#west side story original

[tonymarias]

LARRY KENT & CAROL LAWRENCE as TONY & MARIA for production images for the original production of WEST SIDE STORY (1957)

[olympain]

[newrochellechallenger2019]

rewatched west side story last night and now i can't stop thinking about how apparently mike faist treated paloma garcia-lee (graziella) like his actual girlfriend on set to make it more realistic !!!

[rowanisawriter]

2024 —my year in writing

last year, i wrote more than i ever have like literally in my whole life. this year i beat my record by about 200k words. i am writing A LOT and it’s all because of you.

yes, you, reading this now. anyone who kudos’d or commented or liked or reblogged anything i wrote, and followed me here and on ao3, and ranted in my dms and added me to servers. you, reading the weird things i write, the things i can only write and only i can write, seeing it and liking it and coming back again and again for more. thank you :)

so here’s my 2024 summary:

words written: 358,963

fics published: 74

my favorite fics:

real world (stardew valley) - a story about parenthood and roads not taken. genuinely the most important story to me, a diary entry as much as fanfic

pilgrimage (bg3) - a story about two people without a past as they work toward an even more uncertain future. i also have no past because of a strange upbringing so this story is kinda personal to me even though it’s about a cleric and a vampire

novel (hades) - a story about looking for adventure and finding love and family instead. i had so much fun writing this and posted weekly without pre-writing which was a challenge but it all worked out

patchwork self (datv) - a story about finding pieces of your brother in yourself. i wrote a lot of structured fic this year and i think this one flowed the easiest and was the most precise in how it delivered the message i was trying to get across, also it’s gen which i never write

my most written pairing: thanzag with 11 stories! not surprising since ive spent most of the year humiliating myself over thanatos

my most used tags: romance, introspection, character study

what i learned: i learned above all to trust myself! this year i wrote and completed three multi chapter fics that i didn’t prewrite and posted week by week until it was done. i’ve never been able to do that before but this year i just did it and didn’t overthink it, and i trusted that i could finish the stories and i did lol i can do anything i think i just have to trust myself a little

what i want to write next year: i would like very much to write something original, i have a loose idea so i just need to sit down and write so my goal is really small and simple, hopefully i don’t let myself down

[bedlamsbard]

every day I am shocked the Midwest accent is real

[bigmack2go]

Idk why i notice these things but Ben Cook does always play the “gay guy who isn’t actually gay”??

Like paterno: everyone calls him the f slur for something that happened TO him. (I’m not gonna get into paterno because if i do, i’ll never be able to stop) they think he’s gay. He is not.

That one law and order episode: he gets called the f slur yet again (this time by his father) even tho he is actually straight

Original sin: everyone thinks he’s gay. He isnt.

The penguin to be fair i haven’t seen this yet so i can’t say 100% but he *is* killed by smn who usually kills women??? But that doesn’t really count tbh…

Anyway

Illinoise: definitely some sort of *something* between him and henry. Also henry thought he might have a chance with carl before shelby cane into the picture so I definitely think that counts

In happiness for beginners i’m also 70% sure that in the books, they think he’s gay, then turns out he isnt

And then theres newsies

He like,,, he’s gay…. But it’s not canon. Yes yes. So thT counts too. Absolutely. Totally. I absolutely make sense rn-

Tbh westside story is the only one that i can’t find a clue of him being gay.

Aanyway the point of this post is not what you think it is.

I will make it seem a lot worse than it actually is, simply because I don’t know how to express what i’m trynna express otherwise. But that doesn’t mean that this isnt an issue. (I just wanted to make it clear first)

It’s about the fact that he’s straight. And that straight men can still “look” or “behave” twink-y whatever that means in your association.

It’s also about the fact that he keeps getting casted as that: a heterosexual twink. Because apparently casters in this century still believe in those stereotypes that-obviously- arent true

[starry-teacup]

briefly considered introducing smitten to musicals but then had to close the mental tab because the idea was too dangerous

[mercerharlan]

Lower West Side neighborhood of Chicago

August 2024

Nikon D780

[cto10121]

Et tu, Folger’s Library?

"The love story is a subplot!!1!" I can’t

[artist-issues]

When you remake something and make changes, you’re basically saying that you either want to say something different than what the original said because what it had to say was stupid—

—or what the original said wasn’t already said perfectly, and you could say it better.

I’ll give you an example. Donald Glover, who voiced Simba in the remake of the Lion King, openly said that the message of the new Lion King was different than the old one. And that’s easy to see. The old message was something like “Remember who you are: Don’t run from your responsibility.” The new message is “Don’t be ashamed of who you are.” They communicated that change with subtle smaller changes, because although most of that movie was a less appealing shot-for-shot remake, Simba said little things like “I’m not like you,” instead of saying, “I’m not who I used to be,” to Mufasa’s ghost. Or he replied to Scar’s bullying, “I’m nothing,” rather than the emphasis being placed on him insisting that he’s “not a murderer.”

That’s saying, “yeah the old message was great but we’re going to take the award-winning songs and characters and story and make it say something else.”

Which is like trying to use a recipe for brownies to describe your chicken salad. You might as well just make an original movie, so the characters and pacing and music all fit that message more appealingly.

Here’s a different example.

The new Live Action Little Mermaid has lots of thematic references to understanding and finding one’s own voice, which, on the surface, sound like they’re exactly what the original animated classic was saying.

But they make little changes, like having Ariel make the decision to go to the surface for the first time just before she meets Eric, or big changes, like having her be the one to kill Ursula. The problem is, both of those story elements in the first film were used to drive the main message home: “True love is understanding and sacrifice.” So when you change those elements, but claim you’re still saying the same thing, all you mean is “What you said was good, but watch me say it better.”

That would be fine, if it actually worked. But it doesn’t. The Lion King (2019) is worse than the original because it’s characters are bland and lean more toward annoying or weak than they did in the original, thanks to small changes. Now Simba doesn’t look like the irresponsible runaway who needs to remember that he’s the son of a king and has responsibility. Now he just looks like a sad boi with trauma. Now Ariel doesn’t look like a real, relatable teenager who recklessly goes for the things she’s passionate about. Now she just looks like every other near-perfect heroine who’s circumstances determine her struggles instead of her own character flaws determining her struggles.

I’m tired, but I’m appreciating the originals.

[the-woild-is-y-erster]

BAD DAY OVER GUYS GUESS WHOSE NEW ELVIS VINYL CAME IN

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[olympain]

JEREMY JORDAN AS ALL THE ROLES (Ⅰ - my personal favourites)

'Bring Him Home' from Les Misérables 'Raise a Little Hell' from Bonnie & Clyde 'Feed Me (Git It)' from Little Shop of Horrors 'She Used to Be Mine' from Waitress 'From Now On' from The Greatest Showman 'Sh'ma' from Parade 'Maria' from West Side Story 'Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'' from Oklahoma! 'Into the Unknown' from Frozen 'When Your Feet Don't Touch the Ground' from Finding Neverland

[come-see-our-show]

idk if marissa bode is latina but if she is i think she’d be a really good maria in west side story

[froginthestars]

help! my obsession with west side story is back

[moonlightpirate]

Masterlist

This is getting long so time for the keep reading cut!!!!

Return to The Madding Crowd

Chapter 1: The Storm

Chapter 2: A Fall Day

Chapter 3: To Love or Not to Love

Chapter 4: Proper Lady

Chapter 5: The Letters

Chapter 6: The Wedding Ball

Law of Destiny

Chapter 1: Stuck in Cintra

Chapter 2: The Journey Home

Chapter 3: Wide Awake

Chapter 4: Love and Dreams

Chapter 5: Damsel in Distress

Joey Batey and Jaskier

Secret Worlds series

The necklace

Together again

Dancing Under The Stars

Inkpot Gods

Chapter one

Chapter two

Chapter three

Meeting the Lettenhoves

That Unwanted Animal

Part two Meeting the Lettenhoves

Adam Warlock

Goldilocks

Chapter 1: Thunderstruck

Valentines Day One Shots

Someone To Say

Madly

West Side Story

Somethings Coming

[zakizendetandi]

im figuratively crying on the floor atm because my comfort west side story fic got deleted from ao3 :'''''''( so this is a reach in the dark for the tiny possibility that someone was smart and downloaded it

description below the cut <3

so its relatively short, between like 4k and 15k most likely, and tony x riff (though theres a lot else going on too, personal emotional baggage themes). its set during the time of the film (im picturing the 2021 film), where tony has gone to prison (pre-narrative in the film). im not sure if that part is shown, but properly starts when tony is days away from coming home again. riff is lowkey freaking out and having a crisis, and so he leaves his home, missing tony's return.

the scene I remember quite vividly is when riff comes back. its raining, I think he bumps into bernardo who is more concerned than aggressive. then he runs into tony who has been out looking for him for days. tony is super mad and shoves riff into the wall of a side road, and he's acting furious, but the whole time riff just can't believe his eyes and is trying to get him to calm down so he can just see his face again </3

they go inside they are soft and theres a smut scene but its less smut and more feelings. during this, tony sees the scars on riffs torso and gets distracted, but riff just wants to brush it off lalalala probably the fluffiest scene of the fic, much comfort

hmmmm and then the rest of the fic I don't remember so well, theres just a lot of heavy emotional angst and im not sure it ends happy. it might actually continue with the film's plot and so end in that angsty way, but im not totally sure

<3

its definitely been deleted off ao3 since I saw my deleted bookmark, rip me, but if this rings a bell for anyone and they somehow have a copy of it pls!!! pls!!! pls!!!!!!!! ill give you the biggest virtual hug if you send it to me <33333333