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i swear to god NOTHING makes me more pissed off then when everyone is like “oouheuehghoughough ough [thing] is so good it’s a classic you’ll love it” and they say it SO OFTEN that you resolve on principle to loathe [thing] with your entire being but when you actually get around to experiencing [thing] it literally IS That Good. physically trembling with rage at the fact that hamlet actually is one of the best plays ever written. DIE

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hamlet and horatio so queer coded they had to cope this hard

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So, Julius Caesar ordered Little Caesar’s pizza for all his buds, enough for one slice each, including himself. But by the time he got to the party all the pizza was gone. By process of elimination, he realized that Brutus must have taken the last slice, so shocked and disappointed, he turned to his friend and said, “Ate two, Brute?”

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et tu bestie?

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you've been hit by

you've been struck by

a roman senator ₍ₓ₂₃₎

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Thou art a scholar, speak to it, Horatio.

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every version of twelfth night is legally obligated to have a scene staged like this

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Hamlet: I like Horatio the way I like my emotions.

Hamlet: Burried deep inside me.

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they’re all i’ve thought about since 11 pm last night

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hi guys :) i made some blackout poetry to express how i’m feeling right now! text taken from william shakespeare’s hamlet :)

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Knightober 2020 (part 2) by Rachel Eaton

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Hhh first page done

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hamlet as soon as everyone walks out: o that this too too solid flesh would just fucking melt already

hamlet the second horatio walks in: MY FUCKING MAN I MISSED YOU SO MUCH YOU DITCHED CLASS FOR ME? OMG

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little hamlet things i want

standing in the cold courtyard in 1.4, hamlet and horatio enter before marcellus. they snicker at some graffiti on a wall. horatio is bundled up to high heaven in scarves and a parka. hamlet is looking around anxiously, shivering. horatio stands beside him, clearly noticing how stressed his friend is, and doesn’t look at hamlet as he quietly takes his hand. hamlet barely reacts, maybe just relaxes ever so slightly, but you just KNOW how much the gesture means. they yank apart when marcellus joins them

a pause in the line ‘as i do…thee….’  in 3.2 before hamlet suddenly blinks at horatio and slowly leans in to kiss him tentatively, almost nervously, shoulders tense and fingers shyly brushing the front of horatio’s shirt, having realised how much he loves him, and horatio starts to kiss back and there’s a moment between them where denmark doesn’t exist before hamlet breaks away, murmuring (almost worried, shaky, sad) ‘something too much of this’ because feelings are confusing and hamlet doesn’t want to get horatio hurt like ophelia and gertrude and everyone else he has loved.

claudius slapping hamlet full force across the face at the line ‘that’s the end’ (4.3), R & G flinching because their loyalties are being tested and this isn’t what we signed up for, and hamlet stumbling out of that room, opening the door to find horatio on the other side of it

horatio actually being in ophelia’s singing/’rue for you’ scene unlike the NT production and singing along with ophelia with as happy a voice he can manage, face stained with tears. ophelia gives each person a stick. claudius reacts to his gift that lets us as the audience know he knows the symbolism of rue

laertes’ speech to ophelia about not trusting hamlet’s love being delivered in a way that makes it really obvious that they once had a thing

gertrude not leaving with claudius at the end of 4.7, feigning too much grief to walk. maybe she’s crumpled on the floor over the stick ophelia gave to her. claudius rolls his eyes and goes after laertes. then, ophelia appears, a bit soaked but not dead. without exchanging a  word, they nod at each other and gertrude hands the girl an envelope. it’s implied that gertrude has helped ophelia escape denmark. 

horatio delivering ‘nay, my good lord-’ (5.2) with genuine anger/frustration because dammit hamlet i’m trying to help you why won’t you just listen to me!

In the final scene, fortinbras turns up as scripted but we cut a lot out so it goes from horatio’s ‘all this i can truly deliver’, said with his head high but eyes wet, to a long pause as fortinbras observes the scene and exchanges looks with his men. then instead of ‘let us haste hear it’, we jump to ‘let four captains bear hamlet like a soldier to the stage’ and the play ends with the line: ‘Take up the bodies.’

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This dude in my Shakespeare class made a myspace page for Hamlet for his final project and the entire thing is gold.

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Me: while Hamlet's homoerotic relationship with Horatio is certainly an important element of the play and a very underrated topic in scholarly circles today, it is not in fact the center of the play. Hamlet is not a romance, it's a story about what havoc isolation and masks wreak on the inhabitants of Elsinore. Hamlet and Horatio's relationship is significant therefore in that there are no masks between the two of them, but the trials of their relationship is not the crux of the play.

My, brain rattling around like a monkey with cymbals: Hamlet and Horatio have had gay sex! Hamlet and Horatio have had gay sex! Hamlet and Horatio have had gay sex! Hamlet and Horatio have had gay sex! HAMLET AND HORATIO HAVE HAD GAY SEX!

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thinking about how hamlet isn’t 30 again