Thursday Recs
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Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!
Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!
Do you have a rec for this week? Just reply to this post with something queer or queer-adjacent (such as, soap made by a queer person that isn't necessarily queer themed) that you'd, well, recommend. Self-recs are welcome, as are recs for fandom-related content!
Or have you tried something that's been recced here? Do you have your own report to share about it? I'd love to hear about it!
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Date: 2024-09-13 12:32 pm (UTC)I'm currently reading The Quest for Corvo by A J A Symons, published in the 1930s. This is a biography of the writer (somebody Rolfe, I can't be arsed to find the book) who was published as 'Baron Corvo'. Because of the time it was published, there is no explicit statement that Corvo was queer, but the subtext sure is there, and when I went hunting on the internet, everything more recent is very clear that Corvo was not in fact soliciting female prostitutes (which is how I read the the first allusion) but young men -- not sure if they were prostitutes or not. There is also reference in one of the webpages to pederasty, although I don't have anything more than that.
The writing is brilliant. Rolfe/Corvo on the other hand, was a bit of a shit. The kind of person who gets described as 'their own worst enemy'.
Project Gutenberg has one of Corvo's books (Hadrian the Seventh) so I've downloaded that to possibly read after.