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Calling all Wingmen/The Charioteer fans!
To commemorate the Christopher Street Liberation Day, which took place 56 years ago today in 1970 in New York, I have written a fic featuring middle-aged Andrew Raynes (TC) and Fred Trusteau (WM), and their reactions to this momentous gathering.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
No knowledge needed of both books - I hope you enjoy my attempts to bring together fact and fiction.
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forced my sister to read the charioteer so we could have sophisticated intellectual discussions
Something (anything) of Ralph &or/ Alec, please?
i hope some young dweebs will brighten ur day :)
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@smootherthanastorm isn’t this great! They are such a funny couple, and I love the little memento mori on the shelf 🥺
you're not unknowable you blond bisexual bastard. there's a socially inept bottom right there and he wants to snort you like a line of coke
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Charioteer - Mary Renault Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ralph Lanyon/Laurie Odell Characters: Ralph Lanyon, Laurie Odell Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst Summary:
Ralph and Laurie try to cope during a heatwave. Very much on trend with the heatwave we are currently experiencing in the U.K. - this is basically what my heat-addled brain came up with. Hopefully funny and light but also with darker themes.
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does anyone wanna be friends on goodreads?
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oh ralph was Marking His Territory 😏😩🙂↕️
ralph lanyon's kinda the paragon of service tops
"It was like getting an anonymous letter."
The Bunny and Andrew meeting we never see!
Moments before disaster 😔
Drawing a scene always brings up so many things to think about- I wonder if Bunny saw something of Ralph in Andrew? What got Bunny to the point of going to find him?
@renaultphile !!! Thank you for the suggestion!! 🩷🩷🩷
More suggestions welcome!
The fencing foil sene from the Charioteer!
Laurie packing up his life and overthinking his situationship - the peak mid twenties experience
@anyastradivarius - thank you for the idea!! 😊 💗Would love to know your thoughts on this part of the book, it's such a complicated scene. I've always been fascinated with what the Hamlet play means to the two of them.
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taste by sabrina carpenter is soooo bunny To Me
Well here we are on week 6 of the TC re-read, the wait is over - Alec is here!!! I would love to hear all your thoughts on TC Alec and his place in the book 💖
Hello hello! Answering this 2 months late, as one does :)
Oh, Alec. I love him so much. I ship Ralph/Laurie, of course, but I have a soft spot for Ralph/Alec (and Ralph/Bunny, but that's another discussion).
I think it's so lovely that they're exes but still close? Ralph came to his birthday! He brought a present! He's fiercely protective of Alec and hates what Sandy puts him through!
Alec suffers so much!!!! Obviously it's very important to the plot that Ralph thinks Alec betrayed him, and that Alec doesn't challenge that accusation/belief, but omg. It pains me so much. Just use your words, Alec! Tell him the truth!!!
Agony!
And yet, even after this, Ralph is still looking out for Alec!
"You're talking to me now" and the earlier "He's not feeling half as ill as I'd like to make him" are soooo hot.
Sorry, this is turning into a Ralph manifesto. I just want to highlight how much I love that they still care about each other, even though they're no longer together. Alec looks out for Ralph, too! He doesn't want Laurie to hurt Ralph the way others have in the past.
Also, Alec "hates soft thinking on the one hand and intolerance on the other" Deacon? Delicious.
Okay, also, Ralph nearly gave up the sea for Alec. Do you know how amazing that is??? Ralph Lanyon, choosing to give up the sea for someone, before the choice is taken from him and he's forced to give it up? Sure, it didn't work out between them, but that means Alec is quite something.
AND ANOTHER THING Alec is the only person Ralph told about Odell's death (and presumably his infatuation with Odell). That definitely means something, and speaks to Alec's character (and how much Ralph cares about him).
Also, I love Alec's speech about homosexuality in chapter 8. "I'm not prepared to accept a standard which puts the whole of my emotional life on the plane of immorality" and "I'm not a criminal. I'm prepared to go to some bit of trouble, if necessary, to make that point" are great. It's just banger after banger in Bunny's rooms.
And then!!! And then!!! Alec swooping in to save the day at the very end! Rocking up in chapter 16 to metaphorically smack some sense into Laurie and straighten out the whole misunderstanding! Of course it wasn't Ralph who Andrew struck, it was Bunny, don't be a fool Laurie, and how dare you have a row with Ralph about it! Go fix this at once! Here's a pass, we'll say you've got an ill family member! He's so tired and exasperated in that chapter, and he's so done with Laurie's shit.
Your honor, I love him.
Thank you so much @impishtubist for your thoughts on Alec 💖 I enjoyed reading this so much and it was good to be reminded of why I find these two so engaging in the novel. And yes, 'Not half as ill as I'd like to make him,' right up there with Ralph's guilty-pleasure great lines.
I was chatting with @nurseadriansbrother about these two and when I read this I thought, it is as though there is this undercurrent between them, on the face of it a 'failed' relationship, but they are also constantly modelling the qualities that are needed for a relationship to succeed - the loyalty between them particularly, and the way they clearly care about each other even if they do not agree about everything. Even the anger and frustration they express - it is not indifference. There is a kind of arc mirroring the more overtly 'romantic' love triangle that takes centre stage.
Which I love. And I adore how she made Alec flawed and interesting but also heroic in his own way.......
I love that you put failed in quotes. Just because a relationship ends, doesn't mean that it "failed". Alec and Ralph remain on good terms, clearly care about each other rather than being indifferent, and I think they walked away from that relationship having learned a lot from it and having grown a lot as well! Like @rheaitis said, it was likely the first serious relationship with another man for both of them, and was probably very formative. I'm so glad they remain in each other's lives 🥺
A Call on Bunny (AO3)
In which Ralph pays Bunny a final visit. Definitely based on a discussion I had with @impishtubist because, yes, I do think Ralph fucked Bunny one last time.
Also, I started feeling things about Bunny.
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“Oh, pet,” tuts Bunny. “How you wish dear Laurie would save you from yourself. How much simpler would life be if only someone had stepped in to save silly Eve?”
Bunny wonders if either of them will make it out of this encounter alive. When Ralph eases into the palm that Bunny presses to his cheek, Bunny pushes a little too hard on what will be an extraordinary bruise, and a sharp puff of air hits his wrist. No matter what happens, this will be the last time Bunny will ever trail his fingers through Ralph’s soft hair. Bunny wants to kiss him. He wants to bite his lip.
if you're still open to renault requests, i'd love to see something from the wedding chapter of "the charioteer" (particularly the "do you believe in luck?" exchange between ralph and laurie). your art is absolutely stunning, by the way! *__*
They went up the path together, not speaking till Ralph said, “You’ll keep this place?“
"If I can.“
"You must. It goes with you. It would be bad luck to sell it.“
Laurie turned, under the black floating planes of the cedar. “Do you believe in luck?“
"I’m a sailor,” Ralph said.
(see the rest on my nsfw blog ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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if youre still..taking renault requests.. andrew n laurie, mayhaps?
congrts on being the only person ever to request my OTP………happy new years
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Ralph and Laurie kissin’ in school and then kissin’ in the war
(Yes, I am gearing up for The Charioteer reread)
so do we think "afterwards" means "after another makeout session" or
