#historically close friends

[itslenagain]

The atrocities I would commit to have seen this live omg

Also, Lucy's dedication to kissing everyone? *chef kiss* But especially the way she kisses Katie I am DECEASED omg dead from gay I am too queer for this

#holy shit #im gay #boygenius #muna #munagenius #lucy dacus #julien baker #phoebe bridgers #katie gavin #josette maskin #naomi mcpherson #lesbian #lgbtqia+ #queer #salt in the wound #girls being girls #historically close friends #lucy is everything #whatever she wants

[farmlesbians]

did julien break up w her gf and is dating lucy now or im seeing things

there’s no real way to know for sure but i’m assuming no cause i don’t wanna Speculate too much

#they’ve kinda always been Like That. #historically close friends #happy for them if true!

[jbsrainbowstrap]

x (MARCH 28, 2023)

#historically close friends

[butterflysonnets]

yes i'm rooting for m*leven breakup because byler is neat but mostly? i'm rooting for m*leven breakup for the sake of el and mike.

to me, their romance was always a puppy love born out of a combination of social pressures, naïve curiosity, and a lack of true understanding regarding intimacy and romantic love and what it really is. it was real in that they do truly, deeply care about each other and they are close friends, maybe even shared an attraction, but a maturing romance is so much more than that. they've grown up and out of being boyfriend/girlfriend, and that's okay! i think television/film needs to show more often that most of us don't have definite "soulmates" or first childhood loves that we spend our whole lives with. it doesn't mean these relationships meant nothing and didn't impact us, it just means they've run their course and that something else is in the cards, and this is part of life!

i've always felt el was at her best and most confident self when broken up with mike, discovering who she was and what she liked alongside another girl her age instead of just relying on mike for mentorship on how to live in the real world. she deserves more of an opportunity to find herself, her autonomy, and her independence, and to love who she is, and she's made it clear she's felt insecure in the relationship with mike because she isn't being loved and understood the way she wants, needs, and deserves from someone who is her partner.

also, it's okay if mike doesn't love her in "the way he should". he is not obligated to love her romantically and stay in a relationship with her just because she's a girl, because she "needed someone", or because he cares about her a lot. he shouldn't be pressured into a romance if it's not truly coming from his heart. he deserves freedom to find out and honour who he is, too, instead of just staying in his non-functional first relationship — one he got into as a child, essentially — and defining himself that way because it's what's expected when a boy and a girl are close. he loves her in some way, yes, but it's okay if he doesn't feel comfortable or secure being her boyfriend anymore, for whatever reason that is. he's felt insecure too, and that's valid and it matters.

they are their own people and are steadily growing and changing every day. they need time to figure out who those people are, and it's become clear (at least in my opinion) that those people aren't meant to be a couple at this stage.

they deserve freedom. they deserve to grow up and be authentic to themselves and not feel like they need to lie for the sake of a relationship. they deserve to move on from this version of their relationship that isn't making them happy and rekindle the best part of their bond: their strong, beautiful friendship. they don't have to be a couple if it doesn't make them stronger and better and happier people.

i think it would be healthy and wonderful for a show, especially one consumed frequently by young adults, to show a relationship starting, progressing, and ending on good terms in this way. sometimes things don't work out, and that is okay.

#eve text #elmike #stranger things #byler #only tagging byler because i feel like yall will like this take lol #tagging tagging tagging WHAT ARE EVERYONE ELSE'S THOUGHTS #god i can't believe i'm making a post about stranger things. this feels like poking a bear #i'm not particularly anti m*leven but like... they'd have to do something pretty special at this point for me to feel like it's viable #i'm seeing the bts of s5 and it's got me Having Thoughts #elmike friendship is something i am so passionate about #even before i ever liked byler (didn't ship at all until s4 even though i knew it was a thing before) i've felt this way about elmike #i always believed they were close friends at heart and needed to break up #the romance part of them felt very distinctly young and very much “he was a boy she was a girl” to me #and it hasn't deepened into anything more mature and i don't see how it could based on the current state of the writing... #the fact that lumax exists — a young relationship that is actively maturing and is healthy — makes that clear to me #and the “love confession” in s4 and how disingenuous and miserable it felt was just the nail in the coffin #also the fact that will (who is IN LOVE with mike) was instrumental in making it happen? ... uh... okay... interesting choice… #fucked up and reductive if they make it another queer unrequited love sacrifice for the sake of pushing the heterosexual agenda YUCK #so i really hope the speculation about a m*leven breakup is real!! i think it just makes sense for their characters but who knows #i don't believe in the notion of love at first sight or one true love and i think the writers don't too??? #love to me is an accumulation of experiences and we inevitably choose it at some point rather than fall into it... but idk #tv is so fixated on keeping couples together... sometimes it's just not reality guys especially with young people... LET IT GO... #like i said though i'm not 100% sold that they're going to give up their “golden couple” LMAO #stranger things hasn't historically subverted too many tropes if i'm being honest #anyway i seriously need this season to come out quickly... i'm so bored and getting my master's is crushing my soul #i need frivolity #ALSO btw i won't respond to hateful messages about this so please don't bother. it's not that serious. this is a netflix show

[sorenhugo]

You know what fuck you *travels back in time to join a revolution and we fight and drink and share homoerotic tension. We have one last drink and song with our buddies and try our best to defend ourselves and tend to the wounded with our cravats but we end up dying together in each others’ arms all bloodied but looking into each others’ eyes.*

#les mis #les mis memes #enjoltaire #gay memes #tumblr memes #hamilton memes #historical gays #and they were roommates #omg they were roommates #close friends #historians will say they were close friends #achilles and his pal #sappho and her friend

[icarusbetide]

hamilton decided to loosen up from public affairs and do that ghost prank with his nephew, only for new york to lose its shit and require a statement from him. if that were me i'd be like aw fuck see this is what i mean, i can't do shit without everyone getting on my back 😭

#new york man pulls ghost prank on close family and friends. you won't believe what happened next. #i like to believe that this was him going. “you know what. they're right. i'm too caught up in public affairs.” #“let's spend some quality family time!” only for it to become public so rapidly that john jay's son wrote a letter about it to his sister #alexander hamilton #philip church #1799 #amrev #historical hamilton

[purpleturtle9000]

cannot shake the idea of leo going 'sounds like leonardo and usagi were really good friends' and casey jr who's just spent 20 minutes talking about leoichi cuddling and co-raising kids and holding hands is just DAD COME GET UR LITTLE BROTHER

#leonardo's gotta have A Talk About That with this lil blue moron bless his heart #says “sure close friends in the historical way” as a joke and then leo goes “yeah that's what i just said” and old blue's gotta correct tha #leoichi #rottmnt leo #rottmnt future leo #rottmnt casey jones #rottmnt #series: when i found you i found me

[petitelappin]

Outfit planning while at work during the 15 minutes per tour where the guests watch something and I lurk in a dark corner.

#my art #sketchbook #sadies day job #one of my friends is throwing a hobbit themed party soon w a Dress Code and everything #and then im not even close to done w my macaroni suit and yet my brain yearns to focus on an accurate puf outfit #the only person in the 1770s whose gender is close enough to mine! id love to show up to historical costuming meetups as them. #my dear coworker mary apparently pre-covid used to go to those kind of things where the instagram girls are in their robe a la francais #but just as a fishmonger. w a real dead fish from costco and everything. she'd try to sell the fancy ladies the fish. #i love her so much.

[hiidkwhatimdoing7525]

was researching about Von Steuben when I came across this

proving my Washette theories, Lafayette class himself Washington's adopted son...

#washette #george washington #marquis de lafayette #amrev #historical inaccuracies #historians will say they were close friends #amrev fandom #von steuben

[frankidacre]

Drew this in early January but yup!! I love my boys, Felix and Morgan :) (Felix is an American journalist and Morgan’s a British officer)

#wwii #wwii oc #historical oc #history oc #illustration #digital art #character design #historians will say they were close friends #trenchmates even?

[yourbuddykermit]

And historians will call them…

#close friends #besties #roomates #buddies #sapphic #WOMEM #wlw love #wlw #wlw post #18th century #historic #historical fiction #sapphic history #Art #my art #south park #south park art #sp wendy #sp bebe #wendy testaburger #bebe stevens #bebe x wendy #south park bendy #bendy #sp bendy #south park ships #south park wendy #south park bebe #debutant #18th century art

[itslenagain]

Just gals being pals

#gals being pals #lesbian #historically close friends

[hedgehology]

Historians will still call them besties.

🛒omg they were tomb mates! sticker by hedgehology

#hedgehology #etsy uk #etsy #omg they were tomb mates #historic mysteries #historians will say they were close friends #cowboy frog #capybara #yee (and i can’t stress this enough) haww #yeehaw #lesbian pride #lesbian flag #lesbian problems #queer erasure #queer history #sappho and her friend #achilles and his pal #just gals being pals #just dudes being bros #stickers #queer representation #queer pride #cowboycore

[fitzrove]

Overwhelmed by nostalgia actually

#this will sound SO elitist of me #but #i miss my summer course at the boarding school that was closed after the summer and they carved out an artificial lake on the manor grounds #and converted the cozy two-person dorm rooms to have bunk beds to fit six to eight kids #apparently they also 'refurbished' a historic building on the site :( #i mean i'm glad someone is taking care of the site - it's so beautiful #but i miss the way it was soooo much and there's no way to go to that place again except in memories #and then !! sequel - cambridge 2019 #granted it would probably be much the same as a town if i went in summer again but it really was when i learned how much i love university #but yeah deeply sad and insane about [redacted] manor i miss it sooooo much #one of my teachers actually really liked me and wanted to seriously talk about me studying there full time oabdlskdödldöfo #obviously it was never going to happen because who pays english boarding fees when you can study 100% for free at home #but what if in an alternate universe i did study there #idk i don't feel that sad about THAT missed chance #mostly because i'm legit replicating it w my master's #but i do wonder if i'm going to spend the rest of my life chasing similar places and the way i felt that summer when i was 15 🥹 #if you send me a dm and we're friends etc i will show you pictures of the manor because it looks amazing

[queenlucythevaliant]

The assassination of Julius Caesar in fiction

The October Horse by Colleen McCullough // The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder //Cleopatra (1963) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz // A Piller of Iron by Taylor Caldwell // The October Horse, McCullough // Caesar (1937) dir. Orson Welles // Cleopatra's Daughter by Michelle Moran // Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare // The October Horse, McCullough

#my humble contribution #so i actually had a pretty intense Julius Caesar fixation a number of years ago #i came downstairs after a migraine and found my dad watching Cleopatra (1963) #in which I learned that Caesar had epilepsy #the kind of migraine that I get is closely related to epilepsy #so i just. instantly identified super hard?? with this long-dead roman dictator???? #i binge read about him for a good six months. fiction and nonfiction. my friends were very confused #so yeah #i mentioned the ides of march in an RUF large group and discovered that none of my peers knew what the heck i was talking about #so when I joined this site and discovered how enthusiastically everyone observes i was thrilled #and continue to be thrilled #the way that this site caters to my weird niche interests is truly remarkable #anyway. happy ides of march to all who observe #and happy death day to my problematic historical chronic illness bro 😂 #intertextuality #pontifications and creations #would highly recommend most of the texts referenced here btw #particularly October Horse

[toastsnaffler]

everyone say thank u to my roommate for going to visit her parents this weekend so I can jack it loud and nasty 🙏

#i love her but there are some benefits to having the flat to myself.... love getting to wander around in just my boxers + a tshirt too #things i could do while she was still here if i wasnt a pussy 🙄 #jk itd just make her uncomfortable and im too respectful for that #having a lowkey crush on her is an endless comedy to me bc we would be so woefully incompatible romantically #and also sexually.. historically ive only ever stone topped bc ive never been comfortable enough w anyone to let them fuck me #despite very much Not being stone or exclusively a top. and i think shes some form of sex repulsed anyway so like. sits there dead silence #and also shes so in love with her other friends and i showed up late to that party.... ive been feeling kinda guilty lately bc ik- #she misses them a lot and wishes we'd be able to stay roommates w them too. and im a pretty poor replacement for them tbh #and i love spending time with her but whenever i do i feel kinda painfully aware im not them like i could never fill that space #and asking to hang out more with her always feels like im taking away from time she could be talking to them. or even being alone ik she- #likes her own company and i get that a lot too so its chill but ahh.. man #i dont mean this in a bitter or jealous way at all like theyre all such sweet ppl i couldnt ever hold it against them #theyre kind of a 3 headed cerberus type situation and im like. the stray puppy they found on the side of the road #theres nothing they can do differently i was just born to be alienated from other ppl forever until i die. and someday i hope ill- #finally get used to it and accept i wont ever feel like im enough for anyone else or feel like anything else is enough for me #old wounds healed over 5082 times that still hurt to touch but i cant help pressing my fingers into them anyway bc its a familiar pain etc #anyway lost where i was going with this its just been on my mind again recently. i hate to be pitied i hate to feel like im only included- #bc they didnt want me to feel left out i hate feeling like a shoddy secondhand stand-in and its been a lot of that lately #also been a little annoyed bc sometimes it feels like shes trying to micromanage my social life and girl. we're not close enough for that #im sure its well intentioned but im not part of what they have going on i cant compete in that ring so dont try to push me into it.. #ahhh. its all ok tho one of the guys is coming to visit next month which will be rly fun but ill try to give them some space too #its good at least im doing this processing now bc group situations can be spike traps of triggers for me sometimes #regardless of how good friends i am w ppl and ive already had a wobble a few weeks ago w how i cope and i dont want it to become a #fully fledged regular issue again bc its so hard to crawl back out of that pit. anyway losing coherence here im gonna stop rambling #and go make myself an early dinner and then back to drawing........ #sorry for long tags if ur reading this blows u a kiss but go find a better use of ur time girl!! #.diaries