#i mean like sara x leonie and I will never let it go

[seanteale]

I will not rest until the skamverse gives us best friends to lovers….

Isi’s season doesn’t count

[theyellowcurtains]

askdj i’m writing this because of @rimbaux‘s art of leonie and david hanging out and some stuff we talked about after because just wow a concept aksdjn hope you guys enjoy!!!

Matteo’s dealt with a lot of unexpected things in his life. His dad leaving, his mum not being able to be his parent anymore, moving into the WG and meeting his flatmates, meeting David. What he never could have expect though was a text at 2.30 in the morning from his ex girlfriend asking him for a favour. sara: hey so remember how you used me as a beard? well guess what you owe me now x

matteo:wtf does that even mean???

sara: it means i am having my Big Gay crisis and you have to help me.

matteo: i don’t really think i’m the right person to talk to about this sara. isn’t it a little awkard?

sara: nope it’s not awkward.

sara: anyways turns out i might be in love with leonie and i need you to tell me how you managed to get david to love you. 

matteo: why are you asking me this? you’re the most confident girl i know about relationship shit. i mean you managed to somehow date me despite me being probably the biggest homosexual you know

sara: yeah but that didn’t count. this matters i care what happens with her. 

matteo: ahhh so i mean nothing to you?

sara: no, you’re a brilliant friend who i value greatly and care about a lot and that’s why you should help me figure out how to get with leonie.

matteo: i mean i guess i can help fuck

matteo: what do you want to do?

sara: idk i just want to figure out how to get with her. i can't just go up to her and kiss her.

matteo: i mean that's what david did to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

sara: no that's what isn't gonna happen

matteo: i dunno what if you just asked her to hang out?

sara: no jesus christ

sara: give me good ways to let her know i'm into her

matteo: make her a sandwich.

sara: wtf matteo?

matteo: i don't know. do you think i know how to get girls to be interested or tell them? the only girl i've been with i lied to the whole time

sara: thanks again, really.

matteo: okay real plan

matteo: build her a fort. make her some food and build a fort. it'll be cute i guess and girls love sappy shit.

sara: that's not the worst idea i've ever heard you know. 

matteo: yeah i know i’m a genius of romance

sara: cool. thanks. brilliant. i’m gonna do that see what happens

matteo: don’t forget to kiss her as well that’s the important part. 

sara: 🙄

The next morning when Matteo meets up with David and tells him about Sara texting him. “That’s such a Matteo plan wow.” David laughs. “What’s that supposed to mean?” Matteo asks, mildly offended. “It’s just that you’re not the best romantic person.” David smiles sweetly, “Not that that’s a bad thing but it’s not your strong suit.” “Like you’re any better!” Matteo gasps. “Mmm see that’s where you’re wrong. I’m the one who found the pool and found cute things on our trip.” David defends himself. “Okay fine maybe you’re right, but this is going to work trust me!” Matteo promises him. 

What Matteo doesn’t know then is that David had a similar interaction with Leonie the day before as well. David had gone over to hang out with Leonie for a bit and almost the entire time they were hanging out talking about Sara. David already knew that Leonie had a thing for Sara pretty much since they first became friends. Leonie had come out to him within the first week of knowing each other and David had done the same just telling her that he’s pan. Leonie had told Sara she liked David because she didn’t want her to know yet and David was really fine with it, he got it. Since then David’s been there to listen to Leonie venting and dealing with being into Sara and her not knowing. This day though she’d decided she’d had enough. 

“I don’t even know what I’m waiting for. She’s single again and she knows I’m not into you especially now that you’re with Matteo. I just want to be with her now.” Leonie says, putting her head on the table and groaning. 

“Okay cool. So tell her?” David says. It’s the obvious option. 

“Yeah well no. Can’t do that.” Leonie says shaking her head. 

“And why not?” David asks.

“It won’t work.” Leonie says as if it’s obvious

“Well like, it’s fine if you wanna do it. I just don’t really have any other ideas for you Hon.” David says.

“Wow thank you, I appreciate your help so much it’s gonna work so well all of your ideas.” Leonie says sarcastically. 

“Don’t make fun of me.” David says shoving Leonie slightly. 

The next morning David gets a snapchat from Leonie with Sara cuddled up to her side. “Hey baby look.” David says shoving Matteo a little to get his attention. David shows him his screen. 

“Ha! I told you my plan was brilliant David. You owe me now.” Matteo says way too loud for this time in the morning. 

“Mm I don’t think that’s true. I think I am actually why this worked out.” David grins. Just as he says this he gets a text notification. 

Laura: I think you’ll find that it was actually me that got your friends together. You’re welcome x

[queendua1]

Druck rambling 🌹🌻

After rewatching the new clip like 988286994378 times and watching all the small details there, I have so say some things about this.

When the clip stars, we see a Matteo "I'm tired of this shit" Florenzi. Sara seems more excited than him to do the Abdi party thing. He even send Jonas a voice message saying that He doesn't want to do that all by himself. Then Sara makes that face of "emm hello? I'm here too" (she even said that).

Matteo's face doesn't say "I'm tired of this" instead you can see that he's thinking of another thing (probably David's texts and why he didn't replay to him), like, you can kind of see he's worried and kind of "angry". He don't want to be there, at least not with Sara.

When Léonie x David enter in the room you can tell that Matteo's face kind of light up a little but he's still angry with David cause he wanted to know what happened between them. You can tell he's also nervous. They went for a handshake like "people who knows each other do" (heieeueuehe David's face tho). And then when they left, Matteo said that he doesn't want to do the "balloon hanging" thing and then, the drama™ started. Sara asked Matteo what is wrong with him bla bla bla. Matteo said "stop", but not because he doesn't want to start a fight (which I don't think he wanted to) but because he knows how that conversation is going to finish, He knew Sara was going to get on his nerves and Matteo was going to say the truth (you can really see in his face that he didn't want to say the truth to her because he cares about her, even though is just as friend , but he really wants her to be happy and good with herself and she doesn't understands it because she doesn't know what is going on with him) which he doesn't want to do but He finally does it just to make Sara stop.

When Leonie x David enter the room again (Leonie just stop please udgdudgs) and David asks Matteo if everything OK, Matteo tells him that is not, David's face is like "if you want to tell me just, tell me, I'm here". (I really thought that Matteo was going to have a panic attack or something).

Matteo waits till Leonie leaves the room completely and then he asked the magic question™. When they leave, you can see Matteo's happiness in his face, he's happy that He and David are finally having some time together (alone) again.

The bicycle's scene is just PERFECT! You can see both of them being happy and free (kind of), it also shows a little bit of Berlin (which I loved) and you can really tell that the city aesthetic is going to be an important part in this season. (I wish I knew more German cause I'm sure the posters that where in the spot they left the bicycles had some meaning behind it idk)

They stopped in the front of a gate and David passed though it. When the camera focuses on David's eyes (that eyelashes tho, wooow) you can really see that he did kind of a "catch me if you can thing". Then we see Matteo's face (that gate shot is beautiful) looking into the man of his dreams eyes. When he passed though the gate, they did the "from the bottom to the top shot" and the proud face that Matteo does when the camera focuses on him again I-

Then Matteo and David started walking through that abandoned place aaaand you can really see that David has everything planned, he really did think about this and he really made a plan (wow the power).

When they are opening all those doors (it felt like a parallelism to David's soul, like, he has all of those layers and then when you finally starts to look more deep you can see the beautiful and amazing person he is and stuff) and they entered on that empy pool (People who had watched The umbrella academy please tell me I'm not the only one who thought about the fist 2 minutes of the series, where the non pregnant women was?!) and let me tell you that shot it everything to me, wow.

Next we have the two boy's in love doing a whispering challenge or something, that was cute. David then decided to go to the empty pool and do a race? and he obviously who cause Matteo was busy looking at the building and David. Then David said ANOTHER magic sentence "I always wanted to be here" (at this point the camera was focusing on his face), then the camera started to move and you can see Matteo's face and an unfocused David in the back looking at him. Matteo little smile showed up (he's probably putting two and two together and realizing David has never been here with anyone and he's the first person he brought here).

They start to walk back up aaaand then ANOTHER cute thing happens, Matteo is playing with the pool stuff that is hanging there (me as Matteo), at first the camera is focusing of both boys buut then we can only see Matteo playing with the pool thing. We know where David is at this point but Matteo is just in his world that he doesn't know, but then David is the camera and we moved as the same time as he does. Then Matteo's face lighted up again when he sees David in front of him.

After that David said AGAIN another magic sentence. "You know, we are underwater" "I bet I can hold my breath for more time that you". Then you can hear the music entering in scene again, we see David aproching to Matteo and Matteo's doing the "I'm going to kiss you first, or not" thing that I love hehdueje. Then David after watching Matteo's face being ready for it, he finally kissed him. Then they laughed at the same time they toched heads and David said "I won".

Matteo asked for a "rematch" and we are Matteo again, we see David looking at him a little bit nervous. We feel that Matteo is nervous too but He takes all he's courage and puts his hand in David's face.

They kissed, they laugh and the smiled while kissing. They are finally happy, they are facing their fears, they are perfect for each other, they are soulmates, they need each other.

To sum up this beautiful clip I just wanted to say that, that music, that silence, that photography is all I can ever asked for and more. I want to thank all of the members and crew that participated into this beautiful and amazing project that is Druck. I've never been more attacked to something in my life. This season feels like MY season, I feel sooo related to Matteo, I feel, act and think the same way he does. I can't even express how much I love this show. Thank you for helping me to find myself and love myself. This is amazing. Danke Druck 💛

[matildainmotion]

Mothers Who Make: A Letter of Invitation to all the Producer Job Applicants and Everyone Else Too....

Dear Kandy, Courtney, Charlotte, Benjamin, Ben, Eleonora, Grace, Hazel, Kimberly, Otto, Clarrisa, Debbie, Keltie, Anna, Cameron, Delea, Ellen, Helen, Jenny, Laun, Lucy, Mandy, Mary, Rachel, Rebecca, Ruth, Sherona, Tina, Toyah, Claire, Genine, Georgie, Heidi, Kate, Li, Michelle, Noemi, Rebecca, Rhiannon, Sarah, Victoria, Becca, Ray, Ruby, Sara Marie, Viccy, Suzy, Jenna, Rosie, Leonie, Cariad, Cristina, Faith, Hilary, Lily, Liz, Lizzy, Lydia, Sam, Ruth, Sarah, Rebecca and everyone one else too,

           There is something that I have noticed happens increasingly in both professional and commercial contexts: “Dear Matilda,…..” begins the email, letter, text which is trying to sell me something, persuade me to join a cause, or tell me that my story has not been short listed. The script that follows is the same script that is being sent to thousands if not millions of others. It is not in truth addressed to me but by using my name as an opener it makes it sound as if it is personal, as if someone, somewhere cares about me enough to write. Sometimes the cause is a good one but nonetheless it bothers me, this co-opting of a personal tone for professional ends, because it seems hypocritical – the personal gets such a bad name, until it is useful. It makes me think of the wolf, dressed up as grandma – looking sweet, ready to pounce. So I thought I would try to do this differently, to be transparent about writing the same words to all of you. I intend to write you individual replies but it is going to take me a long time because there are many of you – 65 in total –and I don’t want to leave you waiting months. Anyway there are some things I want to say to all of you. Here they are……

           Firstly a huge thank you. It has been extraordinary to receive and read your applications for the role of producer for Mothers Who Make. It has been moving and startling. You made me laugh, cry, feel outrage, passion and amazement. Above all it has been incredibly humbling, again. I say ‘again’ because this has been the story of Mothers Who Make all along. I set out to do something small, low impact, straightforward  – start a local group for some creative mothers, raise some funds, recruit a producer – and the response each time was such that the process became profound and far-reaching. I never expected so many applications. I never expected so many people to want the role or to understand the initiative with such depth or to engage with such generosity and commitment.

           Not all of you are mothers. I was impressed by the men who applied and by the women who are not mothers but who have the vision to support this mother-centred movement. Most of you however are mothers, and there was one thing that struck me about you - the same thing that often hits home when I am sitting in a Mothers Who Make meeting. It is simply this: how much you are doing. Often the mothers in a meeting are apologetic for how little they are currently making and then as they talk further it transpires that they are engaged in epic endeavours - training for a marathon was one example from the last meeting, but it is a good one because marathon-running is such a symbol of heroic effort and so many of us have figurative marathons to run. The phrase a ‘mother producer’ is a tautology. Mothers are producers – we produce milk, meals, clothes, wet wipes, stories, songs, comfort. We produce people. It is a staggering feat. But on top of that, on the basis of your applications, I know that you are also producing plays, dances, books, companies, websites, records, workshops, exhibitions, venues, networks, art galleries and more – there is a stunning breadth of skills, experience and abilities amongst you. I would, seriously, love to hire you all.

           However, at present I can only pay for 1 producer so there are 64 of you who will be disappointed. In a professional context what I am currently writing is referred to as a ‘rejection letter.’ It strikes me now as a strange phrase since it sounds intensely personal, ‘rejection’ being the word used when an offer of love is turned down, when a suitor is jilted or spurned. You have, many of you, made me an offer of love and the very last thing that I want or need to do is to reject it. Quite the opposite. Since I am in the business of re-inventing how business might be done, what I am writing to you now is a letter of invitation, not rejection. I am not trying to dismiss any disappointment you may feel in not getting the role of MWM producer. This is not a booby prize (though why the word ‘booby’ has come to connote a poor comfort instead of a rich result is in itself revealing!). I am entirely serious in my invitation to you. In many ways the role of producer is a small one – 5.5 months. The role which I am inviting you to take on is far more vital and longer term than that. Let me explain…

           I have been thinking about the ‘Me Too’ campaign. A common ‘me too’ narrative is this: a man in a position of power has been unprofessional, has ‘got personal’ in an undesirable way. Until recently this was acceptable. People turned a blind eye. The ‘Me Too’ campaign is the process of un-blinding us all. But there is another kind of blindness still at work. When a woman is labelled as unprofessional, as having ‘got personal,’ a likely narrative is this: she has become emotional, or she has become a mother. In other words she has introduced an element of care into a less-than-caring context. MWM aims to begin to foreground and give credence to this form of ‘me too’ narrative and to ask what what it would be like if ‘getting personal’ in this way could be reframed as positive, rather than it also being deemed as undesirable or even offensive. My invitation to you is to engage with me in this research.

           As I explained in my ‘unoffical job ad’ letter, I never intended to found a national network. It has been powered entirely by you – people-power. We now have a tiny injection of funds. The money will not last long and while I hope we will use it well to achieve a great deal it is not the thing that will make MWM grow. You will. Your stories. Your engagement. Your valuing of your mothering and your making and of each other. You are the ones who will be the producers of MWM, along with everything else that you are already, incredibly, producing.

           I am inspired by La Leche League, the international organisation, that supports women through the many challenges of breastfeeding. It is run by volunteers, by women who care enough to show up and help another woman learn to breastfeed. It began with a small group of women at a picnic. Two of them were breastfeeding and the others expressed an interest and said how they were sad they had failed to breastfeed their children. Now it is huge. In the last year alone over 25000 women have been supported by it across the world, via meetings, helplines, online enquiries and more. Maybe MWM will one day have a reach this grand, or maybe not, but either way I believe passionately in the power of the impetus that lies behind both LLL and MWM.

           So here are some things you can do – both practical and then less tangible.  Some of you, I know, are doing them already. If you are a mother you can attend a MWM meeting. You can start a MWM hub near you. Whomever you are you can tell others about the movement. Many of you have said that you are good at all the things I am not so good at, like social media. You can use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – all of this, to spread the word.

           And then here is the less tangible, yet even more extraordinary thing that you can do. You can be unprofessional, by which I mean you can care with pride. Value your care for your children, for your making, for each other, for anyone. Sweeping statement coming up…..I really believe that if anything is going to save the world it will be this: an incremental yet momentous shift in valuing long-term care over short-term gain.

           I read a stunning blog this morning by a mother who is also a climate scientist. It was about the sea, about how she takes her son to the beach on the train and how she knows that in doing even this much she is participating in a system that is warming our oceans, how this will impact on her son and how terrifying this is. The sea is on my mind. My daughter is on my lap, breastfeeding. It is another Saturday in another coffee shop, as it was when I wrote to you before with my ‘unofficial job ad.’ I may not be inviting you to be my producer, but frankly that is a drop in the ocean. I am inviting you, collectively, to be the ocean - a sea of change. We need it.

Thank you.

Matilda x