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Ok ok ok, but hear me out

I hope we, the folkmore girlies, can agree that the double album is a continuation of the folkmore universe, so in my head it shall from now on be known as the 3rd sister album…

#taylor swift #folklore #evermore #folkmore #headcanon #tpd #tpdedit #delulu #fight me #the tortured poets department

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All of Us Strangers (2023) dir. Andrew Haigh

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bonus ±

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Conversations with friends

I was going through old notes and found some thoughts I wrote down a year ago after reading and watching Conversations with friends. I don’t remember much of it now, but thought it might still be worthwhile to put these here in case someone stumbles across them and can relate

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I flew through Conversations with friends (the book) in about two evenings and apart from severe irritation at the absence of quotation marks, was fascinated with the characters and their relationships. Since then I have seen tons of people say they couldn’t sympathize with any of the characters and found them insufferable. I understand why, but to me this novel was never about personally relating to what was going on, rather the spectacle of it all.

Then we come to the TV adaptation… I don’t know quite how they managed it, but every single character was done wrong, and as a consequence every relationship felt wrong too. Now that is quite the ‘achievement’ if you ask me. It made me question whether I had misread something in the novel and how the characters came across.

Frances – plain-looking but confident, hiding deep insecurities behind a cool façade. Not this extremely awkward, shy thing like in the show. Don’t get me wrong, I was and often still am the extremely shy girl, which is how I know that this characterisation is not conducive to coming onto a married man. The book Frances was daring but cold as opposed to Bobbi who was a daring social butterfly. On the inside Frances wanted to be taken care of, while also actively trying to convince herself she could do everything on her own. It’s the brazenness of youth when your false sense of invincibility and/or superiority or uniqueness hasn’t been broken down yet.

Bobbi – in the book she was irresistible, which to me invoked a confident and very flirty person that deliberately oversteps some boundaries to ‘stir the pot’. Bobbi too used this persona to hide how uncertain about her future she felt inside. She didn’t let that show.

Melissa – in the book I imagined her to be very feminine and a ‘wifey’/artist type. Interesting and put-together, presenting as nice but has strong opinions, which you can see in her eyes. She cares about appearances and finds people who don’t hustle like herself to be a waste of her time. All that is very straining and exhausting to her and she worries how long she can go on like it, when will the moment come when she will inevitably fail.

Nick – a washed-up actor in short, but in that there is a memory of former success or at least excitement and drive – charm or energy he used to have when he first met Melissa and she found him a worthy addition to her life. Then a breaking point – depression, loss of whatever he had that was perceived as interesting and a slow but thorough belief that he doesn’t have it anymore. This was reinforced by Melissa’s affair and firm and obvious belief that Nick was now “pathetic”. Frances, I imagine, in part due to her youth and the way how she liked to disrupt, reminded him of how he used to be, who still saw him like that person or at least allowed for the possibility that he could still be that person. So their moments together was a space for Nick to practice being ‘ok’ and eventually ‘happy’ again.

Nick/Melissa – they used to have something great and they both recognize and value that something, no matter how fucked up things have become. By now it’s a memory at most. She thinks he is pathetic and is genuinely irked by his inability to move into adulthood without breaking down. Because in that state he reminds her of her own fear and how real the possibility of failure and despair truly is. At the same time, she knows it wasn’t always like that and that there is thus a possibility that it won’t always be like that. Nick wants to prove to Melissa that they can go back to whatever they had. That he is not pathetic. But on top of that he really resents her for kicking him when he was already down, for not giving him reassurance that he was going to get through it, for not looking at him as someone worth her time anymore. They keep up appearances. She does it because the fallout of a divorce and the societal failure associated with that does not work. He does it because he is too sad and lacks the energy to figure out what other options there might be. It’s easier to just go with the flow.

Nick/Frances – Melissa was supposedly the more interesting one out of Melissa/Nick, whereas Bobbi was the more interesting one out of Bobbi/Frances. Thus, naturally Nick and Frances already could relate to each other and understand each other’s experience from that perspective. Frances is also younger and prone to romanticizing the people around her, which was a welcome change for Nick whose closest person before Francis (i.e. Melissa) had described him as pathetic. She was a disruptor, a reminder of how he used to be and a hope that he might once again be happy and successful. Frances gets tangled in her own ‘act’, which causes many misunderstandings between the two. On some level the affair is another one of her cold bold acts much like her spoken word performances. Only she can’t really rise above her own feelings either, even if she ignores them.

#conversations with friends #cwf #sally rooney #book #tv show #just some thoughts

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"I thought cocoa was your specialty"

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Conrad in the car was giving The Summer I Turned Petty and I’m living for it

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Very cheesy. But again, I’m a rat.

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I’m willing to go through a Jelly season and suffer BUT then please can we have the peach scene in season 3. Please. I’ll take all the pain just please can we have the peach scene…🥹🍑 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽

#netflix #tsitp #the summer i turned pretty #bonrad #peach #belly conklin #conrad fisher

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From the moment we kissed on the beach, I thought you knew.

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Go after her you fucking dummy

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CONRAD DOING THE DARCY HAND FLEX!

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Environment studies by ALZiMi

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The Birth of Venus by Botticelli figure/bjd

Part of The Table Museum collection by Freeing

Link: |X|

It’s super breathtaking:

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Don’t know about you, but this for me is the only Snow On The Beach video concept…

#taylor swift #snow on the beach #lana del rey #video #concept #midnights