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WHEN HARRY MET SALLY… (1989)

apparently i’m a millennial woman

I mean, yeah, valid! but but but I also want to add on the fact that lotr AGGRESSIVELY rejects the “grimdark” and “gritty” settings that is so prevalent in fantasy (and also in general) right now, because I physically can not shut up about it

It is hope and love and compassion that saves each character individually, and because of that, the world. Frodo fails in the end, but his acts of compassion from earlier in the story save the day. And even as the world is saved, it is acknowledged that Frodo failed—without judgement, without blame. He fails, and he is still loved.

And like what can happen in the real world, he is still irrevocably changed by his trauma. But there is still hope—he has to leave, but he leaves with the promise of healing, and the promise that his ever-faithful Sam will follow.

Aragorn, Boromir, Frodo, Sam; each and every one of the characters are driven by their love of the people around them and their hope for the future. They cling to that love and hope throughout their trials, and that bears them through.

Of course people are watching it for comfort!!!! Lotr is eternally consistent in its promise, which Sam articulates so clearly in The Two Towers: “Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it’ll shine out the clearer.”

Things are dark and awful and terrible, but it will not be that way forever. That is the promise of LOTR. A promise of hope, and the reminder that it is love and compassion—for our friends, for our families, for the strangers we’ve never even met—that will save us in the end.

stele3

LOTR was the last time anyone in Hollywood was blisteringly, truly genuine. The good guys were good and kind and noble and the movie creators understood that this didn’t make them boring, it made them bonkers-ass compelling and wonderful. No one winked at the camera at any point.

usersitcom

ABBOTT ELEMENTARY S02E16 | Teacher Conference

captainheroism

You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake, well, this could be it, sweetheart.

coolpeaches

Aftersun (2022) dir. Charlotte Wells

nikolaj-costerwaldau

You can live wherever you want to live, be whoever you want to be. You have time.

Aftersun (2022) dir. Charlotte Wells

#this movie broke me #i still think about it #and it made me afraid for some people #aftersun

trent-crimm

“Trent Crimm, The Independent.”

#i love trent crimm #ted lasso #trent crimm

arianagrandre

Mean Girls (2004) dir. Mark Waters

aubrey-plaza

“I believe in communism… Rom-communism.”

YOU’VE GOT MAIL (1998) WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989) PRETTY WOMAN (1990) JERRY MAGUIRE (1996) NOTTING HILL (1999) THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) THE PARENT TRAP (1998) LOVE, ACTUALLY (2003) SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE (1993)

Ted Lasso | 2x05 + every romcom reference

#i believe in rom-communism #ted lasso

jasonmantzoukas

Favorite place? Upstairs, there’s this mural of wildflowers and I like to sit on a bench in front of it.

PARKS AND RECREATION Season 3 Episode 10 “Soulmates” premiered April 21, 2011

#10 years ago?!#parks and recreation #ben x leslie

firbolging

the pride and prejudice musical we deserve:

darcy doesn’t sing a single note even during conversations where everyone else is singing at him that is until the argument following his first attempt at proposing to lizzy where you can see his restraint fall away

his first big solo is the letter he writes her

gelsey bell is mary and the unofficial narrator and she sits down at her piano to describe whats going on but before she can ever reveal her feelings on the matter, starting with that gelsey bell scream, mr bennet comes over and does the whole ‘that’s nice dear but give someone else a turn’

mr wickham has this huge ballad about how darcy ruined his life and its super melodramatic and touching

mr collins proposal to lizzy is an absolute bop that he gets so into he forgets for a moment what he’s doing he’s just owning the stage

wickham has a song where he’s trying to seduce lydia but she’s not even listening she’s just monologuing about how excited she is to get laid

during darcy’s second proposal he keeps hesitating waiting for lizzy to interrupt him like she has done every time before but she doesn’t say anything until he’s finished

at the end mary sits down at the piano and right where she’d usually be interrupted, kitty joins her and harmonises

jane and bingley have the adorable upbeat romantic duet which is just them being super polite like ‘oh so nice to have you here’ ‘so nice to be here’ interspersed with their inner monologue which is just them being like fucking jesus I’m so in love

the bingley sisters probably have a really cool mean solo

lady catherine has this terrifying disney villain song in the garden

there’s for sure a song about ribbon shopping

procrastinating-porcupine

do you ever read something that leaves you absolutely batshit feral and frothing with rage at the fact it isn’t real

#pride and prejudice

wishfulromancing

But, in spite of these deficiencies, the wishes, the hopes, the confidence, the predictions of the small band of true friends who witnessed the ceremony, were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the union.

― Jane Austen, Emma

#HANDS #emma. (2020)