#marvin’s room

[babythegod]

[teenbasher]

there are so many specific scenes in “This Boy’s Life, Total Eclipse, Basketball Daries & Marvin’s room” that give me such strong teen seb vibe & fit into my headcanon so well I feel like I am going to have to download the entire freaking movies to make the specifics gifs I want for Seb 😂🥲☠️

[do-you-know-this-play]

[clumsynurseang]

I need you right now are you down to listen to me?

[thatgeekwiththeclipons]

Happy 79th Birthday to Academy Award Winning, BAFTA Winning, Emmy Nominated, 2x Golden Globe Winning, SAG Award Nominated, Tony Nominated actress Diane Keaton! ^__^

[aderall-daydreams]

[gl1tchrix]

Currently sobbing

So, because I’ve been obsessed with Christian Borle, I finally decided to watch (a totally legal version of) falsettos.

It honestly was so much better than I was prepared for. The way it explores so many themes: queerness in the 70/80s, irregular family dynamics, fragile masculinity, Jewish culture, and the AIDS epidemic. It’s a show that’s just so full of love and soul and I couldn’t be happier that I watched it… but oh god nothing has made me cry like that in a good long while. like. I swear to you. It’s very hard for media to make me cry. But by the end of this show I was WEEPING.

I woke up my sleeping girlfriend just because I needed to tell her I love her and how happy I am I have her because oh my god. There’s no wake up call stronger than watching a loving couple be separated by forces out of their control. Reminding me that I can’t take my loved ones for granted. (P.s. girlfriend was very concerned cuz she woke up and I’m just sat, crying and saying I love you)

anyways, if you haven’t watched falsettos, go watch it, and if you have, watch it again.

[r00sting-sparr0w]

he’s simple :)

[youraveragemiscellanyenjoyer]

I think it would be funny if it was called 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴settos and instead of bitching they 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝓮𝓭

[huffle-dork]

Whumptober Day 8: Sleep Deprivation

When I saw this prompt I just knew I had to draw for one of my fav Marvin fics by @beerecordings !! Is it normal to have a comfort fic be a torture fic? Probably not HFGFH

[clairettaa]

Leave me; love me; don’t be a fool;

[morphean42]

Rewatching Falsettos, as one does, and I noticed in Four Jews Marvin and Jason have Shepards staffs, while Whizzer and Mendel have straight sticks.

Marvin is trying to keep his Tight Knit Family together, he’s attempting to “shepard” them according to his will. He most certainly views himself as the leader of the TKF, though the religious part is questionable. His stick is a Shepards Crook, large enough to fit around the neck of a sheep and move them where he thinks they should go. Interestingly, Moses is depicted as having a Shepards Staff often, so this may connect to Marvin’s sort of “I’m the leader” mentality as well. However, when we see the Red Sea split in the song, Mendel is the one in the front. This could sort of show how Marvin views Mendel (Moses receives the Ten Commandments in the Torah) as the person to look to for guidance through life— he is his psychiatrist after all— but still desires the control the role of Moses would give him.

Jason, having the same type of staff, reflects how similar they are. We see throughout the show Jason’s fears of becoming his dad, as he already shares so many similarities with him. He has the potential to turn into Marvin, to try and control those around him as if they were sheep, but he is still young. His staff is smaller— he can’t fully force anyone around yet. One might say his stick is what’s called a Leg Cleek, intended on hooking only the back legs of sheep. Jason doesn’t have the ability to steer, but he can still grab onto those around him. Often, Moses is depicted as having the same sort of curved staff, and something interesting to me is this connection between Jason and Moses. Moses, according to the Torah, dies within sight of the promised land— Jason also seems to have everything he could want within his grasp (a father who loves him, a family that doesn’t fight so much anymore, Whizzer back in his life) before losing it with the death of Whizzer Brown.

Whizzer and Mendel don’t have these curved staffs, instead having simple walking sticks. This shows how they are sort of outsiders in the show— Marvin and Jason are father and son, while Whizzer and Mendel are the additions, the “step-fathers” one might say. They don’t fit quite into the group, but the sticks are still important.

In the Torah, after a plague, Moses’s brother Aaron has a rod that sprouts ripe almonds to prove the tribe of Levi’s right to priesthood. Obviously the story is a little more complicated than that, and while I can’t claim his rod was specifically not a Shepards Staff but rather a straight one, most art depicts it without a curve. Whizzer and Mendel represent this sort of ‘miracle’ almost, they save Marvin and Trina respectively. They both allow their lovers to be happy, the opportunity to be themselves outside of the marriage that was ruining them.

Ironically, almonds can represent faithfulness. Marvin was not faithful to his wife, obviously, but in a way through Whizzer became faithful to himself. He leaves Trina to be who he truly is— a gay man. Whizzer and Mendel baring this type of stick proves how they bring a faith into the lives of these two broken people, restoring their happiness.

So anyway, Four Jews in a Room Bitching is a dope ass song and even the fucking sticks mean something in Falsettos— I’m going insane.

I apologise if I’ve completely misrepresented the religious stuff, I wasn’t really raised with religion at all and am just now starting to connect with it.

[shyshyaaaaaa]

Four Jews in a Room Bitching !! (01/37)

I’m gonna start doing sketches like these of all the songs for this new sketchbook, so I hope y’all enjoy a whole lot more of these cuz I’m quite literally drawing all these goddamn songs, send help.

Enjoy!!

[gory-roryy]

four jews in a room but its weezer blue album

[thegaycousin-upgrade]

Thinking about Falsettos.

⚠️spoilers⚠️

Crying.

Not actually about Whizzers death, obviously that is so tragic but I’m thinking about Jason.

This poor boy, y’all ready?

1st things first, Parents have a messy ass divorce, dad is gay, both parents are having breakdowns.

Dad’s boyfriend and he have a great relationship and stuff right, but since the kid is already going through a lot he is acting strange so Psychiatrist comes to house.

Psychiatrist is unhelpful, psychiatrist proposes to mom. Dad and boyfriend break up. Poor kid.

His dad comes to his mom’s house to yell at her and he witnesses his father hit his mother. His whole life is already messy.

He and his dad have sincere talk right?

So basically we get two years of relative peace.

Then we’ve got parents arguing about his Bar Mitzvah, which sucks, because it’s supposed to be his happy special day, but now people are all arguing about it!

Dad and boyfriend get back together!

Boyfriend gets sick, it’s bad.

This person who Jason considered a friend who cared about him in tough times. Might I remind you this child is like 13?

He visits Boyfriend in Hospital, and everyone is pretending he’s ok, but Jason can’t.

Now it’s all on and about him, does he want the Bar Mitzvah or want to cancel it, this is a lot of pressure for small child, who is already grieving his friend.

Boyfriend’s situation becomes much worse, he is dying, Jason begins to turn to G-d for this, because everything is falling apart.

He learns is dad is also sick and will likely also die, what does he do now?

Boyfriend accepts his death will come.

Than Jason does arguably the most selfless act in the show. He has his Bar Mitzvah at Whizzers hospital room.

The entire “Jason’s Bar Mitzvah” song is actually so tragic and touching, especially all the touches in the show I-

Anyway, Boyfriend dies.

After the show ends so does his dad.

This kid goes through it and he needs more hugs.

[stoner-butch-blues]

The BOM to Falsettos pipeline really scoops up every tween that's obsessed with Andrew Rannells and desensitizes them to AIDS jokes before plopping them down in a fandom with complicated themes they have no historical context for and making us babysit them