#therentalspace

[makingqueerhistory]

Are there any famous writers in history whose identities as queer people have been erased? For example, if there’s a woman who was identified as a “spinster” and “being alone all her life” because she wasn’t married, but actually had a close romantic relationship with a friend of the same sex that is overlooked as “just a friendship.”

Loads, and loads. Queer people can have any profession, but we know about quite a few queer writers because they often write about that queerness, either in letters or in their own work. 

Here are some, we looked mostly for people who were queer in sexuality instead of gender just because that seemed like what you were looking for, but please message us again if you want more:

Evelyn Irons

Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī Part I

tatiana de la tierra

Bajazid Doda

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Lesbia Harford

Dawn Langley Hall

György Faludy

Yukio Mishima

Hamish Henderson

Alan L. Hart, Part 1

Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Sophia Parnok, Russia's Sappho

Virginia Woolf: Struggling (And Never Being Perfect)

Reinaldo Arenas, Rewriting Castro's Legacy

Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the Advocate

Sappho: The Poetess

The Marriage of Jane and Paul Bowles

Langston Hughes: The Poet

Vita Sackville-West: Creating a Legacy

[allofthepretty]

6, 9, 16, and 30 for the music asks please :)

Thank you!!! :)

6. A song that makes you want to dance. Young Folks by Peter Bjorn

9. A song that makes you happy. Dream by Bishop Briggs

16. Favorite classical piece. (1000x better live because the organ is so powerful): Symphony No. 3 in c minor, Op. 78 "Organ" by Camille Saint-Saëns. (A bonus second one that's still good via recording): Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar (of pomp and circumstance fame)

30. A song that reminds you of yourself. (This is maybe more what I want to be than what I am) buttercup by Hippo Campus

[alittlefoolish]

You're making me want to buy really nice fountain pens and moleskine notebooks. I don't know if I can resist for much longer.

I got my first Leuchtturm1917 notebook today because I read somewhere that they were better than moleskines.

I had to check them out because I love a good comparison.

Pens and notebooks are my safety net. I love themmmmm

[alittlefoolish]

Well I'm at a point right now where I write about twenty words before the creative flow shuts off. I would be more than happy to take a few thousand of your words.

I can quite easily and accidentally get caught up and end up writing 10k words in about 3 hours and I don’t know how

I fucking hate it because I have to proof it all afterwards because 90% of it is usually shit

[alittlefoolish]

I admire your ability to write so many words.

fuck me, I don’t, it’s annoying as FUCK

[alittlefoolish]

Game of Thrones is awesome but George RR Martin does a FANTASTIC job of putting a ton of characters in there that you will never remember the names of.

This became clear very easily... especially when my friend was trying to talk to me about how my epic Game of Thrones catch up is going (trying to watch 4 seasons in a week before they’re removed from my online rental service is hard) and he had to list about 20 characters before he got the one I was talking about.

[turtleduckdate]

therentalspace replied to your post:Korrasami AU where they're both art students....

Could I maybe write this please?

Of course! I would be honoured if you do !

[alittlefoolish]

Just wondering, what genres of books do you read? Any particular favorites that you have? Favorite authors?

I’m ashamed to say this but I haven’t read an actual book in so long. I read littleoases novel last summer and still owe her my thoughts (however, I should probably read it again first) but I really rarely read actual books. I often get my Pablo Neruda 100 Love Sonnets out. I started reading Tony Curtis’ autobiography about the filming of Some Like it Hot (even though I had to put it down because I felt irrationally jealous that he got to have sex with her). I’ve been trying to get a hold of Marilyn Monroe’s autobiography but it’s really expensive. But yeah, mostly poetry or information books is all I read nowadays.