#Laertes immediately avenges his dad's death. Ham hems and haws about just how to avenge his dad.
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Me, in 2 days, pulling out my 1911 copy of Hamlet in Terminal C: I have to be the most pretentious person at this airport
#memes#yes i sure did buy an old copy of Hamlet that's copyrighted 1911#it has that wet-wood smell of old book. i love it dearly#the introduction penned by the editor is pompous as hell but also kinda interesting#I'm in it for Horatio and Ophelia tbh. aka Hamlet's polycule#but yeah the friend who's loyal abd the friend who wants to be (if only her dumbass dad stooped making her and Hamlet's relationship weird)#are highkey faves of mine#Hammy is a fave too but that goes without saying. everyone likes Ham#right? who can hate Hamlet (the guy)#he's a young adult going through some shit. ofc he makes bad decisions while thinking he's the smartest man alive#like yes he absolutely overthinks everything (except wjen he doesn't) and he's deeply flawed. he's endearing. i love him#Hammy my beloved#that introduction makes a cool point about Laertes as a son in comparison to Ham as a son tho. like#Laertes immediately avenges his dad's death. Ham hems and haws about just how to avenge his dad.#he has the perfect chance and bails bc it isn't perfect#that's how the introduction puts it. personally i agree with Ham's reasons for bailing.#still a neat observation tho. i usually think of Horatio as the calm mom friend to Ham's emotional chaos but who says#you can't have multiple character foils right? Laertes can come too#i look forward to rereading this play. it's been a minute. chewing on some fun thoughts already#also i graduated woooooooo that was A TIME#had some sensory overload during the presentation of degrees bc the students behind me kept screaming#every time they heard a name they recognized. I'm not mad about it tho i mean graduation is a celebration#i just learned very quickly that it's not a good place for me to be#so i fuckin dipped halfway through and lay on some grass in the shade outside the stadium where graduation was happening#and clapped and listened along from a distance. and y'know what?? that was really sweet. i liked getting to pace around campus one last time#really love my school. really grateful for every opportunity it offered me (even the ones i turned down or regretted immediately after.#bc you always learn something.)#snowswords
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