#giovannis room

[theorangepdf]

THERE IS STILL TIME giovanni's room, brokeback mountain, i saw the tv glow

[soracities]

But out of this astounding, intolerable pain came joy; we gave each other joy that night.

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

[scarletdreamers]

It's so hilarious to me how in queer media that actually accurately represents queer people (adults) there's always some kind of murder or other unforgivable mistakes involved??? Like, yeah that's my favourite genre, but why is queer cinema always some kind of psychological thriller/horror, especially the old stuff. Give us a minute to BREATHE please. Someone always DIES. I can name so many examples on this I'm actually going to write a paper on it asap, because I just think it's both so funny and interesting but also disturbing.

[victorianlonging]

If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.

Giovanni’s Room

[dysphoresque]

“You mean I have a home to go to, as long as I don't go there?”

— James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

[ohnopeh]

[outstanding-quotes]

Now that he was trying to find something out from me, I was in full flight from him. I did not want him to know me. I did not want anyone to know me.

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

[rorygilmoreh4ter]

specific things in literature things i think about often pt 1/?

-basil’s love for dorian

-david and giovanni

-francis abernathy

-juliet capulet and her sense of agency

-laertes’s and ophelia’s relationship

-clive durham dooming the narrative for himself

-neil perry playing puck

[cutiebabie]

— James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

[tulip-jojo]

12th of february,

I love this book so much 😩

ig: tulipp.reads

[abnormalpsychology]

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin shitty moodboard

[mothmans-beloved]

i am feeling so normal about giovanni's room by james baldwin rn. i am not frothing at the mouth eating barbed wire. why wont you believe me

[soracities]

Then, for the first time in my life, I was really aware of another person’s body, of another person’s smell. We had our arms around each other. It was like holding in my hand some rare, exhausted, nearly doomed bird which I had miraculously happened to find.

James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

[n-jostcn]

red, white & royal blue — casey mcquiston

giovanni's room — james baldwin

blue lily, lily blue — maggie stiefvater

[strawberriesbones]

anyway finished giovannis room today i am a shell of a person

[dysphoresque]

— James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

Text ID: Sometimes I thought / but this is your life. Stop fighting it. Stop fighting. Or I thought / I will never let him touch me again. Then / when he touched me / I thought / it doesn't matter / it is only the body / it will soon be over. When it was over / I lay in the dark and listened to his breathing / and dreamed of the touch of hands / of Giovanni's hands / or anybody's hands / hands which will have the power to crush me / and make me whole again.