Just an FYI

[maderr]

For anyone who writes a character who likes/should know Shakespeare.

The line is Lay on, MacDuff, not Lead on, MacDuff.

It looks kind of dumb when someone who should know that says it wrong. Maybe I'm just picky.

Comments

[tygati.livejournal.com]

^_^ I don't even know who MacDuff is. *hug* Poor you.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Bah. Poor me, nothing. I'm just snotty from time to time. Lord knows someone could take Sandstorm apart in an instant. Reading that, it's painfully obvious my only "research" was to watch the Mummy one time too many >_>

And man, just wait until Sammie shows up. That's one of her pet peeves.

[tygati.livejournal.com]

*grin* Yeah, well, it's not like Hollywood can do any better. 99% of movies are like 95% Creative Liscense. ;)

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Heh. There is that. At least my stories have the pretty boys hooking up with each other? Ahahahahaha.

I come to pester you now.

[thealisonbailey.livejournal.com]

The Isham part of my brain has noted it for future reference. But, me? I go grab my collected works and actually look it up. I looked up the proper punctuating of "Double, double toil and trouble" the other day.

[thealisonbailey.livejournal.com]

[maderr.livejournal.com]

*dies giggling*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

OOOH! that drives me MAD, the lay on means "come on, let's THUMP them" and i get soooo cross.

[rykaine.livejournal.com]

This is from a Torquere story, isn't it? Dude, who fucking did that? *headdesk*

[maderr.livejournal.com]

From a new serial, so no I did't pay for it - exactly Something completely random.

[stardance.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain, Meggie! The other day I saw someone who I thought should know better quote "Methinks thou dost protest too much." It caused me much annoyance and I wanted to say something.

[anialove.livejournal.com]

I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet
And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
Though Birnam Wood be come to Dunsinane,
And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
Yet I will try the last. Before my body
I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, MacDuff,
And damned be him that first crise "Hold, enough!"

That's one of the best death scenes ever.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

I prefer Emo!Boy Hamlet, but any play you look at - Shakespeare is the shizznit.

And yes, that scene is hard to match.

[anialove.livejournal.com]

Shakespeare is definitely the stuff, but I prefer his comedies to his tragedies, and I definitely prefer MacBeth to Hamlet. (If only because MacBeth has the witches..."Liver of blaspheming Jew/Gall of goat, and slips of yew/slivered unter the moon's eclipse/Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips./Finger of birth-strangled babe/ditch delivered by a drab/make the gruel thick and slab." Those spells are great imagery.)

[aqua-eyes.livejournal.com]

Haha. I never knew that and I studied it at school. And my dad always used to say 'lead on mcduff'. Lol.

[(Anonymous)]

this has nothing to do with what you said, but i was wondering where the whole kidnapped story is? cause there's only 1 chapter under both kidnapped and kidnapped:meant to be

if you can tell me any other stories that i can read feel free to recommend them

Dria

[captainschlumpy.livejournal.com]

I always got annoyed when people say, "Alas poor eurich! I knew him well." NO, NO, NO! It's, "Alas poor Eurich. I knew him, Horatio."
anyway, I feel your pain.