You know when you realise that the play you want to write involves a play so you have to write a play just so it can be referenced in your play

would hamlet say six seven: a study

arguments for:

  • six seven itself has no actual meaning and originates from a clip of a viral song on tiktok, so hamlet's way of pretending to be "mad" could be repeating something widespread but meaningless, like how he quotes song lyrics and idioms (2.2, 430-432; 3.2, 306-310; 3.2 371-372)
  • hamlet often uses nonsensical, surreal humor, usually ones that appeal to the youth and confuse the older generation, to cope with his despair (2.2, 190-199; 5.1, 204-207)
  • he puts on the antic disposition partly to confuse claudius and gertrude, which this absolutely would
  • i don't think hamlet would ever have gen alpha humor, which is the point. he's changed to the point of being unrecognizable in his madness (2.2, 4-1; 316-321)
  • polonius would try to find meaning in it and come to an entirely incorrect conclusion

arguments against:

  • hamlet may not have tiktok or even know of this meme in the first place, because he's said to be a stable and well-liked individual prior to the play (4.7, 18-20)
  • it's actually rosencrantz and guildenstern who would keep saying six seven until hamlet decides to kill them

Girl i just watched twelfth night not hamlet

(This stuff’s fairly accurate tho)

Silly Game Time: The Lord of the Flame (not of Flames in general, but of this one specific flame in the Dream Realm) (it's a really nice flame, though) went for a walk last night. As it happens, he crossed paths with the Lemon-Lime Porcupine (who is exactly what they sound like) (they also live in the Dream Realm). Both were walking on the trail that leads by the vending maching which is next to the exact center of the Dream Realm.

What would you guess they talked about while walking together?

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Erm

Well

That’s difficult

I think they were talking about the stars

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

As the OP of this post, I’m going to threaten that if this gets to one million notes by the 10 year anniversary on 1 June 2026, one year from today, I will get a lower back tattoo of the loch ness bear monster.

Y'all know what to do Tumblr.

Fuck

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