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Attention to y'all fandom gays
There's a nearly dead fandom of tv series about William Shakespeare (Christopher Marlowe too obviously) called Will TNT. Since I know that gays will watch literally everything that has gays in it (talking from my own experience) please help me save a fandom. The show is incredible and deserves so much more, but it got cancelled after season one because there's not enough Shakespeare nerds as I am. It's such a shame, the show is really great, the actors are beautiful, the costumes are brilliant, the story and everything is just so great and y'all should definitely check it out. At least for Marlowe's iconic gay sake. 🖤 #savewilltnt
Sir, those are my emotional support star-crossed rivals
What do you wish to be? Successful, rich, admired? The spell cannot be cast unless you say the words! Dost thou desire money? Power? Greatness?
It is my belief that true genius cannot be bound. It must exist in a swirling chaos of anarchy.
Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.)
Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus
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“But think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, Faustus, it is not half so fair As thou”
[13,000 scholars yelling ‘GAAAAAY’ in the distance]
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss!
Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus (via wholesomeobsessive)
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be. And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that is not heaven.
Mephistopheles in Marlowe’s Dr Faustus (via wholesomeobsessive)
Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, heavens conspired his overthrow
Christopher Marlowe (from Dr Faustus)
Oh, I’ll leap up to my God. Who pulls me down?
The tragedy of Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe (via wholesomeobsessive)
Was this the face that lancht a thousand shippes? And burnt the toplesse Towres of Ilium? Sweete Helen, make me immortall with a kisse: Her lips suckes forth my soule, see where it flies: Come Helen, come giue mee my soule againe. Here wil I dwel, for heauen be in these lips, And all is drosse that is not Helena. I wil be Paris, and for loue of thee, Insteede of Troy shal Wertenberge be sackt, And I wil combate with weake Menelaus, And weare thy colours on my plumed Crest: Yea I wil wound Achillis in the heele, And then returne to Helen for a kisse. O thou art fairer then the euening aire, Clad in the beauty of a thousand starres, Brighter art thou then flaming Iupiter, when he appeard to haplesse Semele, More louely then the monarke of the skie In wanton Arethusaes azurde armes, And none but thou shalt be my paramour.
Christopher Marlowe, The Tragicall History of D. Faustus (1604 A text), Scene XIII.
The famous lines spoken by Faustus when encountering an apparition of Helen of Troy.
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Could'st thou make men to live eternally, Or being dead, raise them to life again,
Faustus, Dr Faustus Act 1 Scene 1 (via wholesomeobsessive)
And write a deed of gift with thine owe blood,
Mephistophilis, Dr. Faustus, Act 2 Scene 1 (via wholesomeobsessive)
“Philosophy is odious and obscure; Both law and physic are for petty wits; Divinity is basest of the three, Unpleasant, harsh, contemptible, and vile. ‘Tis magic, magic that hath ravished me.
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus (via wholesomeobsessive)
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus (via wholesomeobsessive)
Yea, all the wealth that our fore-fathers hid Within the messy entrails of the earth;
Cornelius, Dr. Faustus, Act 1 scene 1 (via wholesomeobsessive)
Why, this is hell and nor am I out of it
Mephistopheles - Christopher Marlowe’s ‘Dr Faustus’ (via wholesomeobsessive)
Why this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss?
Mephistophilis from faust’s dr faustus (via wholesomeobsessive)
Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are tortur’d and remain for ever: Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib’d In one self place; for where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be: And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe (via wholesomeobsessive)
Did anyone else think about Faust when they heard Gale's story of his folly? The whole fandom compares him to Icarus, to some other mythical characters, but it seems very few people see the obvious.
Gale is Faust. While Karsus was Marlowe's Faust, who wanted only power for himself, Gale is Goethe's Faust, who wants to help people, who pursues power "for the greater good".