my lady, the tiger

i didnt believe in the devil until i adopted an 8 week old puppy with razor sharp teeth, non existent attention span and inexhaustible need to parkour off of every surface every half an hour, screaming her fur off at the same time

that being said today i took her to the vet to sign her up and she happened to be the 666th puppy to sign up in that office 

y’all demons are real and i adopted one

my puppy, at 10pm: if you even fucking look at me i will stomp you to death with my paws. i dare you to do it. i want you to do it. i want you to do it so I can stomp you with my paws, I’m so fucking crazy 

my puppy, at 10:01: [screams and dropkicks me in the face]

my puppy, at 10:02: 

Alec, it’s Simon.

yknow if romeo had just Cried on juliets corpse for a couple hours instead of drinking poison Right Then they would have been Fine

The moral of the story is: always take time to cry for a few hours before making important decisions.

So I’m more or less being facetious here, but this is actually a thing.

Hamlet is genre savvy. Hamlet knows how Tragedies work, and he’s not going to rush in and get stabby without making absolutely certain he’s got all the facts.

Except once he thinks he has all the facts – once he’s certain that it really is the ghost of his father and Claudius really did kill him, he rushes in and stabs the wrong guy, which starts a domino line of deaths and gets Laertes embroiled in his own revenge tragedy and ultimately results in the deaths of nearly every character other than Horatio.

That’s the irony and the tragedy of the story. Hamlet knows his tropes and actively tries to avoid them, and the tropes get him anyway. It’s inevitable, the tropes are hungry.

I want a sticker that says the tropes are hungry so I can put it on my laptop

i met a scholar once who said that tragedies aren’t about a silly “flaw” or anything, it’s about having a hero who’s just in the wrong goddamn story

if hamlet swapped places with othello he wouldn’t be duped by any of iago’s shit, he’d sit down & have a good think & actually examine the facts before taking action. meanwhile in denmark, othello would have killed claudius before act 2 could even start. but instead nope, they’re both in situations where their greatest strengths are totally useless and now we’ve got all these bodies to bury.

The tropes are hungry and the hero is in the wrong goddamn story.

I love this post.

requested by @aleclyghtwood