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For my little queer fellows

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Youth romance that depicts the world of homo

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this will probably only be funny to like. 5 other people but my dash did this and I LOST IT.

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English actor James Wilby in his leading role as Maurice Hall is photographed with director James Ivory, producer Ismael Merchant and actor Hugh Grant on location filming ‘Maurice’, November 1986.

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOAT HOUSE KISS!!!! the most important thing to happen in history

also maurice’s epic ‘fuck you’ speech to clive

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my uncle killed my father and married with my mother and now i must *remembers that suicide jokes do nothing for my mental health and wellbeing* put on a play

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sometimes when I have ppl over in my room hanging out I feel like I enter a sort of "court jester" state of mind

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Guys, Netflix is going to make a modern day adaptation of Dorian Gray and they're making Basil and Dorian brothers

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bro, does this party have perfectly ripe summer heirloom tomatoes or do we need to pregame?

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odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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thinking about this excerpt from giovanni's room as i lay in bed staring at the ceiling endlessly

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cesare is my fav goth boy <3

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open window save me. save me open window

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Maurice (1987) - directed by James Ivory

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obsessed with mass market paperbacks. their pleasing rectangular proportions. how they fit badly in a hoodie pocket so you can drag them around everywhere with you like a temporary little buddy. the way they fit in your hand because they're MADE for human hands and not as bookshelf decoration. the way the pages feel when you riffle them gently with your thumb. How pristine and crisp they look when you get them and how creased and folded they look when you're done, even if you try to be nice to them. how that wear is okay, how that's correct actually, because they're made with the philosophy that books aren't meant to be PRETTY, they're meant to be read. that little ripple new ones get on the left side from where you hold them when you're reading, the way the ripple only goes as far as you've read, because u change stories by reading as they are changing you. how you can find thousands of these creased and folded and loved little dudes in every thrift store and used book shop and neighborhood library and you can instantly see the ones that someone carried around in a backpack for weeks or read to pieces or gave up on halfway through because they wear being read like fresh snow wears footprints. I love these poorly made, subpar little rectangles so much. truly the people's books.

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hitting dorian gray with a car and he stands up completely fine meanwhile in his attic a painting flies off the wall and lands in a splintered heap

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