aviv_b_artwork: (rip ianto)
aviv_b ([personal profile] aviv_b_artwork) wrote2011-02-14 10:24 pm

To Be and Not to Be

Author: Aviv_b
Title: To Be & Not To Be
Written for [info]tw100, challenge 186 - Arrows
Rating: G
Characters:  Ianto, Jack
Disclaimer: Not mine; Aunty B's and RTD's
Summary: 
  Ianto & Jack, day 5 CoE.

A/N: A drabble based on rewriting Hamlet's soliloquy, Act 3 scene 1 since that's what came to mind when I saw the prompt.


 

Outrageous are the slings and arrows of fortune. To have survived Canary Wharf and weevils, stoner blowfish and a sea of troubles only to die of an alien fart. He has shuffled off his mortal coil; no more will heartached dreams haunt him.

The man remaining must sweat and grunt for all eternity, must bear the Whips and Scorns of time, must endure the calamity of so long a life. He must bear the dread of never reaching the undiscovered Country. His conscience makes him cowardly, he turns away and runs.

His sins be remembered forever. Aye, there’s the rub.

 


[identity profile] czarina-kitty.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
You beat me to this! Very nice.

[identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 02:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! Great minds think alike!!

[identity profile] thebuttonontop.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
hot DAMN that was wonderful. wow... :)

alien fart made me giggle.

the whole thing was very nicely done. :)

[identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Well Willy was always one for the rude word thrown in (she says as she drinks coffee from her Shakespearean insult mug).

[identity profile] toshiani007.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent, truly excellent!!! =)

[identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!!

[identity profile] littleni.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 02:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Very Very clever, you are talented!

[identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks - but really all the credit goes to Willy - I just stole his words and moved them around a bit!

[identity profile] musicaluvr.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 04:15 pm (UTC)(link)
**giggle snort** Alien fart... heeeheeeee!!!

Wonderfully done - you cover so much with so little words.

[identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I really have to thank Willy Shakespeare for this. Its all his except the alien fart! (But believe me, if he was around today, he'd be writing insults like "your temperment is like an alien fart... unexpectedly released and stinky!"

[identity profile] teamrodent.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
So is Jack or Rachael Tomato Dagwood going to be haunted by Ianto's ghost? Hmm, Myfanwy & Janet as Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

[identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Good question. Should be Jack, don't you think? Myfanwy & Janet - they don't look Jewish to me (but they are dead).

Order shot down?

[identity profile] teamrodent.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I was hoping for Ruben Turkey Dressing, myself. :/

Re: Order shot down?

[identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com 2011-02-15 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
YOu are BAD!
bk_forever: (My Captain)

[personal profile] bk_forever 2011-02-16 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Tragic though this is... it's damned funny Shakespeare style, at least to me! Alien fart indeed =S

[identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com 2011-02-16 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks - Shakespeare had this way of throwing in a joke/insult during very serious stuff and its the only thing I can claim as original in this story. Almost every other word is directly from the soliloquy.
bk_forever: (LOL)

[personal profile] bk_forever 2011-02-16 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Sadly, I seem to be the only member of my family with any appreciation for Shakespeare - everyone else just goes "Huh? Why do you want to watch that?"

[identity profile] aviv-b.livejournal.com 2011-03-26 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!