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Jane was waaaay too forgiving to Darcy. If I knew he was calling me behind my back a gold digger and was directly responsible for encouraging the love of my life to walk away from me, I would make sure he didn't get to marry my favorite sister or continue to be friends with my husband.

So setting aside if Jane would even be capable of any of what you suggested, dear Anon, what is more important: petty revenge or your beloved sister's happiness?

it does kindaaa disappoint me as to how little elizabeth's faults are acknowledged by the general public in comparison to darcy's. so much praise of the book (and the more faithful adaptations) paint the story as if darcy was solely both pride and prejudice, and committed an error far greater than elizabeth's, and elizabeth is just some girlboss who roasts him.

i understand darcy is the love interest and with a target audience of women, seeing the steps he takes to change himself, is charming and would be a greater highlight, and that's no problem at all! i, too, am one of the many women swooning sighing dreamily over darcy! but it's such a shame when i see people present the characters one-sidedly when both characters recognizing their faults is so crucial to the story and arguably, its biggest charm

Aine/Áine was one of the first images I came up with for the Tuatha De Danann, although I first depicted Dagda and Morrigan. But now it's her turn, and she is absolutely gorgeous

On a scale of Paul Matthews to Ella Ashmore, how excited are you to be resurrected by an eldritch being in order to fulfill your greatest desire in life?

I can't stop mentally comparing Tadmore to the Macbeths guys help me

if sinners (2025) taught me anything, it's that it IS actually always about race.

you can be oppressed, and still promote and maintain the very same systems of oppression onto other marginalized people. being oppressed in one dimension doesn't allow you to be exempt from oppressing in other dimensions. the "villain" of the movie, remmick, being from the time period of the english colonization of ireland, all the while wanting to take a piece of sammie's own culture from him, use him for it. and this plot point coming after remmick witnesses the significance of sammie's playing within his culture, for his ancestors and how it would shape Black culture in the future.

even in today's society, ive noticed that people treat Black people like a commodity. our worth is only as much as other people decide it to be, and that's usually dependent on how much the oppressor can take from us. for example, the controversy of"internet slang" and how it is blatantly just AAVE with a bad disguise on

do you listen to Black musicians? do you watch Black movies? do you engage with Black creators? do you defend the racist tendencies you notice in your friends, in your family, or do you stay silent? do you listen when Black people tell you you've said or done something racist? do you actually care about not being racist, or do you just not want to look like you're racist?

i just think people have a very specific take on what racism is, and that if they're not committing KKK-levels of violence on people, then they're not racist. or if you've experienced oppression in one form, you cannot possibly be engaging with oppression in another form. but the ways in which we interact with other people and the world will always be through the lens of race, because that is simply what it means for oppression to be systemic, especially in the US and our current political climate

anyway 10/10 movie. highly recommend

saw a theory that the SmokeStack twins were posing as one man in Chicago, which helped them get away with stealing from both sides. i'm poised to believe that because visually their clothing was very clearly of the two mobs. smoke was full irish— tweed, bowler hat. while stack had the full mafia look. yk italian leather shoes, fedora etc etc . like the details!!

it really frustrates me to think about how people are inevitably going to take Remmick’s one (1) singular statement about how much he resents the way the Irish were colonized and forcibly converted to Christianity and use it as fuel for “actually he had a point” and “he was right actually” and “he’s not really the villain here” posts, when the whole point is that Remmick is, through the vampiric hive mind he’s creating, forcibly assimilating people into yet another manipulative and parasitical system. he doesn't value the cultures of the people he assimilates—notice how all the vampires he turns dance to his culture's music using his culture's dances, and how he only uses the languages or knowledge other vampires have to offer when he needs to manipulate someone. Remmick is extremely transparent about the way he sees the people he turns as resources to exploit.

he’s perpetuating a cycle that he claims to hate and resent, and I think the movie is pretty damn clear about the fact that he doesn’t see anybody as valuable or useful to him except as prey and as pawns—otherwise he would just, you know, focus solely on people who actually consent to being turned. but he looked sad in that one scene and he’s an apparently attractive white cis man so people are gonna bend over backwards justifying all the harm he did.

Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy being like, "I am 100% committed to respecting your 'no', but I heard you wouldn't promise my aunt not to marry me so I had to come and check just one (1) more time."

scars in fiction: I got this trying to save my lover from an assassin- but tragically, I was too late. now I carry the mark of my failure with me always, and I can never forget~

scars in real life: so I was trying to open macaroni sauce with a paring knife

I am following them now!

Trying to get one of my mutuals with a special interest in musicals to follow you so we can be mutuals in law AUGH

Im flattered :0

Who is this mysterious moot

OKAY SO I THOUGHT MAYBE I WOULD DO SOMETHING NICE FOR MY BOYFRIEND AND SHOW HIM THE GORGEOUS MAN THAT IS CURT MEGA AS TADIUS BECAUSE I THOUGHT HE WOULD APPRECIATE HIM.

BUT NO. HE WENT STRAIGHT FOR THE KILL AND ATTACKED HIS HAIRLINE. I was in shock my friends. Utterly shocked.

I'll admit I was worried that Cinderella's castle would yet again girlbossify the title character (seen too many bad adaptions) but instead they did something way more lovely, Bryce Charles plays Ella with all the sweetness and loveliness of a Disney princess and tortured gothic heroine, yes, AND her primary motivation is revenge! It burns in her heart like a flame. The two do not contradict each other. her dress being starlight is thematically relevant, do you see? She is the last cinder in the house of ashmore, clothed in the dying light at the end of the universe, on the edge of burning out and yet sparking back to life. Fire is warmth and light and yet it can still burn you DO YOU SEE-

ok no one told me this, so just so everyone else knows:

Cinderella’s Castle has hella puppets. it has incredible puppets. holy fuck does this show have puppets.

i love puppets so much and these puppets are so good. like, these are some phenomenal puppets i dont know how to cope. I’m going to be drawing these characters until i die, this is it for me.

i've never seen a more disgusted live chat than when the prince took a whiff of that shoe. truly a defining moment.

Me when tumblr decides to randomly start putting a bunch of porn bots on my for you page:

Listening to Last Forever and honestly Lucy and Justine are the two most dead characters to ever live. 'This day will last forever' 'Nothings gonna happen next'. You're dead. The most dead anyone's ever been

Rancilda and Putrice are autistic because their Mother is able to act human pretty easily, meanwhile they still act pretty much the same way they do as trolls. 'Hi my name is Putrice, it means 'vomit inducing' 'And I'm...not supposed to say anything.' These girls have little to no masking game.

Happy Cinderella's Castle Eve to all who celebrate 🥳

Spoiler warning for Cinderella's Castle under the cut.

While I will say (even this early in her time with the company) that this show was Bryce's finest hour, we need to draw attention to Ella's death scene.

Every time I watch it, I have such a visceral reaction, but I still pay attention to it because of her acting in this scene.

How Ella cries out to her parents as Putrice and Rancilda restrain her. It brings to mind soldiers fatally wounded in combat, calling out for a loved one that they wish to see one last time.

Her attempt to pray to the Nine Good Gods; even after the Fairy Queen disproved her faith, it's still the only faith that she knows. It was probably one of the only things that she had left after her father's death.

She truly sounds like she's in pain when the Stepmother makes the first cut to her leg, only reduced to sobs because she's in too much agony to speak.

But she still has enough defiance left in her to curse the trolls.

Even if the way the sequence is written and acted out makes it seem as if Ella dies pretty soon after her leg is severed, I can easily imagine her drifting in and out of consciousness as she continues to bleed out onto the table.

Maybe she's ready to give up.

Maybe she's afraid that, if there are no Nine Good Gods, there's no greener field beyond. And that means that she'll never see her parents, or Justine and Lucy again.

So death isn't even a comfort anymore.

I actually adore the ending of Cinderella's Castle. Like some people wish there was more to it (which is valid ofc!) but IT'S literally so perfect to me. Ella showing up in the audience? Always love when that happens in theatre. The reveal of how she's back through the shoes technically being on her feet again? Gotta love a suprise loophole. Her standing on the block like the Fairy Queen was to indicate the power she now has? Wonderful parallel. Her throwing the Step-Mother's words back at her? Especially the 'allow me to reacquaint you with your fear' ? Absolutely DELICIOUS eating it up. And of course the cherry onto is the Ash to Ash reprise with Bryce's angelic vocals. It's absolutely perfect.

2/7

"Behold she's singing to bring down the chandelier"

The second illustration for my MA project

god I hate people who say they don't watch musicals because people "just don't burst out into song and highly choreographed dance numbers at will-"

how fucking stupid are you

people don't run around like john wick getting shot and still standing up either or meet cute rich millionaires at coffee shops who wanna marry poor women from the bronx or have super powers and shit but somehow you can comprehend that just fine in other fictional media.

what is so fucking hard to comprehend about a story and emotions being conveyed through fucking song

have you never felt a human emotion in your entire life, can you not comprehend joyful noises or somber sounds, can you not understand a soliloquy or the troubled internal dialogue of a person in pain

do you not like music???

is there a single person on this earth who has never found one sound that they enjoy, played in repetition??

either stop lying to protect your pathetic pride or grow an extra brain cell or two and actually think about what you are saying.

"people don't sing or dance in real life-"

yes they do, when they're not a miserable cuck like you, it's just not always to a discernible beat.

you have lived your entire life with your heart and mind and soul closed to others.

you should kill your-

I feel like Putrice and Rancilda are really clumsy in human form, and because of that they both fell down the stairs at least once at the ball.

I often think about how loneliness is a more powerful emotion in theatre because you’re in a room full of people who all powerless to do anything but watch and I saw Eva Noblaza as Eurydice in Hadestown the other day and I cannot get her guttural “is anybody listening” out of my mind, she was screaming for someone to listen and you’re sat there mere metres away unable to let her know that you are, that her story is being told and she matters, so many people are listening but she doesn’t know that

get yourself someone who will look at you and hold you gently like this frrr

Happy Cinderella’s Castle YouTube release day!

Ella and her critters and the step-family

(+ my designs for Sir Hop-A-Lot and Crumb)

Close ups under cut

“We sing it once a day, not twice”

Love the new lore that the trolls cannonicly sing facade once a day every day.