random. Very, very random.

[mamajoan]

The other day, randomly, I found myself wondering whether anyone writes Hamlet/Horatio slash. I bet they do. At first I was thinking how blasphemous and wrong that was, and then I was like, "self, you spent what, like three years slashing dead people? Evil, BLOOD-SUCKING dead people. Where exactly is that moral high ground again?" o.O

The problem with Hamlet/Horatio is that it wouldn't sound right unless it were written in iambic pentameter. And who really has the wherewithal?

The other problem with Hamlet/Horatio is that some of you just read this and thought I meant Horatio Hornblower. And I don't even know who the hell that is, but, no.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Dude! That was so my 'ship in the 11th grade! It's practically canon! I mean, you can take the "more Roman than Danish" comment so many different ways, and after all, they were college buddies...

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

It's practically canon!

It really kind of is! I'm just sayin'.

Hey, thanks for metaquoting me! Made my day. :)

[azurelunatic]

*sigh* But does Today's Youth appreciate the slashiness of a classic? Do they?

<azzgrin>

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Myself, 17, prefer Hamlet/Laertes to Hamlet/Horatio, but to each their own.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

OMGWTF! Hamlet/Laertes is teh sux0r!

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

dudeth! Hamlet/Laertes 4EVAH OMG!!1!!theirloveissoragefuldramaqueen!

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Like I would know anything about Today's Youth? I wish! Well, okay, no I don't.

[azurelunatic]

You'll get a good eyeful in another ten years, I promise...

[lisaofdoom.livejournal.com]

OMG YES. XD

[darthtall.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, my friend mirabellawotr has written a rather lovely Hamlet/Horatio. How's that for random? ;)

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

I KNEW someone would come through with a link!!! Yay! :)

[glamsith.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah,

Hamlet/Horatio

Romeo/Mercutio (Romeo/Mercutio/Benvolio; Romeo/Tybalt; Mercutio/Tybalt)

My first reading of Henry IV pt2, I though I'd gone insane b/c the slash is so heavy between Falstaff and Hal. "Pulling capon," eh?

Shakespeare is just the Slash-God of the Mahogany/Glass Bookshelf!

*scuttles off to the above link*

[merripestin.livejournal.com]

Saw this through metaquotes. I love Hamlet/Horatio. Here's a link to another one - Wittenberg (http://www.geocities.com/pqlaertes/story/Wittenberg.html)

[are-there-stars.livejournal.com]

Eeeehehehehehehehehe. <3

[tiggrrl.livejournal.com]

This past weekend I saw this great production of Hamlet where he was a punk and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were his androgynous bisexual goth college friends (one male, one female) and there was a lot of very sexy flirting/kissing/touching/etc.