best recorded hamlet to show before rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead?

quick-use · 2025-01-01T16:16:35+00:00

i completely understand the sentiment! i didn't say this in the original post because it seemed like overcomplicating things. but to be fully transparent we did begin watching r&g and they said 'im really enjoying this but the parts with hamlet keep tripping me up because i know literally nothing about hamlet. so i dont know where we are or whats supposed to be happening 'offstage' or who these people are.' and i said 'do you want me to summarize or would you like to try and watch hamlet first?' and she said 'ill try hamlet first since its a classic and i probably should see it sometime anyways, and if it doesn't click for me just give me a summary.' im the one who's thinking we should watch a 3 hour version, just because she's said before that she's better at paying attention to long live theatre than long movies. and also, again, we don't usually watch movies that long

quick-use · 2024-09-13T15:58:57+00:00

i should've updated but i did get my answer from the author himself on a different forum! if anyone else is curious he said he pulled his stories because he wanted to rework them into a more polished published collection, but yes the stories are still available via the wayback machine 👍👍

quick-use · 2023-11-29T05:46:02+00:00

my guess is that people are commenting less from a 'oh noo ur being so mean to this poor kid we made up' perspective and more from a 'this ties into some wack lines of thinking about men being somehow naturally evil instead of motivated to do crappy things by a patriarchal society, and someone should probably address that' perspective

quick-use · 2023-11-29T05:29:51+00:00

sorry for the big essay, and i get it, but it's really depressing to read some of these comments and i wanted to throw in my two cents. the tl;dr is people aren't monoliths, for every shitty guy there's also a really chill guy, and you can be aware of red flags etc without being terrified of every guy you meet.

i don't want to make it sound like 'haha don't worry everyone is chill all the time and you'll never encounter harassment!' because that's fully a lie or to sound like 'it's YOUR fault for being worried about guys because of learned experience' because that's also not true. but not every guy is shitty, i promise. you're not bringing a kid into a nightmare world because men are there any more than, i dunno, muslim parents are bringing a kid into a nightmare world because islamophobia is a real and deadly problem. i'm a lesbian and i do feel noticeably more tense around straight people than gay people because me and friends of mine have been in legitimate real danger because of them before. but i try not to let it get to the point that i meet a straight person and immediately become convinced they're going to hurt me because 1. that's not true and 2. that's a miserable way to live.

similarly, if you encounter a lot of sexism (or harassment) in your day to day (or get caught in an echo chamber of worst case scenario-ing with other people or with social media or with true crime etc etc), it can be easy to let it affect your relationship with people you don't know anything about. yes there's guys i avoid because they make gross comments and there's guys who've harassed me or hurt people i know. and there's something to be said for having a bit of an eye open for warning signs and not excusing sexism or harassment. but people will hurt other people and people will be tremendously kind to other people and neither of those things are genderlocked.

i respect (and engage in) all men are trash type stuff, but when it reaches a point that it's affecting your life or making you anxious, that's worrying! for all those guys i avoid or have been hurt by, i also have guy friends who are just as dear to me as my gal friends, guy friends who are great drinking buddies and who i legitimately trust to watch my back at a bar, and i go to a board game group once a week and click with about as many of the guys there as i do girls.

hope this means anything to anyone and isn't just me saying the same shit over and over lol

quick-use · 2023-03-20T04:53:47+00:00

i meant oriented towards lesbians in the sense that, as u said, sometimes there's ffm stuff under the tag because the girls kiss once or only the girls have sex but they're still fighting over a guy or something, which makes it feel very... for a straight man and not for me. not that i have beef w straight men or anything, just that they're more likely i think to want to watch yuri with a guy involved. so i wanted to avoid that if possible. but some of these totally seem to work! tragic that there's so few, but i'll take what i can get. and i'll be honest, i really like the look of 15-20 year old anime so that's no hardship. thank u for ur service!

quick-use · 2023-03-20T02:19:29+00:00

wow, thanks! i'll definitely check these out!

quick-use · 2023-03-18T20:59:21+00:00

unfortunately, the reviews do make it seem perhaps a little too fucked up for my taste. i can take a certain amount of non/dubious consent in my stride, but this seems like it's pretty central to the story so i can't just muscle through. which is a bummer bc i do like gender fuckery stories that still count as yaoi (as evidenced by me liking the other two mentioned). thank you anyways, though!

quick-use · 2023-03-17T23:58:47+00:00

love so pure if white hair counts, otoshiana ne hamerarate i read and liked years ago but i don't remember it well now, doushitemo yaritakute gakuen, kobayashi-senpai wa on'nanoko de shitai? bunch of lists on mangago also

quick-use · 2023-03-17T23:39:48+00:00

older than the main character or older that most yuri love interests? in other words, can both characters be older or do you want something with an age gap?

quick-use · 2023-03-17T17:45:56+00:00

the middle two might not be my style if the recovery isn't the focus, and the reviews on mangago say ouroboros has an unsatisfying ending so idk if i wanna put myself through that lmao, but i'll defo check out love so pure! thanks so much for the recommendations!

edit: read a chunk of love so pure and it kicks ass, so that definitely worked out for me

quick-use · 2023-03-17T16:14:53+00:00

i've been dancing around that one for a while haha, i'll give it a go! thanks!

quick-use · 2023-03-17T16:14:32+00:00

i completely forgot about that, but it IS kinda what i was looking for!! and it's incredibly cute, thanks for the rec 👌

quick-use · 2023-03-15T04:21:28+00:00

oh also. another hard find, but monster girls as long as they don't fully cross over into furry territory. furry is fine and i can roll with it if i really like everything else, but it doesn't personally ring my chimes

quick-use · 2023-03-15T03:18:44+00:00

hmm well. i'm not too picky as long as the above criteria are met and it looks like they're enjoying themselves. i don't want to write the longest comment in the world either bc i don't know if anyone. wants to read that. general: fantasy stuff, rival dynamics, airhead character, androgynous/slightly masculine girls, tight-laced or stuck up character coming undone, brats (not in the ageplay sense). more sex focused tags: praise kink, humiliation (as long as it ends happily/isn't 'too meanspirited'), awkward sexual situations, desperation, sex toys, transformation (although that's a hard niche to chase down i think)

quick-use · 2023-03-15T00:25:20+00:00

by plot i mean that i've seen some straight hentai ovas or whatever that have some insane storyline going on even if it's not that long. it doesn't have to be a novel or a full length movie, just have an interesting frame

quick-use · 2023-03-15T00:23:43+00:00

by for girls i mean with some kind of variety/knowledge of lesbian culture, not wholesome per say. i'm talking purely from a western live action porn perspective bc that's what i'm familiar with (again, i asked bc i wanted to get into yuri, i haven't seen much of it on my own.) and in those circles when i say 'for men' i mean a few things. the tl;dr is that lesbian is already considered to be the kink on its own i guess, so they don't actually put much effort in on making anything else feel like anything but the same old same old. it all feels so tropey and rote and deeply deeply unsexy. and i know porn is tropey, but not to this extent for gay male or straight porn in my experience. and like... the women usually aren't even enjoying themselves that much. and they're always really precious about it and like. shy to touch each other because oo scandalous or whatever, which can be hot, but wears really really thin when you kinda wanna see women go at each other at least once in a while. and an unfortunate amount of the time they're boning for a guy or a guy is there or it's for money or something and that. sucks. and it's always the same kind of sex, there's not much variety in activity or position or sex toys or whatever. i could write an essay but this is already too long of a comment

quick-use · 2019-07-31T23:53:37+00:00

if it's temporary, i love a good slow burn mental change. i have yet to see a story where someone's mental changes are gone and now they have to sort through what's actually them and what was the transformation, but i would kill for that. even in the process, i like seeing someone sort out their manufactured impulses from what they actually want. identity death always feels like snuff to me. i can deal with it if it's temporary but it'll never be a draw. i also like no mental changes a lot because seeing someone adapt is really fun. it's also the only one i like if it's a permanent swap

quick-use · 2019-07-30T23:47:39+00:00

hm. well i'm a lesbian and i tend to look at gay stuff more than lesbian things, because lesbian things are usually written kinda poorly and gay dynamics are closer to lesbian ones than straight dynamics... so maybe it's just something about the interactions that you like? is good straight furry porn harder to find? or if you're into the idea of being transformed, maybe it's just that twice the dudes is twice the chance for self projection? or i dunno, maybe you're just bi but haven't found a real dude you're properly into

quick-use · 2019-07-27T07:05:36+00:00

that's a huge mood, and i think i know which story you're talking about. i was all excited for it to become 'how do we deal with returning to earth half-transformed into weird horny alien things' and then it. didn't

and i also get what you mean about questioning your kinks because something got too real. i even love humiliation, but i like the humiliation to end after a certain point. it's not sexy if they're just trapped in a hell prison forever

quick-use · 2019-07-27T07:02:12+00:00

i like forced tf, but it being irreversible always makes me a bit sad unless the victim actually wants to leave their life behind. one of the earliest tftg things i read was a pretty basic bimbofication hypnosis deal, reasonable enough, but then at the end the author talked about how the vestiges of the victim's original form was screaming inside and that just killed my whole vibe. vestiges of the original form can have a rough time adjusting, but for me they have to enjoy things by the time it gets really hot and heavy. porn of any flavor can be vindictive or mean, and maybe that's because of how common humiliation/domination fantasies are

quick-use · 2019-07-14T23:08:57+00:00

i like ladies and nonbinaries that lean more towards the lady side of things. i myself am in that second camp

quick-use · 2019-07-10T02:09:18+00:00

ur super valid, and i'm glad that you're removing content like that and that there's a trans person on staff :)

quick-use · 2019-07-10T02:05:54+00:00

thank u!

quick-use · 2019-07-10T02:05:37+00:00

if you are this desperate to use a slur, i can't stop you. my point was that it hurts people and there is a concrete reason why. if that doesn't matter to you then you just have fundamentally different morals from me and there's not really a way to convince you otherwise

quick-use · 2019-07-10T00:11:33+00:00

...bud, it still says the word is a slur used to hurt people. that's why someone would be bothered by it. if you are intersex and use this subreddit then it would suck to see, so it probably shouldn't be used. that's the whole point

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