Arielf on the Shelf
@exitariel.bsky.social
RWRB, Hollanov, ExitAriel on AO3, 🔴☂️♣️♾️
The phrase "see attached bibliography" is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.
https://archiveofourown.org/users/ExitAriel/works
The phrase "see attached bibliography" is the single sexiest thing you have ever written to me.
https://archiveofourown.org/users/ExitAriel/works
Completely valid choice!
December 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Completely valid choice!
Oh yes PLEASE Allie!!
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Oh yes PLEASE Allie!!
So excited for this!!!
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
So excited for this!!!
The only thing I could come up with on my own was "Ariel Like Sheep" and no one who wasn't forced to sing The Messiah in its entirety would have got it....
December 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The only thing I could come up with on my own was "Ariel Like Sheep" and no one who wasn't forced to sing The Messiah in its entirety would have got it....
HA!! As ever, in awe of your brain....
December 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
HA!! As ever, in awe of your brain....
Holy jingle bells, Batman -- these are hilarious! Thanks!
December 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Holy jingle bells, Batman -- these are hilarious! Thanks!
It's so good if you can handle it.
Just looking at that tiny bit makes me wanna re-read.....
Just looking at that tiny bit makes me wanna re-read.....
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
It's so good if you can handle it.
Just looking at that tiny bit makes me wanna re-read.....
Just looking at that tiny bit makes me wanna re-read.....
'Cause I got nothin'
November 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
'Cause I got nothin'
Jaffa. Help.....
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Jaffa. Help.....
Re fic: Right?! I will die on this hill. Ppl say "fanfiction" so dismissively, but tell me how "R&G" is not?
Stoppard wrote fic; Madeline Miller & Percival Everett write fic. We are in good company here. (Sorry; I will rant like ACD about this at the slightest provocation.)
Stoppard wrote fic; Madeline Miller & Percival Everett write fic. We are in good company here. (Sorry; I will rant like ACD about this at the slightest provocation.)
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Re fic: Right?! I will die on this hill. Ppl say "fanfiction" so dismissively, but tell me how "R&G" is not?
Stoppard wrote fic; Madeline Miller & Percival Everett write fic. We are in good company here. (Sorry; I will rant like ACD about this at the slightest provocation.)
Stoppard wrote fic; Madeline Miller & Percival Everett write fic. We are in good company here. (Sorry; I will rant like ACD about this at the slightest provocation.)
I'm so glad you got to see it! It's such a wonderful play, and there are bits you can't fully appreciate when reading on the page. (Like Thomasina realizing what Septimus is doing when he re-translates her Latin passage back into Shakespeare -- the whole scene hangs on her reaction.)
November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I'm so glad you got to see it! It's such a wonderful play, and there are bits you can't fully appreciate when reading on the page. (Like Thomasina realizing what Septimus is doing when he re-translates her Latin passage back into Shakespeare -- the whole scene hangs on her reaction.)
The anecdote ends: "You could never /write/ all that. If you look at the words on the page, all it says is: Exit, Ariel."
He was talking about how /all/ art is collaborative, how every great work of art births another, many, all in conversation with each other.
He would have fucking loved AO3.
He was talking about how /all/ art is collaborative, how every great work of art births another, many, all in conversation with each other.
He would have fucking loved AO3.
November 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The anecdote ends: "You could never /write/ all that. If you look at the words on the page, all it says is: Exit, Ariel."
He was talking about how /all/ art is collaborative, how every great work of art births another, many, all in conversation with each other.
He would have fucking loved AO3.
He was talking about how /all/ art is collaborative, how every great work of art births another, many, all in conversation with each other.
He would have fucking loved AO3.
I revere Stoppard. My handle, here and everywhere, is the punchline to an anecdote he told repeatedly about a production of The Tempest at Oxford. He goes on about the staging, costumes, music, special effects in a scene when the sprite Ariel leaves her master, Prospero, by running across a lake.
November 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I revere Stoppard. My handle, here and everywhere, is the punchline to an anecdote he told repeatedly about a production of The Tempest at Oxford. He goes on about the staging, costumes, music, special effects in a scene when the sprite Ariel leaves her master, Prospero, by running across a lake.
My fav Stoppard is the Byron RPF Arcadia, in which modern academics try to find out what happened when the poet visited a manor house in the 19c. Sounds dull, but it's a frothy, funny, bittersweet age-gap fic about the daughter of the house and her tutor, Bryon's classmate
youtu.be/0cp-BEOkq6M?...
youtu.be/0cp-BEOkq6M?...
Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at Yale Rep
YouTube video by YaleRepertoryTheatre
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
My fav Stoppard is the Byron RPF Arcadia, in which modern academics try to find out what happened when the poet visited a manor house in the 19c. Sounds dull, but it's a frothy, funny, bittersweet age-gap fic about the daughter of the house and her tutor, Bryon's classmate
youtu.be/0cp-BEOkq6M?...
youtu.be/0cp-BEOkq6M?...
"R&G Are Dead" is pretty much crack treated seriously, but Stoppard could write almost anything. You may know he wrote the screenplay for "Shakespeare in Love" -- more or less an M-rated "Romeo and Juliet" fix-it fic with just the barest whisp of a happy ending.
youtu.be/kgtRCiypTyo?...
youtu.be/kgtRCiypTyo?...
Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth | A Woman On The Stage | Shakespeare in Love | Screen Bites
YouTube video by Screen Bites
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
"R&G Are Dead" is pretty much crack treated seriously, but Stoppard could write almost anything. You may know he wrote the screenplay for "Shakespeare in Love" -- more or less an M-rated "Romeo and Juliet" fix-it fic with just the barest whisp of a happy ending.
youtu.be/kgtRCiypTyo?...
youtu.be/kgtRCiypTyo?...
That moment in the show is *insane* -- god, his *face*
November 29, 2025 at 5:04 AM
That moment in the show is *insane* -- god, his *face*
Co-fucking-sign!
November 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Co-fucking-sign!
FWIW, the fidelity to the book here is really exceptional. And where changes were made, they were additive. As someone who almost always likes the book-version of anything better, I was really charmed.
November 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
FWIW, the fidelity to the book here is really exceptional. And where changes were made, they were additive. As someone who almost always likes the book-version of anything better, I was really charmed.
The chair-dragging -- oh my god. The way that noise racheted up the tension?
The way it said to anyone who'd read the book: What, you didn't think we were gonna skip That Scene, did you? #hr
The way it said to anyone who'd read the book: What, you didn't think we were gonna skip That Scene, did you? #hr
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The chair-dragging -- oh my god. The way that noise racheted up the tension?
The way it said to anyone who'd read the book: What, you didn't think we were gonna skip That Scene, did you? #hr
The way it said to anyone who'd read the book: What, you didn't think we were gonna skip That Scene, did you? #hr
Cannot WAIT to hear him say "I do not want the problem to ever go away" in that. fucking. accent....
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Cannot WAIT to hear him say "I do not want the problem to ever go away" in that. fucking. accent....