#Rosguill

[pulsingvoid]

rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead is lgbt theatre/literature the same way swiss army man is lgbt cinema in that it is blatantly textually about two men in love whose identities are so entwined they may as well be one man. what's gayer than that. and why does everyone always forget about them. when i say these stories are my favorite lgbt fiction i'm not being all wink wink nudge nudge. it's in the text

[sanjidysphoria]

huge if true

[gabriel-shutterson]

There was a production where Guildenstern was deaf and that just made the recorder scene worse because Hamlet is essentially rubbing in Guil’s disability :( and Rosencrantz looked about ready to cry because he was the one translating for Guil

OH MY GODDDDD NOTMAL NORMAL NORMAL

I’ve actually always headcanoned Ros as HOH. I thought it was cool, giving a disability to a character that clearly is able to overcome it (given that he doesn’t shut up<3)

I think in a similar way, the sponge scene that I mentioned in my previous post gets Guil riled up because of Hamlet’s line “I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.” He’s essentially calling Ros stupid, yeah? I think it could easily be interpreted that Ros is autistic and is unable to fully understand social cues, sarcasm, and insults. He claims to ‘understand [Hamlet] not’ before the foolish ear line, which is on par if he is, in fact, autistic.

So, essentially, I interpret it as Hamlet— well knowing Ros has issues understanding social cues— calling him stupid for something he can’t help. With that information, it makes total sense that Guil takes personal offense to it and explodes.

Shut up Jenny

[stairnaheireann]

Boyeeghter Bay | Murder Hole Beach

One of Ireland’s most beautiful and pristine bays is on the Rosguill Peninsula – Boyeeghter Bay. At high tide you will find two sandy beaches, which grow together to one big beach when the tide is out. The roaring Atlantic Ocean has gnawed bizarre cuts and a cave into the cliff faces along the bay. The wild waters may also be responsible for the bay’s nickname – ‘The Murder Hole’. The beach may…

[gayest-classiclit]

behold, more powerpoint

this one has text in the speaker's notes so there's a cut (it'll be long)

"basically it’s hamlet fanfiction by tom stoppard and somehow he got away with it and the americans do it in their high school english classes. i’m british, so i’ve never studied it - BUT! as resident gay shakespeare powerpoint guy, i felt obligated to read it at some point. anyways i love this play and the main dumbasses are my blorbos forever and ever and you can pry them from my cold dead hands."

"good question: they are. they’re gay and probably married and they’re in love and you cannot convince me otherwise. like. look at them. look at these idiots and tell me they aren’t even a little bit fruity. exactly. you can’t. THEY TALK LIKE A MARRIED COUPLE???? legit they can understand each other almost perfectly and the other’s don’t understand shit."

"my gay brain thinks that they were sleeping in the same bed or something which is both really cute but also suspicious."

"self-explanatory."

"this is a compilation of guil comforting ros because he’s surprisingly good at that ros seems to appreciate guil’s presence and it calms him down a little. that’s good!!!"

"just… w h y why would he say this shit ��just being friendly’ ahaha n o that is some cursed shit right there to quote one particular lord and saviour… ‘KiNkY!’ honestly those parts where guil says ’somebody might come in’ (it happens twice) are both kind of… hmm. rosencrantz foot kink real /j also ‘down ros’s throat’ THAT IS GAY."

"this is just adorable i want what they have please and thank you this becomes a bit more important in a bit btw!!"

"what do you MEAN ‘ros takes on a shifty look’ what does he know sidenote: he could be referring to hamlet too - he goes ‘you loved me once’ in og hamlet which leads me to believe ros/ham was a thing AND AND if he did do gay shit with guil, it would make sense that they hid it! Because it was forbidden-tm!!!"

"this is essentially a repeat of the toes scene. note the other ‘somebody might come in’ perhaps guil is just a closeted gay ros is genuinely trying to help his husband and i’m all for it"

"so,,,, this scene. i told you about the other coins scene, which this is a parallel to i think??? earlier on there wasn’t a coin in either hand, and now both of them have coins. this could mean a change in the boys’ situation, or maybe character development for ros - he’s becoming more aware of what’s happening also,,,, he wanted to make him happy that’s adorable hang on a sec while i cry /j"

"HE’S BEING SO SOFT I,,,,, guil can’t stay mad at ros this is evidence also,,,, dominant,,,,,"

"ok this is scraping the bottom of the barrel (hahagetit) but this is kinda gay ok the fact that they share a barrel and stick together in situations where they probably aren’t thinking??? also at this point they’re hiding from pirates, and hamlet deadass gets yoinked this could realistically take a while, i think. so it’s perfectly plausible that they might have snuck a kiss or two."

"note that guil has to ‘gather himself’ in this scene he’s alone for once, without ros to keep him company and throughout the play, he’d been kind of an asshole to ros??? instant regret, essentially maybe i’m reading too into this, this bit makes me plain sad"

"this scene wasn’t in the script originally but it’s one of the parts in the movie which stood out to me the most ros basically makes a paper airplane!! it’s a surprisingly complicated paper airplane!!! guil crushes it up like the asshole he is, which probably breaks ros’ heart at least a little bit see, the thing that stood out to me was how ros is so eager to show him the plane,,, like,,, hello husband!! i made a thing that you might like!! ros tries hard to cheer guil up from being a pissbaby all the time and that’s something i can really appreciate."

[moonlarked]

left to right is guildenstern horatio hamlet and rosencrantz

(if I had motivation I would draw this)

[gayestshakespearecouples]

you guys are driving me insane keeping on voting R&G through because it means I have to keep resorting to putting the submitter's comments on the poll image bc there's no remotely relevant quotes from the text. it looks so jarring guys stop doing this to me /hj

[rosquinn]

i wish i could draw so i could put ros and guil in the barbie movie's outfits

[withasideofshakespeare]

Some of you guys have already read this, but for anyone looking for a nice, angsty Hamlet time loop fic, look no further! I am completely done writing this, so no need to fear it’ll get abandoned halfway done (like that one time... we don’t talk about that.) I’ll publish the rest of the chapters in the next few days/weeks. Stay tuned :)

Chapters: 2/10 Fandom: Hamlet - Shakespeare

Summary: Déjà vu is a potent experience. Hamlet has lived before, died before, been here before. He remembers a ghost, a play, a duel… it slips away before he can quite capture or explain it.

Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Hamlet/Horatio (Hamlet), Hamlet/Ophelia (Hamlet), (heavily implied) Rosencrantz/Guildenstern (Hamlet), Claudius/Gertrude (Hamlet) Characters: Hamlet (Hamlet), Horatio (Hamlet), Ophelia (Hamlet), Rosencrantz (Hamlet), Guildenstern (Hamlet), Laertes (Hamlet), Gertrude (Hamlet), Claudius (Hamlet), Fortinbras (Hamlet), Polonius (Hamlet), pretty much the whole cast is here Additional Tags: Time Loop, Ambiguous/Open Ending, major character death (but repeatedly), Angst, cw:, Self-Harm, Existentialism, Suicide, Character Death, Torture, let these people be happy PLEASE, (they get to be. just a little though), Weddings, oh laertes/fortinbras implied if you SQUINT

[cleverclove]

Andrew Scott Guildenstern is the Guildenstern of all time ily Girldenstern

[gayest-classiclit]

k so i definitely have propaganda for ros and guil somewhere on other polls, so i'm going to look for that and come back to you

UPDATE: i have links to other propaganda i have done for these boys!

here's some for ros on his own for ultimate-blorbo-bracket

a powerpoint i made around a year ago to convince my friends that ros and guil are in love

from the first round of the loser's bracket, where i infodump about them for a bit

for other news, they got 5th place on gayest-classiclit overall, because they got 3rd place on the loser's bracket!

@doomed-bythe-narrative so it gets back to you <3 i've been endorsing the rosguil nation for as long as i remember lmao

tldr the point of ragad is that they're doomed by the narrative

Doomed by the Narrative: Side B - Round 1

[pulsingvoid]

rewatched the rosguil movie adaptation for the first time in years and was flabbergasted at how many of my favorite moments that establish ros and guil's relationship weren't included, so i've assembled this collection for my viewing pleasure.

bonus what's in my opinion the biggest shame to exclude on an existential and sincere level:

along with this gut-wrenching glimpse of their final stage directions without which their deaths don't hit half as hard:

[sanjidysphoria]

zzz

[gabriel-shutterson]

“I think I’m going to kill you” SHUT THE FUCK UP AND KISS ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stairnaheireann]

Boyeeghter Bay | Murder Hole Beach

One of Ireland’s most beautiful and pristine bays is on the Rosguill Peninsula – Boyeeghter Bay. At high tide you will find two sandy beaches, which grow together to one big beach when the tide is out. The roaring Atlantic Ocean has gnawed bizarre cuts and a cave into the cliff faces along the bay. The wild waters may also be responsible for the bay’s nickname – ‘The Murder Hole’. The beach may…

[gayest-classiclit]

ROUND 1 SIDE B: LOSERS BRACKET

propaganda:

ros and guil: ahahaha they're autos. literally???? ros just wants to make guil happy. he trusts his judgement completely??? they're like a toned-down hamlet and horatio. AND LIKE,,,, THEY ARE A PAIR. TWO OF THEM. THEY MUST NOT BE SEPARATED <3

babbitt: