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Hamlet < 3

hamlet

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today's schedule:

breakfast with uncle-father and aunt-mother

soliloquy

consider plucking out eyes so i don't have to witness any more public displays of affection because my mother and uncle

soliloquy

eat a crocodile(?)

break my heart for i must hold my tongue

soliloquy

look up area nunneries

soliloquy

stab a curtain

find bog

get horatio to watch me sink into said bog

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Ideas like these are why I'd do anything to be in a Hamlet production, istg

i wanna see a production of hamlet where he’s just. scared. so scared all the time. scared of losing his family, scared of his uncles anger, scared of his mom’s disapproval, scared of dying, scared of living. i wanna see him played as a terrified kid who’s eyes go wide with horror when he’s told the blade was poisoned. the whole play he’s putting off doing anything not because he’s unsure, but more because he’s scared of the consequences. what would his mom think?? what would his god think?? what would his best friend think of him if he went through with the revenge??? i want him to die with tears running down his face, holding horatio’s wrist with painful desperation to live while horatio cradles his head. i wanna see hamlet scared.

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big fan of the “I can’t fix him but I can follow him to his tragic and untimely end and love him even as he becomes corrupted and decays into a shadow of his former self” trope

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Everyone, we can fix Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet if we just switch the leads.

Romeo wakes up in Hamlet's body and meets the ghost of "his" father telling him to kill his uncle. So if course Romeo just fucking does it, because he never considers consequences, and then gets onto more important shit, like romancing Ophelia, political fallout be damned! But given that he's the son of the murdered king, he'd probably end up on top.

Hamlet wakes up as Romeo and is told that he can't marry the love of his life because his family hates her family. Instead of killing Tybalt and getting Merucio murdered, he's planning elaborate meet-cutes for the two warring families. He's putting on plays about blood feuds and how to overcome them. He either succeeds in bringing the families together or bores Juliet enough with his indecision that the glow wears off and she moves on; both positive options. Everybody lives.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN BERLIN

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"The prettiest girl on the Berlin street was Conrad Veidt"

ME: FOR SURE

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he's the hottest man to have ever lived :]

"The prettiest girl on the Berlin street was Conrad Veidt"

ME: FOR SURE

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the most consistent part of the tumblr experience is that you will either be subjected to david tennant or obsessed with david tennant but either way he will be here

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Prince of Denmark and absolute madman, but I think I might already be just one of those two

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why am I so gay for fucking HAMLET

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sometimes I feel likea ball of dough as well

my dad, trying to understand the concept of being non-binary today:

- “so there’s chocolate and vanilla ice cream, but there’s also butterscotch… wow”

- “but if you’re non-binary, does that make you straight or gay? … wait, they can be ANYTHING?”

- “but there are some straight guys who occasionally do homosexual acts. are there gay guys who do the same thing but with women?

…no way”

- “people have all these labels these days and I feel like a ball of dough. can I identify as a ball of dough”

- “gay guys are usually feminine… but wait, what about the BEARS”

- “so if they’re not a man and they’re not a woman…they’re… bisexual?”

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oh, hey I did that on Halloween too :]

I really need a haircut Oh my god

TWO OF THEM

TWO OF THEM!!!

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I wish Cesare bigtop burger was real

He was chosen for a second chance at life.

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He was chosen for a second chance at life.

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caligari hc- cesare has no concept of gender. to him, “ladies” and “gentlemen” are terms he only understands in reference to a collective audience at the fair (as he’s heard caligari use the phrase “ladies and gentlemen” to address crowds) and therefore sees himself as a separate entity from “ladies and gentlemen,” who, for him, are solely characterized by being perceivers, while he understands himself to be the perceived. he makes no gendered distinctions between people, but still understands everyone else to be in some sort of separate category as him, as they all view him in the same way. perhaps due to some level of understanding of jane being a fellow object of perception, he may even place her in the same category as himself, separate from his concept of “ladies” or “gentlemen.” either way, he’d identify with her more closely than he would with other people, regardless of gender.