Gets A Handjob But Parries It Flawlessly, Shattering Their Wrist

Gets a handjob but parries it flawlessly, shattering their wrist

Shakespeare on the Common's Winter's Tale

Best version of Hamlet

Who is Ophelia???

how do you feel about gertrude? as a character, as a mom, as a living and breathing human being - however you want to answer it, it's up to you. i feel like she gets so little recognition even though she plays a biiig part in hamlet.

YEEEEEEEEES!! i agree with you 100% she's such an important character and she gets peanuts.

to answer your question simply: i love gertrude. i think she's such a wonderful character love or hate her.

she's a deeply flawed individual but so are the vast majority of the characters in the play! anything i say against her i think just enhances her as a character so don't think this is me "hating" her. i believe she truly loves hamlet but that she is a selfish person who becomes more concerned with her own happiness and how hamlet's mourning reflects on her which is amusingly hypocritical when you go by what hamlet says about his mother and uncle's partying, drinking, and blatant PDA.

the rest of this is headcanon but i think there was a time where she truly did love king hamlet and i believe she adores her son and does want him to be happy but that she got caught up in her own happiness and life when her son needed her the most. i think as time wore on king hamlet changed and became harsher towards her and young hamlet due in part to the strains of war. i think she fell out of love with him and there was claudius, ready to pick up the pieces.

i waffle on whether or not i think she conspired with claudius to kill king hamlet but it would be interesting if she did!! i absolutely believe she knew the cup was poisoned at the end of the play and drank it anyway to prove claudius' treachery and to save her son. her last act on earth is to warn hamlet and to try to protect him. imagine she did this not only to save him but to try and absolve herself for the crimes she committed against her first husband and, in hamlet's eyes, her son. idk it just makes me a bit feral.

gertrude makes me feral. i think she absolutely thinks she's doing her best and she's just not, at all. because she's human. and selfish and had the audacity to want to be happy and loved. i adore her. i adore a flawed, realistic character and gertrude is just that.

thank you so much for the ask!

according to my good friend's calculations, I shall be in denmarke in about three to four moons. in the meantime, I am working on my poem dedicated to hamlet's mother, queen gertrude. it is titled "thy mum", and so far, it readeth:

"thy son is bi

and so am I

this is why I came to denmarke;

to rhyme"

-mercutio

Thinking about how Viola refers to herself as “poor monster” for having a crush and also gender problems. Like me too girl