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need a man who's battling with God

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The best tragedies will have you thinking "I wish it could've gone any other way" and "this is the only way it could've ended" at the same time

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I’ve heard that posting winged critters in July is a thing? Did I get that right? Doesn’t matter, doing it anyway. Weirdly I’ve never worked out a personal pegasus design, I always just slap big wings on a horse.

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- No gods but us.

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some people, they call it a curse.

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welcome... to Nothing Park

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Maltravers is banned from the Ricardians because there are two conditions of membership he doesn’t meet: having sex with men, and loving Gabriel Ashleigh. Exhibits A - O:

“Ash is an idiotic young hound and I expect you will like him, if only because it’s almost impossible not to.”

“The children [Harry and Ash] get on,” Julius observed. “I thought they might.”

[Julius] should go back to London and find someone who wasn’t full of youth and passion and joy and didn’t have a future to secure. Absalom Lockwood, maybe. The poor fellow was hopelessly, humiliatingly in love with Ash; perhaps they could fuck the discontent from each other.

[Absalom] was a large, older man, a pleasant enough fellow when he wasn’t talking politics, with an embarrassing tendency to cast longing looks at Ash.

That was cheering. Ash might not be the brightest spark of the ton, but he had, Harry thought, the kindest heart, and was unquestionably the most comforting to spend time with…

Julius couldn’t imagine in what damned fool place Richard could have put his heart now. Some oaf who had eyes only for women? Please God he wasn’t smitten with Ash, whose absurd charm was sweeping through the older Ricardians like the influenza.

Mr. Norreys entered on command, along with a good-looking fellow in his twenties with bright gold hair and a cheerful look…The handsome young man glanced around the room…[Silas] wondered if the handsome Ash made a habit of seeming more stupid than he was…(okay granted everyone in this series spends a lot of time talking about how handsome everyone is but three times on one page is still a bit much.)

“My friends chose their own paths, heaven bless them. I wish I’d seen Ash’s performance: I understand it was remarkably Ashish.”

“I wouldn’t say abused.” Harry was scarlet. “Well, we were probably… He’s foul to Ash, you know that. He’s foul to Ash, and awful to Francis, and he tried to have Silas arrested–”

[Maltravers] despised his youngest brother Ash, of whom all the Ricardians were fond.

Harry leaned over and put a hand on Ash’s shoulder. “We’re with you. We all are. We won’t give you up.”

“God rot it. Oh, hell and the devil. We must at the least get the accursed letter back to remove the threat from Mason and Harry, but–my poor Ash. Is there nothing to be done?”

“Ash is perhaps the most charming and gentlemanly fellow of my acquaintance.”

“Ash, may I have your permission?” Richard asked gently. Ash nodded, staring at the floor.

“And succeed,” Julius said. “Be damned to him, Ash.” Harry went over to give Ash a hug.

Bonus Francis exhibit, because if I started pulling “Francis loves Ash” quotes we’d be here all day but this seems to sum it up:

An observer might have interpreted his look as contempt for childish pursuits, if unaware that thoughtless, good-hearted Ash was the joy of Francis’s solitary soul.

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Have been reading KJ Charles’ amazing “A Society of Gentlemen” series lately and couldn’t hold myself back from at least sketching the main characters

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| black candles burn, all minds aligned |

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The Ocean - Marike Koot , 2022.

Dutch, b. 1956 -

Acrylic on canvas , 80 x 80 cm

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I feel like some people need to relearn Genre Expectations... "Man, this tragedy sucks!!! Why didn't they just do XYZ, then everything could have ended happily!!" well, then it wouldn't be a tragedy, would it. "Man, this lighthearted teen romcom is terrible, it's so sappy and unrealistic!!" Well, yeah. If it had been gritty and dark, it wouldn't have been a lighthearted romcom, would it. Is the writing actually bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot

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yeah yeah we’ve all destroyed and betrayed ourselves for nothing around here you’re not special

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I'd truly be the worst person to stick into a timeloop because I'd really just spend the first 5 years catching up on my book tbr, the next 7 on all the movies and shows that've Been On My List for ages, and then another decade on ao3. like sure nothing may stick but my memories will and i can just go into a supermarket to get snacks and wine each day, and i have art to indulge in. like thanks for the hints on how to get out but respectfully, I am busy

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me when im so sweet and beautiful

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One thing about The Terror is that there is a couple who love each other so much that when one of them succumbs to scurvy, the other immediately decides to just lay down and die about it and if The Terror were any other show, those two would be the entire focus of the whole gay ass tumblr fandom but they aren’t even the most interesting gay couple in the cannon of the show, never mind what’s going on over on ao3 (a lot, a lot is going on over there).

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