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[ameliajessicapond]

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it’s a one direction song and idk what song it is and it’s bothering me

REGINA WIE KANNST DU NUR SO WAS ZU MIR SAGEN

[ameliajessicapond]

iddo goldberg, arthur darvill

oh my god TWINS SEPARATED AT BIRTH 

okay so they’re given up for adoption and iddo grows up the son of two german expats who move back to berlin when he’s three, arthur grows up in london and becomes a FAMOUS ACTOR

and iddo starts getting MISTAKEN FOR HIM BY PAPARAZZI

and this leads to the two of them finding each other and then the rest of the movie is ridiculous parent trap-esque swtiching roles shenanigans, because arthur hates the pressure of being famous and a celebrity all the time, and because iddo wants to experience the rich socialite scene for once (probably some jealousy over how it could have been him, etc)

[ameliajessicapond]

gillian anderson, karen gillan, holland roden

high-powered business woman and single mother gillian anderson bringing up her two daughters (holland and karen) in the upper east side. their life is very polished and very classy and very capital-P-Perfect and then one day holland gets suspended for torching the gym and karen breaks down crying during an SAT exam. gillian has a crisis and decides they’re going to her parents’ home in portland where she’s checking holland into a clinic that deals with Problematic Rich Teens and karen can study in peace.

so they take a road trip and holland is a brat and karen is a ball of stress and gillian is failing completely to connect with either of them until the car breaks down somewhere in the middle of nowhere and they have to hike for two hours in the motel, by the end of which a little of the tension has gone. and then they’re stuck in the motel for like a week waiting for the right spare part to arrive to fix gillian’s car, and everyone gets on each others’ nerves a lot and then actually starts communicating

by the time they get to portland gillian understands that her daughters don’t need more structured disciipline, they need their mom, and the three of them have a fabulous summer hiking and swimming and idk fishing and holland loses some of that tough veneer and karen relaxes a little and gillian starts to pay mre attention to her family than her conference calls.

and it’s very cheesy and a little preachy but i don’t CARE it’s cute and by the end of the movie karen’s a senior in high school and she takes the SAT again and gets a perfect score and all her college admission letters, and holland is working hard and gets an internship with a fashion magazine, and gillian is still a high-powered business woman but she also makes time for friday night dinners and twice-monthly days out and girly sleepovers with popcorn and terrible 80s movies THE END

[ameliajessicapond]

a really sad hatefuck to awkwardness and just sad things

this is so vague regina omfg

okay.

 the untitled “really sad hatefuck to awkwardness and just sad things” movie

stars billie piper and jordan gavaris

they’re rivals for their boss’s attention in a high-powered law firm and they HATE EACH OTHER VERY MUCH except they keep sleeping together, which is fine, it’s cool, neither of them are particularly invested in it until 

until they get assigned a case together and actually have to start working together and cooperating and getting to know each other outside of sex

jordan falls for billie, billie insists that she is not interested

awkwardness and sadness ensues

[ameliajessicapond]

the picture under your blog title

oh god i would just like look at my arm and start crying

[clairekincaid]

get one of anne

oh my god regina

[ameliajessicapond]

EIGHT NINE SEVENTEEN

8:Talk about the thing you are most proud of.

i'm really proud of the work i've been doing this semester actually, both academically and in like the plays i've been producing and then in hanging out with friends and actively doing things that make me feel good. it's an on-going process but i'm definitely loads better off than i was this time last year.

9 - done!

17:Talk about someone you want to be friends with.

fuck there's like a whole crowd of youtube people that i've watched like religiously for the last four+ years and i just WANT TO BE THEIR FRIEND

(in light of recently-emerged awfulness RE: youtubers, i should reassure you that these are none of those assholes. like 99% of them are women, and actually some of them have been really vocal about the whole thing and just acted really AMAZINGLY in the face of all the shittiness and yeah they seem like amazing human beings i just want to get to know them bye)

[ameliajessicapond]

As a student studying theatre, what is your standpoint on the subject of Romeo and Juliet? Do you think they truly loved one another or was it just mindless teenagers believing they were in love and Shakespeare writing a tongue-in-cheek analysis of teenagers? Thoughts?

OH BOY MY FAVOURITE QUESTION IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD (do you follow me on twitter by any chance)

I think....yes to both sides of that, to an extent. I don't buy into the "they knew each other for 3 days and 6 people died Shakespeare was writing about the stupid things teenagers do" reading, I think his writing for them is a lot more genuine than that would imply.

(I definitely also don't buy into (as my housemate so choicely put it) "Romeo just wanted to get his dick wet" because NO. Romeo's one of the sappiest saps ever written. Yes he's obsessed with sex, but he's also very very much obsessed with captial-R Romantic Love.)

I mean...yes, Rosalind. We see Romeo going from being apparently heartbroken to apparently in love within like three scenes. He's young and impulsive. Both of them are. They rush into things. They define "not thinking things through properly". Could they have handled things better? Yes. Yes they could have.

BUT ALSO THEY WERE IN LOVE. Their first meeting? Their lines form a sonnet THEY COMPLETE EACH OTHERS' METER THEY ARE SPEAKING IN PERFECT METER WITH EACH OTHER. Iambic pentameter mirrors heartbeats, and Shakespeare was so thorough with how he used it -- when characters interrupt each other, cutting off the end of an iambic line, that's always a bad sign, or when a character (Edgar in Lear is all about this) speaks in a somehow 'flawed' meter, when the stress of a line falls in the wrong place, that's usually a sign of some inner turmoil. 

So like...you will never convince me that Shakespeare wanted us to think of R+J as anything other than IN LOVE.

It's not like the play is a romance, though -- it's very much a tragedy. But I don't think it's (entirely) a tragedy about what stupid things teenagers do when they fall in love. I think it's much more a tragedy about what awful things happen to the younger generation when an older generation's family feud gets out of hand. Like, it's not just Romeo and Juliet who suffer -- Mercutio, Tybalt, even Paris, they ALL DIE TOO. It's the feud that makes this all happen -- Romeo and Juliet falling in love and marrying is maybe the direct trigger for the deaths, but it's not the cause.  THE CAUSE IS THE FEUD.

Shakespeare has this thing of sign-posting what's going to happen in the prologues of his plays -- and in R+J, the chorus tells us AT THE START that civil blood makes civil hands unclean. The play is about the feud, It's about the enormous pressure that's placed on all the young Montagues and Capulets. It's about blod lust and revenge and the horrifying domino effects one action can have in such a high-pressure world. 

Shakespeare also has this thing where the ending of the play neatly refers back to the beginning -- in R+J's case, the actual ending isn't the double suicide, it's Lord Capulet and Lord Montague shaking hands, and the Prince turning up to basically say "look at this look at how badly you fucked up your children, your children are DEAD because of you. now shake hands and make peace and please for the love of god don't let it go this far ever again"

SO TO SUM UP (wow this is long and it turned into a bit of an essay) yes, I think romeo and juliet were in love. but i don't think that's quite the point. i think the play as a whole is about the feud, and the futility of love against such a hugely powerful family obligation, and the awful damaging effect parents' values can have on the young peoples' lives.

but at the end of the day if you take anything away from this post i want you to know that THEY SPEAK IN PERFECT METER THEY COMPLETE EACH OTHERS' SONNET THEIR HEARTS BEAT AS ONE THEY ARE THE DEFINITION OF LITERARY SOULMATES god i'm emotional