vive la republique!

“Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn.” MADELEINE | 29 | INFP

[leblogestunmonstre]

"It's very Ursula Le Guin" - Sam Reid, being (reluctantly) introduced to the concept of omegaverse pregnancies

[sugarcarnation]

MY SHOW

[thesamuraiturnedpretty]

Every chapter of Moby Dick could literally be titled like youtube clickbait.. 'Only one bed (and he's a Cannibal!)', 'My top three favourite things to do with sperm'. 'A whale is a fish. FIGHT ME'. 'Sailor's tasks I carried out while tied to my boyfriend.' 'At least we're not on that other ship who founded a religious cult'. 'The captain had 4 Parsis HIDDEN BELOWDECKS', 'Why Sperm is vital to culture and the economy'. 'Coffin building with the bf'. 'I told this story in a South American bar and everyone LOST their MINDS'.

[lizardsfromspace]

Out of control Edwardian youths refuse to clap at production of Peter Pan, force distraught J.M Barrie to pull out rarely seen "Tinkerbell Fucking Dies" ending

[julianova44]

You probably know this but shitpost ruining fun fact for anybody who doesn’t:

When the play first was performed, JM Barrie et al were so concerned this might happen that they instructed the orchestra to drop their instruments and clap at this point, just in case

[lizardsfromspace]

I did not know this and I'm grateful for being informed

[sisaloofafump]

Peter Pan edited by Anne Hiebert Alton (2011)

(sorry to interrupt joke post but) this is true!

Children not clapping did happen too, (and some were even expected to have hissed, which was later written into the 1928 playscript and 1911 novel). But my all time favourite anecdote about it is from Pauline Chase (who played Peter)'s intro to Peter Pan's Post Bag 1909:

Children love to clap their hands at the play because then they feel that they are really part of it, and you can see them holding their hands poised ready to seize an opportunity. Their great chance is when I ask them to clap their hands if they believe in fairies, and so save Tink's life. But they are very wrathful if any one claps who has the reputation of being a cynic, and once there was quite an uproar in the front row of the dress circle because of a girl who clapped. Those about her pulled down her arms angrily. "How dare you clap," they cried, "when you know you don't believe in fairies!" There was one dreadfully hard-hearted little boy who came to the theatre not to clap. That was his object for coming, and he came round "behind" to tell me so in the middle of the play. His teeth were firm set. "I won't clap," he said doggedly; "I'm not going to clap." And when the time came he didn't clap; above the clapping of all the others I could hear him shouting from a box, "Peter, I'm not clapping."

(Tink was revived each time anyway)

[texasbama]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 3.01 'DETROIT'

[reticent-vampire]

I don't have trauma, I love being a vampire. The Vampire Lestat 3.01 "Detroit"

[reticent-vampire]

Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac The Vampire Lestat 3.01

[kabaks]

BLACK SAILS | II & XXIV

[batcii]

A Group Which Almost Became Historic 

It's been over a decade since I first read Les Mis, and first drew this, (which still floats around in reblogs, the original post now being deleted with my old blog) and I thought I ought to finish this for Barricade Day. At the time, that illustration was the most ambitious I had ever drawn.

In the last ten years, Les Mis has perhaps felt more pertinent than ever. In Australia, where I live, bigoted, far-right political parties that were previously considered fringe are leading polls on the back of racist, anti-immigration rhetoric. I donate regularly to a charity that supports refugees that is local to me, the Asylum Seeker Resource Center, and am going to do so again today. I encourage you to do the same, either to the ASRC, or to an equivalent charity in your area.

"So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth... books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use." — Victor Hugo

[userarmand]

he's said something similar before but it bears repeating [gq]

[simoneashley]

Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid for GQ Hype by Huy Luong

[markovchaingang]

my lord. the two statues you commissioned are finally complete. yeah, the double-order with the vast and trunkless legs of stone and the shattered visage. i like to think we captured the sneer of cold command pretty well. it's a really thought-provoking piece my lord. very deconstructionist. i'm sure that even a traveller a thousand years from now could take one look at it and instantly recognise it must have come from an artistically enlightened culture

[endiness]

SAM REID as LESTAT DE LIONCOURT The Vampire Lestat Season 3 Premiere + Concert

[lestatdelioncuort]

He is just like me fr

[endiness]

your biggest fan // the vampire lestat

[freakshaped]

@siblingsource | sibling week event day 4: favorite duplicates (twins, triplets, clones, etc) → brothers dawn, day, and dusk

[xxsunnyphoenixx]

THEMMMM......