#JO AND LAURIE

[formulaheart]

Amy and Laurie were good but Jo losing her Teddy is one of the most heartbreaking things to ever happen in literature. Because it isn't just that she didn't love him and he wanted to marry her. It's that they loved each other too much and not in the same way, and grief of losing him was just a culmination of losing everything else, and growing up into something that is unfamiliar and being alone.

And it's just tough to think that one day somebody you thought would be around forever might still be around but it isn't for you. And that sometimes it is ultimately the love that you have for each other that breaks you apart. And that your sister won't always be sleeping across the hall from you. And there will eventually be a last day where all of your friends gather together as kids. And sometimes something that you dreamed about your whole childhood isn't something that ends up being for you. And sometimes no matter what we do to stop it, things and people and places will leave our lives anyway, and the trick is learning how to be okay with that, eventually.

(based off a conversation that @es-3 and i had the other day that i did NOT cry after)

[heatherfield]

I am so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.

Little VVomen [x]

[last-pages]

me when they're doomed from the beginning... me when the ending is prophesized and it's sad... me when i know the ending at the start but read it anyway

[ballerinarina]

sometimes in the silence of the night i remember laurie

[warrenwaskilledbyadeer]

Okay answer me this because I am genuinely confused

Everyone in the world seems convinced that Jo is in love with Laurie in Little Women

But when I read Little Women, it seemed pretty clear to me that she wasn't, what with her constantly thinking of Laurie as her best friend and then later her brother and then thinking to herself all the time, "I really hope Laurie isn't in love with me because I'm not in love with him and I would never be able to return his feelings because I don't see him that way and I don't want to hurt him"

When he proposes to her she's in a lot of pain because she knows where this is going and what she'll have to say to him, but people say, "Wow so romantic she rejects him even though she's still in love with him!!!"

When was she ever in love with him?!? Where tf did that come from in your brains??? I do not understand it

Not to mention that Jo is based on Louisa May herself and Laurie is based on someone who she viewed as her nephew/son in real life

And when Jo meets Mr. Bhaer she falls in love with him quite quickly and recognizes that feeling as being in love

Why are people so insistent that Jo loves Laurie when every piece of evidence I've been able to find goes against it? For real I'm genuinely confused and would love an answer beyond "Well it's obvious!"

[kacievvbbbb]

*Puts hand on your lower back and gently leads you down the path* walk with me for a moment. Think about it;

Young Mihawk, Young Shanks, Laurie confessing to Jo speech from Little Women (2017). Right before Shanks pulls off the robbery and heads to the East blue. the last time Shanks asks Mihawk to join his crew the only time he really means it.

*Grabs your arm as you start to walk away* wait wait- just listen.

Shanks saying all this? Right before he knows he’s about to steal something very important from a navy ship and would probably need to lie low for years. His way of begging Mihawk to come with him? Insane fucking cut my heart out.

Shanks: Sail with me?

Mihawk: …..What?

Shanks: Sail with me.

Mihawk:….(sigh) Shanks can we not-

Shanks: no no its no use Mihawk , we gotta have it out I have loved you ever since I’ve known you Mihawk I couldn’t help it, and and I tried to show you and you wouldn’t let me and I must make you hear me now and give me an answer because I cannot go on like this any longer, I gave up rum I gave up everything you didn’t like I’m happy I did it’s fine and I waited and I never complained because I, you know I figured you’d love me Mihawk and I realised im not half good enough and im not this great man and I-

Mihawk: Shanks! No.

And Shanks would keep pushing because to a young shanks whose only ever had crew as family and who never really got over his abandonment issues; Joining the crew is saying you’ll stay and staying means you love him enough to not leave him. And Shanks can’t deal with anyone else leaving him.

But of course all this does is push Mihawk away. They leave Shanks to rob a marine ship and Mihawk to leave a trail of bodies in his wake. And the next time they see each other Shanks has lost an arm and Mihawk’s entire world came crashing down.

[remusbuzzcutt]

sometimes i think i’m going mad but then i remember that some people genuinely believe that jo and laurie should’ve been endgame. i’m perfectly sane ☺️

[v1tfrma]

Jo ❤️ (why are there so little pictures of her without Laurie)

[sunnylittledisposition]

I want to be loved like Laurie loves Jo

[lunasbookshelf4]

"Jo loved Laurie! they were meant to be!"

As much as I loved Laurie and Jo's dynamic, Jo never loved Laurie romantically, it's even clearer in the books. She did have an intense amount of love for him, but it was strictly platonical.

After Jo rejected Laurie and he was off abroad, she had a conversation with her mother where she stated that she didn't love him as she should but just wanted to be loved by him.

Jo only wanted to be loved by Laurie because of how lonely she felt, especially after the loss of Beth.

[1mmortalsylviaplath]

jo ‘maybe we’re soulmates in another universe’ march and laurie ‘why not this one?’ laurence

[henkaren-moved]

— fredrik backman, us against you

[thecabinsixwitch]

You know, I still wait at the edge of town

Praying straight to God that maybe you'll come back around

I cry every day and the bottles make it worse

'Cause you were the only one I was never scared to tell I hurt

And I found photographs of our school, on the day we met

I thought that you were so beautiful, it was love, I guess

And you might never come back home, and I may never sleep at night

But God, I just hope you're doing fine out there, I just pray that you're alright

— “A House in Nebraska” - Ethel Cain (@mothercain)

Jo & Laurie • Little Women (2019)

[jazzyhedgy]

timothee's characters

[teaxanime]

“you are not the exception, you will never learn your lesson”

[awcuse]

screen-recorded from capcut cause i’m broke but i feel like projecting my depression today so take this