#Villa Diodati

[burningvelvet]

my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “laudanum-dosed wine at the villa diodati on lake geneva in 1816” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever i don’t feel shit

5 minutes later: dude i swear i just saw mary shelley and claire clairmont talking about reanimation and vampires with lord byron

my buddy percy pacing: dr. john polidori is plotting against us and my wifes nipples have been replaced by eyeballs

[strawberryysage]

The dance they should've had

[burningclocks]

I think about them constantly. They need a sitcom, I'm begging

[sucre333]

Hugh Grant is Lord Byron in Rowing with the Wind (1988).

[austinwehaveaproblem]

does anyone have lesbianlordbyron's fics archived? :[

[cannedbluesblog]

Gothic (1986)

[halloweenhundreds]

Gothic kicks ass. Poor doomed Richardson and Sands as the poor doomed Shelleys, Byrne as Byron, Timothy Spall, and a demonic laudanum nightmare at Villa Diodati. Gorgeous, but Dolby’s score is a weird match.

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

LORD BYRON HAS BEEN DEAD FOR TWO HUNDRED SLUTTY, SLUTTY YEARS.

[ultrameganicolaokay]

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley and John Polidori.

[burningvelvet]

this still from bride of frankenstein always gets me because it just captures their vibe perfectly. mary's ethereal charm and serious deadpan expression like she's on the office. byron with his hand on his hip, cock on full display, and the most dramatic collar ever. shelley with his legs crossed and his adorable wrinkled bow. how they kind of look like they could be trying to hold hands behind mary's back. truly an honorable contender for best geneva squad casting

[somc]

“Y si esas extrañas presencias no consiguen asustarnos del todo, si no caminamos llenos de miedo, crispados por la muchedumbre de sombras que se agolpan, es porque finalmente, ay, esos fantasmas somos nosotros” W.O

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

I would like to thank RTD for making so many people look back at Thirteen's Era and start to go "you know what? Maybe we judged the writing too harshly on this one." Maybe it is a good idea to bring in new writers and more women and people of color behind the scenes and allow them to write and direct things like Demons of the Punjab (top 5 ever Doctor Who episode) and the Haunting of Villa Diodati and Fugitive of the Judoon. Maybe Thirteen WAS camp, because the universe who decided to be a frog and the mud that did witchcraft and the Pting and the plastic that ate birds were unhinged and fun. Maybe we got some GORGEOUS cinematography out of it. Maybe Thirteen's take on gender is more interesting than the 60th anniversary specials. Maybe Yaz DID get an arc in the Flux/standalone specials and people just didn't pay attention. Maybe the Power of the Doctor paid more respect to former eras of Doctor Who than any of the 60th anniversary specials did. Maybe Chibnall acted with far more grace to the RTD Era (Jack) than RTD did to Chibnall (treatment of Yaz and Thirteen). Maybe it was actually cool to see less well-known or underexplored historical figures like Mary Seacole and Ada Lovelace and Nikola Tesla and Noor Inayat Khan end up onscreen. Maybe Thasmin wasn't queerbait, it was an interesting exploration of the doctor/companion romance IN KEEPING with Thirteen's established character with one of its keystone episodes written by a queer woman.

Yes, Chibnall was flawed. I'm never gonna pretend that the Battle of Ranskoor Av Kalos wasn't a piss poor finale that felt like a first draft of themes and idea. I'm not gonna pretend like the multiple companions in the TARDIS ever felt properly balanced or explored. Yes, the moment with the Master and the Nazis was FUCKED UP. The Timeless Child might have deserved more than one episode for the ImplicationsTM to be fleshed out. But EVERY Doctor Who Era has its flaws, ESPECIALLY when it comes to racism, and I'm TIRED pretending as if Chibnall's writing is significantly worse than the other two showrunners.

[denizbevan]

Both

But this is a Byron fic

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57855067

are you a Byron or Wilde apologist?

concerned citizens from 1895 are messaging me

[evviejo]

yaz's face appreciation: 123/?