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Sonnet No. 23 by crinklefries

A post-canon, In Memoriam fix-it fic about surviving, living, healing, and the unbearable weight of being in love. || Sidney Ellwood/Henry Gaunt

|| Rated M, ~45K+ (complete) || post-canon, post-WWI, fix-it, angst and hurt/comfort, healing, romance, 1920s, pining while in an established relationship || for anyone who finished reading In Memoriam and sat there in a fugue state going, I loved every minute of that but I am in agony, I hope those two boys get their happy ending

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#OH MY GOD#shaking screaming crying#45K???#that's INSANE#for this “fandom”#i'm going to lose my mind#this is such amazing news#i need to be fixed actually#been crying over this book for 9 months#fixit needed thank you crinklefries my beloved#please let gaunt and elly be happy and in love and healing#i neeeeed it#gauntwood#alice winn in memoriam#fanfic
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I read In Memoriam by Alice Winn, emerged depressed, obsessed, and changed, got severe brain rot, immediately listened to the audiobook, became WWI-pilled, sent a sum total of at least two hours of textual analysis via voicenotes, and wrote a 40K fic for an audience of maybe 5 people.

Life is so humbling. I hope those 5 people enjoy what is to come.

#sksksksksk#insert beyonce god is real gif#we are being fed!#and by we i mean i#this book has changed my life#the amount of wwi lit i've consumed in 2024 is ridic#i'm so in love with gaunt and elly#and now one of my fave fic writers is giving us 40K of them?#yessss#gauntwood#in memoriam alice winn
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sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down

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l2g

this is why this sappho fragment hits me so hard

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If this little book should see the light after its 100 years of entombment, I would like its readers to know that the author was a lover of her own sex and devoted the best years of her life in striving for the political equality and social and moral elevation of women.

“The Great Geysers of California” by Laura De Force Gordon, 1879, unearthed from a 100-year-old time capsule in San Francisco, 1979.

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katherinebarlow
“Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all our letters could be published in the future in a more enlightened time. Then all the world could see how in love we are.”

Gordon Bowsher to Gilbert Bradley, 1940s

#i've been reading a lot of historical books lately#from the 1910s#and through to the 1950s#and seeing queerness represented in literature like that#from a hundred years ago#it hits so hard#usually there aren't happy endings#but every now and then you'll get a happy ending like in#maurice by e.m. forster#or in#the charioteer by mary renault#and i imagine what it must've been like#for queer people in those days#to find those books where they could see themselves get to be happy#history
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