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every day I wake up and am astonished to find people are still liking my hamlet yaoi. happy pride you gay theatre fucks

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Me when the worldbuilding brain so bad I have world where:

horses are replaced by big mesohippus,

colonialism is still a problem, actually,

hey those states and their cultures are actually not a monolith and were just forced to be one nation because they were one big island and actually they all hate each other and used to always fight against each other and whoever gained the most ground could do whatever the fuck they wanted,

fashion game is unwithfuckable,

a lot of espionage,

„magic powers“ is not actually considered magic by common citizens but as science and martial arts (if you want magic you can try to speak to the dead or find dragons or have your palm read),

losing your hearing in a heavily oral culture is fucked but have you tried asking your community for inclusion,

hey wouldn’t it be fucked up if you had to follow two contradicting laws at the same time because colonialists are dickheads and intrude upon your old laws and traditions,

actually if you think someone is incompetent at their job/duty you can challenge them to a duel and if you win just. take it. this applies to raising children also,

„horse families“ as nomads is common misconception. Average horse family never moves villages. Horse family Geoki, who owns 500 horses and frequently has to move is an exception and should not be counted,

maybe do not try to build a river dike for a river that has naturally always flooded and don’t build a city right next to it,

there cannot be a emperor because the foreigners would kill anyone to lay claim to the throne, there is no emperor and there are no (willing or possible) heirs unless…. ding ding your mother cheated,

reasonable amounts of uprisings and rebellions with violence to solve this

Anyway I have been thinking about Kilmoore. a lot.

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bitches will be like “my ot3 💕💕” and it’s a woman who could murder them, a guy who hasn’t had a good night’s sleep in six years, and another guy who almost got both of the other two murdered. it’s me i’m bitches

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sokka decides to invent a new sport and comes up with this hot new thing where you kick a ball around a field

he's thinking of naming it after himself

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a concept: zuko waiting tables at the jasmine dragon as a well-deserved break from firelord duties, but he does not understand how he keeps getting recognized!!! he’s wearing green and everything!!! it’s inexplicable!!!

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*Me Before Doing Hamlet*: "Why can't people just let Hamlet and Hortio be good friends, platonic male friendships can be vulnerable and loving without being romantic ".

*Me Now, While Actively Playing the Role of Hamlet*: "I love Horatio more than I love myself and would give him a little kiss everyday if I could... also we're in a throple with Ophelia."

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Messing around with my and @rainy-weather-supremacy Hamlet’s design over time because I lovee portaying character changes through design like don’t even joke lad

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It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

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What I have gathered from watching a few scenes of Hamlet adapted into film is that some usually fail at soliloquies- or more like, they take away the crucial element that makes it so entertaining, which is the breaking of the fourth wall. The soliloquy may be Hamlet talking to himself or thinking but- and that is the important thing- in its original theatre version Hamlet tends to talk to the audience.

It’s usually why long monologues work in plays- in my limited experience, my monologue (in another play, but it was quite a similar emotional journey) became so much better when I interacted with the audience. When I told them about my pain, asked them questions and ultimately spiraled because I started accusing them, the only people in the play that were actually listening to me but not doing anything. And it slaps so bad. It’s so great. They become part of it. That’s the element that makes it so hard to look away.

When you take that away in adaptations? Raw text, the actor just talking to themselves?

Eh, can be done right but there’s a great risk it’ll be extremely boring.

I’m gonna hazard a guess and say that people not only liked BBC’s Hamlet with David Tennant so much because well, he’s David bloody Tennant but because they kept those elements. Hamlet talks to the camera. He glances at it. And it’s just- wow.

Like, why would you take that away? We know traditional immersion in film, but „theater“ immersion in film is so much more fun. Just the main character yapping and glancing at you can make everything a whole lot less boring and more… magnetic I guess? Also it has a certain charm. People loved Fleabag, and Fleabag converted the original element of Fleabag talking directly to the audience to talking to the audience through, well, the camera.

Just saying, adapt more plays into film in a way that keeps the spirit of it being performed as a play, and I don’t only mean the fourth wall! Don’t strip the spirit of that „play energy“ and press it into a bland regular movie mold!

Point is, if I were to try to adapt Hamlet into a film medium I fucking would make him talk to the audience. Roll his eyes at us when Polonius is talking for too long.

Grin and shoot a glance at us when making a stupid joke.

Asking us, the audience in his soliloquies.

Maybe make the normal interactions fairly regular and soliloquies the original, long and eloquent speeches. Very much „me constructing an argument in my head vs. me actually talking“

And maybe we won’t realize that while he seems to bare certain parts only to us, he’s also overplaying it to us (himself?). Because he’s denying shit! And maybe, just maybe when there’s blood on his hands he’ll look up at us and we’ll realize we also have been tricked by him and that he might just be a little bit insane.

Shit, let Hamlet talk to the audience!

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Punts him like a football

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Study I did of a picture from that one Hamlet scene

This is acrylics on paper! Very proud of it but I only could get a very grainy photo. Else I would’ve had a horrible glaze reflection from photographing it. Sure look, nothing to be done bout it.

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Ah yes my oc ships number one fuckass spy and fuckall priest on their way to have their 50th argument about religion and the Seidish government and number two freestyle nuclear physicist and propagandized toxic gay fellow researcher arguing about why they shouldn’t use their new invention to nuke the world

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I think I hauve couvid,,,

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scottish trans/the equality network have shared a how to and templates to email your mp/msp about the supreme court decision from april 16th if you're living in the uk. they have templates for both trans peeps and our allies.

if you live in the uk, please take a few minutes to do this (they even find who are your representatives so you don't have to do it yourself) and if you're from outside the uk, please take a moment to reblog for visibility. thank you.

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me talking about hamlet: dumbass edgy bastard goth

some academic: hamlet is a terrible person, a bad friend and son, and a coward

me: