#lizzy alcott

[chalamet-hl]

Love... You're real love ✨

[myclutteredbookshelf]

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[fishyyyyy99]

"Reading these letters, and imagining Lizzie’s dead-eyed stare at nosy women on public transit and overbearing, fussing nurses—imagining her eating with relish and troubling herself about no one at all—I feel a kind of mourning setting in. More than thinking about beautiful, kind, faultless Beth, who chatted endlessly about goodness and piety and nothing at all, I imagine instead this wasted young woman—barely ninety pounds, her hair falling out, so goth she married death itself—calling herself a “little skeleton,” and chuckling at her own dark joke.

Lizzie’s family had a narrative about her, and it killed her. Not just once, but over and over again. A woman who lived and had thoughts and made art and was snarky and strange and funny and kind and suffered tremendously and died angry at the world becomes sweet, soft Beth. A dear, and nothing else."

[inlovewithhearts]

baby pink

[sparklygraves]

🐱a comic inspired by the most mysterious of the Alcott sisters—Elizabeth (aka Lizzie/Beth). like the character based on her in Little Women, she died young & was pretty socially anxious/preferred to stay home/had no apparent worldly ambitions. she was great at piano & making her home cozy/the people around her feel loved. but she also kept to herself a lot/had a secret sadness/otherworldly vibe. all the Alcott sisters were supposed to let their parents read their diaries, but Beth refused to share hers. ✨ spooky fact: when she died both Lou Alcott & Marmee saw a white mist rise from her body

[amourdedove]

listening to my amy march coded playlist and sitting alone in my room on a saturday night after studying all day

[atyd1960]

Which of my fave movies each of the marauders would like best

(options: Little Women, Call Me By Your Name, Dead Poets Society, Lady Bird, Fight Club, Legally Blonde, Titanic, 10 Things I Hate About You, Pretty Woman, How To Train Your Dragon, Tangled, Lord Of the Rings, Brokeback Mountain, Mona Lisa Smile, Pride and Prejudice)

James: Pride and Prejudice. We all know that he’s a cheesy mf. Plus he would definitely let himself believe that Mr Darcy and Lizzy are just like him and Lily which would motivate him to keep pursuing her.

Sirius: Fight Club. He just seems like the type to enjoy a movie that’s half action and half a psychological thriller.

Remus: Brokeback Mountain. I think the time, the characters, the struggles and especially the ending would all really resonate with him. It’s a movie that is both a love story and a political saying, and Remus would take a lot from it.

Peter: Dead Poets Society. The entirety of Todd’s character, his relationship with Neil (which Peter would compare to his with James), the excitement out of texts and the notion of shamelessy being yourself, would all tug at his heartstrings<\3.

Lily: Little Women. I don’t even know where to begin… Feminism? Sisterhood? Romance? Louise May Alcott? My girl would eat it up.

Marlene: Ladybird. Ladybird is Marlene. Marlene is Ladybird. Try to convince me otherwise.

Mary: Legally Blonde. Mary would see so much of herself in Elle’s character- her struggles and passions and ambition… she and Elle are best friends material.

Dorcas: Lord Of the Rings. She also read the books. She would never voluntarily tell anyone tho. I don’t make the rules.

Regulus: Call me by your name. This whole movie screams Jegulus to me tbh. Maybe it’s because of Timmy.

And lastly

Pandora: Titanic. My girl loves a good tragedy (I’m her).

[hadesoftheladies]

FEMALE MOVIE/TV RECS (PART 2 / HISTORICAL FICTION/NON-FICTION)

got inspired from a recommendation post so decided to make a list of movies and shows with female-centric stories/female protagonists. since i can't post all of the genres in one post, i'll split it into multiple posts and y'all can save or add to the list as you wish. (disclaimer: i have watched most of these, but i only know about the existence of others. not every movie/show on these lists will be my recommendation. my recommendations will be beneath the list with reasons. also some of these are way better than others in terms of storytelling/performance--which is why i'll list my faves separately):

Common Themes of Media in the List:

-Workplace/general sexist discrimination

-Husband being pieces of shit and whiners

-Strong emphasis on sisterhood

-Romance plays a large part (both hetero and homo)

-Female genius and triumph

-Scheming mothers (always scheming)

-Grief, loss, and growth

-Motherhood is difficult but we pull through TM

HAVEN'T WATCHED:

Mozart's Sister

Lessons in Chemistry

The Conductor

Lizzie

Radioactive

Cable Girls

The Great

The Queen's Gambit

Britannia

Harriet

Mary Queen of Scots

ONES I LOVEDDDD:

A League of Their Own (9/10) (a favorite!)

Hidden Figures (8/10)

The Woman King (8/10) (a favorite!)

Anne With An E (9/10) (a favorite!)

Dickinson (8.5/10)

The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel (9/10) (a favorite!)

Gentleman Jack (8/10)

The Gilded Age (7.5/10)

HONORABLE (NON-LISTED MENTIONS)

The English (an english woman teams up with a native american cowboy to take revenge on the men who hurt them)

The World to Come (two women isolated by the wilderness and their husbands fall in love)

The Pursuit of Love

Colette

PERSONAL NOTES:

The Buccaneers is pretty feminist and wholesome, although oftentimes childish and full of Netflix cliches (even though it's an Apple TV original). It tries very hard to be Dickinson and Little Women but is a far cry away from Dickinson's edge and fierceness and Little Women's maturity and realism. It's more interested in appealing to Bridgerton audiences and its worse for it. But it's still full of the nice stuff, like strong female friendships and sisterhoods. Ooh, and lesbians! It's adamantly female-centric.

As for Little Women, I prefer the 90s version with Winona Ryder, but Greta did more justice to the source material than Louisa May Alcott herself in the new version.

The Book Thief and The World to Come are also tragedies, so you know. Ammonite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Summerland and The Favourite are lesbians and bisexuals in their full glory, although all of them have vastly different tones (The Favourite is a dark comedy, I believe).

Speaking of The Favourite, Mary & George is like that but it's men vying for the affections of the king. Don't get it twisted though, Mary, George's mom, is the protagonist and primary mover of the show. It starts and ends with her. Also, more lesbianism! (I don't get tired of pointing that out.)

Belle is one of the few autobiographical historical fictions of a black woman. My dad and I love it. It, however, does not surpass The Woman King. The Woman King is like . . . one of the best historical movies on African women I've ever watched! Or just in general! It gives so much agency to African people in the colonial age and tells the story with nuance and perspective--it is a decolonized view on the slave trade that places West African people at the center. It's pretty intense and gory, though. Like it's dark, but like the performances are insanely good, and so is the story. Real life Wakanda and all that!

[princesssarisa]

I just did a Google search to read different people's opinions on Meg in Little Women.

Most of what I came across were terrible comments, both about Meg and about Little Women in general. Nothing much that I haven't read before, but it still makes me wonder if they read the same book I did.

"No reader really likes Meg. She's just an embodiment of boring traditional femininity."

"'Meg Goes to Vanity Fair' is a terrible chapter. Meg deserves to dress up, go to parties, and drink champagne now and then! She gets shamed just for having fun!"

"Marmee is horrible. She's always shaming her daughters and pressuring them to be too perfect."

"Meg's married life is awful and teaches young girls that adulthood is a slog."

"John Brooke is the real villain of the book."

(Really.)

"Almost every girl wants to be like Jo. A few girls want to be like Amy. No girl wants to be like prim Meg or passive Beth."

And then there was the old chestnut: "Beth has to die because she's not suited to this world."

(I'd like to ask that person: "Is that how you feel about real people with autism, or social anxiety disorder, or whatever undiagnosed mental illness or neurodiversity Lizzie Alcott had?")

I think I might reread the book in full in the coming holiday season. A lot of people read it as their annual Christmas book, and I'd like to reread it so I can argue against these claims more firmly than ever.

[francesderwent]

hiii if you can, could you expand on your hate for Greta Gerwig's work? I've only seen a few of her movies, so I don't have much of an opinion haha

it is occurring to me now I think I’ve only seen one film of hers haha but I felt VERY strongly about that one, and I feel like I’ve read enough about her Little Women that I can justly hate it, too

I talked at length about my issues with Barbie here with some addendums here and also here

and Little Women I have a few beefs with!

first of all, why get so many English actors to play Americans when their American accents, by and large, suck

I find Gerwig’s choice to import biographical information about Alcott’s writing of the book into the story itself obnoxious. if you’re gonna adapt a BELOVED CLASSIC, I think you have to accept that people love the book, even if the author played around with the book being something else! if you found letters saying Austen had thought about marrying Lizzie off to Col. Fitzwilliam would you make a film that leaves it ambiguous which man she gets together with? of course not! because it would be a terrible adaptation and a terrible film since the book is obviously a finished whole the themes of which were tending in a specific direction. I think Gerwig does Alcott a serious disservice in thinking that she didn’t do her absolute darndest to give her book a satisfying ending. and I think she insults a lot of Little Women fans, as well! the only reason she lets Alcott’s personal life color the plot of the film is because it happens to align with Gerwig’s own values. so if you didn’t like the values that are actually in the book, don’t adapt the book!!!!

I think she plays with gender in her film in a way that’s anachronistic. Jo is a tomboy in the book, but in a way I just can’t easily explain, the flavor of an 1800s tomboy not fitting into the mould of a typical lady is very different from a 2010s feminist rebelling against the expectations of society for women.

the book states very clearly that Meg and Amy have a closer relationship, and Jo and Beth have a closer relationship. so Gerwig deciding she wanted to put the primary focus on Jo and Amy’s relationship is very annoying to me, and feels like disrespect to Beth. Amy outshining Beth feels like it sums up a lot about Gerwig and where she sees value

[chalamet-hl]

It's not about Timothée, but please sign to help Liam's family/ No es sobre Timothée, pero por favor firma para ayudar a la familia de Liam ❤️‍🩹

[isfjmel-phleg]

Books that I own that I should get to this year if possible:

Alternative Alcott and Work by Louisa May Alcott

Various books by Margery Allingham

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte (have owned this for over a decade but been too daunted by its length to tackle it)

More Annotated Alice

Various books by Agatha Christie

Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens (another scary brick)

Various Dostoevsky books

The Last Courts of Europe: Royal Family Album 1860-1914 by Jeffery Finestone

Cousin Phillis and Other Tales and Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell

Between Walls and Between Cases by W. R. Gingell

The Child from the Sea by Elizabeth Goudge

Various works by Nathaniel Hawthorne (I got interested in trying to read his works while I visited MA. I had to read The Scarlet Letter in high school, which was unpleasant thanks to our curriculum's pharisaic approach to literature, but I want to revisit it and encounter others as an adult and draw my own conclusions)

Various books by nineteenth-century author Mary J. Holmes (picked up at an antique store including Millbank, which is referred to in the Little House books)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales by Washington Irving

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (gift from a friend)

Year of the Griffin by Diana Wynne Jones

The Last Empress by Greg King

The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi (a secret pal gift from someone who read my remark on the form that I found it hard to describe my taste in books succinctly, got hung up on the puzzling word "succinct," and scoured the internet for Succinct Books, bless her heart)

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

Bloody Jack by L. A. Meyer

Voices in the Night by Stephen Millhauser

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett (picked up in a shop because I thought the title was funny; I am not planning to dive into the associated series)

The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

Robin: Tim Drake Compendium One (or, as I call it, The Tim Tome)

Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (picked this up at a booksale because my sister had had to read it for multiple college classes and I was curious)

The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet by Bernie Su (picked up at a booksale forever ago)

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Various Jules Verne books

The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West

Doomsday Book and Blackout (and All Clear and Cross Talk if I can acquire them) by Connie Willis

The Sinclair's Mysteries series by Katherine Woodfine

Zero Hour: Part One (and Part Two if I can snag it when it's released later this year)

[littlewomenpodcast]

I just thought of this a few days ago: we talk a lot about how Beth is an idealized version of Lizzie, but do you think the same could be said for all the Marches and their real life counterparts?

I do believe so. In reality all the family members were somewhat more unconventional than their book counterparts. Louisa had more struggles in her personal life and relationships. I personally believe that Jo's father in the book, is more inspired by Emerson than Bronson (going back to the idea of wish fulfillment, Louisa wished that her father would have been a more stable person). May Alcott married a man 10 years younger than she.

I think idealization is also part of the 19th/ early 20th century writing style especially what it comes to children's books. For example Susan Warner's Wide Wide World, is a book that Jo reads in Little Women. It is a love story very similar to Jo and Friedrich. The language is very sentimental and the characters are very much idealized.

[miloinouterspace]

I made a Monty playlist!

Spotify link:

List format:

Monty Finch

"I never asked to be human, with all these... feelings."

☆ Blackbird

The Beatles

☆ Things That Make It Warm

Cavetown

☆ Rule #4 - Fish in a Birdcage

Fish in a Birdcage

☆ Two Birds

Regina Spektor

☆ Gold and Green

Slaughter Beach, Dog

☆ Two-Headed Boy

Neutral Milk Hotel

☆ thumbelina

Lizzy Hilliard

☆ Oh What A World

Rufus Wainwright

☆ Such Great Heights

The Postal Service

☆ Telescope

Cavetown

☆ No Shadow Left Behind

Rob Crow's Gloomy Place

☆ Die Alone

Ingrid Michaelson

☆ King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1

Neutral Milk Hotel

☆ Snail (feat. Chloe Moriondo)

Cavetown, chloe moriondo

☆ I'm Fine

Daisy the Great

☆ He Loves Me (He Loves Me Not)

Baby Bugs

☆ I Miss My Mum

Cavetown

☆ Eyes Blue Like The Atlantic (feat. Subvrbs)

Sista Prod, Subvrbs

☆ Wishing Well

Cavetown, Drew Monson

☆ Cloud 9

Beach Bunny

☆ Pyjama Pants

Cavetown

☆ Strawberry Blond

Mitski

☆ passing papers

egg

☆ I Want to Meet Ur Dog

Cavetown

☆ Smitten

Leanna Firestone

☆ Can I Call You Tonight?

Dayglow

☆ 888

Cavetown

☆ Abigail

Frankie Cosmos

☆ I Won't Say (I'm In Love)

Susan Egan (Hercules Cast Recording)

☆ wouldn't it be funny

Lizzy Hilliard

☆ Acolyte

Slaughter Beach, Dog

☆ if you were a worm (bonus track)

Lizzy Hilliard

☆ (You) On My Arm

Leith Ross

☆ In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel

☆ We'll Never Have Sex

Leith Ross

☆ Sweet Tooth

Cavetown

☆ Sappho

Frankie Cosmos

☆ Like Or Like Like

Miniture Tigers

☆ Dream Boy

Beach Bunny

☆ There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

The Smiths

☆ Lola

Maude Latour

☆ Famous

Daisy the Great

☆ if i were a fish (feat. Olivia Barton)

corook, Olivia Barton

☆ The Record Player Song

Daisy The Great

☆ Lemon Boy

Cavetown

☆ I Eat Salads Now

Sidney Gish

☆ Washing Machine Heart

Mitski

☆ IDKW

Daisy the Great

☆ Aftershook

Frankie Cosmos

☆ Seasoned

Daisy the Great

☆ She Wants Me (To Be Loved)

The Happy Fits

☆ What Do You Want From Me Tonight?

Sidney Gish

☆ Homesick

Cavetown

☆ Fool

Frankie Cosmos

☆ Why Am I Like This?

Orla Gartland

☆ Dance in Room Song

Sipper

☆ Abbey

Mitski

☆ You Just Didn't Like Me That Much

Leanna Firestone

☆ Liquid Smooth

Mitski

☆ That Funny Feeling

Bo Burnham

☆ Heather

Conan Gray

☆ Pigeon

Cavetown

☆ Every Single Night

Fiona Apple

☆ Grocery Store

Cavetown

☆ Cannibal

Tally Hall

☆ Feb 14

Cavetown

☆ Fruit Stand

Frankie Cosmos

☆ Fool

Cavetown

☆ The Way I Feel

DENTON

☆ Idea of Her

Cavetown

☆ Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

The Smiths

☆ This Is Home

Cavetown

☆ Sorry For Me

Ricky Montgomery

☆ Silly Girl

chloe moriondo

☆ Snow

Ricky Montgomery

☆ When He Sees Me

Kimiko Glenn (Waitress Cast Recording)

☆ Ramblings of a Lunatic

Bears In Trees

☆ Hug All Ur Friends

Cavetown

☆ Just Someone With a Sweater On

Claire Young

☆ Evermore

Dan Stevens

☆ I'm Still Here

Kate Winton

☆ The Alcott (feat. Taylor Swift)

The National, Taylor Swift

☆ Better Go

Mal Blum

☆ Glowing

Slaughter Beach, Dog

[aviyx]

🎶✨ when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool) 🎶✨ :3❤️

okay sure il do this :)

1. force of nature - lizzy mcalpine.

2. same boat - lizzy mcalpine

3. difficult - gracie abrams

4. c'est la vie - isabel dumaa

5. the alcott - the national

i have basic sad girl music taste ngl