#jennifer's body starter sentences

[katesmemes]

feel free to change any pronouns, etc. || may contain some nsfw!

“Hell is a teenage girl.”

“I guess I’m not exactly perfect, myself.”

“I recommend you shut the fuck up!”

“I used to be normal.”

“I hate this fucking song.”

“I promised [Name] I would hang out with him tonight.”

“Wear something cute, okay?”

“Those jeans are hella low, I can almost see your front butt.”

“Quit tamponing yourself and get down here!”

“You always do what [Name] tells you to do.”

“You’re totally jello.”

“You’re lime-green jello and you can’t even admit it to yourself.”

“Hey, [Name], you look really pretty.”

“You play your instruments really…super good.”

“Can I buy you a drink?”

“I’ll just play Hello Titty with the bartender.”

“That’s my best friend that you’re talking about.”

“I had to stay home the next day and sit on a frozen bag of peas.”

“He was skinny and twisted and evil like this tree I saw when I was a kid.”

“Maybe I’m going crazy.”

“You do have a tendency to overreact.”

“What is wrong with you?”

“What’s wrong with you, aside from the obvious surface flaws?”

“Well, I’m glad you didn’t die.”

“I’m crazy sorry about your profound loss.”

“You are crying about [Name], right?”

“You know when you kiss a boy for the first time, and it feels like your entire body is on vibrate?”

“She’s just staring out the window like a zombie mannequin robot statue.”

“Well, the bad luck’s gotta be over, right?”

“I mean, it can’t get any worse, right? It can’t.”

“No offense, but you look really tired.”

“Is everything okay?”

“My skin is breaking out and my hair is dull and lifeless.”

“PMS isn’t real, [Name], it was invented by the boy-run media to make us seem crazy.”

“Don’t look at me like that!”

“Um, I actually wanted to ask you something.”

“You wanna know if I’ll go out with you?”

“Well, we’ve been having a lot of fun in class, you and I, and thought maybe you’d like to go see a movie or something.”

“I’m used to boys asking me out, [Name].”

“Why don’t you just come by my place tonight?”

“It’s about this girl who’s, like, half-sushi.”

“So, are you gonna come over tonight?”

“I went to [Location] and picked up more condoms, so—”

“This isn’t really your house, is it?”

“Do you even know my last name?”

“I thought boys like you were really into vermin and death and shit.”

“But we always share your bed when we have slumber parties…”

“I’m not gonna bite you.”

“Is that my [Logo/Brand] t-shirt?”

“What the fuck is happening?!”

“I have never heard you drop the F-bomb before!”

“What do you want from me?”

“Best friends don’t keep secrets, right?”

“They’re basically like agents of Satan with really awesome haircuts.”

“I dunno if we should go through with this.”

“They did go all Benihana on my ass with that knife and it should’ve killed me, and it should’ve killed me but for some reason it didn’t.”

“Anyway, I don’t really remember what happened after that, I just know that I woke up and I found my way back to you.”

“I mean, I’m a really good friend, but I was just so hungry…”

“We’re gonna sort all this out, okay?”

“It’s like some X-Men shit, right?”

“Y’know, [Name] maybe you should talk to somebody about all these…disturbing thoughts that you’re having…”

“I think he may be having second thoughts about you.”

“We can play boyfriend-girlfriend like we used to.”

“You’re breaking up with me?”

“I just need to show you something.”

“You’re acting really fucked up.”

“[Name], I think you need help.”

“Oh my god, you don’t believe me.”

“It’s not safe for us to be together right now.”

“Didn’t you hear me calling your name?”

“I just can’t believe that she would mess with your head like this.”

“I care about you so much, [Name].”

“[Name] didn’t deserve a boy like you.”

“Oh, you’re so salty.”

“I feel so empty.”

“Why don’t you just come here and kiss me again?”

“God, do you have to undermine everything that I do?”

“You are such a player-hater.”

“Wow, nice insult Hannah Montana.”

“You were never a good friend.”

“You could have anybody that you want, [Name].”

“I go both ways.”

“I think I already died before you got here, but I woke up when I heard your voice.”

“I love you.”

“I love you too.”

“You look totally hot in that dress.”

“Oh, you’re clearly delirious.”

“You killed my fucking boyfriend, you goddamn monster!”

“You dumb bitch!”

“Do you buy all your murder weapons at Home Depot?”

“God, you’re butch.”

“I’m a different person now.”

“You just might get lucky for once in your miserable life.”

[chaos--mode]

@havvkinsqueen embraced the chaos : ❝ tonight's gonna be their last show. ❞

paige hasn't been back to indiana in... a long time. years. not since she'd been stood up in like, the worst way possible. but she's older now. like, wiser, or whatever the fuck. more mature, thanks. so, she figured, she's here, and she's got some time, why not catch an old friend's show? nostalgia's sake, or something.

what she didn't expect was the pretty blonde to lean in, make conversation. not that paige was complaining. far from it. she seems nice, sweet, and the only person paige really knows around here anymore she isn't exactly sure she wants to talk to again. so, like, it won't kill her to make a friend, right?

" oh, no shit? " she whisper-yells back, neck of her beer bottle clutched between ring-clad fingers as she leans her elbow on the table, face turned towards the woman so that she might actually be able to hear paige over Corroded Coffin's blaring music. " they breakin' up or something? "

Jennifer's Body (2009) sentence starters. ( always accepting! )

[somerpmemes]

Jennifer’s Body Starters

Change as needed

“I’m a kicker. K-i-c-k-e-r.”

“I recommend you shut the fuck up.”

“Those jeans are hella low.”

“It smells like Thai food in here. Have you guys been fucking?”

“That place is disgusting, everyone there has a mustache.”

“Okay, this one's in shock. Great.”

“What’s wrong with you? Besides the obvious surface flaws.”

“I feel guilty just breathing.”

“Feel my heart, ___. I think it’s broken.”

“You’re so warm. Why are you so warm?”

“Well it’s four o’clock so technically you had a day terror.”

“One day you’re gonna be crying out for me and I’m not gonna be there.”

“I feel so scrumptious!”

“Move on dot org.”

“I’m having the best day since, like, Jesus invented the calendar.”

“I am a god.”

“Well the bad luck’s gotta be over, right? I mean it can’t get any worse, right?”

“This isn’t really your house, is it?”

“Do you even know my last name?”

“Ooh, puncture wound. God that’s so emo.”

“I need you frightened. I need you hopeless.”

“Enough with the screaming, you’re such a cliche.”

“Satan is our only hope.”

“They did go all Benihana on my ass with that knife and it should have killed me but for some reason it didn’t.”

“It’s like some x-men shit, right?”

“I got the monopoly on pain.”

“Sorrow was last week’s emotion.”

“I’ve been through the occult section of the library five times.”

“I care about you so much, ___. More than I’ve ever had the guts to admit.”

“I feel so empty.”

“Saint Jude, patron saint of hopeless causes, please give me the power to crush this bitch!”

“Wow, nice insult Hannah Montana. Got anymore harsh digs?”

“See? At least I’m consistent.”

“I am going to eat your soul and shit it out!”

“Do you buy all your murder weapons at Home Depot?”

“God, you’re butch.”

“Just might get lucky for once in your miserable life.”

[heireating]

         MOVIE STARTERS VOL.17    JENNIFER’S BODY    DIABLO CODY

❛ I'm going to eat your soul and shit it out! ❜

❛ I need you frightened. I need you hopeless. ❜

❛ Hell is a teenage girl. ❜

❛ I will finish you if I have to. ❜

❛ You know what? You were never really a good friend. ❜

❛ You're killing people? ❜

❛ God. It's like I'm one of the normal girls. ❜

❛ I am a god! ❜

❛ I had one of my night terrors again. ❜

❛ You're lime-green jello and you can't even admit it to yourself. ❜

❛ Do you buy all your murder weapons at Home Depot? ❜

❛ He listens to maggot rock. He wears nail polish. My dick is bigger than his. ❜

❛ Oh! A puncture wound. God, that's so emo. ❜

❛ I recommend you shut the fuck up! ❜

❛ You goddamn monster, you dumb bitch! ❜

❛ She's just hovering... it's not that impressive. ❜

❛ God, do you have to undermine everything I do? You are such a player hater. ❜

❛ Wow, nice comeback, Hannah Montana. Got any more harsh digs? ❜

❛ I thought you only murdered boys. ❜

❛ I am not insecure. God that’s a joke, how could I ever be insecure? ❜

❛ PMS isn't real, it was invented by the boy-run media to make us seem like we're crazy. ❜

❛ I'm kinda the shit! ❜

❛ I mean, they did go all "Benihana" on my ass with that knife, and it should've killed me, but for some reason... it didn't. ❜

❛ I am scrumptious! ❜

❛ I've been through the Occult section of the library five times. ❜

❛ It's a rock show. This is my rock look. ❜

❛ You might get lucky for once in your miserable life! ❜

❛ I’ll just play hello titty with the bartender.  ❜

❛ I just got aquamarine on dvd. It’s about a girl who’s, like, half sushi. ❜

❛ Moveon.org. ❜

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☾ Jennifer’s Body (2009) Sentence Starters

feel free to change words and pronouns as needed.

“You don't have to talk if you don't want to.”

“Satan is our only hope. We're working with the beast now and we've got to make a really big impression on him.”

“He listens to maggot rock. He wears nail polish. My dick is bigger than his.”

“I've been through the Occult section of the library five times.”

“I had one of my night terrors again.”

“It’s true. It’s on the Wikipedia.”

“Only because he thinks you're a virgin. I heard them talking.”

“PMS isn't real. [Name]. It was invented by the boy run media to make us seem like we're crazy.”

“You're lime green jello and you can't even admit it to yourself.”

“I feel like boo boo. My skin is breaking out and my hair is dull and lifeless. It’s like I’m one of the normal girls.”

“Nice insult, Hannah Montana. You got anymore harsh digs?”

“It smells like Thai food in here. Have you guys been fucking?”

“I need you frightened. I need you hopeless.”

“Hell is a teenage girl.”

“I recommend that you shut the fuck up!”

“[Name], I care about you. As a person, not just some girl I made love to for four minutes the other night, and I'm scared of what's happening to you.”

“And you look really hot in that dress.”

“I can take care of myself. I’ve been using the bowflex.”

“God, do you have to undermine everything I do? You’re such a player hater.”

“You know what? You were never a good friend.”

“Is it just to tick me off? Or is it just because you're just really insecure?”

“I am still socially relevant.”

“I’m going to eat your soul and shit it out, [Name].”

“You might get lucky for once in your miserable life!”

[niieve]

MONTERO LYRIC SENTENCE STARTERS

( 64 sentence starters from lil nas x’s album montero. please like or reblog if you found this helpful! ) 

montero (call me by your name)

❝ i caught it bad yesterday. ❞

❝ romantic talkin'? you don't even have to try. ❞

❝ you're cute enough to fuck with me tonight. ❞

❝ baby, you livin' the life, but you ain't livin' right. ❞

❝ i'm not fazed, only here to sin. ❞

❝ i wanna feel on your ass in hawaii. ❞

❝ i wanna fuck the ones i envy. ❞

dead right now 

❝ 911, somebody come get this bitch. ❞

❝ you know i never did you wrong. ❞

❝ you know you never used to call. keep it that way now. ❞

❝ you want to fuck with me so bad right now. ❞

❝ my mama told me that she love me, don't believe her.  ❞

❝ you ain't even all that pretty. ❞

industry baby ( feat. jack harlow )

❝ i ain't lost since i began. ❞

❝ funny how you said it was the end, then i went did it again. ❞

❝ i'm here to stay and these girls know that i'm nasty.  ❞

❝ i sent her back to her boyfriend with my handprint on her ass cheek. ❞

❝ wish he could but he can't get close. ❞

❝ i'm the type that you can't control. ❞

❝ i don't clear up rumors.  ❞

❝ where's y'all sense of humor? ❞

❝ i didn't peak in high school, i'm still out here gettin' cuter. ❞

that’s what i want 

❝ need a boy who can cuddle with me all night. ❞

❝ keep me warm, love me long, be my sunlight. ❞

❝ these days i'm way too lonely. ❞

❝ i got nothin' but love on my mind. ❞

❝ i'm not wanting anything, but your loving, your body, and a little bit of ya brain. ❞

scoop ( feat. doja cat ) 

❝ baby, i ain't tryna be your baby. ❞

❝ don't you hit me with that, "miss you," i ain't with that. ❞

❝ and i'm tryna fuck, fuck the chitchat. ❞

❝ my body look like something you'd eat cake off. ❞

❝ he named my right cheek jennifer and left one, lopez. ❞

❝ can't call me stupid with this big ol' fucking forehead, motherfucka'. ❞

one of me ( feat. elton john )

❝ say you need the validation. ❞

❝ oh, i know it hurt your soul to know it was only luck, huh. ❞

❝ now, can you prove yourself? everybody waitin'. ❞

lost in the citadel 

❝ tell me, are we finished now? ❞

❝ every time you leave, you find a way to come back around. ❞

❝ i need time to realize that i can't be yours. ❞

❝ i love it how you know i'll only come right back for more. ❞

❝ my god, you're an angel. ❞

❝ i remember when i met you, thought the universe sent you.  ❞

dolla sign slime (feat. megan thee stallion )

❝ say I can't do it, bitch, watch me. ❞

❝ damn, watchin' me gotta turn you on. ❞

❝ i should have my own category in porn. ❞

❝ everything about me came from genetics. ❞

tales of dominica 

❝ in this broken home, everyone becomes predictable.  ❞

❝ hope my little bit of hope don't fade away.  ❞

❝ was everybody right about me? ❞

sun goes down

❝ i wanna run away. ❞

❝ since ten, i been feeling lonely. had friends but they was picking on me. ❞

❝ can they sense my fears? ❞

❝ strangers make you feel so loved, you know? ❞

void 

❝ i'd rather die than live with these feelings. ❞

don’t want it 

❝ i smoke myself to sleep. ❞

❝ took one too many shots last night. ❞

life after salem 

❝ all of my feelings are gone, i left 'em all on the floor. ❞

❝ man, who's to blame if you don't love me no more? ❞

❝ throw me up against the wall. ❞

❝ ooh, i love it when you show no love at all. ❞

❝ you know i can be your part-time lover. ❞

❝ our scars, they'll dance with each other. ❞

am i dreaming ( feat. miley cyrus ) 

❝ oh, never forget me, and everything i've done. ❞

❝ shattered inside, but i still gotta smile. ❞

[firstdead]

@wolfhymns​ asked:   Jewel: “This is your home now. You have nowhere else to go.”

→ ❝CRIMSON PEAK sentence starters❞

she slams her hands down on the table; it doesn’t even make a thunk, which disappoints jennifer greatly. the specter is tempted to hit the wood again, but instead leans leans her body against its surface. 

“it’s not fair!” the words are torn from her throat and jennifer hates them. it’s fucking childish; life isn’t fair, dipshit. it’s eat or be eaten, and the globe keeps on spinning. in life, jennifer consistently hid details of her world from her friends: anything to avoid being out of touch or unrelatable. that house of cards has collapsed with three simple words. 

“i don’t want to be here anymore! i don’t wanna - watch a world that i can’t be a part of!” jennifer veers dangerously close to tearing up; she turns away from jewel in a rapid (unsubtle) motion. 

“i’m just ... tired — and i can’t even fucking rest ...” her hair curtains her face as jennifer hangs her head low. 

[ncwperspective]

“ i guess i’m not exactly perfect myself. ”

@perfectdisastcr | jennifer’s body sentence starters | robin & nancy

[atyped-gone]

@rebeltyped​   said  :    ‘  my dick is bigger than his.   ‘

         COURTNEY  LIKED  TO  BELIEVE  THAT  SHE  HAD  FREE  WILL,  BUT  DID  SHE  REALLY ??       she  was  a  pawn  in  a  game  that  was  constantly  evolving  with  new  threats  around  each  and  every  corner.   every  time  she  thought  she  was  ahead  there  was   a  brutal  wake  up  call,  be  it  betrayal,  humiliation  or  both.  the  logical  and  analytical  side  of  her  brain  had  been  highjacked  long  ago,  overridden  by  emotions  too  powerful  for  her  to  control.  those  blasted  tides  were  up  to  her  neck  now  and  she  was  at  a  great  risk  of  drowning.   duncan  used  to  be  the  one  that  kept  her  head  above  water,  a  lifeline  –––    instead  of  a  helping  hand,  that  hand  shoved  her  head  back  under  the  tempestuous  waters  where  she’d  choke  and  sink  further  down  into  her  rage.

        SCOTT  WAS  A  DINGHY.   A  ROTTED,  WOODEN  LIFEBOAT  WITH  SPLINTERS.    her  feelings  for  him  were  confusing.  she  liked  to  believe  that  what  she  felt  was  genuine  but  was  it  really  that  much  of  a  coincidence  that  those  feelings  were  at  their  strongest  whenever  she  saw  duncan  and  gwen  holding  hands ??   it  would  be  a  lie  to  say  that  her  motives  had  been  ulterior  from  the  start ;   but  boy  did  it  feel  fucking  GREAT  to  be  the  one  shoving  DUNCAN’S  head  under  the  water  this  time.  it  felt  fucking  euphoric  to  watch  that  green - eyed  monster  (  the  one  she  was  oh  so  acquainted  with  )  take  hold  of  him.  misery  loves  company,  what  can  she  say ??  

        THEY’RE  STRANGERS  TO  EACH  OTHER  NOW  BUT  NOT  REALLY.       their  history  was  in  these  walls,  in  every  grain  of  sand  on  the  beach.   it’s  duncan’s  voice  she  dreams  of,  the  narrator  of  both  her  sweet  dreams  and  her  nightmares.  she  still  thinks  of  that  summer,  the  could - have - beens,  but  her  heart  was  barren  right  now  and  she  felt  like  a  fraud  for  even  entertaining  the  idea  of  a  relationship  with  scott.   it’s  the  middle  of  the  night  when  her  bedroom  door  in  the  winners’  mansion  is  opened ––    of  course  he’d  pick  the  lock.   courtney  can  sense  duncan’s  presence  and  slips  her  sleeping  mask  up  onto  her  forehead,  groggily  squinting  as  she  watches  him  slip  into  bed  with  her.      ❛   can  i   HELP   you –––   ???   ❜     her  voice  was  thick  with  sleep,  but  that  nasally  tinge  of  annoyance  shines  through  nonetheless.  

        SHE’S  SILENCED  BY  AN  ANGRY  KISS,  HIS  HAND  GRIPPING  HER  PONYTAIL.   courtney  was  still  half  asleep  but  could  taste  the  liqour  on  his  tongue,  the  regret  on  his  lips  as  he  asserts  himself.  how  he  smuggled  booze  into  camp  she’d  never  know,  but  it  sparks  that  age - old  lust  for  danger.  ❛   my  dick  is  bigger  than  his,  ❜   it  was  a  claim  she  could  not  substantiate  quite  yet ;  she  hasn’t  slept  with  scott,  and  doubts  she  ever  will.  courtney  simply  takes  his  word  at  face  value  and  lets  him  prove  it  to  her   ––––     over  and  over  and  over.  

         JENNIFER’S   BODY   SENTENCE   STARTERS  :  SELECTIVELY   ACCEPTING

[cherryblown]

jennifer’s body sentence starters.

change pronouns as needed.

“ hell is a teenage girl. ”

“ i guess i’m not exactly perfect myself. ”

“ i’m kind of the shit. ”

“ they tell me everything will be okay if i just accept jesus christ into my heart. ”

“ i say the words, but nothing ever happens. nobody comes back. nobody gets off the cross. ”

“ i’m a kicker. ”

“ i recommend you shut the fuck up! ”

“ after the killings began, i started to feel … i don’t know. loose around the edges. ”

“ sandbox love never dies. ”

“ you and me are going out tonight. ”

“ i can kind of see, like, your womb, so … ”

“ ‘salty’ means ‘beautiful’. ”

“ we have stuff in common. that’s why we’re b.f.f.’s. ”

“ it smells like thai food in here. have you guys been fucking? ”

“ frankly, it’s not even a bar. It’s like a bingo hall with tabs. ”

“ you’re just jello because you’re not invited. ”

“ that place is disgusting. everyone in there has a mustache. ”

“ you’re totally jello. you’re lime green jello and you can’t even admit it to yourself. ”

“ clubs are for attractive people in populous urban areas. clubs have dj’s and champagne. all we have is a jukebox and a sticker toilet. ”

“ i can’t wait until i’m old enough to get wasted. ”

“ i’ll just play hello titty with the bartender. ”

“ i couldn’t even go to flags the next day. i had to stay home and sit on a bag of frozen peas. ”

“ you want to head somewhere safer? like my van? ”

“ oh, cheese and fries! ”

“ there’s somebody here. ”

“ what’s wrong with you? besides the obvious surface flaws. ”

“ i feel guilty just breathing. ”

“ i’m not saying that to be a dillhole. ”

“ i’m glad you didn’t die. ”

“ you and me would make a totally banging couple. ”

“ feel my heart. i think it’s broken. ”

“ i had another one of my night terrors. ”

“ well, it’s four o’ clock. so technically you had a day terror. ”

“ i dreamed some bad people were trying to nail you to a tree with hammers and big stakes and shit. ”

“ i feel so scrumptious! ”

“ goody for you. ”

“ move on dot org, [ NAME ]! ”

“ crass. it means greedy. exploitative. scummy. ”

“ i feel like boo-boo. my skin is breaking out and my hair is dull and lifeless. ”

“ i went to super target and picked up more condoms. ”

“ i mean, i thought boys like you were really into vermin, death and shit. ”

“ god, that’s so emo. ”

“ i need you frightened. i need you hopeless. ”

“ enough with the screaming. you’re such a cliche. ”

“ but we always share your bed when we have slumber parties. ”

“ i’m not going to bite you. ”

“ they’re basically like agents of satan with really awesome haircuts. ”

“ we’re in league with the beast now, and we have to make a really big impression on it. and to do that, we’re going to have to butcher you. and bleed you. ”

“ i don’t really remember what happened after that. i just know that i woke up and i found my way back to you. ”

“ you’re acting really fucked up. ”

“ i feel so empty. ”

“ god, do you have to undermine everything that i do? ”

“ you’re such a player-hater. ”

“ wow, nice insult, hannah montana! got any more harsh digs? ”

“ you were never a good friend. ”

“ i’m going to eat your soul and shit it out! ”

“ do you buy all your murder weapons at home depot? ”

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When Cumberbatch rhapsodized about the character on a recent phone call, he spoke so quickly that my ear could hardly take it all in. Which was appropriate enough, since Patrick Melrose wraps himself in language, using words as a both a shield and a life raft. “They are very, very funny novels,” Cumberbatch said, “and there are very funny bits which turn on a knife’s edge, 180 degrees, into tragedy.”

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As an example, Cumberbatch pointed to a scene in the first episode in which the drug-addled, twentysomething Patrick views his father’s corpse at a funeral parlor. He unwraps the body, which has been discreetly covered with tissue paper, turning a grim moment into an exaggeratedly comic scene. “He starts having this dialogue with somebody who’s not there, thanking them for the present of his dead dad—and then he’s fully triggered into this memory of the trauma of being raped by his father. . . . That happens in the space of about 20 seconds him on the page,” said Cumberbatch. “When you get prose as deep and rich and profoundly revealing of a character’s nature, you’re really spoiled as an actor. So much of your background research, your development of deeper psychology, and internal-thought processes and psychology—it’s there on the page. And this man’s salvation comes through a huge amount self-examination. So I just always, always went back to the book on pretty much every level.”

HOW HE CAME TO LIFE

St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose novels have been picking up fans since he published the first in the series, Never Mind, in 1992. (The fourth installment, 2005’s Mother’s Milk, was nominated for a Booker Prize). So much of their pleasure derives from St. Aubyn’s prose that adapting them for the screen seemed like a doomed undertaking. Yet screenwriter and novelist David Nicholls bravely took on the challenge—which wound up consuming more than half a decade. The resulting limited series covers Patrick’s life from sensitive child to middle-aged parent struggling to break the cycle of abuse, with his debauched, twentysomething years serving as fodder for the intense opening episode. Certain essential qualities run through Patrick’s entire life, Nicholls pointed out in a separate interview: “The desire to be better, to be less separate from the world, to be less ironic and sardonic, less disengaged.”

Nicholls said he always had Cumberbatch in his head as he wrote Patrick Melrose,even before the actor independently expressed interest in an adaptation. The two men had worked together on Starter for 10, the 2006 British film based on Nicholls’s novel, in which Cumberbatch played a supporting role as the prissy captain of a university quiz-show team—an amusing but two-dimensional character, the kind of work Cumberbatch was beginning to find frustrating and limiting. “Benedict was clearly something special, but everyone also had the sense that he is one of those clowns who could also play Hamlet,” Nicholls said.

As it happens, the tormented Danish prince is precisely who came to mind when Nicholls embarked on translating Patrick Melrose for the small screen. The two characters have a lot in common, not least father issues and a complex relationship with their mothers. There’s also “the potential for frighteningly cruel behavior coupled with a desire—I think it’s a sincere desire—to do the right thing. And certainly the soliloquizing, the playing with ideas, is so much a part of [the books].”

Cumberbatch spent a great deal of time getting to know the author, “Teddy” St. Aubyn, while immersing himself in the role of Patrick. “I asked him about things I won’t go into in an interview, of a very personal nature,” Cumberbatch said, as well as more specific questions about drug addiction. “For example, injecting cocaine: What the fuck is that like? I mean, why would you do that? Why would you do that, and how would you do that? What would happen when you did that? How longwould it happen?” He rattled off those queries at top speed, as if tapping into a sense memory.

“There’s a sort of ringing quality to the way Teddy speaks—everything is very carefully considered, and you’ll drive through until the end of the sentence,” Cumberbatch continued. “They are beautiful sentences. He speaks with the same language he writes with. It’s a joy to be in conversation with the man.”

Patrick Melrose is more than just a character study; it’s also a harsh dissection of British mores. “It captures so much of the hypocrisy and cynicism and sickness” of the upper class, which “hides its secrets and confesses to nothing,” Cumberbatch said. Patrick’s father, David (Hugo Weaving), is a sadistic aesthete who has taken up cruelty in place of a profession. (“What redeemed life from complete horror was the almost unlimited number of things to be nasty about,” David proposes in Never Mind, the first book in the sequence.) His mother, Eleanor (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is a crushed heiress who has seceded from reality.

They are surrounded by equally horrifying members of the aristocracy—most notably, Princess Margaret (Harriet Walker), who in one episode appears as the guest of honor at a fancy dinner party. Far from the chic figure we know from The Crown, the princess here humiliates the French dignitary sitting next to her and callously dismisses the hosts’ young daughter when the girl shyly approaches in hope of meeting a royal. It is Patrick who kindly comes to the little girl’s rescue, seeing in her traces of his old sweet self, ignored by the adults and neglected by his parents.

Cumberbatch said that he too had glimpsed the codes and rituals of high society, through the posh world of his grandmother (“not that she was like that—she was a deeply caring and loving person,” he hastened to add) and his time at Harrow, one of Britain’s most elite boarding schools. “That world was definitely around me, but I wasn’t ever really fully engaged in it.”

Making sure Cumberbatch looked the part was also crucial. According to costume designer Keith Madden, Patrick comes from a British upper class that doesn’t follow fashion, but favors traditional dress that might be embellished with a twist of eccentricity. Colored socks, he said, are “the seal of the aristocratic upper classes.” Patrick may look imperturbable, but Madden hoped to suggest a juxtaposition between his fancy dress and his sordid reality—meetings with drug dealers, descents into a speedball-induced state of madness.

Beyond that, Madden looked to St. Aubyn himself for guidance. “I was privy to some photographs that Benedict showed me of Edward St. Aubyn as a young boy, and then as a young man in the 80s. So, that’s where a lot of the inspiration came from—even the shape of the sunglasses, and the striped shirts, and the pale stone-wash jeans of the time,” he said. Sometimes the author himself would visit the set, “and it would be funny, because he would be wearing something very similar to what Benedict would be wearing in the scene,” Madden said. “I would say, ‘Yeah, we’ve got it right!’”

Cumberbatch confessed that it’s a great relief to have done justice to St. Aubyn’s creation. “I felt a sort of double responsibility,” he said—not just as an actor bringing the character to life, “but also as a reader to other readers of these novels. I do think he’s written some of the best prose of the 21st century, if not the best—and one of my desires is to bring these works to the widest audience.”

Photos: On the Set of Showtime’s Patrick Melrose

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as the title character in the forthcoming mini-series Patrick Melrose.

Photo: Photograph by Julian Broad.

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[boningzone]

“So they’re basically like agents of satan with really awesome haircuts?”

jennifer’s body sentence starters. :: Accepting

“That is exactly what they are! Though I’m not sure those are awesome haircuts.” He eyes the girls they’re gossiping over, gaze cutting back to Angie so they didn’t see him lingering. They were the popular girls, of which a handful of his own friends were among, that didn’t stop him from believing they worked directly for Satan.

[glassy28]

11 questions Tumblr tag pt.2

Thanks for tagging me back @thebookfreak  xD I think I’ll have to tag you back then… muhahahaha.

1. What are your weird habits? Ehm... I like to crack my whole body? Is that a weird habit? It’s actually more of an annoying habit for others around me.

Also, I cover my ears when I hear an unpleasant or loud noise. No matter what situation. Even when I wear my head phones I’ll pull them out and cover my ears so I don’t have to listen to an obnoxious sound. Or in discos when the music is too loud, I have to cover my ears. I should buy some sound blockers for my ears...

Otherwise I can’t think of anything.

2. Any hidden talents? Ehm… i don’t think so. What is considered as a hidden talent? For starters I overthink a lot. That’s a talent too, right? Not

3. Have you ever thought about deleting your tumblr blog? Yes, when I wasn’t really using it, but then I kinda thought: Hey, I could actually use this for fandom purposes, so here I am.

4. How many books do you own? I legitimately counted them because I want to know as well. 

Sheet music: approximately 500 (they are actually owned by my dad but he said to me that I own them too and I’ll inherit them [not my brother, hehe] when he dies)

Children books: approx. 68 Books I read, want to read: 133 School related (and that take up WAY too much space in my room): 170 In Total: 87, without sheet music: 371

That’s still too much... but if we only add the ones that I read for my enjoyment (children books and books I read, want to read) it’s “only” 201 books.

5. Languages you can speak or have had classes in school for? Mother languages: German, Vietnamese Learned in school: English, Chinese (forgot everything… I was forced to attend Saturday classes because of my parents -.-), French (I could have been fluent in it, if my father wasn’t so lazy and actually talked to me in french…) and Latin (do dead languages count?)

6. Favorite book (and author)? I don’t really have a favourite author and my favourite book is ‘Black Blade’ by Jennifer Estep.

7. Do you listen to Kpop and if yes, who’re your fav group and your ultimate bias?  Yeah, I do and you were the one who got me into this, @thebookfreak…  I’ll go with my vlive chemi-beat for the order and write down my top three: 1. Stray Kids  2. Monsta X 3. Seventeen 

I don’t really have an ultimate bias because my biases are all amazing in their own way. For a while Vernon was my ult. bias but rn I feel like it’s no one. 

8. Fav sport to play and/or watch? I love swimming and like to watch figure skating. It looks so beautiful on screen, but if you go on the ice and try to skate like them, you will fall down…

9. Your very first OTP? I think either Shinichi and Ran from Meitantei Conan or Maron and Chiaki from Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne. 

I’m not so sure, because I’ve always been a fangirl when I was young but I wasn’t aware of it. Otherwise I’d saw KakaSaku is the first one I’ve been really aware of (Tumblr partly made me ship it…)

10. Last song you listened to? Pinwheel by Seventeen. It’s such an amazing song and I love it!

11. Your biggest weakness? I would say sweets and spicy stuff. Sweets because I can’t resist them and would it them if it’s offered to me or I’m craving them. Spicy because I can’t eat them at all. One bit of spiciness and I’ll refuse to eat it.  Also existential crisis, anxiety and socialising. 

My 11 questions:

1.)  Do you have any Christmas traditions?

2.) What‘s your favorite fruit?

3.) Do you believe in love at first sight?

4.) What’s the one thing you’ve always wanted to do in life?

5.) Your fav. clothing item?

6.) Introvert, extrovert or ambivert?

7.) What is something that everyone looks stupid doing?

8.) If you could talk to animals, what would you ask them?

9.) What inanimate object would you eliminate from existence?

10.) What set of items could you buy that would make the cashier the most uncomfortable?

11.) In one sentence, how would you sum up the internet?

Some of the questions are taken and modified from this site

I’m tagging @thebookfreak, @cajuncherrybee, @ashnoises, @thesweetfandomlife, @norealityinvolved and @shygeek118. 

[plaguecodea]

“ i couldn’t even go to flags the next day. i had to stay home and sit on a bag of frozen peas. ”

jennifer’s body sentence starters. 

status: accepting.↳ @uploadingg

   ❛ maybe ya shouldn’t be gettin’ into random fights then. ❜ as if that will put and end to amr’s brawler mindset. peaceful as he maybe, he’s a war beneath skin. james’ skill with computers reminds her of amr’s ability to fight, ability to hit just the right spot. it’s really comparing apples to oranges, similar but wholly different. she takes another swig of her drink as she settles with sitting on the counter. ❛ at least you didn’t almost die. ❜

[redformed-blog]

"oh, cheese and fries!"

jennifers body sentence starters | 4ever accepting | @coolerthanwally 

        “So you’re telling me I’ve been touring this place for HOURS and you guys have had cheese fries this entire time?” Jason nodded, “And I thought we could be FRIENDS.” He joked.

         From what he’s seen of the Teen Titans headquarters Jason was definitely INTERESTED, and since he didn’t answer to Zordon anymore he could be part of a different team. A team without so many RULES.

        “But seriously we should get cheese fries.”

[ncwperspective]

“ i don’t really remember what happened after that. i just know that i woke up and i found my way back to you. ”

@perfectdisastcr | jennifer’s body sentence starters | duke & bradley