#expo63

[spocks-got-a-glock]

Reblogging this because it's another great point

When you get so irked by someone saying that "Clive and Maurice were the better romantic pairing because they truly loved each other while Alec and Maurice's relationship was based on nothing but sex" that you end up writing a small essay in a Pinterest comment section (which had to be broken up into 500 word chunks because of Pinterest's word limit).

Anyway, I actually like what I wrote so I wanted to share it here. I didn't say everything I wanted to in the exact way that I wanted to due to the word restrictions, but I think it did the job.

[hawleywilby]

[batri-jopa]

Introduction to Forster's Maurice by David Leavitt:

So should we assume Maurice looking less like this...

...and more like this?🤔

[angleshades]

Clive's house got done up at last...

...but they are obviously lacking a good gamekeeper

He can sort out your mole issues no problem

Filming location Wilbury Park after restoration - photo Peregrine Bryant Architects. Thanks @expo63 for link - is that the grotesque announcement gazebo on the right?

Alec photo - filmweb.pl

[sarztomo]

Hi all,

So the official launch day for my James Wilby fansite/archive is 12th January 2025 at 4pm (UK time) so not long too wait. 😜

I would love to know what sort of things fans would like to see on it other than the gallery, news and updates, career pages etc?

What do you think would work and what wouldn't such as a facebook group or some kind of group for example.

There will be the odd competition where you would James related stuff.

Any thoughts, contributions and comments will be welcomed. I will post here when the site is live with the link.

Please comment here or message me privately.

I really want this to be a tribute to James but also a place for fans to connect with other fans in a safe space.

Any contributions to the site will be fully credited on the site and also be linked to a place of your choice (such as your tumblr page) on the resources and affiliates page.

Sarah x

@hawleywilby @oscarwetnwilde @jameswilbyonline-blog @jameswilbysnumberonefan @expo63 @undinecissy @mauricehallboathouse

[clarasteam]

catching up

I was tagged by @theletteraesc ❤️

Last song: You Fascinate Me So, sung by Mabel Mercer, from my Flambable playlist

Currently watching: a lot of Father Brown episodes

Three ships: Grant/Strange, Kurt Weill's My Ship ("and of jam and spice there's a paradise in the hold"), Flambeau/Felicia/Monty

Favourite colour: purple? I am bad at colours

Currently reading: @owl-by-night's lovely Father Brown OT3 fic, To Catch a Thief (see ship category above)

Currently consuming: last thing eaten = raspberries and vanilla ice-cream; last thing drunk = rose, lemon verbena and lemon balm tea

First ship: idk - Orsino/Viola|Cesario?

Place of birth: a suburban hospital, so my papers say

Current location: at my kitchen table, comme d'habitude

Last movie: A Canterbury Tale by Powell and Pressburger, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Currently working on: surviving my current state of exhaustion and grief; holding on to whatever moments of joy I can; showing up when I absolutely have to

tagging @owl-by-night @expo63 @idlesuperstar @moonwest @codswalloping if any of you would like to play and haven't done it already

[purplecyborgnewt]

#it’s ... as if instantaneous attraction & instant chemistry count for nothing#and as if forster’s entire bloody purpose in writing maurice counts for nothing#‘he had stopped loving maurice and should have to say so plainly’#(clive – literally half-way through in ch 23 of 46)#‘you’ll do anything for me except see me ... and you don’t love me’#(maurice – ch 46)#‘i’m in love with alec scudder’#‘i’m someone else’s now’#etc etc#‘icarus’ literally can’t read it would seem (tags by expo63)

…… guys what is THIS ABOMINATION

[aconissa]

I made a hoop in honour of E. M. Forster’s Maurice 🌼 Because the novel positively depicted love between men it was not published until 1971, a year after Forster’s death. His signature is stitched in light blue, and the flowers are evening primroses which feature in the final scene of the book.

[oldfilmsflicker]

ICYMI: MAURICE is on Criterion Channel right now

[oscarwetnwilde]

expo63 replied to your photo “I paid 18 dollars for this photo of Rupert Graves and I need an excuse...”

Was that $18 with Simon Callow & Denholm Elliott included? They’re in the original shot (it was a press still) but I like the idea of a big Rupert/Freddy with them cropped off. :) My equivalent obsession used to be a long thin grainy press photo of Alec Scudder which I blew up on a photocopier to make him into a poster, waay back in the day...

That’s the one. I think I have the full image stashed away, but I hate how Tumblr tends to shrink the image, and the original file I have is so large. XD

[waffle-bubbles]

Thanks for the tag :)

Last Song: Big News (parade)

Favorite Color: idk (but I usually just say pink)

Currently Watching: Supernatural, Archive 81

Last Movie: Lilies (1996) (go watch it rn)

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: sweet (I'm addicted to sugar)

Relationship Status: single :(

Current Obsessions: Parade musical, Lilies play,

Last Thing I Googled: bus schedules and map

tag: @vitamin-zeeth @jack-daww @tandoorinightsmare @angry-inch @tobbogan-13 @michaelinaroombitching @expo63 @nickys-silly-blog @catboyrichardkarinsky

PEOPLE I WANNA KNOW BETTER

Tagged by @lilstvr thank you babes 🫶

LAST SONG? Jungle- Good Times

FAVORITE COLOR? GREEN GREEN GREEN 🙃

CURRENTLY WATCHING? Nothing really cause everything on Netflix, disney+, & Soap2day is pissing me off, Hollywood needs to stop being bitches and pay their writers what they deserve 😭

LAST MOVIE? Bottoms

SWEET/SPICY/SAVORY? Mmm idk 😭 specific wise, candy sour, dinner spicy, and everything else savory.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS? Single but delusional and taken by fictional men

CURRENT OBSESSIONS? The Do-Over and Better The movies by Lynn painter, ACOTAR (I love Azriel so much😭) I’ve been reading a lot of books lately lol

LAST THING YOU GOOGLED? ‘How does one cope after their dog dies’ my dogs not dead I just get sad and I cried earlier because I know that it will happen some day.

tagging: @lovebugcody @raggedyoldwitch @vnusology @theold-ultraviolence @ghostlyloversworld @aislinrayne @biqherosix @certifiedlovergirlsstuff @thelov3lybookworm @auras-moonstone @ang3lik

[clarasteam]

Last Line Challenge:

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many you'd like)

I was tagged by the lovely @panzercat - thank you Red! gah, the last fic writing I did was at the end of January, part of an unfinished GO/Harlots crossover sequel with Nancy Birch and Crowley getting drunk and talking about their impossible loves.

[they're drinking the Bedford's best claret (Crowley refused gin*) and it's better than usual. Nancy's starting to relax, but not so much that she's going to accept his offer of tobacco - who knows what's in it?]

"Take a fill of mine," she tells him. "Make yourself at home."

tagging: @owl-by-night @codswalloping @expo63 and @theletteraesc if you haven't done this and would like to.

*this may or may not emerge in the course of the fic, but Crowley has found that gin makes him maudlin (shades of Julian and Sandy in Round The Horne: OUT IT ALL COMES ABOUT BOGNOR)

[hayaomiyazaki]

MAURICE (1987) dir. James Ivory

[hms-tardimpala]

Thanks a lot for taking the time to write these very informative additions, @expo63. Forster wasn't the focus of my research and the reason I was consulting the IWM website, so all I knew of him were the most widely-known sad bits of his life, and I've only read two or three of his books. I am glad I learned more, and that there was more happiness to his life than I knew.

Learned another heartbreaking thing about E.M. Forster today

Source

[image description: three paragraphs of text from a website that read:

'Howard's End' author Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879. He was a pacifist and served with the British Red Cross in Alexandria, Egypt during the First World War. His job was to interview the wounded in hospitals for information about fellow soldiers who were reported missing.

Although he never declared it in his lifetime, Edward was homosexual.  Whilst serving in Egypt he had a three-year relationship with a young Egyptian, Mohammed el Adl. Their relationship ended in 1918 when Mohammed was forced to marry. Mohammed paid tribute to his lover by naming his son Morgan. After his death in 1922, Mohammed's widow sent Forster her husband's gold ring as a keepsake. Edward, by now back in Britain, slept with the ring under his pillow every night. 

He continued to write novels and plays, and was nominated for 20 Nobel Prizes for Literature. Edward died in 1970. 

/end description]

[missholson]

Post ‘ten’ gifs from your favourite movies without revealing their titles.

Thank you @expo63 for this inspiring tag post! It was fun to do, but rather difficult (when I ended up using only faces without words). There are 16 movies on my ‘ten’ list. :) I also tag anyone who fancies doing this. Enjoy!

[fermencja]

‘What a solid young citizen he looked - quiet, honourable, prosperous without vulgarity. On such does England rely. Was it conceivable that on Sunday last he had nearly assaulted a boy?’

(…) 

He had been brooding in an ill-conditioned way… 

( ‘Maurice’, by E. M. Forster)

The bitter irony and sadness of these lines always hit me hard when I listen to Peter Firth’s adaptation of the novel… 

These words refer to the ‘Dickie incident’, which was eventually excluded from the film (though of course we can see it in the deleted scenes). Nevertheless, the above picture of James seems an adequate illustration of Maurice’s state of mind at that time.