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[Shiro Project:RE x Attack on Titan Collaboration]

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HQ scans of Isayama’s What If Scenario Illustrations from the Shingeki no Kyojin Inside and Outside Guidebooks

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I recently rewatched Aot (Eruri in 3x16 standing in the middle of a huge chaos and just looking into each other's eyes like no homo just bros) and it's driving me crazy how much Levi loved Erwin, how deeply and selflessly he loved Erwin. I adore the fact that Levi kept Erwin "in the story" even after his death. It almost felt like Erwin continued to live through Levi. And knowing how much Levi loved Erwin and how much he sacrificed for him, how he tortured himself for him is insane it warms my heart because no matter how terrible their lives were I know Erwin was loved this way, at least he had that, you know? A nd it's insane when people say Erwin didn't care about Levi or he wouldn't want to protect Levi because I think that love, Levi's neverending love appreciation and support is what kept Erwin from fully sinking into his depression. It's impossible for me to imagine that Erwin at least didn't appreciate that. Because in Erwin's position nothing comes close to having a person you can fully and truly rely on.

Beautifully put Anon. There's honestly nothing I can add to this other than to say that I agree with every word ♡

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everyone always says ackermans feel a great desire to protect their special person (not ackerbond I know just a desire to protect them) and levi actually went against this desire and let erwin die but doesn't it also mean that levi's desire to protect erwin from the cruelty of this world won?

Yes, that's precisely the point of Levi's decision. He allowed Erwin to die with his humanity and his dream intact rather than dragging him back into hell and condemning him to become the devil again. It's the greatest act of love and compassion on Levi's part.

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Love love love this beautiful story 😍😍😍😍 thank you so muchhhhhhh 💛💛💛💛

Maylor Week 2023

Day 2 prompt: MPREG/Baby/Parenting

A huge thanks to @greekgeek24 for the cover art for my story.

This story is a belated birthday gift to my dear pal @alliofthevalleyy

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Announcing Maylor Week 2023!

Summer is fast approaching, which can only mean one thing - Maylor Week!  

This year’s event will take place beginning July 20th through July 24th.

In addition to prompt suggestions, we have added a special feature.  Each day there will be a photo offered as inspiration.  As a result, our theme for this year’s event is -

A Picture Tells A Thousand Words (or a drabble at the least…)

* The photos will be posted in a separate announcement prior to Maylor Week.

Prompts

Day 1 - July 20th

Health Scare

Somewhere in Time/Time Travel

Sugar Daddy

Jealousy

Photo - Maylor in Japan having dinner

Day 2 - July 21st

MPREG/Baby/Parenting

Game Playing

Flower Language

Boyfriend Tax

Photo - 1974 Tour Motel Maylor

Day 3 - July 22nd

Flat mate/Roommate

Sexting

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Fantasy AU

Photo - Awkward Double Date

Day 4 - July 23rd

Shared Birthday

Costumes/Cosplay

Multiverse/Parallel Worlds (Soulmates in any time, place or circumstance)

Getting Older Together

Photo - Maylor in New Orleans

Day 5 - July 24th

Sex, Lies and Videotapes

Camping

Dear Diary

5 times and the 1 time…

Photo - 80′s Maylor in the back of a limo

Big thanks to @wings-n-bees for the amazing graphic created for this year’s event! 

Housekeeping -

All forms of creativity are welcome.  Be it fanfiction, artwork, mood boards, playlists, cosplay, crafting, etc.

We do welcome both romantic and platonic scenarios for Maylor.

There will be a MaylorWeek2023 Collection created on A03 to submit any fics or collections of artwork.  Please use the tag @maylorweek2023 when posting anything on Tumblr.

Please remember to provide the appropriate ratings and warnings on your work.

We all know the drill by now, but do not engage with people who are being hateful, abusive, negative, etc..  When you post on AO3, you are able to select comment moderation. Ignore the comment and delete it!   If you find yourself having any issues with harassment, delete the comment right away, and you can message me about this.

Any questions?  Feel free to message me.

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Hey guys …

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I realized something rather unsettling about E.M. Forster’s Maurice: it would’ve never happened at all—in fact it was so close to never having been written. 

Why? Because the novel is a direct result of Forster's visit to Edward Carpenter and George Merril in 1913—specifically, a direct result of a Merril’s touch on Forster’s backside, but broadly of Carpenter’s philosophy and the life he had with his lover, the lower-class Merrill. But here’s the thing: Edward Carpenter and George Merril were almost charged, arrested, and/or imprisoned because of their sexuality and relationship. 

Having published his controversial The Intermediate Sex which sought to justify homosexual love, Edward Carpenter came under fire and faced a large public reaction. Someone named D O’Brien, a member of a right-wing group instigated his own large-scale campaign against Carpenter. He printed out pamphlets and wrote letters accusing Carpenter, even sent them to the Home Office and the police who then started investigating Carpenter. The authorities evaluated Carpenter’s published books on homosexuality to determine merits of persecuting him.

However, the Director of Public Persecution at the time, Charles, decided not to open any legal proceeding. Because with the shadow of Oscar Wilde’s infamous trial still palpably felt in the society, he did not want to stir any public discussion about sex or homosexuality through Carpenter or his books. As such, no proceeding against Carpenter happened, and his books were not banned. This ended in 1909. 

But the investigation did not stop there. The Derbyshire police was concerned with—and anxious about—getting a case against Carpenter and Merrill as two homosexuals. I think that since Carpenter was upper-class and had a solid reputation, the police went after Merrill instead, especially because O’Brien’s letters mentioned names of several people who knew about Merrill’s "indecencies". But these people were of no avail. Hence, no incriminating evidence was found against Carpenter “beyond strong suspicion”, and before 1911, the whole thing was thus, finally, dropped. 

And Forster’s visit to the two men living together in Millthorpe happened in 1913. 

(Below: a 1911 census showing Edward Carpenter, the head of house, living together with George Merrill, the housekeeper)

Imagine: had Carpenter and Merril been caught—and imprisonment was most certain for Merril due to his lower station—they wouldn’t have been together at where they were in 1913. Forster probably wouldn’t have visited Carpenter at their cottage at all, and thus, Maurice and its happy ending would’ve never been formed. The lives of the real life Maurice Hall and Alec Scudder could’ve been destroyed before their fictional counterparts had been conceived—and Forster would’ve never seen the happy gay couple he knew to write a gay romance novel with a happy ending. 

(Forster could’ve written and even published another version of Maurice—albeit one with tragic ending and deaths of gay characters.)

I used to think Carpenter and Merrill evaded the laws and got through it all because they were smart and brave and discreet, but now I know they were also incredibly lucky, in the sense that it’s almost like Carpenter and Merrill were destined by some higher power to be together and live in an Edwardian gay fairy tale of happily ever after; they were meant to survive as outlaws and to welcome Forster into their home and inspire him to write a gay novel with a happy ending. “Fate has mated it perfectly,” might I quote from Forster himself. 

(Below: a 1921 census showing Carpenter and Merrill living together still)

Probably in an alternate universe, Carpenter and Merrill were indeed arrested. Merrill went to prison and suffered the same as Wilde did; Carpenter however was let off due to his status (just like Forster had imagined for Maurice and Alec in real life his terminal notes). I don't want to wonder or ponder too much on that because for now, I'm just glad that I live in this timeline where a homosexual happy ending indeed happened in real life as well as in fiction, in the most impossible times.

Source: https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/edward-carpenter-free-love-advocate-and-lgbtq-rights-pioneer/

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I’M SOOOOO EXCITEDDDDDDDD FOLKSSSS 😭😭

Maylor Week 2023 -  A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words (or a drabble at the least…)

This year’s Maylor week includes a daily photo prompt.  Here are the photos selected for each day.  Posted separately for easier viewing.

Day 1 - July 20th

Day 2 - July 21st

Day 3 - July 22nd

Day 4 - July 23rd

Day 5 - July 24th

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too hot to hug 🧡

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// Help me if you can, I’m feeling down //

(Paul in the Help! promo video)

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someone’s sleeping on the couch tonight

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They go from this:

To this, by the end of the five minutes, LOL. <3

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Brian May personally contributing to the cause!

https://rockcelebrities.net/brian-may-reminisces-about-the-romantic-journey-he-had-with-roger-taylor/?fbclid=IwAR3QCdgP5zOy_G4ymzQNopc5DLqMYEwcE-tdOmMb1PZlxbDxn4HhPVOZ9tc

Taken from the article:    During his recent interview, Brian May revealed that the song’s lyrics were about the romantic journey he had with Roger Taylor in Brighton. May and Taylor met two girls in the city in their early days, and the song came about after this brief encounter.

Brighton Rock -  ‘ A happy pair they made, so decorously laid’

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BRIAN MAY, Live in Montreal (1981)

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Queen performing Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy on “Top of the Pops”, 16th June 1977