#gertrude

[l3irdl3rain]

someday i'll see you all again, but in the mean time I'll be collecting some new old friends

[butchhamlet]

my latest litmus test for productions and adaptations of hamlet is whether the creator(s) make any thoughtful choices about gertrude at all. they don’t have to do a completely radical against-the-grain gertrude; they just have to do Something. everybody has thoughts and feelings about ophelia, but do you have thoughts and feelings about a woman who’s older and more opaque and ambiguous, who has more power in the play and who doesn’t necessarily look virginal and beautiful, a woman who isn’t so innocent? have you thought at all about what she knows, when she knows it, how she feels about it? when did she know about king hamlet’s murder? does she love claudius? does she drink the poisoned wine on purpose? or does she simply stand there, woman-shaped, and say words

[grassyneptune]

collab with @astroadonis !

she did alyx, marigolds, and the background and i did gertie and primroses 😊

[chrispyinks]

slaaaaay, Questing Queens! So, I was going to wait a little longer before posting the individual portraits of Twyla/Jujube, Troyann/Monet, Princess/Alaska, Gertrude/BobTDQ and Brennan, but after seeing all the lovely comments and tags on my previous post I figured why not! Besides, I didn't spend all that time drawing those heels not to show them off ;P (also, no one talk about how I couldn't figure out what to do about Brennan's legs, don't question it, don't think about it)

(also also, thank you to everyone who reblogged and left comments and fun tags on my previous dungeons and drag queens post. Everywhere else I posted that piece it got absolutely buried by the algorithm and I had assumed it was actually just a really bad bit of art, so seeing everyone saying they liked it really made my day :D ) @dimension20official

[cielle-b]

Gertrude and Gerry playing Smash bros Gertrude mains jigglypuff, Gerry mains Falco

[helsinore]

And you know what I think if Gertrude murdered Ophelia, she did that shit thinking of it as a mercy. The world has no place for madwomen, especially women who know too much. Boys can be dismissed and sent away, but girls? Nuh uh. Tis an unmanly grief, and a woman, perhaps, can clock another woman who knows something is wrong, who might do something dangerous, who might try to act out. And what would it bring her? Horrifying her brother even more, driving him to madness? Seeing the ghost of her father? Someone else important dying by accident, or 'accident'?

Nah. Gertrude smothers Ophelia and calls it a mother's blessing. End her life before it becomes too late, and she's disgraced in a way she can't come back from.

(End her life before she becomes like you, all strange and opaque?

The thing you learn about being a woman, I suppose, is that you're not really supposed to exist at all.

Ophelia spilled over her, too much overflow, the way Hamlet was disrupting the narrative. Better to go gentle into that good night.)

[sohillust]

My andreas

[theartofthecover]

Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #8 (I Hate Fairyland Team-Up variant) (2026)

[Ryan Ottley's Invincible #63 (2009) page 12 [2nd panel] homage] [for the photo reference, click here.]

Art by: Ryan Ottley and Annalisa Leoni