hello hi! i've clawed my way out of hell and i ended up here
✰. my name's rocco! i use any pronouns, so genuinely go wild
✰. my previous account (which i lost access to) was @starbamnk, if anyone is familiar with my previous game
✰. i am an art + writing based blog
✰. my writing can be found on ao3
✰. if you know me irl no you do not!!!
✰. i go insane and become deeply annoying about everything that i love, so. heads up for that
✰. romeo and juliet, the magnus archives, hermitcraft, dungeons and dragons, lifesteal, unstable universe, sanders sides, smosh, bunch of friends, bbc merlin
✰. an explanation for the tagging system under the cut
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- #roart is anything that I personally have made that has to do with visual arts, be it a sketch in my english homework, a full scale digital drawing, or a silly animation!
- #rowriting is anything writing related, such as drabbles, fics, oneshots, or one-off scenes ive written. and once again, here's my ao3
- #roetry will be anything that my pea brain decides is profound. im using poetry as a sort of loose term to describe things i find poetic
- #rorambles is anything that's just me yapping. pretty straightforward, (it will probably be my most used tag lol)
- #rodnd is for anything that is dnd related, specific to me and my campaigns. (bp, afh) (you will unfortunately be hearing a lot about my girls [aryan and mira])
- and lastly, #roresponds is anytime i answer an ask
a core memory of mine is an ex-friend threatening (threatening, bro) that if i stopped hanging out with them, they would tell my parents about the times i confided in them about having suicidal thoughts because they knew my mom freak and scramble to get me (probably sub-par) help
the concept of 15-year-old me staying friends with this asshole because i preferred a friendship that fundamentally made me a worse person over the CHANCE of getting subjected to what people pretend would "fix me"
ancient roman women whose husband keeps looking at the neighbour's boy quintus and he never looks at her that way and she can't even chainsmoke in the kitchen because they don't have marlboro blues in ancient times. and she can't even go to the club because they haven't discovered drum and bass music yet. her friend clodia's having visions of a woman named doechii but neither of them knows what that means
Character duo where one *remembers I don’t like fitting characters into trope boxes* is a completely fleshed out and realised person *remembers treating characters as real people and not story devices written with intent is bad* who is written by the author and *remembers death of the author* uh. And *fumbles and drops my pile of queue cards* ah fuck wait no *the menacing horse* what was that.
me mentally: these characters have a relationship that cannot be defined by any one thing and reaches throughout the narrative and is so woven into their characters that trying to force it under one label would be inaccurate and doing it a disservice.
“Years ago a friend of mine had a dream about a strange invention; a staircase you could descend deep underground, in which you heard recordings of all the things anyone had ever said about you, both good and bad. The catch was, you had to pass through all the worst things people had said before you could get to the highest compliments at the very bottom. There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic: if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”
— I Know What You Think of Me, Tim Kreider for the New York Times
after YEARS of seeing this quote online and finding it to be the most deeply and resoundingly profound writing i finally found the source article and absolutely nothing could prepare me for this opening paragraph
Had the idea that after Thomas pierced his ears Remus wanted more so he would use random things like nails, thumb tacks, safety pins, etc. as earrings, and I came up with the little comic between him and Janus
it appears the hitler youth of social media have discovered aphantasia (the inability to visualize mental imagery) and their vibes-based understanding of everything has lead them to (falsely) believe aphantasia is a sign of lower intelligence. you really have to wonder what it's like to be such a loser you spend your life searching for Superior Traits you can identify with.
look you can't say [shakespeare character] HAS TO BE [thing] without exception in every single production, otherwise you're kind of misunderstanding why we put on these 400-year plays over and over again with different twists and modern adaptational choices each time. because theatre isn't stagnant. every actor & director chooses to focus on a different aspect of the play to highlight and draw out different messages and meanings from the same text. you can't be saying [shakespeare play] HAS TO include [this scene] or have [this interpretation] or portray something [this way] or whatever every single time without exception because WHYYYY would we be still putting them on!!! if every production of hamlet made hamlet the same age and put it in the same era and had gertrude know or not know claudius' murder and so on and so forth we would've stopped putting it on ages ago!!!! shakespeare's modern day appeal is its versatility !!!
it literally ultimately depends on what version of this story the director wants to tell this time. want to show a man lashing out and hurting others and crumbling as the catastrophic consequences of his own actions spiral his life out of control? make hamlet 30.
want to show a teenager helpless in a world of adults, powerless under his guardians but with unimaginable burden on him, trying and failing to cope with his grief as the ground spins out from under his feet? make hamlet 19.
want to show the complexity of gertrude's relationship with her son, and have her quiet complicity finally catch up to her in the last guilt-ridden effort to save her son? have her drink the poison knowingly.
want to emphasize the tragedy of the story and show the consequences of the depths claudius sank to? have her drink the poison by accident.
want to portray elsinore with an insular, suffocating atmosphere in which the rot and madness festers? cut fortinbras out.
want to emphasize the collateral damage of elsinore's deterioration on a national and international level, and leave a current of militaristic tension beneath? leave fortinbras in!
hamlet is too much of a complex and multi-layered play for ANYTHING in this show to be definitive!!! hamlet doesn't HAVE to be any age! fortinbras doesn't HAVE to be present or not present!! it's fair game as long as it makes for a good story in this iteration of it! nothing in hamlet HAS to be anything universally and i'm sick of posts claiming that it does
