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lady-shadow-and-darkness · 5 months

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Verlaine was intrigued by Rimbaud, and replied, "Come, dear great soul. We await you; we desire you."

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The real life Rimbaud and Verlaine were so complicated. Verlaine abused his wife and child and both of them lost themselves to drugs and alcohol. And then Verlaine shot Rimbaud.

#Like what the fuck.#Toxic doomed yaoi in real life too.#Also why is it always that the wives of famous authors and poets are abused? Can't they ever catch a break?#this is driving me insane.#I don't even know if I can tag this BSD #I will anyway because You need to see this.#arthur rimbaud #paul verlaine #Not tagging this rimlaine out of uhh respect I suppose?#And also because I definitely do not support their real life counterparts.#bungou stray dogs #it's also ironic how irl verlaine took rimbaud in but in bsd rimbaud took verlaine in.

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