Title: Pulling the Strings
Fandom: Hamlet
Characters: Guildenstern, the Player
Summary: Predestination or manipulation, it hardly matters, except when it does.
Word Count: 200

The Player pulls the strings, but even he has been written to do so. Sometimes Guildenstern finds it a comfort to think that he’s not writing them into a corner so much as ( Read more... )

Title: Script Doctoring
Fandom: Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Verse: The Good Place
Characters: The Player, Alfred
Summary: The Player can of course fill any role admirably, but he’s never quite gotten used to that of a director.
Word Count: 572

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 They should, thinks Guildenstern, be the best equipped to understand what’s going on at this school in all its layers of complexity. Didn’t the Player say they only exist at all as vehicles to offer commentary on the main plot? And yet, he’s never been given a script - not for the wild workings of the wider world, and not for his own scenes, even ( Read more... )

“Ah - um - Alfred?” Rosencrantz’s arm jerks up and down as if he’s jostling for a word in edgewise in the middle of a crowd, even though he’s alone.
Alfred chimes into the space with the music made by two coins together, wearing only the gauziest suggestion of a dress: “How can I help?”
“Yes - ah - now when the Player said ‘private viewing’ at the ( Read more... )