#E M Forster

[worthyprnce]

“A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise! I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.” — E. M. Forster (around 1913/1914)

✶— alec scudder & maurice hall from the book "maurice" by e.m. forster (using as a reference a scene from the 1987's movie)

❕ please do not repost without credits :)

— close-ups under the cut ✨

I made this piece for this year's pride month, but I ended up posting for the first time in august, I believe. and here it is! also here is a version without the text:

[fruitybookworm]

me and maurice really went through that breakup together cause sometimes i remember how clive opened maurice's fucking world to love and then abandoned him and i get so upset but then i look at this picture of him and alec from the movie and all is well in the world

[dzgrizzle]

“The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”

~ E.M. Forster, Howards End

[nobeerreviews]

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

-- E. M. Forster

(Copenhagen, Denmark)

[admireforever]

Maurice

[atwellfilm]

HOWARDS END

Season 1, Ep. 03

[spending-life-pretending]

My favorite part of the book Maurice that gets cut from the movie because they reorder the final two scenes is when Maurice has to stop himself from telling Clive he literally just finished having sex with Alec in the boathouse

[discordantpiano]

haters will say it’s fake but this is exactly the dialogue in this scene

[thatidiots-art]

just watched Maurice im so glad i stayed up for this😭😭😭😭

morrie and scud ARGDHSGGG

[sunthroughdarkclouds]

Helena Bonham-Carter as Lucy Honeychurch in Room with a View (1985) directed by James Ivory

[nyloncurtains]

i need people to stop acting like maurice is a tragic gay love story with a sad ending bc it’s not. it is a story of love persevering in spite of the homophobic standards of upper class edwardian society. its about hope for a better future and two queer men loving eachother unashamedly. e.m forster gave maurice a happy ending because it’s what queer people deserve, even though he knew it was unlikely in 1914.

just because clive and maurice don’t end up together, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a happy ending. stop alec erasure.

[tinidor-theodore]

what the fuck??? not clive being fruity even before liking a guy, like why u smiling like that while saying rizzley over here is dangerous, you'd know????? aND WHAT DO YOU MEAN MAURICE ITS TOO FAST, SLOW DOWN OR YOU'LL TEAR IT. WHAT.

[fruitybookworm]

the 1987 adaptation of ‘maurice’ was great in most aspects honestly. changing clive from suddenly just falling out of love with maurice (and men overall) to instead showing his spiral after risley was convicted and adding that scene at the end (as much as it hurt) were honestly good additions.

i will however NEVER forgive them for adding that ominous music over the scene where alec climbed up the ladder and came into maurice’s room. it deadass made it look like he forced himself on maurice. WHY ?? in the books maurice calls “come !” into the dark and alec genuinely thought he was calling for him. he didn’t just come up the ladder like a creep and jump on him..

was it perfect? no. but it still means so much to me. the book is very special to me and the fact it got an adaptation in the 80s is incredible. i’m very glad i watched the movie after reading the book as i could fill in some of the odd jumps in time with missing scenes from the book, i fear many won’t enjoy it as much as i did without it.

basically what i wanna say is i highly recommend reading the book and then rewatching the movie if you’ve already watched it and felt like something was missing !

[dzgrizzle]

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(1) Selfie in front of Gallery Espresso on Chippewa Square in Savannah, Georgia (2) My tattoo on my left inner forearm (February 2024): “only connect,” the epigraph of Howards End by my favorite writer E.M. Forster, and really the theme of all his novels (including Maurice, my favorite novel). Typewriter font. Inked by James Tuck. (3) My current Morning Affirmation (November 2024, post-election)

[sunsfawn]

IM DOING IT IM DOING IT IM COLOURING TRUST MEE also i see a few ppl reblogging my last post of this art i love you guys hiiii <3

EDIT: I POSTED THE FINISHED ONE HERE

[admireforever]

Maurice