I'm Savannah and I love Frankie and Ariana Grande. Steve/Vanessa. I blog a lot about Big Brother. Author of the "Strong at the Broken Places." You will be missed, but you will never be forgotten. 7/13/13 I'm just a girl who doesn't really know what the fuck she's doing with her life.❒ TAKEN ❒ SINGLE ✔ CRYING OVER FRANKIE GRANDE"I mean, to put a smile on somebody’s face that’s in a bad situation like that—is there anything more important than that? The ability to be able to do that is mind blowing. I’m blessed.” - Cory Monteith“Just be yourself. It doesn’t matter if it’s good enough for someone else.” – Frankie Grande"I know how hard you love and how deeply you feel. I love you back. Keep shining." - Frankie Grande"No one's hatred of you can change your ability to love." - Frankie Grande"Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice." - Frankie Grande"Without you there is no me." - Frankie Grande"We're so much bigger than our circumstances." - Frankie Grande"Just be you. No explanation necessary," - Frankie Grande“All we’re looking for is love and a little light.” – Frankie Grande“We all have sparks of light that are intended to shine bright for all to see.” – Frankie Grande“And in the end, we were all just humans drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness." - F. Scott Fitzgerald"In the absence of human relationships, I formed bonds with paper characters." Tahereh Mafi, "The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get." - Joanna Hoffman"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." - My Sister’s Keeper “It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.” - David Levithan"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes to everyone else’s highlight reel." - Steve Furtick"So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be." - Charlie, The Perks Of Being a Wallflower"Why do some of us have to work so hard for things we believe in and others don't? Why do some of us care so much? Why are some of us selfish by nature and some of us are selfish to survive?" - Carson Phillips"That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt." - Augustus, The Fault In Our Stars"Don't you want to leave this place having made a difference?" - Quinn Fabray“When you’re sad, you’re not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it." - Dianna Agron"Without love we are not truly living." - Dianna Agron“There’s nothing wrong with you, there’s a lot wrong with the world you live in." - Chris Colfer"I think I just want to leave my mark in some way. I hope I leave the world a better place than it was when I came, and I think the best way I can do that is through acting and writing, and hopefully it will make a difference someday." - Chris Colfer"'Happily ever after’ is something that you make. It's not given to you." - Chris Colfer"Be you. Just be you and hold onto it." - Chris Colfer"When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless." - Chris Colfer"You're not weak. Your life is not defined by a letter grade, a dress size, your sexuality or anything else. You have every chance at happiness. You were not meant to suffer. You are loved. Never, ever give up." - Chris Colfer"A hero is someone that thinks for others before themselves." - Chris Colfer“Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.” - The Land of Stories, Chris Colfer"Courage is the one thing that no one can ever take away from you." - The Land Of Stories, Chris Colfer"Every driven person comes from a mountain of pain they wish to keep hidden." - The Land Of Stories, Chris Colfer"If you believe in yourself, you can make yourself whatever you want to be." - Lea Michele"Nothing can stop anybody from loving anybody else." - Darren Criss"There's nothing more badass than being yourself." - Darren Criss"Life is only as good as those you get to share it with. If I wasn't doing his with all the other people on the show, it would be nothing." - Darren Criss"You don't need to look like everybody else. Love who you are." - Lea Michele"If we cease to believe in love why would we want to live?" - Katherine Pierce"What grade do we stop believing in ourselves? What grade do we just stop believing period? Someone has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner, someone has to be a ballerina. Why not us?" - Carson Phillips"Never give up if someone tells you that you aren't good enough." - Cameron Mitchell
Casey wrote a queer political romance novel, Matthew made a queer rom com with some politics sprinkled in.
Those are different things.
I wish they could have kept Rafael Luna and made Richards the villain he is in the book... But this is amazon. They invested in this film and they want their money's worth. They want this film to appeal to as many people as possible.
Making the republican candidate a sexual predator who goes around hacking private email servers to out queer kids to win an election isn't going to fly with the conservative/republican audience (though I don't know if they'd watch a queer rom com in the first place but I digress).
They changed the queen to a king and changed the family name as to not piss off the real British royal family. They didn't make the king as blatantly homophobic and racist as the queen is in the book so it wouldn't piss off the royalists.
And I remember seeing a post with tweets from the creator of... I don't remember what show - some cartoon that aired on Disney I think - where they explained all the things Disney wanted them to change in the show and the things they had to fight to keep.
We know the MAAP told Matthew to take out the Paris love scene or they'd give it an R rating. We know he said fuck you to that and kept it in. We don't know how much amazon's execs gave him shit for before officially signing off on the version we can watch now.
They cut an hours worth of stuff, and it probably wasn't all *just* for time.
We got the most sensual and intimate sex scene I have ever seen in any piece of media, we had a conversation between a mother and son where she basically named the entire acronym before Alex told her he's bi. And then she just accepts it and reminds him about safe *anal* sex.
They had Uma Thurman say bottoming!
We don't know how much Matthew López has had to fight amazon for any of those things. And how much he's had to compromise.
Just something to keep in mind.
Having said that - release the deleted scenes amazon!!
Ok so apparently the RWRB movie was 3 hours long before the cuts and if we memed and shitposted and fandomed our way into a second season of Good Omens, I ABSOLUTELY BELIEVE we can do the same for that extra hour of content. No need for narrative consistency. Release that hour of deleted scenes, you cowards. Pretty please?
happy rwrb movie eve to those who celebrate!enjoy this hastily done video compiling all the footage released from the film so far – all 7:37 (give or take) of it.
clips aren't all in chronological order and audio is choppily edited. anyways, enjoy this little recap of the clips + teasers before we get to see the whole thing (so soon!) ❤️🤍💙
ps. watched it again, and it is very sloppily edited 😅
Continuing my technically untitled series of learning about things referenced in the book, I'm looking at things referenced in Alex & Henry's visit to the V&A Museum.
This whole scene, near the end of chapter ten, has so many wonderful references in it. It is too long to condense into one post - even the quote alone is too long! - so i've broken it up in a similar way to how I broke up Alex's queer history posts. The first post will be up in about an hour.
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In the half light, the room is alive. The vaulted roof seems to stretch up forever into the inky London sky, and beneath it the room is arranged like a city square somewhere in Florence, climbing columns and towering altars and archways. Deep basins of fountains are planted in the floor between statues on heavy pedestals, and effigies lie behind black doorways with the Resurrection carved into their slate. Dominating the entire back wall is a colossal, Gothic choir screen carved from marble and adorned with ornate statues of saints, black and gold and imposing, holy.
-Chapter 10, Red White & Royal Blue
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Statues - Zephyr, Narcissus, Pluto and Proserpine, Jason (Argonauts), Samson Slaying a Philistine
James I & George Villers
Chancel chapel from Church of Santa Chiara, Florence; Proverb; David & Jonathan
Am I reading every interview with Matthew López that drops? YES.
This one? With Observer? It may be my favorite yet.
López dives into his connection to the book, the story, and Alex Claremont Diaz.
He talks about the merit of romantic comedies and how the staples in the genre are built to last. He discusses how he made Red, White & Royal Blue with the intent of it standing the test of time with the rom-com greats.
He brings up how important it was to him to have this film represent gay sex — it was in his OG pitch! Like:
"It was really important to me as well in a mainstream love story. We talked about this as a rom-com and there other times we talked about it as a love story. As a love story, it was really important to me that the audience understand that these two young men are deeply connected—emotionally, intellectually and physically. Their physical connection is a huge part of what binds them. It would have been absolutely the decision I would make if it was a man and a woman. So I was going apply the same storytelling and requirements on my queer film that I think anybody would on a on a heterosexual film."
I seriously want to copy and paste every single quote and write about how much I love them, but I'd much rather you click the link and give it a read yourself. We can always chat here!
“There’s something really nourishing about seeing queer love applied to something that is light-hearted,” says Matthew Lopez of his director
'Red, White & Royal Blue' featured in Tatler UK September 2023
Taylor & Nick's GQ feature + a new interview with director Matthew López, Regal reality or realm of fiction?
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