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Owen Birthday 2023 4koma Translation (A Handmade Return Gift)
feat. Shylock and another rare Akira hand!
aka mr competitive once again attempts to bring joy to master sage by terrorising them as thanks
Thanks @amorest-viesse for the raws!
#mhyktl#promise of wizard#masaki akira#mahoutsukai no yakusoku#mahoyaku#owen mhyk#shylock bennett#dying at this 4koma so i need everyone else to die at it too#owechan and akichan interactions always gets me#look at these 2 dumb cuties#another owechan 4koma featuring akira#2nd koma is soooooo fuckin cute like omg omg omg omg omg their faces eeeeeee#also shylock no#another 4koma of owen trying to terrorise akira to make them happy lmao#in the dumbest way
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when they said black sails brainrot will consume you they were RIGHT
#currently at a 66% success rate for just the books i've read this term#u know when tamora is like. you call us barbarous but everything we know we have learnt FROM YOU. and the idea with her and aaron#deciding to give in and fulfill the romans' villanous caricature of them?#also. shylock#The villainy you teach me I will execute—and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. !!!!!!!#HELLO#flint#they need a villain#if i am your monster so be it#or whatever#it's been a minute BUT#it's all ther#theatre#black sails#squish speaks
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Will you ever reveal your 911sona to us king (gender neutral)?
Anon, I would LOVE to. Tragically, the only documentation of the life and death of my 9/11sona existed entirely on maybe 3 sheets of paper, written a decade ago for two linked school assignments that at the time I found wildly embarrassing, and honestly kind of offensive; if grade 9 wasn't one of the major milestone years for Canadian education (PAT's, baby!), I would have refused to do the assignment entirely, as inventing fake victims to mourn in a very real and (then) somewhat recent tragedy felt extremely fucked up. And it's still fucked up, it's just also really funny that someone thought that was an appropriate school assignment.
Anyways, my point is, while all this is hilarious in hindsight, at the time I was genuinely ashamed to have done the assignment, and once it was over I wanted to stop thinking about it, because if I acknowledged how much I hated that teacher, I WOULD start shit, and that would tank my grade for the year. Language arts is a wildly subjective subject, and so if you piss off your English teacher, you're absolutely fucked, because that grudge WILL show in how they grade you. So as soon as the 9/11sona assignments were marked and returned, mine went directly into the trash as I tried to scrub the whole nightmare from my memory. The overall situation remains seared into my brain to this day, but the details of my 9/11sona have, unfortunately, been lost to time. It wasn't nearly as interesting as the concept implies though; I sure as hell wasn't feeling any sort of passion for the project, so I'm pretty sure my 9/11sona was literally just some generic guy working some generic office job in one of the towers.
...Though the real punchline to this side of the story is that after a whole miserable year of gritting my teeth and holding back arguments to put up with this awful english teacher to ensure she marked me fairly, all of it became even more infuriating when I wound up getting into the exact situation I had been afraid of, literally on the first day of grade 10 english. As in, it was my first class after lunch, and I got in there about ten minutes early because I was worried about getting lost. Before the bell rang to start class that day, my brand new english teacher had informed me to my face that I specifically would be singled out to be marked on a considerably harsher curve than anyone else in the class. She fucking meant it too, the whole semester, apart from multiple choice tests, every single one of my english assignments had a strict grade ceiling of 79%, I never made it into the 80+ range by her standards, which was the most infuriating possible way to lose what had, until that point, been a perfect record of always ending a school year with my english mark in the 90's. I put up with making a fucking 9/11sona to maintain that record, and then lost it the next year to a snap judgment one teacher made literally less than ten minutes after I walked into her classroom.
...But that's a story for a different time.
#can you tell i'm still bitter about my grade 10 english teacher#BECAUSE I'M VERY FUCKING BITTER THANK YOU#i mean credit to her at least she had arguably the best grade 10 shakespear unit in the country#specifically bcause she thought romeo and juliet had been done to death and made us do Merchant of Venice instead#that was really cool honestly there was some really interesting discussions about the history of antisemitism#and how the plays depiction of shylock compared to other plays portraying jewish characters at the time#very interesting stuff! much more interesting than any discussion i've heard for romeo and juliet lmao#like i loved her class she was a great teacher. BUT SHE WAS ALSO A COMPLETE DICK TO ME SPECIFICALLY#english was always my best subject! i'd literally just failed my first class ever (math) the semester before!#I DID NOT NEED HER TO DESTROY MY CONFIDENCE. IT WAS ALREADY GONE#SHE WAS JUST KICKING ME WHILE I WAS DOWN AT THAT POINT
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Reminiscence of the Unfinished Wine - Chapter 1
🍷 September seasonal permanent event; banner characters Shylock, Murr, Bradley; 2022/09/11 - 2022/09/19 JST 🍷
[Location: Manor hallway, night]
Akira: Phew, I really feel like I gave it my all today.
One night, I was taking a walk through the magic manor after finishing my work. As I was walking, I overheard voices having a cheerful conversation.
Akira: (….Hm? It's pretty lively in Shylock's bar.)
[Location: Manor bar, night]
Arthur: It truly is such an adult atmosphere at night. Someday, I hope to have a drink with Master Oz in a place like this.
Rutile: A bar does make you feel a little more grown-up, doesn't it? Mitile has also said he was looking forward to having a drink with me at a bar one day.
Shylock: Then, while we await that joyful day, let us toast with a non-alcoholic cocktail for tonight.
Murr: Let's do it, everyone! Cheers~!
Oz: …..Cheers.
Faust: Cheers…
Nero: Ch- cheers…
Nero: I didn't expect Oz to be here too… Man, you don't get a toast this tense very often…
Arthur, Oz, Murr, and Rutile were all seated at the bar. In addition, I spotted Nero and Faust.
I had just thought to myself, "what a strange group", when Murr's face popped up in front of me.
Murr: Welcome, welcome! Come on in!
Akira: Waah…!
Murr grabbed my arm, and I was tugged into the bar.
Faust: Sage?
Nero: What, now you're showin' up too?
Akira: Ah, I'm sorry for intruding. I just heard a lot of excited voices, so I wanted to see what was going on…
Shylock: Excellent timing. I was just serving a prototype non-alcoholic cocktail. Please do try it, Master Sage.
Akira: Thank you very much. Um, are you all having some sort of meeting tonight?
Murr: Nope! Arthur and Oz were the only ones in here at first.
Arthur: When I mentioned that I wanted to experience the adult atmosphere of a bar, Master Oz offered to escort me.
Oz: I was already intending to come here tonight. I simply said that if you wished to follow me, you could do as you please.
Akira: I see. Then, everyone else…
Faust: Murr invited me to the bar earlier today. He said they were going to serve some great wine, so I thought I would see for myself.
Nero: Besides that, he was talkin' about a rumor that they had somethin' rare in stock.
Murr: Yessir! I said that we would treat 'em to some Bacchus wine, and they all decided to follow me!
Rutile: Yep, and I tagged along too!
Rutile: I heard that Shylock gets many bottles of that delicious wine delivered around this time of year.
It seemed that the three of them were all hoping for a drink called Bacchus wine.
Leaving aside the ever-sociable Rutile, it was a little surprising that Nero and Faust - who seem to prefer quiet evening drinks - had apparently accepted Murr's invitation without much of a fight.
Akira: (I guess it's some sort of special drink…?)
Arthur: What kind of beverage is this "Bacchus wine"?
Shylock: It was created by a wizard named Bacchus.
Shylock: Since I receive many bottles every year, it's become something of a tradition to proudly share it with my patrons.
Shylock: That's why I was discussing it with Murr - we were talking about how we would be delighted to share this year's vintage with everyone in the manor.
Nero: Huh. So you became buddies with a guy, and now ya just get tons of valuable booze delivered for free every year?
Shylock: Indeed. But it's not quite that simple.
Shylock: He sends the wine not only as a token of our friendship, but also as a personal challenge.
Murr: Because Bacchus wines are the product of the spirited rivalry with Bennett wines!
Akira: Huh? A rivalry?
Shylock: Bacchus is a wizard who has fully devoted his life to wine. He has spent so many years making wine that the very aroma of it envelops him, almost seeming to seep from his skin.
Shylock: But connoisseurs still agree that, when it comes to wine, Bennett remains superior.
Shylock: It was many years ago, now, that the Bennett family owned vineyards and produced wine. However, its impeccable reputation did not fade with time.
It must hurt Bacchus's pride to always be outdone by the sheer legacy of Bennett wine. That must be why one day, as Shylock told me, Bacchus had come into Bennett bar.
Murr: He was like, "What the hell is the big deal about Bennett wine? I'll settle this once and for all, so get me a drink!" I remember, 'cuz I was there!
Akira: You remember a story from your past?
Murr: Sure feels like it!
Murr: At first, Bacchus was super noisy and arrogant. But as soon as he tasted the wine that was served to him, he went all silent and still.
Shylock: Because he had dedicated his heart and soul to the art of winemaking, Bacchus must have understood at once why Bennett wines retained their widespread renown.
Shylock: As he took another sorrowful sip of his wine, he declared to me this: "Someday, my work will surpass this wine."
Shylock: Ever since that day, Bacchus has sent me cases of wine every year, requesting that I evaluate their performance. And every year, I kindly do just that.
Rutile: Huh…! So for Mr. Bacchus, Mr. Shylock is definitely a rival, isn't he?
Faust: Now that you mention it, Bacchus wines do have a reputation for improving in taste by the year.
Nero: I guess I get how it feels to taste somethin' so mindblowing that some part of ya changes.
Arthur: I think it's a wonderful thing to thrive off the spirit of defeat and pride, and then use that ambition to work even harder to make wine.
Arthur: Master Oz, have you ever tasted Bacchus wine?
Oz: …I think I have heard that name before, but I do not recall. I may have had it once.
Shylock: "Then, tonight, let us indulge in this delicacy once more." …Is what I would like to say.
Shylock: Unfortunately, we have yet to receive any wine from Bacchus this year.
Murr: Huuuh? Really? Normally, it would have arrived ages ago!
Akira: Maybe he's behind schedule in his winemaking…?
Shylock: If that were the case, I would have been alerted well in advance, but I still haven't heard a peep from him… It is certainly puzzling.
Bradley: --CHOO!!
Akira & Rutile: Waugh!!
Just then, with a loud sneeze, Bradley suddenly appeared before us.
Bradley: …..Hah? Looks like I'm back. Ugh, and of course Oz is here…
Nero: Heh, got blasted off again?
Bradley: Mithra decided to pick up some shitty plant, and its pollen went all over the damn place.
Bradley: Well, at least the place I landed at was just some boring shithole, so I made it back safe n' sound this time.
Rubbing at his nose, Bradley clutched a bottle of wine in his other hand.
All the gathered wizards' eyes quietly settled on the bottle's label, then went wide.
Arthur: Could that be…
Murr: That's the one! Bacchus wine!
Akira: Eh!?
I couldn't read the script on the label, but apparently it read "Bacchus".
To our shock, Bradley tipped the bottle upside down and shook it while making a dubious face.
Bradley: What, were y'all hopin' for a drink too? Sorry, but ya missed out. Polished it off myself.
As it turns out, Bradley had been sent off to a rural town in the Western countryside, where Bacchus happened to have a vineyard.
Bradley: It was loud as hell around there, so I wanted to see what all the ruckus was about, but it turns out they were just preppin' for a harvest festival or some shit.
Bradley: There was a ton of wine sitting around, so naturally I went ahead 'n grabbed myself a little souvenir.
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Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 - Chapter 6 - Chapter 7 - Chapter 8 - Chapter 9 - Chapter 10
#mhyktl#mhyk tl#mahoyaku#mahoutsukai no yakusoku#promise of wizard#// event#// shylock#person who put up the other tl yesterday: im so sorry i mean no beef i was just working on this already and im gonna finish it#anyways brad continues to be the funniest man alive. thanks#mahoyaku tl#also banner image and story content belongs to c0ly. in case it needs to be said in 2022
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please explain why in the tags. ETA I fucken forgot twelfth night, but i do think it’s not as fucked up as shrew or all’s well
#for me it’s merchant#the racism is so queasy bc like: are we meant to empathise with shylock or not? are we meant to think portia forcing him to convert is good?#also there’s no reading of Antonio EXCEPT that he’s in tragic gay love with bassanio which is just!!! tragic#shakespeare#william shakespeare
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i have to be honest. i would simply not have agreed to a loan if the condition for not repaying by the specified date were a pound of my flesh. i must tell the truth in that i would have avoided all of that entirely.
#men are stupid#I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO SEE SOMEONE HATECRIMED EXCEPT FOR ANTONIO#A POUND OF HIS FLESH RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO SHYLOCK!!!!!!!#text post#the merchant of venice#shakespeare#jacob fortune-lloyd is the name of the actor who played bassanio that i thought was cute#he is also jewish#and he's playing brian epstein in an upcoming biopic!!!! that's really cool#well if it's any good that's really cool.#lotta bad biopics seem to have come out lately....... blonde who shall not be named oh shit#the elvis biopic was half-good but it had some serious problems. namely that it was about elvis.#i saw it w my dad though it was a nice night at the theater#it did a good job at explaining how he came to be a musical icon but did a terrible fucking job at handling his personal life#as any kiss-ass sorta movie made for boomer music fans would. if they didn't wanna think about how their legend was#Actually Not A Wholly Uncomplicatedly Good Person#so i can't say i was really shocked or offended#brian epstein is a little bit different though. because he's not the SUPERSTAR he was the brains behind the superstars.#and kind of a legend in his own right but definitely not a typical figure in pop culture iconography.#idk. if the actor's cute i'll watch it. that's my take#hope it's good though
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omg no way I have the poll feature
#murr hart#shylock bennett#shymurr#mhyk#promise of wizard#mahoutsukai no yakusoku#sorry. sorry. sorry. sorry. but also not.
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me, feeling incredibly depressed over shakespeare forcing a jewish man to convert to christianity and disguising it as justice:
shakespeare two seconds later: hee hee portia and nerissa play a practical joke on their husbands
#merchant of venice is the strangest shakespearean comedy I’ve watched yet#as a modern viewer it’s quite tragic#especially shylock’s character#but also the ring scene is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen bc it’s just like haha husbands are dumb#but also they’re so stupid for not recognising their wives in literally just a different outfit
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brief pt2 spoilers, but i was thinking about the first few chs of pt2 again. partly cuz whenever i rmbr "the wizards transformed into girls one time & kids another time cuz they dislike vincent" it makes me laugh. i saw fanart of akira w kid!wizards and went haha thats cute, then i read the chapter. u can imagine my surprise
but it always gets me thinking about the following conversation of 'the wizards will behave this time right' 'uhhhhh......probably...?' 'sir sage they Have to behave' 'well if vincent was nice to them theyd be nice back...' + how those chs especially was very..."these ppl thinks akira can control the wizards" (not only the ppl akira ends up speaking directly with, but also general ppl w power that akira cant reach), when akira (multiple times) has reiterated how while they do wish the northern wizards could get along they realize they have their own experiences and cant force them to do something (+feeling somewhat bad they have to live at the manor together). they dont want to do that already, but they also realize that ummm good luck with that frankly. so it just ends up like a lil "haha u sure do think so" to me whenever its brought up ppl r worried "who" has the power of oz & mithra, when its like......ya they do go along with things akira asks of them (more so in the case of oz), but those have always been relatively smaller scale things?! + if the command line went someone -> akira -> oz/mithra i dont think theyd like that either LOLT_T (disregarding the topic of the sages books and symphony) its very much the. akira treating them like friends rather than some ulterior motive of making them do their bidding
->cue brads sages heart ch. they listen to the sages heart. which in turn makes me think again of those concepts where the last fight with the moon didnt go that badly->no one has a reason to stay together at the manor->akira probably only befriends the ppl there+arthur. like at the end of the day (to me !) it feels very, Because the situation is what it is, and Because akira takes care to listen to them, they end up building that trust. its all about love !!!!!! (akira nvr orders anyone either its always a question......
#stardust speaking !#also cuz i think its funny when akira met up with the northern wizards w/ vincent and the first thing#akira did was compliment them & tell them they were scared of them to put them in a good mood#and then vincent goes 'who is the strongest' and akiras all '?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!?!STOP!?!?!?!?' SISJSKWKWKQNAKJD#vincent & owen talking about arthur was unreal btw. also snow getting angry &white going 'beloved brother he literally agreed use ur ears'#those first chs truly was a rollercoaster in feelings. i was thinking aboit them cuz i was gonna start rereading but#ive been so busy today..T_^ tmrw maybe#other things ive been thinking about is that scene when shylocks heart starts burning and akira is so distressed#'what if u put ur hands on his chest maybe' (akira does it in panic to the rests despair)#'im used to burning' faust u............ough that being the part when he uses akiras name too#WHEN I REREAD IM GONNA NOTE DOWN when they use akiras name. important info (to me#also i get shylock being mad at oz but also it gets me so Woah & excited considering he#kinda Very Much Knows oz almost killed murr. makes me dizzy. but u go shylock#theres sm drama within the first half alone like theres no way akira Didnt cry more. considering they cried when#all the stress was over at the end of 2nd anni. pt2 start is TERRIBLE (positive)
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i said i was going to arrange a list of my favorite articles/criticism about shakespeare, so here’s my first little roundup! obligatory disclaimer that i don’t necessarily agree with or endorse every single point of view in each word of these articles, but they scratch my brain. will add to this list as i continue reading, and feel free to add your own favorites in the reblogs! :]
essays
Is Shakespeare For Everyone? by Austin Tichenor (a basic examination of that question)
Interrogating the Shakespeare System by Madeline Sayet (counterpoint/parallel to the above; on Shakespeare’s place in, and status as, imperialism)
Shakespeare in the Bush by Laura Bohannan (also a good parallel to the above; on whether Shakespeare is really culturally “universal”)
The Unified Theory of Ophelia: On Women, Writing, and Mental Illness ("I was trying to make sense of the different ways men and women related to Ophelia. Women seemed to invoke her like a patron saint; men seemed mostly interested in fetishizing her flowery, waterlogged corpse.”)
Hamlet Is a Suicide Text—It’s Time to Teach It Like One (on teaching shakespeare plays about suicide to high schoolers)
Commuting With Shylock by Dara Horn (on listening to MoV with a ten-year-old son, as modern jewish people, to look at that eternal question of Is This Play Antisemitic?)
All That Glisters is Not Gold (NPR episode, on whether it’s possible to perform othello, taming of the shrew, & merchant to do good instead of harm)
academic articles
the Norton Shakespeare’s intro to the Merchant of Venice (apologies about the highlights here; they are not mine; i scanned this from my rented copy)
the Norton Shakespeare’s intro to Henry the Fourth part 1 (and apologies for the angled page scans on this one; see above)
Richard II: A Modern Perspective by Harry Berger Jr (this is the article that made me understand richard ii)
Hamlet’s Older Brother (“Hamlet and Prince Hal are in the same situation, the distinction resting roughly on the difference between the problem of killing a king and the problem of becoming one. ... Hamlet is literature’s Mona Lisa, and Hal is the preliminary study for it.”)
Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in Antony & Cleopatra Criticism (about more than just reviewers; my favorite deconstruction of shakespeare’s cleopatra in general)
Strange Flesh: Antony and Cleopatra and the Story of the Dissolving Warrior (“If Troilus and Cressida is [Shakespeare’s] vision of a world in which masculinity must be enacted in order to exist, Antony and Cleopatra is his vision of a world in which masculinity not only must be enacted, but simply cannot be enacted, his vision of a world in which this particular performance has broken down.”)
misc
Elegy of Fortinbras by Zbigniew Herbert (poem that makes me fucking insane)
Dirtbag Henry IV (what it sounds like.)
Cleopatra and Antony by Linda Bamber (what if a&c... was good.)
#essays/academic articles is sort of a false dichotomy but i wanted to separate these into More Casual versus More Academic. so.#misc category exists because. i like those two things so much. not at all for the same reasons#max.txt#misc#hamlet#merchant of venice#henry iv#richard ii#antony and cleopatra#there we are.
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I had to read the Merchant of Venice this weekend for my college English class and it struck me just home much of the rhetoric around the character of Shylock is the same as the stuff people are saying right now.
It’s not surprising, it’s not unexpected, but seeing something written so long ago have the same things people are writing on the internet today is certainly unsettling.
Now, there is of course discourse around Shakespeare’s true intentions with Merchant. It’s possible it is a criticism of the attitudes towards Jews present at the time, it’s also possible that it represents the believes he himself held, and it is possible that there truth lies somewhere in the middle. Regardless, the attitudes and language used in the play are representative of the time.
The Jewish character is a villain quite simply because he is a Jew. He is constantly called a dog or a cur, bloodthirsty, and is likened to the devil These are words things you can see and hear in current antisemitic rhetoric.
It has just struck me that society has not advanced their views or understanding of Jews since the renaissance.
We are going to be discussing the antisemitism of the play in class on Wednesday, and I am very interested to see if my classmates will be able to identify that this is not an attitude from the past but rather hatred that many of them are actively participating in right now.
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Reminiscence of the Unfinished Wine - Chapter 2
🍷 September seasonal permanent event; banner characters Shylock, Murr, Bradley; 2022/09/11 - 2022/09/19 JST 🍷 special thanks to keyk for the raws, and rusty for catching a couple errors!
Chapter 2
[Location: Manor bar, night]
Rutile: Are you saying you took that without permission? That won't do! You have to go back and pay properly.
Bradley: Payin' the price would make me a pretty shitty bandit, though, wouldn'it? Here, tell ya what. Y'all can keep the empty bottle.
Bradley tossed the bottle over the bar, and Shylock gracefully caught it in a swirl of his pipe's smoke. Furrowing his brows, he quietly examined the label.
Shylock: The date inscribed here… This is certainly this year's wine.
Shylock: The harvest festival seems to be proceeding apace, and production delays or mishaps are not to blame for the wine's absence..
Nero: Ya think he just, uh, forgot to send it?
Shylock: It's difficult to imagine. For as long as this arrangement has stood, Bacchus has never failed to send his wine for my review, even as the years marched steadily onwards.
Shylock: Even in the throes of illness, at a time when he was on the verge of turning to stone, he still made sure to send me a letter - one wherein he passionately described his confidence in that year's work.
Shylock honestly seemed to be at a loss as to why he hadn't heard a word from Bacchus. As he explained the situation, I tilted my head in thought.
Akira: (If it's really such an important exchange… then why hasn't Bacchus sent any wine this year?)
Shylock: …That said, waiting for wine that will never arrive is no way to find the truth of the matter.
Shylock: Tomorrow I shall go pay a visit to Bacchus myself. For this would be a most troubling, abrupt way for a long-standing tradition to come to an end.
Murr: You're not goin' anywhere without meeeee!
Boing! Murr leapt up and stood on one of the barstools along the counter.
Murr: Did you even hear a word our buddy Brad said? The town where Bacchus lives is having their grape harvest festival!
Murr: It'll be super duper fun! During the festival, along with tons of high-class wine, there'll be tasty grape treats and even grape-stomping events! C'mon, let's all go together!
Rutile: Wow, a grape harvest festival sounds like so much fun…!
Akira: Erm… but is it really okay? Shylock, this errand is important to you, and I wouldn't want us to interfere.
Shylock: Of course, you are more than welcome to accompany me. You referred to it as an "errand", but I feel that it's closer to meeting up with a dear friend.
Shylock: The festival will only get more exciting with an energetic, bustling crowd - and, most importantly, I would be truly happy if you all came along.
As though beckoning to our very hearts, Shylock's impossibly enticing smile had Rutile and I nodding excitedly.
Akira: Thank you very much, Shylock. If that's the case, then I would love to go to the harvest festival…!
Rutile: Count me in too, please! Mr. Faust, Mr. Nero, will you two be joining us?
Faust: I can't say I'm not tempted by Bacchus wine, but considering it's a wine festival in Western country… It sounds like it'll be rather hectic. Er, lively.
Nero: Yeah, but it's not every day ya get the chance to taste real-deal Bacchus wine…
Faust & Nero: Hmmmm…
Akira: (They both look so deeply conflicted…)
Arthur: Can we really do grape stomping too? I feel as though I've read about the tradition before. I think it was something to do with stepping on grapes while singing…
Murr: Yeah, I've done it myself! I don't remember any of the songs we sang, but I remember jumping and stomping and squishing up the grapes aaaall night!
Arthur: As expected, the well-traveled Murr has had an impressive variety of experiences. So when you step on the grapes, are you barefoot?
Murr: Naturally! And then the soles of your feet get all purpley wine-stained! It feels like I'm turning into one of the grapes!
Arthur: That sounds amazing! I used to enjoy making mud footprints when I was a child, but I have yet to experience making wine footprints.
Arthur: Master Oz, I would be very happy if you were to join us. It sounds like a unique, exciting experience that doesn't come about very often.
Oz: If you wish to go, you can go on your own.
Shylock: If I may add, there is a Bacchus wine cellar in the town. Over time, countless rare and delectable wines have accumulated in Bacchus's own archives. In that way, along with enjoying fine wines, you may revel in the sublime time you spend making your choice.
Arthur: Oh, and Master Oz…
Arthur: I'm not old enough to drink wine yet, but… I would really like it if you would help choose a wine for me to drink when I grow up.
Oz: ……
Oz: Okay.
Whether they were attracted by the promise of wine, excited by the thrill of a festival, or just being tugged along by the momentum of the group -- the number of people in our party steadily increased.
Then, Murr suddenly focused back on Bradley, as if remembering something.
Murr: By the way, Brad -- how's this year's Bacchus wine?
Brad: Oh, ya want my opinion? I really think it was --
Shylock: --Shh.
Shylock pressed one finger against his own mouth, his lips parted as though they still carried the taste of something sweet. His deep red eyes, the color of late-summer fruit at the height of ripeness, narrowed teasingly.
Shylock: For the moment, please keep your answer secured in your heart. We have yet to see if my tongue reaches the same conclusion.
Bradley: …….
For an intense moment, their gazes intertwined. Then, after a silence as meaningful as if they were sharing an unspoken secret, Shylock let his fingers slowly drift away from his lips.
Seeing this, the corner of Bradley's mouth pulled into a grin.
Bradley: Interesting. Guess I'll be goin' with ya tomorrow.
Bradley: I look' forward to hearin' yer thoughts on this one, barkeep.
The next day.
After a scenic broom ride from the Western elevator tower, we arrived at our destination in the countryside.
[Location: Western wine town, daytime]
Akira: Wow… the air smells amazing.
Oz: Yes. Because of the grapes.
The town was small and rural. Quaint brick buildings were clustered cozily together, and lush vineyards stretched out in every direction.
The main street was lined with shops, and decorative grape vines twisted up the walls and over roofs. The atmosphere radiated simplicity and pleasantness, and the aroma of sweet grapes filled the air.
Akira: Ah, and these matching outfits are perfect, too.
Shylock: These garments are in the traditional style of this area's harvest festival. We Western wizards prepared them to help immerse everyone in the thriving festive spirit.
Rutile: Thank you very much, Mr. Shylock. The vibrant colors are so enchanting!
Murr: Around here, adults and kids alike wear burgundy shades for grape harvest festivals. 'Cuz then if you spill wine or get splattered by the flying grapes, the clothes won't show the stain!
Nero: Uh, can ya run that by me again?
Faust: Flying grapes?
Bradley: At ragers like this, once yer drunk off yer ass, folks always start peltin' eachother with grapes. Mr. Barkeep was tellin' me about it yesterday.
Bradley: Squishin' up the runty fruit after the harvest is apparently s'posed to make for a killer crop next year. Some kinda superstition.
Bradley: But I guess, bein' shitfaced 'n all, they can't tell if the grapes are bein' thrown or if they're flyin' on their own.
Arthur: Ahaha!
Rutile: That sounds like a blast!
Just like Bradley said, the town was bustling with preparations for the harvest season.
Residents were all working hard, doing things like putting up flyers, hefting around casks of wine, and so on.
Akira: (It's chaotic and lively, like pre-festival activities in my world… It kind of creates its own unique sense of excitement, doesn't it?)
Just then, an older gentleman crossed the street before us, carrying a heavy-looking tray of glassware.
Before I even thought to offer him assistance, he stumbled, and the precariously tray of glasses tipped over.
Akira: Oh --!
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Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 - Chapter 6 - Chapter 7 - Chapter 8 - Chapter 9 - Chapter 10
#mhyktl#mhyk tl#mahoyaku#promise of wizard#mahoutsukai no yakusoku#// shylock#// event#i was up till 5am last night working on this pray for me#on to chapter 3~~~~~#mahoyaku tl#mahoyaku translation#also since i did the bulk of this at 5am and proofread it on like 5 hrs of sleep. lmk if theres egregious typos teehee
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@gehayi said: can you please tell us more about Israel Rank?
POV: We are at a slumber party and I am kicking my feet and giggling and telling you about the boy I like.
"Oh my god, his name is Israel Rank, and he's from a book called Israel Rank: Autobiography of a Criminal, and he is so hot! The musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, and the movie Kind Hearts and Coronets were both based on the book, but they made him other things besides Jewish, which is so bogus. Roger Ebert said it made the story more 'universal', which I guess means half-Italian is more universal than half-Jewish, which, what the fuck?
Anyway, he's the worst person in the world and I love him. He's like Heathcliff plus Steerpike plus Edmund the Bastard. He's the really distant relative of and earl, and his mother was disinherited for marrying a Jewish man. Israel isn't technically Jewish, he was baptized and raised Anglican, but he looks Jewish- and also really hot, and he says that combination upsets people! Kind of an Adrian Brody thing? I would have cast Ezra Miller before they turned out to be a shitshow of a person. And his name is Israel, kind of as a fuck you to mom's family. So he decides if people are going to give him shit about it anyway, he's going to embrace it.
He's in love with this girl Sibella, who won't marry him because he's both half-Jewish and poor, so starting as a hypothetical lark he wonders if he could just murder every single family member between him and an earldom. And then he does it! After sexual fantasies about Lucrezia Borgia encouraging him to! What an absolute freak.
So he starts killing, and his narration is so dry and funny about it. He tells the reader that in his experience, Jews aren't all that violent- he speculates that Shylock would have walked back the pound of flesh if he'd had time to calm down- but he has the blood of evil rapacious noblemen on his non-Jewish side which are to blame. He kills most of his family, except for the cousin-in-law whom he marries. He also still love Sibella. And his wife! He just can't stop fucking, he's so awful! (And I think he's bisexual. At least, I don't know how else I'm supposed to interpret the part where he's in school and "the boy I loved chose me as his Jonathan.")
And he gets away with it! He's super popular at his trial because he's so handsome and charming and the same society that scorned him, now that he's an earl, gossips that his Jewish ancestry must be very slight and distant. And there's a twist that gets him off the hook which is actually a real bummer of a plot point, even he's bummed out by it, but it's such a perfect capper to a life of cruelty.
Honestly, I do get why none of the adaptations keep the half-Jewish thing, they're probably afraid it would seem antisemitic, but in my opinion it's a real shame because it's so central to his character and I think I do want a sexy Jewish Byronic antihero. He's the worst. I love him. I would marry him. I would immediately divorce him. His favorite book is Emma!"
For a more academic discussion, I did a podcast episode on him way back when!
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watching the merchant of venice and i am... uncomfortable
#the actor for shylock is so good and so convincing i forgot i was watching an actor#and the actor for antonio spat in his face and he didn't even flinch#the actor for antonio is also really good but he's infuriating because he's antonio#tales from diana#i havent watched this play once since i read it four years ago#i'm watching the rsc production from 2015 with all the outright homoeroticism#antonio and bassanio kissed in their first scene together#it gives me such ...... feelings to really hate this violently prejudicial white gay#i am uncomfortable#p sure im still in act i
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[MHYK] 2021 Proposal Lines
2021 Proposal Lines from all 21 wizards! Translation by me and proof-reading and some revisions of the western wizards lines by @amorest-viesse
✧˖°Central Country°˖✧
Oz: Even time, which feels like an eternity, is finite. Think carefully about whom you want to be with in this limited time you have.
Arthur: “Will you make miso soup for me every day of our life?” …I hear this is a common way of proposing in your world. We don’t have miso soup here, but I think it’s wonderful that such a simple word can become a pledge of eternal love.
Cain: We lose our magic if we break a promise, but there must be some other power you gain by makin’ a promise to someone you love dearly. I hope that I can make a promise like that one day.
Riquet: I love you Master Sage! Um, if I may ask, which of the wizards do you love the most? …Huh, me? Ehehe~ That makes me so happy!
✧˖°Northern Country°˖✧
Snow: If I were to ever get married, I would like to say the line that the previous Sage taught me. Ehem. Sage, would you like a meal? Or maybe a bath? Or maybe… Hohoho~
White: Should we be reborn again, I hope to also spend my next life with you. …Hohoho~ That’s my favourite pick-up line. Did I make you swoon?
Mithra: If you love me, please make sure it lasts for a thousand years.
Owen: How foolish of you to ask a promise of me, just as foolish as love itself.
Bradley: Marriage, huh… I’d probably consider it if it were with the kinda guy I wouldn’t be able to live without. Well, it’s not every day ya find someone who’d love ya like that.
✧˖°Eastern Country°˖✧
Faust: You want me to teach you the most common ways to propose in this world? How should I know? I could teach you the most common curses though.
Shino: A proposal is an important line you only get to say once. I should think about it while I still can.
Heathcliff: To think that someone might propose to me one day... I've no idea when that could be, but I'm getting nervous already.
Nero: It seems like everyone's proposin' left and right today. Marriage ain't really for it a guy like me, but I suppose it wouldn't be so bad to live a peaceful life with the person I love.
✧˖°Western Country°˖✧
Shylock: We Western wizards are known for seeking pleasure and thrills. Thus, if you'd like, I would be glad to entertain you for the rest of your life... Am I joking, you ask? Would you like to find out?
Murr: Hey, Master Sage! Gimme a proposal! Huh? Why? 'Cause I wanna know what you'd say! C'mon!! Please?
Chloe: A proposal!? Ehehe, just thinking about it makes me blush, but I think it's wonderful to be able to tell someone how much you truly care. Someday, if I ever get the chance, I want to be able to confess with everything I've got.
Rustica: Have you ever proposed to someone, Master Sage? What did you tell them? We Western wizards are quite fond of love stories after all. Why don't you confide in me next time?
✧˖°Southern Country°˖✧
Figaro: What kind of confession would you like most, Master Sage? I'll tell you whatever you want to hear.
Rutile: “My eyes are like a lake of stars. I gaze at you with everlasting love” …Fufu, beautiful, isn’t it? That was a verse from when my mother and father met. I hope that, someday, I will find a love like theirs too.
Lennox: If I had a significant other...? Ah, I know. I'd like to protect them, so they'll never have to feel sad.
Mitile: I suppose my brother might get married someday, but I'm sure whoever his partner is, they'll be a wonderful person! Eh, what about me? Well, if I ever meet someone, I'll definitely make sure to propose to them in a cool way!
#mhyktl#mhyk#mahoyaku#mahoutsukai no yakusoku#mhyk oz#arthur granvelle#cain knightley#riquet ortiz#mhyk snow#mhyk white#mhyk mithra#mhyk owen#bradley bain#faust lavinia#shino sherwood#heathcliff blanchett#nero turner#shylock bennett#murr hart#chloe collins#rustica ferch#rustica ferucci#figaro garcia#rutile flores#lennox ram#mitile flores#woah that's a lot of wizards...#i had fun translating this!
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topic of rant: the unnecessary hatred that "toppers" get
don't even get me started on the whole stereotyped notion that people have towards students who are nailing it, esp in a brown household and society.
1. Do you understand what a 9 CGPA is? THAT TOO IN ESTEEMED GOVERNMENT UNIVERSITIES??? THAT TOO, THE MAIN CAMPUS??? no. You don't. you also don't know how a 9.0 is generalized in a middle class Indian household. it is excruciating that you keep running your arse against sand paper and when nobody takes interest in knowing how much you scored and you go and show them on your own, they be like "I knew you could do it" like?????? 😃 YOU DID NOT KNOW IT. WHILE I WAS STUDYING YOU KEPT COMPLAINING HOW I DONT HELP YOU WITH THE HOUSEHOLD CHORES AND JUST KEPT MYSELF BUSY WITH MY BOOKS. YOU DID NOT KNOW SHIT FAMILY. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU TOOK INTEREST IN MY ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS DO YOU KNOW THE RESPECT IVE GAINED IN THE EYES OF THE BEST PROFESSORS AND HOW THE WORST ONES KEEP TARGETTING ME??? but you knew it.
2. I keep seeing these reels wherein the so called influencers act like "toppers" (BECAUSE THEY CAN ONLY ACT LIKE ONE) and do the stereotyped scene of how toppers lie about how they're studying. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE EVIL EYE THINGY? ITS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE THESE INFLUENCERS WE DONT BOAST ABOUT OUR SCHEDULE BECAUSE IT SCARES US BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY WE ARE INDIANS AND SOMEWHERE IN OUR HEARTS THESE KINDA SUPERSTITIONS ARE DEEPLY-ROOTED. Aur kahi toh tumlog "Nazar shit is real" kehke cool ban jate ho what happens to y'all while talking about this??? Fucking hypocrites.
3. It is appreciable if you work hard on yourself and rise from say, a 4 gpa to an 8.5, in Desi terms, "zero se hero banna" BUT DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW HERO BANE REHNA IS AN EMOTIONALLY DRAINING JOB?? NO.
4. "Are tum to B.A wale ho." NAHI, HM WO LOG H JINHONE APNI POTENTIAL KE HISAB SE APNE INTERESTS KO CONSIDER KARTE HUYE EK CAREER CHOOSE KIYA WHERE WE'RE NAILING IT. unlike you, jo drop leke kuch naa ukhaad paane ke baad bhi "at least I tried" bolke pvt colleges me admission leke ek 8 bhi nahi laa pate. unlike you, we don't regret our choice, unless it wasn't your choice iykyk.
5. "But nobody forced you to throw yourself into too much study." Sis, unlike you, we're actually trying to improve ourselves and manage to at least excel at one good thing. unlike you, we're actually doing something to make our lives better. unlike you, we don't whore around the campus and club during the entire semester only to cry during exams and give excuses based on baseless criticism of the "toppers" of whom we're just insecure and jealous because they're actually good.
6. It is exhausting. The entire process. Esp when you don't get appreciated enough. This feeling of insecurity and envy is everywhere among everyone we're surrounded with. People think we must be proud. But even if we are, is there something wrong with it? They are ready to criticize us the moment we suffer a minute downfall. Remember Shylock's monologue from The merchant of Venice? Replace the Jew and Christian words with topper and average/below average students. It's that deep. If mocking us behind our backs and bitching about us when some of us are really kind and try to mingle with you, help you out - gives you peace, so be it. But please do not stereotype our efforts like that. Do not spread anymore negative emotions towards us. It honestly doesn't help any better.
#writers on tumblr#for you page#foryou#explore page#for you#dark academia#light academia#literature#desiblr#desi tumblr#indian#toppers#important
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