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hold on. Was suck him good and hard through his jorts supposed to conjour the image of someone who has an unzipped fly because this entire time I've been imagining someone slurping on wet denim

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a birthed anachronism

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reasons why I should never be allowed to direct a production of Hamlet

I am not qualified in any way

I would make Rosencrantz and Guildenstern be making out all the time. Like it would be the running gag. Every moment they were on stage they’d be making out and when one of them had a line they’d have to disentangle while all the other characters impatiently waited. Yes this includes them walking on or off stage.

Ophelia is a pastel goth

Polonius has to nod aggressively at everything Claudius or Gertrude ever says to the point where he looks like a bobble head. This is what gives him away behind the curtain, he’s nodding so hard Hamlet can see it

Hamlet is a fucking tease and almost gives Horatio a blowjob while convincing him to spy on Claudius during the play (trust me, the dialogue works for this, it’d be hilarious) But like it would be an intense moment while they’re hidden away in the “backstage” of the play that’s about to be put on and Hamlet is like literally on his knees begging for help in a sexy kind of way, yknow?

Surprise musical number during the intermission and if you have to pee that’s just too bad and you’ve missed it

The play actually starts with the last part of the last scene. yeah the one where everyone’s already dead and Fortinbras and Horatio are saying they need to haul the bodies up to show to people and tell the story of what happened here. So its like you, the audience, are the people of Denmark. You, the audience, witnessed a tragedy. And now, the characters are going to tell you the story of how things came to be this way. So actually the story never ends, its a cycle of people making bad decisions and dying and others trying to warn you about it but its too late because they’re already making those bad decisions again. And you, the audience, are complicit in this.

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No this is right actually

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I've only really, properly watched two productions of Hamlet- one at St Paul's in London where Hamlet was portrayed by Jenet Le Lacheur, and another online where Hamlet was portrayed by Maxine Peake.

Jenet Le Lacheur is a transfeminine actor, who portrayed Hamlet with long hair, in women's blazers with tight formal trousers and ballet flats, whilst Maxine Peake is a cis woman who played a Hamlet with cropped hair, a flowy white shirt and a gun.

My point is that not only is Hamlet seemingly an inherently non-hetero character, but that there is something about Hamlet which encourages people to see a protagonist who is also not cis.

Peake is a magnificent Hamlet, who admittedly primarily seems to be non-binary simply as a result of being played by a woman and my own queer lense, but Le Lacheur portrays a Hamlet that is almost explicitly not cis- whilst the vast majority of characters refer to Hamlet with masculine pronouns, Hamlet's closest friends, Horatio in particular, use feminine ones. Whether you want to see this simply as a non-binary Hamlet, or more specifically as a trans Hamlet, it's clear that the character is intended to be genderqueer.

Something about Hamlet, the sense of being lost, of being seen as mad and beginning to believe it yourself, of general otherness, is a magnetic for queer folk- Directors, actors and fans alike.

Hamlet is queer.

ok but like i dAre u to tell me hamlet isn’t bisexual in canon,,, indecisive ass

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other unpopular opinions: i think a little gender crisis is healthy, even if u end up deciding ur cis. i think more people should have the “oh jeez what AM i” experience. i just think a gender and/or sexuality crisis should be mandated as part of the teen experience. i think that would make us more compassionate, as a culture. 

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Achileas, the prince of Greece reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt

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I propose the New New Romantics, a movement where we all start bands with five basic intentions:

1.) Be Queer

2.) Be Horny

3.) Be Goth

4.) Wear big, white shirts

5.) Make sparkly music you can dance to

What the fuck was up with the New Romantics? Did any of them lose their virginity on their mum's grave? Have any of them darted round Europe being all slutty and bisexual? Is anybody going to keep their calcified organs in their desk drawers? Like, the puffy shirts and sparkly guitar sounds are sick boys but where's the drama?

#queer #new romantics #lgbt #duran duran #spandau ballet #byron #literature #poetry #music #bi #80s #lgbtq #theatre #memes #mary shelley #percy shelley #best memes #pepe is bent

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What the fuck was up with the New Romantics? Did any of them lose their virginity on their mum's grave? Have any of them darted round Europe being all slutty and bisexual? Is anybody going to keep their calcified organs in their desk drawers? Like, the puffy shirts and sparkly guitar sounds are sick boys but where's the drama?

#queer #lgbt #new romantics #duran duran #spandau ballet #byron #literature #poetry #music #80s #bi #lgbtq #theatre #memes

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Maxine Peake's Hamlet

said what i said