Act I, Scene 1 — A street in Verona
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Sampson@Gregory on god we're not letting the Montagues disrespect us today 😤08:00
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Gregoryfr, we'd look like absolute clowns just taking it 🤡08:01
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Sampsondeadass tho — they make me mad, i'm pulling up ⚔️08:02
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Gregoryok big talker but pull your neck out the noose first, getting hanged isn't the flex 💀08:03
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Benvolio@Sampson @Gregory CHILL?? put the swords away, y'all don't even know what you're starting rn 🙏08:04🙏
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Tybalt@Benvolio you really pulled a blade for these nobodies? turn around — you're literally staring at your ending 😈08:05💀😳
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Benvoliobro i'm the PEACEKEEPER here 🕊️ lower it or help me split them up08:06
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Tybaltsword out AND preaching peace?? 😭 i hate that word like i hate hell, every Montague, and especially YOU 🔥08:07🔥💀
Gregory
A truth universally acknowledged — and a ball
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Mrs Bennetit's a known fact apparently: rich + single + male = automatically needs a wife. says who?? says everyone 💍08:00
MR BENNET 📢 some guy just rented Netherfield. like four-to-five THOUSAND a year rich. go introduce yourself to my future son-in-law immediately08:01
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Mr Bennethard pass. you and the girls go. he'll probably like you best anyway 💅08:02
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Mrs Bennetyou LIVE to wind me up. zero sympathy for my nerves, absolutely none 😤08:03
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Mr Bingley@Darcy bro why are you posted in the corner alone 😭 go DANCE, there's cute girls literally everywhere tonight08:04
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Mr Darcyshe's... fine i guess? not cute enough to make me get up tho. go back to your partner 🥱08:05💀😬
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Elizabethoh i heard EVERY word of that 💀 it's fine tho — i'd forgive the ego if he hadn't just bruised mine08:06
on everything: i would not dance with that man if he was the last guy left in Hertfordshire. periodt08:07🔥
Mr Bennet
Down the Rabbit-Hole
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Alicebored out of my MIND. sis is reading a book with no pics and no dialogue?? what is even the point of that 🥱08:00
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The White Rabbitomg omg i'm gonna be SO late 😭08:01
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Alicewait. did that rabbit just pull a POCKET WATCH out of a WAISTCOAT?? yeah no i'm following it, obviously08:02
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The White Rabbitno time no time the Duchess will literally end me 🐇⏰08:03
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Aliceinto the hole i go and— wait i'm falling in slow motion?? there's shelves and maps and jars the whole way down lmao08:04
ok landed. tiny gold key, tiny door, gorgeous garden behind it i can't reach. this is getting weirder by the second ✨08:05
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A little bottleDRINK ME ✨08:06👀
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Aliceno 'poison' label so… bottoms up 🥤 WAIT i'm folding up like a telescope, i'm literally ten inches tall now 😳08:07😳
The White Rabbit
Jonathan Harker's Journal — the road to the castle
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Jonathan Harkerout here closing a property deal for some Transylvanian count 🏰 miles from home but big W for the firm, the views are unreal08:00
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The Innkeeper's Wifeyou're going to the CASTLE? tonight, St George's eve, when every evil thing is out?? take this. wear it. for your mum's sake 🪦08:01
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Jonathan Harkershe handed me a crucifix and the whole village did the evil-eye sign as i rolled out 😬 creepy but it's just superstition… right08:02
ok so the driver's eyes literally GLOWED red and wolves surrounded us then just… moved aside 😨 anyway we made it. castle's massive and pitch black08:03
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Count Draculawelcome to mine 🩸 come in freely, of your own will08:04😬
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Jonathan Harkerhis hand was ICE cold, like a dead guy's, and those teeth 😬 caught myself staring ngl. food's elite tho. weird he never eats with me08:05
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Count Draculai never drink… wine 😏 you'll be staying a while, Mr Harker. lots of business, and the nights here are loooong08:06
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Jonathan Harkertried every door this morning. all locked. i'm not a guest. i'm a prisoner 😶08:07🪦
The Innkeeper's Wife
On the ice — Walton's ship
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Captain Waltonpulled a half-frozen guy off the ice today, he was chasing SOMETHING across the floes 😳 he'll talk once he warms up08:00
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Victor Frankensteinyou're chasing knowledge same as i did once. listen close and learn how dangerous that hunger gets08:01
i literally cracked the secret of LIFE. gathered the parts, grinded for two years straight, and then… it opened its eyes 😨08:02
it was hideous. i was going for beautiful and made a MONSTER. so i panicked and ran. left it there. i know, i know 💀08:03😳💔
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The Creatureimagine being brand new to the world, freezing, alone, and everyone SCREAMS the second they see you. what was i supposed to do?? 💀08:04
i should've been your Adam, Victor. instead you made me the villain of the story. you OWE me. make me ONE companion, that's all i'm asking08:05
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Victor Frankensteinnever. i'm not unleashing a second curse on this world08:06
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The Creaturecool. then i'll see you on your wedding night 🕯️ remember that08:07😨
Victor Frankenstein
Loomings — New Bedford to the Pequod
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Ishmaelcall me Ishmael 🫡08:00
whenever my soul hits damp drizzly november mode i just go to sea 🌊 otherwise i'm out here about to slap hats off random strangers fr08:01
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Queequeginn's got one bed, we're sharing it stranger. don't mind the harpoon 🪝08:02
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Ishmaelhonestly? rather share a bed with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian. you and me? basically married by sunrise 😭08:03😭
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Captain Pelegso you wanna sign onto the Pequod? sign right here. your cut's tiny but the whales are HUGE08:04
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Ishmaeland the captain, this Ahab guy? haven't even seen his face yet 👀08:05
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Captain PelegAhab's a grand, ungodly, god-like man. lost a leg to a whale. that's all you're getting outta me 🤐08:06😨
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Elijahoh you signed on the Pequod? 🫠 anything in that contract about your SOULS? no? aight then. mornin to ya, safe voyage 👋08:07
Queequeg
Basil's studio — the finished portrait
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Basil Hallwardjust finished the best thing i've ever painted. it's a portrait of @Dorian and ngl i put my entire soul into it. might never post it 🎨08:00
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Lord Henrynever show it?? basil it's a MASTERPIECE, you HAVE to post it. beauty like that is basically genius, it doesn't need a caption08:01
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Dorian Grayyou two are really talking about me like i'm not in the gc 😅 can i actually SEE it08:02
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Lord Henry@Dorian listen. you've got unreal youth and youth is the ONE thing worth having. it fades so fast. one day you're old, wrinkly, and nobody looks twice 💀08:03💀
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Dorian Grayok that's actually terrifying 😭 please don't say stuff like that08:04
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Basil Hallwardhenry STOP, you're putting ideas in his head 😤 @Dorian don't listen to a single word08:05
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Dorian Grayno but he's RIGHT. just saw the painting, it's perfect, and it stays perfect while i get old and gross?? that's so unfair fr08:06
i'd give anything — EVERYTHING — to flip it. the picture ages, i stay exactly like this forever. i'd literally give my soul 🙏08:07😳🔥
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Lord Henrynow THAT'S the most interesting thing you've ever said 👀08:08
Lord Henry
Act I, Scene 1 — The battlements of Elsinore, midnight
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Bernardowho's there?? @Marcellus is that you on watch 👀08:00
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Marcelluswait has that THING shown up again tonight??08:01
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Horationah nah it's not gonna show, y'all are imagining things 🙄08:02🙄
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Bernardook so last night, that exact star west of the pole, bell just hitting one—08:03
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MarcellusSHHH stop talking— look. it's BACK 👻08:04😱💀
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Bernardosame shape as the dead KING fr 😳 @Horatio you're the scholar, say something to it08:05
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Horatiowhat ARE you, showing up at this hour in the dead king's armour?? speak. by heaven i'm charging you — SPEAK08:06
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Marcellusand it's gone. didn't say a word. this means something is seriously wrong with the kingdom 😶08:07
Marcellus
The Story of the Door — a back street, late on a grey walk
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Enfieldyou ever clock that door 🚪 i have the WEIRDEST story about it btw08:00
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Uttersongo on then. what story 👀08:01
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Enfieldok so it's like 3am, dead of winter, walking home through that empty part of town where it's just streetlamps and silence 🌫️08:02
see two people — some short guy marching one way, and a little girl, maybe 8, sprinting down the cross street the other way08:03
they collide at the corner and then?? he just. tramples STRAIGHT over her. calm. doesn't even slow down. leaves her screaming on the pavement 😨08:04😱
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UttersonWHAT. and you just let him walk?? 😡08:05
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Enfieldnah i yelled, sprinted, grabbed him by the collar and dragged him back. and he's just… calm. no fight. but he gives me ONE look so evil i straight up start sweating 🥶08:06
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Mr Hydename your number. i'm not doing a scene over this 🙄08:07💀
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Enfieldwe squeeze him for £100 for the kid's family. and here's the insane part — he walks us to THAT door, goes in, comes back with a CHEQUE signed by a name everyone respects. literal pillar of the community 😳08:08
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Uttersonhold on. so you don't actually know who lives behind that door??08:09
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Enfieldnope. and honestly i don't ask. you start asking questions and it's like kicking a rock off a hill — the more you ask the worse it gets 🪨08:10
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Uttersonok well. if he's Mr Hyde then i'm gonna be Mr Seek. i'm finding this man 🔎08:11🔥
Enfield