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I will never get over how weird it feels to have tragic and emotional chapters of your life where you just also still go to work, and the grocery store, and see funny videos online all while feeling such paralyzing fear and heartache

life just goes on no matter what

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Barbie as Rapunzel 2002 | dir. Owen Hurley

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I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion, but I have absolutely no desire to see any statements from any of the boys. Zero. I don't want them to say anything, i dont want them to go online. I know whatever they say won't properly express their feelings, i dont want them to sit down and try to find the most "public friendly" words to say goodbye to liam and i dont want the public to compare what any of them says, who spoke up first, who was the most genuine. I hope they can rest, work through their emotions and be happy, as much as they can be

❤️

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the way little women (2019) does growing up makes me lose my entire mind. the way the scenes from childhood are immediately distinguishable by being painted with gold and warmth and everything about youth just asserts comfort and easy confidence, while the adulthood scenes are sharper and harsher and quieter and painted in dark blues and grays I think greta gerwig understands everything about everything I need to bite something

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me when "If he asked me again, I think I would say yes" and me when "I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe. I would. I can't believe childhood is over." and me when " I don't believe I will ever marry. I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up." and me when " I can't get over my disappointment at being a girl." and me when " What is wrong with me? I've made so many resolutions and written sad notes and cried over my sins, but it just doesn't seem to help. When I get in a passion, I get so savage I could hurt anyone and I'd enjoy it." and me when " I miss everything." and me when " Money is the end and aim of my mercenary existence." and me when " I care more to be loved. I want to be loved." and me when "Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition, and they've got talent, as well as just beauty. I'm so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I'm so sick of it." and me when "But I'm so lonely" and me when " No one will forget Jo March."

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it’s september which means it’s time to sob and rewatch little women (2019)

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do you ever see a piece of media so emotionally haunting and brain-chemistry-altering that it leaves you physically incapacitated like someone yanked your spine out of your back

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live laugh love comfort movies that give no comfort at all

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once again i am thinking about the tragedy in little women. like in the text itself and in the 2019 movie. how beth has to die. there’s no way around it. all of the girls get to grow up, except beth. beth represents childhood, even if she’s not exactly the youngest, she’s the most childlike—still carrying that doll around and having that inherent goodness about her, that naïveté about her. “beth was the best of us.” beth must die, because she represents their childhood and her death signifies their change into adulthood.

and even then, it’s jo who tries her damndest to stop it. “i’ll stop it. i’ve stopped it before.” “god hasn’t met my will yet. what jo wills shall be done.” jo march will do all that she can, she will fight and kick and scream to keep time from marching on. she will not allow it. she will cling to her childhood, and beth, as long as she possibly can. so in order for her to grow up, beth must die.

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Something I haven't seen anyone discussing is the use of hairstyles to tell the story in Greta's "Little Women." The girls are all wearing their hair down in the flashbacks and up in the grown-up scenes. The last time Jo wears her hair down is Meg's wedding, when she's lamenting about childhood being over. The next scene in chronological order is Laurie's proposal, at which point her hair is up and she's being the mature one, refusing him and explaining why. The only times after this that we see Jo with her hair down are when she writes Laurie the letter and when he tells her he's married to Amy. It's like, for a brief moment, after losing Beth and feeling so gutted and lonely, she's reverted to childhood. But marrying Laurie would not help her to mature or be an adult, and her hair, such a tiny detail in the grand scheme of things, is a subtle indicator of this.

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If I was a girl in a book, this would all be so easy.

Jo March, Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

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I cannot stress enough how important it is to do silly, frivolous things that serve no other purpose than making you happy.

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Thinking about the Good Omens S1 body swap…

LATER

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listening to the same music i used to listen when i was 14-15 is something else i'm still her i'm nothing like her anymore she knew everything she knew nothing she was so right she was so wrong

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how can i be so delusional but so logical at the same time. duality.