the shards era

THE OG SHARDS FAN. i'm 18+ eng/ukr i LOVE bret easton ellis books my fav book is still GLAMORAMA

[kindofwriter]

Please enjoy my The Shards edit, because I know tiktok wont

[realvictorwardposting]

i just remembered how the stockholm syndrome threesome took me off guard when i was reading glamorama for the first time. I was like oh okay i wasn't expecting this to escalate so fast after the torture and murder

[dykesynthezoid]

I know I’m only like 30 pages into this book but the fact that Victor is actively homophobic and yet seemingly at least superficially pro-lesbian is so funny to me

[realvictorwardposting]

and he's also bisexual. Confusing King

[anoukfreesoul]

IM OBSESSEDDDDD! been the most annoying person since i read the book march 2025. I loved how the music matched the pacing of the story and the pages, and i was afraid they wouldnt do it justice, but so far its been so freaking perfect. It took me like an hour and a half per episode bc i was living it. Every tiny detail. Wow. I could ramble about every scene but i wont, ill try to stay calm. Just wanna say: every bret and roberts interaction has been so great?!!! The opening scene at the cinema and then the official introduction at the school??!!! Istg it feels like reading the book again.

My fav thing its that we can see bret being the kid he really is, rather than the pretentious, narcissistic, self proclaimed-writer we see in the book, since here we dont only have his thoughts. His relationship w matt, for example was so cold and distant in the book (bc he was in absolute denial) but here we can ACTUALLY SEE he cared about him so much. He broke my heart when he was crying... hes already manipulating me lmao.

The end of ep 2 almost made me throw up, AGAIN, feels like reading it for the first time. CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT EPISODES!

[patty-cakeman]

Kaia Gerber and Hayes Warner my beloveds

[nymbiote]

[k-wame]

[kindofwriter]

Thinking Bret Ellis is the villain in The Shards because Bret Easton Ellis is a nasty, volatile man in real life and you think it's funny he made himself a crazy serial killer in his own book: Correct, valid, hilarious.

Thinking Bret Ellis is the villain in The Shards because he was inherently evil from the start and hurt people just to get a good story out of it: "Would you say that if Patrick Bateman was gay?" He was a mentally ill teenager, abused or disregarded by every single adult in his life, on drugs his own mother gave him, who we watched lose his mind in real-time. I don't know, I think we can share the blame a little.

[realvictorwardposting]

imo just in those two episodes they're not really showing the struggles that bret has with his sexuality. really not everything is that clear as they're showing it's more complex in the book isn't it? i hope he gets even more fixated on robert very soon

[kindofwriter]

"I think we should stop this."

Igby Rigney and Owen Painter in The Shards

[realvictorwardposting]

he's sooo small wtf that's my child

[realvictorwardposting]

bret easton ellis book adaptations and their curse of being ridiculously soften up so people aren't grossed out (people are SUPPOSED to be grossed out)

[patty-cakeman]

I cannot stand the advertising for The Shards. We get it, it takes place in 80s LA and the characters are young and hot and rich… Hey, isn’t a big part of the story about how much it sucked to be a gay teenager in the 80s? Did we forget about that? Like, the aesthetics are cool and all but… come on.

[realvictorwardposting]

i agree smm and how the show turns out looking too. the whole thing that is "man kids today are taking it so easy and we had to deal with SERIAL KILLERS" they make it sound cool and interesting that's not the point at all!!!! it's not supposed to be fun it's scary

[kindofwriter]

Slightly worried/grossed out by how insistent they were that Bret was 18 during his lunch with Terry. The fact that he was on the cusp of turning 18, but wouldn't do so within the novel's timeframe, was indicative of his persistent desperation to grow up. Bret wasn't even mature enough to understand what Terry wanted from him, never mind for Terry to actually go through with it.

Obviously, this would still be the case had he been 18, but I see absolutely no beneficial reason for this change unless it's to soften what Terry did/expand his role.

"I've known you since you were ten years old" and my husband has been thinking about grooming you ever since.

[kindofwriter]

Bret when Terry first met him. By the way

[patty-cakeman]

Favorite Bret Easton Ellis main character?

(Puhlease do not vote if you’ve only read American Psycho)

👀

Clay Easton (Less Than Zero, Imperial Bedrooms)

Sean Bateman (The Rules of Attraction)

Lauren Hynde (The Rules of Attraction)

Paul Denton (The Rules of Attraction)

Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)

Victor Ward (Glamorama)

Bret Ellis (Lunar Park)

Bret Ellis (The Shards)

Voting ended onMay 3

[realvictorwardposting]

me being one of the few people voting bret ellis the shards here is still funny af

[realvictorwardposting]

there's a lot more i want to say about the shards but now i want everyone to just enjoy the show w me!!!!

[realvictorwardposting]

the pedo scene in the show wasn't as creepy as it was in the book imo. no tension at all. and no current bret internal monologue talking about how stupid teenage bret is. why are they trying to make teenage bret smart he's paranoid and crazy and he's 17

[bitterhalf]

i feel very maternal about fictionalized teenage bret easton ellis

[realvictorwardposting]

the shards bret is my kid that i fucking hate but he's my kid