Such stuff as creepy slashfics are made on
September 10, 2011
Guess what.
Go on, you’ll never guess.
Orson Scott Card has rewritten Hamlet. ([SPOILERS] after this point!)
To make the king a big gay paedophile who’s murdered for turning most of the cast gay with gay kiddy sex and comes back as an Evil Gay Ghost to trick his (Totally Not Gay) son into murdering innocent non-gay people so he’ll spend eternity being gayed up in Hell (where all gay people go of course). There may well be more gay I forgot to mention.
http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2011summer/card.shtml
Now, I’ve seen some bloody awful “re-visionings” in my time, but that has to win some sort of prize for utter WTFery. Shakespeare’s corpse is, with any luck, rotating fast enough to drill his way to Salt Lake City and take appalling zombie vengeance on the twit, the twit who published his twittery and anyone who ever thought it was a good idea.
Though I admit I’m morbidly curious about what he might come up with if you fed Titus Andronicus through him. But considering he thinks Taming of the Shrew holds “a legitimate moral lesson about the relationship between man and woman in marriage” my puny mind probably couldn’t take it.
