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
magnus bane appreciation meme ↳ a moment: magnus crashing the wedding, putting his heart on the line by walking into a room full of people that hate him due to their own prejudice towards him and hoping alec will take a chance on him, yet fully aware he will probably be crushed. magnus fighting for who he cares about, despite his fears and doubts, but still respecting alec by giving him a choice without pushing or forcing him. magnus making a choice for himself, that he doesn’t want to close himself off from emotions again, but embrace them, even if he ends up heartbroken for it.
Imagine Malec doing it so often on that one spot on a wall that some discoloration (and tiny cracks. they get rough sometimes, you can fight me on that) start appearing.
Magnus is the one who notices it first and laughs, but otherwise stays quiet. When Alec notices he might blush for a second before smirking.
and even though magnus could fix that spot with a flick of his fingers he leaves it. and he may try just a bit harder the next time to see how much more wrecked he can make the *ahem* wall
Eventually Jace notices it too but it doesn’t click at first, he can’t understand what he’s seeing… And when it dawns on him.. well.. He’s not sure what to think but you can bet he tells Izzy and the next time she’s visiting Alec she can’t stop grinning after seeing it too.
of course it’s simon that sees it and blurts out, “whoa. do we need to get you two helmets or something?” (because the crack has kind of snaked into epic proportions at this point.) izzy doesn’t even try to stifle her laugh. jace looks horrified. alec walks away muttering to himself. and clary high fives magnus–who may just look like the proudest man on earth as he holds back a very obvious innuendo about alec’s battering ram
bucky who can’t quite seem to get over the fact he can pick up mjolnir even though it’s been a good three months since the first time he accidentally plucked it from the ground in avenger’s tower. the hammer itself always seems to be in the most random of places and bucky will walk over to it whenever the opportunity comes along and look around to make sure no one is watching before picking it up again as it expecting one day that he won’t be able to lift it again. except every time it comes off the ground without hesitation and he grins like an absolute idiot because it means more to him than it probably should just that mjolnir deems him worthy at all so that must mean there’s something good about him, right?
and of course tony eventually asks why thor leaves his hammer just sitting around the place and thor simply smiles and says, “because it helps where i cannot.”
