#the man who fell to earth Walter tevis

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Wake up tmwfte book fandom (it’s like 5 people on here)

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the man who fell to earth (1976)

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okay why not.. it’s still one of my favourite books...

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guys its tommy

(poem is musée des beaux arts by w. h. auden, it's the one in the book and the movie. the rest of the poem sucks though)

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E.T. overwhelmed, Earth's far too noisy and bright: Big autism mood.

Title: The Man Who Fell to Earth Author: Walter Tevis Published: 1963 Read: September 2023 Rating: 2/5

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I live alone everywhere. Altogether everywhere alone.

The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis

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Finally, another book picture! This one is for The Man Who Fell to Earth, a 1963 cult favorite scifi. Everyone who reads it seems to love it, and yet they keep failing to make it into a good/truthful movie/TV series. I haven't watched the movie or the recent TV series, but I'm guessing they switch out the main character's core suffering for whatever political agenda is popular. Boooo. The basic plot: An alien, who disguises himself as a man named Thomas Jerome Newton, comes to Earth. His goal and plan is to raise enough money with his advanced technology to be able to make a spaceship to bring his dying people to Earth. Unfortunately, the more time he is on Earth, the more human he becomes, and the more easily he falls prey to human vices. I think so many people love this book (and I loved it too!) because it's simple and subtle at the same time. While at the core the book is about alcoholism and vice, what happens to the main character can be applied to so many other things, that, at some point or another, we all feel as humans: isolation, depression, anxiety.

It's under 200 pages and wonderfully written.

For my cover, I wanted to keep the character design true to the book. Initially I tried making the text using a computer font, but it looked better with my imprecise handwriting.

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Guys can we p please please pretty please make this novel from 1963 popular 🥺🥺🥺🥺

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THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH - Walter Tevis (1963)

Walter Tevis has some serious cultural clout. Two-thirds of his literary longform production was transformed into other forms – high profile forms at that. He wrote six novels: four of those were adapted for the screen. The Hustler (1961) won 2 Oscars and was nominated for 7 more. The Color of Money (1986) was directed by none other than Martin Scorsese, and nominated for 4 Oscars, of which Paul…

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The Last Unicorn 🤝 The Man Who Fell to Earth

- fragile, otherworldly, emotionally unavailable individual desperate to save their people

- the problem? water

- main trio of demigod - earthly woman - depressed scholar

- 60s counterculture

- written by a smart and bitter American who loves cats and poems

- really really good

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The Man Who Fell To Earth | Series Premiere | Free Full Episode (TVMA)

The Man Who Fell To Earth | Series Premiere | Free Full Episode (TVMA)

The Man Who Fell To Earth | Series Premiere | Free Full Episode (TVMA) What Is It? The YouTube video The Man Who Fell To Earth | Series Premiere | Free Full Episode (TVMA) by the YouTube channel SHOWTIME, which is of episode 1 (Hallo, Spaceboy) of the TV show The Man Who Fell To Earth (Season 1). Here is the description for this video: An alien (Chiwetel Ejiofor) crashes deep into the…

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The Man Who Fell to Earth…

What a gem.

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Demisexual and Queer language

There's been some heated "debate" about the word demisexual and if it is necessary.

I admit there are certain words I don't really think are necessary but I sort of like the sound of, like Pansexual.

First, to be clear, Bisexual didn't originally mean "excluding nonbinary and trans." It wasn't a strict attraction to the binary. It wasn't transphobic or nonbinary-phobic. And most self-identified bisexuals, even now, do NOT heed these newly added restrictions.

Bisexual was a third option when, once upon a time, there were only two options.

Late into the 90s (and even now) there are still some gay folk who think bisexuality is a myth and you have to be attracted to one or the other, men or women, but cannot be potentially attracted to all genders / either gender.

For a lot of bisexuals the term means attraction to your own gender and all other genders. And that's what the "bi" actually means. I only like the term pansexual because of its connection to the Greek Pan.

There was even the weird stigma and notion that bisexual meant you were horny for everyone. Into the 2000s you saw this in pop culture even with beloved characters like Jack Harkness in Doctor Who and as recently as the AMC Interview with The Vampire TV show version of Lestat, where bisexual felt like code for "Horny for everything" and even physically abusive and dominating. Odd that the 90s movie depiction of Lestat felt less... negative-stereotype-y.

Anyway, for a lot of older Queer folk "bisexual" was still a new term as recently as the 90s. When David Bowie came out as bisexual in 1972 a reporter mistakenly took that to mean he had the sex organs of a man and a woman. (Source: the 1993 book "Bowie: In his own words.")

Bowie was so stigmatized by America's obsession with him being bisexual that he walked back into the closet until the mid-2000s when he came back out and admitted he had only gone back into the closet because he was sick of American reporters asking him about it. And he admitted it felt like no other country did that, just America.

And when Vincent Price's daughter found out that her father had been bisexual she ran to Roddy McDowall and confronted him by asking "Why didn't you tell me my father was bisexual?" and Roddy responded with "We didn't know the word. How can you deny something when you don't know the word?"

Based on Roddy McDowall's response about Vincent Price, there are probably a lot of older and historic Queer folk who were actually bisexual but the moment they had any same-sex attraction the title of "homosexual" was pinned to them.

Language evolves for a reason. The acceptance of the idea that someone could be attracted to more than one gender is why we have the word bisexual. Demisexual has always existed, we just didn't have a term for it. Yes, there are a lot of new terms in the LGBTQAI+ spectrum. And change can be scary. This is why a lot of folk have started to positively use the term Queer, to keep things simple while also taking back a word some used to slur-like capacity. The 1963 novel The Man who fell to Earth by Walter Tevis had a line "He walked like a queer." and in the 1970s that line was changed to "He walked like a homosexual." I half-imagine that if Walter Tevis was still alive he would acknowledge the character Nathan Bryce's internalized homophobia (the character whose internal monologue uses the description) or drop the description entirely but it is interesting to note that the original wording would be more accepted today than back in 1963 when it was first published.