#homoerotic literature

[elainiisms]

#dark academism #dark academia #dark acamedia #tsh #donna tartt #the secret history #bunny corcoran #henry winter #richard papen #charles macaulay #camila macaulay #francis abernathy #literature #english literature #homoerotism #homoeroticism #if we were villains #iwwv #dead poets society

[sawiet]

pontius pilate from the book is too real. he has a constant migraine, hates the city he lives in, dreams of dying soon and loves only his dog.

#he also has a homoerotic interest #and he knows all about hyperfixation #so real for that #master and margarita #russian literature #mikhail bulgakov #pontius pilate #my stuff

[antlerparts]

Saw (2004) dir james wan

“I bloody my hands for him, so he must be god”

#gothic romance #horror #literature #saw 2004 #saw #adam stanheight #lawrence gordon #saw franchise #homoerotism #love as violence #love as religion #poetry #gruesomeart #i want to devour him #gruesome poetry #religious poetry #gay horror #art

[vanshaunas]

some quotes that i think you could find in shauna shipman’s journal (and they’re all about jackie taylor) :

“I sometimes cannot understand how she can love another, how she dares love another, when I love nothing in this world so completely, so devotedly, as I love her, when I know only her, and have no other possession.” - The Sorrows of Young Werther, J. W. Goethe

“My imagination can shape no other figure but hers; I see everything around me only in its relationship to her.” - The Sorrows of Young Werther, J. W. Goethe

“I’m thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.” - Letters to Milena, Franz Kafka

“I want to fill my mouth with your name. I want to eat you whole.” - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Pablo Neruda

#just your average teenage homoerotic bffism #do i hate you or do i love you? #obssession #resentment #shauna shipman is a silly little dyke #jackieshauna #jackie x shauna #jackie taylor #yellowjackets #literature #books and literature #franz kafka #letters to milena #johann wolfgang von goethe #the sorrows of young werther #cannibalism as a metaphor for love

[heart-of-poetry]

Love is consumption. Love devours. Love eats. The allure of someone takes up my entire life, fills in all of the empty space and clears out what was already there too. I do not see anyone, I see the object of my desire. I want, I want, I want. It takes so much out of me. Desire, for me, is enormous. It hurts. I stop breathing. My heart pumps blood more slowly. Love takes over my body like some sort of parasite. It takes and takes and takes until I am empty, dissolving into nothing.

#wlw #wlw yearning #literature #writing #webweaving #yearning #out of my collection #spilled prose #poetic prose #prose poetry #on love #prose writing #dark prose #prose poem #prose #poems and poetry #my poem #short poem #original poem #homoerotism #homoerotic #love as consumption #love as violence #love as religion

[marlborored13]

Okay let’s be real did or did not Raskolnikov and Razumikihin explore eachothers bodies. This mf SPOON FED him soup that’s foreplay if I’ve ever seen it.

#crime and punishment #fyodor dostoevsky #raskolnikov #razumikhin #homoerotic #sad and gay #gay kiss #literature

[mostnormalaziraphaleliker]

Just read The Epic of Gilgamesh. I can't believe the oldest written piece of literature of ever was tragic yaoi.

#mostnormalaziraphaleliker #the epic of gilgamesh #it's strangely homoerotic for being nearly 4000 year old literature that's probably been heavily censored over the millennia #Like those mfs straight up kissed on the mouth #i know it wasn't inherently romantic at the time but #gahdamn

[my-deer-friend]

Oslo antique book shops are full of untapped potential, and I've turned up this beautifully preserved two-volume set of Fénelon's Aventures de Télémaque from 1796 for a very reasonable price. (I'll write a more detailed post about it soon because it's an interesting work of what is essentially proto-fanfic. Anyway.)

The books are full of stunning illustrations by Clément-Pierre Marillier, but the one that caught my eye was this startlingly homoerotic depiction of Telemachus and Mentor, his - well - mentor. Per the subscript, this is "Telemachus and Mentor, escaping the waves that Neptune had raised against them".

See what I mean? I'm struggling to find a good reason for Telemachus to be sticking his hand there, or for him to be straddling the log with his naked ass out on display, or for Mentor's tender hold, or for the intent gaze they are sharing - very reminiscent of classical depictions of erastes and eromenos.

Then again, this is a depiction of ancient Greeks, and people in the 18th century had knowledge of these kinds of same-sex arrangements. Is Marillier purposefully including some subtext here?

#18th century art #18th century literature #aventures de telemaque #telemachus #telemachus and mentor #greek mythology #homoerotism

[balkanradfem]

ok but how mad it was that sirius and lupin were about to commit murder together while 3 schoolchildren were just there on the scene as witnesses to watch. They were gonna make 3 kids watch a murder happen in real life! One of them their best friend's son! And they didn't even spare a thought about it, no 'oh maybe we shouldn't traumatize 3 minors while exacting our revenge', it was taken for granted that children are completely cool with this! One of the children had a leg broken by sirius at the time! Even if it was a show of Sirius's madness, what was Lupin, who was a TEACHER to these children thinking? was he so overtaken by Sirius that the last functioning braincell logged off and he was game to commit murder in front of children just because Sirius was present on the scene?

and how absolutely hilarious that it was enough for one of the kids to go 'how about let's not' and they were like. Uhhhhhh. ok. fine then. time for first aid on that leg I guess. that entire scene was absolute madness.

#we were all preoccupied analyzing the homoerotic subtones between lupin and sirius to notice what was happening in this scene #sirius black #remus lupin #peter pettigrew #the marauders #harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban #harry potter #literature analysis #i just listened to this part in an audio book and as an adult I am AGHAST #how about commit murder ELSEWHERE

[earlgrayonarainyday]

thinking about this text my friend sent me when he was reading the picture of dorian gray for the first time

#the picture of dorian gray #dorian gray #classic literature #homoerotic

[sawiet]

woland and the master in the book: one and a half joint scenes, minimal interactions

woland and the master in the film: woland lies casually and half-naked in the master's bed, inspiring him to write a novel, although canonically only margarita did so, with homoerotic tension present in every shared moment

#homoerotic tension #homoerotic friendship #master and margarita #mikhail bulgakov #woland #master × woland #gay as fuck #queer #russian literature #my stuff

[the-real-milo]

the way Richard Papen likes Camilla Macauley for her similarity to Charles vs how Nick Carraway likes Jordan Baker for her masculine upper lip

who wins the subtle homosensual undertones world cup?

#the secret history #great gatsby #richard papen #camilla macaulay #nick carraway #jordan baker #literature #homoerotism

[the-c41n-instinct]

My Roman Empire is how hetero and homo sexuality are so inherently different that they're practically incomparable and straight people can genuinely never understand the queer experience. To the point that even things like language, metaphors, and talk about relationships are so different.

#I've been thinking about this alot recently #especially because me (a lesbian) and two of my friends (queer) and (straight) #were talking about homoerotic cannibalism used in a nonsexual metaphor for queer love #and my straight friend just couldn't comprehend *how* that was a good metaphor (me and other friend were talking about how much we loved it) #yeah it's just been on my mind alot #I kinda want to talk about this more tbh #wlw #mlm #queer #lgbt #literature

[anniflamma]

I seriously need to finish reading Jacob's Wound, but the Elisha/Elijah part of this book is giving me brain rot in a negative way. Kind of got stuck there. Oh well, the book also traumatized me with the idea that Adonai, aka God, assaulted Saul in a 'narrative perspective,' like a metaphor. And I'm like, Please stop...

Then again, God did kind of harass Saul by throwing evil spirits at him because Saul only committed 99% mass murder instead of 100%.

The book is good! Don't get me wrong, it has taught me a lot of ancient Canaanite history/queer culture, but some parts of this book do confuse me.

#Jacob's Wound: Homoerotic Narrative in the Literature of Ancient Israel #Theodore W. Jennings Jr.

[heart-of-poetry]

She told me I am lucky that I have such great passion, so many loves. I told her that I am the most unlucky of all. I said that love hurts more than pain. I told her that nothing cuts deeper than the things I am devoted to.

#wlw #wlw yearning #literature #writing #webweaving #yearning #out of my collection #religion #homoerotism #queer christian #spilled prose #prose writing #dark prose #poetic prose #prose poetry #prose poem #original poems #poems and quotes #poems and poetry

[la-pheacienne]

What is the most romantic story you have ever read or watched?

This one will be long, sorry, I can't just pick one. I looked for the definition of "romantic" in various dictionnaries and I singled out these definitions (excluding the Romanticism of the 19th century although the two can coexist obviously) :

"marked by the imaginative or emotional appeal of what is heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized"

"characterized by, or suggestive of an idealized view of reality"

"visionary"

"conducive to or characterized by the expression of love"

"exciting and mysterious and having a strong effect on your emotions"

So the main things to look for here are 1) idealism (as opposed to realism) and 2) strong emotions, which leads to 3) love, that is naturally the perfect form of idealism evoking strong emotions.

Most romantic stories I have ever read, in no particular order:

A Tale of Two Cities. "I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul". A man sacrificing himself for the woman he loves, taking the place of the man she loves in the guillotine, you can't get more romantic than that.

Les Miserables. It is a Romantic story and a romantic story, both, of course. It is in every way THE romantic story by definition, every single possible version of romantic love is present here. Marius and Cosette's love at first sight is the definition of idealistic love as a copying mechanism for misery, loneliness and abandon. "What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul". Eponine's love and sacrifice for Marius and Cosette's happiness is the purest form of selfless devotion, born out of a context of complete vileness and depravity. Grantaire sacrificing himself for the ideals that Enjorlas believes in, out of pure love and devotion for Enjorlas as a person and not because of his personal political ideology, is also purely romantic. I would even include Valjean's love for the Bishop Myriel here because it is just so idealistic and wholesome and heartbreaking and life changing and larger than life.

The Great Gatsby. The romantic element is one sided here. It is personnified in Jay Gatsby, whose fatal love for the unworthy Daisy is the essence of "romantic", it is purely idealistic and thus completely clashes with the harsh reality, but we can't help but be drawn to his utter devotion, emotional drive and integrity. That's why he's The Great. "They're a rotten crowd. You're worth the whole damn bunch put together". "Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!"

After these three I have to mention:

Wuthering Heights, for the dark side of romantic love. Here love is mainly the force of evil, but still, it is presented in its most idealistic form. "He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same". "Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul".

Jane Eyre. "I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one". I mean. Self explanatory.

Pride and Prejudice. Not exactly my definition of romantic because the realism is strong on that one, but still, it is the OG story where two people change their very personality because of their love for each other and it merits a place here. And also for quotes like this "In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you".

Gone with the Wind is also pretty romantic imo, despite the strong realism of both Scarlett and Rhett. Well, it merits a place here because this book really cemented the trope of a fictional character that is morally ambiguous (rotten even) and very realistic in the raw sense of the word but at the same time has an intense, soul-crushing idealism. Both Scarlett and Rhett are big idealists and they have an inner conflict between that idealism and their natural tendency to focus on the here and now. I love that. Very popular trope in American fiction.

As for the most romantic stories I have watched, that should be a post on its own I think because I can think of plenty of movies/shows, if we don't count the adaptations of the books I just mentioned here.

#intense rambling that's great #BUT IF I HAD TO CHOOSE ONE IT WOULD BE LES MIS #i even consider the way Hugo writes about Napoleon as romantic love okay? i am unwell but that is literally the vibe i'm sorry it's there #not including the entirety of the ABC dynamics that are purely romantic and drip of homoerotism lmao not just enjolras and grantaire #everybody #i said what i said #romantic academia #i guess? #is this even the correct tag? idk #romantic literature #romantic stories #romance #literature #a tale of two cities #les miserables #great gatsby #gone with the wind #pride and prejudice #wuthering heights #jane eyre #ask