today on Fanfictional Tropes That Are Older Than You Think

[angevin2]

So for the conference paper I'm been working on I've been looking at Frankie Rubenstein's Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and Their Significance, which has some stuff that is pretty useful particularly since Rubenstein does cite Richard II on occasion, unlike every other book I have on dirty jokes in Shakespeare, meaning that I have a

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[dramaturgca]

Wait...Henry Bolingbroke wasn't a gay supervillain with a perpetual hard-on? I'm so distressed...

(also, great icon! can I make one like it?)

[angevin2]

Wait...Henry Bolingbroke wasn't a gay supervillain with a perpetual hard-on? I'm so distressed...

Oh, no, he totally was. It's one of those things that criticism of Richard II overlooks to a disturbing degree. ;)

And, sure you can. Actually aris_tgd made this one for me. :)

[reconditarmonia]

You have all these excellent icons that I want to make into t-shirts. :D

[angevin2]

As I told dramaturgca, this icon was actually a present from aris_tgd. :)

[writerwench]

On a strictly anatomical note, I think there are frequent references to peoples' bowels moving within them in times of great emotional stress - that 'ass-clenching' feeling, or even a deep quiver in the gut, that is a physiological response to sudden emotional stress. It's actually part of a very primitive physical reaction to adrenaline - the urge to empty the bowel to lighten up and be ready to fight or run is common to most mammals - people 'shit themselves with fear', and so on and so on... I witter... anyway, a sudden tension or quivering deep in the abdomen as a result of intense emotion is a common human experience, whether or not it results in an evacuation.

[angevin2]

Yeah -- I think Rubenstein is getting the assbabies thing from the fact that the Queen's dialogue in this scene is full of creepy pregnancy metaphors, though...

[jaydeyn_sitari]

I... am deeply distressed by this! :D

:)
Jaydeyn