Random stuff I guess

[keepitmovinshawty]

Not gon hold y’all but I’m highkey glad Rhaenyra fucked up that first swing. That means Otto felt it 😈😈😈

[eloiscbridgerton]

RHAENYRA TARGARYEN HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 3.02 – Queen's Landing

[gavincreel]

tony-nominated, mind you.

[sailforalittle]

[talesfromthecrypts]

In the dead of the night I have to have you

[outsiders-musical-sideblog]

Look at all we’ve done Wouldn’t trade it for the world Can’t you see that we’re the lucky ones

[stewdoesthings]

The only two greasers with patterns in their costumes are Johnny and Darry. Darry's shirt makes a lot of sense, he wears tan carhartt pants because he works in trades and he has a white t-shirt, but his t-shirt is dirty and grey, while socs have perfectly white shirts. His over shirt, a plaid green/gray shirt reminisces the socs' madras shirt, and how Darry "almost went soc". In the beginning of the musical, he's distanced from the greasers and he doesn't understand Pony or Dally, but towards the end, he takes off plaid shirt. He wants to be closer to his brothers and closer with his friends and rejects anything similar to what the soc wear.

Johnny's shirt is striped with multiple colours. Depending on the costume, his shirt can be rainbow. I mentioned in another post how each character is tied to a specific colour and I think Johnny ties them all together by wearing each of their colour.

The costumes are so, so important in the story telling and there's even like a uniform of some sort between the greasers and socs. The socs' uniform is clearer, the boys wear white sneakers, white/gray/tan pants and a madras shirt, although Paul wears a yellow sweater over a white turtleneck (shirt over another shirt? reminds you of anyone?) and Bob wears a lilac button shirt with intricate details, with their lettermans, with their class rings.

The greaser's uniform isn't as straightforward, but still there's a pattern. Long, navy jeans, a dirty white shirt or white tank and boots or converses. Most of them have a jacket: Johnny's jean jacket, Darry's shirt, Soda's work uniform, Steve's leather jacket and Dally's black letter jacket. Pony even wears a jean jacket at some point to.

[mttztrading]

I'm trying to keep things moving but there's nowhere else to go.

Brent Comer as Darrel Curtis - The Outsiders

[sxdapopcurtis]

thinking SO heavily about the fact that today on his live, daryl said he believes in the greaser brothers where dallas, two-bit, and johnny are the respective equivalents to darry, soda, and pony.

thinking SO heavily about how this changes his performance as ANY of his roles. especially thinking about how his two-bit rushes to kiss johnny’s head after he dies. how he’s the one who lingers watching dally in little brother. how he sits down and cries just like pony is, but he doesn’t have a brother to console him the way the curtises have.

how in the end, two-bit loses both of his brothers

[aroaceoutsiders]

i know the clip of the previews curtis brothers hug has been posted and dissected and gifed like a billion times but i could talk about this cut scene as a whole for HOURS. like darry's face - the way his expression changes the MOMENT he sees ponyboy. when soda runs to hug him he starts folding the newspaper in his hands - the one action he defaults to doing. the tentative look on his face when the rest of the gang runs to hug him. the way pony dives into his arms and he immediately starts tearing up. and then how he smiles - the FIRST time he smiles at pony basically throughout the entire show - and cradles his head. and then even at the end how he looks so terrified and doesn't take his eyes off of ponyboy for a SECOND.

[made-my-peace-with-all-the-bad]

Ponyboy who promises to not forget Johnny after he dies. Ponyboy who can’t entirely keep that promise. He’ll always remember the person that Johnny was, the impact he had on Ponyboy. He’ll remember their connection and being understood so well. He’ll never truly forget the truest connection he’d ever felt.

But the little things will slip away. The exact way Johnny’s curls fell over his forehead, the glimmer in his eyes when he would get excited, the gentle smile he let slip onto his face with the gang, the way his hands felt.

Then the bigger things will fade. The way Johnny laughed, the exact shape of his nose, the small gap between his teeth, the way his jacket fell over his body.

And eventually, the sound of his voice will become too distant to recall, and the shape of his face and body will become too blurred.

And that will set Pony’s progress back months each time. The pain of accepting that Johnny is gone and his memories will fade. The awful realization that Pony will spend more of his time remembering and grieving Johnny than he spent knowing him.

But when Ponyboy picks up gone with the wind, or when he looks at a switchblade, when the sun is setting, when he picks up his pencils and opens his notebook, he remembers how Johnny made him feel. The warmth that flooded him when Johnny sat next to him and listened and actually cared. The silent understanding and knowing nature that Johnny had. The way he could make him feel better with just a shoulder nudge or a knee bump. The lessons Ponyboy learned from his first and truest friend.

Those will remain, even when the specific memories fade.

[made-my-peace-with-all-the-bad]

Legacy fulfilled

[made-my-peace-with-all-the-bad]

Orpheus, Eurydice, Ponyboy, Johnny Parallels

[noeone-sees-me]

Been thinking maybe Johnny's promise of "I'll never leave you alone" in DAMD wasn't broken by his death. 'Cause there's another sentence in the same song said "Even if death tags along, I don't mind. It's still you and me."

Death was never the end of them. Death wouldn't separate them from each other. Nothing could, as long as their love for each other still exists.

And that's why they sang "that love lives on no matter where I go" in Stay Gold.

[canitrythegreenbeans]

he really just puppy-eyed Darry into letting him go to the Drive-In

[curtis-brothers-hug]

Things in the musical that I love. I’m sure everyone already pointed all of these out like a year ago, but whatever.

1) GGAH ends on a gospel sound, because its philosophy is literally their gospel

2) “great expectations” is in a major key, and “grave revelations” is in a minor key

3) ICTTYAL, “suddenly it seems…” it sounds like the next line will be the final line. Like the verse should end, “suddenly it seems, I could talk to you all night.” But then Cherry adds one more line. Then another. “I could talk to you for hours. But these hours go like minutes.” It mimics a conversation where you keep thinking of little things to add on just because you don’t want it to end. The song is drawn out like their conversation. Like their conversation, the verse should end but it doesn’t.

4) RRB sounds like one of those “legend of an outlaw” folk ballads

5) RRB does that thing I love when musical act one finales do, and when they do it well: it brings back multiple musical and lyrical motifs/leitmotifs from throughout act one and re-contextualizes them in the current circumstances. “You’re a greaser now and you ain’t goin’ back,” playful and prideful and celebratory in GGAH, now an ominous verdict. It seemed like a game before, but now shit just got real. (Of course it was never a game, that’s the point). There’s no coming back from this. “This town is a dead end road, let’s leave it behind let’s just get up a go,” is twisted from a fantasy into something they’re forced to do.

6) “little brother” and “stay gold” both end on unresolved notes. Two unresolved, unfinished lives. For Dallas it’s chaotic, a high note because he dies screaming. For Johnny it’s a more peaceful, premeditated choice to pass his final message onto Ponyboy, for Ponyboy to carry it forward in a way Johnny can’t. Both lives are cut short, but both live on through Ponyboy. Ponyboy picks up where their melodies left off, and finishes their stories.

[justcatposts]

What is dat *aggressively scuttles* 

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[thehappymediumsteapot]

I still contend that this is, in fact, the best video on the internet, period. The sheer comedic timing. The knowledge that it cannot possibly have been constructed. The very human expression Pallas cats’ round pupils give them. And the backstory that this was literally the first footage captured by this camera in this placement, that this is the cat immediately noticing his environment has been changed and investigating with all the suspicion of a grumpy old gardener whose gnomes have been moved again…. *chef’s kiss*