#ros and guil are dead

[rosandguilaredead]

I’ve made a ros and guil are dead side blog because I cannot stop thinking about it

[bookish-bee]

Thank you @figuringthengsout for tagging me <3333

rules: list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you

Soo tired it’s very late so I’ll be brief. In order I read them, not in order of importance to me

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - every mother and her daughter should read. My first profound read.

Crime and Punishment - the triumph of my fourteenth year. The Quest for the Perfect Translation pt.1 (it’s Nicolas Slater’s version. You’re welcome)

Ordinary People - found a similar person in Conrad. And cried. A lot.

The Plague - hahaha covid. Incredible. Began my love of Camus and then I got into philosophy and then died a little bit

All Quiet on the Western Front - the most influential a book has been on my life. Started the WWI interest and got me into the trench poets and started my research paper and so much more

The metamorphosis - learned so much about disability and what my family is. Read it so many times.

Inferno - got me through a rough spot. The Quest for the Perfect Translation pt.2 (I SWEAR BY Dorothy L Sayers. She’s incredible)

Patrick Modiano Missing Person - I can’t even talk about this one except to say that it changed me and that I want to write like him

Eichmann in Jerusalem - began my love of nonfiction and journalism and my obsession with the guardian and the Atlantic and the New Yorker, etc and now I spend so much money on newspapers and magazines I blame Arendt and her terrific reporting.

I didn’t include any poetry plays or short fiction because that would be cheating. Would require a whole other list for those.

And, note, these are the books that impacted me profoundly. Not exactly pleasureful books I got into, how it works for me in fandom. That would, again, be another list. (Aftg, sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie)

[burningivy]

just finished Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead

IM GOING INSANE OVER THIS YOU DONT UNDERSTAND

[sunsetcurveauto]

"rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is metatheater" "rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is satire" actually rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is a tragedy and a horror story and it haunts my every waking hour

[lovelandfrogman]

been having thoughts

[joustingpitch]

what if nothing we did changed anything (what if we had the power to change everything). what if I forgot how to be myself (what if I only remembered you). what if none of it mattered (what if we were the only things that mattered). what if it was inevitable (what if it was all our fault). what if I couldn't live without you (what if I ached with the weight of two souls overlapping). what if we were already dead (what if we never existed in the first place). what if I forgot my own name (what if I gave you mine).

[agentravensong]

re: my previous post, i think if you were to stage a version of ros & guil are dead and wanted to highlight the "they're stuck in a time loop because that's the nature of theater (in the modern day)" thing at the end, the best way to do it would be to have the last thing be the messenger's voice coming from offstage, calling ros and guil's names and telling them they've been summoned by the king of denmark. don't show ros and guil waking up, but have that be the obvious implication; that after all this, they don't get to rest, because they have a long journey — the same long journey — ahead of them — again.

[the-queer-classic-lit-ship-ever]

round 5

[oof-i-did-it-agaaiiin]

I feel like Guildenstern is an often misunderstood character. A pet peeve of mine is that when an actor plays him without nuance he comes across as just mean, which is not him. He gets nippy and frustrated with Rosencrantz sometimes but at his core he cares for him. He cares for everything a bit too much. He wants to solve the world around him but he can’t. He talks himself in circles, useless exercises of logic, trying to discern the direction of the wind just to feel he has some grasp on what’s going on around him. His theorizing is a fool’s errand, but an element that’s often missed is that he enjoys it. He theorizes because it soothes his confusion and because it’s how he has fun. Guildenstern at his best is playful and a little dorky and just trying to do what he thinks is best.

[aq2003]

hello aq2003 my buddy aq2003 i watched rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead with a friend yesterday and i did think of u every time hamlet was onscreen. that is all

SO glad i am the hamlet mutual this is my life's greatest accomplishment

[the-ipre]

i need to rewatch rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead to draw up the connections between it and dead boy detectives. the edwin and charles of it all has a Lot in common with guildenstern and rosencrantz, just on a different skew

[jacksoldsideblog]

i literally can't say with any specificity why but @tylerstesticles and i are essentially rosencrantz and guildenstern in the funniest fucking way and it was exemplified again today

[natjennie]

okay my love of night at the museum as a kid actually totally tracks with how much I like bbc ghosts and other six idiots content now. I'm connecting the dots.

[mityenka]

you guys will call anyone doomed by the narrative these days. when i do it i'm right though

[beingdoomedbythenarrativeissexy]

GILLY AND I HAVE COMPLETED MITOSIS!

My name is Rosencrantz (20-something, he/him), and I am the current owner of this blog. I am specifically trying to avoid spying on the prince, Hamlet (😒), so asks are totally appreciated.

My BESTIE OF ALL TIME, Guildenstern, used to run this blog with me, but he ended up getting his own blog, @. Go find him! I’ll probably bother him a lot <3

Enjoy ^u^!

[Mod note: Fuckin uhhhhhhg. I’m trying my best. You don’t get art because I can’t draw!

No nsfw please!

Final thing: this WILL get a bit shippy. Rosguil is quite literally my otp. Asks regarding their relationship are encouraged ;))

[bluntandsaucy]

i am single-handedly going to create the “rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead” fandom