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[toujours_nigel]

via lilliburlero

I currently have 194 works archived at AO3.

Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 194 (the first thing I posted there), and I’ll tell you three things I like about it.

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[lilliburlero]

Thank you!

Me too! I remember being very baffled when I first read it as a teenager, because things I assumed were fades-to-black then revealed themselves to be actual non-happenings.

The film is weirdly miscast, isn't it, as if Merchant Ivory took one look at the novel's many descriptions of Maurice as dark and heavy-set and decided this cannot be for we are Merchant Ivory, purveyors of jam and crumpet fey Edwardiana to the general and we will cast a slim blond willy-nilly! And then Clive, who actually is fey and fair, becomes Hugh Grant.

[toujours_nigel]

I knew when it had been written, see, so I just nodded along assuming fade-to-black, mostly because of Maurice, but also because of that lovely scene where he comes in through the window and they embrace. But clearly we were being set up for Alec coming through the window, lo these many years later. Y'know, it's a good thing Maurice is only published in the 70s, or Ralph would have ragged Alec Deacon skinless.

The only good casting in that film is Scudder.

[lilliburlero]

It...seems to have pupped a fic.

Sharing (1133 words) by Lilliburlero
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Charioteer - Mary Renault
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Alec Deacon/Ralph Lanyon
Characters: Alec Deacon, Ralph Lanyon
Additional Tags: Literary References & Allusions, Alternative Literary History, Queer Culture
Summary:

Alec brings back a queer book from France.

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Advisory: period-typical language to describe sexuality, sustained and gratuitous ragging on E.M. Forster.