You Know You've Been in Fandom Waaaaay Too Long When...

[okroginator]

...we were discussing Romeo and Juliet in my Tragedies class, and I asserted that the story would have been vastly more interesting if the star-crossed lovers had been Mercutio and Tybalt.

Cue a room full of O____o stares.

Comments

[mildmay]

Oh god it WOULD have been. Mercutio was the only thing I really liked about it when I first read it, anyway.

[okroginator]

On this read-through, now that I am older and wiser than I was when I was a cute widdle high school frosh, I realize that everything that comes out of Mercutio's mouth is a sex joke. EVERYTHING.

[okroginator]

THE STUPID THING IS, WE JUST SPENT THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEMESTER CHEERFULLY DISCUSSING HOW OPENLY GAY THE GREEKS WERE

WHAT A DOUBLE STANDARD :/

Also, no wai, Benvolio was totally gay for Romeo. Mercutio and Tybalt had major Ho Yay going on.

[okroginator]

Basically everything that comes out of Mercutio's mouth is a sexy double entendre. He's like the Shakespearean version of T-Rex from Dinosaur Comics, only maybe less comically faily.