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I hope everyone knows I'm going to be a

FUCKING MONSTER

when the Barbie movies comes out

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We were robbed of a Lane and Jess friendship. Imagine the two of them exchanging CDs and being music snobs together. Imagine the two of them working Luke’s at the same time. Imagine double dates with Dave and Rory. The possibilities are endless.

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I think authors underestimate how many people reread their works/chapters.

That’s why, when I’m rereading WIPs or old works, I always leave a comment. Just a little hey, I’m rereading this and it is still great goes so far, actually

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Following up on my post about "I thought everything was fixed," I keep thinking about it. And what's really hitting me is remembering how YOUNG Jess still was at this point. Like, yeah, he's an adult now, but he's only 21, and what I can't get over right now is how naïve it feels to me, that he had these hopes and expectations that all he had to do was "become worthy enough" and everything would be ok. I know it feels weird to call Jess "naïve," but for all his world-weariness, he still had very little experience (either lived or observed) of how Love and relationships actually work, and this also highlights his Romanticism and Fatalistic tendencies. He still has a lot to learn. His heart is in the right place, but it almost seems like he still has some fantasy idea of what their relationship is in his head, without realizing that Rory's life has been going on without him. Just like in Season 4, when he says, "You know we're supposed to be together!" It's something that he feels very strongly, has Faith in almost, so he assumes that she "knows" it too. And maybe in the interim he realized that the last time she turned him down, he was asking her to trust him without proving his trustworthiness, so of course she said No! So he works to prove it. It almost seems like because he believes they're Meant to Be Together, the idea that Rory could truly fall in love with someone else is as unfathomable to him as the idea that he could fall in love with someone else. But it's a rude awakening to find out that Reality doesn't match up with the idea you had in your head. To his credit, he handled his disappointment with unbelievable grace. It turned out that it wasn't just that she couldn't trust him, it was that she really didn't want him after all, and he accepts that, accepts her, doesn't hold her choice against her. And that's it. "It is what it is, you, me."

And I think this is why it actually seems like such growth to me, that in the Revival he never pursues her, even though he still wants her. He keeps his feelings to himself, because he respects her, and he respects that she has her own reasons for the decisions she's made. He's let her go, not because he doesn't love her anymore, but because he does.

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Some Like It Hot

I originally sent this to @whizzvins, who asked for my thoughts on Some Like It Hot, but I figured this would be interesting to others, so here goes!

First off, Some Like It Hot a great show. The script is killer and hilarious and the production is so, so well done. It was absolutely delightful and I think I was constantly smiling for a full two days after I saw it. My face was so sore, honestly.

I know there’s a lot of skepticism about the “man in a dress” trope being adapted for Broadway, but Some Like It Hot is actually the most heartfelt, sincere, and beautiful exploration of discovering another part of yourself, and the power of how clothes can make you feel – about yourself, and about the world and your place in it. J. Harrison Ghee, who plays Jerry/Daphne, is nonbinary and was involved in the development of not only that character, but the show as a whole, so they really injected their experience into it and it’s done so beautifully. There are two gorgeous numbers about growing into your skin and learning how to be free. It’s really moving, and there were a lot of teary eyes in the theatre.

Some Like It Hot a big band musical - full of big tap numbers and indulgent musical sequences. The costumes are gorgeous, the set is dynamic, and it really captures the nostalgia, extravagance, style, and fun of the golden age musicals while also being very relevant to the modern age.

Now – specifically about Christian Borle… he can DANCE!! And act while doing these big tap numbers, which is so hard to do. AND do most of it in heels! The respect I have for that man just keeps growing. He was brilliant, as usual. He’s so good at toeing the line between comedy and sincerity, and it balances out beautifully in this show especially. Joe/Josephine’s character arc is so well done, and Christian has the perfect sensitivity to do it justice.

Joe is obsessed with sex (and he plays saxophone, so one of the “Freudian slips” he has is telling Sugar he’s really good at sex and then correcting to “sax, sax, I play sax,” which is a great laugh), and views his and Jerry’s disguises only as a tool to keep them safe until they escape to Mexico, so he doesn’t quite understand that Daphne really loves wearing dresses and heels and grows to feel very much like both Daphne AND Jerry, and how that feeling shifts from day to day. Joe’s character arc ends with him becoming less obsessed with sex after listening to Sugar talk about all the men who have used her and abandoned her, and correcting himself when he refers to Daphne as Jerry, and being very protective of Daphne and her identity at the end. Both Joe/Josephine and Jerry/Daphne’s character arcs are so nuanced. It’s really refreshing.

A comedic through line that kept cropping up were jokes about how old Joe/Josephine is. I wonder if those lines were added in once they cast Christian, since he is significantly older than anyone else in the cast. It’s a great laugh, and comes back at the best times.

The rest of the cast is phenomenal and they all have fantastic chemistry together. I’m so, so impressed by them all.

Oh, also – Christian sweats a lot. I mean… A LOT. There’s a reason he said his mobster name would be “Sweaty”!

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sitcoms literally do romance better than romance-centred drama shows sorry but it's true!!!!

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The thing about Jonah Simms is that I know exactly what the writers were thinking when they made him, he was written to be a combination of Jim from The Office and Ben from Parks and Recreation, but then Ben Feldman showed up on day one and infused the character with so much disaster bisexual malewife babygirl energy that there was just no way for anyone in the audience to read him as a straight man

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the most important thing is to be snuggly in bed

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I may be okay with Bensler or Barson but take Rollisi away from me and I will be leading the fucking riots

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weekend? more like weakened. let me rest

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Arms: A Borle Triptych

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K but Christian Borle as Shakespeare tho……….like murder me…

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Just saw the phrase “BorlesGorls™️” used to describe Christian Borle fans and I am now forever using it.

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Reblog if you think Christian Borle is attractive. I'm trying to make a point.

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Just saw the phrase “BorlesGorls™️” used to describe Christian Borle fans and I am now forever using it.

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You know what? Brian Fuller is a criminally underrated character in Gilmore Girls. The guy taught himself Korean so he'd be able to speak to Lane's family when the band was invited to dinner, and he wrote a song for Lane, his friend, because he saw that she was hurt that her boyfriend was intentionally writing songs about every girl he'd ever met EXCEPT her. He's a great friend, and an all-around sweet and good person, whatever his respiratory ailments might be.