#freddy honeychurch

[seeingthestarsmakesmedream]

I don't know what was happening with James Ivory in the 1980s but he had a crush on young Rupert Graves. And I can't blame him.

Aka I'm in my Forster era

[nightsinbluevelvet]

That Honeychurch

Important fact: NOTHING will ever be more attractive than Freddy Honeychurch.

Helena Bonham-Carter and Rupert Graves in A Room with a View (1985)

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A Room with a View (1985) Director: James Ivory

“I have no profession. My attitude - quite an indefensible one - is that as long as I am no trouble to anyone, I have the right to do as I like. It is, I dare say, an example of my decadence.”

[expo63]

Exhibit 1: You young people need to know that back in the mists of Tumblr history Freddy/Floyd had a brief moment as a ship:

Exhibit 2: Also, the bit the novel (Chapter XII) where Freddy ‘swallows a pollywog’ (tadpole) during said nude bathing, hmmm:

In 1958, Forster spoilt it all by writing a sequel, ‘A View Without A Room’ [text here], in which Forster imagined later-life Freddy as an ‘unsuccessful but prolific’ doctor (i.e. makes little money but has lots of kids). But the story also kills George and has Lucy living in Watford, so I say we can ignore married-doctor Freddy:

Why Freddy Honeychurch from A Room with a View is Definitely Gay:

irreverent attitude toward straight marriage

expresses no romantic interest in women

accidentally asks George Emerson to go swimming nude with him because he is overwhelmed by George’s edgy and brooding charms

Mr. Floyd stays at his house to hang out and play tennis (boyfriend behavior)

In conclusion: Freddy Honeychurch is a gay icon who deserves more love

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Since Halloween is approaching, I made a list of the spooky creatures I think B&M characters would be:

Olrik - vampire Mortimer - wizard Nasir - ghost Blake - the normal man who finds himself stuck in the haunted castle Honeychurch - cursed man who has been trapped in a cat body but can take on a human appearance when in the presence of the scent of lavender Grossgrabenstein - mummy Pradier - lives as an abstract entity in the walls of the castle and can take human appearance (tho being made of stone) Sharkey - werewolf Jack - the castle's creepy butler (who happens to be a pumpkin-headed scarecrow who stands in front of the castle during the day) Freddy - invisible man Sadi - headless knight (Dullahan) Razul - Fire spirit who lives in the castle fireplace Miloch - necromancer Septimus - weird scientist (like Frankenstein) who spends his time locked in the basement

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It has come to my attention that it's Period Drama Appreciation Week 2023. I love period dramas and grew up watching them. They have been a formative part of my life and I'm now too disabled to watch video. Even gifs are too difficult for my brain to process. It is also Bi Visibility Week and I'm posting this on Bisexual Visibility Day. Since I can't safely post a pile of gifs, here is a list celebrating actors/characters/moments from period dramas that have been significant to my bisexuality. [Yes, this is a big list. I am missing out on watching and re-watching A Lot of awesome period dramas and I hate it. This list is helping me reclaim a bit of joy. Also I've probably forgotten some favourites and may update this.]

Lori Petty in A League of Their Own

Jodhi May in any period drama

Mary Wickes in any period drama

Freddy Honeychurch in A Room with a View

Anne Hathaway playing cricket in that rust-coloured dress in Becoming Jane

Esther Summerson (disabled heroine!) & Allan Woodcourt in Bleak House

the freshly-painted yellow cabin door swinging shut with the names 'Calam & Katie' painted on it in Calamity Jane

the sequence where Doris Day sings 'Secret Love' in Calamity Jane

Michelle in Derry Girls (and James too, a wee bit)

George Eliot & Lenore in Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party

the moment where Emma and Mr Knightley start dancing together and it feels like you're inside the music in Emma

Polly Waker's haircut in The Enchanted April

Matthias Schoenaerts in Far From the Madding Crowd

Idgie & Ruth in Fried Green Tomatoes

Suranne Jones in Gentleman Jack

recognising Marian Lister as a bisexual who hasn't realised it yet in Gentleman Jack

Mary Agnes McNue in Godless

Bel & Freddie in The Hour

June Allyson leaping over a hedge (or is it a fence?) as Jo March in Little Women

the Patricia Rozema adaptation of Mansfield Park

the whole sequence where Judy Garland strides onto the neighbours' porch to sock The Boy Next Door in the jaw in Meet Me in St Louis

Katie the cook in Meet Me in St Louis

the moment where Benedick braces his arm against a doorframe in a desperate panic to stop Beatrice from going to eat Claudio's heart in the marketplace in Much Ado About Nothing

Denzel Washington in Much Ado About Nothing

Mr Thornton's hands (ok, and also his face) in North & South

tomboy Doris Day in On Moonlight Bay

Valentine in Parade's End

all of Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Papi in Pose

Lizzy Bennet declaring that she would never marry someone she did not love in Pride & Prejudice

Mr Darcy diving into a pond in Pride & Prejudice

both Angel and Joanne in Rent (the 2008 broadway version)

Martha the maid in The Secret Garden

Lelia Walker in Self-Made

swashbuckling Margaret Dashwood in Sense & Sensibility

the dance sequences in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

the whole Thomas Kent situation in Shakespeare in Love

Maria (when she is not a nun) in The Sound of Music

Kitty Butler onstage in Tipping the Velvet

Annie and Janette and Jacques and Linh in Treme

Audra McDonald and Anne Hathaway and Raúl Esparza in that promotional photo for Twelfth Night

Julie Andrews and her male co-star singing a version of 'Home on the Range' with the line 'and the deer and the antelope are gay' in Victor/Victoria

Justine Waddell in Wives & Daughters

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Fun fact:

Rupert Graves as Freddy Honeychurch in the movie A Room with a View (also by Merchant Ivory productions) has been my Tumblr icon for months. I still haven’t watched the movie, though I did check out a copy from the library to watch over break. I refuse to change it.

[angel-figurine]

Freddy Honeychurch: Come and have a bathe.

George Emerson: I'd like that.

Reverend Beebe: [laughs] That's the best conversation opening I've ever heard. "How do you do. Come and have a bathe."

[carriedkarats]

i should have put freddy honeychurch on the comfort character list

[agincourtier]

reviews for ransom #008

TITLE: A Room with a View

DIRECTOR(S): James Ivory

GENRE(S): Romance, Historical

RATING: 7.5/10

REVIEW: This is my mother's favorite film! There was so much I loved about it: the artistic aesthetic, visuals, and setting made me swoon, as I feel it intended me to. I already adore Florence, but this made me fall in love all over again. A great, strong cast of unique characters, my favorite by far being the token silly brother, Freddy Honeychurch. Lucy Honeychurch herself is a great protagonist, though I felt underwhelmed by parts of Helena Bonham-Carter's delivery, and unfortunately, the same goes for Julian Sands as George Emerson. Regrettably the love story fell short for me, though I enjoyed how George was plain old strange with a deep heart, especially when compared to the snooty, awful Cecil. Some of George's behaviors just plain bothered me; maybe it's my taste in romance? Though the gorgeous period setting and costume charmed me, I was left awkwardly clutching onto an underdeveloped true love.

[kazuoishiguro]

Rupert Graves as Freddy Honeychurch in A ROOM WITH A VIEW (1985) dir. James Ivory

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Happy 59th Birthday, Rupert!

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Rupert Graves as Freddy Honeychurch | A Room with a View | dir: James Ivory | 1985

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I love these photos of Rupert :)

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freddy honeychurch. like or credit roxedit on tumblr if you save.

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How it started... How it’s going...

Rupert Graves

as Freddy Honeychurch in A Room With A View (1985)

as Gabriel Hirsch in Riviera S3 (2020)