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Eli | she/her | 20

[olympain]

Audiences are doubled over in hysterics while censors gasp in horror!

[miamitu-illust]

he’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit

angsty bonus:

after a long and heartfelt hug he and Iroh had The Talk™ gay edition

[slyrivers]

I love this so much, I’m gonna start saying “nuts” we need to bring it back

[libralthinking]

I love b&w proper ladies breaking character with “sonofabitch”

[yooterus-deactivated20220126]

“OHH you’re following me, oUUhhh I didn’t know that!”

[cowboy-garfield]

It brings me such joy that people seem to have always done the *sputters and blows raspberries like you’re having a stroke* thing when they stammer

[xxthejuiceboxxx]

I don’t know if I’ll EVER stop crying abt this.

[poor-boy-orpheus]

We are all Kathryn

[sailor-freddie-mercury]

It’s a cold and it’s a broken mamma mia

[paradoxspaceheater]

hallelujah, here i go again

[ratcarney]

paige, eva, reeve, and patrick reminding us that it’s necessary to lose your mind to wait for me ii every once in a while

[ratcarney]

things about this video that i’ll never get over:

- reeve absolutely losing it

- patrick shouting “IM COMINGGGG”

- paige’s PRIMAL SCREAM when eva’s part came up

- eva going FERAL

- patrick looking like a middle aged dad chaperoning a high school prom

- patrick CLAPPING like a middle aged dad chaperoning a high school prom

- again, reeve laughing so hard he’s unable to stand up straight

- reeve pointing at eva as she belts the last part

- the sheer chaotic energy of it all

[ratcarney]

when i’m watching this video, for a second, everything is right with the world

[takenbythestyx]

@sure-is-exciting

[thewalkingnerd]

If you heard of writer's block, get ready for reader's block. You want to read. You have time. You know what to read; how have a pile of books ready to be read. You cannot sit still and focus enough to do so or you can't even open the book.

[kittycargo]

“Later, we lay on the riverbank, learning the lines of each other’s bodies anew. This, and this and this.”

pg 105

“His hand drifted down to the vee at the base of my throat, drew softly across the pulse. “What about this? Have I told you what I think of this, just here?”

“No,” I said.

“This surely, then.” His hand moved across the muscles of my chest; my skin warmed beneath it. “Have I told you of this?”

“That you have told me.” My breath caught a little as I spoke.

“And what of this?” His hand lingered over my hips, drew down the line of my thigh. “Have I spoken of it?”

“You have.”

“And this? Surely, I would not have forgotten this.” His cat’s smile.”Tell me I did not.”

“You did not.”

“There is this, too.” His hand was ceaseless now. “I know I have told you of this.”

pg 182

“The memories well up like spring-water, faster than I can hold them back. They do not come as worms, but like dreams, rising as scent from the rain-wet earth. This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, solemn as an owl at lessons. This and this and this. So many moments of happiness, crowding forward.”

pg 367

[incorrectiwwvquotes]

Richard: Oh, you wanna read something?

Richard: Why don't you read MY DICK?!?

James: I'm not going to read your dick.

James: I don't read short stories.

[justgonesunset]

one day i’d just like a novel-length fic of what if we were villains would have been if it had been a shakespearean comedy:

we’re talking much ado and as you like it instead of lear and ceasar, and msd and twelfth night instead of macbeth and r&j

copious amounts of cross-dressing, and the angst comes only from oliver being sexually confused by james in lipstick and heels and meredith wearing a rapier 

but also james a benedick and meredith as beatrice, tennant and tate style, oliver would die

richard is the perpetual falstaff character and is only moody when people don’t laugh at his jokes

pip would make such a good rosalind oh my god are you kidding me

alexander could be jacques if he needed too, or do a double act as both the fool and jacques

wren as hero or celia ofc, but i’d also lover her as viola tbh 

basically all i want is for them to graduate on the high of having made out with everyone on stage and just a little bit glad they don’t have to live with each other anymore 

[pericles-parrish]

‘if we were villains’: the miniseries. only on netflix.

so i broke and made one of those netflix edits for iwwv because this book doesn’t have enough content so ig i gotta make it my gosh darn self

[link to scenes from mock-up script]

[avengers-rule103]

If you ever want to go on an absolutely beautiful yet heart wrenching journey, listen to any of Sleeping At Last’s music. Sit or lie in the dark, close your eyes and just listen.

[goodnight-meinprinz]

i can’t shut up about this any longer

i’ve finished if we were villains today and i really hate that they never did hamlet...

imagine James as Hamlet??? think about how well he matches the character, especially later in the book when what he’s done is catching up with him!

and do i even have to mention that oliver would obv be horatio? the one who didn’t leave hamlet’s side, even when the latter was going nuts??

and for the sake of your own sanity, please don’t think about them doing hamlet instead of king lear, so that their tender moment would have been the “good night, sweet prince” scene?

[raccocoo]

The Hero & The Sidekick

“The two of you. I never understood it.” “Neither did we. It was easier not to.”

“Were you in love with him?”

“Yes,” I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. [...] “Yes, I was.” It’s not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I’m in love with him still.

"Be ruled by me,” I said, a few lines too soon. “Forget to think of her"

“The wheel is come full circle; I am here.” “Worthy prince, I know’t.”

- If we were villains by M.L.Rio

[vicioustoker]

❝ And when I was younger,

I knew a boy and a boy

Best friends with each other,

But always wished they were more.

'Cause they loved one another,

But never discovered

'Cause they were too afraid

Of what they'd say. ❞

›› Oliver Marks & James Farrow ; If We Were Villains.

[alexander-vass]

regarding james and meredith’s kiss: 

this is easily explained by René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire. 

René Girard is actually mentioned in IWWV a few times, being the author of the book Theatre of Envy, which Oliver spends the entirety of the story reading. It’s a very very dense book, in which Girard basically takes his theory of mimetic desire and applies it to a handful of Shakespeare plays and some of the sonnets. 

the theory can be summarized by: 

“We borrow our desires from others. Far from being autonomous, our desire for a certain object is always provoked by the desire of another person—the model—for this same object. This means that the relationship between the subject and the object is not direct: there is always a triangular relationship of subject, model, and object. Through the object, one is drawn to the model, whom Girard calls the mediator: it is in fact the model who is sought.”

so, long story short, James and Meredith angrily make out with each other because, for a moment, they desire each other (they are each other’s object) because they both desire (and are desired by) Oliver, their mediator. 

that’s all bye