[[link]]: a queer romanian WWI story

[felinejumper]

updated version, post proper research: it was just very beautiful fiction :( but the gravestone is real, and I will take this as an instructional lesson in story telling tactics (statement via google translate)


I came across a delightful & tragic WWI gays thread on Twitter, one of those "I found a cool thing, and then I dug for the story behind it." My absolute favorite genre! I haven't fact checked it properly (honestly, I'm not even sure how I would), but regardless I wept.

The twitter thread (in English) is here: a gay love story of the 1st world war
There is also a collated version, if you despise long twitter threads:  threader version

The reason you should read it is because it is the (a?) story behind this Romanian gravestone, and features letters, mysterious paintings, and a quest through a small Romanian town.


whisperspace: my twitter commentary was "it's so good that I'm worried it isn't true, but...you know how it is, the stories we want to believe, those are the ones that survive."
but holy smokes, i say i want complex and difficult stories but in reality, i also love undying and completely externally difficult love stories.

also. I did not love formatting this! it took wayyyyy too long!  Hopefully future formatting will be more intuitive. i basically only ever used myspace, but since then I've developed good , possibly excessive, mark down habits elsewhere so *fingers crossed* I will port that well

Comments

[breathedout]

Holy shit, this is amazing.

[felinejumper]

ISN'T IT. Sadly...should have trusted that "it's too perfect" instinct and dug slightly deeper on veracity. Apparently the grave itself is real, but the rest is not (or at least not as told here) :(

-> google translate vers. of statement

[breathedout]

I wondered. Still a good story!

[dragonlady7]

this is amazing!!!!

[felinejumper]

lord, it's like a walk of intellectual/internet shame. It is amazing! It hit aaaalllll my buttons.

It's also fictional, to my extreme chagrin -- the gravestone is real, the rest made out of whole cloth :( but...I do like good storytelling examples, so that's something.

source here (via google translate)