#cmbyn set

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[meliilem]

Having my cmbyn summer in Venice, Italy❤️☀️

[steelycunt]

hiii you lot i have. a forehead kiss and a little biscuit for anyone who can suggest me some summery book recommendations 🧑🏽‍❤️‍💋‍🧑🏽 any genre i dont mind i just. can’t decide what 2 read but i am in a spring/summer mood right now so i think something like that would b good…something with sunshine 🧑🏽‍❤️‍💋‍🧑🏽

[i-appear-misssing]

Why did armie hammer have to be a piece of garbage and ruin one of my comfort movies for me

[joonieskinks]

somewhere in italy, 2002

simon 'ghost' riley x reader | fluff, swearing, some small hints of past smut but mostly just a happy reunion inspired by cmbyn lol | 800-ish

You could feel his eyes on you before you set yours on his. 

At first you believed he approached you due to the minimal seating available on the patio, hoping to steal a chair to rejoin his rather loud group of friends. But instead the masked man asked for a seat beside you. That's when you glanced up from your novel, taking the cigarette out of your mouth. 

“This seat taken, love?” He asked, his voice husky but softer than you imagined it would be at first glance of the man. 

“No, you’re welcome to it.” You boldly insist, eyes lingering on him briefly before disappearing back to the pages in front of you. 

He pulled the seat out from the table, angling the chair towards you, and there he sat. Searching for words, perhaps just enjoying your presence. You couldn’t quite decide.

After a few moments, you looked back up at him as you heard the rambunctious murmurs from his little group. “Go on, LT, go!”

You smiled, gesturing a hand over to the boys.

“You with them?” The man nodded, eyes never leaving your face, your figure, you.

“Yeah, but they mean well.” You could see a small smile under the mask form.

“This a dare?” You poke, but his smile dropped an instead sincerity followed.

“No, just haven’t seen you in a few years, thought I’d say hello.” His voice fell quiet at the end of his sentence, his gaze finally leaving you to twiddle with his hands.

Then it hit you-

From all those years ago. Italy.

A simple vacation where you were both young and needed some time to find yourself. Met on a night out, he charmed you within a minute and you were wrapped around his finger, his body. From then on, you two were inseparable, days out in the sun and nights under the sheets. A summer never passed by so fast. 

“Simon?” The name not having left your mouth since he had to depart, head home, pack and begin his life in the military. That was his decision, his calling, to go. Yet, here he is before you once more. 

“Hi, lovie. It’s nice to see you again.” His eyes met yours once more. You quickly close your book and put out your cigarette, pushing up from your chair and into his arms. He’s taken aback, but doesn’t hesitate to hold you tightly. Simon’s face lands in the crook of your neck and you can hear him slowly inhale and exhale in relief.

This is what home feels like, he thinks.

“My God, I didn’t even recognize you with that on! Simon, I’ve missed you!” You pull back, your hands cradling his face and searching his eyes. “How are you? Where have you been? What’re you doing here?” He only chuckled as he could see your mind race. 

“Hoping to run into you, of course.” His hands slide up and down your back, soothingly. It was like no time had passed at all. His first love, his only love, his last love. He decided here and now, he wants this till he dies.

“You never left.” Simon notes.

“And you came back.” You smile, pressing your forehead to his and your eyes fluttered shut. You haven’t felt this comfort in years, oh how you ached for this, for him.

His grip on you loosened and you feel his hand come towards his face. He pushes up the mask, just enough for his mouth to show. You look down at the sight, those lips, the ones you know and love, rightfully yours. Although the years have not been kind to them, not with the visible scars on and surrounding them. Your mind rushes to ask a thousand questions, yet you hold back. Another time.

I wouldn’t have let that happen under my watch, you think.

“Y/N…” He whispers and you feel your knees start to give out. Look how you’re still so needy for him after all this time. 

Your thumbs push the mask up to his nose and he presses his lips to yours. Running your hands down his shoulders, across his jaw, touching him just how you’ve wanted to for years. 

His hands find perch at your waist, pulling you in close to him and deepening the kiss. 

You only break as his boys behind him start whistling, hollering, shouting his name in both astonishment and utter confusion. 

"How the hell did he get her that fast...?"

You look back at them as you laugh, Simon only pulls you in closer. 

“This ones’ mine, lads. Piss off.” Your attention turns back to your lover, eyeing the lipstick that resonates lightly on his lips. 

“All yours.” You whisper into his ear, bringing him close to you once more. Simon holds your face sweetly in his hands, so delicately, his thumbs brushing against your cheeks.

“After all this time?”

“Always."

//

[randomluck-ofthe-universe]

Enjoying all the wonderful birthday messages and outpouring of love for our gentle giant ❤️ Maybe I’m wrong but it looks like he’s wearing that old Kenki Gracie Fighter t-shirt, in the gym video from the adventures of Tall and Small. Isn’t that the same grey t-shirt he wore on set, bts? Nice to see a little cmbyn link on his birthday 😊💙💚

yes I saw it yesterday, and definitely it seems the same t-shirt.. 🥰😍

.. and we saw it on him in Caymans too, May 2021

and again he wore it in Los Angeles, October 2022..

it's old, worn out, ripped.. but it's still there, with him. ❤️

#the things that matter

[choupistickfaitdesbetises]

No matter what happens... never take your eyes off him.

Too afraid to think that he would just be a dream and that he would disappear in a cloud of smoke...

It was in May 2016, it was yesterday...

💙💚

Armie and Timmy on CMBYN set

[silvyysthings]

Hello Silvy. Luca’s birthday was yesterday as I type and a photographer friend of mine shared a couple older interviews with him. Both were new to me and his thoughts on CMBYN in 2017 and 2022 were fascinating.

(2017) - www.fantasticman.com/articles/luca-guadagnino

(2022) - www.indiewire.com/features/general/luca-guadagnino-call-me-by-your-name-romantic-sex-scene-1234719303

Thought they might be of interest. I really enjoyed getting to know a bit more about Luca in the first one. I would posit his tone changed with the second, in part, due to his relationship with Ferdinando ending.

I have a couple podcast interviews with Luca downloaded and hope to get to this week. If they prove worthwhile I will share with you. ✌🏻🖤

[candymay]

CMBYN if it was set in Chicago or something idk

[olderthannetfic]

The main problem that I have with Youtubers who attempt to approach media analysis and fandom through theory and academia is that the vast majority aren't academics. Just being in undergrad isn't actually enough, contrary to the thoughts of many. Reading a Wikipedia article and reiterating what one may find in some Google, even Google Scholar, searches. Ideally, these would be topics approached by people involved in academia as a profession, people with doctoral degrees, who can discuss complex topics in a way that is easily understood by the masses. "What is the negotiation between gender and sex in BL?" "How does CMBYN articulate/complicate hierarchal roles within the gay novel?" "Could SnK express an alternative reading of the formerly isolated Japan?" These are complicated questions they attempt to answer in their video essays when they seldom ever understand the theories they employ.

Yes, I understand this can sound elitist, but as a Black afab person who is currently in a doctoral program for literature, there aren't "easy" answers to any of the questions they attempt to pose, and many Youtubers who primarily make long-form video essays lack the life experience and expertise to sufficiently discuss anything. They're usually too set in their thoughts to answer or explore the broader implications of their claims. Defending a dissertation forces you to do this. Forming a committee of experts in various fields and convincing them to aid you in the development of your dissertation forces you to do this. Being in academic and cordial communication with your peers from all over the world in your field forces you to do this. It's not easy to constantly intake new information from various eras and nations (depending on your topic), meld this information into a coherent essay, and continually make edits as you learn new information, thus changing your outlook on things. Also: it's really petty of me, but it's also incredibly annoying to grade poorly researched undergrad essays who, after some prompting in office hours, say they got these ideas on books, movies, and shows from breadtubers like Somerton, SZ, FD Signifier, or hbomberguy. Cue: me going to watch their videos and realizing they have no idea what they're talking about 88% of the time in terms of theory and application of said theory. Even the ones who frame themselves on being educators in real life, like Signifier, lack any nuance, depth, or media literacy to make a compelling argument if you know even the slightest bit of information. On the bright side, I now know why I've encountered several students with ideologies that are basically conservatism with a veneer of progressivism, or "conservatism in a queer hat."

This concludes my long-winded way of saying "Don't turn to Youtubers for media analysis. You're better off just reading articles by people who have to actually know what they're talking about. The majority of Youtubers (especially the breadtubers) don't have the bandwidth to discuss anything more complex than an episode of Blue's Clues."

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I mostly agree, but I'd point to a slightly different problem. I'm hesitant to say that the PhD itself is the deciding factor, but I do think a lot of video essayists are insufficiently prepared.

I'm a big fan of Folding Ideas who does have some formal schooling in film, but I don't think it's that education per se that makes him great. He sets himself apart from other video essayists by actually doing his research and having an in-depth approach to his subjects. He doesn't resort to clickbait, and—here's the key—he often takes months or even a year to work on something.

Honestly, I think that's a big part of it: the hoops most youtubers who want to make a living at it have to jump through involve a lot of clickbait and pandering and a fast production schedule. They don't involve reputable peer review except by the court of shriek-y public opinion on twitter.

They'd like to present themselves as documentary filmmaking (which is essentially what Folding Ideas' longer videos are), but they don't actually live up to any of the usual standards of that either.

I think it can be elitist to say that someone needs to have certain letters after their name, yes, but what really strikes me about your average youtube media analysis type and the fanbase is that they want shortcuts.

Exploring the whole history of the gay novel so that you have enough background to talk about CMBYN means reading quite a few novels. Even if you decide to throw out all past scholarly opinion on the topic (which you shouldn't), if you're going to have a meaningful personal theory, you need to have read a lot of novels first. How can you hope to be the person providing the neat overview of the whole genre if you haven't familiarized yourself widely with said genre, and not just through a summary by someone else? That amount of reading doesn't happen overnight.

The trite, surface-level media analysis online is often from people who want to be hailed as great intellectuals but who aren't willing to put in the years it takes to do all the background reading and to develop their skills in argumentation, writing, etc.

Grad school is a convenient and probably faster way to go about all that, but I think you could do it outside of a formal framework... But you would need to actually do it.

I think it's driven by a bunch of people who were The Smart One in grade school and never learned how to work hard on long-term projects instead of pushing through in a sprint. They're used to relying on being the smartest to cut corners and do things before they get bored, only they probably aren't the smartest anymore anyway, and they mistake being smart at one thing for being smart at all things.

There's a real lack of respect for the entire concept of expertise.

[transmutationisms]

have you seen any luca guadagnino films/any thoughts on him?

i thought bones and all was thematically incoherent and his suspiria remake like, had political commentary ambitions in the first third or so and then had completely dropped them by the end lol. cmbyn sort of works as a coming of age story except that like the other two it really lacks a lot of attention to character writing and psychological depth. i think this makes me sounds like a huge hater, which in this particular case im genuinely not; guadagnino has consistently been easy for me to watch if for no other reason than that his cinematographer(s?) are talented. i don't think every movie needs to be a daring political statement or psychodrama but i do think guadagnino sometimes sets up those genres and then demonstrates no interest in following through on the conceptual work they entail. like he's fine he's kind of slick. it's like the monet water lilies of cinema

[kevin-the-bruyne]

Do it. Complain about CMBYN. I wanna know so bad.

I love how everytime I'm like "no, I don't want to be a gremlin" you guys see through my FLIMSY excuses. Here goes: The reaction I get to people who simply LOVE CMBYN is a little like if someone told me their favorite color was beige. I mean...that's certainly a color and it's a perfectly good color, necessary even at times in the context of a palette but ????? It's fine. That's kind of the problem. It's not even bad. When someone loves Sharknado it's like go live your life you funky little freak. But CMBYN? jailbait twink falls for the only fuckable man in his very rural vicinity...that's your favorite? are you absolutely sure? are you sure you're not just a fan of the Italian countryside???

And that's the other thing, every time I've probed anyone (which is only twice) with why they love CMBYN so much, it kind of boils down to how beautiful the Italian countryside is. And I agree. The Italian countryside *is* a beautiful backdrop to fall in love. So beautiful in fact that it's easy, to the point of commonplace. Simply, it's the idiot's setting of falling in love. I could fall in love with my mortal enemy in the Italian countryside. With Sufjan Steven's Mystery of Love playing in the background I could fall in love with a piece of rotting wood. Now *my* favorite movies are Moonlight and God's Own Country which as two character centric queer romance narratives fall more or less within the same genre as CMBYN but- i don't know it feels blasphemous to even compare them. Like I'm making fun of a three year old for trying to draw Starry Night. Anyhow, I read CMBYN was Khaotung's favorite movie (or book???) and immediately the share market prices DROPPED. Unfortunately, they were so high to begin with that he's still my bias though joong is making a valiant effort to overtake him. The only silver lining was thinking about how Khaotung definitely either made sure to see First's poop after reading CMBYN or he thinks about First's poop to this very day and wonders if he should ask to see it or if it's too weird.

[kpforpresident]

CMBYN

Summer 1983

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The summer night Clarke met Lexa was hot and syrupy, with sunlight streaming in thick buttery ribbons through the dappled olive trees that dotted the Griffin’s family villa. Clarke had boarded the hours-long flight with her parents every May for as long as she could remember, spending their summers in the northern tip of Italy so that her father could spend the long days studying languages and history and archeology, so far from their home outside of Boston. Clarke and Abby good-naturedly came along for the months in the sun, surrounded by the heavily laden fruit trees and long hot days. Abby was able to spend the long months away from her co-owned medical practice due to her senior standing, Clarke afforded flexibility through her private school leniency and natural ability to excel despite missing the last month of school since she could walk.

Clarke and Raven had been sitting on the edge of the warm terracotta roof, legs swinging idly over the edge of the gutters as a shiny green car pulled up to the front of the house, gravel spattering beneath its wheels. Clarke and Raven exchanged a long-suffering glance as the car slowed, and then stopped, a shadowy figure peering out of the back window with their face obscured by the hot sum beaming onto the glass. Raven, Clarke’s summer friend of many years, had watched with half-baked amusement every summer as another wide-eyed young Ph.D. student had climbed out of similar hired cars, mouths agape and eyes shining as they drank in the sight of the imposing villa, ready to spend their summer soaking in the Italian sunshine and collaborating with Mr. Griffin on a variety of archeological subjects of varying degrees of vague interest to Clarke. 

Clarke turned to Raven, prepared to make another joke about spending another summer listening to the pretentious drivel of yet another soggy white man when the car door opened hesitantly, revealing the slender ankle of someone who was most definitely not a man. A slim hand rose to shield light green eyes as the woman tilted her head up to gaze at the villa, shiny brown hair glimmering over a freckled dotted shoulder. Jake and Abby burst from the battered wooden door hand in hand, the mystery woman revealing a perfect set of white teeth as she set down a small suitcase to warmly shake their hands. The three then head into the cool tiled interior of the villa, her bag in Jake’s right hand as he ushers her in.

A quiet cackle burst from Raven’s mouth as she observed the slightly vacant expression on Clarke’s face as she greedily drank in the sight of her father’s newest protegee. 

“Oh C, you are well and truly fucked.”

[nouearth]

hallo! i just saw this post and i wanted to ask, do you have any gay movie recs? i desperately need some that aren’t pedophilic or weird 🙏🏽

💌 : i'm gonna try to avoid the famous ones like moonlight, brokeback mountain, cmbyn, etc., since i assume you already know those! i don't wanna spoil you, but i would search up some trigger warnings of the films you're interested in before watching!

all of us strangers (2023):

A screenwriter drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with his downstairs neighbor while discovering a mysterious new way to heal from losing his parents 30 years ago.

has to be one of my favorite movies, PERIOD, in recent memory. it is pretty heavy, but i think it's beautifully made and acted. plus, it has paul mescal and that's always a plus! 🥲

the way he looks (2014):

Leonardo is a blind teenager dealing with an overprotective mother while trying to live a more independent life. To the disappointment of his best friend, Giovana, he plans to go on an exchange program abroad. When Gabriel, a new student in town, arrives at their classroom, new feelings blossom in Leonardo making him question his plans.

your name engraved herein (2020):

In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressures, homophobia and social stigma.

young soul rebels (1991):

Two disc jockeys have a friend’s murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

god's own country (2017):

Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.

maurice (1987):

Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.

[winderlylandchime]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Tagged by @lostcol and @madsworld15 thank you friends!

How many works do you have on ao3? 49

What's your total ao3 word count? 505,173

What fandoms do you write for? Currently Queer As Folk. In the past I've also written for CMBYN and CMBYN RPF.

Top five fics by kudos:

tied to a night they never met (CMBYN RPF)

I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules (CMBYN RPF)

Flo's Shows (CMBYN RPF)

you're like a tattoo (something I can't undo) (QAF)

'cause all I'll ever by is your dirty computer (CMBYN RPF)

Do you respond to comments? I do. Especially because I write for a smaller fandom, most of the commenters are my friends.

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Ya girl wrote MCD so that's pretty angsty: love is so short (forgetting is so long) (QAF)

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Most of my recent fics have happy endings (usually at a party, call it my signature move). I'll link carried me with you (QAF) because people said the ending made them cry (in a happy way). And it's not at a party!

Do you get hate on fics? Not hate but some people were unhappy with I crossed all the lines (linked above) because I left the couple non-monogamous and I got negative comments in the bookmark of my series Exposure (QAF) because it is similar to a friend's series (never mind me mentioning her by name in my author's notes and having her blessing and encouragement to write the series) and because it has an open ending (not with regards to the couple but with regards mental health stuff... which is realistic)

Do you write smut? Yes. I enjoy reading it so I figure I should write what I enjoy. One of the drawbacks of writing in a small fandom where so many of my readers are friends is that I do sometimes hold back on the smutty filth I would write because I can literally picture my readers' faces and that's a bit uncomfortable.

Craziest crossover: I'm writing a QAF / RPDR crossover fic right now ("writing" in the very loosest definition of the word).

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I'm aware of.

Have you ever had a fic translated? No, but I would love that. What an honor.

Have you ever co-written a fic before? Er. Yes. I wrote [redacted] with [redacted] but then [redacted] happened and yada yada yada my name isn't on that fic anymore. I'm not anti-co-writing. But, I would need to know my co-writer much better in advance if I were to agree to it again in the future.

All time favorite ship? Brian/Justin aka Britin from QAF. I also LOVE reading Aziraphale/Crowley from GO but haven't really written for them (one drabble and one ficlet).

What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I've Loved Her in Secret, I've Loved Her Out Loud WILL GET FINISHED (manifesting) soooo not that. And there's a CMBYN RPF fic that is unfinished and will remain that way and I'm okay with that (ie I don't want to finish it)

What are your writing strengths? FEELINGS. My bread and butter.

What are your writing weaknesses? I think I'm getting better at dialogue, I used to really struggle with it. So I'm going to say... plot? That's such a weird thing to say, but I am shit at doing complex plots.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language? If it makes sense, do it! Or even words in another language - I know I often slip Italian and Yiddish into conversation here and there if the other language captures a certain je ne sais quoi that english doesn't. (see what I did there?)

First fandom you wrote in? Ya girl was writing Lois/Clark | Superman fic (het fic? by this queer? more likely than you think!) for Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman in the 90s on yahoo listservs.

Favorite fic you've written? I'm very proud of you're like a tattoo (linked above). I'm also proud of beautiful like the darkness between the fireflies some post-canon, modern setting, exes-to-lovers, soft QAF goodness. And I'm also ridiculously happy with Chasing Dragons which is a fanfic of a fanfic but I think stands alone. I feel like I captured the way one of my all-time favorite fic writers writes my all-time favorite characters and I made her ridiculously happy with it and yeah.

I'm no pressure tagging: @sheisraging @bartbarthelme and anyone else who wants to!

[destinyc1020]

Timmy has talked about auditioning for Spidey, so he was not seeking just tortured artist roles. He had his breakthrough with Luca in CMBYN and he became an indie darling but his first important role was in the popular series Homeland. For actors when a door closes, sometimes another opens that sets a very different path for them. Whomever has seen his high school Timmy Tim performances knows that he can do really fun stuff. I'm glad that he did the heartwarming Wonka and practiced those fun musical theater muscles. Before Spidey, Tom had done more serious indie roles than Timmy. Anyone who has seen Tom speaking Gaelic in Pilgrimage knows that he was not seeking just fun and dumb action roles. Spidey brought Tom a lot of fame and fortune, but also established these preconceptions in terms of what he could do in the minds of many that just met him through Peter Parker. I'm looking forward to what project Tom will pick next outside of Spidey and Uncharted because I know he has a lot of untapped abilities

Great points Anon. 😊

I kind of wish that Tom would have gotten more fame in his serious roles before he got mega-famous with Spiderman, so that people (mostly FilmTwitter Bros and critics in Hollywood 😒🙄) wouldn't underestimate his talent so much when it comes to things outside of Marvel.

But! You can't go back and rewind and undo the past. So, all you can do is just keep moving forward! I also agree too that most people don't realize that actors have various different backgrounds of talent. Just because you know an actor to do serious things, it doesn't mean that they can't also fun, light-hearted work, or sing, dance, play an instrument, etc. A lot of actors are MULTI-talented. So, they may surprise you! Fans need to be able to be flexible right along with their faves, and allow them to step outside of their comfort zones.😊