#maybe brokeback mountain

[jeanmoreaue]

i feel like at some point Cat would put on a critically acclaimed French film for Jean bc they think he might like it, but halfway through the movie Jean is like “i understand what they’re saying but i don’t understand anything that’s happening”

[formulanni]

Sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it!

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[voilaammayi]

John Watson saying you join me and my companion/colleague/friend/flat mate while the only thing I can think of is oh please cut the bullshit.

Companion is already the gayest word in existence and yet you want to salvage yourself by flat mate in a desperate try of not using roommate which is actually nothing more than just the second gayest word in existence and you and I both know it.

Who do you think you’re fooling John, my beloved sweet summer child, only yourself I’m afraid.

[conflictofthemind]

I can't wait for the (inevitable) Brokeback Mountain reference they're going to make with Byler in Season 5

they're filming together at a cattle farm as one of their primary locations like come onnn

[nateconnolly]

Jack and Ennis leave Brokeback Mountain in August 1963. They see each other for the last time in May 1983, and Ennis cancels the trip they had planned for that August. If he hadn't canceled that camping trip, they would have been together almost exactly on their twenty year anniversary.

[jesuistrestriste]

mike faist has such an old hollywood face. he’s so handsome ugh

[nopefer-art-tu]

so i was thinking abt the old brokeback mountain forum threads i had stumbled upon last yr and i remember coming across a very lengthy one where people were debating the nature of ennis and jack's relationship during their days on brokeback mountain. specifically, people were debating about whether or not ennis and jack kissed at all during those first few months of friendship and fucking.

i know what y'all may be thinking: but nickie, didn't they literally kiss, like, super passionate style during the unfamous second-night-in-the-tent (or SNIT, as the BetterMost forum users dubbed it) scene?

but see, the thing is that in the original short story Annie Proulx never mentioned them kissing during their time on the mountain. In fact, the first (and only) time kissing is mentioned is during their reunion. In an interview, Ang Lee had said that the whole SNIT scene was written into the film to help audiences better understand the budding passion and love between Ennis and Jack. Otherwise, they felt viewers wouldn't quite get the depth of feelings that they had for each other, and thought they would've been lost as to why it hurt them both so bad to be separated earlier than they'd anticipated.

of course i love the idea that they eased into intimacy so early on in their relationship that they made out a ton while herding on the mountains, but imo, it's also kind of interesting to think about the reunion scene being their first kiss.

in her Story to Screenplay book essay, Annie Proulx said that ranchers would often hire two guys to tend a flock together so that they could 'poke each other' on the lonesome days in the mountains. In some ways, Ennis and Jack fucking was a normal and anticipated part of the job—a 'one-shot thing' that would occur simply due to circumstance. She said what was unusual about Ennis and Jack's case is that the two had fallen into a deep, once-in-a-lifetime kind of love during their time together, thus negating the whole 'one-shot' thing Ennis had declared it to be.

with that in mind, i can see why so many people believed that they never kissed during their initial months of relationship building. They both could have justified it by thinking that as long as they didn't kiss, their tryst didn't mean anything special, nor would it make them queer for going at it like rabbits. Then they both go through the turmoil of losing each other, not knowing why it was they felt so bad about going their separate ways, and go through four long years of silence before "the first sign of life" appears in the form of a postcard.

Jack pulls up in Ennis' driveway, and Ennis is so overcome with joy and desire that first thing his (alcohol-muddled) mind thinks to do is kiss the living daylights out of Jack, and in that moment—as those old forum users had put it—that was basically the first time either of them were able to acknowledge to themselves that the summer on the mountain in '63 meant a whole lot more to them than it should have.

i dunno. i think it's a really interesting subject to think about, one that gets broached in fics very rarely. would like to hear your all's thoughts, if any!

[crooner-deans-walkman]

destiel i wish i knew how to quit you

[qbicearth-moved]

heartbreak..

[philcollinsenjoyer]

it's so embarassing those posts where beatles fans reply to stuff that has nothing to do with the beatl3s with this is so the beatlzs. because they're right

[lawsanhs]

Guys omg im craving glance.

[leighcest]

we coulda had a real good life together, lawrence! a damn good life!

[glendover]

I wish I knew how to quit mattkey

@felixcosm I hope you are satisfied 🫣

[manny-jacinto]

i was reading kiefer sutherland’s wikipedia and he passed one of the lead roles from my own private idaho to go skiing instead 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[carrotcakecrumble]

I bring a drawing Ennis Del Mar on the graffiti tunnel walls kinda vibe to the function yk?

[moonchild-in-blue]

Yeehaw territory is all of the USA, but mostly west of the Mississippi River (anything bought in the Louisiana Purchase that was considered the 'frontier') 🌿

@whataboutyouisamascot thank you for the history lesson! Unfortunately I have no idea where Mississipi is, and I'm way too sick to look that up, so I'm just nodding and smiling gratefully like an idiot 😃👍 <- not a thought behind those eyes