forum I’m really craving something supernatural huh // OxO // CLOSED!

Started January 06, 2020 by @GoblinKing

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“Okay, but who helped me more on my English papers for school? The guy who mashed some letters together or the guy who told me what they meant?” Danny argued back.

"Well. Whose words still continue to speak to people's hearts? Whose works still touch people?" he demanded.

“Uhhhhh- both of them, dumbass. I can’t list quotes from either of the fuckers, but at least I can use one to win an argument.”

"I have never been moved by the dictionary, Danny." he replied, dead-pan. "Unless you count the time that Keats threw one at me and it hit my head hard enough I passed out."

Danny visibly recoiled at that bit, one of his hands subconsciously moving to his head. “Fuck, dude.”

Alex gave him a faint smile. "I'm fine now. But back to the argument at hand." he cleared his throat. "Shakespeare's works are far, far better than Miriam-Webster."

“I’m calling absolute bullshit. You ever read those sample sentences in the dictionary? Pure literature.” Danny gave a chef’s kiss, grinning almost stupidly. “Absolutely classic.”

"Those are bullshit." he replied, shaking his head. "Shakespeare is the king."

“I refuse to believe it.” Danny snipped, shaking his head. “His stuff’s boring ‘n hard to read, and that’s on a good day.”

"That's because you don't understand it!" He replied. "Much Ado about Nothing is a fucking sex joke! The entire play is just one big sex joke!"

(Hey! Sorry for the intermittent absences, but I’m just letting you know I’ll be lucky if I’m on at all this week. It’s midterms and hell week/the week of my show, so I probably won’t have a lot of time, I’m sorry!)

“Bet. Explain that one to me, mister Shakespeare connoisseur.” Danny jabbed a finger in Alex’s general direction, but not aggressively enough for it to actually look rude.

(it's okay! That sucks dude, good luck with the exams, and break a leg!)

Alex was laughing as he explained. "So, the word they used back then for vagina sounded like the way they pronounced the word "nothing", like, really really similar, and so basically the title of the play was meant to sound, to their ears, as essentially "Much Ado About Vaginas", or "Much Ado about Sex". I don't remember the specifics, but that play is also stuffed full of dirty jokes. They just don't sound like them to our ears, because we don't speak the same dialect of English!"

(Thank you and thank you! I’ll try to be on, though!)

Danny had a slanted grin on his fave as he listened. Not because he found the explanation funny, no, it was mostly because Danny liked listening to people talk about stuff like this. “Don’t know what the fuck ‘much ado’ means, man. But the rest of that.. yea, okay. I might laugh at that if I was an old-timey bastard, yeah.”

(No problem, and no problem. Alright! No pressure tho, I understand)

"Much ado means, basically, making a big fuss." he replied with a shrug, smiling. He looked over at Danny. "And actually, Shakespeare's plays have like…a ton of dirty jokes in them. They're just hard for us nowadays to understand."

“So the title’s basically like.. Big Fuss About Pussy...Fuckin’ noted, man.” Danny laughed, tilting his head at Alex’s comment. “Yeah? Huh. I’m gonna take your word on that one, chief.”

He laughed again. "Yeah, that's basically the title." he replied, shaking his head in amusement. "And yeah, just take my word on that one."

“Sure thing.” Danny gnawed on his knuckle again. “Aaanyway, movin’ away from uh- Shakespeare and his horny-ass plays or books or whatever. I gotta show you this sometime, but I learned the uh- the riffs ‘n shit to Thunder Kiss ‘65! Before I only had the intro, ‘cause that’s bomb as fuck, but I learned the whole damn song.”

He chuckled. "Plays, but alright." he replied. He cocked his head a little bit. "Oh! That's really cool, man." he'd only heard that song a few times, so he only vaguely recognized it, but it was still cool.

“Yeah! I think I have a video on my phone, but it mighta gotten lost, hold on..” Danny shuffled around in his camera roll, pushing through a mix blurry, dark photos taken with flash and random memes.

He nodded a little, and waited to see if Danny really did have a video or not. He ran a hand through his hair, taking a deep breath.

“Here it is! The quality’s a little shit, but we were in Ozzy’s place and his neighbors are loud as fuck!” Danny laughed, showing Alex the video. The camerawork itself was pretty alright, but it was clearly shot from the floor using the flashlight. Danny and his crew were chatting as he played, but only a few snippets pf the conversation were ever audible. Outside of the guitar and the talking, a few neighbors could be heard shouting from next door.

(i gtg to bed now sorry. Good night!)

Alex chuckled softly, and listened, trying to pick out the sound of the guitar over the sounds of everything else. He bit his lip slightly.

(Gn!)

Fraser could just be heard mumbling the lyrics along with Danny’s playing once the chatter died down a bit.
“Goddamn, I’m fuckin’ good-“ Danny laughed from the video, the video cutting off near the end of the song.

Alex laughed a little bit. "And not the least narcissistic." he teased lightly. "But yeah, you did sound really good." he agreed.

“I’m just spittin’ straight facts, man.” Danny shrugged, tracing his nail over the spiderweb cracks on his phone screen. “We need to put a new set together.. the one we play now’s gettin’ a little old.”