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buddiesmutslut · 3 months

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LISTEN. If we get a bisexual!Buck arc, I will ACTUALLY LITERALLY CRY, I’m already emotional just thinking about it, it will literally bring me so much joy

BUT

I don’t want it at the expense of an Eddie coming out arc…

Bc listen, I read a post talking abt how the writers probably won’t give both of them a really flushed out Queer Realization Arc bc it would be redundant, which like, okay sure, yes, I can see why you wouldn’t want to have two main, male characters going through the exact same thing, so sure, whatever, BUT -

I feel like, out of Buddie, Eddie is going to be the one that really struggles with coming to terms with his sexuality.

Eddie, who had to be The Man Of The House at 10 years old. Eddie, who grew up in the Deep South. Eddie, whose family is Catholic. Eddie, who already had a strained relationship with his judgmental parents. Eddie, who had a WIFE. Eddie, who says that what he had with Shannon was magic & compares every relationship he had to her. Eddie, who was in the military, which is infamous for DADT. Eddie, whose aunt constantly pushes him at random women because he needs to not be alone. Eddie, who canonically suffers from comp-het, saying that dating women feels like putting on a performance, not that he understands why. Eddie, who dated Ana & was planning on staying with her, even though he was unhappy, for his son.

I think Buck would be way chiller with realizing he’s queer - if he doesn’t already know, which is my fav head-cannon - & I feel like he wouldn’t struggle as much bc it’s Eddie, & Eddie is his best friend, and gender wouldn’t play as big a part for him as I think it would for Eddie.

I would love for them both to have an arc where they worked through their expectations when it comes to relationships & realize that they’re queer, but idk man, I feel like Eddie is going to be the one to really struggle & he deserves to really have that flushed out.

Idk, I’ve been thinking about this ever since I saw that post & nobody I know watches 9-1-1 😭

#buddie #911 abc #evan buckley #eddie diaz #911 #Queer Buddie Arcs #I want them both to have nice things is that really so unreasonable?#literally all of their other arcs take place at the same time #let them realize they’re queer & in love with each other at the same time too #honestly this only applies if Buddie goes canon which I’m not even convinced is going to happen #i have so many feelings #Buck would just be like “I’m in love with my best friend? fucking dope #bc my darling boy just wants to be loved & chosen & Eddie has already done those things #either way I wish they would stop putting them with random ass women who have been on the show for less than 10 minutes #I don’t need them to go canon in s7 but if we don’t even get a HINT of it this season I’ll probably quit watching #unless s7 is REALLY good bc they put some WEIRD shit in recently that I dfw #I have no idea how Tumblr is supposed to work am I doing this right? idk pls advise

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talesfromthebandgeekmafia · 5 months

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I gotta say I do absolutely adore that Fig Faeth who’s entire relationship with romance up to that point is tied to deception finds her match with a person whose defining trait is her honesty

#like Fig has never kissed anyone as herself before Ayda she’s always trying to at least convince her friends she’s hiding her emotions #her life is completely upturned by her parents’ romantic relationship imploding because of a deception by her mom #and the loving partner she finds is someone who will always be candid with her #I’m really going insane over figayda tonight they’re just so perfect for eachother #I need Ayda to come back in Junior Year like I know in my heart it’s gonna happen but I need it to happen sooner #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #fhsy #figayda #ayda aguefort #spilling the Tea

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twinstxrs · 5 months

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in light of recent canon academic conversations, riz adaine gorgug study sessions have never been more real to me. gorgug helps riz + adaine get out of their own heads when they’re overworking themselves, riz + adaine help gorgug with alternative studying methods because he learns best through visuals + experience. fabian’s there occasionally when he has a particularly difficult assignment/test but he makes them all swear never to speak of it in order to protect his “image.” kristen has shown up exactly twice: once for advice on a group project that was two months overdue & once to just lay on the floor and relax for an hour before leaving. fig didn’t know the study sessions were happening until sophomore year & now keeps getting monthly bans because every time she shows up she ends up accidentally distracting riz + adaine. also, sometimes after/in the middle of really long study sessions riz adaine & gorgug go to basrar’s together to unwind but fabian kristen & fig Are Not Invited (they do still text to ask if anyone wants something brought back from basrar’s. they’re not heartless, after all).

#anyways that’s the post. study trio u r real in my heart #fantasy high #dimension 20 #fhjy #gorgug thistlespring #adaine abernant #riz gukgak #fabian seacaster #kristen applebees #fig faeth #the bad kids #riz adaine gorgug trio who actually care about academics u r so dear to me. only bad kids who regularly do homework #adaine & riz both ‘ditch’ but adaine asks for her coursework beforehand + riz is usually getting rogue extra credit for sneaking out #gorgug has never ditched school in his life except for Urgent World Saving. he was doing his hw on the sig figs tour bus <3 #i’m convinced fabian also cares to a degree but not enough to genuinely try hard. except out of spite. hence the study session visits #fabian both regularly cheats on homework & thinks getting a hard assignment & not doing well is ‘losing’#kristen has probs had a gradual academic falloff through high school due to just the amount of stuff that happened in her life.#like who has the mental energy to care about school when Literally Everything Else was going on… me too kristen me too #i think middle school fig didn’t care about school but still showed up + tried but immediately stopped giving a shit once her horns came in #& so here we are… anyways bad kids i love you

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sensitiveheartless · 2 years

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#kind of love the idea of Chuuya using his ability to maintain balance during every day activities #so he gets marginally clumsier when dazai is attached to him #also canon has convinced me that their first instinct is to protect each other so #dazai catches him every time this happens #I could go on a whole rant about that lol #anyway this was supposed to be one drawing of them walking around together in the cold and then it turned into this lol #the domestic misadventures of soukoku #I’m just gonna use that tag for all my ‘they’re already in an established relationship’ comics #my art #bsd #soukoku #bungou stray dogs #bsd chuuya #bsd dazai

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daylighteclipsed · 4 months

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Blaming KH2 Sora’s anger and aggression all on Roxas really downplays how ready to throw hands Sora is in KH1 and CoM.

#also ignores rage form in kh3 obviously #but I’m talking about sora pre-roxas #i see this take so much and I’m like convinced ppl don’t pay attention to sora in kh1 or com #or they just take what diz/ansem the wise says about sora needing more anger in his heart at face value #even though ATW never knows what tf he’s talking about #my man was wrong about everything in kh2 why would you believe him #sure roxas unsettled in sora’s heart probably played a part #but it’s not all on him be so serious now #anyway. ppl keep reblogging that post from me even though I’m not the op #keep seeing ‘sora wants to kill so bad’ too #and like #i don’t know how to break this to you but sora has killed already #that’s a pretty significant thing that happens in every game #like i understand where you’re coming from but sora very much has killed people

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buddiebitch · 12 days

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BuckTommy shippers stop calling everything you disagree with homophobia challenge

level: impossible (apparently)

#like holy fuck the joke made a lot of people uncomfortable because it was in poor taste #not because everyone’s secretly homophobic #seriously get over yourself for a moment #we can have different opinions #buddie #911 #any opinion against BT and they’re convinced you’re just a homophobic buddie shipper #like actually regardless of what i ship that shit makes me uncomfortable #he’s rude and insensitive and that has nothing to do with buddie #tommy made himself unlikable on his own #911 on abc #anti bucktommy #like no actually i’m not a homophobic kinkshamer maybe if you could read for two more seconds youd see that #like everyone’s giving a multitude of reasons for not liking him or that joke #and the BT stan’s are just ‘wow buddies can’t stand queer rep unless it’s what they want’#or maybe my dislike has nothing to do with them being gay because i happen to have more than two brain cells to rub together #and if you could read i think that would be obvious

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xbomboi · 2 months

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i’ve got a question to ask out of curiosity about the eah community’s general consensus

since the books and the show have different continuities and also within the world of the supplementary Ever After High media, the books themselves differ in continuity depending on series/author, i have a feeling this answer could vary depending on one’s bias…

i’m not adding an “other” option because you’re crazy if you think they met in infancy/as toddlers or if you genuinely believe the beginning of canon in the show (start of legacy year) is legitimately when they first meet.

#my answer is complicated #on one hand i don’t think they only meet for the very first time at the start of high school #but at the same time #i’m not convinced they had spoken to each other outside of exchanging a few words every so often before then.#if you have to ask me though i’d dodge the question #and instead tell you how i’d say they first learned of each other’s existences at different times in life #apple knew raven existed before raven knew apple existed #because while snow white is very much about engraving their story and destiny into apple #the evil queen is more concerned with raven being evil in general.#so i’d assume she’d be less concerned with telling her daughter about how the queen of ever after has a daughter she’s expected to poison #and more concerned with telling her she should be the catalyst to anarchy.#i said too much but basically i think apple knew raven existed by the age of like 3 or 4 #as opposed to raven who probably only learned about apple by 5 or 6.#their first face-to-face encounter most likely happened in spellementary school #but what do i know?#eah #ever after high #raven queen #apple white #raven and apple #poll #ramble

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karlyboyyy · 1 year

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Okay but can you imagine if something awful does end up happening to Kazuki after the organization learns more about him and Rei’s situation with Miri? Like maybe he gets shot and is critically wounded, or maybe he’s tortured to the point of unconsciousness.

Can you imagine Rei, after eliminating everyone standing in his way, finally stumbling upon Kazuki? Kazuki, who is nearly lifeless. And Rei loses his last bit of composure. He runs to Kazuki and falls to his knees. He scrambles to check for any sign of life, the entire time mumbling “No no no please no,” unable to forget the photo of his mentor’s wife, desperately praying that Kazuki hasn’t succumbed to the same fate. And he’s unable to control the tears that flood his eyes when he finally hears the faint breath that escapes Kazuki’s lips.

Can you imagine Kazuki waking up days later in a hospital room, only to realize that Rei is fast asleep at his bedside, slumped over and holding his hand? Kazuki can’t help but smile because it reminds him of the day he found Rei sleeping in the same position next to a sick Miri. He reaches out his free hand to ruffle Rei’s hair, and leans down to whisper, “Rei? Reiii~?” Rei shifts in his seat and slowly opens his eyes, but quickly sits up once he sees Kazuki. “You’re awake!” Kazuki notices that Rei’s eyes are bloodshot; he clearly hasn’t gotten much sleep in the however many days it’s been. But surprisingly he appears to have showered and is wearing clean clothes. Kazuki figured Kyu-chan has probably been looking out for him and Miri, thank goodness. “Where’s Miri?” “With Kyu.” Bingo. I’ll have to make him a meal as a thank you.

A silence lingers in the air for quite some time, but is broken by the sound of Rei’s hitched breathing. “I thought… I thought I lost you.” Kazuki stares at Rei, who has his head hung low. He suddenly feels Rei’s grip tighten on his hand. Rei looks up at Kazuki with tears in his eyes. But he’s smiling. “I’m so glad you’re okay.” The smile is the biggest one that Kazuki has ever seen on Rei’s face, and it makes him look almost child-like. Without hesitation, Kazuki reaches out to cup Rei’s cheek in his palm and wipes a stray tear away with his thumb. “Hey~ don’t cry! You’re right, I’m just fine! See? I’m right here. You’re not gonna lose me. I’m not going anywhere.” Rei nods against Kazuki’s hand, sniffling but still smiling.

Suddenly there’s a soft knock on the door, and Kyu peeks his head into the room. “Ah, good. You’re awake.” Almost as if on cue, Miri shoves her way past Kyu and into the room. “Kazuki papaaaa!” Miri runs toward the bed, but it’s too high for her to climb. “Ups! I want ups!” Kyu walks over to lift her up, cautioning her, “Careful now. Your papa’s fragile.” “Hey, who’re you callin’ fragile?!” Miri carefully scoots her way closer to Kazuki’s side. “Kazuki papa! Are you feeling all better now? Are you gonna come home with me and Rei papa? We miss you sooo much!” Miri looks at Kazuki with puppy dog eyes, and Kazuki chuckles. “Ah is that so? Well, I’ve gotta wait for the nice doctors to say it’s okay for me to leave. But once that happens, we’ll all go home together! And I’ll never leave you or Rei papa again, okay?” Kazuki turns his gaze towards Rei. “Because we’re a family, after all.”

God, can you imagine??

#this damn show has a death grip on my brain #look I’m not saying I’m psychic… but honestly? this could totally happen #I keep having all these cute ideas for situations I wanna see #honestly I think it’s cause there’s no source material #so it’s really easy to let my imagination run wild!#also I’m convinced that Rei is gonna become a crybaby once he finally learns to open himself up to Kazuki and Miri more #boy’s got a lot of pent up emotions ya know?.#kazurei #buddy daddies #suwa rei #rei suwa #kurusu kazuki #kazuki kurusu #kugi kyutaro #kyutaro kugi #buddy daddies rei #buddy daddies kazuki

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runraerun · 5 months

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Y’ALL THE OFFICIAL SUPERNATURAL INSTA JUST SPELT CAS’ NAME CORRECTLY

what is happening and how can we read it as a clue for the s16 announcement

#I need ideas people #has this happened before #also #which one of you is running the official cw_supernatural insta account???#and what do you know #I feel like I’m studying EVERYTHING so closely lately #trying to sniff out clues for the revival announcement #did we finally convince them that it’s Cas and not cAss?#castiel #supernatural #tell me #show yourself fan who’s behind this account #you know damn well they’re on Tumblr #spn #I have a lot of thoughts

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thewingedwolf · 11 months

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luther: the golden child

diego: the mastermind

allison: the peace keeper

klaus: the clown / mascot

five: the rebel / truth teller

ben: the lost child

viktor: the scapegoat

is this something i think this is something

#the umbrella academy #rani makes text posts no one will read #hargreeves siblings #ben being the lost child is kind of forced bc he’s dead but i find it interesting even then #bc ben was unique in the family for already hating being a superhero and his powers due to the horror of them. and however it is he died #it had to be horrific bc viktor doesn’t write about it in his book bc five doesn’t know what happened. and before he died ben’s unique self #awareness seems to have meant they all loved him in a normal way only for his death to poison those bonds completely #so through no decision of his own this very sullen and cranky child has to become a self sacrificing wallflower bc the only way he gets to #even exist is if he takes care of klaus and tries to sober him up. his big moment is sacrificing himself for his siblings! they can’t ever #escape the abuse that reginald heaped onto them!! even in death they’re playing roles reginald forced them into #and sparrow ben is clearly so used to being the manipulator so he’s thrown when his family dies and sloane refuses to be manipulated anymore #and he winds up kind of lost child esque accidentally *anyway* - ignored and repressing his feelings and unable to connect emotionally #also before anyone says diego is too stupid to be the mastermind google ‘the mastermind dysfunctional family role’ it doesn’t require you to #not be a himbo only to be willing to be cruel & as they all say in s1 diego never knows when to stop #pogo is an adult enabler. grace has a weird function bc the umbrella kids love her and diego is convinced she killed reginald bc of abuse #five seems similarly attached to her (makes sense given delores) but the others see her more as an enabler which is INTERESTING #i’m gonna stop rambling now

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akkivee · 10 months

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there’s usually a q&a section in the hypster magazine where the cast are asked a question and the recent volume had them answer what do they do to relieve stress and tbh bat’s has been on the mind lately lol:

📿: he responded by saying that’s a stupid question since he couldn’t call himself a monk if allowed stress to build up. but if there’s a situation that he has no control over, he goes to surround himself in nature

🌙: he likes weeding the family garden!!! it helps him clear his mind and forget about the things that were bothering him and it makes his family happy to see the garden looking pretty too!!

⚖️: he finds a place where there’s nobody around to scream with all his might. it’s a great feeling since you don’t often get the chance to let out as loud as possible

#this is vee speaking #i’m glad kuukou finds solace from inevitabilities with his hobby #but it kinda makes his dislike for the ocean stand out even more ngl lol #and that scene in the six colours track where he spawns in the middle of jyushi and hitoya’s conversation #he happened to be on a morning walk lol but what if he was walking off something like jyushi was and convinced hitoya to do lol #idk if jyushi has a green thumb but this isn’t the first time jyushi’s weeding hobby has come up and i still think it’s cute he has it lol #that old theory that doppo and jyushi are related has inadvertently been getting a lot of food lately lol #jyushi also likes taking care of plants and he and doppo have the same sense of humour lmao brothers from other mothers lol #the part of me that always clowns hitoya lol #is imagining hitoya in place of troy bolton from that one hsm number where he’s yelling alone in his high school LOL #like he does his little step twirl move and falls to his knees screaming lmao #the other part of me wants to baby him is in shambles lol but happy he doesn’t keep it bottled up 🥲#he and doppo would have a blast together i think lmao

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fcb-mv33 · 1 year

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Fully convinced myself that Max has fallen asleep at least once in the car and someone in the team has the unfortunate job of waking him up🥺😭

#look I’m convinced this has happened #and he’s grumpy once awoken #ALSO HIS LITTLE FEET DANGLING #LIKE LOOK AT MY LIL BABY BOY #rambles #max verstappen

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theghoulboysblog · 2 months

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got put on anxiety medication for my anxiety disorder and started actually taking it and dang wouldn’t you believe it ??? i’m feeling better 😭

#crazy what happens when i actually take my meds 😭#i’ve been noticing less intrusive thoughts too!#my brain has stopped trying to convince me i’m secretly a terrible person 😭#also suddenly i don’t feel like everyone hates me and is thinking the worst about me 🤔#crazy what medication will do! 😭🙏

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withasideofshakespeare · 3 months

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Lennox’s Ambiguous Loyalties

I CAN’T GET THIS OUT OF MY HEAD so here’s a post about it! (Special thanks to the Hamlet Discord Server folks for sticking with me on this one!)

WHAT THE HELL IS LENNOX’S DEAL IN MACBETH?!

I remember vividly that the first time I read this play, one of our study questions was “what do Ross and Lennox respectively represent as characters?” and that it was the only question I couldn’t quite answer.

Ross seems fairly easy to understand. He’s sort of a Horatio-figure, a “narrator” in a play that isn’t his (to a lesser extent than Horatio, of course. No one beats Horatio in that regard.) He witnesses most of the play’s major events and comments on them (and it makes him fascinating as well as really sad). His loyalties seem to lie clearly on the side of goodness and justice. He’s relatively quick to turn on Macbeth once he realizes that he is guilty and seems to spearhead the rebel cause.

Lennox is an enigma in comparison! It’s entirely unclear where his loyalties lie and what his motives are. Most people (including my English teacher who wrote that study question) seem to view him as a foil to Ross—someone who stays loyal to Macbeth rather than rebelling, but I think it’s much more complex than that.

The only way I can think to explain this is to go through his appearances in order and try to glean what exactly his deal is and where his loyalties lie throughout the play.

1. Act 1 Scene 2

Lennox appears to announce Ross’ arrival. He notes the Ross looks in haste (which he probably does. When is he not in haste to deliver news to someone?)

This is his only line in the scene and it doesn’t tell us much about him. All we get from this is that he seems interested in whatever it is Ross has to say.

(2. Act 1 Scene 4)

Lennox doesn’t even speak in this scene, but his presence means that he overhears Malcolm’s haunting description of the execution of Cawdor (BUT GIVEN HIS LATER ACTIONS, IT MUST NOT STICK WITH HIM? He becomes a traitor in MULTIPLE DIRECTIONS!)

(3. Act 1 Scene 6)

Again, he says nothing but is among the party arriving at Inverness with Duncan.

4. Act 2 Scene 3

This is the first of Lennox’s significant appearances. He’s with Macduff when they’re harassed by the Porter but says nothing to him. His first line in this scene is in greeting to Macbeth. He proceeds to give a very Ross-like little speech regarding the strange occurrences of the night. I don’t read this as him being actively suspicious of Macbeth—I think it’s too early for suspicions. At this point, Macduff hasn’t even returned to report the murder. It seems Lennox is reporting on the facts of the night, maybe slightly shaken by what he saw (and presumably sleep-deprived like everybody in this scene). He tells us that he is young (“my young remembrance”), seems horrified when Macduff reports on the murder of Duncan, and is quick to accuse the guardsmen who Macbeth framed. He notes that they “stared and were distracted,” but seems to assume that their behavior was a result of their guilty consciences and not an altered state that would’ve left them unable to commit the crime.

What I take from this is that at this point, Lennox is fairly neutral. He’s quicker to blame the guards than most of the other Thanes (especially Macduff, of course), but I wouldn’t chalk that up to an active loyalty to Macbeth just yet. The fact that he doesn’t speak when Macbeth says he killed the guards in a fury is interesting, but I assume that’s because Macduff is easily doing ALL of the talking at that point (and perhaps because Lennox doesn’t want to publicly quarrel with the person whose house he’s staying in at the moment?)

(5. Act 3 Scene 1)

Lennox is present along with the other Thanes as Macbeth speaks to Banquo and begins his anti-Malcolm & Donalbain propaganda campaign (“bloody cousins”). Lennox seems to notice this language in particular because he will echo it later.

6. Act 3 Scene 4

Lennox attends the disaster banquet and is utterly confused by Macbeth’s behavior along with everyone else. He seems unsettled but unlike Ross, he seems to figure out when it’s time to stop asking questions and simply wishes Macbeth better health in the future.

I’ve always viewed this scene as a turning point for Ross in which he realizes that Macbeth is either personally behind the murder of Duncan or played some hand in it and follows his conscience by shifting his loyalties. Lennox seems to go a different direction. I’m not sure how, having attended the banquet, he could possibly be unaware of Macbeth’s suspiciousness or why he’d choose to overlook it in the long run. More on this later.

7. Act 3 Scene 6

THIS IS THE SCENE THAT DRIVES ME NUTS. I do not understand what is going on here or why (or if these lines are even supposed to be Lennox’s! For our purposes, I’m going to assume they are.)

Lennox enters mid-way through a conversation with an unnamed lord. He seems to be choosing his words carefully, saying far more between his lines than on them. He uses Macbeth’s language of propaganda to an exaggerated extent, accusing Fleance of murdering Banquo and Malcolm and Donalbain of killing Duncan.

Initially, he plausibly believes what he’s saying and has given in to the propaganda but it quickly becomes apparent that this is not the case. He gives a quick and ambiguous line about Fleance, Malc, and Don that seems to imply he’s glad Macbeth doesn’t have them in his grasps:

And I do think

That had he Duncan's sons under his key

(As, an 't please heaven, he shall not) they should find

What 'twere to kill a father. So should Fleance.

But peace.

Perhaps this means “he doesn’t have them because that’s not God’s plan,” but I read it as something more like “and, pray God, he never will have them.” If this is the case, everything he’s said previously is a sarcastic exaggeration and not an actual reflection of his beliefs.

He goes on to question the lord about Macduff’s whereabouts specifically, seemingly out of concern for a friend(?). It is implied that Macbeth already knows this information (WHICH IS WEIRD! But I won’t get ahead of myself!)

Lennox leaves us with his hopes that Macduff will be smart and stay far from Scotland for his own safety and wishes that an angel deliver to Malcolm Macduff’s report before he even arrives to haste them to free Scotland from Macbeth’s grasp.

As of this scene, Lennox seems to be acting just like Ross (if not even more extremely against Macbeth). He calls Macbeth “a hand accursed” and remarks that Scotland is suffering. It seems like he’s on the rebels’ side! But THEN THE NEXT SCENE HAPPENS AND TURNS THIS ON ITS HEAD???

8. Act 4 Scene 1

After Macbeth meets with the witches again, Lennox appears, apparently not heeding his own advice to Macduff about staying far from the Scottish court. He’s confused by Macbeth’s inquiries about the witches (who he either didn’t see or pretends not to have seen? Normally, I’d lean towards the former but given his history, WHO THE HELL KNOWS?!)

And THEN! He straight-up tells Macbeth that Macduff has fled to England which SEEMS TO SURPRISE HIM despite the fact that we learned in the last scene that learning of Macduff’s flight put him into a rage! And to further confuse matters, Lennox lies about the circumstances of his discovery of this information saying “'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word / Macduff is fled to England.” Assuming he’s talking about the previous scene (and what else would he be talking about unless there is a scene missing?), this is blatantly untrue! One guy came by and Lennox had a weirdly manipulative discussion with him in order to get Macduff’s location out of him. There were not “two or three” people and the one guy who did come certainly didn’t seem to be there to tell Macbeth (who he personally called a tyrant) about the whereabouts of his enemies.

Either this is a major editorial error or Lennox is playing some very weird game of shifty loyalties. The former interpretation may well be true given this play’s oddities (it’s strangely short and has some obvious non-Shakespeare additions like the Hecate/witch song scene which was added (probably) by Middleton), but that’s not very fun, so let’s go with the latter.

I think the best way to call everything we’ve learned in these scenes canon AND not directly contradictory is to say that what Macbeth was initially angry about was Malcolm’s flight to England, not Macduff’s. There is really no way to reconcile the idea that Macbeth has sent for Macduff to return from England with the idea that he is just finding out about his flight in the next scene. The only way I can make sense of this is that these scenes have been reversed or otherwise edited (perhaps 3.6’s Lennox is meant to be Ross, perhaps there is text missing that changes the meaning… WHO KNOWS.) but if we’re going to call it canon, I guess the best thing we can do to make this series of events make any sense without completely changing every line spoken is to say that Macbeth knows that Malcolm has fled to England and is upset and that he knows that Macduff did not attend the banquet and therefore sent to him to return, to which Macduff sent back the 1060 equivalent of “fuck off” and ran off to England.

(PLEASE tell me if I’m missing something here. This is driving me UP THE WALL and it seems nobody else has questioned it??)

Anyway, with this messy attempt to make the given canon make any sense, the implication is then that Lennox manipulated Unnamed Lord into giving him the information he wanted about Macduff’s whereabouts by pretending to be on the side of the rebels. He then double-crosses them by informing Macbeth and doesn’t argue in the slightest when Macbeth declares (in what is shockingly not an aside, at least in my text) that he’s going to murder Macduff’s entire family. Maybe he’s afraid to speak up, maybe this is where he changes his mind about Macbeth… but if that’s the case, why would hearing Macbeth’s propaganda—which he seems to know is wrong per the last scene—not be enough for him? Why can he recognize that Macbeth is a tyrant but only while trying to squeeze information out of someone? What does he want? I think the only reasonable explanation (beyond “this text is corrupt”) is that Lennox wants power and sides with whoever seems to be winning at the moment—and at this point, that’s Macbeth.

9. Act 5 Scene 2

To make everything a little extra confusing, the next time Lennox appears, he has suddenly joined the rebel army and seems to have a position of rank among them (he has a “file / Of all the gentry” in Malcolm’s army SOMEHOW—something that no one else seems to have).

WHY? WHAT IS HAPPENING? I AM LOSING MY MIND!

The only way I can think to explain this is that EITHER hearing Macbeth declare his plans to murder a woman and her children or realizing that Malcolm has become the most likely victor in the battle caused him to switch sides. That, or he was pretending to be on Macbeth’s side and therefore double-crossing Macbeth by pretending to double-cross the rebels (but if that was the case, why give him accurate intelligence?!)

With how incredibly wishy-washy Lennox’s loyalties (and, honestly, morals) have been up to this point, I think I interpret his joining of the rebel cause as a risk/gains assessment in which he decided he’s more likely to come out on top if he sides with Malcolm. Maybe my view is overly cynical, but I think Lennox is a character who is motivated by ambition just like Macbeth and will side with whoever seems to have power in the moment. He knows how to use rhetoric to his advantage and absolutely does so, regardless of morality.

10. (Later scenes in Act 5)

Depending on the editor, sometimes Lennox silently appears with the other Thanes in various scenes in act 5, but Folger does not include him, so I won’t cover this. It isn’t very important other than to confirm he survives the battle, which seems reasonably safe to assume either way.

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Conclusions:

Overall, I’m not sure I answered any of my questions. I’m curious to see what others think about the 3.6/4.1 inconsistencies—is it an editorial error? Have I completely missed something obvious that makes it consistent somehow?

If I had to say what I think Lennox’s deal is at this point, I’d say he’s an ambitious young Thane who takes the side of the powerful for his own advancement but is shaken by Macbeth’s brutality which may turn him prematurely to the side of the rebels before their victory is quite secured.

If we are meant to take this scene ordering and allocation of lines as canon, I don’t think Lennox is faking his loyalty to Macbeth—why would he give up seemingly valuable information and put Macduff’s entire household in danger if that were the case? I think he is loyal, probably for his own sake (he seems to know that Macbeth is dangerous and disregards it), but doesn’t realize just how far Macbeth is willing to go for power. I imagine his role in the murders of Macduff’s family upsets him deeply and perhaps causes him to turn his back on Macbeth and join the rebels by act 5. He’s young, naive, and ambitious, clever with his use of rhetoric (see: 3.6 manipulation tactics), but inexperienced, leading him to underestimate Macbeth and try to justify his own loyalty by pretending he doesn’t suspect that Macbeth played a hand in Duncan and Banquo’s murders.

Aaaaand I wrote a whole fanfiction about this if you’d like a narrative version rather than this analytic one! Here’s a link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54264247

#shakespeare #macbeth #Lennox (Macbeth)#FUCK what is it with this play and causing me to stay up until 3:00 AM writing about it?!#if somebody has an essay on what the hell is happening between 3.6 and 4.1 #do send it my way #I can’t imagine I’m the first person to notice how weird those scenes are #I’ll have to check jstor in the morning…#was this an excuse to advertise my fanfiction?#…maybe #nothing like writing an essay at 3:00 AM only to drop your ao3 at the end #can you tell I just reread this play?#god Macbeth is so good #not the guy #but that’s kinda the whole point #I hope I’ve convinced you to join team Lennox is fucked up

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