Staging concept: Ophelia carries around a book that she uses to press different flowers and plants. At one point we see her actually pressing one of the flowers Hamlet's given her before, and we get the impression that she wouldn't part with this book for the world. During the "Get thee to a nunnery" scene, Hamlet rips the book out of her hands, and she goes diving after it to make sure he didn't damage it. And during her final "mad scene", she starts tearing out the relevant pages (rosemary, pansies, fennel, columbines, etc.) to give to everyone present. Laertes is the only one to get the significance of his sister giving away parts of her prized possession, and it adds an extra layer to his grief.
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In light of recent events it's also very difficult for me to believe that I will make long-lasting friendships again. But I will. It will happen without me even realising it. Maybe I'm never going to get the kind of relationship with another person that I dream about, where we're obsessed with each other and intensely affectionate. Maybe that isn't a good or sustainable model of a relationship (platonic or otherwise) anyway, no matter how badly I want it.
And maybe in the rare times I do get it, I can appreciate the time spent and the care shown even if it crashes and burns in the end. I'm still working on that part right now. But I hope I get there.
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only bad thing about being in a fandom where one of the characters canonically has wings is the painful lack of classic wingfic. where is my everything's the same but people have bird wings watford au where one day baz notices simon hasn't been grooming his wings bc of an injury to his ribs so he sits on his bed and makes a whole fuss about how "i'm not doing this to be nice, snow, your wings are just a travesty to look at" and then proceeds to carefully and lovingly tidy his feathers in drawn out silence while they both pretend grooming someone else's wings isn't one of the most intimate things you can do for another person. will this heartbreak never end
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Ken Jeong making Michael Sheen cry hearing others read as his fictional representation of himself and David Tennant which straddles the line of truth replacing them but no one else including their life partners and friends and no one understands their friendship everyone thinking they hate each other constantly dunking on David and having a full blown existential crisis because he realizes David is the only person who loves him unconditionally and is on his side
I miss people getting too close to me
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