im nothing in my soul if not committed to the bit

23 | any pronouns | tsh | bret easton ellis | classic lit

[nahmann]

Imagining Henry watching Richard from across the quad before he joined the Greek class—having heard about how he asked Julian to join and was turned down—observing him as he’s talking w/ Judy. He’s animated, smiling, joking, but then they say goodbyes and Judy turns to go on her way; as soon as her back is to Richard, the smile just falls from his face, leaving an absolutely impassive countenance devoid of life. Total flat effect, and that occurrence is what stirred Henry’s initial curiosity about him.

[postmodern-prometheus]

richard is soooo “the graduate”-core

[gloobular]

I hear they’re fighting on stage soon 👍

[kindofwriter]

You'd think the most trans masc coded characters in The Shards would be Bret and Matt - on account of their fear that everyone else perceives their lack of classic masculinity and their self-isolation from their peers respectively.

However you would be wrong. Susan Reynolds, who falls in love with an average of one little gay boy per annum and doesn't understand why she always loves them more than her perfectly nice, heterosexual boyfriend, would have been saved by testosterone.

[2hide4you]

summer is a spectrum danger days

[exylover32]

what if i told you there's a book in which a guy somehow gets a scholarship to attend a university for this thing he's good at and ends up joining a small cult-like group of people who do that thing and becomes enamored with the tall dark-haired guy who's best at it and also one member of a set of short blond twins while rejecting advances from the openly gay guy and lying about his background the whole time and dealing with the death of this other guy who was a bigot but probably didn't deserve to be murdered. the best part? i could be talking about either the foxhole court (2013) or the secret history (1992).

[postmodern-prometheus]

i’ve always seen robert mallory as more of a symbol than a character, i think because that’s the way bret sees him. when robert says “when you’re talking to me, you’re really just talking to yourself” it’s because when bret talks to robert, he sees him not as a friend or another human being but as a symbolic representation of his fears, his desires, and his fears about his desires. robert represents the heterosexual ideal of “what bret could have been”—a version of bret that is better at fitting in, who can easily and effortlessly express the heterosexual desires bret doesn’t have, who can be the romantic partner susan wanted from bret but which bret can’t be. and if robert is the heterosexual societal ideal that bret can’t live up to, then he also embodies the constant threat of bret being found out as queer

[velvetknuckledustrr]

I think Judy and Richard would watch drag race together, and Richard would claim to not be bothered for it but when you watch it with him, would be really into it. Spread the word.

I also think Bunny would somehow find out and bully tf out of him.

[castieln0vak]

Judy making Richard do drag for her and her friends canon.

[velvetknuckledustrr]

OMG YESS HE WOULD BE SO PRETTYY. Like a Troye Sivan type of drag.

And aswell this brings forth an image of Judy and Richard doing rocky horror drag lol

[castieln0vak]

Oh I just know they put on a good show at parties when they're drunk out of their minds..and also probably high..

[judypooveysworld]

I’m up for Rocky Horror drag if Richard doesn’t bring his creepy friends 💕

[postmodern-prometheus]

i love looking at the correspondance archives for famous people bc half of it is just the most mundane shit ever. it’s people writing to Famous Author Evelyn Waugh and saying “hey sorry im not available on Friday, can you do Saturday instead?” they’re just like us fr

[postmodern-prometheus]

there was also one guy begging evelyn waugh to leave out all the scandalous stuff he knew about him from his autobiography and wanting to read a copy before it was published to make sure there wasn’t anything bad about him in there. hugh molson what are you hiding ???

[postmodern-prometheus]

i love looking at the correspondance archives for famous people bc half of it is just the most mundane shit ever. it’s people writing to Famous Author Evelyn Waugh and saying “hey sorry im not available on Friday, can you do Saturday instead?” they’re just like us fr

[yaoimothman]

SWING THOSE INTESTINES GIRL

[imsojuliaaaa]

What my chem song is the queerest

You know what they do to guys like us in prison

Mama

I’m not okay(I promise)

The end

To the end

Burn bright

The world is ugly

Teenagers

Demolition lovers

Vampires will never hurt you

Other

Voting ended onJul 16

[postmodern-prometheus]

rip debbie schaffer you would’ve loved “blame brett” by the beaches

[boozsey]

“Art can mean a lot of things. At the heart of it, art is doing something you really believe in. Like my wife, she volunteers helping underprivileged kids, that’s her art. To me, anything that you do that you truly believe in makes you an artist. It doesn’t necessarily mean being a painter or a film maker. That’s art, but there’s more to it than that. As long as you’re pouring your heart and soul into what you’re doing, that’s the weapon.”

happy birthday, ray toro!  (july 15, 1977)

[postmodern-prometheus]

they should do cocaine in a Burger King parking lot together

[postmodern-prometheus]

okay im actually LIVING for the shards trailer. im a total sucker for a good 80s aesthetic and i love how its literally organized around the meta framing of bret explaining his less than zero pitch and then showing us the scenes in the shards that correspond with what he’s saying. also the “does it have sex in it?” / “yes” cutting to bret and debbie to show how bret in his pitch is saying what he thinks people want to hear/the story people want from him rather than the actual (queer) reality of what’s going on

[postmodern-prometheus]

debbie’s “cocaine?!?! as in drugs???” is killing me also. i love her. what an icon

[postmodern-prometheus]

okay im actually LIVING for the shards trailer. im a total sucker for a good 80s aesthetic and i love how its literally organized around the meta framing of bret explaining his less than zero pitch and then showing us the scenes in the shards that correspond with what he’s saying. also the “does it have sex in it?” / “yes” cutting to bret and debbie to show how bret in his pitch is saying what he thinks people want to hear/the story people want from him rather than the actual (queer) reality of what’s going on

[currer-bell-1816]

You’re laughing. I tell you, at aged 20, that I didn’t know that men landed on the moon and you’re laughing.