#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?🤔

[sarztomo]

Hi all,

So the official launch day for my James Wilby fansite/archive is Sunday 2nd February 2025 at 8pm (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

[paris-in-a-whisper]

@expo63 bless you

Maurice (James Ivory) at 26, 1987 – 2013 [x]

*****

Favourite Maurice things, 7/26

James Ivory’s Edwardian gay sex tips

…given to James and Rupert over a curry

*****

Before we get onto the fanlore and conflicting accounts (to be continued). ;D

‘It was on the third day of shooting that [James Wilby] first met Rupert Graves to discuss the physical side of their relationship over dinner with James Ivory. The director instructed them in Edwardian practice: mutual masturbation was in; oral sex was out. Kissing was out, too; nevertheless Ivory felt that the two men should kiss at the end to show the depth of their emotions. “Rupert and I were strangers,” Wilby recalled, “so we ummed around the subject a bit, then I said, ‘I think they really go for it,’ and Rupert said, ‘So do I.’ That’s how we did it.”’

– ‘James and Hugh and Maurice too’, interview by Minty Clinch, Observer magazine (UK), Sunday 25 October 1987, p.44. From the exponential63 vaults.

My screencaps, my gifs* – so please reblog, not repost. Thank you.

From the ‘May I ask your name?’ Deleted Scene 9 on the 2004 Merchant Ivory Collection double DVD.

*Update, 1 Dec: Now with bonus Gifs That Move! Accidentally very jerky (*cough*), but I’m still experimenting with the new app…

[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

[fireolin]

Thanks so much for the tag @weltonbmarsland - I'm starting a new post because the previous one is getting very long, but I loved looking through everyone's movies!

rules: without naming them, post a gif from ten of your favourite films, then tag ten people to do the same!

Tagging @autumnxsunflower, @xyliane, @malleusmaleficent, @emptymanuscript, @radiohahas, @decembercamiecherries, @thanatoscult, @murderkitten666, @noisepartythumpingmusic, @expo63 ~ if you're in the mood!

[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

[clarasteam]

I was tagged by @ncuts - thank you!

Last song: Prologue from Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, sung by the cast of the current Donmar Warehouse production (it's on YouTube; I listen to this one a lot)

Favourite colour: purple

Last book: currently reading Iona Datt Sharma, You Are Here: Nine More Stories ❤️

Last movie: [possibly] Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl - there may have been something else I recorded and watched that I can't remember now

Last TV show: ok, I am sure about this one: We Are Lady Parts (2 episodes into watching this with beloved fandom friend, looking forward to more)

Sweet/spicy/savoury: sweet, probably, though I like the others as well

Last thing I searched online: [redacted work stuff]

Current obsession: still v much enjoying everything Ncuti Gatwa

Looking forward to: more time SOON with friends I don't see often enough

tagging some people if they would like to do it: @moonwest @codswalloping @owl-by-night @panzercat @vampirebillionaire @dreamsfrozenincandyland @howthebestwaslost-blog @expo63 @almaviva90 @mekare-art

10 People I'd Like to Know Better

Thanks for the tags @gaiaseyes451 and @beerok23!💜!💜

last song: Gloria by the Lumineers

favourite colour: Red, like a deep luscious red that you know would taste good if you licked it. Don't act innocent, you know exactly what I mean by that. Red is a color that you just know tastes good.

last book: I am currently trying to read the Witcher series (per @lickthecowhappy's suggestion) so I am at the start of the Last Wish

last movie: Moana 2 (I have young kidsssss)

last TV show: My oldest is almost 10 which means she stays up late. Which also means I have so little time to watch adult things. So we've been watching the Office with her. I think I want to watch the Good Place with her next tho (I've never watched it!)

sweet/spicy/savoury: Sweet followed very, very closely by spicy. Habanero maple syrup is one of my favorite things on the planet.

last thing i searched online: How to explain a 10 year career hiatus in a cover letter (looking to return to work since having kids. It's been an interesting experience so far).

current obsession: Have not moved on from Good Omens, but recently realized that my obsession may be more in my own little connected universe of fics that I wrote rather than the actual canon at this point😳. I'm sure once we get that first glimpse of red and white hair that will change very quickly.

looking forward to: Going back to work and having a more established adult life again, honestly. I've been so lucky to be home with my kids while they are young, but I am ready. And figuring out how my newfound passion for writing is going to fit into that new life of mine. Another big year of change over here for me, and I am eagerly looking forward to how the growing pains are going to make way for something beautiful beyond.

ten people i’d like to know better:

@addledmongoose, @di-42, @afrenchwriter, @haemey, @eybefioro, @alwaystuesday, @katspause, @alphacentaurinebula, @shadesofecclescakes, @ochre-sunflower and whoever wants to do it (but also feel free to ignore!)

[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

[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

[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

[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