasty bit of a temper. Mercutio is much along those same lines

Marlowe and Shakespeare may have been friends as well as theater rivals, with similar backgrounds but (I suspect) opposite personalities and sensibilities—the iconoclastic Marlowe with the much milder Shakespeare. You see that same push-pull dynamic in Romeo and Mercutio’s relationship.

Mercutio was killed during his duel with Tybalt. Marlowe was killed while fighting with his fellow spies at a tavern/government safehouse in Deptford. So Shakespeare making Mercutio’s death off-stage may be a reference to Marlowe’s out-of-London death (and perhaps how Will came to find out).

So yeah, not much evidence, come to think of it. Just general vibes. Mercutio does have lines about dreams that are a reference to Thomas Nash, who was also friends with Marlowe and perhaps Shakespeare as well. But of course Shakespeare would make Mercutio a composite of his friends and not just limit himself to any ~one thing.

Against this is the fact that there is no clear evidence that Shakespeare and Marlowe knew each other. That said, the theater world was tiny and Marlowe wrote for Strange’s Men; Shakespeare may have been a player for them at the time. But it’s logical for many fangirls scholars to believe they knew each other and were friends/rivals and so forth.

As for recommendations, I’ve only ever read Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, which even got a Globe performance, and his Hero and Leander, a narrative poem along the lines of Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis. I’m ashamed to admit that in class I mistook a passage from Hero for Shakespeare’s, an ignominy that will live in me forever until my dying breath.

But while Marlowe was never as great at character as Shakespeare, his verse was very good (if a little too regular with the masculine endings) and nigh indistinguishable from Shakespeare’s in the beginning. Also, Marlowe is 1000x gayer, even writing about Edward II and his forbidden romance with his favorite Gaveston. Hence his popularity in fangirl circles. If you like Shakespeare but feel he could have been more violent, political, and gay, Marlowe will be right up your alley. There have been tons of fanfiction about him, some notable ones of which are:

The Marlowe Papers (Barber)—author is a stupid anti-Stratfordian, but her verse is legit

A Tip for the Hangman (Epstein)—not feeling the main romance, but it was fun and well-researched

The Secret Life of Shakespeare (Morgan)—actually focusing on Will/Anne, but this version of Marlowe is my favorite. He is just as I’ve envisioned him

#kaleb-is-definitely-sane #ask #romeo and juliet #william shakespeare #christopher marlowe #i think the reason is that marlowe’s personality is just much more evident than shakespeare’s #even though marlowe has fewer trails #hence his popularity in fanfic #meanwhile i can’t say i’ve encountered a portrayal of shakespeare that has satisfied me #life of will

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Twilight Clown Takes—Part 7

Featuring Twilight being both queer and homophobic, more deranged Rosalie fan dumb, and a random simping for Sarah J. Maas. On nom nom away

Twilight Is Homophobic AND Queer!!1!!

Or…and I’m just throwing it out there…Twilight is a romance and the romance genre are notoriously heterosexual???? To the point where one of its nastier tropes is the predatory gay villain (looking at you, Outlander)????

Hell, even now the number of homosexual characters in romances are low, mostly just limited to supporting characters. I suppose it’s improved in recent years, but even in fantasy romance you get, like, Mor from ACOTAR.

At least Clown OP has the self-awareness to know they are indeed writing fanfic.

But regarding the “Edward/Bella would never last and they would get divorced!!” clownery…what canonical basis is there even???? They could barely last six months apart without having a complete nervous breakdown. Yes, they are blinded by their own insecurities and delusions, but they eventually communicate and resolve their issues fairly easily. Their love proves greater and helps them overcome these.

You would think Kristen Stewart would have an easier time playing Bella if she were so obviously bi-coded. Instead we got the most awkward and ill-fitting performance of a major character in years, to the point where her version of the character is among the most hated film characters—ever. Part of it is definitely the stupid script and questionable direction, but there is also a matter of casting type. Bella is a modernized romance heroine while Stewart is a grounded indie actress who at BEST can play a major fantasy heroine—a more emotionally intelligent version of Katniss. Perhaps an animated TV show will be beneficial in that respect, in actually casting for the character.

Rosalie Fan Dumb

Bella: *wants to be a vampire*

Rosalie: How dare you, an autonomous individual different from me, make a completely different choice than what I would make!!!1!! 😡

Clown OP: Complexity 😍

Seriously, we have got to have a long talk about this fandom’s idealization of Rosalie resenting Bella her own autonomy and pissing on her own choices. Edward literally has the exact same position as Rosalie (except that homeboy doesn’t hate Bella for it and understands why) but he is criticized so much more harshly. What the hell is going on?

Also, Bella was gung-ho on becoming a vampire anyway, so this pregnancy did not change her plans in the slightest. Hell, it was her plan to get changed right after birthing Renesmee, so it was all on her terms. Let’s not pretend she was at any point coerced into vampirism! For all this whinging about Bella’s agency, it’s the anti fandom itself that refuses to acknowledge it.

Except that in Midnight Sun we do see Rosalie’s hostility from Edward’s POV and boy, is it super petty and irrational—she cannot even stand to be in the same room as Bella! It’s completely juvenile, which is well, par de course for vampires frozen in their adolescent state.

But again we have the victim blaming. Bella’s existence doesn’t endanger the Cullens; it’s the Cullens’ existence that endangers Bella, as Edward correctly notes and angsts about. The only way Bella endangers the Cullens is that she knows their secret—but of course, she would never tell, so it’s moot point. It’s not even on the table after the car accident scene.

Sarah J. Maas? You mean the author with prose like unseasoned rice? You mean the author with 80% of the most boring ass worldbuilding and 20% actual erotic sex scenes, her actual strength? You mean the author who literally turned her first love interest evil and stripped him of all his personality in the sequel just so that her female MC could end up with the fan favorite antagonist (who drugged her and made her dance suggestively in front of people)? That Sarah J. Maas? A better writer than Meyer? Really????

#🤮#twilight #twilight renaissance #anti anti twilight #twilight clown takes #not antis thinking maas is a better writer than meyer 🤣#i could barely slog through the second book #and so light on the sex scenes!!! when that’s her biggest strength!!!#i was promised good faerie dick goddamnit!!!!#the most incoherent worldbuilding too

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Bella being distantly related to the Quileutes makes my Jacob-as-Bella’s-socially-destined-match theory so much more plausible.

#twilight #twilight meta #oh yeah it’s all coming together #i read some chapters of an indigenous!bella fanfic #it was predictably awful but also bella was completely ooc #but it is at least based on some canon

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Behind every great writer is an even greater stay-at-home wife who runs her own ale business and hoards 800 bushels of malt during a harvest shortage 😌

#william shakespeare #when you know you know #happy birthday you gentle theater troll

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Damn Tumblr for not accepting large files! Yeah, I did all the parts - chorus and all. Yep, I'm that insane. Just woke up with an insatiable urge to sing my lyrics...just in time for the eclipse to become irrelevant. 🫠 So obviously I departed from the original English (they wouldn’t have worked in context anyway, they’re so generic) and tried to stick as much to the German as possible. Hopefully this is still an improvement over the Dance the Vampire clusterfuck even with me singing to myself.

Total Eclipse (Totale Finsternis)

Vampires Isn’t she lovely? Isn’t she bright? Young and enticing An ingenue of night See her

Finer than velvet Glistening fair She may be mortal But in our secret lair She’s damned!

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I feel a void grow Inside me, but I don’t know what I miss

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night the most fantastical dreams come, As haunting as a blow or a kiss

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I wait and hear someone call me But it’s never clear to where I must go

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I feel a shadow fall near me Then I wish to leave the life I have known

Krolock & Vampires Turn around, starling

Sarah In the night I hear it call to me

Krolock & Vampires Turn around, starling

Sarah In the night I hear it call:

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I feel enchantments around me Coaxing me to just give in

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I feel temptations surround me They’re a mirror of my longing within

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I wonder what I would dare do To become a woman, fearless and free

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I ponder what I would dare to If I could fin’lly choose whom I’ll be

Krolock & Vampires Turn around, starling

Sarah In the night I hear it call to me

Krolock & Vampires Turn around, starling

Sarah An exquisite longing to be free!

Krolock Then we’ll leave this world behind In this bond entwined together Far beyond this void of time We shall die and live forever

Come with me to the depths of the night In my arms you will find A shadow world of love, a paradise of the night The sun of midnight dawning, dreams of vice taking flight

You are the blood of life Realized in mortal form

Sarah Your words are like a flint Making sparks in my heart

Both I feel my essence alight! Eternity shall start tonight Eternity shall start

Krolock Tonight

Sarah Once upon a time I dreamed of losing my fear Now I fear of losing my mind There’s nothing I can do I’m lost and I’m found for all time

Once upon a time I dreamed of giving my love Now I rise and falling apart There’s nothing I can do A total eclipse of the heart

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I long to run and begin To break this tie of fate

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night the voice of truth speaks within me And already I know it’s too late

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I would admit that I’ll never Meet a miracle as wondrous as you

Krolock & Vampires Turn around

Sarah Sometimes in the night I get a glimpse of forever And I see this ancient world fresh and new

Krolock & Vampires Turn around, starling

Sarah Every now and then it calls to me

Krolock & Vampires Turn around, starling

Sarah And I know I’m where I’m meant to be

Both And we’ll leave this world behind In this bond we’ll never sever Far beyond the void of time We shall die and live forever

Sink with me in the depths of the night In my arms you will find A shadow world of love, a paradise of the night The sun of midnight dawning, dreams of vice taking flight

Krolock You are the blood of life Realized in mortal form

Sarah Your words are like a flint Making sparks in my heart

Both I feel my essence alight! Eternity shall start tonight Eternity shall start

Krolock Tonight

Sarah Once upon a time I dreamed of losing my fear Now I fear I’m losing my mind

Both There’s nothing I can do I’m lost and I’m found for all time

Sarah Once upon a time I dreamed of giving my love

Krolock Now I think I’m falling apart

Both There’s nothing I can do A total eclipse of the heart There’s nothing I can say I’m rising and falling apart

Sarah There’s nothing I can do I rise and I’m falling apart

Krolock almost bites her.

Krolock No, let’s not forget The blood will run cold Deferring the sweet Will allow it to hold Be patient

And soon the meaning of these Hours shall be told Sorrow is past us And forever will call In our sweet rapture Dancing at our grand ball…

#tanz der vampire #totale finsternis #total eclipse of the heart #cristina sings #my lyrics #tanz der vampire english #dance of the vampires #hopefully non-sucky for once #...or appropriately sucky #badoom tss

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Could it be???? The best reprise in the history of musical theater???

Notice how the music is almost completely the same as in Le Duel but it sounds so much more threatening without the choir singing. Notice how Romeo's tone goes from desperate in Le Duel to completely dejected in this. There are so many parallels!!!!!! He even does his classic shove and dodge move when Paris tries to attack him. I could talk about this for hours

#romeo et juliette #romeo es julia #hungarian retj #párisz halála #ah this reprise does hit hard #still miss the counterpoints tho #i did debate including this in my english retj #but then i would have to include the j’ai peur reprise #it’s an option but all in all

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Kill the mentality that a female character is “weak” if she is in love with a man. Love is not weakness.

Also kill the mentality that a female character is “weak” if she is kind and sweet. Kindness is not weakness either.

#kill these both with FIRE #sheer utter patriarchy #when you know you know

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

#one hundred years of solitude #cien años de soledad #!!!!!!!!!!!!#it looks…like netflix is just going to do this as an actual fantasy 😑#will still watch it though #you know me #cristina is an english major #when will people realize this novel is a comedy 🤦‍♀️#i was breathless with laughter through it all #Youtube

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Wish there was this much energy for defending R&J

#hamlet #romeo and juliet #didn’t even know there were articles against hamlet/ophelia #i tend towards hamlet/ophelia truly being in love #sort of. it’s complicated #there is a lot of (deliberate) ambiguity and mixed evidence #i could talk about it if you lot are interested #however r&j is so canon it’s clownery to dispute it #are there even any studies that try to argue against r&j?????#i almost never bother with rj essays #hamlet/ophelia #hamlet meta

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KIT CONNER AND RACHEL ZEGLER AS ROMEO AND JULIET??? THIS IS NOT A DRILL I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL

#romeo and juliet #hmmmmmm #i don’t see zegler handling shakespeare #or is this going to be a loose adaptation?#god i hope not #we need an actually good version with the original shakespeare #the only non-shakespeare adaptation i want is the french musical

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There are literally at least 5 major MAANs I know of (‘90s Branagh, Joss Whedon’s version, the David Tennant/Catherine Tate version, the Shakespeare in the Park version, the Globe Theater one), plus a loose film adaptation that was a hit.

Meanwhile all the recent major R&J productions was that horrible film one with the butchered Shakespeare that bombed, the stupid gnome one, and the Orlando Bloom one. And they still haven’t adapted the French musical.

#😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭#romeo and juliet #no i don’t count & juliet fuck it #what do you mean yet another r&j #the leo di caprio is the only major mainstream version #and it’s so overrated #with the second most horrible shakespeare #there have been more stage productions but they haven’t been big #oh and there was the one they did amid quarantine #nobody says ‘why hamlet’ or ‘why macbeth’#it’s called a classic #classics are meant to be redone!!!!

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“Edward was shrugging out of his jacket. I suddenly realized that I had never once noticed what he was wearing—not just tonight, but ever. I just couldn’t seem to look away from his face. I made myself look now, focusing. He was removing a light beige leather jacket now; underneath he wore an ivory turtleneck sweater. It fit him snugly, emphasizing how muscular his chest was.” (Twilight, p. 169-170)

“He pulled off his T-shirt, already spotted with blood, and threw it to me. I wadded it up and held it tightly to my forehead.” (New Moon, p. 188)

Yeah…what she really wants(tm).

#twilight clownery #twilight #new moon #twilight renaissance #team jacob clownery is on its own level #bella to jacob: you’re sort of beautiful #sort of beautiful 🤣#i honestly think meyer loves jacob more than bella does

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Let No One Sleep! (Nessun Dorma)

N.B: The inspiration for English lyrics hit me so suddenly about some time ago, I’m shocked, lol. I thought this aria above all would resist English. I still have one dubious line that would require an extra syllable, but the alternatives did not satisfy me completely. I also debated whether or not to keep the interrogative tense, since that makes Calaf a little less of an asshole…but I thought he was arguably worse in English than in Italian, so some softening wouldn’t do much. 🤣 Hope you enjoy.

Let No One Sleep! (Nessun Dorma)

Calaf Let no one sleep! Let no one sleep…

Even you, my Turandot Locked in your sacred tower Will you deny me? Will you defy your stars now All for your power?

Or do I haunt you even so? And by your will my name would know? No, no! Only when I take your lips in mine I’ll break your silence By the morn

My kiss shall free you from the cold chains that conceal you And keep you from me

Chorus His name he’s sworn no one will know And so we are condemned to die By light!

Calaf Give way, oh, night! Let the day alight! Let the day alight I’ll die or you’ll be mine You’ll be mine! You’ll be mine!

#nessun dorma #turandot #my lyrics #opera #english lyrics #heartbreaking: the best aria is sung by an asshole #a beloved opera tradition by this point #you have no idea how obsessed with this aria i was #my middle school self was UNDONE #soul-shattering #i’ve tried to look up earlier english translations but they’re all literal

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Learned Rudolf's part and now I can't remember the main melody. 🫠 Only me, I guess. Anyhoo, I'm shocked by how okay this turned out; I thought this would be a harder song to sing. It only took me long because I decided to learn Rudolf's harmony like an idiot.

The Shadow's Growing Longer (Die Schatten werden länger)

Death Now it’s time to break the silence Time to offer you some guidance You’ve known me, yes, you’ve known me Cold, alone, still, you have known me Even as a boy you’ve shown me What you could be if you’d at last decide

Rudolf Death, you’ve come when I most need you Dearest friend, I knew you’d be true In this world of madness, greed, you—

Death Am here To be your guide

Both The shadow’s growing longer But mankind is blind to his own folly The darkness growing stronger In his hate, his greed, his melancholy The shadow’s growing longer Either change the tide Or watch the whole world die

Rudolf Captain of a ship soon sinking Wracked by gales, so close to brinking And I’m trapped, so helpless, thinking I’m bounded Tied and grounded

Death Still, you can prevent disaster If you’re brave enough to try it Though the tide moves ever faster

Rudolf It makes me long to die!

All The shadow’s growing longer But mankind is blind to its own folly The darkness growing stronger In his hate, his greed, his melancholy The shadow’s growing longer Revolution’s nigh So why do you/I linger still?

Death What are you waiting for? Do what you have to do Do what you must To reach for power!

Rudolf Power?

All The shadow’s growing longer What must happen has to or it’s too late The darkness growing stronger But the world is blind and deaf with hate The shadow’s growing longer Emperor Rudolf will soon make war with this fate

#my creation has returned to me #the do it with oatmeal song is that popular i guess #it would be something to show it on broadway #then came those rotten fangirls #i’ll stop now lol

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