#not mary

[whynotfabulous]

What is your silliest and least relevent, but very genuine fan-theory?

[notacaravan]

Pat Butcher?

butcher than who?

[maryandherboys]

Incest Shipping as a Queer Allegory

On AO3

There's something really appealing about the idea that two people who aren't allowed to be together want each other so much that they're willing to break the rules and taboos of society and say "fuck you, I can love who I want."

Growing up queer, that's how I felt. It wasn't okay to be queer, it wasn't legal to marry someone of the same sex. But then when I was a teenager, gay marriage was legalized, protections for the LGBTQ+ community were put in place, and while I was grateful and relieved for it, it almost felt like I never had the opportunity to find someone I loved so much I would break taboo for, because by the time I had my first girlfriend, it wasn't taboo anymore.

But what is still taboo, and will likely always be taboo, the absolute pinnacle of bad-dirty-wrong, the ultimate "fuck you, I can love who I want," is incest.

In shipping siblings or a parent and child, I get to vicariously reach the culmination of every desire I had as a kid to love someone so much that I would go against society for them. That's not to say that I can't love someone that much now, but that I can't have that outward experience of a love that strong. So what do I do? I grab two pretty, fictional people who happen to be related, and I push that intensity onto them.

And I make my baby queer dreams come true.

[quarantinechristie]

#1 - Murder on the Orient Express

*Excuse the obvious screenshot I got from Google Images* I began with the essential classic. This is Christie’s best-known novel, and it’s understandable as to why. This book is brilliance and shaking morality under a disguise of glamour and wit. It was the one that got me hooked in the first place, mainly because I never before seen such a fascinating moral dilemma dealt with in such an intriguing and unexpected way. It’s very character-based (both in the moral and literary senses), which I always tend to favour in my reading, and this cast of travelers on the blizzard-blocked and murder-troubled Calais Coach has more than enough eccentricity to keep a reader on their toes. It’s just exquisite. It subverts expectations of the mystery genre without breaking from the traditional format enough to warrant notice along the way. The clues are laid perfectly, but it’s impossible to figure out the solution without pre-existing knowledge of it. It’s so clever, so captivating, and so perfectly Christie. Ranking: 10/10. Colour I associate it with: ocean-y royal blue. Bright, cold, and sharp.

[elsewhereuniversity]

I'm going to be honest, Not-Mary is a much better roommate than Mary ever was. That's part of what tipped me off to her being Not-Mary, but I try not to bring it up. She's trying her best, and every time someone points out how abysmal her acting is she looks like she's about to cry. At this point everyone on our floor is actively trying to cover up that she's a changeling. We don't want the Knights to know. They might bring Human-Mary back. She really was such a bitch.

I love and support Not-Mary

[fieriframes]

[3 images. A car parked in a parking lot. A person in a blue room. Captions: Runff. [Camera Clicks] What are you doing, Gert? I'm going to play in Elliott's room. O.K. Don't let him torture you. I won't, Mary.]

[fancycatnip]

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN BOBBY