September 2024

unending-vigil:

the only way jonah magnus could have been with his lovers without betraying them is for all his ambitions to be crushed beyond repair. horrible! guy you’re hopelessly in love with will only truly love you back if he has been Broken As A Person

and if you’re in love with him and you realise that would you even actually want him to love you back? because then it wouldn’t be the same man you fell in love with. and if you love him would you wish that devastation upon him?

to love jonah magnus and to actually understand him is perhaps to actually want him to never love you back with the same intensity as you love him. yay ❤️

one of my favourite things about 19th century pairings with Jonah is that most of them end with a betrayal, and none of them really survive. you can spin whatever story you want, but you will have to base it on the tragic ending of that story. love never wins; Jonah does. Jonah does! it’s so appealing to me that, at their very core, they are supposed to fail. because that is what it means to love Jonah Magnus – to be failed by him.