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numnum-num · 4 months

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Jean Genet (1910 - 1986)

#jean genet #querelle #novelist #gay novel #gay history #literature #gay literature #lgbt history #lgbtq history #vintage fashion #male style #gay icons #male fashion

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thinkdifferent70 · 2 months

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A Kiss in the destiny - (Alex & Adam ) - a Novel by Luke

#gay love #gayman #gay #gayboy #gaylife #gay couple #gayhot #gay kiss #gay novel #loveislove 🏳️‍🌈#i love you #queer media #queer books #queer writers

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moderncentaurs · 5 months

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Ever seen a pole dancing centaur? Percy's here to show you how it's done haha

More illustrations from the book I really enjoy, these were originally done in 2020

read the book over here to see why Ryder is so shocked at Karin hehe

#original character #half human #once in a blue moon #oiabm #modern centaurs #centaur #taur #centaur au #pole dancing #pole dancing centaur #gay novel #gay romance #lgbt novel #lgbt comic #queer comics #lgbt art #lgbtq artist

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edenspriest · 5 months

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cottagecore erotic novel but it's 2 beefy country boys rolling around in a muddy pumpkin patch in the middle of november

#writeblr #drafts #queer #gay #gay novel #writing prompt #cottagecore #im terrible at time management #so we'll see #when this actually gets written

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morrieandlicky · 1 year

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E.M. Forster's journal entries relating to Maurice in his "Locked Diary"

Apologies in advance—I only had about an hour in the library to skim through the entire source, "The Journals and Diaries of E.M. Forster vol 2", which contains every journal entry of Forster from 1910 to the late 1960's. I thus probably missed some mentions of Maurice. But surprisingly, there were much fewer Maurice entries than expected—and many are short and subtle.

6th December, 1913:

The first mention of Maurice: "my novel goes slower."

(Some context: the short story mentioned here is Forster's gay erotic story which "shocked" his mentor Dickinson—and caused a rift between them. Meredith is the real-life Clive Durham who read Maurice's writing in progress and was utterly repelled by the story.)

31st December, 1913:

The second mention is also the most important and iconic one: "Edward Carpenter! Edward Carpenter! Edward Carpenter!"

The entry is a part of Forster's 1913 end-of-year reflection. It shows Forster mentally struggling with whether to proceed with the novel. It's also confirmed that the day he formulated the love story in his mond during his visit to Edward Carpenter and George Merrill—the real-life Maurice and Alec—is 13th of September, 1913.

Also, the Greenwood here is not the same greenwood Maurice and Alec escape to. It's Leonard Greenwood, a close confidante of Forster who was very important in producing and preserving the first manuscript of Maurice, and who fell apart with Forster later.

June, 1914:

Completely my fault—I failed to capture the exact date and wider context, but I do remember it being a very brief mention of Maurice in the summer of 1914.

31st December, 1914:

Another end of year reflection. We see that Forster was able to mend his relationship with Dickinson who liked and approved Maurice. Also, we can guess of Meredith (H.O.M.)'s continuing aversion to the novel, Greenwood's relationship with Forster deteriorating, and Forster feeling indebted to Edward Carpenter (E.C.).

(The next and last entry about Maurice I found is from the '1950s... I might have missed some mentions. But it must be noted that Maurice was revised many times between 1914 and 1959. There was even a point in 1932 when Forster finalized a manuscript that had a much less satisfying ending between Maurice and Alec without the epilogue.

Forster's letters with his friends who've read Maurice do show us his own thoughts on the story's ending as well as what drove his revisions across decades. His diary, however, does not.)

31st December, 1952 and 1st January, 1953:

Context: in 1951/1952, Forster was encouraged by another gay novelist Christopher Isherwood to add more scenes between Maurice and Alec, and so Forster did, enthusiastically and very quickly—after many years of refusing Isherwood's requests to add more scenes (we don't know what Isherwood said to Forster to sway him). Hence, the hotel chapter after the British museum was manually added to the 1932 finalized manuscript—clipped in, actually. The "Maurice's end" mentioned here is probably not the hotel chapter, however, but likely Maurice's final farewell to Clive.

That's it. Though the novel wasn't completely finalized until 1959 when Forster managed to unite Maurice and Alec at the boathouse in explicit writing. Before then, their reunion was only implied, which is why the 1932 ending is a big let-down since it didn't have the monologue.

Lastly, some interesting diary entries from Forster:

Why was Forster drawn to lower class men? Carpenter explained himself.

2. Forster moving on from his first love Mohammed el Adl, a lower-class Egyptian who ended up marrying a woman and likely broke up with Forster on very bad terms. (Spoiler alert: Forster failed to move on... Plenty of mentions and entries about Mohammed later on.)

Context: the relationship between Mohammed and Forster is much like the one between Maurice and Alec—they probably had their own episodes about class struggles and "blackmail" in real life—except the happy ending.

3. Um... Did Forster and Bob have a lot of rough sex?

4. Lastly, some mentions of Edward Carpenter and George Merrill in his diaries after Forster became neighbor with them since they moved from Millthorpe to Guilford.

I like how George Merrill is described as "skittish". You'll know it's very characteristic of him if you've read Edward Carpenter's biography on George Merrill.

Context: Moh. refers to Mohammed. This was around 1922 after Mohammed left Forster and got married and then died. We can see that the end of their time together was rather unpleasant.

Source: The Journals and Diaries of E M Forster Vol 2 by Philip Gardner

#maurice #maurice em forster #maurice 1987 #maurice hall #em forster #edward carpenter #george merrill #clive durham #alec scudder #em forster maurice #Christopher Isherwood #Bob Buckingham #secret journal #diaries #gay books #gay novel #1900s #edwardian era

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kmscb · 8 months

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Okay, it's official. Blood Angel, Book Two - The Prussian is now available in ebook, only, on Smashwords. $0.99 Set in 1870 during the war between France and Germany, after 800 years as a Blood Angel Léonidès wants a mate...and thinks he's found one.

Word of caution -- it starts out with the rape/murder of a man

#gay #mm novel #gay novel #mm noncon #mm non con #gay noncon #gay non con #blood angel #gay vampires

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resentful-reads · 6 months

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Desmond by Ulysses Grant Dietz

#resentful reads #desmond #ulysses grant dietz #desmond book #desmond novel #bookblr #book quotes #book excerpt #desmond beckwith #vampire novel #gay novel #mlm #mlm mc #god mention

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zephywolf0 · 8 months

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i feel like every gay novel/comic i've seen on store shelves has the same cover, like, the same pink and light blue pastel colour scheme, faceless vector art of two guys semi-interacting, like looking at each other or sitting side by side or something. am i crazy or is this a genuine trend

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driella · 29 days

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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S08VOY-cyF-LLLZ9lLiKcbT0LSsZI7bDAVe3nmXDe_s/edit?usp=drivesdk

My recent short novel😭(I did not edit it so yeah and quite a poor written novel:/)

And because I'm bored, I made their playlist

#dark academia #writing #literature #short novel #gay novel #shut up I made their playlist #Spotify

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rogue-indshadows · 2 months

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"The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat -- soft and persistent, underlying everything."

Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1)

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utterlyconfusedacademia · 2 years

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My heart was so light I could have flown. The memory of it takes my breath away. I didn’t know happiness was that simple.

Bridget Collins, The Binding.

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles.

#my babies #the binding #bridget collins #the song of achilles #tsoa #madeline miller #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #gay love #gay novel #love

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thinkdifferent70 · 2 days

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"I don't want to forget a love like that. It comes to me at night, in the sleep, it stuns me and enchants me like a bewitching mermaid; behind the pastel curtains, the large sloping terrace that protects me from a city that I hate and then there is the rosemary vase, powerful, with a strong soul rooted in my land that I left years ago. Behind the villa, the forest of holm oaks, oaks and blackberry swabs, all cloathed by the large rosemary bush and the pine tree that bends on the stream to protect me from the summer heat. That's it a place that it all started. -

“ Tell me it only divides us a month ”

“ A month and nothing else “

———@ Luke C

“Io un amore così non lo voglio dimenticare . Mi arriva di notte , nel dormiveglia, mi stordisce e mi incanta come una sirena ammaliatrice; dietro le tende pastello, il grande terrazzo spiovente che mi protegge da una città che detesto e poi c’è il vaso di rosmarino , possente, dall’animo forte e radicato nella mia terra che ho lasciato anni fa . Dietro la villa, il bosco di lecci, querce e batuffoli di more , tutto ammantato dal grande cespuglio di rosmarino e dal pino che si piega sul ruscello per proteggermi dalla calura estiva . E’ li che è iniziato tutto .

“ Dimmi che ci divide solo un mese “

“ Un mese e nient’altro “

Un estratto da UN MESE E NIENT’ALTRO “ un romanzo di @ Luke C .

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hatterpillar-author · 5 months

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"He looks down at the man and feels a pang of… guilt? Well, of course he felt guilty, that’s the correct emotion to feel when you kill someone, isn’t it? Elijah didn’t know."

#my writing #creative writing #wip #crime novel #serial killer #queer #gay novel #lgbt books #snippet #new author #ao3 writer #will i?#dramatic #conflicted

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willbashor · 5 months

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Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2023 - 4.0 out of 5 stars. A heart-rendering read...

This book tells the story of a boy who was denied his birthright because he was an illegitimate son of the King and his lover. Bastard Prince of Versailles is based on actual events, yet it is an utterly gripping read. Even though he tried hard and his best, he always needs to improve. His friendship with Marcel, a stable hand, helped him develop friendship and confidence. It is a heart-rendering inside look at a royal family in 17th-century France and the life of a bastard child born into nobility.

#louisxiv #gayversailles #gay prince #gay historical novel #historical fiction #gay novel #gayfiction

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kaiyah-in-a-mercedes · 2 years

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I love the type of stories that leave you aching for the characters that ink on pages brought to life. i love feeling like I know these people who don't exist. i love when a story makes you want to yell "fuck you" at the world. i love stories like that.

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kmscb · 2 months

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ebook

paperback

#gay #mm #mm noncon #mm non con #gay noncon #mm sex #gay non con #mm novel #gay novel #kmscb #mm sci fi #mm horror #mm rape #mm romance

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