Hmmm...

[rynne]

So, I was thinking, and I probably shouldn't be doing this, as I have tons of challenges of my own to write, but anyway, I was wondering. Mostly inspired by musesfool's lyrics and Psalm challenges (which I need to finish, oi), as well as my own urge to see Julius Caesar again *g*.

Would anyone be interested in a Shakespearean line challenge? As in, you comment and tell me you're interested, I open the good ol' Complete Works of William Shakespeare, find some random lines out of some random play or sonnet, and you write a fic based on those lines? Any fandom you want, though I am of course most familiar with HP :p. No deadline because I hate them ^_~.

Has anyone done this before? And even if someone has, would anyone still be interested?

And if you are, please pimp ^_^. I want as many people to know about this and participate as possible.

And now that we've got actual fics...the Master List. Also, its new community, which you should join and/or friend--shakespeare_ch

Comments

[talkingdonkey.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'll give it a go.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

All impediments in fancy’s course
Are motives of more fancy.
All's Well That Ends Well, Act V, scene iii

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[mazily.livejournal.com]

I'm all over no deadline multi-fandom challenges that somehow involve Shakespeare, so count me in.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit.
Merchant of Venice, Act II, scene vi

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[mosca.livejournal.com]

If you've still got some quotations to give, I'm in.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

The big round tears
Coursed one another down his innocent nose
In piteous chase.
As You Like It, Act II, scene i

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[goovie.livejournal.com]

yes, please.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, scene i

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[erised1810.livejournal.com]

Whee! Coutn me in please. I like this type of writing challenge.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he ’s most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.
Measure for Measure, Act II, scene ii

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[lilychick.livejournal.com]

I'd like to participate if I can!

(It was the no-deadline thing that swayed me. Heh.)

[rynne.livejournal.com]

The sense of death is most in apprehension;
And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.
Measure for Measure, Act III, scene i

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[code-epic.livejournal.com]

Hit me.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad.
Measure for Measure, Act V, scene i

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[heathers.livejournal.com]

So is there a community yet for this or...?

-H

PS I'm in.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

A community? Why would there be a community?

Anyway, lines.

Every one can master a grief but he that has it.
Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, scene ii

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Re: peers in here from Seemag's lj and grins -

[illmantrim.livejournal.com]

I'll take one of them there LINES!

Re: peers in here from Seemag's lj and grins -

[rynne.livejournal.com]

I never tempted her with word too large,
But, as a brother to his sister, show’d
Bashful sincerity and comely love.
Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, scene i

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[latentfunction.livejournal.com]

*attaches self to you!!*

Ok so no deadline definitely works for me, and I still want to write you something for your birthday, even though I know it wasn't really your birthday, but the idea has gotten stuck in my head now and hey now you're getting two birthday fics out of it but ANYWAY! The point behind all the late night rambling is that a) I love you; b) I miss you; c) for some reason I'm really tickled that you're doing your own challenge; d) I'll do it! It'll probably wind up being mailed to you, but whatever. <#!!!

[rynne.livejournal.com]

*misses you!!!!* Are you on a messenger (any! Am on Y!M, AIM, and MSN right now) or are you still going to bed *has just read your last post*? REALLY WANT TO TALK TO YOU AGAIN!

[arislanchan.livejournal.com]

Ooh, sounds fun - I'd like to do it :D (Though it might take me a while) But I'd very muc like to have a go! =)

[rynne.livejournal.com]

For it so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack’d and lost,
Why, then we rack the value; then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.
Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV, scene i

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[firequill.livejournal.com]

A: I love your default icon, that's some fun stuff.

B: As eveyone else said, multi-fandom, no deadline *and* Shakespeare? I'm in, please. :)

C: *pimped in my journal*

[rynne.livejournal.com]

*g* Thanks, I love my default icon too, though I don't remember where I first got it...anyway, lines.

As sweet and musical
As bright Apollo’s lute, strung with his hair;
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Love's Labours Lost, Act IV, scene iii

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[lancebelle.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested in this.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man.
Hamlet, Act I, scene iii

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[zauberer-sirin.livejournal.com]

I'm game.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
Henry VI, Act I, scene ii

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[ki-finn.livejournal.com]

count me in

[rynne.livejournal.com]

No, 'tis slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath
Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie
All corners of the world.
Cymbeline, Act III, scene iv

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[meganberrieh.livejournal.com]

Me! Me! Me!

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Hamlet, Act I, scene iii

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[musigneus.livejournal.com]

No deadline? Then yes, lines, please!

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Woman will love her, that she is a woman more worth than any man; men, that she is the rarest of all women.
Winter's Tale, Act V, scene i

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Re: Wow

[kissesago.livejournal.com]

I bet this is more then you bargained for! It's a very neat idea using shakespeare, and I'd like to play too. I understand though that you have to cut off somewhere.

Re: Wow

[rynne.livejournal.com]

First of all--Skan and Amberdrake! Brilliant icon--I love The White Gryphon, and so need to read it again when I have time *sigh*.

And as for lines...what with my lovely 1500-page Complete Works of William Shakespeare, I think I can find enough for everyone (assuming hundreds of people don't ask!), though it might take time and patience. Anyway, here are yours:

O, it is excellent
To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.
Measure for Measure, Act II, scene ii

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[aricadavidson.livejournal.com]

I'd love to participate!

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to Heaven.
All's Well that Ends Well, ACT I, scene i

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[berne.livejournal.com]

I'd love to.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
As You Like It, Act I, scene ii

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[krissielee.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely try to do it! That no deadline thing makes it better.

Shakespeare and Potter...good combination...

[rynne.livejournal.com]

The tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony.
King Richard II, Act II, scene i

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[oh-mumble.livejournal.com]

::floats on through from friendsfriends list::

Oooh! May I join in? It all looks so shiny!

[rynne.livejournal.com]

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters
Cannot be truly follow'd.
Othello, Act I, scene i

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[inanimategrace.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes please!

[rynne.livejournal.com]

You're also ariastar's friend, aren't you? She talks about you a lot. Anyway, lines.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at.
Othello, Act I, scene i

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[perch-and-creep.livejournal.com]

I found you at random. I am interested in this challenge, if you're still giving out lines.

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Well, honour is the subject of my story.
I cannot tell what you and other men
Think of this life; but, for my single self,
I had as lief not be as live to be
In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Julius Caesar, Act I, scene ii

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[miraielle.livejournal.com]

Oooh! I want one!

[rynne.livejournal.com]

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises.
All's Well That Ends Well, Act II, scene i

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