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I NEED A ZOEY X MYSTERY X BABY DRABBLE NOWWW

AND A MIRA X ABBY X ROMANCE NOWWWWW

AND I NEED RUMI AND JINU(?) TO GET TOGETHER NOWWWWWWWW

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The Saja Boys get even more hilarious when you think about the fact they had to actually sit down and write Soda-Pop. The implications are endless

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heavy breathing, growling noises

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kicking the hornet's nest a bit here to say...don't do this shit?

joke or not this is so needlessly aggressive and you sound like a toddler when you pull this

why are you so keen on alienating people over fictional characters holding hands?

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William Shakespeare wrote the character of Horatio and I took that very, very personally.

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Hamlet and Horatio are gay as fuck

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reading hamlet in lit, and i love horatio and hamlets relationship, hamlet is so weird and off putting but horatio is so fuckin down for it

hamlet: the ghost told me to kill my uncle dad so i'm gonna.

horatio: weird, you'll still let me hit tho?

hamlet: yea.

horatio: cool, go for it.

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there is something to be said about the parallels between benvolio of romeo and juliet and horatio of hamlet. something about them both spending the whole play attempting to break up/prevent unnecessary fights and keep the peace. something about both of them supporting their best friend(s) even when they're acting crazy and trying to protect them. something about both of their best friends being reckless, as if they have nothing to lose. something about how the last scene they have with their best friends, its horatio begging hamlet not to fight laertes because something is off and he's in danger, and benvolio begging mercutio to get off the street because he's bound to get into a brawl and get hurt. something about how their best friends both died in their arms in the end despite all their best efforts to save them, and left them alone to tell the tale.

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Who's your favourite Hamlet character and why is it Horatio?

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”not all men” you’re right, Horatio would never

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SOMETHING about holding your dead gay lover in your arms hysterically and sobbing and charged by their last wish that you live on. This is about Merthur and Hamratio btw.

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horatio was willing to drink poison and die rather than live without hamlet... hmm i wonder what other shakespearean play a character did that in ... it couldn't be the most famous love story of all time could it... no it couldn't be ...

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y’know I find it so interesting that often in adapted versions of Hamlet that shorten/change the play extensively, Horatio is usually among the first things to go.

The Lion King, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (to an extent), heck even the Simpsons, all manner of adaptations long and short all without any substitute/notable role for Horatio or a suitably similar character. And I get why. He doesn’t do much on his own that impacts the plot, meaning that hardly any of the actual story beats are missed without his interference.

But I think that just provides a really interesting insight into what his character stands for in the most meta sense of his writing, to be honest; Horatio is necessary, despite being unnecessary. He’s the one who writes the story down in the first place, it’s his to tell- the very first scene starts not with Hamlet’s father’s death or even with Hamlet himself, but with him, Horatio, and at the end once everyone is dead, he’s the only one left to tell the tale.

He’s also the only one who ever sees the full picture. He sees the ghost firsthand, he’s the one to tell Hamlet about it, and in return Hamlet tells him everything. His thoughts, plans, and murder-y boating escapades, Horatio is the only other person to ever know about it all. At the same time, Hamlet hardly ever seems to stick around to see the consequences of his own actions- and it’s Horatio who witnesses them instead. Horatio is the one to take care of Ophelia when she goes mad, the one who sees just how deeply Hamlet has wounded her in his quest for a ‘just revenge’. Horatio is the one to hear Hamlet recount the deaths of his childhood friends to him with something that sounds uncomfortably like pride.

Horatio is the one that’s told by Hamlet that he’s held in his ‘heart of hearts’, the one who’s at the other end of Hamlet’s flattery and admiration, all the while witnessing what becomes of Hamlet’s previous closest companions. His lover. The two men, of whom no other living people he adored more. Supposedly Hamlet held these people closest to his heart, but Horatio is the one to see how Hamlet treats his ‘closest friends’, all while being told by the prince he’s one of them. He wonders what will become of him, surely. He loves the prince, but he can’t help but consider the whole ‘cornered animal’ mentality to be a bit unreliable when he’s seen what he does to the innocent. What Hamlet himself never seems to see, always being off on some boat, or dying, but never sticking around to comprehend the consequences. That’s not his job.

Horatio is the audience. Let in to the most private thoughts, into the sympathetic tendencies of the prince, all while seeing the true and unsavoury parts that keep us from ever truly committing ourselves to the same cause. That keeps us from thinking of him as a good person, despite the fact that we love him regardless. Or maybe we don’t, but we’ve been in too deep for too long to do anything about it.

When Horatio is removed, not much changes. Hamlet loses a confidant, and maybe his mind a bit sooner, but the story still plays out. When he dies, there is no one to hold him as he goes. No one to tell his story as it truly was. Except there is, because we’ve just seen it. In that sort of way, Horatio can never really be removed, only brought offstage. But if the story is told, and if there’s a crowd to view it, Horatio will always be there, somewhere in the audience. Watching. (It’s all he can seem to do.)

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What if the play 'Hamlet' ist the story as Horatio told it after Hamlet bid him to.

What if Horatio made up the first encounters between Hamlet senior's ghost and the guards, to convince people that Hamlet wasn't hallucinating. That the ghost was real and Hamlet wasn't mad. Even if in reality nobody except for Hamlet ever saw the ghost.

What if Horatio did it, because he couldn't stand the idea that people remember Hamlet as someone who lost his mind.

What if that wasn't how Horatio himself wanted to remember him.

What if.

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calamity titans aahh so scary

100% inspired by @elentori-art's work

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honesty HELL YEAH