For the first time in my life, I finally read Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream—a literary fancy owing to the fact that Lancelot once played Oberon in his high school theatre ten or so years ago.
Oh, Lancelot is the name I have decided to call the German dude since he is dear to me and deserves a name in my journal. Moreover, I have a feeling he's going to play an important role in my life, so I'll slowly be introducing him here. I could easily call him Oberon, but he reminds me of Lancelot from the TV show Merlin—not in appearance but in the circumstance they both experienced at the hands of a woman. (Also, I really love Lancelot from the series. I even like him better than Arthur Pendragon.)
So, as I was saying… I was reading A Midsummer Night's Dream, and I must say it's the first work of Shakespeare I have ever read entirely. I thought it was going to be dramatic—I mean, it is—but it turned out to be a comedy and so hilariously chaotic to my amusement that I ended up enjoying it, to my surprise. Several characters poured all over my eyes at once confuses me so, so I had to assign a face to every one of them, usually based on the name, so that was a bit of work but absolutely helpful in the long run. Like with Nick Bottom, who easily makes it as my favorite character.
Actually… two things came to mind when I first read his name:
Now, it would be utterly unfitting and just completely bizarre to put SpongeBob in a medieval fantasy œuvre, so I decided to stick with the second option. For Demetrius, I assigned Damon Salvatore (from The Vampire Diaries) and Elena Gilbert (also from The Vampire Diaries) for Helena.
King Oberon, of course, was played by Lancelot in my head, which was not a hard task to follow since the German shared a few pictures of their school's rendition of the play, making it easier for me to imagine him as the fairy king. But instead of an 18-year-old high school boy, as he was in the photographs, in my imagination, he was his present self: grown-up, bearded, and mature.
Next thing I knew, I was watching an hour-and-a-half-long performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream on YouTube, a live performance done so well that my initial intention of only taking a glimpse transformed into that of an engaged spectator up to the very end.
Ah, but to watch Lancelot act on stage! The whole thing only made me want to watch the video of their school's rendition even more. He looked mighty cute in a cape and a staff in his hand as he faced Puck, played by a really attractive actor with great curly hair, a sharp jawline, and abs…
At first, I couldn't tell which one he was, seeing as they were both tall and cute, but now that he deliberately swerved my attention toward the other…
"He was the best-looking guy in our school, yeah," he was saying after teasing me that I was staring at the other’s abs—which I wasn't, until he pointed it out.
"Did you like him?" I asked.
"It wasn't hard to like him. He was very nice to everyone."
"I mean, did you have a crush on him?"
"I'm straight…" he replied, which earned a hearty laugh from me, already knowing he's heterosexual. "Actually," he added, "we all thought he was gay because he was so stylish and always so mindful of how he looked, but one day, he got a girlfriend, so… that surprised everyone."
I've only seen one production of the play, but that guy has got to be the cutest Puck there is. I definitely want to see him act, too.
But Lancelot, though? Acting?
Gah! The curiosity!
It's the same with Erwin. I actually discovered that Erwin acted, too—like, on TV—back when we were still together. I've always thought he looked like an actor, but I never really thought he was actually one, so this really came as a surprise to me. I only saw the trailer of the drama he was cast in some four years ago, and I was dying to watch the entire thing. However, the internet, as far as my research had gone, didn't hold any more record of the production, so I was left with an ongoing curiosity and relentless wonder about the rest of his acting in the show. I could easily ask him about it, but this discovery, to my luck, could only be procured through deep digging, and unless I wanted to expose my stalking arse to him, no such thing was ever mentioned from my mouth. So, I could only wonder about the whole thing in my head. Him being an actor is actually also one of the many things Lancelot and I have in common because the German's ex was a small-time actress as well. (He showed me a picture. Very beautiful.)
I wonder if they did the performance in English or German… [Update: I asked him. It was in German.]
Lancelot told me the girl who played Queen Titania wanted a kissing scene with King Oberon, and it was completely droll because he didn't want it at all. Sadly for her, she wasn't his type.
Speaking of Titania… For her, I imagined the Smiling Titan from Attack on Titan 🙂
Kidding.
I mean, AOT Titans definitely did come to mind, but it was far too terrifying and just incredibly disturbing—I mean, have you seen the Smiling Titan?! Fuck.
My mind was certainly so absorbed with the whole play that even in my sleep, I was dreaming of it.
Anyway, Lancelot will be going to Berlin tomorrow to hold a speech for this political party he is a member of. I wish he'd let me see the video of it afterward… I call him "Chancellor" sometimes to annoy him. Haha.
All for now.
Exit BLISS.