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i realized i never posted this on tumblr??? anyways here ya go tumblr
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"And tell them that I believe women should play more of a role in the curia." "Let's, um... Let's not mention women."
Conclave (2024)
Anonymous asked:
Do you (or your friend if she doesn't mind) have recommendations for older gay fiction with characters that aren't upper class?
hi anon! i've passed this right on to my friend and the first thing she did was ask for clarification (how much older? by publishing date or setting? is autobiography okay? literary fiction only?). without this info we've come up with a little list that may or may not have sth you're looking for!
written before 1980:
- love, leda by mark hyatt
- smoke, lilies and jade by richard bruce nugent (short fiction)
- the naked civil servant by quentin crisp (autobiography)
- giovanni's room by james baldwin
set before 1980(ish):
- stone butch blues by leslie feinberg
- alec by william di canzio
- brokeback mountain by annie proulx
- tipping the velvet by sarah waters
- oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson
most of these you'll have heard of or otherwise have on your radar, so i've kind of put them in ascending order of exposure. queer works published outside the upper class before 1950 are a tall order simply because of the structural difficulties that were (partially still are) in place in publishing. novels like love, leda couldn't be published in their age and a lot of work still has to be done to bring them to light, so hopefully this list will grow much longer as more works are rediscovered and published!
#the ''set before'' part could be sooo much longer obviously manoshi just stuck to more literary works bc that's her ballpark#the ''published before'' part was. hard to scrape together for the reasons mentioned#but also!! i may or may not be currently working on translating a 19th century gay short story by karl heinrich ulrichs into english#and it'll be here in due course :')#asks#anon
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Commissioned for The Good We Do fundraiser by @bluejayadler who requested the boys crafting together! Thank you so much for participating!!! 💜💜💜
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where the fuck are the horse and the rider. like where even is the horn that was blowing
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It's such an amazing feeling when someone picks up on something in your writing that you 100% intended but didn't think people would notice. Like, YES!! My writing properly conveyed the thing it was supposed to!!! You are so awesome for noticing that!!! I am so awesome for writing that!!! I feel so good about my story now!!!!
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The Fish Monk
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So I took him underneath my wing, And that is where he stayed, Until one day...
Melanie La Barrie as Hermes, Dylan Wood as Orpheus, Hadestown West End 2025: @callmelasagna’s master
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"aros can still date!!": boring. tired. overused. frequently used to make aros look more palatable and acceptable to amatonormative society.
"alloros can still stay single!!": fresh. new. exciting. hearing it could change many people's lives for the better regardless of romantic orientation