Love Sought is Good but Giv'n Unsought is Better

A blog devoted to all things beautiful, classic and queer: costume drama, the golden years of Hollywood, Jane Eyre, Lawrence of Arabia, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, art, history, vintage photography, Victorian novels and enough gay ships to form a navy

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TIP TOE • 1.02

[jackabbot]

Do you ever think it's coming back? All that shit from the '90s? We were despised, but you read the stuff online now, it sounds just the same. Do I think it's coming back? Yeah. It's back, you fucking idiot. Right now, it's here.

TIP TOE • 1.01

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History tells us one thing. That blood and fire and retribution always happen. And right now... it's coming for us.

TIP TOE • 1.01

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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995)

dir. ang lee

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What a perfect hour of television.

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[herheartwasintherightplace]

Happy times

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Ilya likes both. It’s true, I’ve been with many women, but…

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There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend…

— E.M. Forster, Maurice

[hayaomiyazaki]

First time I seed you, I thought, “I wish I had that one.” And it is so.

Maurice (1987), d. James Ivory

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commission!

ralph and laurie from "the charioteer"

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[speareshakes]

Happy 100th Birthday David!!!!! 🥰

[vintage-every-day]

The first female gardeners employed at London's Kew Gardens. Eleanor Morland, Gertrude Cope and Alice Hutchings. Photographed in 1896.

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LAUFEY MADWOMAN, 2026

OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO STARRING HUDSON WILLIAMS, ALYSA LIU, MEGAN SKIENDIEL, & LOLA TUNG

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NCUTI GATWA and HUGH SKINNER in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (2025)