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is Jack’s being a redhead foreshadowing for his evilness? idk, take it up with my 8th grade book report, which violently states it is

I do fw extended cut lord of the flies where Simon and Peter aren’t killed until like three to four years later, because not only would it be heart crushing in inevitability, but it’s more understood to evb complicit and implicitly involved

Like yeah we did sit on this for a while… Haven’t changed my mind tho- Roger, ready the rock

there r two wolves inside Ralph

Peter vs Jack

sucks that Ralph is a jackass4jackass domestic violence gay instead of a heartstopper, cheek kissing, family friendly gay

also sucks that I prolly wouldn’t be as interested in his character if he were

honestly Jack popping hardcore painkillers for the next three decades and then just up and killing himself is perhaps the most riveting and sympathetic ending I have for him

Yes I love him dearly and yes I do want him to suffer the burn of a thousand and ten suns before rotting at his own hand

I love Peter but I also headcanon him to smell perpetually of peanut butter pre island

Idk y alr yes I am aware I might be my favs biggest hater with the way I headcanon but for the record I’d still think it was endearing alr

He also had a suspenders phase

SORRY I PROMISE I LOVE U THIS IS JUST WHO U R PETER

guys I love Peter sm im not even joking he’s so me asf

I bet he brags about how many books he’s read for summer programs

What a dork. I need him to have friends pls everyone be nice to him pls stop bullying him lll kill u all

con: im the biggest sweat over my interests you’ve ever seen and I have not loved something casually since my mild appreciation for orange juice was discovered as a compromise for apple juice not being on the menu at my local Ruby Tuesdays when i was in 4th grd

pro: the sweat smells of sweet vanilla and pink peony petals and I’ll never let a single stone of that media lay unturned.

con: im insufferable and never satisfied. I can always say more

pro: PLS INVADE MY INBOX WITH HEADCANONS PLS PLS PLS PL

modern jalph could find its own way into being an intense mess of emotions and social commentary naturally enough, but I kind’ve hate it

please don’t make my crash out yaoi google buzzfeed gay quizzes on their school mandated Chromebook

Ac I’ve changed my mind in one single sentence. Go onward disregard previous

the beauty abt old age yaoi is the show don’t tellness due to necessity and i eat it right the fuck up

it’s like ptsd still being acknowledged and even respected in the 1980s, but they just called it shell shock yk

don’t give me explicit confessions where the characters know what they are and how they stand, give me the ambiguity and confusion and lack of words

Give me sputtering and absurdity and desperation bc all you can repeat to your counter part is

“I know I know- I know. It’s not right, but you’re some lost screeching part of my body and now that I’ve walked even one mile with you by my side, I can’t bear the vast amputation removing you from my life would be. Stay.”

Not your boyfriend or your lover just- something else. Something more and contagious and rotten. Something beating a new heart in behind your breast and echoing a liveliness in your laughter

GIVE ME BACK YEARNING GODDAMN IT GIVE ME BACK BLEEDING FOR LOVE GIVE ME BACK THE ROMANCE OF SOOTHING OUT JACKETS AND RUFFLING HAIR AND FEW AND FAR BETWEEN GLANCES U PRICKS- *pulled off stage by a long cane*

everybody in this fandom was put on bc lotf was a mandatory reading and im kind’ve like jealous

I read this in 8th grd, and still did a project abt it yes, but the report was abt any book of ur choice and it was just me preaching to the most bored audience you could imagine

Where are my collective of people forced to read and talk abt and interpret this book huh

Ive been robbed of riches I didn’t even know possible. Thank you tumblr dot com

Jack baiting Ralph like he’s a moody cat and Jack’s the spineless indulging owner bribing him with a piece of expensive salami is soooooo funny bc he’s making the most outrageous requests with the held back exasperation of someone who knows they’re right- WHEN HES NOT

“Cmon. cmon stop being a damn patron saint and join my tribe alr. yes we killed two of your friends- how long are u going to be upset abt that?”

What a dick. My least favorite gay republican. GTFO

—> will be writing Jack centered fics

now that I’ve hard launched myself as a lord of the flies fanatic

how we feel abt American rewrite, pioneer, Oregon Trail au

Bc I feel strongly.

Donner Party

… Simon

yall I rlly want to drop a fic abt Ralph’s introspection both during and after island bc there’s sm left to say and sm I can tweak and push and force into the forefront- most all, Ralph’s isolation

He’s friendly enough and probably has a history of being well liked. he can joke when he wants, and while he’s no genius, he’s no tool either

He’s had to have considered going buck wild just as the others did countless times

He’s had to have imagined it in dreams and mornings and meals spent picking at the flesh of fruit where the others tear apart pig with their teeth. Pig And Piggy

Because he sees a gleam in Jack’s eye that spells something knowing under all that wrath, and despite standing with Piggy he doesn’t even know his fucking name because he has that knack for social hierarchy and cruelty and he’d fit right in if he just allowed himself to

He had to have stared at the groups backs and know so so so intimately that he could saddle right on up and feel warm for the first time in a long time

diversity win!!

The Worst Person You Know Is Gay!

-modern au where Merridew pulls the gay card to shield from attempts at cancellation

-Ralph both stands with the angry mobs and with his cancelled husband

Scraping together enough coherence to over share abt my lotf au where Ralph finds a voice in either

A: a wise, serious older brother figure

or

B: a wise-cracking and numbskull peer

either way, both options are completely horrified at Ralph’s past and kind’ve beat chalance back into him

“Hm. That’s- not normal.”

or

“Ha! What The FuckTM.”

and it makes him like so angry because yeah. That wasn’t right, that wasn’t fair or justified or just ‘stir craziness’- that was fucking insane. and it wasn’t his fault. more than that, it was someone’s fault- it wasn’t a blameless, natural disaster or some sort’ve drunken mistake. it was cruel and it was unnecessary and it wasn’t his fault.

i connect my interests with yarn and nails like a maniac Charlie fucking Kelly, obviously-

y. you don’t believe me?

Ralph is Ethan Winters abt 7 decades later and I WILL NOT BE SILENCED. DO U NEED ME TO WALK THROUGH THE STRINGS BC BY HEAVEN AND GOD I WILL

rule 63 lotf is cool bc sm sm sm sm social commentary. like the original alr had something to say abt gender and how the boys were molded by the war and their older male role models and how those ppl are involved in that war, but the ‘going animial’ must be so different from a female perspective, both bc of time period but also just the way the way girls care for each other interpersonally

like the boys shove out mean names and throw fucking rocks at each other, and maybe it’s meaner than usual but it’s still in the realm of normalcy

but could you imagine the betrayal Ralph feels with a Jack she could hug and fuss about and lean into without feeling deeply guilty abt it? A Jack she could be softer with, and a group she thought she could trust to foster community and care for one another- all that softness just to be hit with the same inevitable level of cruelty as canon?

Gah. Crushing.

point 5 of a like on this post and I’ll break down why jalph is sasunaru

also i take no critics abt this i am a pagan of truth. source: trust me bro

the choir boys being the army and also madlads of the story is so funny bc like yeah band kids r chronic and yeah, ykw yeah, this checks out

doesn’t make it any less funny post island

“yeah those assholes hunted me down and tried to kill me”

“… those ones? doesn’t Merridew make passive aggressive comments to the teacher so he can tell on people without ac telling?”

“… yes. that’s- sigh- that’s yeah.”

love the casualness of post island jalph bc the history is so loaded and it just sits on the tail end of every pause of every conversations, like an old timely chaperone making sure nothing unseemly is afoot as two suitors court, and it’s so easy too

yeah, Ralph’s breath hitches when Merridew moves too fast or too suddenly, and his eyes get kind’ve buzzy when they enter the mess hall and Jack’s loaned a knife to cut up his breakfast, but they throw back airy insults like none of it even happened

sure, Ralph’s tone seems slightly sharper than strictly warranted, and Jack’s responding smugness reads more sadistic than good natured, but they still talk

They still hang out and sit where the other does and walks where the other’s going, so they must be close.

post island ralph ilyyyyyyyyyy bc he’s repressed as all hell and then some

nope don’t look at the shadows that

raise ur hackles from ur peripherals or those dreams of fiery, finicky orange and strokes of deep, dripping red

Also! Ur Homo!

For… for the guy ur desperately trying to pretend isn’t stalking your subconscious/neg

so much fear and pain and hatred and exhaustion and pessimism, yeah get this man a box to scream in and five thousand beers pls

lord of the flies my fucking goat

Ik it’s obvious but they’re such dicks like they all dog pile on piggy for Fat. and the only nice fucker here is Simon, who’s described as Queer.

these r boys they’re all ragtag and assholes and lwk stupid asf but like they have the potential not be they just choose to be

All this to say, pls stop writing ralph as an angel or a little ball of sweetness or even as smart as piggy he’s just the same as the others, the only difference is that he can control his whims enough to value survival- he’s not all that exceptional