Have you read this? I cried so much that I feel it would be dishonest to still consider myself heterosexual.
>>7728862
>referencing Flann O'Brien in a tale of boy boy love
cheeky bugger
tell me about your feels, OP
>>7729655
It's a story that takes you on the full tour. The confusion, the shyness, the guilt, the excitement, the shame, the self loathing - and they come through it all to create something so perfect. They're so lucky to have found each other. The two boys start the story as half-formed people who help each other to grow and discover themselves until they're complete and can come together for a brief blissful moment.
And all the while there's an everpresent sense of dread becuase inevitably the same naive idealism that allowed them to be so perfect for each other will be their doom. The Easter Rising is remembered now as a glorious failure that paved the way to freedom but it wasn't that at the time. There was no glory or freedom in 1916, only pain and loss. When the story ends in the way it always had to it's two lives that were cut short not one, Ireland's eventual fate offers no consolation because the boys weren't really fighting for their country, they were fighting for each other.
>>7729729
well fugg
