“Everyone saw in my face evil traits that I didn’t possess. But they assumed I did, and so they developed. I was modest, and was accused of being deceitful: I became secretive. I had a strong sense of good and evil; instead of kindness I received nothing but insults, so I grew resentful. I was gloomy, other children were merry and talkative. I felt myself superior to them, but was considered inferior: I became envious. I was ready to love the whole world, but no one understood me, so I learned to hate. My colorless youth was spent in a struggle with myself and with the world. Fearing mockery, I buried my best feelings at the bottom of my heart: there they died.”
— Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time (trans. Vladimir Nabokov)
This is ungodly 😭🤪🤤
john cudia supremacy🗣️‼️
obligatory gifs pulled from the dregs of my hard drive!!
Also here he is making out with Marie Danvers:
And shoving the phantom:
God give me courage to show you, you are not alone...
Killian Donnelly and Lucy St Louis as The Phantom and Christine
For @meilas
@lasagnatrades master
The content I didn't know I needed.
another excerpt from The Hang With Ramin Karimloo where Sierra talks about regretting her choice at the end
I've been thinking a lot about the relationship between gothic romance, melodrama, and fanfiction (mostly Re: POTO) and how they've been shunted into the category of "women's media." Like women and queer folks have been writing their desires into media for centuries and being told that such desires--the excess, the sensationalism/sensuality, the emotional transcendence--are not "realistic" and only good for aesthetic consumption in its place.
But then you look at the general endurance of "women's media" through time...and the fact that even in a capitalistic world obsessed with monetization and the "hyper-real," there are whole fandoms/online communities where authors are writing fanfics with hundreds of thousands of hits for FREE and where third spaces and alternative economies based on trading and sharing have taken shape around the very same desires deemed "unrealistic"....
Idk where I was going with that, but someone gets the point. Is it that queer and feminine desire are "silly," or do they imagine other ways of living and relating to each other, our bodies, our emotions that certain power structures want us to think is impossible?
The chat next Saturday is going to be so unstable and I am totally here for it 💀
I try my best to schedule around Saturday evenings, but it's an event night! I might be back in time, but I don't want to risk it. See you next weekend!
I don't think you understand how John Cudia's STYDI hands have disturbed me on a visceral level. He went OFF in this boot.
Not sure if I'm allowed to do this (so someone tell me if I need to trash this post) but I just can't witness this Anthony Warlow near-hand touch and not do something about it.
Oh. Ok 😭
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