"No, no, no - You're young. You have the right to explore. You're Black in a country that will try to convince you you ain't shit. You're gay, and your own people may never accept you."

Marcus and Jerome - Fellow Travelers 1.08.

FELLOW TRAVELERS 1.04 "Your Nuts Roasting on an Open Fire"

“im looking at you” how bout i sleep on the train tracks tonight

There's so much going on in this gif but I am just thinking about how Jelani holds Jonathan's waist and looks at him they are... Something

I'm so ready to see more of them 🥺

cuties!! they’re so supportive of each other

fellow travelers + reductress part 1

part 2, part 3, part 4

The Fellow Travellers hyperfixation is taking over my life. I’ve got to start revising for my exams soon and yet all I can think about is: ‘you were my great, consuming love’ ‘I’m looking at you’ ‘When I committed this sin I felt pure. More pure than I felt in my entire life. So how can I be sorry for it?’ ‘Promise you won’t write?’ ‘I won’t’ ‘They said they were going to tell my mother what I was. I begged them not to. She was sick. They told her anyway. She never looked at me again’ ‘But I don’t know how love can be a sin’ ‘I wonder sometimes, when it all happened, if I had offered to leave D.C with her and find some cottage somewhere’ ‘you’re innocent’ ‘My boy is dead, Skippy. My boy is dead’ ‘I think there’s something wrong with me’ ‘Sweetheart? He wasn’t my friend. He was the man I loved’

I really think fellow travellers had the best possible finale for all the characters on the show. However, I just really wish we got to see Hawk actually say I love you to skippy, it would’ve meant so much to him. And maybe Marcus and Frankie at the AIDS memorial quilt, showing a happy end after everything they went through.

In Defense of Fellow Travelers

I just read a little comment on a FT edit about how sad queer stories are overdone. And I’d say in most examples I’d tend to agree. But I find so much value in the story of Hawk, Tim, Marcus, and Frankie. Of these fictional characters nestled in the very real historical events around them. We barely covered McCarthyism at all in my school much less the specific threats it posed to the LGBT community, and I remember flipping through my AP US history textbook and being livid that it contained only one sentence about the aids crisis. And more than just that. The monsters of that era haunts us in the modern day. As much as we as queer people would love to put up a brick wall between us and the Roy Cohns of the world, they are a part of our story. It was Roy Cohn who mentored Donald Trump, and Roy Cohn whispering in Reagan’s ear. It’s the spirit of McCarthy that leads to things like Drain the Swamp and January 6th. To minimize the awful and long lasting effects of people like Cohn and McCarthy also minimizes the resilience of our community. I don’t expect a happy ending for Tim and Hawk, (Although I’m cautiously optimistic about Marcus and Frankie), but that doesn’t mean their stories aren’t worth watching. There’s so much love, joy, and laughter in them too. I am compelled by the choices and sacrifices they had to make in unimaginably difficult circumstances, and I think this show does a great job at showing the many paths people took through those circumstances. I think we as modern day queers have something to learn from every one of them no matter where those paths ended up.

They are so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes 🥹💕

tim having a picture of marcus and frankie on his wall 🥹