If you don’t accept me at my worst I make sure you won’t ever see the best of me.
k.b. // u never deserved my best in the first place
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forever thinking about johanna shooting fogg and what it says for both her and anthony as characters
because the whole show, from the very first scene, we've been set up to see anthony and sweeney as parallels of one another; anthony is sweeney back when he was benjamin, he's full of hope, he's in love (with a woman who looks almost identical to lucy), and then he gets that love brutally ripped away by judge turpin
in 'no place like london' sweeney says: "you are young, life has been kind to you-- you will learn" and by the point in the show where anthony is going to rescue johanna we're almost inclined to agree with him
except anthony cannot shoot the gun, he's not like sweeney in that he cannot kill another person even if it was to save someone he loved. anthony is never going to become sweeney todd.
and then we realize that we've been looking at the wrong person the whole show, and it's so obvious it's laughable: johanna shoots the gun.
johanna who has been raised to be silent and obedient and perfect, johanna who, without knowing the half of it, has had everything taken away from her by judge turpin, her mother, her father, and her freedom. johanna who we've been led to believe is the lucy to anthony's sweeney.
she is fully justified in shooting fogg, no one could fault her for it, but she doesn't even hesitate.
in that moment she is her father's daughter.
that isn't to say that I think johanna is going to go on a killing spree after the musical, obviously, but it's such a fascinating scene in terms of their development: because despite it all anthony is still the same, and because of it all johanna is not
anthony is the last bit of hope left in the story, and johanna is the last bit of sweeney
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I can say with great certainty and absolute honesty that I did not know what love was until I knew what love was not.
P.T. Berkey
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The greatest strength is facing life's challenges and not letting yourself become bitter and hardening your heart until you turn into what hurt you. The greatest strength is becoming whatever would have saved you.
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life doesn't suck
situations do
life doesn't suck when you go to the beach
feeling sand on your feet and salty air on your face
life doesn't suck when you eat your favorite food
whatever that may be
or when you have space for dessert
life doesn't suck when you get to travel
seeing new people and experiencing things
life doesn't really suck at all
we may get ourselves in situations that do
but that's the beauty of it
we can also get ourselves out of them
and get to enjoy this weird, yet exciting roller coaster we call life
- nick <3 (finding beauty in the chaos of life)
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Late Monday evening post because I am desperate to get some feelings out! I want to scream into the void! I want to fall asleep on pier at night! I want to drift off into the ocean atop an iceberg!
I want, I want, I want.
Some things I will never have though, and I am at peace with that. Most things.
Mostly, I want to be loved.
Quote is a lyric from the song “You’ve Got To Learn” by Nina Simone
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Life is too short to be holding back and not letting go of your ego. The last thing you want to be saying is "What if.."
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