#lord Byron omg

[burningvelvet]

i see lord byron has been editing percy shelley's wikipedia page again

[gayforcarstairsgirls]

Lord Byron has been dead for 200 slutty slutty years

[bebebelll]

Pretty girls and flowers | lando norris smau

pairing: lando norris x student!reader warning: cursing, unrealistic if lando did this in real life the girl would absolutely get doxxed

yn_phd good morning by best pals! this month's episode will be out this tuesday. my lovely amazing talented so pretty best friend got two tickets to silverstone so if you're there come say hello👋! the podcast guest will be my old professor from freshman year so put down any questions you have about mary i of england! stay healthy and hydrated ❤️❤️

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bestie_n omg dont praise me like that im blushing

username can you ask why henry 8 never made a marriage for mary?

username god i dont even like history that much but fuck are vlogs calming and sweet and pretty af

scuderiaferrari it's been a lovely weekend with charles_leclerc and carlossaiz55! P4 and P7 💪 Here is the first taste of the silverstone photo dump!

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username CHARLES IN P4 CHARLES IN P4 CHARLES IN P4 I REPEAT CHARLIE CHUCK IS IN P4

landonorris whos that?

carlossainz55 its me landonorris no the pretty one charles_leclerc me? landonorris ew no the PRETTY one charles_leclerc ew? i will drive you to the wall

username not charles threatening to send lando into the wall in the comments

username you just fucking know he'd do it too just ask max

username is lando trying to hook up with the girl in the photo?

yn_phd i put on a little bow so i could be the prettiest girl at the bookstore ❤️today i wrote a page, went on a reading binge about chariot racing in ancient rome, had a breakdown and ate pasta.

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username is this the girl @ landonorris

username lando the pretty girl is here

username cmon lando shoot your shot

username i mean he'll miss but its gonna be funny username no one trusts the rizz of this man with a shit beard

bestie_n who is lando? where have you people come from?

carlossainz55 i think this is the girl we were with

carlossainz55 she got lost around the track so we took a photo and got a staff member to help her. she was prettier in real life. good luck mr no rizz you need it username NOT CARLOS COMING FOR LANDO

username LANDO NORRIS

username this is the girl? not really seeing it doesnt feel like landos type you know

landonorris haha okay people lets not do this haha its not that funny it is a bit embarrasing hah (my dms are open for pretty girls always)

alex_albon well youre talented in the car at least

landonorris my dad scolded me for getting drunk on twitter so i went to eat their fridge empty. love being home

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username is he trying to look extra cute and soft to seduce the pretty girl?

username you just googled boyfriend material and tried your best huh

georgerussel63 i though youd chosen to go with the shirtless gym photos?

alex_albon you sent like fifteen different gym pics to the groupchat and then dont choose even one? fuck our help then i guess landonorris shut up shut up shut up

username i can see the pretty girl in the likes though 👀

yn_phd me and the gang went to a lecture about lord byron's sex life on thursday. i had a pretty cute visitor this weekend and even our lord and king aragorn the cat liked him!!

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bestie_n it was a lecture about lord byron's reputation and fame and how it effected the romance genre?

yn_phd exactly!

username are we gonna get an episode about THE george gordon byron please say yes

yn_phd my best pal i will rant about the whole geneva squad

username did lando norris actually do it

username did landonorris attend the lecture too?

landonorris ive never been happier that i chose karting and skipped school

yn_phd i have discovered hidden depths in myself. i can cry about essay structures and then drive bumper cars an hour later

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landonorris it was just karting babe they were not bumper cars

yn_phd but i crashed so much? landonorris you were great!! i was so proud!! 🧡

username okay but how does this relationship even work? if she doesnt know anything about racing?

yn_phd i tell him everything about the tudor dynasty and he explains to me how the drs works

landonorris use date night to play uno and see whos more competitive (me, i won)

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yn_phd the way i screamed after you gave me those cards

username lando really be gambling with a new relationship

alex_albon poor girl

georgerussell63 remember when we played uno and lando got a +4 card from all of us and he got a mental breakdown alex_albon yeahh we had to take 10min break cause he left for a drive around the block maxverstappen1 the neighbours made a noise complaint too

yn_phd i got him flowers and later we both crash landed on the bowling alley floor

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alex_albon oh so this why you called me crying your tits off

maxverstappen1 he called you too?

landonorris pretty girl🧡🧡

yn_phd pretty guy❤️❤️

[jonnymarzetti]

Could you put together a book reading list 🙏 I trust your taste and I’ve got to get back into reading argh

SIR YES SIR!! i'll do my best... this might turn into a LONG post

some of my favorite authors, in the parentheses my favorites by them:

kurt vonnegut (his novel while mortals sleep is FANTASTIC)

emily st. john mandel (the lola quartet)

fleur jaeggy (SS proleterka and the water statues)

mikhail bulgakov (the master and margarita!!!)

margaret atwood (the handmaid's tale should be like. required reading omg)

donna tartt (the little friend and the secret history!!!!)

okay now some general recommendations. these are short stories, poetry, and mainly regular novels :) i'm going to make the easier to get into books in green text, the somewhat hard books in orange, and the harder-to-get-into books in red

piranesi (susanna clarke)

sonny's blues (james baldwin)

slouching towards bethlehem (joan didion)

the heart is a lonely hunter (carson mccullers)

maya angelou: the complete poetry (--or anything by her. wow)

grendel (john garnder)

wide sargasso sea (jean rhys)

the trial (franz kafka)

never let me go (kazuo ishiguro)

the haunting of hill house (shirley jackson)*

*actually. anything by shirley jackson

the sound and the fury (william faulkner... note: this one is pretty tough for the first 200 pages)

mouthful of birds (samanta schweblin. note: this is fantastically weird and eerie)

don juan (lord byron) is iconic and funny IF you can stand it

king lear !!!!!! (william shakespeare)

the road (cormac mccarthy)

cuyahoga (pete beatty)

let me know what you think if you ever read these!!! ALSO if you want pdfs of any book i am your dude. just tell me on discord and i will find it for you

[fanhackers]

#writtenbyawoman

A couple of years ago, BookTok and BookTube - the literary subcultures of TikTok and YouTube - started a meme, #writtenbyawoman.  The idea of the meme was that men, as written by women authors, were–well, terrific! Wonderful! Kind, gentle, considerate! To say a man was “written by a woman” was to give him the ultimate compliment: to put him in a category with men like Mr. Darcy, or Laurie from Little Women, or the Hot Priest from Fleabag. This complement has moved past fictional characters to be applied to real men (as in, “OMG he’s amazing, it’s like he’s written by a woman”), as well as to celebrities (e.g. Harry Styles, Timothee Chalamet. Hozier.) 

This is one of those cases where fandom’s hit on an idea that academia has also explored. In the introduction to her 2017 book, Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire, historian Carol Dyhouse notes that: 

“The icons of romantic literature — Mr Darcy, Mr Rochester, Heathcliff, or Rhett Butler — were mostly, in the first instance, products of the female imagination. Movie stars and rock musicians acquire and cultivate images that in many cases have little to do with their ‘ real ’ selves. Many of the most successful ‘ romantic leads ’ in the past — Montgomery Clift, Rock Hudson, Dirk Bogarde, Richard Chamberlain, for instance — have been gay. Their performances nevertheless conjured visions of maleness which had women weak at the knees: how do we make sense of this?” 

Dyhouse continues:

What we now refer to as the ‘alpha male’ hero, rugged, square-built with a strong jawline, has never held indomitable sway over feminine emotions. Sensitive types, moody aesthetes, and men exuding androgynous charm have featured equally prominently in the cultural landscape of desire. (1-2)

Even early heartthrob’s like Rudolph Valentino’s character of “The Sheik” were #writtenbyawoman - did you know that he comes from a bestselling novel, The Sheik (1919), written by E.M. Hul (that is, my girl Edith Maud. :D  You go, Edith!) 

Dyhouse’s purview extends from soulmates to vampires to pop stars and of course to David Bowie as the Goblin King. Not a fandom book per se but well worth checking out if your areas of interest include, say, pirates, Adam Ant, or Lord Byron.  

References:

Dyhouse, Carol. Heartthrobs : A History of Women and Desire, OUP Oxford, 2017 

–Francesca Coppa, Fanhackers volunteer

[dbmars]

Ridiculously Sexy Paintings (for the sake of high brow art and not at all because we like seeing boys tied up)

Doing research for a chapter of Bram Stoker's Hannibal got me on a deep dive into the history of Galaƫi in Romania, which got me on the Ukrainian hero Mazepa which lead me to Lord Byron, Antony Dimmond's favorite poet, because everything is connected.

Once Byron's poem was published everyone was horny for Mazeppa tied naked to a horse.

Which made me think of St. Antony paintings, which singlehandedly are responsible for so many people's gayness and interest in BDSM. So of course Hannibal has to talk about that in an upcoming chapter because of course he would.

This one is like "Ugh, you guys, you are super over-reacting like OMG grow up"

You know canon young Hannibal was looking at art books getting all hot and bothered in the library at Castle Lecter.

Merry Christmas Eve!

[postilikes]

Henry : He's too hot, can't deal.

Alex i : rude! (But at least you're not hot,nope.)

Henry : too hot must avoid until death

Alex : Look at me damn it! I want you to look at me because you're rude (Not hot)

Henry : OMG he hates me. Which is good! I mean: way too hot for comfort. But I still want him to like meeeee.

Alex: I'll throw a tantrum because how dare you be rude to me! You need to like meeeee, although I don't know why, at least it's not because you're hot.

Henry : here is my tragic and relatable back story. See? I'm not rude, I'm sad. But you're still too hot and your elbow is too close for comfort. But now that I've felt your body on top of mine I can't go back. Obviously, it's blue balls until death, now.

Alex : damn. Not rude? What's left? Hot? Nope! Guy I talk to because I love it but not because he's hot. Friend? Yeah!

Henry : friend I want to fuck, yes. Have you heard about a Lord named Byron?

[maxwellbossong]

thinking about how much my interests vary. like i could go from “omg taylor is so mother in this candid” to “urban sprawl is so bad” to “lord byron is the best romantic poet” in the span of like a minute.

[annieernaux]

Nerds on this website love to talk about old times asshole poets like lord Byron and he like omg he wa so gay and mean #slay he was such a #whore slut oh my god my poor sexy muffin and then they’re like well Richard Siken is Rude 🙄

[burningvelvet]

OMG OMG OMG. I love this for you. The book is extremely autobiographical for Mary. Lionel the main character is actually Mary’s self-insert, and Adrian is based on Percy, and many of the scenes are based on their real life! Most analysis of the book dives into these semi-autobiographical elements. Lord Raymond as you will see is very clearly Lord Byron. For example, in one scene, he strolls in singing a song that Mary said he sang when they were at Geneva (The Tyrolese Hymn, by Byron’s close friend Thomas Moore) — and his character is associated with a Greek War, like Byron was, and his character even talks like him. Claire is partly Perdita, partly Evadne, though some see bits of Teresa Guiccioli in either due to the Raymond/Byron love triangle, but some academics argue that Perdita/Evadne represent different aspects of Claire. Mary Shelley in her letters acknowledged that this book was sort of her coping mechanism after Percy’s death (and later, Byron’s), the dissolution of their friend group, and Claire moving away (Claire was her step-sister, who lived with her and Percy, and she had a child with Byron). Mary was extremely lonely during this post-1822 phase of her life while adjusting to widowhood. Eventually she settled back into England and went through an identity transformation by developing a new social circle, and she started to find joy in life as an independent writer and mother. She wrote in letters that her Shelley/Byron friend group was like being part of an “elect” circle of intellectuals, and The Last Man is her tributing/mourning this circle of “elects,” and her dead identity as a wife fighting a mutual philosophical battle alongside her husband as comrades against the world (like Adrian/Lionel). The apocalyptic setting as a metaphor for grief also drives me wild. But I digress!

Reading The Last Man by Mary Shelley and the main character Lionel is obsessed with this man Adrian:

Friendship, hand in hand with admiration, tenderness and respect, built a bower of delight in my heart... I read or listened to Adrian; and his discourse, whether it concerned his love or his theories for the improvement of man, alike entranced me. Sometimes my lawless mood would return, my love of peril, my resistance to authority; but this was in his absence; under the mild sway of his dear eyes, I was obedient and good as a boy of five years old, who does his mother’s bidding.

And at first I'm like, "Wow, you are so obviously in romantic love with this man." But then I started thinking, "Is this how men would talk about their true friendships if they weren't so frightened about being called gay?" (and they were also poets)

Now obviously, this is written by a woman, but I have to imagine that Mary Shelley heard Byron or her husband talk about their male friends this way. Or perhaps this is just how she talks about her friends and she feels like men should do the same. Do close friendships in older novels look really gay to us now because men in our culture never talk about how much their friends mean to them? Like in The Lord of the Rings, Sam saying that he loves Frodo, sounds gay to me but is that just the effect of so many men screaming "no homo" if they show any amount of normal affection for a fellow male human?

Also, if these were two female characters would I feel the same way? Maybe. But when Mary Crawford says she loves Fanny and embraces her in Mansfield Park it doesn't feel as sapphic as a man doing a similar thing.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, maybe we will finally conquer homophobia when straight guys admit that their close male friends build a "bower of delight" in their hearts.

Or Mary Shelley just spent a lot of time around bisexual men.

[pen-observing]

For the poetry/lyric prompt, Lucifer + 'And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes' from She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron? I love your writing!

Thank you so much for saying that! I truly hope you continue to think so because I kind of struggled with it ajdks. Lord Byron, despite all, is a great poet and I remember reading a collection of his works for like a month. I really wanted to do justice to his poem and to you. 

Lucifer was, to say the least, a certain sort of being. He had fallen from grace in undescribable agony and was now one of the most feared, most tainted beings. Perhaps because of this tragedy; he was able to keep up appearances, lie to others, deceive them for gain but he could never lie to himself. He couldn't afford such a luxury, he was undeserving of such illusions. 

Lucifer' taste was unparalleled, notorious even. His opinions were unchangeable because he did not make them on a whim. His emotions were always deliberately directed just as his current gaze on you. 

He thought this would be another loud party spent with guests that would unnecessarily distract him. Lucifer wasn't expecting intense emotional waves to hit his calm shore as he looked at you. He wasn't expecting your presence to bring self doubt. 

You see, years ago, Lucifer and Satan had gotten into a very long debate about Lord Byron. Satan, a disguised hopeless romantic, was trying to convince him, a hopeless sceptic and critic, that 'She walks in beauty' was one of the man's best poems. Lucifer found it too contradicting, too paradoxical, his fate caused him to doubt that infatuation and love. 

Gazing upon you as you simply exist before him, shining in a brighter light than the gold lining the walls, he cursed his own past self. Hadn't he already realized how fate would prove him differently?

You were so soft, so calm, so eloquent in representing yourself to an elder demon who doubted your worth. Lucifer recognized your peace, despite fear, was thanks to him promising to protect you. 

Your eyes met. His gaze was reflected. He absentmindedly toyed with the glass in his hand as his lips uttered the lines: '

'And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes, huh?'

He was finally aware of what it meant. He knew how innocently you loved those around you. He recognized how significant your love was. He wasn't completely sure if such love was or could be reserved for him but, perhaps, tonight, he would throw scepticism away and believe in it fully.

[randum-famdoms]

Omg thanks ajfnfbsjjfjdndnn???? Idk, I guess I feel like I gotta apologise cause even tho he people in my life will listen to my philosophical rambles, most of the time they’re not very interested in it (at least that’s what it feels like). I get why - 95% of the time they’re spontaneous and late at night when they really just wanna go to bed lol. It’s nice having someone be so into it!! I would totally love to do this again too :D Though I don’t really control it, so I suppose it’ll have to be spontaneous.

I guess I knew that horror is heavily affected by the person, but only distantly? Most of my own fears are shared by one of my parents, and I don’t have any siblings, and it’s never really come up with friends besides things that can be linked back to past traumas (ie a fear of cars/driving due to a childhood car crash that ended in a hospital stay - dw she’s fine). My own fears are mostly things a lot of people are bothered by, like mild arachnophobia, heavy gore squicks me out, I don’t particularly enjoy climbing tall ladders cause there isn’t a handrail, torture makes me have nightmares of my loved ones experiencing it… but those are all like, normal things. Probably the only weird one is I hate looking at walrus’s (walri? Walreese?) because I watched a fucked up indie horror movie where a guy was… ya know what I ain’t describing that shit, it’s going back into the vault of things I don’t think about.

You can totally use any of the things I said in a paper or book or whatever else you like. I’m really flattered that you even want to :)

The video is this one:

However, I’m giving you a second one because they are really better watched as a set imo, they just pair so damn perfectly. Fair warning, the section that made me think about this whole existential perpetual aloneness only comes up at the end of the 3 hour long snapewives video. But you REALLY should watch the entirety of both!! AND THE REST OF BIZ’S CHANNEL TOO! Her flowers in the attic video has become a new favourite of mine. It pairs well with the Folgers coffee siblings fanfic analysis by cj the x (also available on YouTube, you could probably just type that whole sentence into the search bar to find it). She lives in my head rent free and I rightly thank her for it, okay? Because of her I enjoy my existential crises and think about Dostoevsky and Lord Gordon Byron daily, and I can only see these things as a benefit to my life. And maybe an annoyance to everyone around me, but that’s their problem not mine.

Anyway, here’s the second video:

If you grew up in a religious family/area, then let me tell you, these two videos did more to heal my leftover religious guilt than therapy ever could. And then proceeded to replace it with philosophical existentialism. In a good way, at least in my opinion, but let’s be honest I’m anything but normal in the head!

I always love seeing notifs that you replied/commented on one of my posts :))) love you too, in a platonic weird online friendo way <3

Stay safe, eat at least one full healthy meal today, sleep well, drink some water, and don’t die!

(Btw I’m sorry to disappoint but I accidentally backed one of my wheels into a drainage ditch earlier today while door dashing. Dw, I got out with the help of one of the people who lived in the neighborhood lol. She helped me push the car out and I’m totally fine)

Hey. I need y’all to settle an argument.

POLL: Are horror movies inherently Halloween movies, or not?

(I’ve given more context below)

Argument in favour: horror movies are spooky and scary and involve evil and usually blood and death and stuff. Halloween was originally about warding off said evil, as well as embracing lost loved ones, which eventually turned into something more akin to embracing said scary things themselves. Also, Horror movies almost always come out during the month of October, unless they have something in them heavily related to another season/holiday/event.

Argument against: Halloween movies are defined by the titular characters (vamipures, werewolves, etc), time of year, and vibes. Not being scary and bloody.

I am personally in favour of the always argument. All horror movies are Halloween movies. Not all Halloween movies are horror movies. Rectangles and squares, if you will. Some movies are a nebulous “maybe”, like twilight: it has werewolves and vampires, but it’s not quite the spoopy vibe.

My dad says horror movies can be Halloween movies, but most are not.

So. Help me prove I’m right. (Seriously tho, give your actual opinion. I’ll still think I’m right, but this is for SCIENCE. And to settle a bet, but SCIENTIFICALLY!)

[skybird13]

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate that Lord Byron, one of the most well known and popular poets in western history, actually wrote the phrase "Turdsworth" because he was a bitter, salty bitch.

[xftg1232]

That moment when Arthur told the origins of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" within 90 seconds...

[captain-el-writes]

OK, is no one gonna talk about how 1789!Morpheus looks like Lord Byron? Because OMG he does.

JUST LOOK AT HIM:

He looks WAY more like Byron than in the Mary Shelley movie Tom did some time ago. I don't know if anyone else feels this way.

Just my two scents.