the unintentional yet powerful homoerotic vibes of 100+ year old books that didn’t yet know they had to be afraid of male friendships in case it looked gay to the viewers
#been reading some books from the turn of the century and wow they certainly look gay to the viewer now#like obviously i’m not saying there wasn’t homophobia but they’ve also got these strong manly bonds without no homoing it#the number of times the last book had men mentioning how beautiful their male friends were despite fully being a heterosexual romance novel#so many#mine