#wives and children too

[nopeferatu]

I was rambling in the tags of another post recently and this little chunk of them is a short snippet of something I've expressed in tags of other posts many times before, about how the original 1997 short story was written to basically scold those who hold homophobic ideals for making the world so hostile to queer people. I think it's a pretty similar sentiment (albeit less eloquently put, lol) to what you're expressing up in your post!

What always manages to take my breath away about the complexity of Brokeback, is how the movie (and story), includes it’s passive audience as a way to truly tell the story.  The viewer is forced to comply in a way, to ruin the relationship between Ennis and Jack. Ennis deepest fear is people seeing them together and somehow KNOWING they’re queer, and that someone could mean this is cause to get violent, to kill Jack or himself. And we, the audience, we do know. In the audience there were at the time of the movies release, and even now, people who are uncomfortable with the relationship between two men. In the privacy of their own mind, or even in the discussion after, there were viewers who found cause to wish them harm or even death. Those who would find them disgusting, or would say they only brought it upon themselves for lying to their wives, watching the movie but missing the point of the story.  In a way the movie is showing us what we have been a part of.  We are all made partially responsible for the tragedy, because despite any personal empathy towards the characters, gay people still are not entirely and unconditionally accepted by society. And brokeback was a story written to condem societal and specifically rural homophobia. To scream and rage and accuse, to say “Look at what you’ve ruined. Look at what you’ve done. If it weren’t for the hateful ways of their world, they could have been happy.”  We’ve spent so long with the two characters Jack and Ennis, we get to KNOW the men who have to decide between living in fear, or living with love.  

Because they don’t get both.  And we have to watch everything crash and burn, the inevitable outcome of too many people paying them attention when they only wanted to live in peace, but they will never be able to do that theyre charachters in a movie that only exist on a page and on a screen for us to percieve. So they pay the ultimate prize. 

[greencheekconure27]

Miserably, from underneath a pile of blankets: "getting sick because you went outside and got caught in the rain once belongs in novels not real life. We haven't got time for this.Fucking Victorian heroïne ass behavior.😤"

[smallblueandloud]

i should make a playlist that just has "rose's turn", "being alive", "moving on", and "no more" so i can cut out the middleman

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

You know? A lot of people harp on feanor not being a good dad, yet fail to realize that none of finwe’s sons were really good dads, what with nolofinwe’s “yeah i’m totally gonna drag my people and kids across the grinding ice to follow my half brother” and arafinwe’s “yeah I’m absolutely gonna abandon all my kids to the inevitable horror of the doom and what they’ll find in beriliand.”

There’s a difference between being a good person and being a good parent and ngl, i think nolo and ara kinda dropped the ball there.

I am absolutely not gonna talk about how this applies to all three’s wives bc it absolutely does (the only saving grace is the possibility that they didn’t know until to late (unlikely) bc we are not really informed as to where they were during the flight of the noldor)

I’m not saying that feanor was a good dad during those last few years with the silmarils and all, but he’s not the only one who put something else over his own kids.

(This is my opinion and you’re welcome to yours, of course. Just please keep it off this post if you disagree)

[butchkaramazov]

after somehow learning a few unhinged facts, i have decided that i hate all boys. not men, though.

there's a difference.

[warmothered]

i'm just collecting bits and pieces of information here but i like that even though there's one (1) father everyone kinda knows/assumes is ashe's biological father it doesn't matter because what matters is all 5 of them (for my own reference, they're called yrael, grimshall, logren, ereen and rorn) swore themselves to her mom and to raise and protect ashe and they did and they're all her dads and i just think it's neat

[horrastorie]

I need to kiss the butcher, the other troll dude (personally I just call him the hunter??), Näcken, Skogsrä, and the Kärrhäxan. Oh and Lemus, we love our rock friend!!!1!

[hecatesbroom]

Apparently, today's brainrot of choice is a Golden Girls Sound of Music AU where Rose is Maria, Dorothy's the Captain, and Blanche is the Baroness, only that one scene where the Baroness visits Maria in her bedroom ends very differently & they end up in a polycule

[cuntylittlesalmon]

seeing a bunch of white twitter blue check literatis bitch about how a litmag tweeting not to submit to them if you don’t support palestine is bringing around the death of all art and literature is like…oh we are not escaping liberalism ever are we

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

"Men have to keep their problems all to themselves until they explode from the pressure of it all and its so sad!!!!" I have never kept a thing to myself in my entire goddamn life

[lazygyodza]

I spent all my Friday night and weekend going through food poisoning

And I'm still feeling pretty weak, wobbly and woozy from the consequences of my actions. Hope u, magical creatures had a better weekend than I'm ʕ⁠ ⁠º⁠ ⁠ᴥ⁠ ⁠º⁠ʔ

So, please accept this sketch of happy Chibiske - she's proud of her catch, the only thing left is to present it to her bull husbando and hope that he'll cook smth nice out of it.

[darabeatha]

    ❝ phh............ ❞

[sintreaties]

Have u already got children or wife or smth?

Oh, I was fooling around with Straight Girl just a few weeks ago, I wouldn’t be able to do it if I was a family guy

[milescottontail]

My whole team has been leveled up to level 100!!! including Team B!!!! wow!!!!

(I've also hypertrained all my Pokemon :D!!!!)

I'm so proud of myself! Time to go destroy all the gym refights

[nylonnye2]

That's so fucking funny I've already decided god is going on the same list as the tooth fairy in my household and I don't even want kids

[transmandayoung]

I think John put so much effort into Jeff's test and designing it to urge him into specific actions of helping people bc he sees so much of himself in him and sees what he could have become