#hamratio

[comradebestie]

i wanna see a production of hamlet where he’s just. scared. so scared all the time. scared of losing his family, scared of his uncles anger, scared of his mom’s disapproval, scared of dying, scared of living. i wanna see him played as a terrified kid who’s eyes go wide with horror when he’s told the blade was poisoned. the whole play he’s putting off doing anything not because he’s unsure, but more because he’s scared of the consequences. what would his mom think?? what would his god think?? what would his best friend think of him if he went through with the revenge??? i want him to die with tears running down his face, holding horatio’s wrist with painful desperation to live while horatio cradles his head. i wanna see hamlet scared.

#hamlet #shakespeare #hamlet textpost #hamlet idea #hamratio

[castles-in-the-eyre]

#polls #classic lit #hamratio #enjoltaire #natsby #my polls

[karl-von-moor-official]

Ok but consider: A production of Hamlet that starts with the last scene and then Horatio has to play his role in the rest of the play, but he’s still completely dissolved in tears. Everyone else is oblivious and he has to keep it together for the sake of storytelling, but his voice cracks as he says “I think I saw him yesternight”, regret filling his tone, and he frantically holds on to Hamlet as he begs him not to follow the ghost; he practically chokes on his words as he shouts, “Be rul’d!” And he knows it’s no use, but he’s so reluctant to play his part in this and he can barely keep his emotions at bay. And then the end of the story draws nearer. He takes longer and longer to say his lines. He hesitates, tries to stretch out the little time he’s got left with Hamlet. He doesn’t want to be in this narrative, but he is. Until finally, as Hamlet decides to duel Laertes, Horatio simply gives up. Reluctantly, but knowingly, he accepts the fact that there’s nothing he can do but play his part and relive it all, just to honor Hamlet’s legacy and story. And Hamlet dies in his arms a second time.

#i made myself sad #i want to direct a play so badly pls wtf #Hamlet #horatio #hamratio #shakespeare #literature #william shakespeare #classical literature

[thatnerdyqueer]

light hair x dark hair where one is autism incarnate and the other is adhd incarnate

most trope of all time

#blackbonnet #ineffable husbands #solangelo #lokius #hamratio #enjoltaire #pride and prejudice #wolfstar #the #list #goes #on

[sneakertin]

hamlet and horatio being in love for six minutes straight

#i made this in like half an hour #because i love them so much #hamlet 2009 #hamlet #horatio #hamlet x horatio #tragic danish boyfriends #shakespeare #william shakespere #david tennant #peter de jersey #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #bisexual #gay #what the fuck are these tags #hamratio #the dumbest ship name ever #tin's art tag #this IS art #my post

[butchered-icarian]

SOMETHING about holding your dead gay lover in your arms hysterically and sobbing and charged by their last wish that you live on. This is about Merthur and Hamratio btw.

#if you even care. #merthur #hamratio #bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #hamlet #horatio #william shakespeare #shakespeare #croissant rambles

[rorygilmoreh4ter]

hamlet: “my father—methinks i see my father—“

horatio: “where, my lord?”

hamlet: “in my mind's eye, horatio.”

horatio:

#i’m sorry this is so stupid it’s 1am i’ll probably delete it when i wake up LMFAO #hamlet #horatio #shakespeare #william shakespeare #classic literature #hamlet memes #hamlet x horatio #classic literature memes #horatio x hamlet #tragic danish boyfriends #hamratio

[lavenderapollo]

not to continue to bring up hamlet in the context of dorian gray but the parallels are soooo good i mean come on

dorian - hamlet: self-centered, unhealthily fixated on life, death, youth and how all things we hold dear die the quickest, bad at being nice to women

basil - horatio: gay, in love with the titular character, watching the person he lives for devolve into madness and pain without being able to help

sybil vane and her family - ophelia, laertes, polonius: literally their scenes together in the beginning before jim goes to australia are perfect parallels for laertes’ talking to ophelia before he goes to france. like, INSANELY similar. and then when sybil dies…

i also think it’s interesting that, of all the plays sybil performs in, she never plays ophelia. i could be wrong, but im like 80% sure that dorian never mentions her in hamlet.

lord henry is an interesting case because you could read him as rosencrantz/guildenstern, given his friendship with both basil and dorian, and i don’t disagree with that reading at all. but he sews the first seeds of doubt in dorian, he’s the reason dorian starts to freak out about the impermanence of youth. to me, he functions as the ghost. i mean, think of it:

basil/horatio meets henry/the ghost in the first scene, dorian/hamlet comes along and basil/horatio BEGS for him to be careful because he doesn’t want his best friend to suffer corruption. henry/ghost and dorian/hamlet have a private conversation which alters the latter’s outlook and mental state, and when he returns, he isn’t the same.

i’m so,,, i’m so normal about this.

also sybil’s suicide/not suicide. AGHHHHHHH

#shakespeare #hamlet #william shakespeare #the picture of dorian gray #oscar wilde #dorian gray #hamratio #romeo and juliet #classic literature #classic lit memes #literary analysis

[lemondonutsfromcirclek]

oh my god. if the “your hearing is the last sense to go out before death” thing is true then that means that there’s a chance the last thing hamlet heard was “goodnight, sweet prince,” from horatio and then his hearing went out probably

#hamlet #horatio #hamratio #tragic danish boyfriends #hamlet x horatio #willy shakes #hamlet prince of denmark #its not even a big deal (between sobs) #people probably thought of this already but UGH #goodnight sweet prince

[theofficialpresidentofmars]

y’know I find it so interesting that often in adapted versions of Hamlet that shorten/change the play extensively, Horatio is usually among the first things to go.

The Lion King, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (to an extent), heck even the Simpsons, all manner of adaptations long and short all without any substitute/notable role for Horatio or a suitably similar character. And I get why. He doesn’t do much on his own that impacts the plot, meaning that hardly any of the actual story beats are missed without his interference.

But I think that just provides a really interesting insight into what his character stands for in the most meta sense of his writing, to be honest; Horatio is necessary, despite being unnecessary. He’s the one who writes the story down in the first place, it’s his to tell- the very first scene starts not with Hamlet’s father’s death or even with Hamlet himself, but with him, Horatio, and at the end once everyone is dead, he’s the only one left to tell the tale.

He’s also the only one who ever sees the full picture. He sees the ghost firsthand, he’s the one to tell Hamlet about it, and in return Hamlet tells him everything. His thoughts, plans, and murder-y boating escapades, Horatio is the only other person to ever know about it all. At the same time, Hamlet hardly ever seems to stick around to see the consequences of his own actions- and it’s Horatio who witnesses them instead. Horatio is the one to take care of Ophelia when she goes mad, the one who sees just how deeply Hamlet has wounded her in his quest for a ‘just revenge’. Horatio is the one to hear Hamlet recount the deaths of his childhood friends to him with something that sounds uncomfortably like pride.

Horatio is the one that’s told by Hamlet that he’s held in his ‘heart of hearts’, the one who’s at the other end of Hamlet’s flattery and admiration, all the while witnessing what becomes of Hamlet’s previous closest companions. His lover. The two men, of whom no other living people he adored more. Supposedly Hamlet held these people closest to his heart, but Horatio is the one to see how Hamlet treats his ‘closest friends’, all while being told by the prince he’s one of them. He wonders what will become of him, surely. He loves the prince, but he can’t help but consider the whole ‘cornered animal’ mentality to be a bit unreliable when he’s seen what he does to the innocent. What Hamlet himself never seems to see, always being off on some boat, or dying, but never sticking around to comprehend the consequences. That’s not his job.

Horatio is the audience. Let in to the most private thoughts, into the sympathetic tendencies of the prince, all while seeing the true and unsavoury parts that keep us from ever truly committing ourselves to the same cause. That keeps us from thinking of him as a good person, despite the fact that we love him regardless. Or maybe we don’t, but we’ve been in too deep for too long to do anything about it.

When Horatio is removed, not much changes. Hamlet loses a confidant, and maybe his mind a bit sooner, but the story still plays out. When he dies, there is no one to hold him as he goes. No one to tell his story as it truly was. Except there is, because we’ve just seen it. In that sort of way, Horatio can never really be removed, only brought offstage. But if the story is told, and if there’s a crowd to view it, Horatio will always be there, somewhere in the audience. Watching. (It’s all he can seem to do.)

#hamlet #shakespeare #hamletposting #horatio #hamratio #rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #the lion king

[snails-in-spaceships]

#someone posted about tumblr ppl wholeheartedly believing in this ship and I am one of them #hamlet #hamratio #tragic danish boyfriends #horatio #hamlet memes #it would have been a kinda toxic relationship sure but like they need eachother at this point #horatio like dropped everything to see this guy and hamlet makes a point to emphasise horatio isn't one to skip classes #hamlet trusts horatio alone like he has no other confidant this is some one he Trusts. which is a Big Thing for Hamlet who feels #so violently betrayed by everyone else in his life (except perhaps Old Hamlet and whether this is justified or not is another story) #how could i forgrt horatio TRIED TO DRINK POISON INSTEAD OF LIVE WITHOUT HAMLET #uhhhh ROMEO AND JULIET MOMENT?? WRITTEN BY THE SAME PERSON??? SHAKESPEARE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING THERE

[cleverclove]

But consider: Hamratio academic rivals to lovers

#hamlet #horatio #tragic danish boyfriends #hamratio

[heyitsspaceace]

i want you all to know that for my COLLEGE FINAL PAPER FOR MY DRAMA THEATER AND THEORY CLASS i wrote a seven (7) page paper on hamlet, and 3 (three) of those seven pages were dedicated to a queer interpretation of hamlet and what you gain from reading hamlet and horatio as gay and in love

#i LOVE THIS PLAY #so so SO MUCH #shakespeare #willy shakes #william shakespere #hamlet #horatio #hamratio #tragic danish boyfriends #hamlet x horatio

[starlight-diaries]

Forget being the Romeo to my Juliet, I want someone to be the Horatio to my Hamlet

#shakespeare #hamlet #horatio #hamratio #i want what they have #good night sweet prince #tragic danish boyfriends

[such-a-fellow]

Horatio bringing a whole stack of books about ghosts to back up his having seen Hamlet’s dead dad ft. what I think is probably the most regretted sentence in all of Hamlet

#hamlet #shakespeare #tragic danish boyfriends #hamratio #sorry dudes i will ONLY be drawing them now #leigh art tag

[rorygilmoreh4ter]

watching horatio, the sensible—NOT PASSION’S SLAVE—lose all sensibility as he picks up the cup of poison, knowing suicide will eternally condemn him to hell.

horatio would rather be banished to hell forever than live on earth after hamlet's death.

#i hate them so much like actually #hamlet #horatio #william shakespeare #shakespeare #tragic danish boyfriends #hamratio #classic literature #the tragedy of hamlet #hamlet x horatio #horatio x hamlet #hamlet prince of denmark