Cicadatown Gallery

Black, southern, eclectic I make art and consume media "There are twice as many stars as usual"

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i wanna make some amateur analogue horror sooo bad

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"I could've just generated that with AI." I'm in your house with a weapon.

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"I think they just liked having three pretty boys running around"

-Rupert Graves in an interview about Maurice

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"When I tried to speak, I found I had no tongue

It's a small world

or maybe a big one

I haven't got around much,

though my bags are packed"

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Why do people keep trying to tragicize Maurice?

I mean this criticism lightheartedly, but I am starting to think that some queer people just yearn for tragedy and will bend over backwards to find it in any story. I see the take so often that Maurice is a sad movie or a sad story. I very firmly feel that it is not. It is a movie with sad moments, but ultimately the whole point is that Maurice gets a happy ending. He just doesn't get a happy ending form the start.

I find people trying to rewrite the story a little frustrating because, given the the time period that the book was written in (and honestly the period the movie was made in), it's very important to preserve the fact it is a queer story where the main character gets a happy ending. That was a big deal and it's a big part of why I love the story so much. We have plenty of tragedies, y'all. If you love tragedies, I get it! As You Are, Brokeback Mountain (two of my all-time favorites), Portrait of Dorian Gray, Fellow Travelers, the list goes on. We've got those in surplus, no need to make one where there isn't one just because it's set in the past.

I honestly think that some people just prefer the younger, more carefree, and aesthetically-pleasing-in-a-dark-academia-way sort of chemistry that Clive and Maurice had and for some reason they let it turn into this weird pseudo-erasure of Alec. At the beginning of my engagement in the fandom (before I knew the story), based on how people spoke about it, I didn't even realize that the story continued after Clive. I just think that SOME fans of the movie/book do Alec kind of dirty and it rubs me the wrong way. One of the greatest things about the story (I think the book does it extra well) is getting to watch Maurice grow and become himself. The "himself" that we spend the whole movie getting to is the adult him that falls in love with Scudder and finds the courage to truly love him. I just think it's bizarre that people try to take away from that, but at the end of the day it's not really that serious. I just wanted to present this to the class and see what y'all thought. :)

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wyd when me and my gang pull up?

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I <3 dr nowhere

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to double down on my previous statement. (yes this is from pinterest. most of my images are)

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Average Jubilee video titled something like "20 White Supremacists vs. the Ghost of Harriet Tubman"

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I often think of waging war on the Mormons. Like they're just doing too much.

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how ur trans homegirl looks at you after throwing the craziest song you've ever heard on the aux.

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how transmascs pull up on you when you open the bag of sweet rope tarts.

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Do not talk to me about Clive Durham. The movie is not about him, he's just there.

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I think it's getting late.

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NOTHING IS MUNDANE.

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There's still so much time.