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Some Good Queer History News

I just thought I would share this email exchange:

#god that’s so sweet

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#i need more information about the 6 months on an island scenario so i didn't pick it #but it's either that or 4 months of screaming #the other options are either too psychologically damaging or not worth it for the amount of money

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worst feeling ever is when i agree with 99% of a post but then there's that 1% that makes me want to set fire to op's blog

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Since people were upset I didn't include the great lakes in my last poll, here's another one

#the ocean???? hello???

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finished watching hotd and i still can’t believe alicent saving mr. murder suicide from his own murder suicide so they could found their little sad exes club

#if harwin had lived long enough for rhaenyra to break up with him i wonder if alicent would have invited him too

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Lit er ly the cages are side by side and rhaenyra hates that she has to wait until ppl aren’t looking to sneak out her key and unlock the door and wander out to do what she wants and she hates that she has to come back to it and lock the door again. and alicent is going what do you mean key there’s no key I have no key how did you get a key why haven’t you tried to open my cage why are you telling me about how wonderful it is to escape when you know that I never have why won’t you stay in the cage with me why are you leaving me here to rot alone without company

#HELLO

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I am still enjoying House of the Dragon bc I have a degree in soap opera watching, so the writing choices haven’t bothered me too much BUT… ser criston cole, knight of nobody from nowhereland, punching the next king’s favorite to death for no discernible reason DURING the wedding of the next queen, and in the presence of the current one, and not suffering any penalty for it, seriously throws me off, it just kills my suspension of disbelief whenever he shows up on screen lol

#watching this show more than a year behind everyone but this absolutely threw me… #like i believed he would do it. #but i kept expecting the show to show my why he was still alive!!

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#finally watched this show and all of you were right about it. god

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“What kind of person was Lancelot? I know about half the kind of person he was, because Malory contented himself with sharing the obvious half. He was more interested in the plot than the characters, and, as soon as he had laid down the broad lines of the latter, he left it at that. Malory’s Lancelot is: 1. Intensely sensitive to moral issues. 2. Ambitious of true - not current - distinction. 3. Probably sadistic or he would not have taken such frightful care to be gentle. 4. Superstitious or totemistic or whatever the word is. He connects his martial luck with virginity, like the schoolboy who thinks he will only bowl well in the march tomorrow if he does not abuse himself today. 5. Fastidious, monogamous, serious. 6. Ferociously punitive to his own body. He denies it and slave-drives it. 7. Devoted to ‘honour,’ which he regards as keeping promises and ‘having a Word.’ He tries to be consistent. 8. Curiously tolerant of other people who do not follow his own standards. He was nor shocked by the lady who was naked as a needle. 9. Not without a sense of humour. It was a good joke dressing up as Kay. And he often says amusing things. 10. Fond of being alone. 11. Humble about his athleticism: not false modesty. 12. Self-critical. Aware of some big lack in himself. What was it? 13. Subject to pity, cf. no. 3. 14. Emotional. He is the only person Mallory mentions as crying from relief. 15. Highly strung: subject to nervous breakdowns. 16. Yet practical. He ends by dealing with the Guenever situation pretty well. He is a good man to have with you in a tight corner. 17. Homosexual? Can a person be ambi-sexual - bisexual or whatever? His treatment of young boys like Gareth and Cote Male Tale is very tender and his feeling for Arthur profound. Yet I do so want not to have to write a ‘modern’ novel about him. I could only bring myself to mention this trait, if it is a trait, in the most oblique way. 18. Human. He firmly believes that for him it is a choice between God and Guenever, and he takes Guenever. He says: This is wrong and against my will, but I can’t help it. It seems to me that no 17 is the operative number in this list. What was the lack? On first inspection one would be inclined to link it up with no 17, but I don’t understand about bisexuality, so can’t write about it. There was definitely something ‘wrong’ with Lancelot, in the common sense, and this was what turned him into a genius. It is very troublesome. People he was like: 1. Lawrence of Arabia, 2. A nice captain of the cricket, 3. Parnell, 4. Sir W Raleigh, 5. Hamlet, 6. me, 7. Prince Rufant, 8. Montros, 9. Tony Ireland or Von Simm […] or whatever, 10. Any mad man, 11. Adam.”

— T.H. White’s notes on the character of Lancelot.

#i know i have reblogged this before but i think about it all the time #character of all time #and its kind of incredible how much of this he just tweets out in the actual book?? like he so clearly did know plenty about how to write #exactly the mess of a person hes describing in this itemized list

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there should be a socially acceptable way to say "im not sure what to say to that. can you say something different"

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IG : @emperorofmischief

#this is the cutest thing ive ever seen?? #rats

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rewatching infinity train season 3 and i wasn’t ready :((

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I hate the black sails description on netflix. Sure that’s what it’s about but not what it’s ABOUT!!??

#is he entangled or is he entangling other people for his own ends

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#american gods but not the eventual cancellation #i’m mourning the forced pivot after season 1

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Your daily reminder

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What would I give for a playboy who couldn’t keep it in his pants and who runs through women. But what I have is a son who shows no interest in them. Oh, you thought I didn’t know? I’ve been keeping pictures of our family out of the free press for years. What you do at night, with your boys, after your show of skirt-chasing, is a disgrace. If you were my second son, I wouldn’t care. But for a king, it’s not possible.

#god lol this show was atrocious yet the acting was so. good