#Sophie you are the best

[myfairkatiecat]

Hi! Dropping this here because I do not have the mental power to make a coherent post:

I may not have a lot of experience with most musicals other than just hearing some of the songs, but "The Pitiful Children" from Be More Chill and "Suddenly Seymour" (but, like, and evil version) from Little Shop of Horrors are very definitely Curtain songs. (Also maybe "Good For You" from DEH)

The energy of "I Don't Need Your Love" from SIX makes me think of Nicholas and Nathaniel, but of course the original lyrics wouldn't work.

"Come Alive" from The Greatest Showman sounds like something that Nicholas/the adults would sing when trying to get people to listen to them about the Emergency, and then also to the kids in the second half. It would be interesting to have Curtain sing "Macavity the Mystery Cat" from Cats as The Sender specifically, before we know who he is.

Curtain would sing "Never Enough" when he was alone in his office, I think, and also I really want him to sing ALL of "Agony" from Into the Woods by himself. He'd so definitely do that.

I really think it'd be hysterical to have Garrison and Curtain sing "A Lovely Night" from La La Land when they're working together. But. Like. Genuinely deadpan. No sarcasm. (Also maybe "It Takes Two" from Into the Woods as he's trying to convince her to put aside her morals and trust him?)

THE EXECUTIVES/MESSENGERS SING "The Jets Song" FROM WEST SIDE STORY

On another DEH note, maybe Reynie sings "If I Could Tell Her" to SQ about his dad.

"A Very Nice Prince" from ItW definitely makes me think of Sticky as he's trying to sort out what to do about Curtain making him a Messenger.

Curtain might sing "Johnny Can't Decide" from Tick, Tick... Boom! when he's still deliberating on whether or not to reform himself and join his brother.

"Santa Fe" from Newsies, of course, is something tiny Nathaniel and Nicholas would sing at the orphanage!

Okay! I know that ended up being about more than just Curtain, so I'm sorry, but I got super excited that I was able to put my sporadic knowledge to use! I hope this was at least somewhat helpful and not totally incoherent, since I am very tired as I write this up. Good luck, and I'm excited to see what you do!

Sophie YOU ARE A GENIUS.

The Pitiful Children DEFINITELY works. And I bet I can make an evil version of Suddenly Seymour as well! Also Good for You from DEH would be an AMAZING Curtain song for when Nicholas gets adopted? “So you got what you always wanted / so you got your dream come true / good for you / got a taste of a life so perfect / so you did what you had to do / good for you” asdfjgksldh

You have suddenly made me want to rewrite all the lyrics to I don’t need your love from six to make it about the Benedict twins—

Come Alive is SUCH a perfect song for trying to wake up the others from the emergency. Maybe I should just made all of TMBS into a musical or something 😂😂

Curtain singing macavity the mystery cat ahflfhakahfjsl

Never enough and Agony are Curtain’s perfect little theater kid solos. I love this idea more than I can phrase.

A Lovely Night, no sarcasm, would be absolutely HYSTERICAL. Especially since Garrison may in fact be a theater kid for my purposes as well… it takes two would also be fantastic.

THE JETS SONG. SOPHIE I LOVE YOU.

Reynie singing SQ “if I could tell her” about his dad 😭 “yes your dad loves you here are a hundred things I’ve noticed make you special” hmmm with some of these ideas I could turn ALL OF TMBS just into an unironic musical

A very nice prince—I would never have thought of that, but you’re totally right!

Curtain Can’t Decide would be an excellent song for him reforming himself AND fits neatly into the idea that Curtain is simply a theater kid.

SANTA FE WHILE THEYRE AT THE ORPHANAGE ASDFGHJKL

Ok Sophie so

Yes some of these were not Curtain

BUT WHAT IF

He uses the whisperer and accidentally gives everyone musical subliminal messages

And then suddenly LIVE is a complete musical for a day

That would be hysterical

I’d just need to get the society in front of a TV like once in order to get the messages into their head, that might be the hardest part, but then it’s all easy bc curtain would SO do that, even on accident.

THANK YOU SOPHIE!!!

[smileytriceratops]

watching leverage is truly a "giggling and kicking my feet" experience for me personally. it's genuinely such a fun show with such fun and compelling characters that i can't help but grin like an idiot at my screen when they do barely anything

[metianull]

its ok to cry

[nobodysdaydreams]

Sophie, this is lovely! And thank you for mentioning "The Boys Who Waited" it's one of my favorite fics in terms of narrative structuring, but I also realized I don't talk about it a lot so thank you!

Can also confirm Lifeline and In Sickness and In Health are fabulous! Please read them, like seriously, the ideas and concepts in these fics alone are actually incredible.

🫖🐜⚠️

For the ask game! You can answer whatever you’d like. I hope you’re having a good day!

🫖 a fic that inspired you to spill tea on their lovely new carpet

"Lifeline" by @mvshortcut Milk, I am making eye contact and upending a full pot of tea onto your floor.

🐜 a fic that compelled you to release household pests into their home

"In Sickness and In Health" by @plentyghosts I am putting ants in your pillow, Wynn. This one occasionally pops up in my mind unbidden and I have to go stare at a wall for a while. Oh my goodness.

⚠️a fic so incredibly heartbreaking that it worked it’s way into your brain, driving you deeper and deeper into madness, eventually causing you to do something else. Something insane. Something that was formerly unspeakable. Until now. (Please tell us what happened).

So, so many. There are so very many talented authors in this fandom, and I really appreciate that I get to read all of you guys' stories. But, for the purpose of this Ask, I will be going with "The Boys Who Waited" by @nobodysdaydreams. I believe for this one I stole all the tongues out of your shoes, Bods, but I am also coming back and replacing your shoelaces with limp spaghetti. Suffer. You know what you did.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"It's history, it's art, and it's priceless."

Leverage Redemption S01E011 The Jackal Job.

[dont-read-this-im-dead]

The number of people on this website that's obsessed with Leverage really says a lot about our natural obsession for finding the world's greatest love story.

It also says a lot about what an amazing show Leverage is, so.

You should watch it.

[askarsjustsoswedish]

Alexander Skarsgård, Max Irons, Florence Pugh, Bethany Muir – The Little Drummer Girl, Ep1 – Gadi Becker, Al, Charlie Ross, Sophie. BBC and AMC.

[I made a similar gifset back in 2018 and this past week or so it's been continually hitting my notifications and I've been squirming with embarrassment so hard. Now that my gif making is better, and the limit is now 10mb, I had to make them again. And yes, I added Max/Al stating the obvious! Apologies if you've recently reblogged my op from '18.]

[camelspit]

[nadiajustbe]

A little post about the parallels between Sophie and Howl and Justin and Suliman because I cannot be the only one seeing this

Fist of all — and I've already mentioned this in one of my older posts but it's worth mentioning again — Witch of the Waste is apparently rather repetitive in her plans, because she took Ben as "a bait to fetch Justin" the same way she has to get Sophie in order to catch Howl.

And the fact they were both very adamant about it: the loser Howell went to search for Sophie looking like a SCARECROW and Justin was arguing with his brother for month without changing the topic before he just RUN AWAY TO FIND BEN ANYWAY.

They say lovers are crazy, after all.

Second of all, whatever is happening here. I mean, I get it, Sophie is too happy too look away from her horrible husband but THESE TO GUYS DOING BASICALLY THE SAME THING THEY'RE DOING TEN STEPS AWAY FROM THEM? (Except they weren't holding hands, but well, there was no chance of happening anyway).

And the fact that there's no dialogue — all of these guys are basically just looking at one another in silence for some amount of time.

(I do not now how to comment this third quote. Besties seemed to be really happy to see eachother as this shaking hands-hugging stuff happened immediately after the horror that was Percival)

Third of all — and there's probably more but I'll stop on these one cause it needs context and one of my favs — this small moments in CITA hinting on both soldier's and the genie's real identities through Ben and Sophie accordingly.

This becomes even funnier when you remember that Howl and Justin were affected by the same kind of spell (although Justin's were lighter) and these two were a bit desperate to notice something familiar, anyway.

(Also I find it especially funny how Ben still stands on his take of knowing the solider even when Abdullah told him pretty clearly that's a random guy from Strangia. "Then he reminds me of someone who I know" HE LOOKS LIKE HE HAS BEEN THROUGH TEN WARS, HAS A DIFFERENT HAIRCUT, UNIFORM, HASN'T SHOWERED PROPERLY IN SOME TIME AND YOU LOOK AT HIM THROUGH DUSTY MIRROR?? These gives me Sophie's "what genie" vibes)

[book-lover85]

Keefe giggles

like a high pitched little giggle

like imagine someone makes a stupid stupid Keefe level joke and he just starts giggling and then Sophie gives him this fond look

and Fitz (this could also be Dex or Tam) gives her major side eye and says "sometimes I question your taste in men" and she looks him uo and down and says "you too" and walks over to Keefe while he stares with a slack jaw

[thorinlandscaping]

waaaaa they took away my male lead in the Only Straights Show from 2-3 seasons from now and made him a girl for some sort of WOKE AGENDA they're changing my badly written misogynist book series woe is me we need more straight rep!!! this is because i like their story not for any other reason!!! i'm bi as well!!! more straight romance!!!! no nonconformity!!!! the books!!!!!!!

[sophiethewitch1]

Do it. Give in to the abo. Just. Do. It. I support you 100% 👁️👄👁️ you need a devil on your shoulder? Here I am. Cmon, you know you want to. Life is so much more fun here on the abo side of things. Also, don't think I didn't see that new chapter 🔫👀...😩👌 delicious.

you are THE devil. satan incarnate. leave me alone I have things to do!!! i have commitments!!! and like... idk I cant hear you. hands over my ears. alpha dick who is always purring around you and literally can't stop it cant hurt me. he's not real he cant get me

[queenunderthatmountain]

"Fintan couldn't be Sophies dad, there would be so many plotholes"

Well I don't care.

Fintan being Sophies Dad would be badass, so that's what he is.

It doesnt make sense?

Just assume Forkle lied. Perfect explanation for anything.

[bookishtheaterlover7]

Okay, so a lot of big things has happened for me this week...

I'm excited for them and what comes after, anticipating Monday, and dreading the next three weeks because hectic exams before freedom...

BUT

How in the fucking world did I miss the announcement that Benedict's story is next up on Bridgerton two days ago?!

So, you're telling me, my theory of Lady Tilley Arnold being Sophie's Step-Mother could be true?!

It might be the aftermath of the Leadership Training... But, I need to lie down...

[stillavoidingbaddays]

SO GOOD

[leverage-ot3]

neal caffrey and peter burke are nate and sophie in a different font and here’s why- *gunshots*