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"Good Luck, Babe!" – Chappell Roan (2024) | Brokeback Mountain – dir. Ang Lee (2005)

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Brokeback Mountain Discord Book Club

@nopeferatu and I are reading the 26-page short story on April 14th at 8:00 PM EDT. Come discuss isolation, longing, violence, and age!

We recommend seeing the film, but the discussion will be about the short story. DM me or Nickie if you're having trouble finding a copy. Make sure to read the New Yorker version that has a prologue, not the Close Range version.

We will meet on this Discord server. No pressure to use a camera.

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The long-awaited sequel

Thanks @mapleburger for reminding me that i needed to redraw this

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I just cut my hand and in a snap! Something out of Edgar Allen Poe has happened 😰

happy halloween!! 🎃

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Dude I know ur neck deep in brokeback these days but I just wanted to say that anytime I get anxious abt drawing/posting/showing a hetalia chara w visible top surgery scars or otherwise visibly trans a little voice in my brain goes "nickie would do it :)" and then I go yeah ur right and draw them extra trans

If you're ever questioning whether or not you should make your characters look visibly trans, just ask yourself, "what would nickie do?" And then make them look as transgender as possible.

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What's this! A wild transgender englishman appears!!

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Have you ever started a decompressing doodle to try and ease your way back into drawing consistently again and you end up looking at it for so long and getting so frustrated that you've avoided drawing altogether? That's what this was for me

Anyways Jake Gyllenhaal has resting bedroom eyes and I just needed to express that somehow

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A Better Time to Meet — Adrianne Lenker and Buck Meek | Brokeback Mountain — Ang Lee

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I guess I've always been something of a weird 80's media fanatic, thanks in large part to both my mom and dad for sharing pieces of their own childhoods with me as a kid. Nothing is more evident of that fact than my introduction to Pee-wee's Playhouse when I was maybe six years old.

Although I was born 14 years too late to have ever enjoyed the show when it first came out, the nostalgia my dad had for it made it possible for me to grow up with Pee-wee as a staple of my own childhood. I will be forever grateful for all all the joyous memories I made sitting in front of the TV, laughing at those rented Netflix-disc episodes.

Hope you rest easy, Paul Reubens.

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"C'mere, darlin'. Stand with me for a spell." 

For the first time in a good, long while, Jack had not been acutely aware of the sharp pain that naturally came with his affection for Ennis del Mar. In tender moments like this it usually surged through his body until it forced him to seek some space from Ennis, enough to topple him over onto the ground gasping for air, his eyes burning with the sting of heavy unshed tears. Loving Ennis del Mar was a blessing and a curse, both punishment for and reprieve from the ugly nature of his deep-dwelling desires.

But not at that moment. At that moment, all Jack knew was Ennis' arms around his waist, Ennis' lips pressed to the back of his head, and their swaying in time to the soft crackling static on the radio station. 

WIP

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They're in lub

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So little darlin', I beg

Don't you worry your head

Just turn the light real low

Hold me and kiss me

Real slow

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sooooo....

who do y'all think is the dark-haired movie star that jack has a picture of pinned up in his childhood bedroom? 👀

PERSONALLY, I think it's either James Dean or Ricky Nelson. I think the more realistic of the two options is Ricky Nelson, though. I'd love for it to have been James Dean just because a lot of people compare Heath as Ennis to James Dean as Jett Rink in Giant. I'm not so sure if that's based on the performance they give, or if it's based purely on their aesthetics alone, but like. Heath really did have that James Dean cool down as Ennis (if only a slighttt bit more awkward). And I mean...c'mon, look at this picture and tell me that Jack wouldn't, at least for a moment, see Ennis standing outside of Aguirre's office and think immediately of his boyhood crush

No wonder Jack was pulling at any excuse to eye him up lol!!

The only reason I don't think it could realistically be James is bc he was a dirty blond, just like Heath was c': and the short story specifically says it was a dark-haired movie star!

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man...after reading danny's post i still can't stop thinking about his observation that ennis must feel disappointed in his (in)ability to fit into the role of being the head of his family bc like...he really, truly isn't.

he can't take care of his family right because he was built for work in a dying industry with little revenue to spare, and what work he can find he just ups and quits because he needs to answer the siren call that is a postcard. he can't please his wife and they grow so distant and bitter towards each other that she just divorces his ass and marries a local business owner, who then becomes the major provider for his own god damn children. he's just a weekend daddy.

can you imagine how pathetic he must've felt as a hand to mouth saddlebum sitting as a guest in the solidly lower middle class 70s home that his ex wife and her new husband own, watching that man cut the turkey for his own family like he's the one who runs the show because he actually is? it's gotta be just like. a straight punch to the gut for someone like ennis, whose pride and fears of emasculation are as great as a mountain.

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I had a vision and could not rest until i got it out into the world

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Heyyyyyyyy I finally finished that thing...haha

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Another day, another question I'd like to throw out to the fellow Brokeback Mountain tag lurkers. This time, I wanna preface my question with a little background info:

When I first saw Brokeback Mountain I maintained the belief that, when Jack's father tells Ennis about how Jack's plans to bring a rancher up with him didn't "come to pass", it was because the rancher (who we can presume is Randall) backed out, and it was just one more disappointment in a string of failures that was Jack's life before he died. The final knife twist to the gut.

After reading a ton of fics and listening to a ton of podcast reviews abt the movie, though, I've come across a lot of different perspectives about the whole Randall thing. A popular idea amongst the Jack-was-murdered crowd is that Jack and Randall were somehow discovered and that is what led to Jack's death. Interestingly enough, there's actually an entire deleted scene of the film dedicated to this perspective—we don't have any footage of it, but as far as I could tell, the gist was that Jack and Randall were either coming back from or on their way to having one of their own "camping trips", when the camera focuses on a good ol' boy mechanic watching them very closely, foreshadowing the scene of Jack being beaten bloody that happens during Ennis' call with Lureen. This scene was deleted most likely because the filmmakers thought it was leading the audiences too much to a firm conclusion of Jack's death, and they wanted to maintain the tragedy of it's ambiguity from the short story.

Anyways, all this aside, I'm just kind of curious to know what others think went down with the whole Randall/Jack thing. What, exactly, did John Twist mean when he told Ennis that it didn't come to pass—was it actually a sure thing that they were going to move on up there, or was Jack putting his time and effort into another futile effort?

In relation to that, I'm also curious to know what y'all think about how the Ennis/Jack dynamic would have continued in the event that Jack didn't die? Like, if you think Randall and Jack were actually going to make a go of it, do you think that Jack would still sneak off to get his hits of Ennis twice a year while living at his parent's ranch with Randall? If he lived and still didn't get Randall, would Jack have moved on? After their last fight, would Ennis have heard from Jack ever again?