sometimes i try

sad mess

[trashpassingbi]

I just made myself crying at 1 am thinking how the warriors didn't see Fox being pushed to the rails, they just know the cops got her and think they arrested her, like Ajax, that is why they give Cleon the same answer, even tho we know one end was worst than the other, but they don't and maybe will never know

[desmon1995]

Yoooo, Boppers it looks like the day has finally happened, and Warriors has officially been announced for a March 2027 release date!

I waited because I knew there was going to be a slow press roll out, and I'm glad I did because we learned some additional information.

The musical is going to be directed by Jenny Koons which is the first time and she's going to be using the book by Miranda and Davis as a springboard, but under their guidance she has flushed out the story a lot more.

The costume designs are going to be handled by Dede Ayite, who is a renowned African costume designer who's work includes Buena Vista social club, a primary designer for FIFA celebrations, and many other Afro Latino productions.

Based off of what we know all of the original Warriors from the concept album are going to be back since they all reposted on Instagram or hinted at it through the comments

In a big departure from something like hamilton, this is going to be a one-act musical, which I think is a good idea because it doesn't break the tension.

It's going to have a core cast of around 20 as well, so I can't wait to see you what the girls behind the production have cooking up.

As many long time boppers know, I've always maintained that the Warriors is definitely the musical of the 2020s we've been waiting for.

It's a very angry, radical, yet does not allow itself to sink into doomerism and I feel like what's going on in New York City is incredibly reflective of that with the recent DSA victories.

I think we saw the Knicks sweep and we're going to see The Warriors sweep!

[thewhizzyhead]

also side ramble time, it has already been established that misogyny has seeped through the other gangs' treatment of the warriors (I.e. "late night cosmetology class", repeated use of "girls" rather than calling them women, etc.). with that in mind, I find it very interesting and rather culturally relevant of the writers to have the hurricanes, the one and only gang that lets the warriors off the hook, to be a VOGUE-themed gang that explicitly features black queer individuals! It speaks volumes that amidst the animosity of most of the new york gangs, it was a gang with explicit african-american and latino queer culture through the ballroom scene-themes at the forefront that encourages the main diversion of the warriors (2024) from its predecessors: the recontextualization of the warriors fighting back ESPECIALLY NOW THAT THEY ARE WOMEN and that same changed thread leading to changed motivations and actions from ajax, fox, and hell even mercy as they go through the show.

like, it's a very very fucking nice thing to have the cultures and histories of resistance from the POC queer communities of NYC become the fuel for immense character (and thematic) growth in our version of warriors. Truly a song of resilience and solidarity amongst marginalized sectors

[whatcannotbesaid-shallbewept]

Crazy that in a story about copious amounts of gang violence, the musical still ends up saying the Cops are more dangerous.

The two casualties of the trip are Ajax and Fox - both taken out by the Cops.

None of the gangs end up hurting the Warriors as much as the police.

The final thesis from Fox is that they're "The baddest gang in town". Indeed.

[desmon1995]

It’s honestly eerie how The Warriors concept album by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, rooted in a 1970s film, feels so culturally immediate right now. By the time it actually reaches Broadway, it’s going to read like a direct response to the moment we’re living in, even though it was being shaped nearly three years ago.

I keep thinking about a debate I once had, credit to Carl Wilson for Slate, where he argued that the album felt too reactive to contemporary issues and that this would make it feel dated when it finally arrived. History has a funny way of exposing how misguided that fear is. What sounds “of the moment” is often just the sound of unresolved structures repeating themselves.

Weaponized police terrorizing marginalized communities in the name of order and power. Luther and the Rogues as cultural grifters, spinning entire realities out of rumor and misinformation. Narratives with no substance becoming the glue that holds white supremacy together. Captain Victor’s brutal killing of Fox as an assertion of authority that doesn’t need justification, only force. None of this feels trapped in a news cycle. It feels structural. It feels eternal in the worst way.

It’s genuinely hard to listen to Derailed or The Park at Night now without mentally overlaying recent events onto the music. The songs haven’t changed, but the world keeps proving them right.

That’s the scary part. And it’s also why The Warriors is going to pop off. Not because it’s chasing relevance, but because it’s tapping into something that keeps resurfacing no matter how badly people want to pretend it’s behind us.

[thewhizzyhead]

how genderbending the warriors (2024) is done not for the sole sake of "bad-assery"

okay here we go feminist ramble time for our newest chick on the block: warriors. now i'll be honest, prior to listening to the album, when i first heard that the warriors main girls were originally dudes in the movie and the novel, i thought that the decision for the genderbending, in lmm's perspective, were from the following: 1.) girl power move in like a very basic meaning of the word "bad-ass" 2.) simply a twist on a cult movie about big gang bros loved by the film bros, and 3.) a way to have the schuyler sisters back together gjfkdfldf

but when i read more about warriors and its development and how lmm took inspiration from the gamergate controversies of 2014-2015 aka among the peak of gamerbro misogyny campaigns, that's when i realized that Oh Shit Is Serious - because adapting a story about a group being framed and targeted and harassed for something they are accused of doing without any substantial proof other than a man screaming "THE WARRIORS SHOT CYYYYRUUS" with 21st century misogyny campaigns in mind makes the theme of fighting back a lot more complicated and a lot more resonant, going beyond just marketing a cast you can call "badass"

take the hurricanes' quiet girls, for example. the hurricanes (concept album version) is the only gang that lets the warriors off the hook and with a stern warning: quiet girls don't make it home. here, the hurricanes berate the warriors for not saying shit or attempting to defend themselves from accusations they know well aren't true. THIS MESSAGE IN PARTICULAR is what stays and influences ajax, fox, and swan til the very end of their stories.

literally one song after this does ajax show how easily she resonated with the hurricanes' lesson by finally sticking with her gut and actually choosing to fight back against both the baseball furies AND against the sleazy undercover cop. the latter encounter is one of the instances that really solidifies the recontextualization of the story because in the OG movie, ajax (a dude) WAS the sleazy fuck up harassing a woman in a park - and now with the literal character switch, ajax goes from being just a rebellious gangbro dude bro into someone whose want to fight is warranted. such a want to fight is seen in fox seeing as fox is the first to comment on the quiet girls scene and that, in the concept album, she is the one that instigates the rumble against the police in union square - saying that she is sick of being afraid of them and their 'fuckin powder blue' colors (also notice how she is the only warrior that really does say fuck the cops i think that's cool BUT I'LL TALK ABOUT FOX MORE NEXT TIME)

to a less obvious extent, swan also gets the receiving end of this recurring theme - by the album's finale, the usually violence-averse caution-first interim leader becomes a lot fiercer in protecting her crew. but perhaps among what i consider to be the biggest recontextualized change in the feminist sense is MERCY and her motivations to join the warriors in the first place. according to the wiki, her attraction to swan and the warriors and um seeing the orphans as wimps is what led her to switch sides BUT IN THE CONCEPT ALBUM, mercy's motivation to become a warrior is deepened, rooted in admiration rather than attraction - wanting to be like those women who hold their head up high. and again, we see this in Sick of Runnin' when she takes part in the rumble, finding her bravery within their ranks as they fight back. here, mercy becomes less of a swan tagalong and more of someone that wants what the warriors have: pride.

of course now that i type this out i realize that warriors is not based solely on the feminist rhetoric as with their theme of hope amidst adversity, the story is more intersectional and rooted in community struggle and wanting for more than that. but nonetheless, i genuinely believe that the twt filmbros arguments on why the genders should not have been changed in the first place just for "woke" points is kinda like,,,very shortsighted because not only does the narrative of women narrowly escaping unwarranted accusations actually fucking fit, but the act of learning to fight back amidst all odds - be it that of disbelieving, predatory men or the power of oppressive pigs - stays resonant for women yesterday, today, and the days to come.

ultimately, warriors (2024) is not solely a tale of female badassery - rather, it is a tale of the need for such "female badassery" in the face of past and present realities, which is why it somehow fucking worked.

[antiheronore-deactivated2024070]

That part in mockingjay part 1 where they're playing Katniss singing the hanging tree and Peeta speaking from the Capitol at the same time and once Katniss sings the lyrics "the dead man called out for his love to flee" Peeta warns her about the Capitol coming to bomb district 13-

[amaguri3104]

To Jungkook, Jimin is his precious person.

[rylandsgrace]

Barbie (2023) + tumblr/reddit comments (insp)

[like-nirvana]

Fuck Call Me By You’re Name, Luca is the only gay Italian love story for me and could beat it’s ass any day

[relaxxattack]

btw if disney released their most obviously queer coded movie ever in the middle of pride month and expect me to not read it as gay they are sorely mistaken lmao

[tvv1ce]

Momo ♡ W Korea Photoshoot

[poshtae]

Someone said you can see which hyung influenced which maknae the most just from way they are sitting and I've never been the same ever since

[keisluvr-deactivated20210327]

STOP ASIAN HATE

Like and reblog

[lucayia]

gmw can be over for 76 years and you still won’t convince me lucaya wasn’t supposed to be endgame

[blond-shell]

folklore, taylor swift // melodrama, lorde

[luci-hemwin-evanson]

Umm since Disney is resurrecting shows for Disney + what about.. I don’t know...

GIRL MEETS WORLD

Gives us what you took from us Disney