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I lied, put your clothes back on. We’re going to talk about how the upcoming Netflix adaptation of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” completely goes against the meaning of the book. Oscar Wilde poured his heart and soul into this book to show an accurate representation of internalized homophobia, queer relationships in a time where it was frowned upon greatly, indoctrination, and so many other things of that nature. The fact that the adaptation is going to portray Dorian and Basil as brothers is absolutely disgusting, seeing as they are completely erasing the queer relationship between them. Oscar Wilde would be rolling in his grave if he knew this.

Around 1977, Sirius showing up at Grimmauld at night to take his sensible little brother around the rowdy bits of London where the punk scene is developing and all his favourite people and pubs are, just trying to get this prim and proper little idiot to relax and at least try to act as though he likes these people

He's so wary of it that Sirius is practically parenting him, walking with a hand placed between his shoulders to keep him walking forward while reg looks around in fear

They absolutely meet some super chill lesbian with a massive Mohawk and millions of hand-made patches whom reg is terrified of until she decides to take him under her wing and off Sirius' hands for a couple of minutes to get to know him. To his surprise he has never felt so genuinely cared for in a conversation with a stranger before.

He ends up feeling so comfortable that on the tube journey back home, he's sitting in silence playing with the 'queer is punk' badge she gave him as he tries to process what just happened. Sirius is smugly sitting on the other side of the carriage watching the thoughts race through his mind and knowing he's planted a couple of seeds of doubt in his mind while also managing to do something together to bring them closer to being friends again

The fucking audacity is what scares me...

forever thinking about these

it HAS to be gay, come on

why else would she write this line???

I AM SOBBING 😭😭 THIS BOOK

In my mind palace/alternate history to the alternate history, Robin goes home with Ramy.

He travels with him all the way to India just to meet his family, to enjoy their hospitality, and to explore Ramy's home through his eyes. It is joy, because they never imagined that this luxury would be afforded them. Freedom. Solitude together.

Escape from Oxford doesn't exactly change their relationship, but it somehow magnifies it. For all that they know about each other, there are parts they can never quite see clearly, living in a city where Ramy is always performing, and Robin is always hiding.

Mischief, stubbornness, native tongues, old songs, memories, irreverence, childhood passions they laugh to remember, it all bubbles to the surface.

It is the first time Robin understands the word home in a very long time. The lightning and thunder between them rumbles. It transforms. It explodes into fireworks that Robin can hold in his hands, for just a moment.

In a quiet moment under a banyan tree, Robin scoots close to Ramy and says softly, without looking at him, "If I ever lost you, I don't think I could go on".

Ramy says gently, fondly, "There's no need to be morose, Birdie, we are young and free, which means that we are immortal," and he slings his arm around Robin's shoulders.

Robin wiggles closer, against his warmth, and insists that he means it. He can't say what he means, but inside he knows that he has lost so much, he truly thinks that his soul is too damaged, he wouldn't be able to weather it. Ramy is the embodiment of love, the very definition. He is home. He doesn't say it, though. He sits tongue tied. Ramy was always the brave one, not him.

Ramy looks at him quizzically for a moment. Then he promises with a gallant grin that even if he ever dies, he won't leave. He will haunt Robin in his dreams. They laugh, and somehow Robin is reassured. And then after a moment of peaceful silence, Ramy leans over and kisses him.

Brave Ramy.

Beautiful Ramy.

It is Robin's first kiss. Ramy's too. It doesn't matter that it is wobbly and awkward. It is soft and warm and it is love.

im laughing so hard because no matter what song you listen to 

spiderman dances to the beat

no matter what song ive been testing it and lauing my ass off for an hour

Frankenstein’s monster being called just “Frankenstein” is actually poetic justice on a meta scale. Oh, so you’re going to reject your son/creation for fear of God and his hideousness?? You won’t give him a name and only call him “Creature”?? Well everyone forever is going to only remember him by your family name.

How’s that feel Victor?

Frankenstein’s monster being called just “Frankenstein” is actually poetic justice on a meta scale. Oh, so you’re going to reject your son/creation for fear of God and his hideousness?? You won’t give him a name and only call him “Creature”?? Well everyone forever is going to only remember him by your family name.

How’s that feel Victor?

A (possibly insignificant) detail I love about Dead Poets Society is the fact that Neil plays Puck, who is eluded to be queer/gay and Shakespeare himself was known to write about homosexual relationships. Neil compares Todd exclusively to Walt Whitman, a man known for having relationships with men. They are both comparable to other queer people/characters so easily and I feel like this isn’t pointed out enough??

Neil Perry: I’m so laid back, I only care about 3 things in the world

Neil: My friends and family

Neil: Every person on this earth and their opinion of me

Neil: The crushing psychological weight of being alive

Neil: Oh, and Todd Anderson. I fucking love Todd!

Charlie “Nuwanda” Dalton: That’s more than three, captain

YA books: There are 2 boys, the protagonist girl HAS to date one, but how can she choose? They are so incredibly different in every way!

The boys:

Idk if this is just me, but does it seem like the Hunger Games movies left out most of the stuff about food in general?

Maybe I just noticed this because in my first read I was worried that all of them were cannibals, but like… in the movies it seems like they were never actually that hungry. Like, we know that Katniss and Gale have to hunt, and that Peeta gave Katniss the bread, but a lot of the details about just how hungry they were to get to those choices were just… gone. And when they’re in the Capitol on the Victory Tour, they mention the vomit-inducer but it was more of an offhand thing. What got me especially though is that in Mockingjay Pt. 2, their time with Tigris appears to be much shorter, but also… she doesn’t feed them! And from what I remember that was fairly significant in the books, especially considering the position they were in.

In the books, hunger was the driving force of the vast majority of decisions they made. Katniss literally spent a good chunk of her first games desperately searching for water—Haymitch rewarded their performances with food—Katniss described every single thing she eats and primarily characterizes new places based on their food (the Capitol and District 13 especially). TBOSAS supports this even further when you see how even people in the Capitol were starving in the aftermath of the war—that’s why sponsors were added to the game!

I just—the whole series is literally about starvation and what it means to be human, but the movies just focused on love and war.

Katniss never really knew just how much of a menace she was to Snow.

In a new fucked up way, Snow probably once again believed he "owned" Lucy Gray, because he was the only person left that truly remembered her.

But then Katniss sang Lucy Gray's song in her meadow, turned it into a hymn of the second rebellion, and unknowingly freed her from Snow's grasp.

Lucy Gray plays a part in Snow's downfall, The Hanging Tree becomes immortalized in history.

She no longer dies with him.

Between the new percy jackson tv show coming and the hunger games prequel no-one will stop me from going back to my 2012 self

Actually no I’m so not done talking about how rigged the quell was. Because I’ve seen people referring to it as “hunger games all stars.” That was 1000% intentional. Not only is it these weirdly coincidental duos that are reaped together (even from districts with tons of victors). For instance, a brother and sister duo, and two different known couples- it’s ALSO people who won their own games by extraordinary means. It IS the all stars, anyone who poses the biggest threat to the capitol. To eliminate all but one would be to eliminate any threat of the capitol’s fall. All of them arguably have the most reason for rebellion as well- it was a truly genius move that probably would’ve worked if it weren’t for Plutarch’s plan.

bringing my thread here in honor of the ballad of songbirds and snakes trailer today because the "lucy gray parallels katniss" people are out there and they are wrong, lucy gray baird is peeta mellark and sejanus plinth is katniss everdeen and i will die on this hunger games hill

who’s the songbird and who’s the snake?

The joke is that adult Snow is going to spend the rest of his life thinking that Lucy Gray was his femme fatale, but actually young Coriolanus was her femme fatale.

At the worst point in her life this pretty boy shows up with a rose & then cares for her as best his limited resources allow. She finds out he’s gone hungry too, that his family doesn’t have much to eat, but he’ll give her what food he has anyway. He risks his life for her, gives her his most cherished memento of his mother. Says and does all these sweet things, treats her like she’s precious. It all adds up and she comes to trust him–when she says trust is harder for her than falling in love!–despite her wariness & believes in him to the extent that she writes him a song with the line saying he’s “pure as the driven snow” (482) & then… 😬

When he slipped up and said he’d killed 3 people instead of the 2 justifiable ones she knew about, it must have been like she was suddenly in a gd Horror movie. Or the end of a Film Noir, when the femme fatale takes her pearl handled revolver out and points it right at the hero’s heart. Her sweet boy transforming into a beast right in front of her eyes.

Who was the songbird and who was the snake? Lucy Gray tells him “I want you to know I don’t really believe you’re here for grades or glory. You’re a rare bird, Coriolanus.” (127) And she liked his singing. “Was that you I heard singing? … I liked your voice.“ (143). It comforted her in an otherwise completely horrific experience. From his pov she was his pretty, sweet songbird who turned into a snake; from her pov, he was hers. I find her pov more convincing, since Coriolanus does the traditional femme fatale thing and "proves untrue,” whereas Lucy Gray was always true to her word.

I super dig the aesthetic, the tragedy, the fact that we get the femme fatale’s pov as he tries to justify himself and pretend Lucy Gray was the one who proved untrue. The poignancy of her falling for someone as they are in the process of becoming someone very different. Because, in the end, he wanted control and comfort more than love and truth. 

Currently thinking about how the only four people from district 12 to win the hungergames did so by "cheating".

Lucy Gray's scent being given to the snakes.

Haymitch ducking the ax after he ran to thr cliffside.

Katniss and Peeta's double suicide threat with the berries.

The thing is, none of it is cheating. It's survival. Lucy Gray wasn't even really responsible for her "cheat". Haymitch was on the verge of death and unarmed, using the only weapon the arena had to offer that would work in his favor. Katniss and Peeta were promised a win together, they won by the Capitol's rules, but the Capitol, being the Capitol, changed the rules.

EVERYONE go listen to ur url NOW

reblog if you'll come with me to revolt against the duffer brothers if byler isn't canon

so Finn said this..

“don’t worry it’ll pay off in the end” 👀 

“we’re gonna be like yes something went right for him” 👀👀

and..

also ..

Mike thought the painting was for a girl Will liked then Will brought it with him and gave it to him and for a few seconds he thought he was the one Will actually liked but then Will lied and said El commissioned it (which is why he told her all those things during the monologue scene) and in s5 he’s gonna find out Will loves him back 

so the painting reveal (and the gay Mike reveal) will happen later in the season.. probably in the 5th episode.. oh and Finn’s wearing blue and yellow socks (yes he knows about the “when blue meets yellow in the west” byler thing)

noah schnapp: *about mike and will standing next to each other in the final scene of s4ep9* ask the duffers they put us there

finn wolfhard: the duffers said mike’s obliviousness in the van scene will pay off later

and this is why these two weren’t allowed to do press together for season 4 lmaooo

God. Imagine being like "I wanna marry you" to your SO of 6 years and they say "I don't wanna marry you" and then the entire world is like "THEY'RE MARRIED" And you have to suffer day in and out with that rumor and you have to put an end to it even though it's probably what you really really want to happen.

Chapters: 4/12 Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson Characters: John Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Mike Stamford, Irene Adler (Sherlock Holmes), Sally Donovan, Molly Hooper, Greg Lestrade, Harry Watson Additional Tags: POV Alternating, First Meetings, Developing Friendships, Friends to Lovers, Falling In Love, Alternate Universe - Earlier Meeting, Angst and Feels, Fluff, Coming Out, Demisexual Sherlock Holmes, Gay John Watson, First Love, Suicidal Thoughts, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Homophobic Language, Unilock, Idiots in Love, Best Friends, Friendship/Love, Awkward Flirting Summary:

London, 1998.

In a time of hollowness and upheaval, two wayward young men wander into each other’s lives, forever altering the course of history.

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“You’re worried.”

“Am I?”

“Mm. Uncertain.”

“Aren’t you?”

Sherlock’s eyes flutter open, piercing and pure in the train’s low light. “No.” He says it with such conviction John’s breath sticks in his throat, rushing out of him a moment later on a shuddering sigh.

Review: This story is completely sucking me in. So beautifully and sparely written. Lovely reading! I look forward to seeing how they come together.