#oliver marks/james farrow

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ROUND 1: POLL #42

Oliver x James art by goldfionch on Twitter

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Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan:

You’ve got the world's most disaster bisexual man who cannot sit properly to save his life and you've got an omnipotent professor guy who is obsessed with him and they somehow make time to solve mysteries between longingly staring at each other

The love that crosses time, the kind of love where their souls are drawn to each other no matter what form they take. Shen Wei has loved Zhao Yunlan for 10000 years. He waited for him to be reborn for TEN THOUSAND years! [SPOILERS] and yet after all that, they still didn't get their happy ending in this life. But they'll get another chance, they'll try again, and they will end up loving each other in every lifetime.

Oliver Marks/James Farrow:

[SPOILERS]

Theater kids getting in big trouble, sticking to each other and falling in love while playing Shakespeare, not necessarily in that order.

[tigerlilycorinne-fanfiction]

butchered tongue still singing here

Day 3 of AUgust 2024 Challenge: Dark Academia

Rating: Teen and Up

Pairing: James Farrow/Oliver Marks

Words: 8k

Summary:

“What did she say?” he asks. Meredith sucks her bottom lip again, uncharacteristically hesitant. Though Oliver only reintegrated about a week ago, he’s already noticed Meredith’s edge, sharper than ever. She knows her worth, and Oliver guesses, without having asked, that Meredith hasn’t simply climbed the ladder; she’s clawed her way up. “She’s wondering if you’re returning for the reunion. Dellecher. Classes 1996 to 1999.” Oliver freezes up. “Go back to Dellecher?”

Or: Right out of prison, Oliver joins the rest of his Dellecher year for the alum tradition of returning for a week, and someone unexpected shows up. (You know who it is.)

Read on AO3

“Dark Academia” AU for the AUgust 2024 challenge (@augustwritingchallenge)! The collection is here!

This is only halfway beta-read but at least a did a edit read-through myself?

[christine-grey]

~ 𝐢𝐢𝐰𝐯 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝

[droptheguillotineplease]

If We Were Villains sketch page

[vciousevrvale]

this book. we can't let m l rio get away with this

[pil0ttay]

from my instagram lol at a goodwill

i would have included dead poets society but i haven’t watched it yet

[book-connoisseur]

I usually don’t care about how people interpret text, but I’ll throw hands with anyone that says James Farrow is dead

[poppletonink]

Best Quotes From 'If We Were Villains'

"You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough."

"You can't quantify humanity. You can't measure it - not the way you mean to. People are passionate and flawed and fallible. They make mistakes. Their memories fade. Their eyes deceive them."

"I don't know, it's like I look at you and the sonnets make sense. The good ones, anyway."

"Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?" The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can't help but suppress a smile. "I blame him for all of it."

'She says, “Were you in love with him?” “Yes,” I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. “Yes, I was.” It’s not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I’m in love with him still.'

'I need language to live like food - lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.'

'Below was the motto: Per aspera ad astra. I'd heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was Through the thorns to the stars.'

"We cracked up. [...] But we didn't really shatter until we were all back together again."

'The clock on the mantel struck twelve, and we stirred, one by one, like seven statues coming to life.'

'Actors are by nature volatile - alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.'

[your-favorite-overachiever]

"you can justify anything if you do it poetically enough,"

--m.l. rio, if we were villains

[chaoticmiserablelover]

Two people who understand each other deeply. The power they hold over each other's hearts. the trust between them. That's why I keep reading books. It fascinates me.

[gold-tinted]

richard haunting the narrative the whole time, james being doomed by the narrative the whole time and oliver narrating unreliably is so special to me

[posalis]

when oliver marks said "i didn't want to leave him" and "he seemed so fragile i was afraid to touch him" and "i wanted to give richard ten bruises for every one he'd put on james" and "[i] was still holding james but not sure why" and "i wanted him [...] unhurt and unafraid more than i wanted richard alive" and "james, are you okay?" "you okay?" "something's bothering you?" "are you sure?" "are you alright?" "can you tell me what's wrong?" "i just want to help, let me help, okay?" "you can tell me. even if it's bad, even if it's really bad" "it's okay" "it'll be okay" "we'll find a way to fix this" "we'll sort it out" "we'll figure it out" "you know why."

[dont-get-snippy]

fuck ur zodiac sign are you a tyrant a hero a villain a temptress an ingénue a sidekick or a chameleon

[theotherrichardpapen]

[kilzzming]

if we were villains

[monisnamu]

i think out of everyone James' story is the saddest. He was so full of life and potential but the second Richard held him under that water, he changed. A part of him died that night.

Doomed by the narrative that one