a lover's ribbon

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[hamletkin]

not a fully formed idea but something about a modern hamlet using AI to talk to his "father" and slowly succumbing to very real and true madness as he loses his grip on reality in favour of clinging to this last remaining piece of his "father" that isn't real at all...

i've toyed with the idea that maybe, instead of having them be royals, hamlet's father started a tech company and was a ceo and the AI is still something discovered by security guards + horatio. maybe hamlet sr created it himself as a prototype or safeguard. maybe claudius made it for funsies or more nefarious purposes i.e. using his brother's voice/image for evil

i just think it would be a lot of fun... and painful. i'd probably have the AI be ever present in all of hamlet's scenes. maybe he wears a bluetooth earbud the whole play through which his "father" speaks to him and now and then the audience can hear what his "father" is saying to him. sometimes it's urging him to act, sometimes it's berating him, sometimes it's playing ads

[amphibious-thing]

I hate the idea that we can split history neatly into before homosexuality and after homosexuality. I mostly read 18th century queer history and most people date the invention of homosexuality as sometime during the 19th century. People will assume that anything they associate with after homosexuality didn’t exist in the 18th century (the belief that sexuality was inborn, the association between same-sex attraction and gender nonconformity, the myth of the homo-hetero binary). And they will assume that anything they associate with before homosexuality necessarily does apply to the 18th century (topping not being stigmatised, men being attracted to boys being considered the norm).

These assumptions are false. Some historians will try and fix this by pushing back the invention of homosexuality to the early 18th century. However this is really just putting a bandaid on a flawed idea. The truth is that history is never simple. The idea of a simplistic before and after is the problem.

[adhd-ahamilton]

Oh my god is part of the reason some people are *so obsessed* with the notion that 'in the past, it wasn't considered an identity, it was just a thing some people do', in part, because the only *overt* references to queer people in many past time periods is. Criminal proceedings for sodomy or other 'unnatural sex'.

[qvvit]

yall . fuck this class im in im so bothered!!!!

[qvvit]

yall ever get hyperfixated on a person . like not a celebrity but just a person from ur life

[qvvit]

im leading a team at school and let me tell you...

[qvvit]

guys r we back in our tumblr era

[nedlittle]

i was tasked with creating a shakespeare scene/monologue using only lines from other plays + ended up getting a perfect 100 for this lmao

@jeynegrey told me to post this so i had to comply

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[moirailsupport]

twelfth night has no villain, just a bunch of queer dumbasses running around and I think that's very sexy of them

[sambeckdraws]

cape breton highlands, lynn canyon, tallinn, lake nipissing

[mysteriousartcentury]

Emil Lauffer (1837-1909), Kriemhild’s Accusation (Kriemhild accuses Gunther and Hager of murdering her husband Siegfried), 1879, oil on canvas, 191 x 300 cm. National Gallery Prague

[darkmacademia]

scans of eugène delacroix (1-2) and mozart's (3) diaries, from 'great diaries'.

[koredzas]

Matteo di Giovanni - The Annunciation with Saint John the Baptist,Saint Bernardine of Siena; Crucifixion, Saint Peter and Saint Paul. 1455 - 1464

[history-of-fashion]

1410-1411 Master of the Cite des Dames and workshop - Christine de Pizan presenting her book to King Charles VI of France

[yourfaveisameowmeow]

hamlet! og meow meow

hamlet from the tragedy of hamlet prince of denmark is a poor meow meow

[snoppy]

so unreliably narrated bestie

[thejoyofdeduction]

[leighcunt]

horatio is the final girl of hamlet

[butchhamlet]

the hamlet ocd post

that’s right. only took me fifty years. here it is: prince hamlet of denmark of william shakespeare’s smash hit hamlet has obsessive-compulsive disorder and i’m right & about to prove it.

OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMER THAT YOU CAN STAGE HAMLET HOWEVER YOU WANT. (but i am right.)

credit where credit is due: this post (and this headcanon) was initially inspired by this post! because as soon as i read it, i was obsessed (no pun intended) with the idea. so here i am having re-read hamlet and jotted down actual line numbers as evidence, as if i am writing an essay and not a tumblr post, which is very obsessive-compulsive of me in general, actually. (yes, i have ocd; yes, i am qualified to make this post; yes, i will gladly accept additions/thoughts from anyone!!)

OBLIGATORY SECOND DISCLAIMER THAT I AM NOT THE END-ALL BE-ALL ARBITER OF WHAT OCD IS; THIS POST IS DRAWN FROM MANY OF MY OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, BUT OCD MANIFESTS IN DIFFERENT WAYS FOR EVERYONE WHO HAS IT, AND I AM NOT A LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL, I’M AN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD.

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