#iwwv edit

[vcnka]

but that is how a tragedy like ours or king lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.

for @grayconan <3

@fictionnet event 6: pride.

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[audif1]

“I don’t know if that’s true,” I say, but neither of us pursues the subject.”

If We Were Villains

#photo #iwwv #iwwv edit #if we were villains #if we were villains edit #oliver marks #james farrow #meredith dardenne #wren stirling #richard stirling #alexander vass #filippa kosta #dark academia #dark academia edit #my edit #idk what to tag anything as anymore #anyway here it is yet another iwwv edit

[adxmparriish]

which of us could say we were more sinned against than sinning? we were so easily manipulated - confusion made a masterpiece of us.

#if we were villains #iwwv #oliver marks #james farrow #dark acamedia #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia quotes #my edits

[clockworkbee]

#james farrow #if we were villains #characters as the tortured poets department #the tortured poets department #ttpd #taylor swift #iwwv #m. l. rio #book edit #clockworkbee edits

[eiivens]

"Whatever we did—or, more crucially, did not do—it seemed that so long as we did it together, our individual sins might be abated. There is no comfort like complicity."

Had to make a presentation for my creative writing class and I liked these slides enough to post them ehe :)

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[depressedgremlinbitch]

James and Meredith: *passionately kissing at the rehearsal as Edmund and Goneril*

Oliver:

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[konyvtaroslany]

"Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?"

"I blame him for all of it."

#annotating #my stuff #my edit #currently reading #hungarian #ml rio #if we were villains #booklr #iwwv spoilers

[thehistory]

The Secret History, page 224

#tsh #donna tartt #the secret history #dark academia #books #the secret history edit #richard papen #henry winter #gothic #camilla macaulay #literature #charles macaulay #reading #writing #da #goth #tsh edit #dark #iwwv #history #quote #quotes

[permanentreverie]

‘are book moodboards still a thing lmao’ IM- !?!?!???

#someone just reblogged my iwwv moodboard with that tag #ummmm????????????? #idk how to take that honestly #i mean i know obviously don’t reblog an edit if you’re just gonna say something hateful in the comments #but idek what this is??????? #are. making moodboards cringe now. #i mean i can stop if you guys aren’t for them ig #lindsay.text

[gardensprout]

If We Were Villains Fifth Edition Spoilers!

Totally forgot to post about this when I got it but OH MY GODDDDDD!! I LOVE ITTTTTT!

Also, look at James. Look at this man. I can’t even. I’m in love.

#it’s literally gorgeous #I’m screaming #if we were villains #iwwv #m.l. rio #james farrow #oliver marks #meredith dardenne #filippa kosta #wren stirling #alexander vass #richard stirling #iwwv fifth edition #iwwv 5th edition #if we were villains fifth edition

[nox-ceur]

Do I need two copies of the same book? No

Will I be buying a second copy? Honestly I’m tempted

#elle introspects #3 copies if you count the ebook #I have a special edition of if we were villains from waterstones #and it’s absolutely stunning #but Barnes and Noble is coming out with one too #so like 👀 #it’s my all time favorite book so I deserve to treat myself #I do still have a gift card so it’d be worth it honestly #m.l. rio #if we were villains #iwwv

[tasteofheavenandhell]

I made a poster for If We We’re Villains

*photo used in the edit is not mine, used from Pinterest*

Reposts allowed when giving credit!

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[ifwewere-stories]

If we were villains; fancast

#iwwv #if we were villains #m l rio #books #Fancast #my posts #edit

[clockworkbee]

#james oliver #james farrow #oliver marks #quotes #if we were villains #iwwv #m. l. rio #clockworkbee edits #book edit

[protect-namine]

okay so the reason I'm looking up shakespeare plays is because I decided to (slowly) read if we were villains by m.l. rio, which is a book about theater students in their final year. I think someone dies in the book and everyone tries to act innocent or something like that? I'm only 50 pages in so I haven't really reached that part yet.

but anyway, I think the book is doing some interesting character work but it's like. I'd say 70% is through the actual plot (characters acting as themselves, though filtered through oliver's perspective since he's the narrator) and 30% through the characters they act as in shakespeare plays. I find it interesting!! it's like... you meet them as archetypes and they are typecasted even in auditions (richard is the tyrant, james is the hero, meredith is the temptress, oliver is usually a side/secondary character etc.) because they have specific roles they're good at, or their strengths in acting best suit the roles they get. but in their final year, I think their teachers are trying to challenge them with more varied roles outside of their usual.

but also. I was wondering how much of the shakespeare references are there for fun and set dressing (because their school only performs shakespeare plays), and how much is foreshadowing and uh. idk the proper english lit term for this, but like, symbols? shakespeare references sprinkled in to symbolize or say something about the character without expicitly saying it? so for example, in scene one, james and oliver are both talking about the play troilus and cressida, where james says that if they were to mix up roles for variety, then oliver should be troilus. and oliver comments that james would be a good cressida. and I'm like. okay, so they're gonna be a tragic love story??

but then I also think, wait oliver is always associated with pericles. and pericles gets a happy ending, though it takes a very very long time and a couple of "deaths" in quotation marks. so... maybe not so tragic, in the end?

they're also doing both caesar and macbeth in the book and I'm trying to predict who dies later (I'm guessing richard) and how (...that, I'm not quite sure yet, but I think oliver takes the blame somehow based on the prologue. and based on who got cast as brutus and cassius, I guess something happens with james and alexander)

but then I'm like, what if I'm reading too much into this? but the book itself has five acts which is the usual structure of shakespeare's plays, so surely, this isn't just set dressing stuff. so yeah. anyway. still in act i, but my current bet is richard dies in act iii somehow.

#mine musings #idk if this needs a liveblog tag... i'll add tags later if i end up talking about this more than i expected #i do feel like i have many thoughts but idk if i'll blog them yet #ml rio writing iwwv: this first act can fit so much foreshadowing! #edit: yeah guess i'm tagging #liveblogging iwwv

[nanstgeorge]

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#ive never been this uninspired in my life take me back to my 2021 edit run #my evelyn hugo & iwwv edits were my peak