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I was watching Lady and the Tramp last night and all I could think was “this is so Marbit-core”

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I just watched a production of Newsies where Specs is wearing sunglasses the entire show instead of glasses and I didn’t really how much I needed that image in my life until now.

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and now I’m stuck groveling for brief glances across the stage 😔

holding space for the cut marbit duet

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The entire greaser gang would stand outside during a hurricane to “watch what happens” and then laugh when a tree limb flies and smacks two-bit in the head

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Movies and TV have destroyed my sense of age. Because actors are NEVER their character’s ages, I look at an actor playing a 21 year old and I’m like, “yeah they can be anywhere from 17 to 35.” I have no clue.

Then I’m shocked when they’re actually the age of the character, I feel like I hit the jackpot for some reason.

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gang, i need you to know that during one of our rehearsals for Little Women, the boy playing Laurie was saying goodbye to Jo, and then promptly fell down a set of stairs, got up, cheekily waved again, and then walked off stage

like that’s so Laurie-coded of him.

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the first time i watched the Outsiders, i hadn’t read the book yet and i didn’t want to pay $4 to rent it so i got the DVD from my local library.

but the think is the DVD just like…skipped scenes??? like i didn’t see the whole first scene where Ponyboy gets jumped, so when the other greasers all show up at the house, i was like who the hell are these guys???? or the scene where Darry and Ponyboy are fighting again and Soda yells at them and then runs away and then they all comfort each other? skipped. like, CRUCIAL botherhood moments.

so when i’m seeing videos of the Outsiders with those scenes i was like, when did this happen???? hello??? i was so freaking confused. and then i made the connection that my DVD lied to me. fun times.

i still haven’t watched the completed movie yet, i should get on that.

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♠︎ sodapop curtis and the vietnam war? let’s talk about that ♠︎

♠︎ due to me being an actual gremlin and having far too much knowledge about the vietnam war draft process, i’ve decided to go on a rampage about the idea / fact of sodapop curtis being drafted and sent off to vietnam to die. has this been done before? possibly! but i’m bored and have done far too much research to not share my own opinions. so, here we go:  ♠︎

♠︎ i think there’s two things we have to talk about to start this off: sodapop’s age and the vietnam draft process.  

♠︎ let’s start with soda’s age: the book’s events take place in the year 1965, and i’m not entirely sure what time of the year this takes place in, but that doesn’t exactly matter. what does matter is that ponyboy describes sodapop as ‘16, going on 17′, which i can only assume means that sodapop curtis was turning 17 in october of 1965. why is that important? only for the sole reason that he would have been 21 years old by december 1, 1969 — the date of the first lottery drawing of the vietnam war. sodapop was draft age, baby!

♠︎ and we can easily get into that and how the draft worked. to make it simple because i’m a lazy bitch, the draft process was a ‘randomly selected’ system. they took each date of the year, janurary 1st to december 31st (including the date february 29) and put each one in a little capsule in a bowl and drew them out one by one, assigning them numbers 1-366. september 14 was the first date drawn out of the bowl and given the number ‘001′. easy to understand. during this first draft process, the selective service system (which will be referred to as the SSS) called for men born from 1944 to 1950. this six year field really called for men who were 18 to 25. so, why does this whole draft process matter?

♠︎ i will tell you.

♠︎ because sodapop was born in 1948 (roughly, i think), he was in the category of men to be eligible to join the ranks and be shipped off into a war! but, sodapop’s number was not called in the 1969 lottery drawing. sodapop’s birthday, october 8, was drawn with a number of 283, and only men with the numbers 001 to 195  were called to serve in the united states military starting in 1970 (though they would have actually gone to get their physical to see if the army wanted them in february of 1970). no man with the number above 195 was called into service.

♠︎ now, you may say: “but kenz, what about those three years of drafts after the first one? couldn’t he have gotten called in then?” and I have an answer!

♠︎ from my understanding of how the sss worked the draft system years prior to the 1969 process, men within certain birth years were considered for the drawing. so what does that mean? ♠︎ it means that during the 1970 draft process, only men born in 1951 were called for service depending on when their number was drawn. like this:                 ♠︎ lottery of ‘70 — men born in ‘51                 ♠︎ lottery of ‘71— men born in ‘52                  ♠︎ lottery of ‘72 — men born in ‘53 ♠︎ which put’s sodapop out of the running for having his number called in any of these years, because let’s be honest, the u.s. military was looking for young, fit guys at all times but who isn’t 

♠︎ as far as I know, men born prior to these years were not called. 

♠︎ now, because i’m a freak and did some stupid math, i came up with who would have gone to vietnam.  ♠︎  and oh boy did i have fun with this.

♠︎ we have six four other boys who were viable candidates for america’s lottery draft during 1969 — let’s see them and their ages (circa december 1, 1969) & birthdays;                ♠︎ ponyboy curtis — july 22; would have been 18                ♠︎ darry curtis — january 5; would have been 24/25                ♠︎ steve randle — april 15; would have been 21                ♠︎ two-bit mathews — june 5; would have been 21

♠︎ all of them were eligible for the draft, but let’s check out their draft numbers for 1969 (here’s the chart) ;               ♠︎ ponyboy curtis — #153               ♠︎ darry curtis — #101               ♠︎ steve randle — #273               ♠︎ two-bit mathews — #028

♠︎ so, according to these fine and dandy numbers, ponyboy, darry, and two-bit mathews would have been called for the draft. tbh darry would have gone bc he was already a hunk of muscle sorry

♠︎ so, in conclusion, steve randle and sodapop curtis would have been the only two of the gang to have not gone to vietnam but they would have had to watch their friends/brothers be shipped off. thank you for coming to my tedtalk :) s.e. hinton can suck my ass ♠︎

♠︎  also this was not meant to debunk anyone’s headcanons or fics i’m just a freak  ♠︎

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they’re my actual roman empire

THE SKITTERY AND TUMBLER BRAIN ROT GOES SO DAMN HARD AND IT SUCKS NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT

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I think the funniest part is the fact that it has higher reviews than the actual movie

my friend and i just watched ‘blood drips heavily on newsies square’ for the first time and i have only one question

what in the actual hell did i just watch

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I love that in 92‘sies the singing doesn’t always sound so perfect when the kids sing. Like i love that so much it makes it realistic. But we don’t talk enough about how much michael ATE that note as skittery when he sang „for a buck i might“

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“In three hundred years kids will be making fun of you too. You are not immune to fashion trends.”

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK 👏👏👏

We are so unnecessarily harsh to historical people and their trends. “ew why did people want their hair gray why would you put powder on your head” shut up YOU DO put powder on your head it’s called dry shampoo. It’s the exact same thing it just has a different name now. It also came in lots of different colors back besides white, sometimes you could even get it in pink but no one remembers that. And young people are still dyeing their hair gray for fashion. The only difference is we need less powder now because we wash our hair more so the trend is shiny hair and back then it was matte.

In three hundred years kids will be making fun of you too. You are not immune to fashion trends

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I don’t know if I can contain my “The Muppet Christmas Carol has better costume design than most Oscar-nominated period dramas” rant until after Thanksgiving you guys, I have…so many Thoughts

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I’ve recently had an epiphany that I love side character and the found family trope so much that it’s literally ingrained into like…EVERY piece of media I like. It’s actually surprising it’s taken me this long to realize it

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ngl, sometimes while rewatching Dead Poets Society I’ll stop watching right after the play and gaslight myself into believing that Neil’s father is so blown away by his performance that he makes a 180 and supports his son’s acting career, Neil and Todd confess their love for each other, and the Poets all live happily ever after and nothing bad ever happens again

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Newsies Marching/Concert/Jazz Band Au

This has been sitting in my notes app for ages and I had the brilliant idea to post it here. These are heavily based on my own experiences in band if you couldn’t tell by how wildly specific some of these headcanons are!

Jack: He. Is. A. Trumpet. Player. I don’t make the rules here. Definitely the type of kid to challenge others to “who can play louder” or “who can play higher” and proceeds to blow out everyone’s ears. He gets an earful from Davey, Katherine and the band director.

Davey: I was like “what the nerdiest instruments this loser can play” and was like CLARINET (and then remembered I play clarinet) This kid can play hard-ass riffs like there’s no tomorrow, it’s actually terrifying. He makes it look easy. The others make fun of him but all agree that without him the upper woodwinds would be a disaster.

Les: Davey’s little brother that is always at rehearsal for some reason. He’s around so much he’s basically their unofficial mascot. He carries the school banner haha get it? and water bottles during parades.

Katherine: Definitely the drum major during marching season. She’s really organized and the boys are all low-key scared of her too, so that’s a bonus. She plays the tenor and soprano sax in concert band.

Crutchie: Mallet percussion! He can’t March but man this kid can bang out rhythms on the xylophone and marimba! The others jeer at him and call him “SIDELINES” we do that to our mallet percussion but it’s all in good fun.

Race: ALTO SAX PLAYER. He does not stop playing Careless Whisper, he has no shame. They’ll be practicing drill and then *CARELESS WHISPER* “SHUT UP RACE, I SWEAR TO GOD”. He’s one of the alto section leaders with Finch, but no one knows how because this boy does nothing but goof off? He’s mainly the morale portion of the section while Finch does the actual house keeping stuff, but he’s not that good at it either. Needless to say, the alto section is hanging on by a thread.

Albert: Definitely a trombone player. Knows all the big memes and can play them on command. Despite all the joking around he does (with Race) he’s actually a fantastic player and does killer solos in jazz band. He can rip the paint off the walls with how loud he can play.

Finch: As I said above, an alto player and section leader. He’s low-key done with Race after spending years sitting next to him in band class and half the time you see him he’s on the collapse of a breakdown. But he loves his section as much as he jokes otherwise. He just wishes Race would stop playing Careless Whisper, but we can’t have everything, can we?

Elmer: Also a trombone player. He’s normally trombone two, but he’s totally chill with it, he likes the harmony parts. Also knows many memes he can play on command and he and Albert duet a lot of them from across the field. Like, they’re on separate ends and just BLASTING the Wii theme across the football field. Everyone hates it almost as much at they hate Race playing Careless Whisper.

Jojo: Alto player. No one knows why this kid isn’t the section leader because he’s so good with the section and already does a good portion of the responsibilities. Kids come into band being like “oh yeah, isn’t Jojo the alto section leader?” And are shocked to find out no it’s Race and Finch????? My boy doesn’t take any credit and says he’s just trying to be helpful, bless his heart.

Buttons: Flute player! Don’t have a lot of good parts in marching band but that doesn’t bother him because he gets a lot of the pretty melodies in concert band.

Specs: Plays flute for concert band but since he doesn’t get a lot of good parts, he plays trumpet for marching and jazz band. Section leader for both and is super good at keeping people on task. He’s like the tired parentTM with dealing with his sections (particular the trumpets *cough cough* Jack)

Romeo: Plays the flute. He’s the flute player that complains about how his arms hurt from holding his flute up for SooOoOoooOoOOoo long while the drum line is just deadpanning at him like “you’re kidding me, right?” Whines about the runs he needs to play but gets mad when people suggest he just changes instruments if he hates it so much.

Tommy Boy: DRUMMER TOMMY BOY DRUMMER TOMMY BOY DRUMMER TOMMY BOY!!!!! Plays the quints for marching. He plays a variety of instruments for concert band but he’s really good at the timpani. He 100% plays the drum kit for jazz band. He’s so good at keeping the band grounded, definitely lives up to the “heartbeat of the band”.

Mike & Ike: I hate putting them together because they are two different people, but they need to be together for this head canon. Both play tenor in marching, concert and jazz band. Both tenor one in marching and concert but weirdly enough, no one knows who’s tenor one in jazz band? They both know the tenor one and tenor two parts to all of their songs and just switch day to day, song to song and everyone’s like ???????? But they think it’s funny and they’re both good players so the band director doesn’t care.

Mush: Tenor sax! He plays it for both marching and concert band but plays the electric guitar for jazz band on account that the twins are already the two tenor players and he’s pretty good at it. Definitely a section leader, total sweetheart and gets along with mostly everyone, even the twins, though they do drive him up the wall at times.

Kid Blink: Bari sax player. Honks on those low notes and CARRIES Seven Nation Army. There are times where he alone can over power most of the band and is told to back off. Does amazing solos in jazz band as well.

Henry: Trombone player. Really done with Albert, Elmer and Sniper’s shenanigans. Probably the section leader even though he’s not the best player, just because the other would probably abuse their authority. Poor kid normally spends rehearsal thinking about food and wanting to leave because Albert has been play the Wii theme for fifteen minutes now. His instrument probably also has some nasty shit stuck in it because he eats before and during rehearsal. Gross.

Smalls: Piccolo player for marching band, flute/piccolo player for concert band and plays the electric/upright bass for jazz band (idk why, it just feels right) The upright bass is like twice the size of them but man can they pluck out those bass rhythms. Likes to play stupidly high with their piccolo and poor Romeo and Buttons who sit next to them are just wincing every rehearsal and come out of it deaf from the shrillness.

Sniper: Trombone player. Completes the unholy trio that is the chaotic trombones. Probably going to give Henry a migraine at some point, they are the type of trombone player to try to balance their instrument on their head (if you know what I’m talking about). Knows all the harmonies to the memes Albert and Elmer play just to piss everyone off a little more.

Spot: Drum major for Brooklyn, no questions asked. Do you see the way he cuts off the Newsies at the rally drum major style???