2025-05-12 22:40:03 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

qapleulia:

> characters who are undead. characters who die in the end and so they’ve been dead from the start. characters who are chased by death. characters that chase death. characters who died and came back to life. characters that die again and again and again. characters who consider their past self dead. characters who were born in someone else’s corpse. characters that claw their way out of the grave. characters whose deaths leave such a gaping wound that even their absence is still a presence. characters who are emissaries of death. characters who are alive but consider themselves dead. characters whose deaths are ambiguous. characters whose existences are defined by death.

2025-05-14 0:13:55 ¶ ●

absolutely love that Edmund’s featured on the “sleeping their way to the top” page of TVTropes

not the best description overall but I love that my beloved blorbo gets a shout out

2025-05-16 0:36:19 ¶ ●

sudden awful realization that alexander hamilton (from the musical, as opposed to the real guy) fits the same tropes as edmund my beloved blorbo from king lear, who are both infamously bastards who are romantically involved with two sisters at once, have some experience with infidelity, and also some experience fighting a war involving a british king

2025-05-16 2:56:22 ¶ ●

I need to start posting about lavinia to curate a more intense tumblr fanbase for her

2025-05-16 15:19:50 ¶ ●

once again browsing TVTropes, and the Suspiciously Specific Denial page is extremely full of shakespeare shout outs

2025-05-28 4:56:08 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

ecto-hazard:

> love when stories inflict unspeakable horrors onto a person for no real reason. its not karma. its not payback. its not a lesson. its not your fault. no ones even out to get you in particular. youre not the chosen one or special or anything. it just sorta happened and you were there. sorry man