laurelwen
Fixating on the Unfixable
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like minds shitpost (26/26)
#hmmm accurate enough i'd say#maybe it really was a betrayal - but we'll never know#*cries*#like minds#like minds text post
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like minds shitpost (25/26)
#(he really does love being gaslit)#a banner day#so many posts all at once#you know...i don't really recall any of these being made before but maybe my memory is just shit - very possible#like minds#like minds text post
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you came back wrong and i am racked with guilt because i cannot bear to see you like this and i should have let you rest. i loved you so much that i defied death itself but i do not think either of us are happy
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Alex and Nigel as songs: Marina edition
Are You Satisfied?; The Family Jewels; Teen Idle; Immortal - by Marina.
#ughgiddlkfdfdk these are so perfect#like i already had Immortal because god what a song for him 100% on board#but these others are so perfect i'll have to add those to my playlist toooo#also i love this format so much actually#like minds#like minds edit#like minds playlist
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being in a fandom comprised of 12 people and a bag of corn chips is great because whenever anyone posts anything all 11 of your pals are like
#sadly eddie doesn't seem to do cons for the most part - esp now that FB is finished#but you better believe if they were both at the same event i'd be there#in my own special ordered custom made LM merch#like the absolute weirdo I am#also sadly i know that most of us are pretty scattered around the globe#don't think i haven't considered it tho#like minds
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have you guys seen nigel colbie? he’s so cute. like he’s literally so cute oh my god. i want to give him a lobotomy.
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Nigel kisses the freckles on Alex's face. That's it, that's the whole post.
#on his face...and elsewhere iykwim#bless you - correct on all counts#and i have had many thoughts like this#like minds
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"do they kiss on screen" who give a Shit. do they cut each other open without anaesthesia onscreen.
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Height gap romance except the shorter one is frequently depicted in situations where they are contextually taller. The taller one sitting while the shorter one looms over them. Both of them lying in bed with the taller one’s head pressed to the shorter one’s chest. The shorter one straddling the taller one’s lap and leaning down for a kiss. The taller one on their knees as the shorter one tilts their head up. Please, it makes me go feral
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The Battle of Forbie
As you may have noticed, I am not a proponent of any portmanteau names for Alex and Nigel. Call me weird, but none of them please me, so I will continue to abstain from using them.
HOWEVER
In a spirit of generosity, I have come here today to feed the Forbie enjoyers. I give you:
The actual Battle of Forbie
The Battle of Forbie, also known as the Battle of La Forbie or the Battle of Hiribya, was fought October 17, 1244 – October 18, 1244 between the allied armies (drawn from the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the crusading orders, the breakaway Ayyubids of Damascus, Homs, and Kerak) and the Egyptian army of the Ayyubid Sultan as-Salih Ayyub, reinforced with Khwarezmian mercenaries. The resulting Ayyubid victory led to the call for the Seventh Crusade and marked the collapse of Christian power in the Holy Land.
The capture of Jerusalem by the Khwarezmians in August had caused great alarm among both the Christian and the Muslim states. Al-Mansur, the Emir of Homs and an-Nasir Dawud, ruling Kerak, joined the Templars, the Hospitallers, the Teutonic Knights, the Order of Saint Lazarus, and the remaining forces of the Kingdom of Jerusalem to take the field against the Egyptian Sultanate.
The two armies met near Forbie, a small village northeast of Gaza. Over 5,000 Crusaders died. 800 prisoners were taken. Of the troops of the knightly orders, only 36 of 348 Templars, 26 of 351 Hospitallers, and 3 of 400 Teutonic Knights survived.
Hiribya (Forbie) - not appearing on this map. I highlighted Ascalon, as Forbie was nearby.
I have also taken the opportunity to highlight Sidon and Maraclea for those who aren't already familiar with the locations. It's worth reiterating that despite the way the movie uses Maraclea as a personal name to refer to the person involved, the story itself is about a lady OF Maraclea and a Templar knight or lord of Sidon.
Ever since @currentlyonstandbi speculated about it, I have solidly embraced the head canon that perhaps the original story was actually about two men, past lives of Alex and Nigel, but the story was later changed to a man and a woman due to homophobic pressure. After all, the skull symbolism of this story is reportedly part of the accusations made against the Templars for "head worship"-- the veneration of skulls as idols in violation of the precepts of the Church. The other major charges laid against the Templars? Homosexuality and sodomy.
Was any of this intended by Greg? Of course not. That man blindly stumbled through this script running on fumes from half-remembered random articles and vague conceptions gleaned from the shallow pop culture portrayals of occult societies that were plentiful at the time. But it fits together well in a way that feels satisfying and with reasonable internal consistency.
Imagine two Templar knights who fall in forbidden love while fighting in the Holy Land. The tragic death of his lover drives the other mad with grief and leads him into dark acts of desperation. Their story gives rise to a potent myth that Nigel reads 700 years later. The myth calls to them with familiarity, directs their fate, and leads them to the same tragic outcome.
(Excuse me while I sob on the floor for the next 5 hours.)
A Few Key Dates for Context:
1209 - Massacre of the Cathars at Beziers (Kill them all; God will recognize his own.)
1244 - Battle of Forbie
1307 - Downfall of the Templars, under accusations of heresy and homosexuality/sodomy.
1300s - Playing cards arrive in Europe. There is speculation that the cards were adopted from the Egyptian Mamluks by the Crusaders in the Holy Land who then brought them home to Europe.
That concludes today's unhinged lesson in the power of random Google searches and paying close attention to the history of certain tags on Tumblr. I'm still not gonna use #forbie, but I can at least enjoy the strange coincidence here.
Like Minds Masterpost
#i was overdue for a substantive post anyway#look only 7 people will care about this but i AM rather proud of chasing this down#the only time i'm gonna use this tag:#forbie#like minds#nigel colbie#alex forbes#nigel colbie x alex forbes#murderous intent#like minds 2006#murder boyfriends
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The rest of the photos are under the cut for those who are interested and cannot access the article. :)
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Wait hang on. I'm not done.
Alright but what color even are Eddie's eyes??
Istg every picture I look at they're a different color
It's tripping me out
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I call them green since that's the predominant color. But they do have a little brown, so you could call them hazel.
Either way, they're beautiful.
Alright but what color even are Eddie's eyes??
Istg every picture I look at they're a different color
It's tripping me out
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“Queer' not as being about who you're having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but 'queer' as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and that has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.” --bell hooks
Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.
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