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Me when it's July: it's almost tc fandom reread time
will you join us?
yay!!!
probably not
Also if you have fun ideas for this year's reread do let me know. New readers welcome (i say it every year, we will convince someone eventually 😅)
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a lot of failcore plots in ycmal but one of the top contenders is seriously robbie being so bad at his revenge arc that it gives him clinincal depression
runner up is david stumbling into an extremely affectionate long term committed relationship because he was trying to get hatecrimed
Finally sharing my favourite book in my collection: a first edition/first print of The Friendly Young Ladies inscribed by Mary Renault to her partner, Julie Mullard (from Renault's personal collection).
georgie + loving robbie (always in tandem)
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me, someone who can't read about infidelity in a love story because it'll ruin my day, is so soft for georgie dineen. how did this happen?
rip bim taylor you would've loved the album 'ho, why is you here?' by flo milli
my horrible anachronistic tc characters playlist that mary renault would despise:
laurie — untouched by the veronicas!!! hand in glove by the smiths (sooo many smiths songs actually), the first taste by fiona apple
ralph — i want you to love me by fiona apple :( a fond farewell by elliott smith (im sorry); alternatively, futuresex/lovesound by justin timberlake ;)
bunny — maneater by nelly furtado, before he cheats by carrie underwood (the gearshift, i mean cmon)
sandy — (one of those) crazy girls by paramore
bim — in the party by flo milli
alec — confessions by usher lol
andrew — futile devices by sufjan stevens!!! somewhere only we know by keane
okay I'm saying these with my whole chest:
laurie: putting the dog to sleep by the antlers
ralph: sailor song by gigi pirez
bunny: who's afraid of little old me? by taylor swift
sandy: casual by chappell roan
bim: carmen by lana del rey
alec: you know i'm no good by amy winehouse
andrew: somewhere only we know by keane is perfect and cannot be topped
rip bim taylor you would've loved the album 'ho, why is you here?' by flo milli
Mary Renault, The Charioteer.
ralph lanyon.
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Mary Renault, The Charioteer.
hello! i finished the charioteer a while ago and have loved reading your thoughts on everything (especially regarding andrew and laurie's love for ralph) and wanted to know how you interpret the sentence "Remorse, even the greatest, has the nature of a debt; if we could only clear the books, we feel that we should be free. But a deep compassion has the nature of love, which keeps no balance sheet; we are no longer our own."
i've been confused about it for a while and i'm curious about what you think!
Great question! The way I read this line now is that Laurie had been so preoccupied with trying to adhere to an ideal of what love should be (according to his interpretation of The Phaedrus), that he’d failed to have compassion for his lover (Ralph), when he inevitably failed to live up to those platonic ideals.
Another layer to this is that remorse has the nature of a debt because it centers one’s own need for absolution. (“He had come to take his punishment and, his penance begun, to leave as he had come, alone.”)
But Laurie’s remorse is not what Ralph needs right now.
Compassion has the nature of love because it centers the other person’s needs. Laurie realized through reading Ralph’s letter that Ralph needs the only person who believed in him after he lost everything at age 19 to reassure him that he still believes in him after he lost everything again at age 26. Even though this was no longer true (since this time Laurie did not believe Ralph until he heard the truth from Alec), Laurie chooses to lie about it to restore Ralph’s pride and self-image (by implying that he had decided to trust Ralph and had called to beg for forgiveness before hearing the truth from others).
Editing to add that this decision to choose compassion over truth is foreshadowed twice in the novel: The first time is when Laurie is moved by compassion to lie to Charlot on his deathbed instead of letting him die with the truth (of not having a priest). The second time is when he lies in his letter to Madge to prevent Reg from ruining his life.
This is my interpretation as well! And I think it's enforced through the Andrew/Laurie parallel where Andrew couldn't believe Bunny about Laurie and what Alec says about what Ralph needs in a partner in chapter 6:
"No, I see now the only kind of person who'd offer him some hope of happiness would be someone up to his own strength, with the continual patience to go on concealing it. Or, of course, the modesty not to know it, which would be an innocence comparable in its way with his own."
We know Laurie is emotionally intelligent and perceptive (until he's...not), but I think by the end of the novel, Laurie really wakes up and sees the situation as objectively as possible. Albeit through necessity.
not all ships are For wanting them to be in a happy healthy relationship together. sometimes shipping two characters means you want them to be erotically obsessed with each other and become entwined in a mutually toxic love affair for a few months and then horrifically break each other's hearts and never speak again. sometimes you want them to be codependent best friends with enough repression to explode a submarine who only make out/have sex when they're at their worst. sometimes you want them to pine after each other for years, never say anything, and then die. sometimes you want them to kill each other. this, too, is shipping
If we were villains (by M. L. Rio) 🎭 Fanart by me, painted with Procreate
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how reading jeremy’s chapters feels
Can you rec me blogs, please and thank you? nothing specific, just neat blogs, I need to follow more people (人 •͈ᴗ•͈) your blog is awsome!
omg thank you and of course! all of my mutuals have amazing blogs 🩷
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