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chris

@mcrunchybones

your friendly neighbourhood rat musician <3 they/she/he

I had to mentally send myself a reaction image the other day. I ran up the stairs on all fours, said to myself “i’m such a locationpilled scampercel” and then perfectly envisioned this image

googledocs you are getting awfully uppity for something that can’t differentiate between “its” and “it’s” correctly

oho and now you’re questioning my adverb usage? you? you?

you fucking dare?

you try to change ‘tears’ to ‘years’ for no reason but don’t catch ‘imporint’???

hey quick question gdocs

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what the fuck

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querched up white boy

i don’t have screenshots, but one time i typed the word “table” into google docs in the process of writing my story, and google docs carefully underlined the first four letters (“tabl”), and asked me if perhaps i’d meant to write “table”

yes, google docs, that would be why i’d written “table”

out of curiosity i accepted the change. the word now read “tablee”

i need to stop picking at my face but the problem is theres Textures On There and i would prefer if there Werent

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Absolutely Devastated to discover that attempting to Remove The Textures will cause new, much more Textured Textures To Appear

Surely if I remove this new Texture, however, it will be gone forever.

By Talos, this can’t be happening.

honestly the human brain is so small that you *will* forget how much beauty there is out there to experience unless you leave your house every three days. ik its fucked up but i promise its true

my brain, trying to deceive me: there's literally nothing outside!!!!! it's the same neighborhood it's always been !!!!!

me, tying my shoes: shut up shut up!!!! by god we're gonna try to find magic in mundane today !!!!

watching the person in the mobile game ad royally screw up a very simple logic puzzle knowing theyre doing it on purpose to annoy me into wanting to play the game myself and its unfortunately working

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listen....,,,... u made me look up the 2016 rsc hamlet production and now i have feelings.... its so good wtf,,, this is all your fault

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WELCOME TO THE BRILLIANCE THAT IS THE RSC 2016 HAMLET !!!! sorry for the feelings but actually,,,,,, nah dude welcome aboard

this production is literally the embodiment of when people say ‘you need to see shakespeare not just read it’ like there’s just SO much i love about it oh ym god ???? the casting is just !!!!!1 so good i can’t articulate

hamlet was the epitome of using sarcasm and dark humour to cover up his very real, very consuming mental anguish, his interactions with horatio and his soliloquies being the only time he lets his emotions out genuinely

horatio himself was just,,,,,, i just,,,,, i lov him ???? oh my god ??? he had so much energy which just made hamlet’s despair even more poignant and i just. help me

i don’t really have any feelings abt polonius himself apart from the delivery of his lines made it so freaking funny like i know he’s a somewhat comedic character but this was the first time i’ve actually been in stitches bc of a performance

LAERTES WHERE DO I START WITH LAERTES before this performance i literally ?? was kind of apathetic towards him as a character ?? it was like 'oh there goes laertes again moving the plot along’ but now i’m. genuinely able to empathise with his struggles and it’s made his character so much more dynamic i could scream. marcus griffiths literally killed me with that performance. also the whole mirror to hamlet thing was made really obvious at the graveyard scene and i’m so emo about the death scene where they hold hands as they lay dying just,,,,,,,, fcuk me up

basically this performance rescued my cat from a tree, cooked me a healthy breakfast, and improved the quality of my life it’s so good.

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i am experiencing more hamlet thoughts

okay so like, something the rsc 2016 production does that i love and that i wish they did more of is this sense of hamlet being bodily possessed when the ghost shows up. that slaps! i am obsessed with the idea of them speaking as one (because this is supposed to be a scary ghost story, gang) and there’s just this haunting voice pouring out of hamlet that both does and doesn’t belong to him. and when the ghost goes “SWEAR” when hamlet is with horatio, marcellus and bernardo? and hamlet echoes it terrifyingly?? gives them even further justification for their horror (and for why horatio thinks hamlet shouldn’t have gone in the first place :( )

AND THEN we see it again in III.iv. when hamlet is talking to his mom and she’s terrified because oh god her son is being possessed by some evil spirit

anyway i’m very excited to direct hamlet in like 1.5-2 years, i have many ideas

anyway here’s that hamlet post i was talking about

i was rewatching rsc 2016 hamlet like 2 weeks ago and i was basically taking notes during it to spare my friends from having to deal with my ramblings via text. uhhh, only some of this is production-specific, a lot of it is just my specific hamlet feelings about the play at large. this production is fantastic and i will sing its praises until the day i die

anyway this is going under the read more because as always, i’m full of hamlet thoughts

Hey there superior double, you should watch Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet if you haven't already it was very tender and loud and intense and I saw Horacio being played by the understudy but it was so good! 6-7/10 on the gay scale but ultimately excellent Hamlet was an angsty art student

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i was actually just looking into that like an hour ago! i really love the idea of a black hamlet/black gertrude but the context of the whole show being in africa is… interesting. tragically low on the gay scale but if hamlet is just that relatable then obviously it’s worth a watch. 

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RSC Hamlet liveblog

ok so i’m watching the filmed live rsc hamlet from last year and i decided to write down my thoughts as i watch it !!!! i’ve wanted to see this for ??? ages ?? so hopefully this should be fun !!!

this kind of got…… extremely long so i’ll put it under a read more !!!!

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listen there are approximately 247 separate moments in Hamlet that are guaranteed to make me cry but nothing will ever get to me as much as the ending of Hamlet’s first soliloquy at “But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”

especially if the actor playing Hamlet’s voice cracks at the start of the line

especially if that actor is Paapa Essiedu and the production is the 2016 RSC one and Hamlet basically flings himself into Horatio’s arms immediately following the soliloquy

Goodnight, Sweet Prince

The RSC is offering a month of free access to their streaming platform and Paapa Essiedu’s Hamlet is phenomenally good. There are so many great things I could point to (they foreground Hamlet as a student, they go for the humour and really showcase his snarkiness, not to mention that, with maybe three exceptions, all the actors are Black or Brown) but I want to point to the scene where Hamlet dies. 

Hamlet is lying in Horatio’s arms, and then his hand slips from Horatio’s and we know he’s dead. 

And it looks like Horatio is about to cry, which is beautiful and poignant, but not surprising (if Horatio doesn’t start crying in this moment then what is the director even doing?) But then instead of crying, Horatio just looks up and SCREAMS

And then starts sobbing

After a minute he kisses Hamlet’s forehead and says the “Goodnight, Sweet Prince” line

And then he just looks around the stage and the audience, like. Completely shell shocked. 

And he just keeps holding Hamlet’s body like that throughout the rest of the scene, intermittently breaking into tears, while Fortinbras and the English ambassador callously walk around and comment and ask questions. Just holding his body, supporting his head, looking at his face. 

It was so raw, so tender. I really recommend that you watch it if you can. 

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Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

HAMLET (2016) dir. Simon Godwin

I  saw a quick little interview with Hamlet actor Paapa Essiedu and damn he brought up an element of the character I’d never thought of before but I’ll never be able to forget. I can’t remember his exact words but basically that he was the Prince, from how things look he was a fun guy in school at England, he talked to the players as if he knew about theater – his whole life, Hamlet has been in front of an audience. He’s known how to perform and how to be, but now he has to suffer through a world-shaking grief, the death of one’s father, with all these eyes on him and that’s part of what drives him so mad. I realized this is why his ‘madness’ takes the form that it does. Instead of closing himself off and grieving, he takes to 'performing' with jokes and speeches. 

On a more meta level I love that before the play opens, Hamlet’s character was in public and in front of a crowd, but once he tries to return home and have some time to process things himself, now there’s a new kind of audience watching him – even getting to hear his most private thoughts and asides. He can never escape watchful eyes.