🐀Larys Shampoo Era🐀

Aspiring Sith Lord. 32. That one Larys Strong fucker from Twitter.

[marzipanotter]

I love 's-Hertogenbosch.

[bluespecter]

😈 😈

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

I have the sneaking suspicion that Napolron wanted to bang his male friends but just didn't know how to initiate. Perhaps a fear of rejection or the awkward.

I think he had homo-something urges, if he lived today he might identify in some capacity as bisexual

but why he didn’t was that I don’t think he fundamentally saw himself as a man who did sexual activity with other men

There were a lot of cultural hangups around queerness in men - particularly around effeminacy and perceived weakness. Napoleon had his moments of tolerance towards sodomy and moments of harshness. Regardless his own possible desires, they would have been repressed and ignored and sublimated into other areas of his life.

He was also someone who had passionate and intense friendships with men that were just friendships - no queerness to them in That Sense. And that’s an important thing to carve out as separate from whatever else he had going on

So while I think he was a man who could have been potentially sexually attracted to men alongside women he was too bound up in his cultural hang ups and repressions and baggage to even begin to be aware that this was a thing he experienced. He just told Culaincourt that he had weird butterflies in his stomach when he saw handsome men in uniforms and was like “you get that too right? It’s a normal thing” to which Coulaincourt said “…..sure, sire. whatever you say”

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

next morning, no longer drinking a white claw on my couch watching Recipes for Love and Murder while answering asks on Tumblr:

I really cannot emphasise enough the cultural baggage and taboo around queerness of that time. This isn't a matter of a fear of rejection or not wanting things to be awkward, it is a matter of repression and denial, of fundamentally not understanding any possible desires he might have had through That Lens, it is a matter of the marriage between misogyny and homophobia wherein a man doesn't want to be seen as Lesser or Effeminate or Womanly because the worse thing in the world would be to be seen as Womanly, it is a matter of cultural baggage around sodomy as a mortal sin, it is a matter of cultural baggage around sodomy being illegal until the Revolution ...

all of that and more is what would have been informing Napoleon's response to any possible desires he might have felt towards men and how he would have chosen to interpret them.

he was so deep in the sauce of his cultural and time-period's view of homosexuality that I don't think he even understood or glimpsed that what he felt when he looked at men, or really (really) liked men (nudge, nudge), was in any way shape or form similar to that of what Cambaceres, for example, was feeling.

so yeah! it's not fear of rejection or awkwardness, it's deep internalization of the cultural baggage and understanding of homosexuality from his time

[rockabillywife]

Fingering the plot hole

[nastasyafilippovna11]

draw fanart of Dorian gray? you mean the thing that killed Basil Hallward?

[bunkey]

notice how everyone is horny today

[bunkey]

[elvisomar]

[classycookiexo]

[capricorn-born]

Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today

[weaselle]

fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

[vmohlere]

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

[marzipanotter]

Bruh I suddenly just got the major Meckett feels on me again after seeing a Cutler Beckett meme.

Here we go again!

[myballsitchaurghouchie]

I can imagine The Characters to any song

[vomittedsoap]

I’m at a crossroads..

[veloursdor]

day 32 of the hiatus and i miss him

[losthavenmine]

The Lost Boys (1987)

[trans-humanoid-automaton]

[arafinweanappreciation]

one thing that i think that the "gandalf should have stayed dead" type critics don't get is that tolkien was, on several fundamental levels, not writing the best story. he was writing the story he (and many of us!) needed to hear. he wasn't going for realism because he lived through it. so he didn't need more meaningless death and suffering, he needed a story where the hobbits went home, changed but alive. he needed a story where eowyn learned that to live a healer was better than to die a hero. he needed a story where nature could fight back for its right to exist. he needed a story where the good guys had a cause that they accomplished, through all the struggle and pain and sacrifice, and gave them meaning. made them worth it. he needed a story that was hopeful, despite it all. so that's what he wrote

[marzipanotter]

I need to fight whoever it was who put it into Larys' head that love was a weakness and a downfall. I know that therefore in many ways I'd have to fight Larys himself, but that viewpoint doesn't come from nowhere.

Especially not knowing what we know now about how Lyonel reacted to having a disabled son.

[mr-3rr0r]