Here, enjoy my suffering

 Went to see an adaptation of Antigone today.

One-word review: YIKES. 

Longer review: I…don’t understand the writer’s choices at all. ANY OF THEM. 

• Unexpected Antigone/Polynices incest! I’m just. Look, buddy, if incest is your thing, maybe consider doing an adaptation of Oedipus/Jocasta’s story. Just saying. 
• …Honestly I think it was also implying Creon had a thing for Antigone too, but the acting choices in this were so bizarre I am not a hundred percent sure on that. Also weird Antigone/Teiresias subtext??
• Haemon and Antigone were engaged, but then ten days before the wedding, Haemon sleeps with Ismene? Also why make Haemon a WASP-y dude bro, rude. 
• Okay, so Eurydice doesn’t exist in this adaptation. Cool. Cool cool cool. 
• …Antigone is possibly schizophrenic and definitely hears voices. I…no. Nope. 
• Who are these two killers who keep showing up and murdering random characters? Like, I am pretty sure not this many people died in Antigone. Did these two weirdos wander off the set of a stage play of The Boondock Saints? 
• …And then Antigone dies because Creon institutionalizes her and she jumps out of the window of her room. NOPE. 

Fic: "Bound by Friendship" (The Silmarillion, Mablung and Beleg gen)

Bound by Friendship (1613 words) by Cinaed
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Beleg Cúthalion & Túrin Turambar, Beleg Cúthalion & Mablung
Characters: Beleg Cúthalion, Túrin Turambar, Mablung
Additional Tags: Doriath, Friendship, First Meetings
Summary:

Mablung walked in search of Túrin, for where the king’s ward was, Beleg was certain to be. 

(Or two times Mablung was troubled by Beleg and Túrin's friendship.)