platoapproved replied to your post: In which I finish Kings
GOD’S DIMWIT SKDFJNSKJDF I’M HOWLING i still haven’t read the rest of the post yet bc i died
platoapproved replied to your post: In which I finish Kings
it does surprise me a little that you hadn’t heard about david and jonathan, in that it’s an allusion that gets made not infrequently in quite a few older queer texts.
like iirc oscar wilde literally namedropped them in his very infamous trial speech about men who love other men
Didn’t know about David and Jonathan, didn’t know about Professor X and Magneto, WHAT CAN I SAY. I mean, I was not an English major nor raised in the Christian church, and I think that does contribute to how ridiculously scattershot I am with the ol’ Western cultural allusions. (I have no explanation for the comics thing.) I’ve mostly got Old Greeks and like, in a continuation from that, Hugo, and V Hugz failed me!—
“His nature was thus constituted. There are men who seem to be born to be the reverse, the obverse, the wrong side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephastion, Pechmeja. They only exist on condition that they are backed up with another man; their name a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction and; and their existence is not their own; it is the other side of an existence that is not theirs. Grantaire was one of these men. He was the obverse of Enjolras.
One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the alphabet. In the series, O and P are inseparable. You can, at will, pronounce O and P or Orestes and Pylades. [And then that’s is I’m ending this roll call here without mentioning David and Jonathan, ha ha to Tarra.]”
Anyway what this means is that PLEASE tell me about David & Jonathan???
platoapproved replied to your post: In which I finish Kings
anyway i am so glad you have gone on this journey and you Understand, now. so much to love so much to hate so much to be charmed and baffled by. That’s Kings (2009) babey.
I am still absolutely blown away that I had thought it was, as @caffeinatedcorvid put it, “a Serious Drama”