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think I'll just retreat back to my leave no trace mentality.

nobody else needs to know about the things I care about.

nobody needs to know I care about anything.

nobody needs to know I exist.

zsh-official

thestrawberrydreams

Inclusive language is for everyone!!

animusbell

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

animusbell

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

jukashi

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

animusbell

You are so right actually

proteusolm

a lick of yoghurt for the smallest and youngest animal on earth

incrediblysincere

no citation but im choosing to believe lenin patronised the worlds first cat cafe

incrediblysincere

saying "according to local legend" and "it is said" before making up some absolute bullshit

sforzzz

copper ii sulfate has no reason to be this blue. this shade of blue looks like it should only be a digital invention

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

another thing about setting hamlet at christmas is that it reflects the beautiful human experience of having a long holiday stay at your parents’ house that makes you feel like you are going insane

chivalry-on-canvas

Ophelia by Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser

Ophelia by John Everett Millais

Ophelia by Alexandre Cabanel

animentality

crystallizedtwilight

whoops

animate-mush

Look. Look. It wasn’t Hamlet who decided to get poisoning.

Yes, it’s easy to characterize Hamlet as a guy who had one (1) job - kill Claudius to avenge his father - and ended up getting functionally the entire cast killed along the way. But that also literally applies to Claudius.

I will give you that Polinius is Hamlet’s bad, and Ophelia is a direct result of that. But everybody else? That’s Claudius trying to kill Hamlet.

- Rosencranz & Guildenstern were carrying letters ordering Hamlet’s death on the down-low (by Claudius). Those letters got reapplied to them

- Laertes was killed by his own poisoned foil. Poisoned by whom? By Claudius, to kill Hamlet with (Hamlet’s blow should have been non-lethal)

- Hamlet was killed by the exact same thing. So… it worked!

- Gertrude drank the poisoned chalice. Poisoned by whom? BY CLAUDIUS. To kill Hamlet with. (And unlike Laertes, where Hamlet does the actual stabbing and the whole plot can be traced back to Polonius’s death, the thing with Gertrude has nothing to do with Hamlet’s Tomfoolery)

- Claudius is killed, yes, by Hamlet - with his own poisoned rapier and chalice! Murdering Claudius wasn’t even on the agenda that day! Hamlet just came out to have a good time!

I am not saying Hamlet and his tomfoolery are blameless. But Claudius’s overkill attempts to off his heir leave a comparable swath to Hamlet’s underkill attempts to avenge his father

And maybe Polonius needs to lurk behind fewer arrasses

crystallizedtwilight

Respectfully, in my opinion, all of these deaths are Hamlet’s fault.

The first thing that happens in the play is Hamlet’s dad comes to him as a ghost and says “Clausius killed me. Your Uncle. Claudius. Right over there. Avenge me.” And instead of killing Claudius, Hamlet takes a roundabout route to fact check the ghost and gets everyone killed in the process.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were not working with Claudius. Claudius invited them to cheer Hamlet up, and see why he was acting so oddly, because they were his childhood friends. They didn’t know what was in the letter.

And yeah the poison foil/cup plot was Claudius’ idea but it hinges entirely on Hamlet murdering Polonius. Laertes would never have agreed to it otherwise.

Polonius: Stabbed by Hamlet. Ophelia: Driven to end her life from Hamlet killing her dad amongst other things Rosencrantz & Guildenstern: Hamlet re-wrote Claudius’ letter to order their deaths because he thought they were scheming with Claudius (they weren’t) Laertes: Dies by poison, in a plot he would never have agreed to partake in had Hamlet not murdered his dad. Gertrude: Dies by drinking the failsafe poison. That poisoned cup, and the duel itself, could not have existed if Hamlet didn’t stab Polonius. Claudius: Stabbed by Hamlet. Hamlet: Poisoned in the duel. The duel that would never have happened if he didn’t stab Polonius instead of Claudius.

The entire bottom row hinges on Laertes wanting revenge for his murdered father, all because Hamlet killed Polonius instead of Claudius (even though the ghost explicitly told him exactly who his murderer was). The choice to be skeptical, instead of direct, cost Hamlet eight lives, including his own.

Hamlet’s biggest tomfoolery of all is that, to get revenge for his murdered father, he murder’s Laertes’ father (an innocent bystander), sending Laertes into the same rage and grief Hamlet felt, and giving him reason to agree to a poisoned duel.

Therefore, all of these deaths lay on Hamlet in the end.

the-haiku-bot

Respectfully, in

my opinion, all of these

deaths are Hamlet’s fault.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

unchronology

But let’s not forget the alternative:

Because Claudius took over by scheming, murder and sister-in-law marrying, he’s essentially doomed Denmark to corruption. Shakespeare, and by extension the cast and Hamlet sr in particular, are very clear on this. An injustice in the ruling royal family going unpunished will destroy the country eventually.

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” and all that. The Norwegians are at the gates, the dead walk the palace halls and the heir is moping in his room doing nothing.

The murder of Hamlet sr puts the country into crisis, and it’s up to Hamlet Jr to get off his whiny arse and do something about it.

Okay it doesn’t go to plan (it’s a tragedy after all) but things wouldn’t have been any better if Hamlet did nothing.