2020-09-14 5:56:45 ¶ ●

## some Eugenie and Louise content for you

And we all know what happens when I try to draw something- I start drawing, lose motivation, and give up! Anyway, enjoy this poorly made sketch

2020-09-15 5:40:41 ¶ ●

Tbh considering my ability to do stuff is directly connected to and paralleled by my confidence in my ability to do stuff, I’m genuinely surprised I get anything done ever

2020-09-16 2:32:26 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

ub-sessed:

> Hamlet: The air bites shrewdly: is it very cold?

> Horatio: It is a nipping and an eager air.

> Hamlet: What hour now?

> Horatio: I think it lacks of twelve.

> Hamlet: No, it is struck.

> Horatio: Indeed? I heard it not…

> (Hamlet, Act 1, scene 4)

> This has always been such a strange exchange to me. Why is Hamlet asking Horatio if it’s cold? Dude doesn’t have a thermometer on him; he can’t tell any better what the temperature is than you can. Why is Hamlet asking Horatio the time? He doesn’t have a watch; he doesn’t know the time any better than you do.

> For a long time I saw this as an extremely clunky way of setting the scene: Telling the audience the time and the temperature by having the characters tell each other things they would already know. But it occurs to me now that what Shakespeare is actually doing is showing us that Hamlet doesn’t trust his own senses: He feels cold, but he isn’t sure if it’s actually cold. He heard the clock strike, but he doesn’t know what time it is. What it is setting up is the idea of Hamlet’s madness: the idea that he can’t tell what’s real.

THIS. I rarely ever reblog anything, but THIS needs to be reblogged. THIS is the excellent literary analysis I log on to tumblr for.

I have nothing to add on to this, or any extra points to point out like I’d normally do when I reblog something, because this is already perfect as is. What percentage of Hamlet’s madness was faked is such an interesting topic, and for this short interaction to be alluding to his madness- that’s just fantastic.

OP, I haven’t yet done Hamlet in school, and unfortunately I don’t see many posts analyzing if the ghost of Hamlet Sr. was really in Act 3 Scene 4. Please OP, what’s your take on that?

2020-09-16 2:42:40 ¶ ●

Loving Shakespearean Characters is so annoying because YES I love Horatio NO I don’t know why (what does he even do other than put up with Hamlet’s stupidity?) YES I love Ophelia NO I don’t know why (what does she even do other than NOT put up with Hamlet’s stupidity?) YES I love Laertes NO I don’t know why (he’s cool but he did technically kill Hamlet) Yes it goes without saying I love Hamlet, No I don’t know why

And repeat this process for every single Shakespeare play.

2020-09-16 5:24:26 ¶ ●

This one time this person tried to ask me out but I thought she was joking so I said something like “nah I’m good” and didn’t realize she was serious until about a year later.

Anyway I’m telling you that story to let you know that you gotta be VERY straightforward with me, like even more straightforward than outright telling me stuff.

2020-09-16 6:00:15 ¶ ●

Hermine: Please don’t prosecute Andrea- it would be really bad for my family’s reputation!

Villefort: The law doesn’t care about your reputation. I’m going to have to prosecute him.

—a few days later—

Villefort:

2020-09-16 15:22:18 ¶ ● ⬈

##

Hey! (Here for the ask game!)

transkingoryx:

> 1. white, light green, light blue

> 2. kinda like Roman from sanders sides

> 3. firebender, I think.

> 5. 15?

> 6. 5′4″?

1. YES

2. so basically theater kid vibes, right? Yeah I can see that

3.YES

4. 17

6. I WISH (4′11)

2020-09-17 0:10:14 ¶ ●

My goal in life is to create a language that’s 100% puns and memes and then speak in that language for the rest of my life

2020-09-17 1:11:57 ¶ ●

Me: *watching Full Metal Alchemist for the first time*

Me: Awww that guy’s kid is so cute! I wonder if he’ll appear in other episodes!

Me: welp I guess I’ll just have to go on the wiki page and find out! There probably won’t be any spoilers- that child doesn’t really seem like an important character.

*does that*

*instantly regrets doing that*

2020-09-18 0:01:15 ¶ ●

Dumas when describing characters’ appearances: There are exactly two options for what people look like: Hot and Gremlin. There is no in between.

2020-09-18 3:40:00 ¶ ●

## What it feels like to be the only student doing school on zoom while everyone else is there in person and I can’t talk in class and the teachers are talking about subjects that I know a lot about and they’re having discussions that I want to participate in but I can’t because I’m on zoom:

2020-09-18 5:09:15 ¶ ●

So I’m trying to prove to my friends that Gryffindor’s the worst house (sorry to all my gryffindor followers- I’m a slytherin, I’m biased) , and you all have top appreciate the title of the word document I’ll be using for writing all the reasons why gryffindor’s the worst:

2020-09-18 6:16:03 ¶ ●

The fact that you can use emojis on here, but you all willingly choose not to use them often just brings me so much joy. Now I don’t have to decipher what your hieroglyphics mean. Thank you.

2020-09-18 18:38:18 ¶ ● ⬈

monte-cristo-incorrect-quotes:

> reading TCoMC for me is weird because there are plenty of dramatic, groundbreaking, heart-wrenching scenes throughout the entirety of the book that really are supposed to stay with the reader for the rest of their journey.

> but me I’m like. there’s one specific line in the book that I don’t think anyone actually remembers because it’s not really that important. and I’ve just picked that one 7-words line and now it lives rent free in my head.

> and it’s when the Count is talking to Vampa while Franz spies on them in Colosseum and Vampa goes like

> “are you sure you can succeed?”

> and the Count says, in French,

> “Pardieu !”

> and I think about that line every day of my life.

OK first off, YES.

Secondly, let’s all appreciate another great line:

2020-09-18 22:50:55 ¶ ●

Not taking any math or science classes this year, so now the only thing I have to stress about is Spanish class

2020-09-18 22:52:12 ¶ ●

Does anyone in my grade believe in masks? Anyone? Is it just me?

These aren’t questions I thought I’d be asking myself a year ago, and yet here we are.

2020-09-21 2:54:39 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

ub-sessed:

> ub-sessed:

> > edettethegreat:

> > > ub-sessed:

> > > > Hamlet: The air bites shrewdly: is it very cold?

> > > > Horatio: It is a nipping and an eager air.

> > > > Hamlet: What hour now?

> > > > Horatio: I think it lacks of twelve.

> > > > Hamlet: No, it is struck.

> > > > Horatio: Indeed? I heard it not…

> > > > (Hamlet, Act 1, scene 4)

> > > > This has always been such a strange exchange to me. Why is Hamlet asking Horatio if it’s cold? Dude doesn’t have a thermometer on him; he can’t tell any better what the temperature is than you can. Why is Hamlet asking Horatio the time? He doesn’t have a watch; he doesn’t know the time any better than you do.

> > > > For a long time I saw this as an extremely clunky way of setting the scene: Telling the audience the time and the temperature by having the characters tell each other things they would already know. But it occurs to me now that what Shakespeare is actually doing is showing us that Hamlet doesn’t trust his own senses: He feels cold, but he isn’t sure if it’s actually cold. He heard the clock strike, but he doesn’t know what time it is. What it is setting up is the idea of Hamlet’s madness: the idea that he can’t tell what’s real.

> > > THIS. I rarely ever reblog anything, but THIS needs to be reblogged. THIS is the excellent literary analysis I log on to tumblr for.

> > > I have nothing to add on to this, or any extra points to point out like I’d normally do when I reblog something, because this is already perfect as is. What percentage of Hamlet’s madness was faked is such an interesting topic, and for this short interaction to be alluding to his madness- that’s just fantastic.

> > > OP, I haven’t yet done Hamlet in school, and unfortunately I don’t see many posts analyzing if the ghost of Hamlet Sr. was really in Act 3 Scene 4. Please OP, what’s your take on that?

> > I honestly haven’t been able to make up my mind on that. Most of what I’ve read comes down on the side of the ghost being real, giving some hand-waving excuse for why Gertrude can’t see him. And you know, the ghost is clearly real in Act 1, so why wouldn’t he be in Act 3? But, personally, I think it’s really weird that Gertrude can’t see him. I’d love to hear other people’s explanations for this.

> > (Oh, and thank you for the praise. I’m sure I can’t be the first person to have come up with the idea. What I find interesting about this scene is that it’s before Hamlet has actually seen the ghost. Perhaps he is doubting not his own senses but Horatio’s? But I don’t think so. Horatio is the only person he trusts, and he trusts him completely. I just find it interesting that Hamlet is already doubting his own mind even before seeing the ghost.)

> @edettethegreat This is John Caird and Ron Daniels discussing the matter in the RSC edition of Hamlet © 2008:

> I find it unsatisfying.

I agree with you- this answer is kinda unsatisfying. Mainly because it goes all into the symbolism of the ghost, and the symbolism of Gertrude not seeing the ghost/Hamlet seeing it. Which I don’t particularly like, because people’s ability to see ghosts shouldn’t depend on if they’re cheating on said ghost or not.

Idk. If I were a ghost and my ex-spouse was cheating on me, I would 100% haunt them. But that’s just me.

2020-09-21 4:18:30 ¶ ●

##

Pass the happy! When you receive this, list 5 things that make you happy and sent this to the last 10 people in your notifications!

1. my hair is, for some reason, really nice today. Idk why, I didn’t do anything to make it nice. But it’s just. Idk. Really soft.

2. I’m pretty up to date on homework at the moment

3. The fig plant in my backyard had A LOT of figs this year

4. I have a free tomorrow morning (so basically school’s starting at 9:50 tomorrow)

5. My room is almost always a great temperature, regardless of what the temperature outdoors is

2020-09-21 23:35:23 ¶ ●

I have such a good concept for a tcomc song parody and I wanna write it but I have no motivation and I wanna tell you guys about it but I feel like if I say what it is, someone’s gonna write it before me. So yeah

2020-09-23 0:00:03 ¶ ●

You’ll never guess what we’re doing in AP Lit class

King Lear.

We’re doing King Lear

This is not a drill

We’re actually doing King Lear

2020-09-23 0:04:08 ¶ ● ⬈

edettethegreat:

> You’ll never guess what we’re doing in AP Lit class

> King Lear.

> We’re doing King Lear

> This is not a drill

> We’re actually doing King Lear

In an ideal world I’ll get to read for both Edmund and Hamlet (when we do Hamlet).

We didn’t start either one yet, but as soon as we do, I’ll update you on how ideal our world is

2020-09-23 0:13:25 ¶ ●

## random Hamlet Headcanon because why not:

Hamlet didn’t tell Horatio he’s a prince when they met because he assumed he already knew. Horatio didn’t know and tbh wouldn’t have become friends with him because he’s smart enough to know that becoming friends with a prince = a high probability of getting mixed up in unnecessary drama.

That’s it that’s the headcanon.

2020-09-23 1:13:49 ¶ ●

Ap lit teachers be like “read 300+ pages by tomorrow”

But seriously though if any of you have read Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt, feel free to tell me some in depth analysis and a basic summary of it

2020-09-23 1:46:08 ¶ ●

If 1 person tells me to get off of tumblr and do my homework, I will. I just need one person to tell me to focus on homework so I can actually have the motivation to do it

2020-09-23 3:12:35 ¶ ● ⬈

edettethegreat:

> I have such a good concept for a tcomc song parody and I wanna write it but I have no motivation and I wanna tell you guys about it but I feel like if I say what it is, someone’s gonna write it before me. So yeah

Ok I gotta tell you what it is.

So. A parody of dumb ways to die (we all know that song, right?) EXCEPT it lists the different ways characters die in tcomc and it’s called… wait for it…

Dumas Ways To Die

2020-09-23 6:36:14 ¶ ●

Me: yeah I like King Lear

My teacher, who also likes King Lear: you have excellent taste then.

Me, internally: if you ask me who my favorite character is, you’ll be taking that back in a millisecond

2020-09-24 15:57:58 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

quietduckpond:

> edettethegreat:

> > Me: yeah I like King Lear

> > My teacher, who also likes King Lear: you have excellent taste then.

> > Me, internally: if you ask me who my favorite character is, you’ll be taking that back in a millisecond

> Who’s ur favourite character

*scrolls trough a billion posts on my account dedicated to Edmund*

Hmm idk maybe Oswald

(Jk it’s Edmund)

2020-09-25 0:39:23 ¶ ●

2020-09-25 23:55:28 ¶ ● ⬈

edettethegreat:

@jasongraces​ YES. Please tell me more

2020-09-27 5:28:22 ¶ ●

2020-09-27 7:15:39 ¶ ● ⬈

2o2o-kit:

> ## Hi

> ## Someone

> ## Talk To Me

> ## About

> ## Anything

Ok hi! Let’s discuss the meaning of life in great details. Also the meaning of death, if we get bored of the meaning of life

Or we can talk about something infinitely more chill- like what’s your favorite type of cupcake?

2020-09-27 7:18:51 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

2o2o-kit:

> edettethegreat:

> > 2o2o-kit:

> > > ## Hi

> > > ## Someone

> > > ## Talk To Me

> > > ## About

> > > ## Anything

> > Ok hi! Let’s discuss the meaning of life in great details. Also the meaning of death, if we get bored of the meaning of life

> > Or we can talk about something infinitely more chill- like what’s your favorite type of cupcake?

> Ok meaning of life is 42

> And I like red velvet cupcakes with chocolate frosting (no cream cheese I hate cream cheese!)

1- yes correct that is accurate

2- oh we almost have the same favorite cupcake! I like red velvet, except ONLY with cream cheese frosting!

(3)- and now we gotta talk about the meaning of death. If life is 42, would death be 24 or -42?

2020-09-27 14:50:36 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

quietduckpond:

> edettethegreat:

> > 2o2o-kit:

> > > edettethegreat:

> > > > 2o2o-kit:

> > > > > ## Hi

> > > > > ## Someone

> > > > > ## Talk To Me

> > > > > ## About

> > > > > ## Anything

> > > > Ok hi! Let’s discuss the meaning of life in great details. Also the meaning of death, if we get bored of the meaning of life

> > > > Or we can talk about something infinitely more chill- like what’s your favorite type of cupcake?

> > > Ok meaning of life is 42

> > > And I like red velvet cupcakes with chocolate frosting (no cream cheese I hate cream cheese!)

> > 1- yes correct that is accurate

> > 2- oh we almost have the same favorite cupcake! I like red velvet, except ONLY with cream cheese frosting!

> > (3)- and now we gotta talk about the meaning of death. If life is 42, would death be 24 or -42?

> Sorry to barge in, but might I ask is death necessarily the opposite of life, or just the end of it?

> If we take this to be true, then life, which let’s say is x = 42, and death = y, then death could either be ~42.1 < y < ♾️, or if you subscribe to the law of conservation that matter can neither be created nor destroyed, then death also is before life, meaning that -♾️ < y < ~41.9 as well as ~42.1 < y < ♾️

> Note: sadly i can’t do the equal to and greater than sign on my phone, or the normal infinity sign, so emoji it is :/

> Also my favourite type of cupcakes are those tiny carrot cake ones with the lemon icing!

Thank you so much for your math knowledge! Now all three of us can become all-powerful beings with the knowledge of both life and death!

2020-09-27 16:30:46 ¶ ●

Me, describing Hamlet, just now: It’s actually really funny, until it’s not

2020-09-27 17:48:08 ¶ ●

## ANTI-MEME MEMES

2020-09-27 23:57:53 ¶ ●

Hamlet AU where they’re playing Among Us, and Hamlet Sr. calls Hamlet to tell him Claudius is the imposter

2020-09-28 0:09:07 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

sargent-major-jane:

> edettethegreat:

> > Me: yeah I like King Lear

> > My teacher, who also likes King Lear: you have excellent taste then.

> > Me, internally: if you ask me who my favorite character is, you’ll be taking that back in a millisecond

> edette tell us

2020-09-28 1:17:39 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

sargent-major-jane:

> edettethegreat:

> > Hamlet AU where they’re playing Among Us, and Hamlet Sr. calls Hamlet to tell him Claudius is the imposter

> edette you damned genius

After dialing the wrong number TWICE- first accidentally calling the castle guards, and then calling Horatio. He hung up on them without saying anything because he didn’t want them to know he’s cheating.

2020-09-29 3:07:51 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

edettethegreat:

> sargent-major-jane:

> > edettethegreat:

> > > Hamlet AU where they’re playing Among Us, and Hamlet Sr. calls Hamlet to tell him Claudius is the imposter

> > edette you damned genius

> After dialing the wrong number TWICE- first accidentally calling the castle guards, and then calling Horatio. He hung up on them without saying anything because he didn’t want them to know he’s cheating.

Hamlet’s the other imposter, and he’s torn between killing Claudius and winning the game

2020-09-29 7:47:36 ¶ ●

On a scale of Hamlet to Gertrude, how good is your relationship with your partner’s brother?

2020-09-29 18:05:34 ¶ ● ⬈

libraryfag:

> I really want to know what he’s reading

I think I know

2020-09-29 19:10:13 ¶ ● ⬀ ⬈

horationalize:

> edettethegreat:

> > edettethegreat:

> > > sargent-major-jane:

> > > > edettethegreat:

> > > > > Hamlet AU where they’re playing Among Us, and Hamlet Sr. calls Hamlet to tell him Claudius is the imposter

> > > > edette you damned genius

> > > After dialing the wrong number TWICE- first accidentally calling the castle guards, and then calling Horatio. He hung up on them without saying anything because he didn’t want them to know he’s cheating.

> > Hamlet’s the other imposter, and he’s torn between killing Claudius and winning the game

> Polonius and Gertrude: *doing tasks in electrical*

> Hamlet: *vents, mistakes Polonius (cyan) for Claudius (dark blue)* Aw shit time to stab

> Gertrude: *calls emergency meeting*

Hamlet somehow frames Ophelia for it, they vote her out, and Laertes is not pleased with that.

He figured out Hamlet is the imposter and asked Claudius to help him convince the others next time. He doesn’t realize Claudius is the other imposter.

Claudius kills Rosencrantz, Laertes thinks Hamlet did it, Hamlet manages to convince everyone it was Guildenstern, who everyone else votes out.

2020-09-29 21:36:23 ¶ ●

My mother just roasted the principal of my school

Absolutely destroyed her

Today is a good day

2020-09-29 22:26:51 ¶ ●

##

wait omg i didn't know the meaning of your name and thats so cool

Haha thanks!

When I first made this account it was sort of a joke, and I couldn’t really imagine anyone calling me Edette in a serious manner.

But now I’m just like “yes hi it’s me, Edette, here with another meme”

2020-09-29 23:17:24 ¶ ●

## what if I... post another song parody today

I’m so sorry it’s not Dumas ways to die. I’ll work on that. I’ll post that one day

2020-09-29 23:29:18 ¶ ●

## “Dead Dad”- a Hamlet song parody to the tune of Dead Mom

(Ok- so this is barely a parody. It’s basically just the original song but with “mom” changed to “dad”.

Changes will be bolder so you can easily find them.

Original song (Dead Mom from Beetlejuice) linked here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEct4Nod2iU )

Hey dad, dead dad
I need a little help here
I’m prob'ly talking to myself here
But dead dad, I gotta ask
Are you really in the ground?
‘Cause I hear you all around me
Are you here, dead dad?
Dead dad

Dead dad,

I’m tired of trying to iron out my creases

I’m a bunch of broken pieces
It was you who made me whole
Every day they’re staring at me
Like all, “Hurry up, get happy
Move along
Forget about your dad”

'Cause mother’s in denial
Mother doesn’t wanna feel
She wants me to smile
And clap like a performing seal
Was faking for a while
But I might lose my mind for real
You won’t believe the mess that we’ve become

You’re my home
My destination
And I’m your clone
Your strange creation
You held my hand
And life came easy
Now jokes don’t land
And no one sees me
Nothing seems to fit
Father is this it?
Are you receiving?
I want something to believe in or I’ll go mad

They’ll soon ship me to England

or I’ll be here in Denmark

Call when vengeance can be had!
Mother’s moving forward
Mother didn’t lose a dad

Father won’t you send a sign?
I’m running out of hope and time
My two friends spied, My girlfriend died
Hope’s nowhere to be had

No more playing Uncle’s game
I’ll go insane if things don’t change
Whatever it takes ‘til vengeance can be claimed
Dead dad!

2020-09-30 2:49:43 ¶ ●

## a Shakespeare comic no one asked for, yet here it is

2020-09-30 15:48:23 ¶ ●

##

this is a [tumblr] hug! pass it on to 10 of your favourite followers! have a lovely day! ~♡ (´｡• ᵕ •｡`) ♡

*this is a tumblr hug back* thank you!!

(aaaaaa this is so cute!!)

2020-09-30 22:41:50 ¶ ●

@ everyone who’s in college now-

Hi please help me figure out what major to choose.