I prithee, gentle mortal, sing again

[moon_custafer]

 Lately I’ve been thinking about A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and now I’ve begun wondering just why Titania reconciles to Oberon at the end, except that the plot requires it. I mean, if I had a fight with my husband, and his response was to cast a spell causing me to fall in love with someone else (never mind someone with an ass’s head), then wake me out of it — I’d be even angrier at him.

A glance at AO3 suggests others have asked this question; and a scholarly article on Shakespearean fanfic mentions a piece that was apparently up on fanfiction.net in 2001 that sounds wonderful and sad, but which no longer seems to be there.

(ok really I kind of want Titania to say “wait, the guy with the ass’s head treated me better than you, I’m out of here.”)

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[conuly]

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