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T4T R&J thesis anon, with the elaboration you asked for lol

I was looking at queer adaptations/stagings of R&J, and noticed how many of them fundamentally did not understand the lovers’ relationship to gender. Romeo Montague is like,,, not masculine at all, and in fact multiple characters comment on how feminine he is, and yet despite that, these adaptations kept denying him the femininity that he has in the text. And I started to notice the same with Juliet, but with masculinity. And there’s just so much imagery in the ways that they talk abt themselves/how others talk about them that subvert Elizabethan gendered symbolism. And of course, there’s the fact that R and J’s whole thing when they meet each other is that for the first time, they are meeting someone who GETS their whole deal. Who understands them in a way the other people in their life can’t, which is the biggest T4T mood. It just seemed weird to me that even these gay adaptations were missing the very thing that drew me to the play in the first place

EXACTLY!!! EXACTLY THEY'RE SO GENDER-NON-CONFORMING AND THEY UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER IN A WAY NO ONE ELSE EVER HAS! AUGH!

(Death and puss are laying close next to each other for a date and puss is spilling some stupid yet silly thoughts that he is having to death)

Puss: death…

Death: yeah?

Puss: when you think about it Cupid is evil because they always pair people with abusers if they don’t get lucky..

Death: what?-

Puss: and what if the air and wind is trying to kill us but it takes years for it too.

Death: gato are you ok?-

Puss: someone right now could be dying right now but we can’t see it…

Death: what the fu-

Puss: anyways wanna make out-