Snowflake Challenge, day 9

[flo_nelja]

Rec Us Your Newest Thing. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

My newest big thing is Nevermore, I have already posted about it this month

So let's look at most recent (and less big) things.
Last week I read Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. It's neither my fave Shakespeare play nor my fave Trojan war play, but the potential for m/m shipping is off the charts.

Look at this exchange between Aeneas and Diomedes (the last two lines in particular drive me mad)

Comments

[flo_nelja]

The plot then does nothing with it, but damn. It was good ^^

[kitarella_imagines]

Ah, Shakespeare knew we'd be writing fanfiction in the future, he was a wise old chap 😂

It just dawned on me, that I saw Troilus and Cressida when I was very young, it starred Alan Rickman as Achilles! Brilliant production. But I was so obsessed with Achilles and Patroclus canoodling that I didn't notice Aeneas and Diomedes🤦‍♀️

[flo_nelja]

OMG Alan Rickman!
This version is not kind to Achilles and Patroclus, but it's one of the version where they can be actually funny. I can't believe there's comments about Patroclus doing funny impersonations of Agamemnon and Nestor to make Achilles laugh and we don't get to see it.

[kitarella_imagines]

Yes, a young Alan Rickman! Just imagine! I seem to remember Achilles and Patroclus were quite sweet together.

Patroclus (Hilton McRae), Troilus (Anton Lesser), Cressida (Juliet Stevenson), Helen of Troy (Lindsay Duncan)

This one: https://www.rsc.org.uk/troilus-and-cressida/past-productions/in-focus-howard-davies-1985