JULIUS CAESAR and maybe some belated Halloween but that's not very interesting

Yesterday was Julius Caesar.
AND IYGFHUTFIUTYGFIJUGYIUFYGIUGMUKYSG
You probably know most of the plot-- you know, Brutus is Caesar's best friend, but Cassius corrupts his mind that they need to kill him "for the good of Rome," so they all band together and kill Caesar (ET TU BRUTE), starting a war, in which both Cassius and Brutus commit violent suicide, unable to cope with the strain of losing the war and having killed their best friend, respectively.
Over the past couple of weeks, I've been texting Salamander about it. I ask him if certain lines are still in it and he says no-- it IS a school production, they have to cut stuff down, etc. He tells me how hard it is to be onstage and be Brutus, killing his best friend, killing himself with "not so half good a will" as he killed Caesar.
So yeah, we've been texting about it.
TURNS OUT VERONIGURM-- Veronica/Victoria-- LIVES 6 MINUTES FROM MY HOUSE and I'd already invited her to the show, so we just carpooled. It was awkward/violent/lovely.
AND THEN
IT WAS TIME
It was actually a great show. It started out with pretty much the entire cast going out onstage and mime-talking to each other. VeroniGURM asked me if Salamander was gonna be onstage soon, and I said that I doubted it because he's the main character and he's gotta be moar impoartints, yo.
...so as soon as I said that he got out onstage.
...and I must admit that despite the fake stubble glued onto his face, he was wearing combat boots and UIFYHUDDTTY HE LOOKED GOOD.
He was, however, talking to some blond secretary-type woman onstage and VeroniGURM is like "I BET THAT'S CASHMERE" and I was like "Actually no. That's not Cashmere. I bet that is the girl who plays his wife!"
I was right about that. After a few rather excellent monologues by Brutus and Cassius-- who was played by a girl, and SHE WAS SO GOOD IUGMJIYGMIUGY like, she looked dangerous. I was afraid of her-- Brutus had a scene with Portia (his wife, you uneducated worm).
AND YGNFIFVGMIUKSHBJ I HATED IT
Although it did give me a sense for how good of a boyfriend Salamander would be. He has very pretty hands. And... yeah. Read on.
Basically, Portia was being all slutty-- says the girl who came in a miniskirt, scarlet tights, a ruffly shirt, and a bowtie-- and like "BRUTUS Y U NO STAY IN MY BED" and Brutus was like "LOL GET OFF" and then.
AND THEN.
SHE STARTED STROKING HIS FACE
and I lost it.
Well, not really. It just distressed me.
Basically, she was like cradling his face in her hands and he was gripping her arms and at one point he turned his head a little and started leaning in-- and I don't think I imagined that, but-- but nothing happened. Because he was like "LOL GO AWAY I DON'T LIKE YOU. GO. TO. BED. PORTIA. NOW."
So that happened.
More emo stuff for a really long time-- he had a LOT of lines, though. To quote KoolBeenz High's newspaper's article about Julius Caesar, written by my good friend Sarg Rice, "Brutus is the whole show."
HECK YES HE IS
At some point, while they're going into war, Brutus complains that he's sad to Cassius and Cassius is like "WAT" and Brutus is like "PORTIA IZ DED" and Cassius is like "*wails* OH NOOOOOOOOO THAT IS RUBBISH MAN WHAT HAPPENED" and Brutus literally says "Speak no more of her." and walks off. HAH TAKE THAT
At the end, Cassius commits suicide, and she did a very, very good job. It was really believable.
...but then again, so did Salamander.
He actually asks his servant to hold out his knife/sword and then sprints onto it and yeah. It made this horrible sound which sounded very real and it made me extremely sad.
LIKE IT FELT SO REAL THOUGH
THE WAY HE SAID HIS LAST LINES
AND THE WAY HE FELL
AND THE SOUND THE KNIFE MADE
AND HIS FACE
UGYNMIUHG<UGH MY POOR BB
So that was excellently sad.
AND THEN
IT WAS TIME
FOR US TO GO BACKSTAGE
I ran into a couple squealy friends and that was fun
AND THEN
IT WAS AGAIN TIME
I saw him talking to some peeps and waited for him to finish and then I went over and hugged him-- just to be sure he was still real, still living-- and told him it was beautiful. Because it was. And not like in a creepy fangirlish way, but genuinely beautiful. We giggled for a bit about his face-- apparently it was just some spongey thing-- and then he had to go meet his aunt really quickly or something, so I just talked to some other friends and my parentals and then he drifted back over to us and that was so sweet of him and
HE
NOTICED
MY
BOWTIE
Then someone tripped VeroniGURM and that was fun and we talked about the show some more and that was nice and then he had to go wipe his fake stubble off and strike the set, so we said bye
and we hugged again
because it's just so easy to fall into his arms.
And I didn't even start the hug! It was a mutual hug!
lol roonil stop reading too far into things
So yeah. Then VeroniGURM and I turned away and he and someone else started leaving and then he called after us "BYE ROONIL and bye VeroniGURM"
and I was like *SQUEE* "BYE"
and yeah.
I have to go get ready for school now so I can't include Halloween in this post.
NEEDS MOAR BOY ADVICE CHILDREN
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