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And, in 1659, in a petition composed by Mary Forster, more than 7,000 Quakers lobbied against paying tithes to the Church of England, and Margaret Fell would go on to petition Charles II for the release of 700 Quakers, including the founder George Fox after he had been imprisoned.
"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory
#book quote#normal women#philippa gregory#nonfiction#50s#1650s#17th century#petition#mary forster#quakers#tithes#church of england#anglican#margaret fell#charles ii#george fox#imprisoned
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eueeuugegegghh finally got around to making some more of these, please enjoy 🤲🤲
#jcs 2012#jcs 2014#jcs uk arena tour#jesus christ superstar#jesus x judas#jedas#jesus christ#judas iscariot#mary magdalene#ben forster#ola salo
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I only make memes about mildly obscure queer fiction written prior to 1970, thanks
#the charioteer#mary renault#the left hand of darkness#ursula k. le guin#maurice#em forster#the Charioteer is incomprehensible because I don’t speak British
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More Penguin Classics covers for old gay novels.
(Part 1)
#book covers#penguin classics#penguin covers#the last of the wine#a single man#bertram cope's year#maurice#wingmen#mary renault#christopher isherwood#henry blake fuller#e. m. forster#ensan case#literature#lit#gay literature#lgbt literature#lgbtq literature#gay#mlm#lgbt#lgbtq#gay books#gay fiction#lgbtq books#books#bookblr
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When you realize Simon's song is just him showing Jesus his powerpoint on "how to conquer the country in three steps" and Jesus being like "the fuck is wrong with u"
#jesus christ superstar#jcs#jcs 2012#simon zealotes#mary magdalene#judas#peter#giovanni spano#ben forster#tim minchin#mel C
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please send me submissions!
#especially female characters. we're currently at a 1:2 ratio of female to male characters and I can't let that stand#I've got a few queued but I'm going away for a week so I want to have a nice juicy queue of posts scheduled while I'm gone#I'm afraid I've exhausted all the classics that I've read#classic literature#I'm just going to tag some big authors in the hopes this reaches the intended audience:#jane austen#charlotte bronte#emily bronte#the bronte sisters#william shakespeare#oscar wilde#virginia woolf#mary shelley#bram stoker#evelyn waugh#e. m. forster
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Y'all CANNOT take a picture of a light-haired man and a dark-haired man and say "this is so Wolfstar coded" I'm losing my mind 😭
#yes this is about the Maurice post sorry to subtweet half my dash#BUT IN NO WAY ARE CLIVE AND MAURICE WOLFSTAR CODED#have any of you actually read the book or seen the movie my god#please keep wolfstar far away from the queer masterpieces of e. m. forster and mary renault i'm so fucking serious
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(not so) subtle gays
#gay#lgbtq#book quotes#quotes#words#words words words#literature#classic lgbtq+ fiction#lgbtq+ fiction#compilation#my own stuff#oscar wilde#maurice#e m forster#the charioteer#mary renault#the secret history#donna tartt#gay disaster#asking without asking: are you gay too?#web weaving#cubitum eamus#gay disasters#how not to flirt
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As I get older, more removed from the King James Bible and the fundamentalism of my youth, I find myself with other scriptures. Now my sacred texts are:
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Maurice by E M Forster The poetry of Mary Oliver The short stories of Flannery O’Connor The epic fantasies of J R R Tolkien and Katherine Kurtz The way the sunlight shines on rhododendron The way the water feels on my feet in a cool mountain stream The waves of the ocean The purring of a cat The smile of a beloved friend
#walt whitman#e m forster#maurice#mary oliver#flannery o'connor#j r r tolkien#katherine kurtz#contemplative prayer
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It's officially PRIDE! We here at Cutty Sark have a lot to celebrate this month. Like a normal 19th century sailing vessel, there's lots of gay people at our helm.
Anyways, we wanted to take a moment to honor the queer writers who not only made it possible for us to be here in the writing world, but continue to reinstate a fact which should seem antiquated by this point: queer people belong in this world, today, tomorrow, and yesterday. Although there's still lots to be done in ways of gaining rights for the LGBTQIA+ community in the United States and internationally, we are able to be stronger when we can remember how far we've come. If you are a queer writer, we encourage you to submit to Cutty Sark (cuttysarkmag.com). It doesn't matter whether or not your pieces directly relate to queer activism. Your existence is power.
Now, on with the list of our favorite books by queer writers:
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (fiction) Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara (poetry) Crush by Richard Siken (poetry) On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (fiction) Howl by Allen Ginsberg (poetry) Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (poetry) Dog Songs by Mary Oliver (poetry) Hunger by Roxane Gay (nonfiction) Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (nonfiction) Exit Pastoral by Aidan Forster (poetry) Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (poetry) Indigo by Ellen Bass (poetry)
#poetry#poets#writers#writers and poets#writing#pride month#LGBT pride#lgbtqia#lgbtq#lgbtq community#gay#lesbian#bisexual#james baldwin#frank o'hara#richard siken#ocean vuong#allen ginsberg#natalie diaz#mary oliver#roxane gay#aidan forster#walt whitman#ellen bass#female writers#gay writers#lesbian writers#bisexual writers#queer writers#lgbt writers
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I always find it amusing how some people seem to be earnestly shocked by how not every viewer falls in love with Ava from the get go or how some don't really like her at all.
Disliking a main character is not a moral flaw, nor is it a novelty in the history of humans reacting to stories. There are no rules pertaining to how an audience must be fond of a protagonist. Different people like different things, as the saying goes, and, regardless of whether the title of the show is "goofy" or not (it was Forbes' Paul Tassi that deemed it so, if memory serves right), some of us were reeled in by it and expected what it says on the tin rather than following a reluctant hero for a handful of episodes while she avoids precisely that same narrative we might have initially signed up for.
It's both a matter of expectations and values; I've said somewhere before that JC's gang is unbearable to me also because I find no common ground with characters who embody a lifestyle I have seen up close and strongly rejected. They remind me of people I loathed and who certainly loathed me back. Subjective? Entirely, even though I also object to them as characters given how mind-numbingly dull and superficial they appear to me, as they are presented in the show (flat characters instead of round, if you want to E.M. Forster it, but so flat, so thin, that they might be ripped apart any moment). JC's speech on institutions is all pretty and commendable, but it sounds empty when the big middle finger he and his companions are giving to a higher social class is... The remarkable "cause" of crashing at their places so kids can get high on drugs in raves around Europe, apparently. His professed idealism doesn't really go beyond words -- and it's hard to sympathise with that.
Of course anyone could say the OCS also boasts of void discourses, ultimately meaningless words that deform reality, obscure it, manipulate it (the halo bearer, the gift, worth, God, grace, faith...) and they would be justified in their protestation seeing as the church's words are proven to be hollow as the story progresses. I won't argue with you there.
Yet this is thematically relevant considering the show's title. That is what I had hoped to see when I first hit play on the initial episode some time in 2021 (I'm neither of the "original" fans who watched WN as soon as it came out nor of the post-s2 crowd). So when Ava momentarily chooses that other lot, that other nucleus over this one, it almost led me to choose another show (and I have friends who did, despite my guarantees that it would pick up the pace quickly enough).
Now, none of this is meant to point fingers or judge people who loved Ava from the start or even those who might have a soft spot for JC's gang. The only thing this little text aims to accomplish is to explain how we all watch the same thing but wearing different pairs of lenses -- and that is a quality rather than a disadvantage. It means Warrior Nun can speak to all sorts of different people with different interests, values and sympathies, and it once more demonstrates how foolish Netflix's decision to cancel a show with so much potential reach was.
And, if you must know, I came round on Ava later on thanks to the powerhouse that is Alba Baptista's portrayal of her, allied with the clever writing I was treated to in season two.
If the power to change a viewer's opinion and feelings over a character she had disliked doesn't speak to the sheer talent of the people involved in a project, on and off-screen, I really do not know what else could serve as a higher compliment to everyone that brought it to life.
#do i want to tag this?#silly blabbering#oh and this isn't a reply to anyone in particular. i wrote this in my physical journal weeks ago and thought i'd type it out#maybe other people feel it resonates with them#oh well here goes nothing. i'm not being unreasonable i don't think. so i don't expect unreasonable responses#warrior nun#before you go telling me that forster sees the use in flat characters well so do i#but i'll quote him: a serious or tragic flat character is apt to be a bore#wasn't it mary who said a sob story would only take you so far...? well then.#and to be fair my issue with s1 isn't pacing. i love obscure european cinema and silences and all of that#whatever critique i have really has to do with the time spent on uninteresting characters#it's not about how ava runs away but /to whom/. her running off to jillian so as to be “scienced” is pretty damn cool#meta fandom talk i guess
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Clive Bell and his mistress Mary Hutchison (seated), with Duncan Grant and E. M. Forster in the walled garden at Charleston, Firle in Sussex.
1923
#1923#1920s#duncan grant 1920s#duncan grant#e.m. forster#clive bell#mary hutchison#charleston#photographer: vanessa bell
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Some Ben Forster version text posts because he’s my favourite Jesus 🫶
eat up 🙏
#jcs 2012#jcs#jesus christ superstar#jesus christ#judas iscariot#judas#jesus x judas#jedas#ben forster#mary magdalene
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ROUND 2 of gay classic author deathmatch
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Judas watching Mary kiss Jesus and stroke his hair like:
#jcs#jesus christ superstar#jcs 2012#ben forster#tim minchin#judas#mel C#mary magdalene#pic isn't mine
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