that romeo and juliet thing

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suskitt3n:

pirateprincess23:

lemonsharks:

yemite:

sarah531:

The other day I had a really good idea for a story:

A high school Shakespeare club angrily splits into two groups when they can’t agree on the correct interpretation of Romeo and Juliet. One group thinks it’s a cautionary tale about the stupidity of youth and shallow lust; the other group think it’s a beautiful tragedy about poisonous hatred conquered by love. Reconciliation seems impossible-

–then a person from one group falls in love with a person from the other

#it would be better if somehow EVERY OTHER SHAKESPEARE WAS HAPPENING AT ONCE#like you got a benedict and beatice b-story#and then somebody see’s their dad’s ghost#and there’s cross-dressing#and three upperclassmen tell macbeth he will be drama club president

oh my god I need this

nobody dies but SEVEN PEOPLE ARE EXPELLED

Excellent tv show, someone pitch it

sarah531 do i hav your permission to write this or

I’m currently writing it as a young adult novel (it’s halfway done! A WHOLE HALFWAY!) But that’s just the Romeo and Juliet bit! The ideas other people added are all theirs, so any writing, tv-show pitching or whatnot should be done by them, or whoever they wish to give permission to!

Just wondering how TRAJT was going. I came across it for the first time a few days ago and started laughing in the middle of study hall. It sounds really cool. -Anonymous

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Awww thanks! Believe it or not, I’m actually working on it right this minute!

Also, now seems a pretty good time for some clarifications. What I’m writing isn’t the ‘Shakespeare school’ story – that belongs to whoever wrote those tags. This is just the original post, with no additions, turned into a weird teen romance. I know a lot of people who reblogged are reblogging for the Shakespeare School idea, so I just wanna say, this isn’t going to be that! But I hope you’ll like it anyway.

The amount of people asking your permission to write that romeo and juliet thing cracks me up. because literally millions of versions of romeo and juliet have been written, including versions almost identical to yours. and r&j is in the public domain, which means they don’t actuallyneed your permission at all. what cracks me up more is that you think you actually have the legal right to say no. -Anonymous

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I don’t have the legal right. Obviously.

Which is why I have not mentioned the word ‘legal’ at any point throughout this process.

Permission to write that Shakespeare story? I will give you credit for the idea but damn it’s beautiful and needs to be realized -megazoid39cluesfan

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You are about the fortieth person who’s asked. ;)

Sadly the only options are a) have you all fight to the death in a Hunger Games arena or b) continue to write it myself. Which I am doing! You can follow its progress here. So my answer has to be no I’m afraid, but that doesn’t mean you’ll never see it realized, because hopefully you will!

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Here’s a question that’s becoming weirdly integral to That Romeo and Juliet Thing. I know I could probably find the answer by Googling, I know I could probably find a lot of answers by Googling, but I wanted to ask here instead-

If Romeo and Mercutio were such great friends, why does Mercutio die basically cursing him?

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Okay, my evening was (pleasantly) interrupted by That Romeo And Juliet post blowing up again, so I need to clarify some things and I need to do it fast:

1) Guys, you’re not entitled to take someone else’s idea and write it just because it’s on tumblr. I feel like I’m on the wrong side of a generation gap here, but – no, on a community based so completely on People Not Stealing our ideas, artwork, fanfiction etc, you gotta understand it’s not on. I’ve had countless messages of people asking ‘hey can I use that idea for x or y’ (and often the much ruder ‘hey I’m using your idea for x and y, just wanted to let you know’). Find your own ideas!

2) That Romeo And Juliet Thing (I find it impossible to call it anything else now) really will be published someday. What do I have to back up that statement? Not much. One hopeful comment from a publisher, and 103649 notes (which seems like a lot, but I know perfectly well it translates into virtually nothing in the real world.) But I’ve sunk a LOT into it, more than I’ve ever explained to you on tumblr, and I hope so much that in this brave new world of everyone doing social media and everyone knowing about kickstarter – something might come of it. I don’t know what. But something. If the tradional route doesn’t work, there are other things I can try.

Obviously, none of this will mean anything if the story itself isn’t any good. But I think it is, or it’s getting there. You can find bits of it on the tag: maybe you think so, too.

Tumblr is a big, terrifying, nigh-on lawless zone so I apologise if I’m being overprotective of something most people wouldn’t think twice about, but I really do think I have to be careful now. People are adding things to the post and I’m deliberately not looking at them, and I probably won’t be answering many messages about the entire thing, either.

I’ll keep you updated. Serious Business concluded.

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pride-rock: Hey on the Romeo and Juliet thing which by the way is the best fucking idea… does that make the drama teacher or whatever Friar Lawrence?

Thanks!

The drama teacher – a character who I utterly adore – she’s more the voice of reason throughout the story. I think if she’s any character from the original play she’s Shakespeare himself, commenting on events.

Frair Lawrence is currently a friendly but rather irresponsible boy who invites our Juliet to a wild teenage party, claiming “it’s going to be so ******* insane it’ll put you in a coma for like forty-two hours, dude.”

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“I’m afraid it’s spread to Facebook. Your mother informed me this morning, Perrie,” Natasha said. “Shall I read out some choice quotes?”

Perrie squirmed. “I…”

“Well, I’m going to anyway. Let’s see. Yesterday, on your own wall: “cant believe sum dumbasses think romeo and juliet is a fukin romance, he was a fukin idiot and she was a dumb slut who got people killed, just like the dumb sluts at this school”. Would you care to elaborate, Perrie?”

“I…” the unfortunate girl said again.

“Would you like to tell us who amongst your peers you consider a slut? It’s clear from the context you feel quite strongly about this issue. So who is it you were referring to?” Natasha Bear’s eyes burned right into her.

“Um,” Perrie’s eyes filled with tears. “No-one! I promise!”

“In that case, you’re going to write a letter to every single girl in this school. Not individually,” she added, as Perrie began to cry, “but a letter to the entire female population of the school, explaining why you felt the need to refer to them as sluts, and explaining why you will never do it again. You will also reread Romeo and Juliet, paying particular attention to the character of Juliet, and work this into your letter. It will be posted on the school noticeboard for two days, then I will grade it and hand it back to you. Am I clear?”

“Yes,” sniffed Perrie.

– That Romeo and Juliet thing, chapter something or other

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Okay, my evening was (pleasantly) interrupted by That Romeo And Juliet post blowing up again, so I need to clarify some things and I need to do it fast:

1) Guys, you’re not entitled to take someone else’s idea and write it just because it’s on tumblr. I feel like I’m on the wrong side of a generation gap here, but – no, on a community based so completely on People Not Stealing our ideas, artwork, fanfiction etc, you gotta understand it’s not on. I’ve had countless messages of people asking ‘hey can I use that idea for x or y’ (and often the much ruder ‘hey I’m using your idea for x and y, just wanted to let you know’). Find your own ideas!

2) That Romeo And Juliet Thing (I find it impossible to call it anything else now) really will be published someday. What do I have to back up that statement? Not much. One hopeful comment from a publisher, and 103649 notes (which seems like a lot, but I know perfectly well it translates into virtually nothing in the real world.) But I’ve sunk a LOT into it, more than I’ve ever explained to you on tumblr, and I hope so much that in this brave new world of everyone doing social media and everyone knowing about kickstarter – something might come of it. I don’t know what. But something. If the traditonal route doesn’t work, there are other things I can try.

Obviously, none of this will mean anything if the story itself isn’t any good. But I think it is, or it’s getting there. You can find bits of it on the tag: maybe you think so, too.

Tumblr is a big, terrifying, nigh-on lawless zone so I apologise if I’m being overprotective of something most people wouldn’t think twice about, but I really do think I have to be careful now. People are adding things to the post and I’m deliberately not looking at them, and I probably won’t be answering many messages about the entire thing, either.

I’ll keep you updated. Serious Business concluded.

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