Hamlet-hates-you-back - Come To This Great Stage Of Fools

"Whence is that knocking?— How is’t with me, when every noise appals me? What hands are here! Ha, they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red." -Macbeth, Act 2, scene 2, lines 55-61

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My collection of vintage Shakespeare imagery is dramatic.

Hello. Based on your "Please Reblog This If It’s Okay To". Do you have a favourite fic you've written?

Thank you for asking!

My current favorite is The Purple Spider's Web, a multichapter MDZS fic that gives my ideas about Madam Yu's backstory and why her marriage with Jiang Fengmian is so bad. It's long, and I wrote it quickly with minimal editing because I figured no one was going to read it anyway, so probably in 6 months, I'll be so ashamed of it that I'll delete it. But right now, I'm pretty happy with it.

I've always been fond of The Spirit that Unites Them, which is mostly RPF about the medieval English king Richard II, his French princess child second wife, Isabella (who he treated like a daughter or little sister), and his cousin's son, Henry (called Hal in Shakespeare), who later became Henry V and honored Richard's memory. Re-reading it, I hate that I wrote it in present tense, which I generally don't like, I was giving it a try back then.

The basic idea is that Richard (who became king when he was just 10 years old) loved his first wife, Anne of Bohemia, very much, but they could never have children. There is some evidence they were having trouble conceiving and that Anne might have had at least one miscarriage.

He was devastated when she died. He later married the 6-year old daughter of the King of France to cement an alliance with France. He later banished his cousin, Henry, for stirring up shit, and basically took Hal hostage. That ended when his dad deposed, imprisoned, and starved Richard to death, and crowned himself Henry IV. But Hal seems to have thought well of Richard, and gave him a better burial after he became king.

So I like to think that Richard kind of turned both these kids into substitutes for his own kids.

This is my most "popular" fic: One Founding Father Who Fancied the Doctor and One Who Didn't.

It's a silly Hamilton-Doctor Who crossover based on a throwaway line in a Doctor Who episode called The Impossible Astronaut. It made me laugh at the time, but now it's a little embarrassing. But everything Doctor Who is always a little embarrassing. It just comes with the territory when you're a Whovian, so ultimately, I'm happy with it still. And I can't delete it because it still seems to appeal to a handful of very specific fans.

Annie Mewes and Hans Carl Müller in Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale"

German vintage postcard

More Dog Hob please. Like he has a William Shakespeare toy that he rips to shreds.

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