I Spy Spooky Abandonment issues

It could be anything your fertile. Imagination. Decideds it could be she/it || 21

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{{ Intro }}

Hey! I'm Red, a nerd and a poet with an English degree. My analytical compulsions come from a video essay addiction I developed in 2020.

I really like:

folk music, plays and musicals, surrealism and symbolism, fairy tales, Japanese poetry, religious literature, roller skating, being outside, drawing, singing, scones and coffee ☕

I'm currently into/posting about:

Disco Elysium, Better Call Saul, Starkid, HL2VRAI (and other general Half-Life things)

Other Blogs:

@stupendium-brainrot-blog. I'm running a best Stupendium costume bracket right now!

@colette-green-official, an rp blog for Colette Green from Half-Life

Banner is a background from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

PFP is by Kenyon Cox, the Agriculture Lunette from the Iowa Capitol

Edblr DNI

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i'm so nippypilled

[astroadonis]

A slimmer of sunlight before the real storm broke out

Sorry guys, it’s that time of the year again, I get very invested in blue shift characters that never get mentioned again in future installments, more thoughts in the tags

[gaysaulgoodman]

Sucking her toes for every day of pride month

[fitzvash]

it just feels illegal how much time I spent drawing this silly pic

Love fem!Kim with alt haircut

the ref!

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Sometimes I fantasize about a man shooting me because he sees me as his equal and therefore a credible threat. So Benny Gecko is perfect for me actually

[comfethan]

happy pride month

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You're all sleeping on Laertes, by the way

Just like Hamlet has to step into his father's shoes in a way, Laertes has to step into his absent mother's shoes to advise his sister on matters of the heart. Then this protective brother/mother role, which blends the feminine with overwhelming masculine patriarchal duties, causes him to feel he has failed to protect his sister from abuse and suicide. He's nominally avenging his father when he fights Hamlet, but he's also punishing himself for failing Ophelia. The survivor's guilt must be immense.

Also it's crazy how he gets to leave while Hamlet and Ophelia are essentially trapped in their childhood home indefinitely...

[dmdog]

It lives in the arcade and leaves sticky little footprints on the linoleum. Naming it Gumble

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he’s riiiight behind me, isn’t he?

[mirimalt]

helloo! ^O^

[merelyspecters]

better luck next time

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard // 1x10 "Marco" // 1x01 "Uno" // 4x09 "Wiedersehen" // 4x10 "Winner" // 6x07 "Plan and Execution" // 4x01 "Smoke"

(inspired by this post—specifically @temporaryhorse's comment)

Bonus:

Breaking Bad 3x10 "The Fly"

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thankyou to my everyone who has ever relogged my ragad posts

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Rosencrantz is a woman and Guildenstern is nonbinary

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I love how Rosencrantz and Guildenstern could easily be replaced with any duo from any media and Elsinor with any other place. The universality of "I want to go home" and "we'll know better next time", the yin and the yang, Type A and Type B, grouchy x sunshine, trying to find your way out of an Ikea, wanting desperately to leave a party you weren't really invited to, how many more galleries is this museum, you're already thinking of someone, you already know a place, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Everything, Everywhere, All At Once, and subjecting them to any other AU is starting the time loop again, and once more, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

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Rosencrantz is a woman and Guildenstern is nonbinary

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I don't know if anyone will see this or care but Ariel from The Tempest is driving me insane. Caliban is of course a fascinating subject to study when it comes to the colonialist themes of the play, but Ariel man... he's similarly indigenous coded, but he's like the opposite of Caliban, the positive archetype to the negative archetype. He's also constantly operating on this otherworldly fairy level where he doesn't seem to have any emotional investment in his surroundings, but you can read so much subdued desperation into the way he begs for his freedom. He almost seems like a character who's been convinced that he's not human and is "above it all" so much that he doesn't perceive his emotions as emotions anymore. At the end he tells Prospero he would feel bad for the noblemen that Prospero ordered him to torment if he were human. Which is what causes Prospero to question his own actions. Empathy prompted by the person who supposedly lacks it. You could almost play it as a coping mechanism. And don't even get me started on how androgynous he is because he's literally made of air and he dresses as a different female mythological figure in like every scene